1. Casting

350045-176449-04 Machine tool base, bed and other basic large parts using castings, belong to the intermediate processing of finished products, the product price is mainly in the raw material pig iron and scrap on the basis of a certain processing fee.

The domestic foundry industry as a whole presents a large but not strong situation, the industry concentration is low, and it is still in the stage of full competition. Most domestic machine tool companies choose to outsource non-core processes such as rough processing and semi-finishing of castings and blanks, and a variety of special steel materials applied to high-end machine tool parts still need to be imported, and the heat treatment technology of basic materials still needs to be improved.

2. Numerical control system

Numerical control system is the “brain” of numerical control machine tool, and it is the core component of high technical content in numerical control machine tool. Numerical control system can be directly used for CNC machine tools, but also can be used for the original machine tool system upgrade and transformation, mainly including control device, drive device and detection device. At present, China’s large machine tool manufacturers mainly from Japan, Germany and other technologically mature countries and regions to purchase CNC systems.

Numerical control system industry specialized division of labor, high market concentration, China’s high-end numerical control system market is occupied by foreign enterprises. The global market is mainly monopolized by Japan Fanuc, Mitsubishi and Germany Siemens, Heidehan and other enterprises, and domestic high-end machine tool end customers also prefer foreign CNC system machine tool products in the choice of CNC system supporting products. At present, more than 70% of the domestic CNC machine tool CNC system uses imported products, and Huazhong CNC, Guangzhou CNC with low-end lathe CNC system among the forefront of the domestic market, especially Huazhong CNC accounts for a large market share, research and development investment, with strong development potential, by the industry’s wide attention.

3. Precision parts and functional parts

350045-176449-04 Precision parts mainly include spindle unit and lead screw, guide rail, bearing and other transmission parts, functional parts mainly include CNC rotary table, tool library, manipulator, gear box, milling head, tool holder and so on. At present, the domestic high-end machine tool precision parts and functional parts are mainly from Japan, Germany and other countries and regions, some purchased from domestic enterprises or homemade.

The upstream market is more mature, the supply is stable, but the development of the functional parts industry is relatively slow, although some parts have formed a certain scale of production, but most of them are used to meet the needs of middle and low grade machine tools, and the functional parts used by domestic high-end CNC machine tools rely on imports more seriously. The high-end CNC system is basically monopolized by Japan Fanuc, Germany Siemens, Japan Mitsubishi, Germany Heidehan and other enterprises. And optical machine, sheet metal and other machine tool parts have been more mature, mainly from the domestic procurement. Overall, CNC machine tool industry chain supporting still need to be further improved.

Midstream: ontology manufacturer

As a typical mechatronics product, machine tool is the combination of mechanical technology and CNC intelligence. From the perspective of product distribution, machine tools are mainly based on metal cutting machine tools, followed by metal forming machine tools and special processing machine tools.

Metal cutting machine tools are used for cutting, grinding and other processing methods to process metal workpieces, the most extensive application range, the highest proportion of CNC machine segmentation products, is the most important fine molecule industry of machine tools, accounting for about 2/3 of the domestic metal processing machine tool consumption. According to China Customs data, from January to June 2023, the import value of metal cutting machine tools was 2.62 billion US dollars, down 7.8% year on year; Metal cutting machine tool exports of 2.64 billion US dollars, an increase of 36.2%; In terms of trade balance, metal cutting machine tools showed a surplus for the first time, with a surplus of $20 million.