Hardware tool companies lack of competitiveness

China is a major producer and exporter of hardware tools. Among them, the vast majority of electric tools sold worldwide are produced and exported from China. China has become the world's leading power tool supplier.

Although China's hardware tools industry is relatively large, due to factors such as weak technological innovation, over-monotonous market structure, and weak brand influence, many hardware and tool manufacturers often lack core competitiveness and are difficult to become bigger and stronger.

In recent years, although China's hardware and tools industry is not small development, but far behind the development of the machine tool industry. According to statistics, China's current annual sales of tools are 14.5 billion yuan, of which the proportion of cemented carbide tools is less than 25%, which is not only far from the structure of international market tool products, but also can not meet the growing domestic demand for cemented carbide tools. Demand.

At present, the imbalance of the tool structure is the production tool and the demand is not correct. For example, the user needs a large gap in the carbide tool, but the high-speed steel tool is over-manufactured; the high-efficiency cutting tools urgently needed in the modern manufacturing industry have large gaps, but the low-grade standard tools are over-produced.

Luo Baihui, secretary-general of the International Mould & Hardware & Plastic Industry Suppliers Association, believes that from the perspective of the technological development trend of the machinery manufacturing industry, the proportion of high-efficiency CNC machine tools in China's factories will increase year by year, and the demand for efficient and advanced tools will increase rapidly. The demand for traditional standard tools will decrease year by year.

Luo Baihui pointed out that due to the lack of independent innovation by domestic cutting tool companies, they focus only on the interests of short, flat, fast, low-end products and follow the old trend, and they dare not to change the market transformation of enterprises and are not willing to increase the introduction of advanced equipment, technologies, and processes. Update investment, lack of patience for basic research in the face of market transformation, always wait and see fortunate, wait for other companies to develop new products, sit down and enjoy a simple analysis, slightly adjusted to make finished products, blindly follow the trend to the market, completely Ignore market saturation and business needs.

Often this type of follow-up development with quick success and instant benefit can only rely on other outstanding foreign companies, losing the dominance of development and innovation. The overall system level of the product will always hover at 80% 90%; due to the lack of deep product exploration, it will lead to innovation. Weak basic capabilities can only stop at the development of similar products.

R & D system is imperfect and it is difficult to consolidate the convergence of the current industry's basic corporate management is weak, the management of long-standing outstanding problems can not be effectively resolved, has become a serious bottleneck restricting enterprises to become stronger and scientific development.

Among them, the management of the R&D system has also become an important part of corporate management innovation. Compared with outstanding foreign companies, domestic companies still have gaps in the establishment of R&D centers, R&D project management, the introduction and training of high-level talents, and the optimization of personnel incentive systems.

In addition, the lack of industry-strategy guidance for R&D teams fails to synthesize the advantages of all parties to form a concerted effort to break through the key difficulties. Fragmented and differentiated weak research and development efforts often try to break through the problems, but often they are unable to lag behind or block their results. Can only get its shape without seeing its god.

R&D systematically accumulates few production links. The unstable tool industry encompasses knowledge areas such as substrate material design, coating organization structure design, tool appearance structure design, and special digital technology development. The upgrading of any theory and technology in any discipline will follow suit. The entire tool industry system technology changes. Also in the production line, the slight absence or floating of any linking procedure associated with the above technology will inevitably affect the stability of the tool product performance index.

In terms of tool matrix materials, the corresponding grades of the components in the domestic companies are basically the same, and the general performance reports such as hardness, density, and coercive force are basically the same, but the feedback of actual performance is uneven.

In order to break this kind of paradox, it is imperative to systematically accumulate tool development, and to explore the links of relevance in each link, and to tie in layers and interlock each other to guide actual production and ensure the stability of the product. The key to both forms. The lack of ancillary service capabilities Domestic tools can not do their best in the market application and service level, foreign tool companies complete product range, is not only limited to the production of tools, they can also provide supporting services in accordance with customer needs, truly think of customers As you think, you can often firmly occupy the market.

In contrast, due to the market structure of standard cutting tools that has long dominated China's domestic market, there is only a simple trading relationship between tool companies and user companies, and some even go through agents and do not involve services.

Therefore, the vast majority of domestic tool companies basically do not have the service force, resulting in domestic tool companies even if they can produce high-quality products, but can not be properly matched to the customer's processing technology, often can only be exhausted, making the production line shape Where we are, we cannot play God's effect.

In the face of this seemingly divergent situation, Liu Yuling, chief engineer of Beiyi CNC Machine Tool Co., Ltd., once mentioned that more efforts should be made to improve the domestic machine tool companies in terms of original innovation, excellent production, and turn-key capability.

At present, the development of foreign well-known cutting tool companies continues unabated. In this case, to achieve a sound and rapid development of domestic tool companies, it is necessary to break the existing R & D ideas, from the perspective of customers, grow together with customers, from Instead of just replacing foreign tools, we have developed our own products in actual demand.

Not only do we need to have the ability to manufacture tools, but we also need the ability to apply tools to the actual production process so that we can truly have a solid theoretical and practical foundation in order to have our own intellectual property.