Aerospace spirit inspires domestic machine tool industry

On November 17, the "Shenzhou 8" spacecraft's return capsule landed in Inner Mongolia, marking the successful completion of the "Tiangong No. 1" and "Shenzhou No. 8" rendezvous and docking mission.

Over the years, China has opened the door to the space station era with the aerospace spirit of “particularly able to endure hardship, special combat, special problems, and special dedication”. At the 13th Industrial Expo, which was concluded shortly before, the author deeply felt that in order to win a place on the world's high-end cutting tool stage, domestic tools also need to uphold this spirit.

The economic development data of the domestic cutting tool industry published by the China Machine Tool Industry Association Tool Subcommittee showed that the total sales of imported tools and domestic tools reached 33 billion yuan last year, ranking first in the world. In the sale of 33 billion yuan, the imported 11 billion yuan of cutters are all modern and efficient cutters. Of the 22 billion yuan of homemade cutters, only about 2 billion yuan are modern efficient cutters, accounting for 10% to 15%. The foreign brand tool sales accounts for 1/3 of the tool consumption in China. This shows that while China has become the world's most promising tool market, high-end markets are occupied by multinational companies, which is a big problem.

The reason is also obvious. First of all, in the rapid development of high-end manufacturing fields such as automobiles and aerospace in China, the market for high-end cutting tools has gradually expanded. However, due to the large difference between the domestic tooling technology and foreign countries, domestic tools are mostly used in medium and low requirements. In the customer base, such as agricultural machinery, motorcycles and other low-end machinery manufacturing industry. Furthermore, due to the extensive development of the Chinese manufacturing industry, the development of machine tools and cutting tools is extremely unbalanced. Many manufacturing companies spend a lot of money to purchase machine tools, but they are struggling with tool consumption and are reluctant to purchase advanced and efficient tools. The market demand for traditional tools has long been high. No less, this is also an important reason why many domestic tool companies do not want to enter advanced and efficient tool production.

Comparing with the situation of machine tools, Germany, Japan and Germany, the competition in the tool industry has become more intense - from Sandvik in Sweden, Walter in Germany, Iscar in Israel, to Kenname in the United States, and Teguci in South Korea. The Japanese Oushi machine can be called a deer. In order to seize the market, various foreign brands also launched new products one after another. In this industry fair, Hu Chen, head of the marketing department of the EU’s flagship machine, told the author: “We recently introduced a new product, which is the internal cooling of cemented carbide. Oil hole WDO bit, this product uses a new coating compared to the previous product."

Foreign companies’ “industry pressure” has made domestic tool makers have to accelerate their progress. At the exhibition, Yang Zhongjun, head of the quantitative tool, expressed to the author: “In the current circumstances, we will first improve our internal strength and increase our R&D efforts.” And Shanghai Tool Factory also stated that the company is implementing “double plus "and" key national debt technical transformation "project, the introduction of a large number of national advanced technology and equipment, the development of solid carbide printed circuit board tools, carbide drills, carbide milling cutters.

It can be seen that the preparation for technological advancement is the only way for our domestically-made cutters to achieve the same “God 8” as “Romance to 90,000 miles”.

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