Machine tool industry transformation and upgrading need to go wrong

According to the statistical data analysis, from January to October 2012, with the significant decline in market demand for machine tool products, the total industrial output value of key connected companies decreased by 18.1% year-on-year.

Among them, the output value of the gold-cutting machine tool industry decreased by 19.1% year-on-year, and the output decreased by 29.7% year-on-year; the production value of forming machine tools decreased by 18.2% year-on-year, and the output decreased by 27.5% year-on-year; the total output value of rolling components and numerical control systems in small industries fell by a larger margin. Respectively decreased by 35% and 35.8%.

20% or even as high as 35% decline For the machine tool industry that has experienced double-digit growth over the past decade, this winter is no longer enough to describe it as cold.

How to stick with it, people who have just watched the "1942" movie are expected to have deeper feelings, and survival is the basis of everything. However, the real problem is that the market demand for “grain” lies there. The customer is the person who distributes rations and will not follow the principle of even sharing. Therefore, the survival of the fittest will be discussed.

Transformation and upgrading are the only way

Chen Huiren, deputy secretary-general of the China Machine Tool Industry Association, believes that the current status of China's machine tool industry companies is that the total demand has decreased substantially and the demand structure has been accelerated. Affected by this, China's machine tool industry's major economic performance indicators have declined, new orders have significantly decreased, production and sales levels have dropped significantly, capital spending has risen sharply, manufacturing resources have been largely idle and the contradiction between supply and demand has become more prominent, becoming the industry's current economic operation of the main features. At the same time, the inconsistency in the inherent imbalance in the capacity structure of the industry is even more pronounced, and the already severe homogenized market competition is further aggravated.

It is undeniable that the significant changes in the market environment are the direct cause of the current difficulties faced by the industry. However, in the process of high-speed development over the past ten years, the industry has been driven by the economic development environment, as well as the industry development stage restrictions. Changes in the development approach have not received due attention.

“Compared to the great achievements of scale growth, the structural adjustment is obviously lagging behind. This is another important reason that cannot be evaded. It can also be said to be a more fundamental reason.” Chen Huiren believes that the former has external and objective attributes. It is not based on the will of the people. The latter has an internal, subjective nature that can be changed through the efforts of all people in the industry.

It is undeniable that China's machine tool industry has experienced rapid growth for more than ten consecutive years and has made remarkable achievements. However, overall, the industry as a whole is still at the middle and low end of the international division of labor and the industrial chain. The past high-speed growth has relied more on the strong pull of domestic market demand, the development energy released by the transformation of enterprise institutional mechanisms, and the relative advantage of labor costs. And the strong support of national industrial policies.

In contrast, the role of technological progress and management innovation is second. In a sense, the sustained and vigorous demand for products in the domestic market has objectively delayed the process of industrial technological progress, management upgrades, and the improvement of workers' quality.

“Thus, it can be said that the current industry development model and business strategy are based on the above major growth factors. Its main feature is the continuous expansion of scale. It relies heavily on the rapid growth of the economic environment to provide support for it."

Chen Huiren said that today, the economic development environment and growth factors that we have used to rely on have already taken place and will continue to undergo profound changes. The long-term development model and business strategy adopted by the industry are also rapidly losing ground.

“This requires that we not only need to get rid of the current operating difficulties, but also need to seek new sustainable development in the industry in a new development environment. This road is a road of development and transformation and a big change.”

In fact, now the machine tool industry has a general consensus that the current period of economic growth slowdown is not a simple cyclical downturn, but has a complex background, and to a greater extent, the country is at the expense of a lower growth rate. In exchange for an active choice for economic transformation and upgrading.

Correspondingly, China's machine tool industry will also enter a new stage of development. The main characteristics of the new stage will be mainly the rational growth rate and comprehensive transformation and upgrading. The focus of competition will also shift from scale expansion to development mode.