Analysis of the Overall Competitive Power of China's Machine Tools

In recent years, from manufacturing in China to the difficult advancement of China's creation, China's manufacturing industry as a whole has been at the middle and low end of the global value chain. These phenomena have fully demonstrated that China is a grim fact of manufacturing a large country rather than a manufacturing power. It is undeniable that this issue is related to factors such as China's industrial development policy, short-sighted behavior of enterprises, and local protectionism. It also lacks a R&D system with original innovation and integrated innovation capabilities for Chinese manufacturing companies; it fails to effectively promote advanced manufacturing technologies. The research of management technology and information technology and its deep integration and application have a direct relationship with many factors such as the lack of effective management of enterprises and the impetus for innovation and development. Due to the existence of these common problems, the overall competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry is not strong, and only the world's factories can participate in the global low-end market competition and the competition is extremely fierce; while the global high-end market is still being used by the United States, Germany, South Korea and Japan. Monopoly, high profits continue to flow into the pockets of these companies.

According to statistics, on March 23, 2012, Wang Yong, the then director of the State Council’s State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, clearly stated at the video conference on the comprehensive management and improvement activities of central enterprises that through the benchmarking study between central enterprises and world-class companies, in general, the central government The gap between enterprises is quite large, and it is highlighted in the following five aspects: basic management, management innovation, investment mergers and acquisitions, management informationization, and international business management. In addition, the management innovation of the central enterprises is still in the stage of learning and imitating in general, and no substantial breakthrough has been made. On May 15, 2012, Director Wang Yong emphasized at the on-site meeting of the Central Enterprise Strengthening Basic Management held by the SASAC that to strengthen and improve the central enterprises and improve the management level of the central enterprises must be started from basic management.

The machine tool industry is a high-end equipment manufacturing industry. China is the world's largest machine tool manufacturer and the world's largest machine tool importer. Statistics show that in 2012, the total import value of the machine tool industry was 19.946 billion US dollars (mainly processing centers, processing machine tools, CNC machine tools and gold-cutting machine parts), which fell 5.28% year-on-year. Among them, the total import volume of processing centers was 5.651 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 16.19% year-on-year; the total import value of CNC machine tools was 4.722 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 11.9%. In the same period, the total export value of the machine tool industry was US$8.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 13.55%. Compared with the growth of 29.72% in the previous year, the growth rate also fell sharply.

There is a clear gap between China's machine tool industry enterprises and the world's advanced enterprises. At present, 90% of CNC systems in China need to be imported. Although some domestic CNC system manufacturers have mastered key technologies such as multi-axis linkage and RTCP (rotary tool center point) three-dimensional tool compensation, the high-end numerical control system developed in comparison with foreign products is in terms of processing accuracy, reliability, and stability. There is still a big gap. It is also understood that in order to ensure product quality, Shanghai Volkswagen uses imported grinders to process automotive parts and components; this also shows from a side that China is a big machine tool country, not a machine tool powerhouse.

In recent years, the numerical control rate of China's production machine tools has improved. In 2011, the numerical control rate of metal cutting machine tools was 29.9%, and the numerical control rate of forming machine tools was 6.29%. However, it was 60% with developed countries such as Japan, the United States, and Germany. Compared with the numerical control rate of 70% of the production rate and the rate of numerical control of 80% to 90%, the NC level of China's machine tools still appears to be very low, which inevitably affects the processing accuracy and processing efficiency of the product.

In 2011, the assessment of the development level of the integration of the machine tool industry (71 companies participating in the evaluation) showed that only 54.2% of the enterprises applied the program management, 11.3% of the enterprises applied the ranking of key resource demand capabilities, and 67.6% of the enterprises applied the procurement management. 59.2% of enterprises applied sales management, 50.7% of enterprises applied budget management, 31.0% of enterprises applied customer relationship management, 15.5% of enterprises implemented business and financial integration applications, and 11.3% of enterprises implemented management systems and Automatic exchange of data between manufacturing execution systems. The evaluation results also show that currently the production methods and management concepts of China's machine tool industry enterprises generally lag behind, and the level of integrated integration, coordination, and innovation among information systems has yet to be improved. This situation is related to the history of the advancement of enterprise information in the machine tool industry for more than 30 years. The crux of the problem and its severity are also obvious.

In short, the machine tool is the machine that manufactures machinery and is the “working machine” of the equipment manufacturing industry. Its importance is self-evident. The above problems also fully demonstrate the fact that the overall competitiveness of China's machine tool industry is still not strong, which will undoubtedly affect the overall capability and efficiency of China's equipment manufacturing industry. Therefore, the machine tool industry must focus on promoting the optimization and reorganization of product R&D models, building a research and development system with original innovation and integrated innovation capabilities, and developing products with high technology and high added value. At the same time, the machine tool industry should also strive to promote the research and practice of concepts such as strategy-model-process integration, deep integration of the two technologies, and deepening the application of ERP through benchmarking analysis with world-leading companies.