Thousands of machine tool manufacturers will compete on the same stage in Pudong next
The China Machine Tool & Tool Industry Association announced the latest market situation analysis in Shanghai recently. In 2017, the total sales of China’s metal processing machine tools reached USD 29.9 billion, an increase of 7.5% year-on-year. From an import and export perspective, last year China exported 3.29 billion U.S. dollars worth of metal processing machine tools, and imported 8.74 billion U.S. dollars, up 11.4% and 16.3% year-on-year respectively. The trade deficit reached 5.45 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 33.5%. This shows that with the acceleration of structural upgrading of China’s relevant manufacturing industries, the demand for foreign advanced machine tools has grown strongly.
Mao Yufeng, executive vice chairman of the China Machine Tool Industry Association, said that the consumer market of China’s metal processing machine tool is showing new features of "stabilizing the total amount and upgrading the structure." The market is expected to grow moderately in the future.
The machine tool is one of the core industries in the equipment manufacturing industry and plays an important role in the global manufacturing resource allocation. However, with the advent of the digital manufacturing era, China has introduced a series of new technologies and new products to make CNC machine tools " Manufacturing Machines "Transformed to Digital Units.
“As the new round of industrial revolution led by information interconnects globally deepens, manufacturing industry is undergoing an evolution from automation and digital manufacturing to collaboration and intelligent manufacturing. The global machine tool industry is facing profound changes in all directions. Today, The tool industry is conducting research on key areas such as digitalization, automation, IOT and interconnection, and information big data to promote and enable smart manufacturing, said Wang Liming, secretary general of the China Machine Tool Industry Association.
The China Machine Tool Industry Association also announced that the 10th China CNC Machine Tool Fair will be held on April 9-13, 2018 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. The theme of this year’s show is “Focus - Digital • Internet • Intelligence Created."
According to briefings, as of now, a total of more than 1200 machine tool industry manufacturers from 23 countries and regions including China, Germany, the United States, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and South Korea have registered to participate in the exhibition, of which more than 500 overseas exhibitors have exhibited. The area accounted for 40% of the total, which was nearly 5 percentage points higher than that of the previous session. This shows that the degree of attention and participation of overseas companies in the Chinese market has further increased. In addition, machine tool associations and trade promotion agencies from 10 countries and regions including Germany, the United States, Switzerland, Italy, South Korea, Spain, Japan, the Czech Republic, France, and China Taiwan will organize exhibitions. Among them, France is the first time to organize a delegation.
The reporter learned that during the exhibition, Wuhan Huazhong CNC Co., Ltd. will display two sets of intelligent workshop digital manufacturing solutions based on the domestic CNC system, one set for mold manufacturing and one for mobile terminal manufacturing, all of which are excellent for the Chinese version of Industry 4.0. Typical representative.
In addition, intelligent management and control systems for 3D visualized digital workshops and innovative solutions for human-computer integration will be unveiled at the show, presenting the latest technological achievements in the digital manufacturing, information interconnection solutions and smart manufacturing systems.
