The development of machine tool industry is in a dilemma

It is reported that at present, China's machine tool companies still have a big gap compared with advanced companies in Germany, Japan, and the United States. In addition, although some Chinese companies have developed medium-to-high-end CNC machine tools, most of them are still manufacturing and importing machine tools in China. The assembly of key functional components does not fully indicate that we have mastered the overall R&D and manufacturing technologies of mid- to high-end CNC machine tools and key functional components. Affected by R&D capabilities, 80% of domestic high-end CNC systems, 90% of high-end CNC systems, and 85% of high-end CNC machines are dependent on imports from abroad.

The data shows that in 2012, the CNC machining rate of China's metal cutting machine tools was 25.8%, and the numerical control rate of forming machine tools was 5.8%. This status is compared with the numerical control ratio of 60% to 70% of the output of the developed countries in Japan, the United States, and Germany, and the numerical control rate of the output value of 80% to 90% in the developed countries. The numerical control rate of the machine tools in China is still very low. Inevitably affect the processing accuracy and processing efficiency of downstream companies' products. These gaps, on the one hand, have made China's machine tool industry a long-term, low-price, melee, low-price product competition. The competitiveness of mid-range products is not strong, and the status quo of high-grade products has basically failed to be fundamentally changed. On the other hand, it has also caused domestic companies to fundamentally lose their profitability. There is not enough capital to invest in research and development of high-end products, and many enterprises have fallen into the dilemma of survival or development.

More importantly, these gaps have once again reminded people that the competition between companies and enterprises in the world today, and the profitability and development of enterprises, are ultimately the competition of science and technology. Whoever has modern technology will have the ability to research and develop high-end products, and whoever has the motive force for corporate profits and future development.