People's Daily: manufacturing upgrade "foreign equipment" feast

      Found in a survey of Jiangsu, Suzhou and Wuxi, Hubei, Wuhan and Yichang Sichuan Chengdu and Deyang, more than 100 business entities reporter before the "intelligent transformation" has become the trend of traditional manufacturing enterprises. Unfortunately, many enterprises invested heavily in the introduction of intelligent production lines, mostly imported from abroad, domestic equipment participation is not high. Experts call for the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing equipment "foreign equipment" feast.

     Smart manufacturing, domestic high-end equipment absent
     Suzhou, an intelligent production line, has brought together a large number of automation equipment from Germany, the United States and Japan
"China consumes half of the global CNC machine tools, but more than 80% of high-end CNC machine tools are imported from Europe, America, Japan and South Korea.""
"This is Germany's Ba, the industrial robot is ABB, the automatic labeling and printing equipment comes from Italy, and the facilities over there are Japanese, American."......" The digital workshop in Suzhou Shenghong group, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Hi tech look, do not see a staff, feeding, winding cake, storage, packing, sealing and labeling printing automation equipment, is everything in good order and well arranged operation. However, the vast majority of intelligent production lines introduced by Sheng Hong group come from abroad.

     The highly automated unmanned workshop is a microcosm of the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing enterprises in recent years. The latest statistics show that the Ministry of industry, 2015, the Ministry has identified 46 intelligent manufacturing pilot demonstration projects, the implementation of a year, the average production efficiency are increased by 38%, the energy utilization rate increased by 9.5%, the development cycle is shortened by 35% than in the past. 2016, the ministry launched 63 intelligent manufacturing pilot demonstration projects, at present, these 109 projects have achieved remarkable results.

     However, with the promotion of intelligent manufacturing pilot, the short board of domestic equipment has gradually emerged. Take the robot industry as an example, at present, foreign brands occupy more than 60% of China's industrial robot market share. Among them, more than six shafts of multi joint robot technology complex, foreign companies market share of about 90%; the field of welding operations difficult, the most widely used international and foreign robot accounted for 84%; the high-end application concentration of automotive industry, foreign robot market share is more than 90%.

     "In 2010, Wuhan had 500 thousand monthly air conditioning units and more than 10 thousand employees. Now, it has 550 thousand units per month, with only 3000 employees." The group of the United States Department of Wuhan equipment engineering manager refrigeration equipment Co., Ltd. Liu Chenwei, said that in recent years, the United States of Wuhan began large-scale use of industrial robots and intelligent equipment, information transformation and implementation of the production process. Last year, the world's most intelligent air-conditioning production line was put into operation at the Wuhan plant in the United states. In this 130 meters production line, equipped with 46 sets of foreign brands and Yaskawa KUKA robot, every 18 seconds, there is a line of air conditioner. "Intelligent manufacturing enterprises per capita efficiency increased by 20% per year, product quality has also improved substantially, good quality rate of more than 99%."." Liu Chenwei says.

     The high-end CNC machine tools are also the world of foreign brands. "China consumes half of the global CNC machine tools, but more than 80% of high-end CNC machine tools are imported from Europe, America, Japan and South Korea."." Chinese Academy of Engineering Liu Baicheng said, in 2016, China's high-end CNC machine tools import nearly $3 billion, the average unit price of up to 230 thousand U. S. dollars / taiwan.

     R & D equipment and software is "foreign brands" of the world
     Geely has previously purchased a homemade shock test rig, but its accuracy and reliability are poor. The newly completed R & D center uses almost all imported equipment
The software comes from the foreign party, and pays the foreign currency once each time it is collected"R & D equipment also relies on external problems.

     Completed in May this year's R & D center, almost all using imported equipment, the maximum speed of 270 km 75 inch acoustic hub from Germany Mahathir, Acoustics Laboratory of flat sound-absorbing materials from Germany Landes, EMC laboratory materials from Japan RIKEN, chassis development equipment from the UK K&C. And the core of the cost of 500 million yuan to build the powertrain test center, 19 sets of engine performance platform, all from Austria AVL company; other 73 sets of test stand, the core components are all imported.

     "6 billion 200 million yuan investment in planning, investment has been completed about 5000000000 yuan, removing a small number of factories, supporting investment, the big head spent on the test and verification equipment, and imported equipment is accounted for more than 90%."." Geely, a vice president of Geely Automotive Group, said Feng Qingfeng had previously purchased a homemade shock test rig, but its accuracy and reliability were too wide. If the initial data is wrong, the entire development process will be."

     Survey reporters also found that in the design of software, software testing, production process information management system for the "invisible" in the field, has become SIEMENS, BOSCH, IBM, SAP, Oracle, Rockwell and other multinational companies in the world.

     Suzhou Sheng Hong this year will invest 20 million yuan to develop information management system, so that production, logistics, sales, management integration, the software provider is mainly the United States SAP company.

     Hubei jingbrand Co., MES (Manufacturing Execution System) transformation, to achieve product orders, production execution, warehousing and logistics resources such as rapid coordination linkage, and the realization of full traceability and comprehensive monitoring of production process and equipment, is the strategic partner of Rockwell automation ltd.

     "Every machine tool is an information island, and only Unicom can be valuable."