The domestic mold industry development resource integration 5 major routes explain

After China's accession to the WTO, it will not only bring impact to the domestic mold manufacturing industry, but also bring opportunities. On the whole, opportunities are greater than challenges. Since China's accession to the WTO, the mold import business was basically a tax-free product. The domestic mold enterprises have not depended on the protection of tariff barriers for a long time, and the surviving enterprises have long stood the test of global economic integration competition. After joining the WTO, domestic companies are provided with a wider range of options and prices for the import of production equipment and steel abroad, creating favorable conditions for the domestic mold manufacturing industry to improve quality, reduce costs, and increase market competitiveness. .

With multinational corporations and internationally renowned enterprise groups entering and operating factories in China, the factors of the domestic cheap labor market will no longer exist. The increased protection of intellectual property rights will also enable us to pay more in the process of entering high, refined and sharp mold manufacturing fields. Big price.

Reviewing the development of China's mold industry in recent years, the overall level of development is good, the level of processing of enterprises has been greatly improved, and the ability to earn foreign exchange through exports has been greatly enhanced. Not only does the domestic market share continue to expand, but it also shows strong competitiveness in the international market. Mr. Luo Baihui, executive secretary general of the International Die & Metals and Plastics Industry Suppliers Association, summed up the outstanding performance of China's mold industry in recent years: First, the development of the mold has been large-scale, precise and complex, and the results have been outstanding. China's mold industry is forming an upsurge of technological transformation with digitalization and information as the main content. The second is the rapid formation of the backbone of the industry, and the advantages of cluster-based production methods. At present, there are more than 100 key enterprises in the mold industry, where the mold collection sites (parks, agglomeration production bases) have further developed, and the output of the mold collection sites has increased by more than 25% year-on-year. Third, more frequent international cooperation.

Of course, China's mold industry, like other manufacturing industries, is also facing rising costs for raw materials and labor, lack of high-skilled and high-level talents, and low-level repeated construction in certain areas, and the overall innovation capability is still relatively weak. In the course of development, mold companies have also exposed outstanding issues such as small scale, low technology, narrow field of involvement, and ineffective impact on related industries.

Based on the above factors, the overall efficiency of China's mold manufacturing industry has not yet reached its best level, and its basic role in the national economy is still not obvious. In order to reverse the above situation, Luo Baihui, executive director general of the International Mould and Hardware & Plastic Industry Suppliers Association believes that If China's mold manufacturing industry wants to exert greater influence in the international market, it must strengthen the integration of industry-wide technology and resources.

1. Strengthen division of labor and cooperation in the technical field.

In recent years, despite the increase in exports of molds in China, the level of international competitiveness has improved. However, most of them are concentrated in middle and low-grade areas. The technical level of molds is low, the added value is low, and some high-precision molds still rely on imports. Therefore, the mold manufacturing industry in our country must be strengthened and integrated in their respective fields. There is no need for excessive competition and technological development. In order to implement division of labor and cooperation, relevant industries and enterprises must take a long-term perspective, make indiscretions, pay close attention to the research of new technologies and new processes, and gradually form a pattern of scientific research and development with division of labor, collaboration, multi-fields and all-around development. In the process of research, the mold products of intellectual property rights must overcome the practice of door-to-door and single-handedness, because under the conditions of global economic integration today, we can completely build on the experience gained by our predecessors and colleagues. Forward-looking research, without having to bury the head and do some technical work that others have already done, leads to a waste of talent and resources.

2, ERP application of information technology.

We must dedicate ourselves to creating a flexible and professional manufacturing platform. While constantly satisfying the individual needs of customers, we must increase our own scale and professional manufacturing level. Mass customization is a breakthrough to the traditional production model. It overcomes the dilemma of single-piece, small-batch, and scale-effectiveness, and creates conditions for the improvement of the market competitiveness of China's molds. The successful application of ERP technology has already produced obvious results in some mold manufacturing companies, providing possibilities for mass customization. ERP will not only control the manufacturing companies themselves, but also extend the management to customers and suppliers, which will likely drive the common development of mold-related industries.

3. Establish the Internet of Things in the mold industry.

As the emerging strategic industry of the country, the Internet of Things is actually a technology that makes use of information technology and communication technology to make social and economic activities more effective after the development of social and economic activities to a certain extent. The foundation of the Internet of Things is technology, such as sensing technology, network technology, and analysis technology, and the core driving force for its development is application. Under the concept of “energy saving and emission reduction” and “low-carbon economy”, the raw material manufacturing industry, such as the mold industry, has imposed higher requirements on the management and circulation of companies and between enterprises. Therefore, the Internet of Things will continue to promote the information and automation process of the mold industry, expand the development space of the company, and continue to improve and develop in the application, continue to promote the optimization of the industry, and gradually infiltrate the information into all aspects of the industry process.

The Internet of Things originated from the development of sensing and sensing technologies. It transmits, receives, and sends data through a combination of wireless and wired technologies. Therefore, the Internet of Things needs the cooperation of the perception layer, network layer, and application layer. To establish the Internet of Things in the mold industry, our autonomous technology is still not enough. RFID, bar code, and other sensing technologies are yet to be developed. Application drivers can stimulate the development of national industries and make the Internet of Things technology more sophisticated and compact. The development of cheaper prices continues to smooth the convergence of information, accelerate the manufacturing process, and improve the ability to solve problems in the manufacturing process.

The mold industry belongs to the raw material industry. It is a typical intermediate enterprise in the upstream and downstream enterprises. The products in the mold industry include automobiles, home appliances, ships, container boards, and buildings (such as bridges, railways, highways, dams, factories, and civil use). In the production process, buildings, etc. need to manage the flow of materials, which is actually tracking the flow of materials. From the perspective of the Internet of Things, the production process of a mold and die enterprise is an internal logistics process within the industry. There are also problems with the Internet of Things. The tracking and optimization of various links in the production process can make the production and sales convergence more accurate, and have a great impact on the energy and raw material consumption as well as the improvement of efficiency. In addition to production and other links, but also need to track and schedule the entire process of transport, which requires the use of Internet of Things information system to solve. Producing mold products that meet the needs of the automotive and other industries is the goal to be achieved by the mold enterprise informatization. Try to improve the accuracy of delivery to shorten the delivery time, so that you can reduce the backlog of inventory and the amount of raw materials, reducing the occupation of funds. The downstream companies in the mold industry, such as the automotive industry and other highly informatized industries, have extremely stringent product requirements. The requirements for each part model, size, etc. are extremely accurate. Once they do not meet the standards, they become waste products. For automakers, how to reduce raw material inventory is a matter that cannot be completely controlled, because raw material inventory is directly related to the intermediate links between upstream companies (such as procurement and transportation). Once these intermediate links affect the company, they may have a greater impact on the delivery date and part lot than the manufacturing process. The manufacturing process is calculated in minutes, seconds, or even more accurate data, and if the logistics problems such as raw materials are not in place, then the increased efficiency in the manufacturing process will be completely obscured. Therefore, the most direct solution to these problems is to increase the inventory, and the most direct consequence of this is a large amount of funds.

Many mold companies are trying to find solutions to the problems that may arise with these uncontrollable factors. If Baosteel has established a distribution shearing center, it will directly cut the required parts to the users according to the customer's size requirements. The intermediate transportation process will be responsible for the company itself, that is, Baosteel will lead the association between the enterprises. As a result, the supply of Baosteel downstream companies will be guaranteed, and the tightness and accuracy of the connection between production and sales will be ensured. However, there are not many die steel companies that can do this. It can be seen that there is still a lot of work to be done on things.

The logistics between upstream and downstream companies can be dominated by upstream companies, in addition to the upstream companies, such as Da Ya Mould Company (whose upstream companies are steel mills, transportation, and terminals). Although due to the current downturn in the mold steel market, downstream companies may not be active in this regard, but the material-to-business relationship among enterprises has become a major trend in the future. Upstream and downstream enterprises are either dominated by or dominated by both parties, or even The inter-enterprise logistics dominated by the middle transportation companies is likely to emerge and develop in the future. The physical connection between enterprises can optimize the path, which not only guarantees supply, but also guarantees production, and finally forms a win-win situation.

For domestic enterprises, there is still a long way to go to realize the relationship between enterprises. We must continue to explore the applications and learn from countries that have developed faster in this area. The upstream enterprise and the downstream enterprises will do their own informatization work in the enterprise, and then open up the connection between the enterprises, so that a large supply chain for upstream and downstream companies in the mold industry will be formed. This not only applies to the mold industry, but other industries can also use the characteristics of their respective industries to conduct inter-company connection, even cross-industry connection. In this regard, enterprises must have autonomy, and the government must also provide support and encouragement to ensure interaction between industries.

The automation and informationization in mould enterprises has always been inseparable. Some foreign software companies (such as Embraco, etc.) have complete sets of technologies for the automation management of mould enterprises. In the control of the production process, sensing and the collection of indicators need to be performed through automated means. Not only the data must be collected, but also the mathematical model needs to be processed and analyzed, and the parameters to be controlled in the next step are inferred from the objectives. It is also a calculus process. In fact, this process requires not only sensing technology, but also information technology such as network and IT technologies. This is very similar to management calculus and even more complicated. Traditionally, these steps are referred to as automation. Management needs information technology to optimize management processes and propose better solutions and models in the process of accumulating experience.

The development of informatization of mold enterprises is a process from scratch, and it is also a process of changing concepts. Now, the informatization of mold companies has been involved in management. For example, customer orders for large mold companies such as Easy Molding, Dongjiang, Qunda, and Foxconn are directly converted into operations after computer processing, and they are reflected everywhere in the process of management. The application of automation technology and information technology. From an application point of view, automation projects are indispensable in the process of informatization, whether it is relying on introduction or self-development. The main difficulty in linking management and control lies in the interface settings. If the carbon content is conveyed to the automatic control process, if there is no such interface in the design, the connection cannot be made; only when the interface accepts the instructions, the oxygen flow rate, pressure and converter shape can be controlled. In addition, when collecting the result data after mold smelting from the site, different actual temperatures will influence the choice of subsequent continuous casting. At present, this can be done in the mold enterprise.

How to develop a management information system can be developed on its own or you can use a kit. Most of the kits are not tailor-made for the mold companies. To solve the connection between mold companies' orders and production, the software needs to be modified. The most commonly used method is to use the data structure capabilities of the original software, describe the orders and procedures, and patch the conversion function of the sales.

4. Energy conservation and emission reduction and low carbon development.

Mold enterprises are big consumers of energy consumption. At present, energy prices are still on the rise. This poses a serious challenge for mold companies that have a cost of energy that accounts for about 20% to 30% of their total production costs. Luo Baihui, executive secretary general of the International Die & Metal & Plastic Industry Suppliers Association, said in an interview that the current “energy saving, emission reduction and consumption reduction” has become the most demanding task in the process of enterprise informationization. It is necessary for mold and die enterprises to further accelerate the adjustment of the mold industry structure. Great efforts have been made in energy conservation and emission reduction and various measures have been taken to achieve energy conservation and consumption reduction. Luo Baihui believes that energy conservation and emission reduction should be combined with production processes, combined with automation and information technology. The energy saving of the mold industry is mainly focused on the energy saving and emission reduction in the mold manufacturing process, and is mainly based on mold technology innovation. How to use information technology to promote energy efficiency is a key point for mold and mold companies. Building an energy management system is very valuable in itself. A complete energy system not only collects data, but also implements energy balance and dispatch. In the past, integrated energy management for the entire company was a weak link. The energy medium is distributed in all aspects of production, and collection is very difficult. It has become a difficult point for mold companies. At present, with the development of network technology and the leap of sensing technology, the work in this area has developed rapidly. The establishment of an energy management system is a symbolic step for mold companies to use information technology to achieve energy conservation. Many mold companies already have energy management systems. More companies are building energy management systems and have received strong government support. In addition, some companies have also actively established data acquisition systems to connect them with the local environmental protection system to implement energy conservation and emission reduction.

5, cloud computing to force the mold industry "wisdom" management.

In recent years, the rapid development of the mold industry requires the majority of mold companies to actively improve their management capabilities, accelerate the process of informationization, and provide strong support for enterprises with innovative management methods. From this, eight hundred passengers, Wei library these cloud computing architecture New management software is sought after by more and more mold companies. At present, many emerging private enterprises have begun to adopt the 800-APP 800-appartment system and successfully carried out informationization reforms.

The continuous increase in domestic consumer demand has opened up a vast market for the mold manufacturing industry and provided opportunities for development, but it also raised challenges. The number of manufacturing units in China is extremely large. At present, there should be around 1.3 million. Although the advantages are obvious, the weaknesses are also more prominent, and the mold industry is the focus. At present, China's mold industry technology level is mostly middle and low, the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" requires the mold industry must be high-end development, using scientific and technological innovation as a means to enhance the level of management innovation, to the direction of modernization and high-end. For this reason, in the form of “breaking the cold and warming up”, the mold companies began to make big moves, expand production scale, increase production volume, and further expand foreign markets. However, as the scale of the company expands, there are more and more personnel, marketing costs increase rapidly, but the performance improvement is slow, and customer satisfaction continues to decline. Competitors are running faster and faster than themselves, and poor communication at all levels. Severe attenuation.

Corporate CIOs are also increasingly aware of the bottlenecks in corporate development, namely, the immaturity of the service system for marketing services and their backward management. So how to solve this bottleneck? How can we effectively improve the combat effectiveness of the marketing service system? How can we obtain customer needs in a timely manner, retain customers, and increase customer satisfaction? How to maximize the value of customers, bring greater profits for the company, both in economic and social benefits on the harvest it? Luo Baihui believes that in order to survive and achieve sustainable development, die companies that have undergone the test of severe winters must keep up with the trend of the times and use advanced scientific and technological means to achieve information management. To build a marketing service system that is rich in combat effectiveness and to build a sound CRM system has become a wise choice for breakthrough management and development bottlenecks and information management.

"Cloud computing" is the hottest word in recent years. All walks of life are trying to move closer to the "cloud". The mold industry is no exception. Using cloud computing companies can save costs and can easily share data and applications between different devices. . Compared with the traditional application platform, the cloud computing platform has the advantages of strong computing power, storage capacity, diverse services, and high cost performance. SaaS is a typical representative of cloud computing applications and has become the most convenient channel for enterprises to jump to the “cloud” side.