The six downstream industries have close relationship with machine tool

China's power industry will be the implementation of a diversified energy strategy with efficient, high-speed. Clean energy, such as nuclear power, wind power will be key development objects, so as to change the situation of over-reliance on a single coal and other energy.

According to plan, by 2015, the installed wind power capacity will reach 15 million kW; the 2020 annual installed capacity will reach 4000 to 60 million kW. The rapid development of the power industry requires a lot of reliability, large size, and high strength CNC machine tools, such as a variety of super-heavy-duty CNC machine tools and plane axis CNC machine tools and composite processing machine.

Construction of urban rail transit and planning will drive increased demand of machining machine tools, processing equipment, such as large welding machines, grinders, and concrete cutting machine tools. China's railway construction and transformation focus on high-speed and acceleration, reload, and has entered the "fast track" development. The rail transport industry demand for machine tools is multi-faceted. One is Locomotives (electric locomotives and electric diesel locomotive) and the other is vehicle manufacturing.

Another is the wheels and axle manufacturing machine routine maintenance, as well as the orbital processing and high-speed railway sleepers processing. These manufacturing is in urgent need to Universal concrete cutting machine, such as machining centers, CNC welding machine. Also need dedicated cutting machine tools, such as the track plate grinder, axle grinder. Need presses, bending machines, forming machines.

In addition, the production situation of general equipment is getting better and better. Shipping industry is still maintained rapid growth, improvement in new orders. Other mechanical machine tool industry is loyal user groups.

1. Large and medium-sized enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises have put their focus on the purchase of high profile CNC machine tools.

2. Small and medium enterprises, especially private SMEs mostly buy the middle and low CNC machine tools, machine tools and non- CNC dedicated and specialized machine tools have demand too. Future, also accounted for a small proportion of the low-end machine tools.

Status and Trends of CNC Machine Tools Global Development

The 2012 Chicago International Manufacturing Technology (Machine Tools) Exhibition (IMTS2012) demonstrated the latest technology developments and trends of the international machine tool industry. The IMTS show high-tech CNC machine tools, CNC systems, and the latest technology and production methods, prominent displaying the future development trends in CNC machine tools.

Global CNC machine tool technology status

  (1) High-speed, high-precision and multi-axis machining become mainstream. NM control of CNC machine tools has become the trend of high-speed, high precision.

    (2) CNC machine tools with multi-tasking and multi-axis machining are increasingly applied to the energy, aerospace and other industries.

(3) The integration of machine tools and robots become increasingly popular, and the diversification of structure, the scope of application expansion velocity of high-speed, multi-sensor fusion technology practical control intelligent, multi-robot coordination popularization.

  (4) intelligent processing and monitoring functions continue to expand, process monitoring and management of the workshop can obtain status information of the machine itself in real time, the analysis of relevant data, predict the state of the machine, do related maintenance in advance to avoid accidents, reduce machine failure rate, improve the utilization of the machine.

(5) The latest machine tool error detection and compensation technique can be completed measurement in a shorter period of time, compared with a traditional laser interferometer compensation for machine tools, machine tool error compensation accuracy can be increased by 3-4 times, while the efficiency improved significantly.

(6) The latest CAD / CAM technology provides a strong support for the processing of multi-axis multi-tasking CNC machine tools, which can significantly improve the processing efficiency.

(7) Tool technology is developing rapidly, the number of tool design covers the entire process, and the new tool is able to meet the requirements of the smooth processing and vibration resistance.

The development trends of foreign CNC Machinery system are as follow:

   The platform with digitalize; run with high-speed; processing refinement; function composite; control intelligent; the servo-driven with high-performance control.

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The government issued a support signal on machine tool industry

China current machine tool especial the self-produced CNC lathe is still far from meet domestics demand on the present machine tool industry development situation. Proportion of high-end cnc lathe is severe low. From the statistics show that from January-August, China's machine tool industry average yield of NC was 30.94 percent, 2.9 percentage points higher than the 28.04 percent in the same period in 2011. The gap is obvious with in some developed countries, machine tool numerical control rate of 70%.

Especially in recent years affected by the international financial crisis, German, Japanese machine tool companies recovered quickly, and enter the Chinese market as a low price, midrange strategy which gets good response which forms the enormous competitive pressures for the development of Chinese high-end CNC lathe industry. At the same time, mid-range machine tool from a surge of strength Taiwan and South Korea also can not be ignored. The China Machine Tool Industry Association statistics show that the first three quarters of 2011, metal processing machine tool imports of $ 9.91 billion, an increase of 51.4% surge in imports, the domestic metal processing machine tools, and CNC machine market share was show drop trend.

To promote the sustained and steady development of China's machine tool industry, policy need to focus on supporting the CNC lathe systems and features as the representative of the key basic technology, forming the new situation on development of technological innovation, machine and critical infrastructure to drive the industry's overall ability.

Mainly support enterprise with longitudinal integration ability can provide comprehensive solutions for the enterprise. Support production-oriented enterprises change to research and development and service enterprises. Support the business transformation and upgrading. The innovation Encourage the establishment of the Intellectual Property Alliance to improve the overall competitive chips. CNC lathe led to the continuous appreciation of RMB export-oriented enterprises increasingly slim profit margins.

Present Wen in his government work report that: steady growth, is to insist on expanding domestic manufacturing demand and stable external demand, vigorously develop the entity economy, efforts to overcome the domestic and international instability and uncertainty factors, to keep the economy running smoothly. It shows that the government is releasing positive signal to support industry development.

High-end CNC machine tools become the focus of the precision development

It is reported that in recent years the Chinese machine tool industry has achieved rapid development. According to statistics, China's machine tool output for two consecutive years ranked first in the global share of 30% or more. In 2011, despite the negative impact of the economic downturn at home and abroad, year-on-year growth of the Chinese machine tool industry in a downward direction. But data show that in 2011 China machine tool industry in total industrial finished output value of 743.761 billion Yuan, which is an increase of 32.50%, the overall on still shows the rapid pace of development.

At the same time, China today is the world's largest machine tool consumer and importing countries. On the market demand side, with the strong momentum of development of the domestic automobile, steel, machinery, molds, electronics, chemicals and a number of heavy, high-growth industries, drive to the demand for efficient, high-precision automated manufacturing equipment, machine tool industry going to the rapid growth phase. 

On the import side, the amount of China imported machine tools from Japan and Germany is totally more than 60 percent. While seeing from the imported machines, demand for CNC machine tools with precision production, efficient high-speed high-end increased significantly which show the structure of demand for machine tools in China has undergone great changes.

 As we known the basic performance of CNC machine, CNC machine tools is the mechatronics mechanical-electrical integration tools as the core of digital manufacturing technology, usually composed by the control system, servo systems, detection systems, mechanical drive systems and other auxiliary systems which can be broadly divided into 16 major categories by CNC laser, CNC milling machine tool, CNC Plasma Cutting Machine, CNC Router and machining tool centers. 

The newly promulgated national "12th Five-Year” Planning, clearly focus on the development of high-end equipment manufacturing, information technology, automation and intelligence, which obviously can’t do without the strong support of the precision machine tool industry. According to professional analysis, the expected compound annual growth rate of China's machine tool industry in the next five years is about 25-30%, of which the high-end CNC machine tools will be the main growth.

China's policy support for steady development of machine tool in 2012

China's machine tool industry has entered the ranks of the world square. Many of export machine tools that export price continued to rise, such as: CNC lathe, CNC Plasma Cutting Machine, CNC Router, CNC grinding machines, CNC milling machine, forging or punching machine, shearing machine, etc. It reflected the development trend of China's export products getting high-end and large. The machine is the basic means of production equipment industry. Machine tool industry is relation to people’s livelihood, basic industries and strategic industries of the national defense construction, drawn the close attention in the world.

 However, in recent years, following the deep influence in international financial crisis on the Chinese real economy, every year a large number of CNC machine tool exports from China. But high domestic price level, increased prices of raw materials has burden on businesses. The new labor law enforcement also weakened labor cost advantages of the CNC machine tool enterprises.

Statistics show that China's export machine tools, CNC horizontal lathes, CNC laser, CNC gear cutting machine, polishing machine, planer, broaching, sawing, forming bending machines, punching machine and other types of machine tools declined relatively large. These types of products are mostly low value-added, with the traditional advantages of export products.

 Under this circumstance, our government will definitely encourage overseas mergers and acquisitions for the primary purpose on enhancing technological innovation capacity. All the enterprises should active use of the global advantage resources to establish global R & D systems and production networks. Building multi-dimensional industrial advantages, maintaining cost advantage, price advantage to further expand the division of labor and market advantages. Continue to dig the goodwill advantage, rational use of the advantages of capital to build a standard strengths and core technology advantage.

 In the next few years, China's machine tool market demand is still optimistic. When basic implement China's industrialization in 2020, as working machine tools, strong domestic market demand in machine tool industry will be not recession and reversal.

The first reason is the rise of private enterprises stimulate the domestic demand for machine tool market, the number of private enterprises has accounted for more than half. Followed by the upgrading of products and technologies of various industries, increase the demand for the machine tool market. The third is the recreation of the people’s working and living as well as the basic necessities of life quality enhancement all added a new potential domestic demand for the machine tool market.