China's fastener industry's product innovation and product standards

Innovation has long been a non-new word in our country's economic society. Innovation in enterprises is everywhere, including product innovation, technological innovation, institutional innovation, and process innovation. The resulting rapid growth in R&D expenditures for the fastener industry in China. Because China's fastener market has relatively low R&D personnel costs and a rapidly growing market environment, many multinational companies even choose China as their R&D base. In spite of this, there are few companies that can correctly understand and apply innovative fasteners. The purpose of corporate innovation is simply to earn more profits directly or indirectly. Contrary to this goal, innovation has no value, and most companies can understand this.

A fastener company wants to maintain its continuous core competitiveness, largely due to product innovation. Product innovation includes three aspects: improvement of existing products, replacement of products, and complete new products. These are fundamental to the rapid development of enterprises and high profits.

Due to the lack of awareness, lack of talents, and lack of funds for most fastener companies, product innovation struggles. Even if the product innovations of individual excellent companies are mostly in the improvement of existing products and services, all Almost no product innovation, and lack of continuous product innovation. In the face of fierce market competition and pressure for survival, most fastener companies in China do not attach importance to product differences but focus on winning in the low-end global market. In this market, low prices are more important than product differences. With the appreciation of the renminbi and changes in various economic environments, fastener companies have to compete with multinational companies and emerging markets with lower costs, and it is imperative to provide higher value-added products and services.

Today's global anti-dumping measures against Chinese fasteners are higher than a wave, which is not conducive to the development of China's fastener market. China's fastener industry has only discrete and independent innovations and no intellectual property rights. There is no right to speak when formulating international standards, and there is no market discourse right. If we are subject to international technical standards, even if we have innovative technologies and products in the future, we may be subject to human beings because of incompatibility.

China has a huge market, potential research and development capabilities, and mass production capabilities. The take-off of fasteners in China must establish an overall technology platform, not just a single piece of scattered technological innovation.

It is reported that GB/T228-2002 "metal materials tensile test method at room temperature" standard will be modified, modified GB/T228-201X "metal materials tensile test temperature test method" is about to be promulgated, this modification on the technical content of the Major revisions and additions, revision of standard names, normative references, numerical rounding of test results, evaluation methods for measurement uncertainty, etc., and addition of an informative appendix "Advice on the use of computer-controlled tensile testers" Special measures are necessary for sample types used for thin plates and thin strip products with thicknesses of 0.1 mm to less than 3 mm. For the measurement methods with elongation less than 5% after elongation and for long products such as bars, wires and strips, etc. The method of determining the necking elongation is clearly defined.

With the continuous deepening of the integration of the world economy, fastener companies that implement foreign standards have been increasing year by year. For enterprises that are manufactured according to foreign product standards, mechanical performance tests must be carried out in accordance with the relevant product regulations. The metal room temperature tensile test standards in different countries do not have the same specifications for testing machines, samples, and test procedures. China's current metal materials at room temperature tensile test standard GB/T228, the internationally more common ISO6892, EN10002 (European standard), the United States ASTME8/E8M and Japan JISZ2241 and other standards. The upcoming release of the GB/T228-201X adopts the ISO 6892:2007 standard, and there are technical differences with international standards. This is a point of concern.

According to China's new development plan for science and technology, China must become an exporter of technology standards by 2020. On the one hand, it must promote Chinese standards in international technical standards organizations; on the other hand, it should encourage major western manufacturers to produce fasteners using Chinese technical standards. The products will allow Chinese standards to become international standards through the use of both Chinese and international markets. China's fastener companies should make a difference in this regard.