In the past two years, China's machine tool industry has indeed encountered challenges, but challenges and opportunities coexist. For the development of China's machine tool industry, the Chinese government and machine tool enterprises have also made efforts for it. As the saying goes, "only by applying the right medicine can the disease be cured". So where is the way for China's machine tool industry, especially high-end
CNC machine tools, to break through?
Where is the way to break through? At present, the global machine tool industry is still at a low point, and there is no obvious sign of industry recovery; However, the domestic machine tool industry shows three characteristics: the industry is in the imitation stage, the key core technology is hollow, and it is deeply mired in the middle and low-end market. Industry insiders said that the three key paths for the breakthrough of the domestic machine tool industry are to reduce the production capacity at the middle and low end, replace imports at the high end and enter the machine tool consumption market.
Among them, the promotion of medium and low-end capacity removal depends on the cooperation of enterprises, local governments and the state. The resistance in this process includes the interest game of local governments' taxes and so on; In addition, personnel placement after capacity removal, as well as capital and R & D investment in high-end capacity, are also difficult problems to be solved.
The replacement of imported high-end
CNC machine tools is the biggest goal and opportunity for domestic machine tools at this stage. At present, some domestic enterprises such as RIFA precision machine, Yawei Co., Ltd., Shenyang Machine Tool Co., Ltd. and Guangzhou CNC have certain accumulation of high-end CNC machine tool technology and production and processing technology. There is a gap between domestic and foreign enterprises in processing accuracy and product stability. If the industrialization of high-end CNC machine tools is solved, the gap between made in China and German industry 4.0 will be significantly narrowed.
It is the third way for China's machine tool industry to break through from machine assembly to machine tool consumption. Despite the downturn in the machine tool market, the situation in the machine tool consumption market is quite good, and the performance of listed companies related to machine tool parts is also quite beautiful. A researcher from a securities firm said, "although the growth rate of the machine tool market is almost stagnant, the market for replacing key parts of machine tools is huge; in addition, the machine tool market after the transformation and upgrading of waste machine tools also has great potential."
Future development is still expected
Breaking through the shackles from the above three paths, together with the adjustment of economic structure and the deepening of government enterprise cooperation, the machine tool industry will develop rapidly. It is understood that due to the substantial growth in the demand of important equipment manufacturing industries such as national defense, aviation, high-speed rail, automobile and mold, China's CNC machine tool output has maintained a high-speed growth. The average annual compound growth rate of China's CNC machine tool output in the past five years was 37.39%. Combined with the total assets data of China's CNC machine tool industry and China's economic growth data in recent years, according to the linear regression prediction method, it is preliminarily estimated that the asset scale of China's CNC machine tool industry will reach 270billion yuan by 2020.
In fact, the importance of machine tools and equipment has been fully reflected in the made in China 2025 and the technology roadmap. High grade CNC machine tools have been identified as one of the ten key breakthrough areas in the manufacturing power strategy, and breakthroughs in the other nine areas also depend on whether machine tools and equipment can take the lead in strengthening. Statistics show that the domestic market of high-end CNC machine tools has a scale of tens of billions of yuan and has good growth. However, this market is almost monopolized by foreign high-end CNC machine tools, and there is a huge space for import substitution.
The development of China's CNC system industry has proved that the key core of high-end CNC systems cannot be bought back, and must be based on independent innovation. It is believed that after another 5-10 years of efforts, China's home appliances, mobile phones and other industries today may be a better tomorrow for China's high-end CNC machine tools and even the whole machine tool industry.
