The Difficulties and Solutions Faced by the Development of CNC Machine Tool Industry

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What is the gap between China's CNC system industry and international advanced peers, and what measures will China take to address this gap? The reporter interviewed Liu Long, former secretary-general of the CNC system branch of the China Machine Tool Industry Association. This professional with years of experience in the CNC system industry, with his rich industry experience and high sense of industry responsibility, has put forward a series of hopes for the Chinese industry. The development of domestically produced CNC systems has made great progress to this day, with an annual output of up to 70000 sets and an output value of over 2 billion yuan. Some powerful enterprises have also emerged in China, such as Guangzhou CNC, Huazhong CNC, Kandi, etc. How to narrow the gap with international peers is an important issue in current industry research.
China has been engaged in research and development of CNC systems for nearly 50 years since 1958. Although the start is not too late, from the current domestic and even international situation, there is still a significant gap between China's CNC system industry and the two giants that occupy 80% of the international market share.
Directly allocating funds to users for the development of CNC systems has become a key factor in the development of the domestic CNC system industry to this day. Domestic CNC systems are not technically inferior, but they lack user experience. But the maturity of the industry requires user cooperation, exposing product problems during use, and promoting product improvement and further research and development. Unfortunately, this good cycle has always been difficult to form. From the perspective of their own interests, users are unwilling to use domestically produced CNC systems in large quantities, and system manufacturing enterprises cannot force users to use them. Therefore, it is necessary for the government to intervene in this situation.
Now the country is also aware of this issue and has issued relevant plans to support the development of CNC machine tools and CNC systems. However, how to make good use of them is still a debatable issue.
Should we continue to use the previous support methods for R&D and allocate R&D funds to R&D units? Liu Long's view is that, considering the role of users in the development of the CNC system industry, it is advisable to directly allocate funds to users who are willing and able to provide industrial operation assessments for domestically produced CNC systems. Allow users to use this funds to configure domestically produced systems. On the one hand, this can continuously expose problems in the actual industrial operation of domestic CNC systems, and continuously improve and perfect them, so as to quickly form products (the most important assessment content is reliability); On the other hand, it can also create competition among research and development units, and there is a natural process of survival of the fittest. When selecting users who use domestic systems, it may be helpful toLack of competitiveness; Insufficient investment in software development, lack of common software standards and support platforms for developed CNC systems, and have not yet achieved serialization and commercialization, with no industrial scale. For over 40 years, the Chinese government has provided significant financial and material support for the development of CNC machine tools due to the lack of policies and technical support systems for the development of the CNC industry. Some supportive measures have also been introduced in policies, which have played a good role in promoting the development of CNC machine tools. However, the supporting policies and mutual constraints are not strong enough. While introducing foreign investment and expanding opening up, the necessary protection for domestic CNC machine tools appears to be too weak. For example, imported products can be exempted from tariffs and import taxes, while domestic products rarely enjoy such treatment. At the same time, the development of CNC machine tools requires a high level of specialized technical support system for components, and the overall level of industrial development in China is not yet able to meet the establishment of this system. The country has not taken major measures to establish this supporting system, and there is a lack of corresponding policy support, thus failing to play a more powerful role in promoting the development of the CNC industry. Lack of intrinsic motivation for technological innovation, product updates, and industrial adjustments. In the current situation of good sales momentum of ordinary machine tools, the machine tool industry is confused by market illusions. Most enterprises focus on immediate interests and do not rely on their growing financial resources to adjust in a timely manner. Instead, they blindly increase the production of ordinary machine tools, abandon the industrial adjustment, product adjustment, and organizational structure adjustment that have already begun, and relax technological innovation, Unable to see the development trend of the industry, thus missing the best opportunity for adjustment and losing the technological and product foundation for further development.
Faced with enormous pressure from foreign competitors, since the 1990s, the demand for CNC machine tools and CNC systems in China's domestic market has rapidly increased, becoming a target for industrialized countries to compete for. Faced with strong international competitors, domestic CNC machine tools and CNC systems are unable to compete with developed country products in terms of performance, quality, and price, facing strong pressure from import shocks.
Form a strategic alliance among host factories, system factories, and user factories. CNC system manufacturers should combine with host factories, continuously develop application software, comprehensively improve system application and level, closely cooperate with key machine tool production enterprises, win the trust and support of host factories and user factories, and enable the production of popular CNC systems to form batches and generate benefits. To comprehensively enter a virtuous cycle of industrialization in system development, production manufacturing, system matching, production management, and user service. The breakthrough in the domestic system market mainly relies on host manufacturers. How to strengthen the organic integration between the host factory, system factory, and user factory, and how to strengthen information communication in various stages of development, production, verification, and use, each performing their own duties and working together, with the host factory as the central link. The organic strategic alliance of the three forms a long-term mechanism, and the application of domestically produced CNC systems can make breakthrough progress. The integration of market driving force, internal driving force of enterprises, and policy driving force is an important condition for promoting the development of domestic systems. Due to strong market demand, the production of domestically produced CNC machine tools is rapidly increasing, and the overall system configuration is economicalThis professional who has been rooted in the CNC system industry for many years, with his rich industry experience and high sense of industry responsibility, has put forward a series of hopes for the Chinese industry. The development of domestically produced CNC systems has made great progress to this day, with an annual output of up to 70000 sets and an output value of over 2 billion yuan. Some powerful enterprises have also emerged in China, such as Guangzhou CNC, Huazhong CNC, Kandi, etc. How to narrow the gap with international peers is an important issue in current industry research.
China has been engaged in research and development of CNC systems for nearly 50 years since 1958. Although the start is not too late, from the current domestic and even international situation, there is still a significant gap between China's CNC system industry and the two giants that occupy 80% of the international market share.
Directly allocating funds to users for the development of CNC systems has become a key factor in the development of the domestic CNC system industry to this day. Domestic CNC systems are not technically inferior, but they lack user experience. But the maturity of the industry requires user cooperation, exposing product problems during use, and promoting product improvement and further research and development. Unfortunately, this good cycle has always been difficult to form. From the perspective of their own interests, users are unwilling to use domestically produced CNC systems in large quantities, and system manufacturing enterprises cannot force users to use them. Therefore, it is necessary for the government to intervene in this situation.
Now the country is also aware of this issue and has issued relevant plans to support the development of CNC machine tools and CNC systems. However, how to make good use of them is still a debatable issue.
Should we continue to use the previous support methods for R&D and allocate R&D funds to R&D units? Liu Long's view is that, considering the role of users in the development of the CNC system industry, it is advisable to directly allocate funds to users who are willing and able to provide industrial operation assessments for domestically produced CNC systems. Allow users to use this funds to configure domestically produced systems. On the one hand, this can continuously expose problems in the actual industrial operation of domestic CNC systems, and continuously improve and perfect them, so as to quickly form products (the most important assessment content is reliability); On the other hand, it can also create competition among research and development units, and there is a natural process of survival of the fittest. When selecting users who use domestic systems, it is worth considering two conditions: the machining accuracy is not very high, and a general CNC system can be used; The product cost is not too expensive, otherwise once there is waste, the loss will be significant. Based on these factors, non state confidential and medium-sized military enterprises can be selected, which can meet the above two conditions and also enable the smooth implementation of national directives.
Liu Long also mentioned that if the funds can be divided into two parts, it may be more conducive to the development of the industry. The first part of the funds will be used for the research and development of high-end products with more than 5 axes, and the second part of the funds will be used to support the industrialization of general systems. The current industry situation is that although domestic products can reach 5, 8, or even 10 axes in research and development, there are also a small number of products with 5 or more axes in ChinaIt has played a good promoting role in the development of CNC machine tools. However, the supporting policies and mutual constraints are not strong enough. While introducing foreign investment and expanding opening up, the necessary protection for domestic CNC machine tools appears to be too weak. For example, imported products can be exempted from tariffs and import taxes, while domestic products rarely enjoy such treatment. At the same time, the development of CNC machine tools requires a high level of specialized technical support system for components, and the overall level of industrial development in China is not yet able to meet the establishment of this system. The country has not taken major measures to establish this supporting system, and there is a lack of corresponding policy support, thus failing to play a more powerful role in promoting the development of the CNC industry. Lack of intrinsic motivation for technological innovation, product updates, and industrial adjustments. In the current situation of good sales momentum of ordinary machine tools, the machine tool industry is confused by market illusions. Most enterprises focus on immediate interests and do not rely on their growing financial resources to adjust in a timely manner. Instead, they blindly increase the production of ordinary machine tools, abandon the industrial adjustment, product adjustment, and organizational structure adjustment that have already begun, and relax technological innovation, Unable to see the development trend of the industry, thus missing the best opportunity for adjustment and losing the technological and product foundation for further development.
Faced with enormous pressure from foreign competitors, since the 1990s, the demand for CNC machine tools and CNC systems in China's domestic market has rapidly increased, becoming a target for industrialized countries to compete for. Faced with strong international competitors, domestic CNC machine tools and CNC systems are unable to compete with developed country products in terms of performance, quality, and price, facing strong pressure from import shocks.
Form a strategic alliance among host factories, system factories, and user factories. CNC system manufacturers should combine with host factories, continuously develop application software, comprehensively improve system application and level, closely cooperate with key machine tool production enterprises, win the trust and support of host factories and user factories, and enable the production of popular CNC systems to form batches and generate benefits. To comprehensively enter a virtuous cycle of industrialization in system development, production manufacturing, system matching, production management, and user service. The breakthrough in the domestic system market mainly relies on host manufacturers. How to strengthen the organic integration between the host factory, system factory, and user factory, and how to strengthen information communication in various stages of development, production, verification, and use, each performing their own duties and working together, with the host factory as the central link. The organic strategic alliance of the three forms a long-term mechanism, and the application of domestically produced CNC systems can make breakthrough progress. The integration of market driving force, internal driving force of enterprises, and policy driving force is an important condition for promoting the development of domestic systems. Due to strong market demand, the production of domestically produced CNC machine tools is rapidly increasing. In terms of system configuration, economical systems are almost dominated by domestically produced systems, making it difficult for foreign products to enter. Foreign brands have an absolute advantage in popular and advanced systems, making it difficult for domestically produced systems to expand market share. Only under the macroeconomic regulation of the government and the active efforts of enterprises can we truly form our own CNC system industry with core competitiveness.
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