Mold industry needs to face up to "short board effect"

In the past 30 years, with the strong development of China's manufacturing industry, the mold and die industry has also made great progress as an indispensable basic industry in the manufacturing production chain. According to statistics, there are nearly 30,000 mold manufacturing enterprises in the country, and their contributions to economic development are obvious to all. The global economic turmoil caused by the financial crisis in 2008 caused the entire mold industry's production and operation situation to be affected. Especially for those export-oriented production enterprises, the business volume declined sharply. Some manufacturers' daily output was only 30-40% of the weekdays. Manufacturers with insufficient ability to resist risks can even close their doors to avoid danger. With the impact of the financial turmoil, the national mold industry’s production momentum has largely recovered from the end of 2009. Since the beginning of this year, the production situation of many mold companies has been quite gratifying, basically reaching the level of the same period of 2008, and some companies have even new growth in output value. However, although the production scale of most manufacturers is basically stable, few new mold factories are put into production. Is the development of the industry reaching the saturation stage? Luo Baihui, executive secretary general of the International Die and Hardware Industry Suppliers Association, pointed out that the disease is currently produced by China's mold companies are mostly low-end products, production tends to be saturated, there is still room for development in the production of high-end products.

Today, the advantages of the mold industry “speed-for-market” and “cost-for-capital-for-capital” have weakened. In the past development process, they mainly had a cost advantage and lacked a core competitive advantage. They were low-cost and low-tech. Extensive expansion mode; only the ability to create price differences, but lack the ability to create product differentiation. This situation determines the "manufacturing" property of the mold industry, "big but not strong" lack of core competitiveness of the production methods in the increasingly fierce market competition and response to the economic development of the transformation of the situation, many companies are difficult to sustain, mold companies It has entered the bottleneck of development and faces new challenges. Luo Baihui believes that no substantive progress has been made in transforming the mode of economic development during the “11th Five-Year Plan” period. Facing the new industrialization process under the structural background of the modern industrial system formulated in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, the development needs of the Chinese mold industry Upgrade. There are only a few 70-80 manufacturers in the manufacturing of automobile standard parts. Over the years, in addition to more than 40 companies that have passed the ISO/TS16949:2002 “Quality Management System for Auto Parts Suppliers” certification, and obtained a small number of foreign brands of automotive mold manufacturing, most companies are still unable to scale In the field of automobile mold production, some can only rely on "OEM" production. The reason is that the production of automobile molds has the irreplaceability of core technology, production capacity, and product quality. Automobile molds are technology-intensive high value-added products, and some industrial platforms do not reach this height.

Luo Baihui pointed out that the sound development of a mold enterprise must establish the core competitiveness of the enterprise and cultivate the internal driving force of the industry. However, most of the mold enterprises in China lack of innovation ability, lack of advanced technology lacking intellectual property rights, and lack of technical talent. The production team is not stable. The front-line employees are not sufficiently trained and have large liquidity. The daily production of enterprises is poor at coping with complicated low-end or lower-end products, passive production modes and unstable market environment. It is undeniable that the existence of endogenous defects, such as scarcity of human resources, lack of core technologies, and lack of market expansion, will certainly have a negative impact on the development of the industry.

The scientific research work in the field of mold technology has been “marginalized” over the years. The original scientific research results of the entire industry are lacking. A considerable number of mold companies have no metallographic examination and impact other than tensile testing and hardness testing. The necessary measures such as performance tests, the company's inspectors have not received the “Quality Inspector” qualification certificate approved by the relevant national or provincial authorities, and thus the product quality problems associated with materials, heat treatment or mechanical processing are often unable to clarify in time. The emergence of economic disputes has become a common phenomenon. Many companies often suffer from inadequacies in the quality of molds due to the “mixing of materials” on the steel market, but they cannot help themselves and do nothing about them, seriously affecting the establishment of brands in enterprises; The products are generally only 8%-20% of profits in the commodity value chain, the actual value of the mold products is seriously distorted, the industry lacks the necessary industry norms, and the phenomenon of “killing each other” is struggling between companies. Often visible.

Nowadays, rather than the bottleneck period of the development of the mold industry, it is better to say that we are faced with the opportunity to promote transformation and promote development. During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, we must work hard to promote the transformation and upgrading of the mold industry, which was originally a traditional industry, and transform the products from the low end of the value chain to the mid-to-high end, effectively driving the mold industry to drive innovation driven by factors such as cost. change. Only by solving the “short board effect” of the development of the mold industry can we have the opportunity to enhance the industrial competitiveness of the entire industry and gain new market space. How to solve the challenges and problems faced by the mold industry really requires us to conduct in-depth research and exploration.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued the Implementation Plan for the Revitalization of the Mechanical Basic Component Industry and plans to increase the supporting capacity of China's major equipment basic components to more than 70% through three years of efforts. Encourage enterprises to cross-industry, cross-ownership mergers and reorganizations, and strive to form a number of enterprise groups with international competitiveness and annual sales of over 5 billion yuan. The implementation period of the program is 2010-2012.

Mechanical basic components mainly refer to bearings, gears, hardware, hydraulic components, pneumatic components, seals, and molds. They are an indispensable part of the equipment manufacturing industry and directly determine the performance and level of major equipment and host products. Quality and reliability.

The "plan" proposes to adopt a three-year effort to break through the bottleneck in the development of a number of key components and components in areas such as energy development, transportation, new rural construction, new material preparation, energy conservation and environmental protection, and comprehensive utilization of resources. As a mold industry man, we must keep pace with the times and actively meet various challenges to jointly promote the continuous development of China's mold industry.

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