China's machine tool industry entering the golden period of development

In the 21st century, the country implemented the strategy of revitalizing the equipment manufacturing industry, and listed the development of large-scale, precision, high-speed CNC equipment and numerical control systems and functional components as one of the 16 key revitalization fields. The promotion of national policy support and the pull of market demand, especially the rapid development of the automotive industry, have resulted in strong demand for machine tools. China's machine tool industry quickly emerged from the bottom and ushered in an unprecedented golden opportunity.

Since 2002, China has become the world's largest machine tool consumer and the largest machine tool importer in the world for eight consecutive years. The proportion of domestic machine tools has increased year by year.

Domestic machine tool company echelon development and growth China's Shenyang, Beijing, Dalian and other large machine tool groups took the lead to seize the opportunity to meet the challenges and enter the world stage. They acquired a number of world-famous machine tool companies, such as Schiess, Waldrich-Coburg, Zimmermann, etc., and moved out of the city to build new plants in the suburbs, expand production bases, and establish a world-class modern machine tool manufacturing company. After completing the relocation and technological transformation, these large-scale machine tool companies vigorously carried out the work of upgrading products and achieved remarkable results. For example, Shenyang Machine Tool Group has independently developed and CNC machine tools have become leading products. In 2010, a new product called the "New Five Generations" was launched. In order to explore the production, teaching and research model under the new situation, Shenyang Machine Tool Group took the lead in forming the “CNC Machine Tool Industry Technology Innovation Alliance”, with 9 companies, 6 universities, and 1 institute participating.

In the golden development period of the machine tool industry, private enterprises have not weakened, actively participated in, and had a strong attack, and some have also annexed large-scale state-owned enterprises. For example, Tianma Group acquired Qiqihar No. 1 Machine Tool Plant and established Qizhong CNC Equipment Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Xinrui acquired Changzhou Duoleng Machine Tool Plant and Ningxia Great Wall Machine Tool Plant, forming Jiangsu Xinrui Heavy Industry Technology Co., Ltd., belonging to the new reputation. group. These newly formed companies not only have the technical strength of state-owned enterprises that have been deposited for many years, but also have the vitality of the management and management of private enterprises. They are the forces that cannot be ignored in China's machine tool industry.

For example, Qiqihar No. 1 Machine Tool Plant is the first heavy-duty machine tool factory in China, and plays a decisive role in the field of heavy-duty vertical and horizontal cars. Xinrui Heavy Industry brings together 10 series of CNC machine tools products from Xinrui Machinery, Ningxia Great Wall and Jiangsu Duoling. It has now become one of the most complete large-scale machine tool manufacturers in the category of CNC machine tools in China. It has established two R&D and manufacturing bases in Changzhou and Yinchuan; it helps customers to enhance traditional industries with high-tech and cutting-edge technologies to provide customers with the best solutions. Program. Qizhong and Xinrui's representative machine tool products are shown in Figure 10.

Foreign machine tool companies entering the Chinese market The huge machine tool market in China makes the world's machine tool companies yearn for it, especially since the golden period of development. Foreign well-known machine tool companies, such as DMG, GFAC, Mazak, Makino, HAAS, etc., have not satisfied the model of joint ventures and cooperative production, and have established wholly-owned factories in China to produce machine tools suitable for the needs of the Chinese market.

For example, LGMazak Machine Tool Co., Ltd., established in 2000, is a Japanese-owned Mazak company's wholly-owned factory in China. According to the construction concept of Mazak's intelligent network chemical plant, Mazak's production equipment and software management system are used to establish an intelligent network. The production environment became the first intelligent networked chemical plant in China's machine tool industry. The company's total number of 450 people, per capita labor productivity is 2 million yuan, ranking first in the country. The company has successively expanded in three phases, and by the end of 2010 it has completed an annual output of 4,000 CNC machine tools, becoming one of the largest and most automated CNC machine tool production bases in China.

The generation of high efficiency depends on the integration of information technology and manufacturing technology. Advanced manufacturing methods and automated production equipment ensure high-efficiency plant operation and product quality. Data from various departments of technology, sales, production, and management flows under one network. The information is completely shared, and the goal of shortening production preparation time, shortening delivery cycle, increasing production efficiency, and reducing costs is achieved.

The digital development process requires companies to implement organizational reforms and establish a customer-centric business structure so that all departments and customers can achieve equal distances and provide customers with the best technical support and services. This requires the accurate transmission and distribution of various types of information to achieve high-speed and efficient information flow.

Solely foreign-funded enterprises not only produce advanced machine tool products in the country, but also bring new management concepts and models, forming a three-way state-owned enterprises, private and foreign capital, a three-win situation of competition and win-win situation.

In 2010, China's gold-cutting machine tool production was 755,800 sets, of which the output of CNC machine tools reached 223,900 sets, which was 3.6 times that of 2005. This signifies that the machine tool industry in China has entered a mature development period.

However, the Chinese machine tool industry is big but not strong. Among the 28 counties and regions that have been counted, China ranks last, the country with the largest deficit (up to US$5.4 billion). High-end machine tools mainly rely on imports, while Japan, Germany and Italy are the main exporters of machine tools and are the top three countries in the trade surplus.