Market demand for mold industry grows year by year

In recent years, China imports molds for nearly US$1 billion a year. Among them, precision, large-scale, complex, and long-life molds account for the majority. Therefore, from the perspective of reducing imports, the proportion of such high-grade molds and hardware tools in the market will gradually increase. . In the future, China's mold and CNC tool industry will also be ranked in the world.

With the continuous development of China's mold industry, the demand and requirements for mold products are gradually increasing. And such improvement brings more impetus to the promotion of industry technology. In the future development of the industry, technological innovation is naturally the main factor, and technological upgrading is necessary. This is the most important condition for the rapid development of the industry and market demand.

At present, the domestic market has a large demand for medium-to-high-grade molds. Among them, household appliances, automobiles, and plastic products industries have the greatest demand for molds. It is understood that during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the general trend of the mold market has been steadily increasing. However, domestic molds must meet the needs of users in terms of quality and delivery time.

In the international market, labor costs in industrialized countries have increased in recent years and they are being transferred to developing countries, especially Southeast Asian countries. Its domestic production of high-precision molds, labor-intensive labor-intensive molds rely on imports to solve. Therefore, the medium and low-end mold international market has great potential. As long as the quality of domestic molds can be improved, the delivery date can be guaranteed, and the outlook for mold exports is very optimistic. In addition, the demand for mold standard parts in the international market is also large. At present, China has only a small amount of exports.

In the past year, the slow growth in demand for the Chinese tool market has been mainly due to the increase in tool life, the need for users to address the entire manufacturing process, the replacement of many machine tools and tools, and the increased use of multi-tools. Instead of many simple tools that used to be single functions.

Judging from the technological development trend of the machinery manufacturing industry, the proportion of high-efficiency CNC machine tools in China's factories will increase year by year, and the demand for efficient and advanced tools will increase rapidly. In addition, due to the increase in labor costs in China, the price advantage of middle and low-end tools will gradually be lost. For the current situation of increasing demand for advanced tools for numerical control machine tools, China's tool industry must change its philosophy, vigorously develop the production of high-efficiency cutting tools, pay attention to sales, but also pay more attention to after-sales service, and strive to occupy more market share.

Plastics and hardware industry is a traditional industry in China. It started earlier and matured. At the same time, it has also grown a group of small and medium-sized enterprises with potential. Under the current international competition environment, relying solely on its original advantages can no longer meet the requirements of modern trade processes. Compressing costs, and maximizing profits, accelerating the development of e-commerce has become an inevitable choice for the domestic plastic hardware industry to cope with the challenges of economic globalization, grasp the development initiative, and enhance international competitiveness. In the 21st century, e-commerce will become a hardware plastic. The main driving force for the growth of the trade in the machinery and mold industry.

China's modern machinery and plastics metal mold market is very active, plastic hardware products will become a new consumer hot spot and a new economic growth point, but the cruel market status and competition situation has put the relevant companies in the hardware and plastics industry chain to the edge of the cliff In the face of the pressure from the international market, domestic hardware and plastics companies have to overcome the unfavorable factors such as high raw material prices, increasingly fierce market competition, and excessive production capacity of some products, actively change business models, and use modern networks to highlight the functions of intangible markets. Realizing the tangible market and the intangible market at the same time, broadening the sales channels, tapping the potential of the company, and actively exploring the international market can enable the company to truly emerge from the predicament.

With the rapid development of the Internet, the e-commerce industry platform model shows a tremendous magnetic explosiveness. The producer-supplier-consumer industry chain is closely linked. The entire supply chain is a process from creation of value to realization of value, and the full integration of producers and consumers. At the same time, using the Internet to form an intangible market with wide coverage and convenient transactions, and to achieve a seamless integration of the physical market and the intangible market, to allow the domestic mold machinery, hardware and plastics industry to dock with the technology of the same industry worldwide, and optimize the configuration of the mold machinery, hardware and plastics industry. Supply chain and value chain help companies to complete the industry upgrade, so that it is more conducive to enterprise upgrade and transformation.

The current era is the age of information, and the digitization of information is increasingly valued by researchers. The so-called digital mold technology is the application of computer technology or computer-aided technology CAX in the mold design and manufacturing process to promote the upgrading of China's intellectual creation.

Digitization is based on the generation, processing, transmission, use, modification and storage of digital data. Digital prototypes are the core and single data source management is used as a link. Digital quantities are used to replace analog and digital data during design, manufacturing and management. Technology replaces traditional technologies and uses digital quantities as the sole basis for design, manufacturing, and management.

The global manufacturing industry has entered competition from the scale of the early 20th century and the reduction of product costs, the increase in overall efficiency and product quality in the mid-20th century, to the competition in the late 20th century for delivery, quality, price, and service. Since the 21st century, it has developed into a competitive capacity for innovation. This trend has caused the focus of manufacturing competition to focus on product development speed and innovation capabilities. In order to improve innovation capability and efficiency, digital strategy has become the preferred strategy for multinational manufacturing companies' product innovation.

The core of digitalization in the mold manufacturing industry is digital manufacturing technology. Digital manufacturing refers to the rapid collection of resource information, product information, and technology based on user needs, supported by supporting technologies such as virtual reality, computer networks, rapid tooling, databases, and multimedia. Information and resource information analysis, planning and reorganization, product design and function simulation and prototype manufacturing, rapid production of the entire manufacturing process to achieve the user's performance requirements.

Over the past 30 years of reform and opening up, the total value of China's mold manufacturing industry has become a world champion. In the next few decades, China will achieve a transformation from a large mold and die industry to a strong mold and die industry, and increase the level of technological innovation and product quality to become China's manufacturing industry. Urgent need. Accelerate the digital transformation of the mold manufacturing industry, promote the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing from China to China, and China's economic development will undergo fundamental changes.

The digital production method is an important development direction of the advanced mold manufacturing industry. The digitalization of the mold manufacturing industry is the result of the intersection, integration, development, and application of mold manufacturing technology, computer technology, network technology, and management science. It is also an inevitable trend for mold manufacturing companies, mold manufacturing systems, mold production processes, and production systems to continuously realize digitization. With the development of information technology, the digitization of the mold manufacturing industry has been continuously strengthened, and mold manufacturing technology and information technology have been intertwined.