In the future, China-made high-end CNC machine tools dominate

Driven by the market demand, China's booming demand for the CNC machine tool industry will maintain rapid growth, with an average compound annual growth rate of 37.4%. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, China will continue to invest and increase its efforts. Not only has it driven the market development of China's domestic CNC machine tools and its numerical control systems and related functional components, it has also provided excellent opportunities for domestic CNC system manufacturers to continuously develop their own technologies and expand their markets.

At present, the domestic production of CNC machine tools can be roughly divided into economical machine tools, universal machine tools, high-end machine tools three types. Economical machine tools are basically open-loop control; Pervasive machine tools use semi-closed-loop control technology with a resolution of up to 1 micron; high-end machine tools use closed-loop control, and at the same time have high-precision, high-speed, composite, with a variety of compensation functions, The new control function, automatic diagnosis, resolution can reach 0.1 microns, the computer can replace people for programming.

The economical CNC machine tools used in China are basically domestic products. Domestic products can meet the needs of most machine tool users regardless of quality or reliability. About 60%~70% of domestic popular CNC machine tools are domestic products, but it should be pointed out that about 80% of these CNC machine tools use foreign products. The domestic products of high-end machine tools account for only about 2% of the total, and they are basically imported. In terms of market demand, low-end machine tools and mid-range machine tools account for approximately 50% and 40% each, and the demand for high-end CNC machine tools is approximately 10%.

In this regard, the development of CNC machine tools in China will strive to solve the problems of large but not strong hosts, lagging development of numerical control systems and functional components, large gaps in key technology of high-end CNC machine tools, low product quality stability, and poor overall economic efficiency of the industry. The core competitiveness, independent innovation, quantitative integration, brand building and other aspects have been elevated to strategic heights, achieving a total industrial output value of 800 billion yuan. And strive to achieve a series of medium and long-term goals such as the transition from a machine tool to a machine tool, a powerful country, and the realization of a dominant position in the domestic market for domestic high-end CNC machine tools.

In fact, due to the low starting point of domestic CNC system manufacturers, this has led to the backwardness of the technological level of enterprises. At present, there is a large gap between the design principles, components and application technologies in domestic CNC system manufacturers, and the national research investment is basically It is used by companies for the development of new products rather than the development of key technologies.

At the same time, in order to occupy a huge market in China, multinational companies adopt a dual competition strategy of technology blockade and low price dumping. On the one hand, for products that China cannot produce, multinational companies not only raise prices, but also impose many restrictions; on the other hand, they continuously take significant price cuts for CNC systems that China can produce in an attempt to win only the mid-range of Chinese companies. The market share of the products does not hesitate to dig out the market planning and sales personnel familiar with the business from CNC companies in China.

In mid-July of 2013, the Ministry of Science and Technology, together with the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance, successively conducted five meetings on the discussion of the changes in the 2013 CNC machine tool industry. The meeting reached comprehensive balanced views on some five major projects such as CNC machine tools. The meeting approved the revision and improvement of the 2014 annual plan as soon as possible and reported to the three departments for the record. At the same time, it also paid close attention to the preparation of the 2014 annual budget plan and sent it to the Ministry of Finance for approval.

These five special projects involve the people’s livelihood of the people’s livelihood. They are also the key points for the transformation of social and economic development and deserve the attention of the relevant departments. The relevant departments carried out a comprehensive parallel of the five major projects, among which the numerical control machine tool industry ranked first. CNC machine tools represent the heavy industry of machinery. As a key part of machining, domestic CNC machine tools have always been challenged.

The country mainly promotes the domestic mid-range CNC system. The competition in the mid-range CNC system is fierce, and Chinese companies started relatively late. Now that technology is gradually moving closer to European and American companies, the brand effect of the company has not been formed yet, so it does not have strong competitiveness in the market. At present, the state organizes relevant personnel to communicate and exchange. The company is also actively working hard on R&D, and strives to reverse the situation that domestic products account for only 10% of the market in the mid-range CNC system as soon as possible.

The CNC machine tool industry is a high-tech industry. Its characteristics are high technical requirements, rapid product replacement, high investment density, and strong product integration. Each functional component is critical to the quality and performance of the complete machine. The product market has small capacity and powerful competitors. This places high demands on the coordination of government support and the effective and flexible operation of businesses. The basic policy direction is to better integrate the orientation of the national policy, the improvement of the industry structure, and the flexible and efficient corporate mechanism.