The Development Status of CNC Tool Industry in 2015

Beginning in 2014, China bid farewell to an average growth rate of about 10% over the past 30 years and entered a new normal period. In recent decades, despite the rapid development of China's manufacturing industry, it is still a "manufacturing power" rather than a "manufacturing power." The current domestic and international economic policy environment has caused the domestic manufacturing industry to face a huge shadow. The barriers of foreign quality, standards, and the strict supervision of the domestic government have led to an increase in the cost of manufacturing in China and a reduction in the profit margin. China's cutting tool industry will really have a pessimistic view similar to "China's manufacturing industry has survived 2008 but failed to achieve 2015."

1, the distribution of domestic CNC tool companies

The geographical distribution of cutting tool companies in China is as follows: Xixiashu in Changzhou, Jiangsu, Wenling in Taizhou, Zhejiang, Chang'an in Dongguan, Guangdong, etc. They are mainly based on production. Distributed in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and other first-tier cities are mostly trading companies. Relatively inland cities such as Zhengzhou in Henan, Chengdu in Sichuan, Zhuzhou in Hunan, and major cities in the three eastern provinces are generally integrated with production and trade.

2, domestic numerical control tool talent analysis

Since 2014, the manufacturing industry has slowed down, and many companies have been affected by large or small shocks. Some have even laid off workers and the factory has also taken early leave. However, some CNC tool companies have become more and more robust during the storm.

The cost of first-tier cities is relatively high, so in these places there are generally more trade-oriented companies such as Shanghai. In Shanghai, there are about 1,500 cutting-tool companies, of which about 80% are trading companies, which means that the tool sales engineers The demand is relatively large. 70%-86% of all tool companies in Shanghai want to recruit excellent tool sales engineers. However, the tool industry does not set up specialized specialties in universities. Some may be involved in the mechanical industry. Therefore, the general talents engaged in the tool industry are only involved in the tool in the social work, which makes the professionals in this industry are relatively scarce, coupled with the relatively large number of foreign companies in first-tier cities, and are all sales The Ministry is located here, which has caused private companies to join with foreign companies to grab talented people who are scarce.

With the cost of coastal areas rising rapidly, and the profits of cutting tool companies being continuously compressed, enterprises with integrated production and trade have set their factories or new production projects to inland cities in order to save costs. To achieve the cost savings in the use of land for human resources, we can understand from the above analysis that the trend of talent flow in the tool industry by sales engineers, sales managers, and sales directors is mainly from inland flows to the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, Beijing, and Tianjin. area. The talents such as tool engineers, technical support engineers, application engineers, and tool design engineers mainly flow to such cities as Wuhan, Chongqing and Chengdu, which are important economically developed cities inland. Because the economy is more developed than other cities, these professional middle- and high-end talents can be retained. Operators like car, milling, grinding, wire cutting and machining centers are generally at the company's production base.

3, analysis of current status of tool products

Tool material is backward, counterfeiting is still poor: foreign hard alloy superhard materials account for more than 70% of tool materials, while Chinese tool companies consume 40% of the world's tool materials, tool output value is only 12% of the world - 15%, Even more unacceptable is that the domestic high-speed steel CNC tools still occupy half of the country.

The tool structure is simple, and the traditional tool still occupies a dominant position: After several decades of white steel knife, it still has not been improved. There are traditional products such as saw blade cutters, three-blade cutters, and taps, which have been implemented for decades and fundamentally. There is no improvement, regardless of the tool specifications or output value, the traditional backward tool still dominates. Insufficient understanding of tool types and specifications, insufficient research and development and promotion of new tool construction, new materials and new coating technologies, lack of corresponding tool support and technical service support, and lack of technical training and promotion of new tool applications.

Low tool life and poor stability: China's part of the tool factory tool life is low, the average life expectancy is only 1/3 to 1/2 of the foreign tools, not every product life is low, but the life difference is very different, the dispersion is too large, As a result, the average life of the tool is low. Many Chinese tool manufacturers have done such tests: Compared with single tools, China's cutting tools are not worse than foreign ones. But taking 10 PK items, Chinese tools always have 1 to 2 pieces of unsatisfactory.

4, CNC tool business development

Maintaining a relative advantage: High-end CNC cutters have high-end, large-profit margins and low-end market share. Not all companies need to make the world's top CNC tools to survive. If you maintain the advantages of delivery, inventory, specifications, model and after-sales service, you can also survive in the market.

Improve the technology and quality of cutting tools: The backwardness of domestic cutting tool products, the research of domestic basic sciences is lagging behind, and there is not enough accumulation and improvement in interactions with domestic CNC tool companies in the processing and application practice. For high-end CNC machining, it is usually difficult for the domestically-made tools to get involved and cannot participate in the processing tasks of the user's core products, resulting in the insufficiency of domestic tooling practices.

Focus on emerging industries and markets: In 2015, the commercialization of emerging industries such as machine tools, instrumentation, robots and other intelligent equipment and new energy vehicles will continue to accelerate. Manufacturing industries in India, Mexico and Central and South Asia continue to grow. Domestic CNC tool companies should pay more attention to these industries and regions and seek greater space for development.