Whether it is Shenzhou flying, dragon into the sea, or the successful commercial flight of the domestic large aircraft C919, China’s high-end manufacturing industry represented by aviation equipment and Marine engineering equipment manufacturing has a rapid development momentum, which cannot be separated from the CNC machine tool known as “industrial mother aircraft”. In recent years, under the comprehensive role of national and local industrial policy support, the promotion of new technological revolution and market demand traction, China’s CNC machine tool industry has entered an accelerated growth period.

In April this year, the 18th China International Machine Tool Exhibition with the total number of participants, the total number of visitors to the three indicators hit a record high after the end of the unprecedented grand situation, the third session of the industrial machine high-quality development forum was successfully held in Wenling, Zhejiang Province, many heavy new releases followed, has always brought its own traffic and attention to the machine tool industry, In the precision, the degree of intelligence have “inner volume” up. Not only that, during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, some provinces in China also proposed that we should rely on the regional advantages of industries to research and develop relevant technologies, focus on the development of high-grade CNC machine tools, improve the CNC rate of key industries, and create CNC machine tool industry clusters.

Xin Guobin, a member of the Party group and vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that industrial machines are “the tool of the machine” and “the foundation of self-improvement”, and are basic industries related to the overall situation of national strategic security and development. In recent years, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has taken major projects as the starting point to carry out key core technology research, promote the development of the industrial machine industry, improve the overall technical level of the industry, establish a relatively complete industrial system, cultivate a number of high-quality enterprises, and ensure the equipment needs of key areas. Xin Guobin stressed that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will adhere to the “demand orientation, scene pull, pilot test verification, beads into a chain”, and strive to improve the ability of independent innovation, promote industrial quality upgrading, strengthen market application and promotion, cultivate a complete industrial ecology, and promote the high-quality development of the industrial machine industry.

“The future of machine tool equipment should take intelligent manufacturing as the main direction of attack and insist on walking on two legs.” Zhou Ji, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, further explained that on the one hand, to catch up with the standard, on the other hand, to innovate beyond. Through the implementation of the five major projects of high-end machine tool products, advanced machine tool industry foundation, digital transformation of machine tool manufacturing capacity, machine tool enterprise cultivation and growth, and machine tool industry technology innovation system construction, the three strategic goals of consolidating the advantages of economic CNC machine tools, occupying the main war CNC machine tool market, and walking in the forefront of high-end CNC machine tools are achieved.

High-end attack can not improve the “hard power” to break through the encirclement

04 special (high-grade CNC machine tool and basic manufacturing equipment science and technology major special) since the start of the emphasis on paying close attention to the “three combinations” (the combination of users and machine tool enterprises, the combination of host and system components enterprises, the combination of manufacturing enterprises and research institutions), reshaping the innovation ecology of China’s machine tool industry, a number of machine tool enterprises in China have been growing rapidly, The state’s support policy for the CNC machine tool industry has also undergone changes from “improving the quality of machine tools” to “attaching importance to CNC machine tools” to “vigorously developing high-end CNC machine tools”.

“At present, domestic mid-range machine tool internal friction is still serious.” Lu Bingheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of Xi ‘an Jiaotong University, pointed out that the next step is to develop in the direction of “specialized and special new”, and to attack problems in the whole machine and push to the high-end; In the middle end, in order to improve quality, performance and user pertinence, enterprises should have their own specialization and characteristics, and form a good competitive ecology.

“Today there are many machine tool entrepreneurs complacent in the machine tool ‘performance price is good’, which was feasible in the past, but now the market economy is mature, its basic law is high quality and high price, that is, ‘my machine tool is expensive and sold’, this is the core competitiveness.” Tan Jianrong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and distinguished professor of Zhejiang University, also directly hit the pain points of the industry and admitted that the added value of CNC machine tool product technology is low, the key is that the product development and design ability is generally low, and the design ability of most CNC machine tool manufacturing enterprises is weaker than the manufacturing ability. “It is necessary to improve the key technology of CNC machine tool design and manufacturing quality, and promote the development of CNC machine tool industry to high-end, intelligent, personified and green.”

It is not difficult to find that high-end attack is difficult, independent and controllable, and basic innovation has always been the high-frequency words on the road of accelerating the breakthrough of the machine tool industry. Machine tool industry market is limited, product technology segmentation, diverse application scenarios, manufacturing and user dispersion and full competition, the industry lacks disruptive technology or cross-generation development opportunities, formulate industrial policies, promote the implementation of major projects need to fully consider its industrial characteristics and development laws. How to create a stable and expected policy environment for the high-end machine tool market, seize the high-end demand to solve the source of innovation? It is not only an inevitable requirement for realizing the autonomy and controllability of the industrial chain and supply chain, but also a key part of building a modern industrial system.

“To create stable market expectations for the machine tool enterprises that invest in the research and development of high-end products, if necessary, strong and unconventional application supporting policies can be introduced according to the market situation and industrial characteristics.” Luo Junjie, executive vice president of China Machinery Industry Federation, suggested that we should improve the innovation system, achieve key technological breakthroughs, strengthen the combination of research and development, manufacturing and user end, and increase the resource investment in the creation and maintenance of application scenarios; Strengthen standards and quality work, promote product quality upgrade; Using new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, we will establish innovative technologies and product information systems in key areas to strengthen monitoring, analysis and early warning. Tracking the development of information technology, to promote the machine tool industry industrial Internet platform construction; Strengthen cooperation and alliances between enterprises to improve the concentration of the machine tool industry.