2014 CNC Machine Tool Industry Needs High-end Forces

In recent years, with the rapid growth in the demand for major equipment manufacturing industries such as defense, aviation, high-speed railways, automobiles, and molds, China's CNC machine tools have also achieved rapid development, and CNC machine tools have become faster, more complex, sophisticated, and multi-axis. Other areas have made significant progress and a series of breakthroughs. However, there is still a large gap between CNC machines in foreign countries in accuracy and reliability.

The steady development of CNC machine tools

At present, among the CNC machine tools, Chinese companies have certain strengths in low-end and high-end products. However, high-end CNC machine tools are still short, and high-end CNC machine tools are necessary for the four major fields of aerospace, automobiles, ships, and power generation equipment manufacturing. The necessary upgrade. Although the country has implemented a major science and technology project for “high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment” and plans to reach 80% of the high-end CNC machine tools and basic manufacturing equipment required in the four major fields by 2020, only the Jiji Machine Tool has a large-scale high-efficiency CNC system. A project of automatic stamping production line has been successfully commercialized, and key components and high-end numerical control systems still need to continue their efforts.

In 2014, the country will continue to grow steadily and adjust its structure. Under this general environment, the CNC machine tool industry must adjust the existing industrial structure, and build high-end products on the basis of existing achievements in the mid-end. On the one hand, it needs to face foreign products and joint venture products. Squeeze the competitive pressures in the domestic mid-range market. On the other hand, we must increase R&D, squeeze into the high-end market, and get rid of the grim situation hampered by people.

In terms of R&D, the company implements innovative development strategies based on the country's existing special support, with the theme of the enterprise and innovation as the driving force. Given that the machine tool is an industry with large investment and low efficiency, it cannot be achieved only through the efforts of the enterprise itself. Many companies participate in common technology research and development, and at the same time introduce scientific research institutions to participate in the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPP) to promote research and development; the national level needs to increase basic research investment and R & D personnel training.

In 2014, China's CNC machine tools will develop steadily on the basis of 2013. It is expected that the output of CNC machine tools will increase slightly, import demand will continue to be large, but demand will be more biased towards high-end products, while mid-range products will implement local marketization services abroad. It will also increase afterwards.

Import is mainly high-end

From the point of view of numerical control machine tools production, from January to November 2013, the cumulative total output of China's metal-cutting machine tools was 660,000 units, a year-on-year decrease of 7.84%, of which CNC machine tools accounted for 28% of the total and total cumulative production was 184,000 units, an increase of 0.4% year-on-year. %. In November, the number of CNC metal-cutting machine tools was 18,215 units, a year-on-year decrease of 3.21%. It is expected that the year 2013 will be the same as 2012.

From January to November, the output of CNC metal-cutting machine tools in the four provinces of Zhejiang, Liaoning, Shandong, and Jiangsu was the highest, being 40,328, 39,215, 30,570, and 21,516, respectively. Except that Shandong achieved a 34% increase, Zhejiang, Liaoning, and Jiangsu respectively. It decreased by 2.89%, 2.37%, and 5.34%; the sum of output in the 4 provinces accounted for 71.46% of the country's total output.

In 2011, during the period of rapid economic recovery, China's imports of CNC machine tools have been at a relatively high level, averaging around 1,850 units per month. The unit price for imports has gradually increased since the second half of 2011. In 2012, the import volume began to decrease and the average monthly rate dropped below 1300. The unit price of imports is fluctuating, and the average annual unit price is 293,000 USD per unit.

Since November 2012, the import volume of CNC machine tools has dropped for four consecutive months, but the import price has increased for five consecutive months from October. The unit price for imports in February reached the highest record of US$470,000, and the import volume reached the financial crisis. Since the lowest value, it indicates that high-end CNC machine tools are heavily imported; after October, the import volume once again fell below 1,000 units, and the import unit price also slightly decreased: It is estimated that the annual import volume of CNC machine tools will be around 1,000 units in 2013, and the import unit price will be Slightly lower than 2012.

In March 2013, the import volume of CNC machine tools increased significantly, while the unit price of imports dropped sharply. Afterwards, although the import unit price rose slightly, the import unit price was slightly lower than that of the previous year. In the period of active development of mid-stage products of China's machine tool enterprises, low-cost imported CNC machine tools are extremely unfavorable to the independent development of CNC machine tools in China.

According to a report made by the German Federation of Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers in August 2013, in the next three to five years, the mid-end market will become the largest segment of China's machinery and equipment market, accounting for 40.3% of the company's current 34.3%. To achieve a growth rate of up to 6%, for this reason, the future positioning of German machinery manufacturers in China should pay particular attention to the mid-market and develop the local business model of the Chinese mid-market.

In order to promote the development of China's mid-range CNC machine tools, in 2014, the country added some products to the new royalties: Addition of CNC milling machining centers, CNC crankshaft grinders, CNC gear grinding machines, and 3D printer tax items, including CNC milling machine complex machining centers, Numerically controlled crankshaft grinding machines and CNC gear grinding machines implement a 9.7% MFN tax rate and a general tax rate of 20%. For 3D printers (3D printers), they have a 5% MFN tax rate and a 30% general tax rate.

Tax Reduction Promotes the Import of High-end Numerical Control Devices

The high-end numerical control device determines the number of CNC machine tools and is the "brain" of CNC machine tools. However, due to the long-term imports of numerical control devices, China's CNC machine tools basically use "outside the brain." In 2012, imports decreased, and exports exceeded imports for the first time, indicating that the level of domestically-manufactured numerical control devices has increased somewhat. However, compared with Germany and Japan, which are more competitive, there is still a certain gap. High-end numerical control devices and systems have become Chinese CNC machine tools. Short board.

At present, domestic machine tool companies such as Shenyang Machine Tool have increased the research and development of numerical control systems, and developed a numerical control system with independent intellectual property rights in the autumn of 2011. However, in the fierce competition with foreign rivals, the promotion and adoption of the “Feiyang” numerical control system requires enterprises. The unremitting efforts.

In order to promote the development of domestic CNC machine tools and solve the demand for high-end numerical control devices, in 2014, the national import tax rate for machine tool programmable controllers (PLC) and numerical control units for machine tools (including individually imported CNC operation units) decreased from 5% to 3%. , The tax rate of the complete set of CNC servo devices (including CNC operation units, with accompanying servo amplifiers and servo motors) has been reduced from 7% to 3%.

In terms of import value, the PLC imports in 2013 were similar to those of the previous year, but the increase in imports indicates that the domestic demand gap is large. From the perspective of import structure, in 2012, PLCs imported from Japan were the most, followed by Germany; 2013 In contrast, German products are predominant, given that German products are more than twice as expensive as Japanese prices, indicating that the PLC of China’s demand has begun to develop toward the high end.

In 2013, the average unit price of numerical control unit imports rose, but the import volume was declining, indicating that the demand for products was mainly high-end; the numerical control unit had been mainly imported from Japan; Germany was the second source of imports; and the volume of imports from the servo device increased. The phenomenon of falling shows that there is a large demand, while the price is due to the devaluation of the Japanese yen to promote the competitiveness of Japanese products. Germany is still the second largest importer.

Although the use of "outside the brain" to command domestic CNC machine tools, but the problem of incoherence or lagging restricts the independent development of China's machine tools, affecting the upgrade of the equipment manufacturing industry. Due to the high investment in research and development of high-end numerical control devices, and the time-consuming, research-and-production-related efforts, it is in this context that reducing taxes and satisfying demand is indeed a frustrating move.