Hardware tool technology R&D reform breaks through international development difficulties

In recent years, although China's hardware and tools industry is not small development, but far behind the development of the machine tool industry. According to statistics, China's current annual sales of tools are 14.5 billion yuan, of which the proportion of cemented carbide tools is less than 25%, which is not only far from the structure of international market tool products, but also can not meet the growing domestic demand for cemented carbide tools. Demand.

At present, the imbalance of the tool structure is the production tool and the demand is not correct. For example, the user needs a large gap in the carbide tool, but the high-speed steel tool is over-manufactured; the high-efficiency cutting tools urgently needed in the modern manufacturing industry have large gaps, but the low-grade standard tools are over-produced. Luo Baihui, secretary-general of the International Die & Metal & Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, believes that from the perspective of the technological development trend of the machinery manufacturing industry, the proportion of high-efficiency CNC machine tools in China's factories will increase year by year, and the demand for efficient and advanced tools will increase rapidly. The demand for traditional standard tools will decrease year by year.

“China is a major producer and exporter of hardware tools. Among them, most of the power tools sold worldwide are manufactured and exported from China. China has become the world’s leading power tool supplier. Although the scale of China’s hardware tools industry is relatively small, However, due to factors such as weak technological innovation capability, over-monotonous market structure, and weak brand influence, many hardware and tool manufacturers are often lacking in core competitiveness and are difficult to become bigger and stronger.” Luo Baihui pointed out that due to the independent innovation of domestic tool companies Insufficient efforts, focusing only on the interests of “short, flat, fast” low-end products, and sticking to the old style, are afraid to reform the market transformation of enterprises, and are reluctant to increase investment in the introduction and rejuvenation of advanced equipment, technologies, and processes, and face market changes. Lack of patience for basic research, always wait and see fortunate, only waiting for other companies to develop new products, sit down and enjoy a simple analysis, slightly adjusted for finished products, blindly follow the trend to the market, completely ignore market saturation and corporate need. Often this kind of follow-up development with quick success and instant benefit can only rely on other outstanding foreign companies, losing the dominance of development and innovation. The overall system level of the product will always hover around 80% - 90%; due to the lack of exploration of deep technology With weak foundations for innovation, it can only stop at the development of products that are “like the shape of God”.

R & D system is imperfect

At present, some outstanding problems in the basic management of industry enterprises and long-term management problems have not been effectively solved, and have become a bottleneck that severely restricts enterprises to become stronger, better, and scientifically develop. Among them, the management of the R&D system has also become an important part of corporate management innovation. Compared with outstanding foreign companies, domestic companies still have gaps in the establishment of R&D centers, R&D project management, the introduction and training of high-level talents, and the optimization of personnel incentive systems. In addition, the lack of industry-strategy guidance for R&D teams can not synthesize the advantages of all parties to form joint forces to break through the key difficulties. Fragmented and differentiated weak research and development tricks often try to break through the problems, but often they are unable to lag behind. Can only get its "form" and not see its "god".

R&D Systematic Accumulation Less Production Process Instability

The tool industry encompasses knowledge areas such as substrate material design, coating organization structure design, tool appearance structure design, and special digital technology development. The replacement of any subject theory and technology will lead to the systematic adjustment of the entire tool industry technology. Also on the production line, the slight absence or fluctuation of any linking procedure associated with the above technology will inevitably affect the stability of the tool product performance indicators. In terms of tool matrix materials, the corresponding grades of the components in the domestic companies are basically the same, and the general performance reports such as hardness, density, and coercive force are basically the same, but the feedback of actual performance is uneven. In order to break this kind of paradox that “is not like”, it is imperative to systematically accumulate the development of tool development, and to explore the links of relevance in each link, which are consistent and interlocking in order to guide the actual production and ensure the stability of the product. , find the key to "combination". The lack of ancillary service capabilities of domestic knives can not make their "God"

In the market application and service level, foreign tool companies have a wide range of product types, and they are not only limited to the production of tools. They can also provide corresponding supporting services according to customer needs. They can really think about what customers think and thus can often firmly occupy the market. In contrast, due to the market structure of standard cutting tools that has long dominated China's domestic market, there is only a simple trading relationship between tool companies and user companies, and some even go through agents and do not involve services. Therefore, the vast majority of domestic cutting tool companies do not have any service force, resulting in domestic tool companies, even if they can produce high-quality products. However, they cannot provide reasonable support for the customer's processing technology, and often can only be used in an unsatisfactory manner. "You can't play "God" when you are there.

In the face of this “disassociation” status, Liu Yuling, chief engineer of Beiyi CNC Machine Tool Co., Ltd., once mentioned that more efforts should be made to improve domestic machine tool companies in terms of “original innovation, excellent production, and turnkey capability”.

At present, the development of foreign well-known cutting tool companies continues unabated. In this case, to achieve a sound and rapid development of domestic tool companies, it is necessary to break the existing R & D ideas, from the perspective of customers, grow together with customers, from Instead of just replacing foreign tools, we have developed our own products in actual demand. Not only do we need to have the ability to manufacture tools, but we also need the ability to apply tools to the actual production process, so that we can truly have a solid theoretical and practical foundation in order to have our own intellectual property.