Heavy machine tool market returns from normal to normal

In 2010, when the Chinese machine tool industry market was in a good situation, heavy-duty machine tools played a seemingly dissonant note.

"From the data point of view, the growth rate of heavy-duty market has dropped significantly compared with the same period last year." said the Secretary-General of the Heavy Machine Tool Branch of China Machine Tool Industry Association.

Rational return According to the data provided by Qian, in the first three quarters of 2010, the gross industrial output value of the heavy machine tool industry actually completed 5.373 billion yuan, a decrease of 12.52% over the same period of the previous year; sales revenue actually completed 4.403 billion yuan, which was a decrease from the same period of last year. 7.35%. The total profit was 396 million yuan, a decrease of 10.65% from the same period of last year; the value of export delivery was 2.02 billion yuan, a decrease of 8.8% from the previous year; the cumulative order volume was 10.192 billion yuan, a decrease of 9.1% from the same period of last year.

The main reason for this is the heavy growth of heavy machine tools in previous years, and the accumulated base number is too large. Zhai said that in the international financial crisis, the impact of heavy machine tools and other small industries in the machine tool industry is relatively small, and the heavy machine tool industry has a good foundation. Therefore, heavy machine tools became the first main force to emerge in the "post-financial crisis period."

In 2000, the gross industrial output value of the heavy machine tool industry was 568 million yuan. By 2009, the total industrial output value was 8.359 billion yuan, an increase of 13.7 times in nine years. Since 2002, the total industrial output value has been increasing at an average rate of 42.38% per year for seven consecutive years. Other economic indicators, such as sales revenue and total profits, also increase at an average rate of more than 35% each year.

There are other factors, such as the long production cycle of heavy machine tools, which does not rule out the impact of the international financial crisis and the inherent lagging factors of heavy machine tool economic indicators.

In addition, due to the heavy machine tool user industry in the "fifteen" and "Eleventh Five-Year" period, increase investment in technological transformation, there? Purchase of large-scale, heavy-duty processing equipment during the climax. Therefore, in 2010 and the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period of the "Eleventh Five-Year" ending, heavy machine tools will have a period of flat market demand.

“Because of the outstanding performance of heavy machine tools during the financial crisis, the number of companies involved in the manufacture of heavy machine tools has increased in recent years, and some manufacturers have changed their traditional advantages and focused on the introduction of multi-variety heavy machine tools.” The heat of machine tool manufacturing has aroused widespread concern in the society. The Association also held a special communication meeting for this purpose and reminded the majority of companies to participate with caution.

According to him, the high-end CNC heavy-duty machine tools demanded by the domestic market are still mainly imported, which accounts for 30% of the domestic market demand. In this way, the market competition of domestic heavy machine tools has become more fierce. With the convergence of technology and the emergence of homogenous competition, the growth rate of economic indicators of the heavy machine tool industry has obviously declined, and the situation of high-speed growth for many consecutive years will not reappear. .

The “12th Five-Year Plan” growth rate will be estimated at around 10%. In 2010 and the coming “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the economic growth rate of the heavy machine tool industry can be maintained within the normal range of 7% to 15%.

How to open up the market during the stable period of the market is a common problem facing many companies. It is undoubtedly the universal answer to the development of users' desperately needed special plane products.

In fact, many pioneer companies have also set an example in this regard. For example, Qi 2 Machine Tool Group dares to jump out of the machine tool product frame and develops a set of large-scale composite component tape laying machine design and manufacturing technologies. It can lay the foundation and provide equipment for large aircraft fuselage, wing, super-large composite wind turbine blade automatic tape manufacturing. , And jointly developed a multi-coordinated linkage machining machine with universities; SUC8210 head cooling water hole heat-resistant block machining CNC machine tool developed by Shenyang Machine Tool Group is used for machining marine diesel engine liner, cylinder head cooling water hole and heat-resistant block milling The development of high-precision, high-efficiency, highly flexible special CNC machine tools; Wuzhong Group to play the advantages of manufacturing CNC gantry milling machine for the railway sector to develop special boring and milling machine tools, a machine tool to solve multi-process processing tasks.

He emphasized that after the technological transformation of our country's heavy-duty machine tool industry and the exercise of independent product development in recent years, both the production capacity and the product technology level have made great progress, but there are still a lot of deficiencies compared with foreign products. The biggest differences are the technical level and operating speed of the core operating components, the product accuracy retention, the reliability of the machine tool, and the overall level and quality of the machine tool manufacturing process.

In particular, reliability is a key indicator of the quality of high-end heavy-duty machine tools. At present, the average trouble-free working time of domestic CNC heavy-duty machine tools is about 300 hours, while the average high-speed heavy-duty machine tools have an average time of more than 2,000 hours (800 hours for international standards). Moreover, the accuracy of the maintenance is very high.

From this point of view, although the geometric precision and working accuracy of domestic CNC machine tools can reach higher than the design standards during the trial production, but the batch products can not meet the high precision requirements of the Taiwan and Taiwan. While foreign companies can control the production of advanced manufacturing processes, they can achieve high-precision production of CNC machine tools. It should be said that domestic CNC machine tools still have some distance from samples (exhibits) to commodities.

Establishing a strategic alliance On October 12, 2010, China's heavy machine tool industry held a seminar on technical innovation for chief engineers of industry in Kunming, and signed the "Strategic Alliance for China's Heavy Machine Tool Industry Technology Innovation."

It is reported that the purpose of convening this meeting is to combine the technical expertise and advantages of each heavy machine tool plant, organize several or more joint application for national major special projects and undertake major national special production tasks, joint bidding major projects and complete sets of product development.

In order to take advantage of the country's major projects as a platform, we make full use of the innovation platform to strengthen corporate technology exchanges and communication, achieve the technical advantages of each company, and carry out technical cooperation on the technical development of the user industry and key technical problems, and form a heavy-duty machine tool representing the national level. Professional product development team to enhance industrial technology innovation capabilities.

Undoubtedly, the starting point of the organizers' associations is good. After all, the products developed by a certain manufacturer cannot fully represent the technical level of the Chinese heavy machine tool industry, and they lack the practical problems such as industrial demonstration. Moreover, each company's product development, basic theoretical research, and experimentation that it undertakes when it undertakes major national technical special projects alone cannot be completely overcome by its own strength.

However, it is questioned whether the alliance can really produce great benefits. After all, all parties in the alliance are still competitors. Whether the company is currently facing technical difficulties is willing to publish, and whether the core technology can be truly shared is a big problem.

There is also a huge project of how to assess and allocate the performance and benefits of cooperation. It is even more difficult to ensure fairness and justice.

Therefore, the reporter believes that the emergence of such alliances in the industry is not new. What is missing is a set of effective and scalable methods. If this set of methods is adopted, it will surely help promote the popularization of sharing technologies, and this will also promote the development of the industry more effectively.