The development of the machine tool industry depends on investment, and on export promotion. During the period from 2010 to 2012, China’s machinery industry’s fixed asset investment growth rate was higher than the national fixed asset investment growth rate. In particular, the fixed assets growth rate of the machinery industry in 2011 was 13.7 percentage points higher than the national growth rate. However, the situation has changed drastically since 2013, and the growth rate of investment has been lower than the national growth rate. According to relevant information, in 2013, investment in fixed assets in the country increased by 19.6%, and investment in fixed assets in the machinery industry increased by 17.16%. From January to April this year, the investment in fixed assets of the machinery industry increased by 14.14%, which was lower than the national growth rate by 3.16 percentage points, indicating nearly a year More domestic investment in the machinery industry has slowed down significantly.

Nearly half of the fixed assets investment in the machinery industry is the purchase of equipment tools, and the required equipment is mainly machine tools. Therefore, in terms of the total demand for machine tools, the growth of domestic demand has slowed down and the development of the machine tool industry is facing a severe situation. The current key is the rapid upgrading of the domestic market demand for machine tool structure, relatively weak demand for foreign machine tools and weak competitiveness of China's products, and due to over-expansion of some domestic products, resulting in insufficient ordering of some middle- and low-end products and poor sales. With the increase in inventory, related companies face many difficulties. Therefore, it is necessary to proceed from reality, carefully adjust and optimize the product structure, and accelerate the transformation and upgrading. To this end, make the following recommendations.

Seek development focus from imported products

The imported products are the actual needs of the users, and they also reflect the gap between the national products and the imported products in terms of technology and quality. According to customs statistics, there are 20 kinds of machine tools with large imports in 2013, of which 10 are main machine tools. Among these imported products, the largest import volume is for horizontal, vertical, and gantry type machining centers, with 20,500 sets and 3.46 billion U.S. dollars, followed by laser processing machine tools and CNC horizontal lathes, and once again for CNC forging or stamping machine tools. CNC cylindrical grinders, multi-station machine tools and CNC bending machine tools. It should be pointed out that among the 10 types of machine tools, imports of 9 types of machine tools have decreased compared to 2012, except that only CNC gear processing machines (CNC gear cutting machines, gear grinding machines, and gear finishing machines) have increased their imports. In addition, there are also three kinds of products imported are also very large: Imported functional components for machine tools imported 560 million US dollars, CNC equipment imported 754 million US dollars, metal cutting tools imported 575 million US dollars, these need to focus on development.

We should make full use of these information resources, select products with high import volume and high technical content, and consider factors such as user individuation and specialization requirements, proceed from the actual conditions of the enterprise, research and development, and form production capacity as soon as possible. Import substitution.

Emphasize innovation-driven, accelerate transformation and upgrade

There are three models of innovation drive: the introduction of technology to absorb and re-innovation, integrated innovation and original innovation. Most of the current machine tool industry uses the first two. Jinan No.2 Machine Tool Group Company originally produced general forging presses and planer, after years of transformation and upgrading, optimizing product structure, through the introduction of technology digestion and absorption and innovation and integrated innovation, and out of a path of innovation and development, and in the marketing, customer service Other aspects have achieved success. In recent years, on the basis of providing the stamping production lines required by most domestic automobile factories, based on its actual performance, it has won six sets of auto sheet blanking and punching production lines and production lines for the Ford Motor Company of the United States in competition with many international strong players. The degree of intelligence and production efficiency are higher than those of the German-manufactured production line that the company is running. It has achieved favorable comments from users and possesses strong international competitiveness. A group of companies such as Qinchuan Machine Tool Group and Shenyang Machine Tool Group have also achieved remarkable results in implementing innovation-driven, developing new products based on user needs. These experiences should be vigorously promoted.

The major gap between the functional components used in machine tools and the technology of numerical control devices and imported products is the bottleneck of the development of the machine industry. We must break through the barriers to technological innovation and vigorously improve our ability to innovate. In particular, it is necessary to be able to design and manufacture machine tools and numerical control devices that are tailored to meet the needs of users, as well as individual-purpose machine tools.

To improve overall machine performance testing and inspection capabilities, pay attention to and collect information feedback on failures of users after the new machine is put into production, study the law of failure occurring during the use of the machine tool, and take targeted improvement measures to continuously improve the performance of the machine tool and reliability.

Implement international management

In recent years, some of China's qualified machinery enterprises have achieved practical results in carrying out international economic and technological cooperation and implementing internationalized operations. Some have established global sales service outlets and regional marketing centers, and some have set up R&D centers abroad. In particular, some powerful companies have achieved successes in the acquisition of overseas well-known and technologically advanced enterprises. For example, a machine tool in Beijing acquires the internationally-famous Valdreich Copco in Germany, and Sany Heavy Industries has acquired Putzmeister (a manufacturer of concrete machinery), a well-known German construction machinery company.

Judging from the current situation, if an M&A enterprise and a domestic enterprise produce similar products with similar technology levels, it can reasonably adjust the production and distribution of parts and components, form an industrial chain, and increase the production volume of parts and components to reduce costs and increase competitiveness. Such as mergers and acquisitions enterprise product manufacturing technology is advanced, we must aim at the relevant regulations of different countries, take flexible and effective measures, and create conditions for the gradual transfer of advanced technology to domestic companies to produce products, in order to promote the adjustment of China's corporate product structure, accelerate the transformation and upgrading .

The machine tool industry still needs to promote international economic and technological cooperation with well-known foreign companies. In particular, it should pay attention to cooperation with small and medium-sized enterprises that have advanced technologies and carry out international operations. In the whole industry, there are many companies that have acquired foreign companies and they need to constantly sum up experience and do a good job in management and economic efficiency.