Manufacturing industry is the carrier of high-tech industrialization, an important cornerstone of modernization, a pillar industry of the national economy and an engine of economic growth. At the same time, manufacturing is also an important guarantee for national security. The equipment manufacturing industry is the backbone of the manufacturing industry, the leading industry in the development of manufacturing technology, and plays a leading role in the development of the manufacturing industry. The official emergence of the term equipment manufacturing industry can be seen in the Central Economic Work Conference in 1998 clearly put forward "to vigorously develop the equipment manufacturing industry" this initiative. Equipment manufacturing industry is a basic industry that provides technical equipment for national economic development and national defense construction, and its development level reflects the comprehensive strength of the country to a certain extent.

1. Advantages of equipment manufacturing industry

Thanks to the strong support of the national industrial policy and the transformation of the global industrial structure, China's equipment manufacturing industry has made remarkable development achievements, formed a complete category, a comparable scale, a high level of industrial system, and has become an important pillar industry of China's economic development.

China's equipment manufacturing industry has many advantages, mainly the following points:

Complete industrial chain: The industrial chain of the equipment manufacturing industry is very complete, from parts to complete sets of equipment can be manufactured, which makes the enterprise have stronger control ability in the supply chain.

Large market demand: Equipment manufacturing industry is a basic industry that provides technical equipment for various sectors of the national economy. The market demand is large, especially infrastructure construction, industrial manufacturing and high-tech industry development need a lot of equipment.

Superior geographical location: Most equipment manufacturing enterprises are located in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and other transportation hub areas. These regions have logistics and transportation advantages that can better serve the national and even global markets.

Technical advantage: Equipment manufacturing industry is a technology-intensive industry. After equipment manufacturing enterprises have invested heavily in technology research and development, they have a large number of technical personnel and advanced production equipment, and the technical level of production products is getting higher and higher.

Strong high-end manufacturing capacity: In recent years, many domestic equipment manufacturing enterprises have entered the intelligent manufacturing stage, capable of producing high-end machinery and equipment, electronic equipment, information technology products, etc., has a strong high-end manufacturing capacity.

Many job opportunities: The equipment manufacturing industry involves a wide range of industries, including transportation, electronic information, aerospace, etc. The development of these industries requires a large number of technical talents and workers, releasing a large number of jobs every year.

Human resource advantage: China has a huge labor force, while the overall level of domestic talent is getting higher and higher, and the labor cost is relatively low, which provides a competitive cost advantage for the equipment manufacturing industry.

Policy advantages: The Chinese government has implemented a series of policies to encourage the development of the equipment manufacturing industry, such as tax incentives, financial support, etc., providing a good development environment for the development of enterprises.

Export advantage: China's equipment manufacturing industry export market prospects, cost-effective products, strong competitiveness, to meet the international market demand for manufacturing equipment, exports increased year after year.

In short, the equipment manufacturing industry occupies an important position in the national economy. It has a large scale market, industrial chain advantages, talent advantages, policy advantages, technological advantages and many other advantages. It can provide technical and equipment support for various sectors of the national economy, directly promote China's industrialization process, and is one of the important pillars of national economic development.

Second, the challenges faced by the equipment manufacturing industry

Although China's equipment manufacturing industry has made great achievements in development, it is still in a large but not strong stage and faces many challenges.

At present, the most prominent problem facing the equipment manufacturing industry is the "stuck neck" technical problem, especially in the field of high-end equipment manufacturing, there is a large gap with foreign countries: in the key core technologies, such as transmission electron microscopy, semiconductor equipment, precision machine tools, there is a large gap. Mastering these key core technologies is crucial to improving the quality and efficiency of high-end equipment manufacturing.

In addition, in terms of product quality and reliability, the quality and stability of some key components and materials are not as good as that of foreign enterprises, resulting in lower product reliability and stability.

At the manufacturing process and equipment level, some high-end equipment manufacturing links, such as precision machining, assembly, testing, etc., need to use more sophisticated and efficient equipment and processes, and the development and application of these equipment and processes require a higher technical threshold and long-term accumulation, and can only be imported from abroad.

In terms of industrial chain coordination ability, foreign-funded enterprises cooperate with supply chain, production, sales and other links on a global scale, and have stronger global operation ability and resource allocation ability. Chinese enterprises still need to strengthen further.

In terms of talent training and introduction, foreign enterprises have a more mature talent training and introduction mechanism in the field of high-end equipment manufacturing, while Chinese enterprises still need to strengthen investment and support in this regard.

In addition, China's equipment manufacturing industry is also facing rising labor costs, environmental pressure, lack of innovation ability of enterprises in the industry, high-end product supply capacity to be improved, brand influence is not strong and other problems, restricting the further development of China's equipment manufacturing industry. This requires enterprises in the industry to strengthen the introduction and training of talents, increase technological research efforts, research and innovation investment, improve independent research and development and manufacturing capabilities, promote green manufacturing and circular economy development, and improve the sustainable development level of equipment manufacturing industry.

Overall, China's equipment manufacturing industry has made great progress, but it is also facing the urgency and challenges of transformation and upgrading. Only by constantly innovating, improving quality and strengthening management can we better adapt to market demand, enhance core competitiveness and achieve sustainable development.

Third, intelligent equipment manufacturing is the future development direction of equipment manufacturing

Nowadays, industrial developed countries pay more and more attention to technological innovation, are committed to leading industrial upgrading with technological innovation, and pay attention to resource conservation, environmental friendliness and sustainable development. Therefore, intelligent, digital, green has become the inevitable trend of the development of manufacturing industry, and intelligent manufacturing equipment is the material conditions necessary for the realization of intelligent manufacturing process, but also the core carrier of intelligent manufacturing equipment, the development of intelligent manufacturing equipment has become the focus of global competition.

In recent years, with the continuous development of intelligent manufacturing, China's intelligent manufacturing equipment industry has developed rapidly, and the registration of related enterprises has grown rapidly.

In recent years, the scale of China's intelligent manufacturing equipment industry as a whole has shown a rapid rising trend. Data show that from 2018 to 2021, the number of registered intelligent manufacturing equipment enterprises in China has grown rapidly, with an average annual compound growth rate of 55.7%, of which the number of new enterprises in 2021 exceeded 80,000, an increase of 70.9%. The latest data show that 83,900 new enterprises related to intelligent manufacturing equipment will be added in China in 2022, maintaining rapid growth.

According to the data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the current scale of China's intelligent manufacturing equipment industry has exceeded 3.2 trillion yuan, and the market satisfaction rate has exceeded 50%. More than 2,500 digital workshops and smart factories have been built, the revenue of industrial software products has exceeded 240 billion yuan, and the main business revenue has reached 1 billion yuan for more than 140 system solution suppliers.

Zhang Xiangmu, deputy director of the National Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Committee and director of the original equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out that the core elements of intelligent manufacturing are intelligent manufacturing equipment and industrial software. It is necessary to strengthen application verification, promote development with application, and give full play to the role of "leading", pay equal attention to research and development and application, and accelerate the development of intelligent manufacturing equipment and industrial software.

Automation and intelligence is an important development trend of intelligent manufacturing equipment, which is mainly manifested in that the equipment can complete the automation of the manufacturing process according to user requirements, and has a stronger adaptability to the manufacturing object and the manufacturing environment, so as to optimize the manufacturing process and improve the efficiency of resource utilization. Achieve sustainable development.

From the perspective of domestic technological innovation path, the development of intelligent manufacturing equipment in China started relatively late. Although a certain foundation has been formed in the industrial system, high-end equipment products, as well as some core technologies and key components, are different from foreign countries, and there is also a large gap between enterprises.

From the perspective of future development trend, the technological innovation of China's intelligent manufacturing equipment industry is mainly carried out along three aspects: key industries, core products and key technologies:

Breakthroughs in key industries

With the increasing popularity of intelligent manufacturing technology in key industries with expanding production lines such as semiconductors and lithium batteries, it is easy to become a hot spot in the intelligent manufacturing industry, and the research and development and progress of semiconductor automation equipment and lithium battery automation equipment have become the focus of widespread attention. The accumulation of innovative resources has promoted the deepening of industrial automation and intelligence, and the manufacturing process control and manufacturing execution systems have been spreading and popularizing from hot industries to the whole industry.

Core product breakthrough

The "machine replacement" action promoted by the Pearl River Delta has led to the development of industrial robots. In semiconductor manufacturing and other fields, the use of machine vision automatic inspection equipment can greatly improve the efficiency of product surface quality inspection, and promote the development and application of machine vision technology. Therefore, some core product areas for manufacturing pain points are more easily accepted by manufacturing enterprises.

At present, through years of continuous investment, certain progress has been made in CNC machine tools, industrial robots and other fields. From the perspective of future development, in addition to the continuous development of industrial robots, automated testing equipment and other products, the deep application of artificial intelligence in automation equipment will also be further developed.

Key technological breakthrough

With the continuous upgrading of the manufacturing industry and the continuous promotion of policies, China has continuously made breakthroughs in the integration and application of advanced manufacturing technology, information technology and intelligent technology. Not only has the servo motor, reducer, controller and other key parts of the localization, the technology has reached the international advanced level, the product export has also made a breakthrough.

In addition, the innovation and development of the industrial Internet is also constantly focusing on intelligent manufacturing. Taking the scene as the starting point and constantly solving the difficulties and pain points of enterprises will become the key to breaking the industrial digitalization situation.

From the perspective of market demand trend, market demand tends to be diversified and personalized. In the face of ever-changing product demands, factories need to achieve efficient, mass-produced personalized products. There are many links such as rhythm coordination and product intelligent delivery, and industrial automation has become an excellent choice for factories to improve production efficiency. Factories need to manage these machines to maximize the efficiency of equipment resources. Automation upgrades to smart factories are also a general trend.

In the smart factory, a large amount of data is collected to the cloud server through the Internet of Things, and then the use of these data and analysis models can calculate the efficiency of the machine, predict the occurrence of failures, optimize the production process and improve the design scheme; Managers can grasp the production schedule in real time and make reasonable scheduling; The sales staff can conduct business negotiations according to the production line, and ultimately maximize the overall efficiency, so that the overall operation of the factory will be easier to control.

In addition, the development trend of the equipment manufacturing industry is:

Environmental protection and sustainable development: With the enhancement of environmental protection awareness, the equipment manufacturing industry also pays more attention to environmental protection and sustainable development, promotes green manufacturing technology and clean production technology, reduces energy consumption and emissions, improves resource utilization efficiency, and strengthens environmental protection.

Service and cross-border integration: The equipment manufacturing industry pays more attention to service and cross-border integration. By providing a full range of solutions and services, expand the market space and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.

Globalization and international cooperation: The equipment manufacturing industry pays more attention to globalization and international cooperation, actively participates in international trade and global market competition, strengthens cooperation and exchanges with international partners, and enhances international influence and competitiveness.

In short, the equipment manufacturing industry is an important basic industry of the national economy. The future development trend will focus more on intelligence, automation, environmental protection, sustainable development, service and cross-border integration, as well as globalization and international cooperation. At the same time, with the continuous development of China's economy and the deepening of opening up to the outside world, the equipment manufacturing industry will usher in a broader development space and opportunities.