Seven obstacles to the development of non-standard automation industry
Date：2020/10/24 Views：5230 【BACK】
The formation of everything has its subjective and objective reasons, and the formation mechanism is complex. The status of non-standard equipment is also the result of various elements. Although the current non-standard equipment is still a relatively healthy industry, the seven obstacles in front of them have increasingly obviously affected the development of the non-standard automation equipment industry.
1. Non-standard equipment cannot be mass-produced, large enterprises are unwilling to do so, and small-scale enterprises are easy to obtain living space.
Non-standard equipment is equipment that has no standard to follow and is tailor-made according to the current production status of the enterprise. The equipment of A company is often only applicable to A company, and cannot be copied to B company in batch production.
Usually, it takes two to three months for a piece of equipment with a value of hundreds of thousands of yuan from the customer to provide the demand, the non-standard equipment factory to provide the program design, the two parties to discuss and determine the plan, sign the contract, produce the design drawing, parts processing, and equipment assembly and acceptance. .
Because the input-output ratio is too low, large companies will not cut back when facing such trivial long-period small orders.
But such a project is quite attractive for small businesses with only a dozen people. A small-scale company of sales and a few mechanical engineers and a few software engineers grew wildly.
2. The scale of the non-standard equipment market has grown, but the cake is bigger, and there are more people sharing the cake.
In 2000, only some Taiwanese companies in the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta were more well-known for non-standard equipment in China. These companies add up to about 30.
Inquiring about statistical data, the scale of non-standard equipment that year was estimated to be about 600 million, and these 30 companies accounted for about 70% of the market share.
By 2012, there were nearly 70 companies with non-standard equipment automation equipment in Dongguan. There are already countless small-scale non-standard equipment in the country, with orders of magnitude above 10,000; the market size is estimated to grow to around 60 billion.
In a nutshell, although the market size has increased by 100 times, the manufacturers have increased by a thousand times. The newly added market is occupied by many small manufacturers. Failed to form a large-scale enterprise.
3. The threshold of non-standard equipment enterprises is low, and the quality of personnel varies.
Why are there so many non-standard manufacturers in the market? The reason is that the initial investment cost of the non-standard equipment factory is relatively low, and the entire investment is estimated to be around dozens.
Usually, the entrepreneurial model of non-standard equipment factories is a joint investment of two or three shareholders. One shareholder is responsible for sales, one shareholder is responsible for technology, and one shareholder is responsible for after-sales. It does not require the intervention of large capital or large enterprises.
This situation leads to relatively closed non-standard equipment industry, the industry cannot be reshuffled, good money cannot drive out bad money, and good and bad companies are uneven.
Fourth, pursue the doctrine of taking, and less innovative research and development.
Few domestic non-standard companies have new inventions, new creations, and new applications. One of the important purposes of domestic enterprises that are popular at home and abroad to see exhibitions and exhibitors is to discover new applications, new processes, and new technologies.
This approach is very positive in many ways. He shortened the level of equipment gap between our country and developed countries, and improved the degree of industrial modernization and agricultural modernization, thereby reducing the labor intensity of the masses.
However, there is no doubt that this kind of plagiarism under the banner of reference has seriously reduced the enthusiasm of enterprises to develop new technologies and new applications; over time, it has affected the technical capabilities of my country's automation equipment industry, making the core always in the hands of European and American companies.
For long-term development, we must attach great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights, so that enterprises can obtain long-term and stable benefits from R&D. The non-standard equipment industry especially needs to protect intellectual property rights.
5. The requirements of enterprises for automation are still relatively primitive, which restricts the development of non-standard automation industries to a higher level.
Under the pressure of human resource shortage, manufacturing companies have chosen automation. However, automation can be roughly divided into three stages from the perspective of saving human resources: semi-automation, full automation, and integration of automation and information.
Based on cost considerations, many companies choose semi-automated equipment, and the slightly more complicated procedures are completed manually. This semi-automated product can complete all designs independently by a person who has a better understanding of mechatronics. A large number of such low-level automation requirements restrict the development of non-standard industries to a higher level.
Sixth, the industry is loose and there is no organizational advantage.
No industry association has been established for non-standard equipment. Without industry associations, it would be difficult for the government to hear calls from non-standard industries, and even manufacturers would never interact with each other.
Non-standard equipment companies are more vigilant, fearing that their technology will be learned by others, fearing that their customers will be taken away by others, and fearing that their backbone personnel will be poached away by others. This kind of non-communication and lack of teamwork has caused non-standard equipment to increasingly fall into the quagmire of price competition.
A non-standard company should sell technology and solutions, but now many non-standard companies are talking about material costs and management costs with their customers. We should elaborate on how much our non-standard equipment can save customers and how much benefit we have improved. What we get is a reasonable return of our mental work.
7. The advantages of large-scale enterprises are not obvious.
Although small businesses are the mainstream of non-standard industries, some medium-sized non-standard enterprises with more than 100 employees have emerged.
The annual output value of these medium-sized non-standard enterprises is in the tens of millions, but due to management problems, designers and equipment personnel have not shown sufficient sense of responsibility, resulting in unsatisfactory product quality performance of some medium-sized non-standard enterprises. Over time, many companies have turned to small non-standard companies to buy relatively cheap non-standard products.
At present, there are a large number of non-standard automation and mechanization enterprises in my country, but their scale is small, backward technology and homogeneous competition are common features. How to participate in the competition in this industry has become a challenge! There are difficulties only when there are opportunities.
Facing good market prospects and development space, it is also a particularly attractive place for this industry. Enterprises that have gone through the early stages of survival will surely usher in the rapid development of the industry.
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