The challenge —

Solve the “bottleneck” and improve the reliability of equipment

In recent years, cluster innovation has made major breakthroughs, and has initially become the main source of the core technology of the national intelligent equipment industry, and a number of cluster enterprises have continuously made new progress in advanced and sophisticated technology.

For example, Guangzhou Haozhi Electromechanical completed the domestic large torque, high stiffness electric spindle in the domestic high-end CNC machine tool batch application, now has an annual output of 1000 sets of project products industrialization capacity, market share continues to rise, 2021 electric spindle domestic and global market share reached 42.33% and 15.21%. In May 2022, Shenzhen-headquartered CIMC independently developed the first 40-foot liquid helium tank container in China, filling the gap in domestic liquid helium storage and transportation products; In August of the same year, the new intelligent boarding bridge provided by Shenzhen CIMC Tianda for Chengdu Tianfu Airport was successfully put into use, which is the first unmanned intelligent boarding bridge officially put into use in Asia, and successfully docking the aircraft door in the case of unmanned, which takes only 50 seconds.

However, we must also see that the key technologies and core components are subject to people, independent research and development and the low level of technology are constraints and obstacles in the transformation of China’s equipment manufacturing industry to high-end. At present, Guangshen-Foshan intelligent equipment cluster enterprises R & D and innovation capabilities are still insufficient, high-end CNC systems, grating, high-precision ball bearings and other key components rely on imports, the “jam neck” problem still exists. At the same time, the first test of domestic high-end equipment is difficult to use, high-end equipment development units, user units collaborative innovation efforts are not enough.

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A number of experts said in an interview with reporters that the difficulty of the first test of domestic equipment is mainly due to users’ distrust of the reliability of domestic equipment. For the equipment manufacturing industry, the reliability of machinery is related to product quality and system life. Especially in the field of high-end manufacturing, the failure of any machine on the production line will bring about the shutdown of the entire production line and huge economic losses, and the cost of trial and error is extremely high. In the early development process, there is a gap between domestic equipment and foreign equipment in reliability, resulting in downstream enterprises to produce “can import without domestic” inertia. Due to the lack of application scenarios, the technology is difficult to iterate and improve, and the road to the transformation of domestic equipment to the middle and high-end has become more difficult.

“Equipment manufacturing should solve the two problems of” can be used “and” easy to use “. Guangdong equipment manufacturing has experienced the leap from “zero to one” and achieved “usable”. In order to solve the problem of “easy to use” in the future, the key is to improve the reliability level of equipment.” Wu Zhiheng said that with the acceleration of the transformation of Guangzhou-Shenzhou-Buddha-Dongguan intelligent equipment industrial cluster to the middle and high-end, the importance of reliability will gradually become prominent.

In recent years, in order to encourage independent innovation, break import dependence, and solve the problem of the first test and first use of domestic high-end equipment, Guangdong has introduced and implemented a series of first (set) major equipment policy award and supplement measures. The first (set) major technical equipment refers to the equipment products that have achieved major technological breakthroughs in China, have intellectual property rights, and have not yet achieved market performance, and the “last mile” of innovative products towards market application is opened through support and promotion incentives.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Guangzhou has continuously issued the “Guangzhou first (set) key technical equipment promotion and application Guidance Directory”, which gives incentives to the equipment that meets the declaration requirements according to no more than 30% of the sales price of a single set (set), increases financial support, and effectively promotes the mass production and localization of advanced equipment products.