Chinese machine tools will usher in another 'spring of development'

Introduction: Industry experts and insiders believe that with the adjustment and upgrading of consumer demand structure and the continuous development of emerging industries, technological innovation and industrial transformation in the machine tool industry have become the most urgent tasks for the industry. For example, the current automotive industry has become the main market for consumer machine tool products, and the automotive industry is focusing on precision manufacturing equipment

Machine tools are the starting point of modern manufacturing, the carrier of advanced manufacturing technology, and the basic production means of equipment industry. After more than 50 years of effort, China's machine tool industry has made great progress, providing a large amount of basic process equipment for the national economy and defense construction, and making important contributions to the modernization process of the country.

According to statistics from the China Machine Tool Industry Association, the cumulative export of machine tools in China reached 7.03 billion US dollars in 2010, a year-on-year increase of 48.4%. Among them, the export of metal processing machine tools was 1.85 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 31.3%, which was significantly lower than the growth rate of machine tool products. Among the exported products, the export value of abrasives and grinding tools continued to grow rapidly, reaching 1.53 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 100%. Cutting tools and cutting tools became the two largest categories of products in the machine tool industry, accounting for 44.6% of the export value of machine tool products.

With the vigorous development of China's manufacturing industry, China has been listed as a major global consumer and importer of machine tools for several consecutive years. For example, if the total global consumption of machine tools is 10, China accounts for nearly half. Therefore, the increasingly rising international status not only brings unprecedented opportunities to China's machine tool industry, but also presents it with many challenges.

In order to seize the important stage of the beginning of the 12th Five Year Plan, many enterprises have been working hard to achieve outstanding results in the market in 2011. This can be seen from the 12th China International Machine Tool Show held in Beijing.

Shenyang Machine Tool: Intelligence

After ranking second in the world's machine tool industry in terms of economic scale in 2010, Shenyang Machine Tool has experienced rapid development in the first quarter of this year, ushering in an unprecedented peak of growth.

In recent years, Shenyang Machine Tool has continuously increased its research and development investment, investing nearly 3 billion yuan in the development of CNC systems and "new five categories" CNC machine tool products. The "New Five Categories" CNC products launched last year, which are characterized by "low cost, internationalization, and world-class", marked the first time that Chinese enterprises have entered the world's high-end CNC machine tool field with independently innovated CNC machine tool products. In the first quarter of this year, driven by the "new five categories" of products, Shenyang Machine Tool Group added contracts worth 4.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 51%.

It is reported that at the 12th China International Machine Tool Show, Shenyang Machine Tool Group has launched 25 exhibition products mainly based on single machine technology and unit automation developed for customers, on the basis of the "New Five Categories" CNC machine tool technology. These products represent the development direction of "integration and optimization, customization, and intelligence" of Shenyang Machine Tool Group, and are the explosive effect generated by the technological advantages accumulated in the history of Shenyang Machine Tool Group.

Dalian Machine Tool: High end

As a leader in China's machine tool industry, Dalian Machine Tool not only stands at the forefront of the world's machine tool industry, but also leads China's machine tool industry to the forefront of global machine tool development.

It is understood that the current leading products of Dalian Machine Tool Group are products that have been independently developed, introduced, digested, absorbed, and innovated in recent years. These products represent the highest level of domestic machine tools and have approached or reached the level of similar foreign products. They have become the machine tool manufacturer that provides the largest number of complete sets of equipment, the largest scale, and the highest level for key enterprises in the national automotive, military, aircraft, nuclear industries, etc. They also provide automatic lines for processing engine cylinder bodies for General Motors in the United States, making domestic flexible manufacturing systems enter the world-class automotive manufacturing enterprise for the first time.

All the products exhibited by Dalian Machine Tool at this exhibition are equipped with self-produced functional components, which proves that after several years of efforts, the "self armament" of Dalian Machine Tool has been nearly complete. At present, more than 60 varieties of CNC systems, servo motors, servo drives, spindles, tool towers, tool magazines, ball screws, linear guides, etc. have gradually been recognized by domestic users and markets, and are also sold abroad, becoming the largest and most comprehensive research and development and manufacturing base for CNC functional components in China.

Industry experts and insiders believe that with the adjustment and upgrading of consumer demand structure and the continuous development of emerging industries, technological innovation and industrial transformation in the machine tool industry have become the most urgent tasks for the industry. For example, the current automotive industry has become the main market for consumer machine tool products, and the automotive industry's requirements for manufacturing equipment in precision, high-end, and complete sets are constantly increasing. This has prompted the machine tool manufacturing industry to continuously improve its product technology level and meet user needs through technological innovation.

We should believe that after undergoing a deep transformation, promoting industrial upgrading, transforming the economic growth mode, enhancing independent innovation capabilities, improving the comprehensive strength of the industry, accelerating the research and market development of high-end CNC machine tools and functional components, improving product quality and strengthening service awareness, the Chinese machine tool industry will surely usher in another "spring of development".