First, machine tool industry: the country’s weight, 100 billion scale, the cycle upward

(1) Machine tool: industrial mother machine, national weight

REF601 Machine tool is the mother machine of equipment manufacturing industry, is the carrier of advanced manufacturing technology, widely used in machinery manufacturing, automobile, electric power equipment, railway locomotive, shipbuilding, national defense industry, aerospace, petrochemical, engineering machinery, electronic information technology industry and other industries. Machine tool is a machine that processes metal blanks into machine parts, it is a machine that manufactures machines, so it is also called “working machine” or “tool machine”, which is commonly referred to as machine tool. There are many ways to process mechanical parts in modern machinery manufacturing: in addition to cutting processing, there are casting, forging, welding, stamping, extrusion, etc., but where the precision requirements are higher and the surface roughness requirements are finer parts, generally need to be cut on the machine tool for final processing. The “Decision of The State Council on Accelerating the cultivation and development of strategic emerging industries” lists five kinds of high-end equipment “aviation, satellite, rail transit equipment, offshore equipment and intelligent manufacturing equipment”, and intelligent manufacturing equipment includes precision and intelligent instruments, intelligent control systems, high-end REF601 CNC machine tools, intelligent special equipment, automatic complete production lines of six categories of products. To revitalize the equipment manufacturing industry, we must first revitalize the machine tool industry. Machine tool is the foundation of a country’s equipment manufacturing, known as the mother of manufacturing, its technical level represents a country’s comprehensive competitiveness. High-end machine tools are a country’s strategic resources, and it can also be said that the level of machine tools represents the level of national manufacturing. From daily necessities to automobiles, railways, wind power, nuclear power, shipbuilding, air transportation and other industries, are inseparable from machine tools.

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REF601 Based on the material shaping method, machine tools are mainly divided into metal forming machine tools and metal cutting machine tools. Metal forming machine tools use pressure to achieve metal body or metal plate forming, or for segmentation, shearing, bending and other stamping processing, also known as forging machinery. Metal cutting machine tools use cutting, grinding or other special processing methods to process metal, including lathes, machining centers (milling machines), grinding machines, drilling machines, boring machines, planers, punches, etc. The machining center is developed from the CNC milling machine, and the automatic tool changing device is added, so that the workpiece can be milling, drilling, boring, reaming and tapping after a single clamping process. The machining center can be divided into three types: vertical machining center, horizontal machining center and gantry machining center. The vertical machining center is mainly a three-axis linkage machine tool, which is used for planar processing; Horizontal machine tools are mostly four-axis/five-axis linkage, known as multi-tool and multi-function machines, used to process heavy complex shape workpieces; Gantry machining center is used for processing large or heavy parts, widely used in aviation, automotive, precision molding and other industries. Based on the selection/movement control mode, the machine tool can be divided into traditional machine tool and CNC machine tool. Traditional machine tools are machine tools that process materials in a non-automated way, while CNC machine tools are automated machine tools equipped with CNC systems that automatically process parts according to the shape and size required by drawings. Throughout the world, the CNC rate of Japanese machine tools is maintained at more than 80%, and the CNC rate of machine tools in the United States and Germany exceeds 70%. REF601 China’s CNC machine tool rate still has a large room for improvement. With the tilt of the policy toward high-end manufacturing, the proportion of CNC machine tools is expected to steadily increase.

Based on machine performance, it can be classified as high and low grade machine tools. The grade of CNC machine tools is a relative and dynamic concept. At present, there is no unified authoritative definition of the division standards for middle and high-end CNC machine beds formulated by the competent authorities, generally recognized by the industry, and implemented by enterprises. According to the definition of “Made in China 2025 Key Areas Technology Roadmap (2015 edition)”, high-end CNC machine tools refer to CNC machine tools with high-speed, precision, intelligent, composite, multi-axis linkage, network communication and other functions. At present, China’s high-end machine tools still rely on imports, since the beginning of this year, to promote the development of industrial machinery favorable policies frequently, not only at the macro level to support the development of industrial machinery industry, micro level tax credit deduction policy further drive machine tool enterprises to increase research and development investment, to achieve the overall development of China’s industrial machinery industry chain to high-end.