High-end tool market must pay attention to user experience

During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the high-end market share of domestically-made high-efficiency cutting tools should be increased from the current 15% to 30% to 40%. Several top-level production lines should be selected from modern manufacturing industries such as aerospace, energy transportation, and defense and military industry. , In the processing technology and cutting tools to provide a full range of services, thereby enhancing the overall competitiveness of China's cutting tool companies.

As an important component of the equipment manufacturing industry and an important process equipment in cutting processing, the cutting tools determine the processing efficiency, precision, and quality of parts in the manufacturing industry. In 2011, the total amount of metal cutting tools in China increased, while the consumption of imported tools increased by 25% compared with 2010; from the perspective of consumption structure, China's domestic consumption of cutting tools, high-speed steel cutting tools is about 69%, carbide The tool only accounts for about 28%. In the world-wide industry, the proportion of tool consumption is probably: high-speed steel tools account for 35%, diamond and cubic boron nitride tools account for 10%, while welding cemented carbide tools, solid carbide, etc. accounted for the rest. "This proportion shows that although China is the world's largest consumer of cutting tools, our overall level of metal cutting is still not high, and its consumption structure cannot even reach the world average." Aoli Machine Tool Network believes that, for the moment, It is necessary to upgrade the materials in China's cutting tool industry. “For example, if we use high-performance high-speed steels containing cobalt and even powder metallurgy high-speed steels to replace the common high-speed steels that are now commonly used, our high-speed steel tool manufacturing levels can be large. Steps."

It is understood that in developed countries in Europe and America, since the 1970s, the market share of high-speed steel cutting tools has gradually been eroded by cemented carbide tools, but with the advent of powder metallurgy high-speed steel cutting tools, the market share of high-speed steel cutting tools It has picked up. This is because the powder metallurgy high-speed steel cutters have higher hardness, better toughness, and higher wear resistance than ordinary high-speed steel cutters, and therefore are more popular among users. In fact, along with the development of economic globalization, the boundary between manufacturing and services is becoming increasingly blurred.

At present, the needs of users of metal cutting tools are not limited to the products themselves, and the demand for services and solutions has become increasingly prominent. "The data shows that nearly 60% of companies in the United States have combined manufacturing and service products. As a manufacturing giant, China, this trend has become more and more obvious." More and more Chinese and foreign manufacturers believe that traditional production is based on production. Manufacturers who have gained efficiency through imports have now increased their value-added through services. Services have been regarded as an integral part of the production process. If the domestic tool companies want to gain a place in the competition with international manufacturers, paying attention to the user experience will be a must.