Die and Mold Industry Develops Higher Requirements for Machine Tool Industry

The development of the mold industry puts forward higher technical requirements for equipment. Industry experts believe that as the mold develops to a higher level, the special requirements for processing equipment include: First, the increasing size of molded parts and the high productivity of parts require a single cavity As a result, the molds are becoming larger and larger. The large-tonnage large-scale molds can reach 100 tons, and the molds have hundreds of cavities and thousands of cavities. It is required that the mold processing equipment must have a large work table, increase the Y-axis Z-axis stroke, and also have a large load bearing capacity. , high rigidity, high consistency; Second, with the hardness of the mold steel material increases, the mold processing equipment is required to have thermal stability and high reliability; the third is the complex shape of the complex cavity and multi-functional mold, with the shape of the parts In order to increase the level of design and manufacturing of molds, a variety of grooves and various materials are used to form or assemble multi-functional compound molds in a single mold. This requires a large amount of programming programs and high-depth-cavity comprehensive cutting capabilities. And high stability, to improve the difficulty of processing; Fourth, the refinement of the mold processing to make processing equipment, the compound, high-efficiency is more interesting. High-speed milling has many advantages such as high machinability, stable machining, small cutting force, and low temperature and deformation of the workpiece. Mold enterprises pay more and more attention to high-speed machining. Fifth, high-precision processing of three-dimensional surface of the die, and high dynamic precision performance Requirements, high-speed high-precision but also in the machine tool's high rigidity, thermal stability, high reliability and high-quality control system can be achieved in conjunction with the six; six is ​​the combination of processing technology and green product technology has been included in the company procurement equipment Within the scope of consideration; Seventh, the composite application of multiple measurement technologies, high-speed measurement and its reverse engineering have become the direction in which molds are involved in product development and design technologies.

The development of the mold industry brought huge demand for equipment According to relevant agencies, in 2007 China's CNC metal cutting machine tool production reached 123,200 units, an increase of 32% over the previous year, but most of them are economical CNC machine tools. Of the 7.07 billion U.S. dollars and 10.77 million machine tools imported, the gantry machining centers, CNC milling machines, CNC horizontal lathes, CNC grinding machines, numerical control punching machines and other high-end and special-purpose machine tools occupy a considerable proportion in the mold industry, and the number has been increasing in recent years. keep increasing.

The number of CNC milling machines increased by 75.5% year-on-year and import growth was the largest, followed by the increase of 48.7% in the year-on-year volume of the Longmen machining centers. These two types of equipment are just hot spots for the mold industry.

In addition, the enthusiasm for investing in equipment investment in the mold industry for CNC machine tools, horizontal (vertical) machining centers, laser processing equipment, and measuring machines continues to rise. We learned from relevant customs statistics that China's imports of CNC machine tools ranked Japan, Taiwan, Germany, South Korea, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States in order of quantity according to the number of imported CNC machine tools. The situation is consistent.

The level of China's mold production process equipment is still relatively low, and it requires a lot of additional advanced equipment. At present, most foreign-funded enterprises use key production equipment for mold processing in Japan and Europe and the United States; after the initial accumulation of the entrepreneurial stage, private enterprises have expanded mold orders to a higher level as they continue to expand, and have also purchased lower-level manufacturing equipment from the past. , upgrade to Japan, Europe and the United States mold processing equipment. At present, the use of Korean machine tools in China's mold industry is increasing. With the increase in the level of domestic CNC machine tools, it has also begun to be used by some mold companies.

Industry experts believe that the reason why Japan, Europe and the United States will occupy a monopoly position in China's high-end mold processing equipment and measuring equipment, in addition to their product quality is inseparable, but also with their strategy for the Chinese mold market. They often take the initiative to serve the strategy, with the mold users to develop the development of the machine tool mold special functions, customized body functions, has changed from the production and sales of machine tool products suppliers to provide users with a full range of solutions for service providers. In this regard, domestic machine tool companies still need to be strengthened.

According to the survey, the industry-wide ratio of fixed assets investment and mold growth in the mold industry is roughly 1:1. The average input of some strong companies can reach 1:1.5 or even 1:2. In the input of fixed assets, investment in mold processing equipment is above 80%. In 2007, the total domestic machine tool consumption was about 14.5 billion US dollars, equivalent to about 100 billion yuan or more, then the sales growth of 15 billion yuan in the mold industry in 2007 meant that the demand for mold processing equipment was about 15 billion yuan, accounting for the consumption of machine tools. More than 15%, coupled with the long-term investment in the mold companies, therefore, the huge market demand for processing equipment brought about by the development of the mold industry can not be overlooked.

Also worthy of attention is that today's mold companies to mold as a carrier, and actively explore the production of mold parts has become an important production method, mold companies purchasing equipment parts demand. In 2007, China produced 173,000 units of molding equipment, including 3,000 CNC molding equipment; 3844 imported forging stamping equipment, and 4671 molding equipment. Mold enterprises purchase forging and forming equipment, plastic molding equipment, die casting equipment, and mold manufacturing. Equipment and mold bundle extension industry has formed one of the industry's development direction.

Experts in the mold industry pointed out that the level and level of manufacturing capabilities of molds have become an important indicator of the nation’s ability to innovate. The superiority of mold manufacturing equipment is directly related to the level of mold technology. Therefore, it is hoped that the domestic machine tool companies can pay attention to this extremely promising market and provide more high-level processing equipment for the Chinese mold industry.