Three factors cause chaos in the field of brake components for commercial vehicles


"Commercial vehicle brakes are too chaotic!" The words came out, aroused the acquiescence and sigh of related parts and components companies. Recently, the reporter visited or telephone interviewed a number of parts and components companies related to commercial vehicle braking systems, including foreign-owned foreign companies, Sino-foreign joint ventures and independent parts and components companies.

The lack of rule of "civil strife" competition <br> <br> Currently, the field of commercial vehicle braking system has two trends, namely the rapid growth of demand for commercial vehicles and automotive disc brake assist safety system gradually being recognized by the market. However, it seems that the commercial vehicle brake market is growing up healthily, but in fact there are so many problems that it has been covered by a "chaotic" hat.

Taking commercial vehicle disc brakes as an example, the increase in demand mainly comes from the matching demand of medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Wu Minyong, deputy general manager of Zhejiang Wanan Technology Co., Ltd., said: “A large number of companies want to enter the disc brake industry. This includes drum brake manufacturers, axle companies, and some scattered small businesses. The competition is very cruel.” Most of the parts and components companies are competing with one another for homogeneity and excessive price competition, resulting in less capital accumulation, less investment in R&D, and difficulty in improving product levels.

The braking system of commercial vehicles is very complex, and many subdivided parts do not have perfect national or industrial standards. The companies interviewed generally reflected that the parts that make the brake system are completely produced according to the requirements of the vehicle manufacturer. As long as the customer can say it is OK, there is no strict industry supervision and review.

Yang Hongli, vice president of Longzhong Holding Group Co., Ltd., told reporters that industry standards are one of the factors that contribute to the improvement of the industry's technological level. The industry norm in the field of commercial vehicle brakes in China is not entirely absent, but it needs to be further refined, improved, and standardized. At the same time, there should be more parts companies and vehicle companies involved in the formulation of regulations.

Unstable supply relationship <br> <br> First of all, compared to European and American markets: WABCO, Knorr, Haldex, Meritor Europe and other parts enterprises is a major supplier of commercial vehicle braking areas, and one of the few in Europe and America Commercial vehicle companies have formed a stable supply system. There has been a relatively reasonable competition mechanism between parts and components companies. Min Yong said: "These foreign-funded parts and components companies have a complete product supply chain, and will not overcompensate their profits due to competition, affecting their R&D investment."

In contrast, there are hundreds of domestic vehicle companies and tens of thousands of spare parts suppliers in China. This means that neither the entire vehicle company nor the parts and components company will have a large market share and production scale. Min Yong believes that such fierce market competition can hardly guarantee a stable supply relationship between zero.

Companies such as WABCO, Knorr, Jude, and Meritor entered China and introduced high-end products in the field of commercial vehicle braking to China. At the same time, with the establishment of joint ventures or wholly-owned factories, the localization rate will increase, and product prices will further decline. This is a huge temptation for commercial vehicle companies in China. Yu Sujie, general manager of WABCO China, said that WABCO has continuously introduced new products and new projects in China, gradually reducing production costs and creating products that meet the needs of the Chinese market in order to increase the competitiveness of the domestic market.

Domestic auto companies are basically not going to develop high-end products for auto parts companies due to excessive market competition and strategic needs for high-level products.

Aftermarket repair less frequently changes just to make money <br> <br> companies believe that most of the parts, commercial vehicle brake products after-sales service system is far less complete passenger cars, parts and components to the enterprise caused unnecessary losses. "Most commercial vehicle sales systems are confusing, and the most serious problem is the high rate of misjudgment of component failures." Yanmin said, "In Wanan, we have retested the faulty parts recovered from major service stations. 80% of the products are without any problems, and we cannot understand why these non-existent parts have been replaced, and the service stations do not have complete fault reports."

The reporter summarized the issues concerning the after-sales market of commercial vehicles reflected by various companies, and these problems are not limited to the field of brakes. First of all, users have improper use of vehicles, overloaded or privately refitted, without regular vehicle maintenance, resulting in shortened service life of components such as brake systems; secondly, the profit model of service stations needs to be reformed, and many service stations can only earn money by replacing parts for consumers. To the money, and the maintenance profit is extremely low, resulting in a serious phenomenon of service station replacement; Third, the claim mechanism needs to be improved, consumers submit a claim, the service station readily agrees, and the auto manufacturer increases its price to the parts supplier for further claims. The compensation responsibility of the parts and components companies; Finally, the service station personnel team is weak, there are few maintenance technicians, can not accurately determine the problem of faulty cars, basically rely on continuous replacement parts to solve the problem.

In the aftermarket of commercial vehicle brakes, counterfeiting and infringement are very serious. During the interview, a number of parts and components companies stated that they hope to eliminate this phenomenon, but it is difficult for enterprises to do it alone. Min Yong said that the counterfeit and inferior products on the market continued to be prohibited, and market supervision should continue to be strengthened. In addition, the phenomenon of infringement is very serious. Liu Qi, general manager of ASIMCO Meilian (Langfang) Braking System Co., Ltd., said: “Every time we introduce a product, we will quickly see similar 'shanzhai' products on the market. Even the names of our companies are mimicking them. ”


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