Overview of the mold industry
"Molds are the basic process equipment for industrial production" has made the formula, in electronics, automobiles, television, electrical appliances, meters, instruments, home appliances and communications products, 60%, 80% of the parts are relying on the mold molding, production of parts with molds have a high degree of precision, engage in complexity, high consistency, high productivity and low energy consumption is other processing and manufacturing methods can not be compared, but also a "benefit amplifier", the value of the final product produced by the mold is often dozens of times the value of the mold itself. Manufacturing methods can not be compared, but also "benefit amplifier", the value of the final product produced by the mold, often dozens of times the value of the mold itself, hundreds of times.
Specifically, the popularity of integrated manufacturing units and technologies to mold, for example, in recent years, in addition to the mold has automatic feeding, stamping and forming, stacking and metering, thickness grouping, core combination and product output, hinge assembly and connection and other functions, and the emergence of a complex movement structure, in-mold heating, forging, local heat (organization) control, in-mold welding, tapping, local injection, in-mold cutting, in-mold testing and other process combinations. Detection and other process combinations process.
Again, 3D printing application production mold cavity is a new trend in the development of cavity mold, metal additive - subtractive combination of manufacturing technology is an important direction in the field of 3D printing today. Through 3D layer-by-layer additive molding, combined with high-speed milling fixed layer thickness contour subtractive finishing, to achieve high-precision manufacturing of complex metal parts. Currently, the top three application areas are industrial machinery, aerospace and automotive, accounting for 20.0%, 16.6% and 13.8% of the market share respectively.
Analysis of the current situation of the development of China's mold industry
China's mold industry development is relatively late, the modern mold industry until the end of the 1970s before the start, but after years of hard work, through the introduction of international industrial developed countries and regions of the more mature design and manufacturing technology and a combination of independent innovation, China's mold manufacturing industry has been set up, including the mold technology research and development institutions, Mold production and supply system, including the mold industry system, mold industry scale and technology level has developed significantly.
From 2011 to 2017, the sales revenue of China's mold industry showed a continuous growth trend. As of 2017, the sales revenue of China's mold industry reached 266.342 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.31%. It is expected that the sales revenue of China's mold industry will reach about 275.3 billion yuan in 2018.
Since 2012, the number of patent applications related to molds in China has been steadily rising. the number of patent applications for the whole year of 2017 amounted to 22,872, exceeding 20,000 for the first time, which is a new record high; the number of patent applications in 2018 has decreased, but it still exceeded 17,000, reaching 17,146 pieces.
From the point of view of patent applicants, among the top ten patent applicants, two companies of Hon Hai Precision ranked in the top two, with 347 and 337 patent applications respectively, accounting for less than 0.7% of the total; Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Co. filed 309 applications, which ranked third.
In addition, China's mold enterprises have also begun to go abroad, mold export scale fluctuations rise. 2011, China's mold industry exports totaled $3.005 billion, an increase of 36.87% year-on-year, the highest rate of growth in recent years, and since then has been slowing down, until 2017, the mold industry's total exports once again resumed growth, reaching $5.490 billion, a year-on-year growth rate of 14.61%.
Analysis of the current situation of the segmented product market of China's mold industry
In recent years, along with the prosperity of China's automobile industry, the market demand for automobile molds has been rapidly released, and the scale has been growing. According to statistics, the new demand for automotive molds in China grew from 221 tons in 2011 to 348 tons in 2017, while the market size grew from 60.5 billion yuan in 2012 to 88.8 billion yuan in 2017. It is expected that China's automotive mold market size will exceed 90 billion yuan in 2018.
As an important basic equipment for the information industry, IT molds are developing more rapidly, and have become an indispensable tool for product mass production and new product development. According to the mold industry 1:100 driving effect discount, in 2017 China's IT mold sales revenue of about 142 billion yuan, is expected in 2018 China's IT mold sales revenue will reach about 155 billion yuan.
OA equipment mold market follows the development of OA equipment market, OA equipment is generally composed of plastic parts, hardware and chips, etc., of which the plastic products mainly include appearance parts and structural parts, and its molding method is generally injection molding using plastic injection mold. As of 2017, the OA equipment plastic mold market size is about 3.6 billion yuan, and in 2018 it is expected to reach 4 billion yuan.
Medical device molds are used in almost all medical device parts, from large hyperbaric oxygen chambers to small hearing aids and cardiac pacemakers. And because of the precision requirements of medical equipment parts production supporting, medical equipment mold in the medical equipment industry occupies an important position. According to the 1:100 driving effect of the mold industry, the market size of medical device mold was about 2.384 billion yuan in 2017. It is expected that China's medical device mold market scale will reach about 2.5 billion yuan in 2018.
Analysis of the development trend of China's mold industry
1, high-precision
With the continuous learning in recent years, China's mold industry has developed by leaps and bounds, and a number of companies specializing in high-precision mold manufacturing have been developed. Realize that the precision of the size is the most important factor in the manufacture of high-precision high-quality, high-tech products. To make high-precision molds, there are no more than 2 important factors, equipment and talent, but at present China in the most precise areas with foreign countries there is still a certain distance. After all, for China, the manufacturing industry is a reflection of the country's comprehensive national strength, so the country has given high priority to the near future will be realized beyond.
2, automation, intelligence.
Automation, intelligence is to improve the efficiency of the guarantee, with a variety of automation equipment with the mold production (mainly robotic) popularity, as well as mold internal standard parts of the degree of intelligence (mainly hot runner), mold production efficiency is getting higher and higher, and will move towards a higher and better realm of development. The future development should be a factory with only a few people, the rest are all machines and computers. In the future, there will be only 3 kinds of people in a factory: managers, technicians and robots.
3, the new type
With technological innovation, so that the original many impossible to become possible, many of the original complex and convoluted way to become very simple. These are new opportunities and challenges in the mold industry, specifically, the mold designers opportunities and challenges. The ability to master the new mold design and manufacturing technology is the lifeblood of a mold enterprise survival. Mastering the mold high and new technologies requires deep design and manufacturing heritage, these high and new technologies also become the company's branding resources, to fight for better quality customer chips. Now the war is a war of technology without smoke, blood fight price is not as good as blood fight technology. As long as the innovation in technology, do mold new type, even if the price is higher there will be a large number of customers, this is the power of the brand. Mold will always be technology and quality to win the industry.
Mastering the mold high and new technology needs deep design and manufacturing heritage, these high and new technology has also become the company's branding resources, to fight for more quality customer chips. Now the war is a war of technology without smoke, the blood fight price is not as good as the blood fight technology. As long as the innovation in technology, do mold new type, even if the price is higher there will be a large number of customers, this is the power of the brand. Mold will always be technology and quality to win the industry.
4, integration
Integration of product development and mold is highly integrated. This trend is also inevitable, this change is more than an assembly line instead of the all-round mold master can affect the manufacturing model of a change.
Simply put, it is the mold designer and product development fusion into a new position, a can be responsible for the entire product from the appearance of the mechanism, and then to the mold, to the mold processing, mold production, product assembly of a series of work in a brand new position, become the absolute core of the manufacturing industry.