Analysis of Specific Progressive Performance of Machine Tool Industry Competitiveness

As we all know, the machine tool industry is composed of eight small industries including gold-cutting machine tools, forging machinery, foundry machinery, woodworking machine tools, measuring tools, abrasives, machine tool accessories with rolling function components, and machine tool electrical appliances with numerical control system. The products produced by various small industries are divided into several types and numerous varieties and specifications according to different characteristics, and a manufacturing system with relatively complete varieties of types, mainframes, and supporting parts has been formed, and there are scientific research institutes with considerable technical strength. A group of key enterprises.

Luo Mohui, CEO of Jinmo Machine Tool Network pointed out that after more than 50 years of hard work, China's machine tools have made great progress in the overall machine tool industry, providing a large number of basic technological equipment for the national economy and national defense construction, and making important contributions to the country’s modernization process. At present, the machine tool industry has not experienced the transition period, and the domestic machine tool industry has grown in synchronization with the quality of economic operations.

With the deepening of reforms, a multi-economy coexisting pattern has been formed, and the machine tool industry has shown a good situation of rapid development. It has begun to enter a new phase of simultaneous growth of development speed and economic operation quality, and has made China a major player in the manufacturing of machine tools. The development of a powerful machine tool manufacturing company has created a good foundation.

China has entered the ranks of the world's machine tool producing countries, big consumer countries and importing countries. According to statistics, there are 2023 enterprises in China's machine tool industry, of which 959 are state-owned enterprises, accounting for 47.4% of the total; 758 are private enterprises, accounting for 37.5%; 306 are foreign-funded enterprises, accounting for 15.1%; the total assets of the industry are up to 1175 Billion yuan, owns 520,000 employees.

The specific progress of the machine tool industry's competitiveness is that the production value output has grown at a rapid rate and the economic benefits have been significantly improved; the development speed of CNC machine tools is higher than the average growth rate of the industry.

According to Luo Baihui, CEO of Jinmo Machine Tool Network, after the rapid development of the “11th Five-Year Plan” period, although our CNC machine tool industry has begun to take shape and achieved remarkable results in independent innovation, the international status of the industry has been significantly improved. We should also see that the problems that restrict the development of the industry still exist: First, technological progress is lagging behind; second, the development approach focuses on scale expansion. Wu Bolin told the author that the basic characteristics of the machine tool industry at this stage are big but not strong. The main contradiction is that the accelerated upgrading of the domestic market demand structure is incompatible with the industry's supply capacity. At present, the society’s technological innovation and awareness of energy conservation and environmental protection have risen unprecedentedly. Under the influence of the dual factors of the deceleration of growth rate and the adjustment of the structure and mode of the whole society, the market demand structure is accelerating. This will inevitably bring about the need for upgrading of manufacturing equipment. This point can be well verified from the import statistics in 2011.

According to statistics from the Machine Tool Association, China’s imports of machine tool products increased rapidly in 2011 with imports of US$20.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 29%. Wu Bolin pointed out that the current situation in which China's economic growth depends on exports and investment has not fundamentally changed, but the growth momentum of these two aspects has obviously declined. It can be expected that macroeconomic growth will slow down in the coming period, and the demand for machine tool products will also slow down.

Statistics show that the import of China's machine tool products has increased rapidly in 2011. In the first three quarters, the cumulative import of machine tool products was US$ 15.27 billion, which was a 38.5% year-on-year increase. Of which, metal processing machine tools imported 9.91 billion US dollars, an increase of 51.4%. Due to the surge in imports, the market share of domestic metalworking machine tools and CNC machine tools has dropped significantly.

According to statistics, in the first three quarters of this year, China's machine tool industry accumulated a total industrial output value of 472.17 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 33.5%. This means that although the Chinese machine tool industry has huge production capacity, it cannot actually "arm itself."

According to the analysis of Jinmo Machine Tool Network CEO Luo Baihui, the growth rate of imports of machine tools is much higher than that of domestic machine tools and tools, reflecting the continuous change in the market demand structure and the significant increase in the demand for mid- to high-end products. There are deficiencies in the technical level and industrialization of high-end products. As a result of changes in international machine tool marketing strategies, high-tech-driven low-price mid-range machine tool products assembled with high-tech tools have rapidly occupied the Chinese machine tool market, posing serious challenges to Chinese domestic machine tool companies. Under such circumstances, it is imperative to promote the industry to become stronger and stronger.

The German and Japanese machine tool companies affected by the global financial crisis have recovered rapidly. The low-priced mid-range machine tool products produced by industry giants Mazak and Demaghi are highly welcomed by the Chinese market. The influx of mid-range products has brought tremendous competitive pressure on China's development of medium and high-end CNC machine tools industry.

The data show that in the first three quarters, the industrial output value of the machine tool accessories industry increased by 42.9% year-on-year, while the import value of machine tool parts and components increased by 40.8% year-on-year, basically similar to the year-on-year growth rate of domestic machine tool output value.

It can be seen that most of the medium-to-high-grade metal processing machine tools currently manufactured in China are still equipped with imported functional components, reflecting that China's independent innovation capability is not strong, basic, key, and common technologies are not fully understood, and the development of functional components still lags behind the reality of host development. .

For China to become the world's "manufacturing powerhouse," the first "threshold" that needs to be crossed is the machine tool. As the "equipment" of the equipment manufacturing industry, the machine tool has become the carrier of advanced manufacturing technology and the basic production means of the equipment industry, and is the basic equipment of the equipment manufacturing industry.

In the face of the high-tech and low-price competition in the world's machine tool market, Chinese machine tool companies must improve their independent innovation capabilities and core competencies, and change from big to weak and big to strong. "'Hometown of Machine Tools' Shenyang may become the world's machine tool manufacturing base," said Guan Xiyou, chairman of Shenyang Machine Tool Group.

It is understood that after the Shenyang Machine Tool Group became the best performing machine tool industry in the world financial crisis in 2009, the development momentum was very rapid and it was ushering in an unprecedented development peak.

At present, Shenyang Machine Tool Group is relying on the State Key Laboratory of High-end CNC Machine Tools. Eight companies and six universities within the United Nations have established the "CNC Machine Tool Industry Technology Innovation Alliance" and independently developed thousands of new products for CNC machine tools.

In addition, the two giants of the world's machine tools - Germany DMG, Japan Mori Seiki will establish a joint venture with the Shenyang Machine Tool Group in Shenyang, which is bound to change the world machine tool industry structure, Shenyang will also become the new following in Stuttgart, Japan, Nagoya, Japan World Machine Tool Manufacturing Core Area.