Breakthrough in the automotive field is significant for the machine tool industry

At the end of last year at the "China Automotive Equipment Manufacturing Innovation Alliance Directors Extending Conference," Fu Yuwu, executive vice president of the China Automotive Engineering Society, said that in the past decade, China has become the world's largest producer and seller, and the industry has a high degree of optimism that 2020 Year can be referred to as an industrial power.

“Now it seems that the road to a powerful automobile industry is much more difficult than expected. There is no possibility of cornering and overtaking, and there is no situation where we are in the first tier.” Fu Yuwu said that the reason is that he did not master the core technology. , And the picture frame is even more serious than ours, and there is a big gap with foreign technology. Among the key technologies in the automotive industry that are more prominent are vehicle development and database, industrialization of automatic transmissions, automotive electronics, and automotive light. Quantum, smart car and new energy vehicle battery technology.

These need the exploration of the automotive industry companies, but also need the co-creation of the automobile manufacturing equipment industry. To solve these problems, it is necessary to establish an innovation system that integrates production, education, and research with the theme of the enterprise. Through alliances, large-scale cross-industry and inter-disciplinary platforms will be combined to promote the common development of the automobile manufacturing equipment industry and the automotive industry.

He believes that “04 special item” is an opportunity for industrial cooperation. Can it thoroughly sort out the needs of enterprises on the basis of investigations, determine the specific equipment required by the auto industry, and promote the convergence of production, research, and research on the platform of cross-border alliance to form a small loop? To promote cross-industry and interdisciplinary cooperation.

Wang Decheng, deputy head of the “04 special” overall group and vice president of the Machinery Science Research Institute, said that since 2009, there has been great support for manufacturing equipment in the automotive sector, and some projects have achieved important breakthroughs. For example, the stamping production line of Jiji has been exported to Ford of the United States. Some hot-working forming equipments have achieved breakthroughs in stand-alone and common technology, and some complete sets of equipment have also been made.

However, the manufacturing equipment in the automotive field needs to withstand the test of high product productivity and long production cycle of customers, and meet the high requirements of customers for the accuracy and reliability of the equipment. If only one or two or even dozens of prototypes come out, it is far from being able to solve the problem of equipment in the automotive field. Therefore, Wang Decheng believes that from a special point of view, it is difficult for the project of automobile manufacturing equipment to tackle problems, and the challenges are great and the pressure is also great.

"But this is also the driving force for the special work of auto equipment manufacturing during the 12th Five-Year Plan period."

Wang Decheng, a domestic machine tool and equipment promotion result, said that the problems of automobile manufacturing equipment cannot be solved by special projects, but through special projects, the real needs of the industry can be raised and solved through multiple ways. More importantly, after receiving special support, we must pay attention to the promotion of results and industrialize achievements or form standards, in order to truly solve key technical problems in some industries through the implementation of special projects, and form a group of reliable and well-received users. Manufacturing Equipment.

At the meeting, the experts of the expert group unanimously agreed that in 2014, the automobile manufacturing equipment special project needs to determine the key direction by condensing the most important needs of the industry or upgrading the past achievements.

For example, the development of intelligent manufacturing equipment is the focus of support in 2012, including intelligent manufacturing system integration and demonstration applications, and the development and innovation of core intelligent measurement and control devices. Its supporting direction is industrial robots, robot-based automotive welding automation production lines, and automotive and mechanical processing. Safe experiment system, efficient intelligent die casting island and flexible automation equipment production line.

In the future, it will continue to support the automotive manufacturing equipment field, such as mechanical processing digital workshops, intelligent welding workshops, high-precision forging digital workshops, tire forming digital workshops, flexible automated assembly workshops, industrial robots and key components.

"These projects are the goals of the next phase of the machine tool industry." Wang Decheng stressed that "04 Special Projects" are getting higher and higher in the project's new technologies and processes, making it more and more difficult to declare and requiring high acceptance. Enterprises in the application for "04 special" need to pay attention to, in the scope of key tasks, to have scale and technology, to implement the user, for smart special projects, through the alliance, to obtain two project support.

Wu Bulin, executive vice chairman of the China Machine Tool & Tooling Industry Association, once said that the current market demand, industrial base, and policy environment are conducive to the upgrade and development of the machine tool industry in view of the transformation and upgrading of the entire equipment industry. In recent years, the domestic market share of CNC machine tools is about 60%, and about 40% still rely on imports. This is also the most favorable condition for us to develop medium-to-high-end machine tools, and it is also the most solid foundation for industrial upgrading.

From the perspective of the policy environment, on the one hand, “04 Special Project” will be implemented until 2020. It will be able to concentrate some funds to focus on solving some key issues that need to be resolved urgently. On the other hand, it will be the five key areas in high-end equipment manufacturing as a strategic emerging industry. One of the directions is intelligent manufacturing. CNC machine tools are one of the key points. The mainframes, numerical control systems, and functional components of CNC machines are all listed as key support directions.

However, it is not time for me to wait. The significant changes in the current market demand environment have brought business difficulties to the industry. How to change is what each company must think about. From another perspective, however, it provides an opportunity and an entry point for the transformation and upgrading of the industry. The formed force mechanism provides a powerful impetus for the transformation and upgrading of the industry.