Talking about the Development Direction of China's High-end CNC Machine Tools
June 02, 2023
Since 2002, China has become the world's largest machine tool consumer. In 2010, the total machine tool consumption of the world's 28 major machine tool manufacturing countries was 59.89 billion US dollars, accounting for 45.6% of China's consumption. As the quality and intrinsic performance of domestic machine tools can not meet the needs of users, it is still in the unfavorable situation of “low-end melee, high-end fall”, leading to the sudden increase in machine tool imports in recent years. In the first half of 2011, China's imports of gold-cutting machine tools 5.01 billion US dollars, an increase of 58.3%. The current high-precision product market is occupied by Western developed countries.
In the past decade, the development of the machine tool industry relied more on sustained strong domestic market demand, relatively cheap labor cost advantages, and strong support from the national industrial policy. Enterprises rely on policy-based natural growth; in comparison, technological progress The role of management upgrades is relatively limited. According to Luo Baihui, the secretary-general of the International Model Association, at present, from the perspective of the machine tool structure and overall parameters, there is little difference between Chinese and foreign companies in the high-end CNC machine tools, and the homogenization competition is fierce. The market competition of mid- to high-end machine tools has developed into a comprehensive competition between product technology level and business management capabilities. Ordinary machine tools have become maintenance tools in industrialized countries such as Europe, America and Japan. Their application has gradually changed from large industrial production to rough machining and workshop spare parts maintenance. Economical CNC machine tools are unique to China and are upgraded products of ordinary machine tools. Market capacity limited. Affected by the national conditions, the demand for ordinary machine tools and economical CNC will exist for a long time, but the product life cycle will gradually enter the recession period. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the development of medium-to-high-end CNC machine tools is the key point of the work in the machine tool industry. Undoubtedly, the transformation of enterprises, the development mode that is mainly based on scale expansion, and the development of medium and high-end CNC machine tools will be the main challenges for the company in the future. direction.
