How to compete for the mold market Machine tool industry faces new requirements

How to compete for the mold market is a major challenge for all machine tool manufacturers. The development of China's mold industry has achieved remarkable results. With the rapid development of China's economy, industrial production requires more high-quality, multi-type molds. In the face of such a huge market, the foreign machine tool manufacturers have long been "intimidated." However, in the face of the “invasion” of the strong, most domestic machine tool manufacturers are suspected of being “indifferent”.

In the end, the huge market for mold processing equipment is left to Japan, Europe and China's Taiwanese machine tool manufacturers to occupy.

Although there are many factors leading to this situation, it is an indisputable fact that big cakes are divided. How to "recapture" the market, which is a question for domestic machine tool manufacturers to think about!

Die market "temptation"

In 2004, China's mold output value (excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) was 53 billion yuan, up 17.8 percent over the previous year, and mold export volume was 491 million US dollars, an increase of 45.7% over the previous year (both exceeded the "10th Five-Year Plan 2005". Annual output value of 49 billion yuan and the export target of 300 million U.S. dollars. The import value of 1.813 billion US dollars, an increase of 32.4% over the previous year, mold foreign trade deficit reached 1.322 billion US dollars. In 2005, the growth rate of China's mold market was also above 15%. In other words, the total output value of molds in China in 2005 is likely to exceed 60 billion yuan.

In a certain period of time, the mold industry has the following requirements for mold processing equipment: CNC machining centers, CNC milling and CNC copy milling machines, EDM machine tools, wire cutting machine tools, coordinate grinding machines, coordinate boring machines, boring and milling machines, and forming grinding machines. , optical curve grinders, band saws, deep hole drills, electrode processing machines, engraving machines, polishing machines, mold clamping machines, three-coordinate measuring machines, scanners, mold standard parts processing machines, high-performance heat treatment equipment, rapid prototyping equipment, All kinds of cutters and grinders, mold CAD, CAM, CAE, PDM and other software, computer workstations and microcomputers and so on.

The huge mold market has injected new vitality into related industries, especially the development of the machine tool industry. At the same time, it has put forward higher requirements for machine tool technology.

With the continuous development of concurrent engineering and reverse engineering and other advanced technologies in mold processing, mold processing has raised the requirements for numerical control machines such as digital transfer transformation, multi-axis linkage, high precision, high efficiency, high flexibility and automation. High-efficiency, low-loss, high-precision, mirror-finished machining, EDM CNC milling, and machining center requirements have been proposed for electric processing equipment; high precision and high speed have been proposed for the three-coordinate measuring machine (measured in a certain amount of time ), Easy to operate, with a three-dimensional scanning digitization system, capable of low-pressure contact and non-contact measurement, high field flexibility and on-line measurement, and strong software functionality. In short, the mold processing equipment should enable the mold companies to achieve high-precision, high-efficiency, high-flexibility and even automated processing and try to meet the high quality, low cost, long life, and short cycle requirements of mold manufacturing.