Discussion and analysis on the development road of non-standard automation equipment in China

With the continuous improvement of labor costs, more and more enterprises have begun to pay attention to the field of industrial automation equipment, especially non-standard automation equipment, which is not as simple as the traditional standard equipment, but with flexible customization, easy operation and diversified functions to bring new development opportunities to the industrial manufacturing industry. China's non-standard automation equipment began to emerge, but encountered many obstacles in the development process.

Non-standard automation equipment is in high demand

In the past, China's manufacturing boom relied on a flood of cheap labor. However, with the change of time and environment, with the decrease of the new labor population in recent years, the improvement of people's living standards, labor is no longer a cheap resource, and it has become more and more common to find a job difficult, in order to meet the needs of production, automated production is gradually recognized and valued by business owners. Non-standard equipment as an important part of automated production in the past 10 years has become more and more popular, the market has also emerged a large number of non-standard equipment manufacturers.

At present, the demand for enterprises to use automation equipment is increasing, due to the specific circumstances of each enterprise, the demand for non-standard automation accounts for a large proportion. The expenditure of non-standard equipment and machinery can be budgeted in advance, such as: machine depreciation, electricity, gas, daily maintenance, operator salaries, etc. The productivity of a machine can be equivalent to several (at least) to dozens or hundreds of people, of course, the faster the speed of the machine the higher the cost. The production cost of the product is saved to the maximum extent. Moreover, the quality of the products produced by the machine is more guaranteed. In China after the financial crisis, non-standard automation equipment is bound to be more prosperous.

The non-standard automation market will grow rapidly, and the depth of application of automation products will continue to increase. In this field, compared with developed countries, there is a gap of 10-20 years at the domestic level. New non-standard automation equipment is often mechatronics equipment, making full use of the latest achievements in information technology. The designers of some Chinese enterprises are not familiar with electronic products, and dare not or will not choose them, which greatly limits the improvement of the level. However, in the past 10 years, non-standard automation has been widely used in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, the Pearl River Delta, Beijing and Tianjin, and domestic enterprises are catching up.

Non-standard automation equipment development status

Although the non-standard equipment industry as a whole shows an obvious upward trend, that is, the non-standard equipment market space is broad, and even some traditional industries will likely become the largest potential market. However, the number of non-standard enterprises in China is large, the scale is small, the technology is backward, and the competition is homogenized is also obvious defects, and there is at least a 10-20 year gap with developed countries in this field.

New non-standard automation equipment is often mechatronics equipment, making full use of the latest achievements in information technology. The designers of some Chinese enterprises are not familiar with electronic products, dare not or will not choose, which greatly limits the improvement of the level, and many core technologies are not really independent, and the cost of relying on equipment imports is obviously difficult to reduce. At present, high-end products are still mainly imported from abroad.

According to the market logic, the growing market space can improve the level of technology research and development of enterprises and expand the scale of enterprises, providing enterprises with good development opportunities. However, the objective situation is on the contrary, the domestic non-standard equipment enterprises have not come out of the vicious circle of low quality and low price, and are still simple imitation, and have not developed their own characteristic products, patented products, and have not accumulated more funds for the development of enterprises. At present, the small workshop production of a dozen people is still the mainstream form of non-standard equipment industry.

Explore obstacles to development

The formation of anything has its subjective and objective reasons, and the formation mechanism is intricate. The status quo of non-standard equipment is also the result of various elements. Although non-standard equipment is still a relatively healthy industry, the seven obstacles in front of it have increasingly affected the development of non-standard automation equipment industry.

Non-standard equipment can not be mass-produced, large enterprises are not willing to do, and small-scale enterprises are easy to obtain living space.

Non-standard equipment is no standard to rely on, according to the production status of the enterprise tailored equipment. The equipment of enterprise A can only be applied to enterprise A, and cannot be copied to enterprise B in mass production. Usually, it takes two or three months for a equipment of about 300,000 yuan to provide customer requirements, provide program design for non-standard equipment factories, discuss and determine the program, sign a contract, produce design drawings, process parts, and assemble and accept equipment. Because the input-output ratio is too low, large companies do not bother with small orders of such trivial and long periods. But such programs are attractive to small businesses with only a dozen people. A small business of sales and a few mechanical engineers and a few software engineers grew wildly.

The size of the non-standard equipment market has increased, but the cake has grown, and there are more people who share the cake.

In 2000, the domestic non-standard equipment is more well-known only in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta some Taiwan factories, these factories add up to about 30. Query the relevant statistical data, the scale of non-standard equipment is estimated at about 600 million, and these 30 companies account for about 70% of the market share. By 2012, in China's hardware manufacturing town Chang 'an alone, there are more than 70 non-standard equipment factories, the country's small-scale non-standard equipment has been countless, orders of magnitude in more than ten thousand; The market size is also estimated to grow to about 60 billion. In a nutshell, although the market size has increased by 100 times, the manufacturers have increased by 1,000 times. The new market is occupied by many small manufacturers. Failed to form a scale enterprise.

Non-standard equipment enterprise threshold is low, the quality of personnel is uneven.

Why are there so many non-standard manufacturers in the market? The reason is that the initial investment cost of non-standard equipment plants is low, and the entire investment is estimated to be about 300,000. Several grinding machines, several milling machines, hundreds of flat houses, 10 or more people can operate a non-standard equipment business. Usually, the entrepreneurial model of non-standard equipment factory is two or three shareholders to invest together, a shareholder is responsible for sales, a shareholder is responsible for technology, and a shareholder is responsible for after-sales, and it does not need large capital and large enterprise intervention. This situation leads to the non-standard equipment industry is relatively closed, the industry can not be reshuffled, the good currency can not drive out the bad currency, and the good and bad enterprises are uneven.

Pursue the doctrine, innovation research and development is less.

Domestic non-standard enterprises rarely have new inventions, new creations, new applications. An important purpose for domestic enterprises to go to exhibitions and exhibitions at home and abroad is to discover new applications, new processes and new technologies. This approach is very positive in many ways. He has shortened the equipment gap between China and developed countries, improved the degree of industrial modernization and agricultural modernization, and thus reduced the labor intensity of the broad masses of people. However, there is no doubt that this kind of plagiarism under the banner of reference seriously reduces the enthusiasm of enterprises to develop new technologies and new applications; Over time, it has affected the technical ability of China's automation equipment industry, so that the core is always in the hands of European and American enterprises, and we rely on polluting the environment, selling physical strength, and demolishing houses to develop the economy, which is a very sad thing. In order to long-term development, we must attach great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights, so that enterprises can get long-term stable benefits from research and development, non-standard equipment industry in particular need to protect intellectual property rights.

The requirements of enterprises for automation are still relatively primary, which restricts the development of non-standard automation industry to a higher level.

Under the pressure of shortage of human resources, manufacturing enterprises choose automation. However, from the perspective of saving human resources, automation can be roughly divided into three stages: semi-automation, full automation, and the integration of automation and information. Based on cost considerations, many enterprises choose semi-automated equipment, slightly complex processes or manual completion, this semi-automated product a more understanding of mechatronics people can independently complete all the design. A large number of such low-level automation needs restrict the development of non-standard industries to higher levels.

The industry is loose and does not form an organizational advantage.

Non-standard equipment has not set up an industry association. As the saying goes, a crying child has milk to eat, without industry associations, it is difficult for the government to hear the voices from non-standard industries, and we will not get any preferential policies, at least in terms of tax. The manufacturers do not contact each other. The wariness between non-standard equipment enterprises is relatively strong, afraid of their technology being learned by others, afraid of their customers being stolen by others, and afraid of their backbone personnel being poached by others. This kind of non-contact and non-group cooperation has led to non-standard equipment increasingly falling into the mud pit of price competition. A non-standard enterprise should sell technology, is the solution, but now many non-standard enterprises are talking about material costs and management costs with customers. We should think that without technology, non-standard equipment is a pile of scrap metal, so we should explain more about how much our non-standard equipment can save customers costs, improve how much benefit, we take is a reasonable return of our mental labor.

The advantages of scale enterprises are not obvious.

Although small enterprises are the mainstream of the non-standard industry, there are also some medium-sized non-standard enterprises with more than 100 people. The annual output value of these medium-sized non-standard enterprises is in the tens of millions of levels, but due to management problems, designers and equipment personnel did not show enough responsibility, resulting in the product quality performance of some medium-sized non-standard enterprises is not satisfactory. Over time, many manufacturers have turned back to small non-standard enterprises to buy relatively cheap non-standard products.

At present, the number of non-standard automation and mechanization enterprises in China is large, but the scale is small, and the technology is backward and the competition is homogenized. How to participate in the competition of this industry becomes a challenge! There is only chance when there is difficulty. In the face of good market prospects and development space, is also a particularly attractive place in this line, through the early survival of the enterprise, will usher in the rapid development of the industry