The Development Characteristics of China's Machine Tool Industry

1. Changes in Supply That Are Not Adapted to the Structure of Demand

At the same time as the machine tool market is depressed, the characteristics of demand structure upgrading are becoming more and more obvious. The demand for traditional batch-based and general-purpose products has decreased, the demand for small-volume, customized machine tool products has increased, the demand for single-machine smaller sets of equipment has increased, and the functionality, performance and reliability of general-purpose stand-alone products have been put forward higher requirements.

In order to adapt to market changes, many machine tool enterprises in Western countries began to transform, from focusing on a certain type of machine tool products (e.g. milling milling) in bulk production, to focus on market segments, for user process characteristics and processing performance requirements (such as automotive powertrains, consumer electronics, etc.) to provide complete sets of solutions. The original advantage of Chinese enterprises is the large-scale manufacturing of general-purpose stand-alone products, the market demand changes are not adapted to the corresponding insufficient supply capacity. The task of industrial transformation and upgrading is imminent.

2. Industry Competition Structure Presents "High-end Loss, Mid-range Competition, Low-end Civil War" Situation

The technical level of machine tool industry can be roughly divided into three grades of high school and low.

With the improvement of China's machine tool industry level, the domestic low-grade machine tools and supporting numerical control systems, functional components, domestic enterprises can basically solve, accounting for more than 80% of the market. The technical threshold in this field is lower, the kit is easy to buy, leading to a large number of private enterprises into this field, which has strong homogeneity of general-purpose stand-alone products a large surplus.

The medium-grade CNC machine tool market is the main competition field for Chinese and foreign machine tool enterprises, and the main competitorist is the machine tool enterprises in Taiwan and Korea. Domestic mid-range machine tool market share, the whole machine in about 60%, CNC system less than 50% (with the maturity of technology, market share may gradually expand). Guangzhou CNC is the largest medium and low-grade CNC system manufacturers.

Users of high-end gold-cut machines are concentrated in aerospace, car engines and transmissions, as well as high-tip processing such as nuclear energy and micro-machines. High-end machine tools need to have high reliability, ultra-precision processing and many other advanced performance, is the most strategic part of the industry, although it only accounts for 10% to 20% of the industry's output value. Domestic high-grade CNC machine tool market has long been monopolized by European and Japanese enterprises (e.g. Germany GROB accounted for more than 70% of China's car engine block / cylinder head processing share), import dependence in more than 90%.

In recent years, through the implementation of the national "04 special", domestic enterprises have been able to supply power generation equipment and ship production required high-end machine tool equipment. Jinan II machine tool production of precision CNC stamping production line (for car body processing) has been highly recognized by domestic car manufacturers (including joint ventures and domestic enterprises), and into the North American market, is a prominent bright spot.

3. Some Machine Tool Enterprises Pay More and More Attention to High-end Technological Innovation

In the general market depression, some machine tool enterprises attach importance to high-end technological innovation, accelerate transformation and upgrading, and began to emerge, such as the city-owned state-owned Jinan II machine tools, the main stamping equipment and gantry milling machine. Ji ii long-term focus on digestion and absorption and technological innovation, the implementation of scientific management, and users on the basis of close communication and interaction to carry out research and development design, products to fine. Now Ji II has occupied the domestic car car stamping line market 80%, has beaten Germany Schuler with the superior performance of its products, won the bulk orders of mainstream automotive enterprises in North America, into the world complete set of automation forging equipment manufacturers first square; Now has high-end CNC machine tool whole machine, system and a variety of functional components of the research and development production capacity, formed a professional research and development team and improve the production and sales system, its high-end processing center has been adopted by the aerospace sector, products have been exported to Germany. In addition, there are Beijing fine carving, Ningjiang machine tools, Guangzhou CNC, Huazhong CNC and other enterprises, this group of emerging enterprises is China's machine tool industry transformation and upgrading of the positive force. Their common feature is that the business direction is correct, adhere to the long-term sub-sector of deep cultivation, dedicated to technical research and development, product quality, stable performance, pay attention to customer personalized product needs and services. It can be predicted that among them will appear a number of Chinese machine tools "leading" type and "hidden champion" type of backbone enterprises.