State-owned Enterprises Rejuvenate the Frontier: Dalian's Machine Tool Upgrades and Realizes Rejuvenation

CNC machine tools and numerical control equipment are one of the key points in the revitalization of equipment manufacturing industry. In the revitalization of equipment manufacturing industry in the 16 key areas, the revitalization of each field requires a large number of advanced CNC machine tools and CNC equipment.

As one of the key enterprises in the national machine tool industry, Dalian Machine Tool Group must make its products, especially CNC products, more competitive. The CNC system, high-speed spindles, knife towers, and CNC machine guards for CNC machine tools and their important supporting equipment must be Technological innovation can be achieved to achieve product upgrades. The CNC machine tools and key functional components technological transformation projects that invested 540 million yuan made Dalian machine tools reborn.

Building "One Center" and "Two Bases"

In recent years, with the rapid development of the Liaoning CNC machine tool industry represented by Dalian Machine Tool, Shenyang Machine Tool, Dalian Guangyang, and Omori CNC, it has become the most important R&D and production base for CNC lathes and machining centers in China. Nearly 1/2 of China's CNC machine tools output value and nearly one-third of CNC machine tool production are created by Liaoning enterprises, forming a number of key functional components of high-end CNC machine tools with independent intellectual property rights. Dalian Machine Tool's high-precision electric spindle has filled the domestic gap and is at the advanced level of similar international products. The level of a number of functional components, such as servo turrets and 5-axis linkage numerical control systems, is also in the advanced or leading position in the same industry, showing strong growth potential.

Dalian Machine Tool "CNC Machine Tool and Key Functional Parts Reconstruction Project" includes the construction of double D Hong Kong East District CNC machine tool plant, knife tower knife magazine and high-speed spindle plant and machine guard parts factory, Wafangdian Zhuhua Park plant servo motor plant, CNC machine tools Plus factory specialized supporting plant. The total construction area of ​​Double D Port is 95,106 square meters. The total construction area of ​​Wafangdian Zhuhua Industrial Park is 93,233 square meters. The reporter learned from the interview that the project had completed a factory building area of ​​160,000 square meters in the two parks and purchased 726 sets of major equipment. By the end of last year, a total investment of 501.3 million yuan had been completed. The plant was basically completed, and the equipment was in place and installed and commissioned. In 2008, the company invested 40 million yuan to complete 29,000 square meters of protective parts factory and painting factory, and the project was completed at the end of the year.

In order to strengthen the development strength of domestic CNC machine tools, in early 2005, Dalian Machine Tool stepped up its technological transformation, and the investment in 540 million yuan in CNC machine tools and the transformation of key national debt projects was the completion of the first 558 million yuan technical transformation project in the “digital machine tool manufacturing park”. The second phase of the project after production. Experts commented that the construction of the project is in line with the national industrial policy of using high technology to transform traditional industries and optimize the product structure of machine tools. The implementation of the project will lay a foundation for further improving the overall level of China's CNC machine tools, which will help enhance the overall strength and industrial structure of China's equipment manufacturing industry. Optimized and upgraded, China's machine tool industry has achieved a complete transformation from ordinary machine tools to CNC machine tools. It is extraordinary that China's machinery manufacturing industry is in line with international standards and participates in international competition.

It is understood that CNC machine tools and key functional components to transform the national debt project focus on the development of major CNC machine tools, annual output of 303 major CNC machine tools, CNC lathes 3000, CNC system of about 10,000, servo drive 25000 sets, spindle servo 5000 sets, high speed With 4000 sets of spindles, 6,000 sets of magazines, 6000 sets of high-speed chuck cylinders, and 13,000 sets of protective covers for CNC lathes and machining centers, it can realize sales revenue of 2.1 billion yuan and total profit of 160 million yuan.

According to the overall development plan of Dalian Machine Tool, by the end of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, the annual output of machining centers and CNC lathes will reach 10,000 units, and the annual sales revenue will exceed 10 billion yuan. To achieve such a goal, Dalian Machine Tool put forward the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" to adhere to the "technical input, product output," the strategic guidelines, the construction of "a center", "two bases."

"One Center" is to form the National CNC Machine Tool Engineering Research Center. It consists of Dalian Infineon Technologies Group, Dalian University of Technology, Wuhan Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Dalian Machine Tool, USA Ingersoll Manufacturing Systems Co., Ltd., DMTG German Machine Tool Design and Research Center, and other foreign companies to establish R&D and pilot bases. “Two bases” refers to the “National Industrial Base of CNC Machine Tools”. During the “11th Five-Year Plan” period, four types of precision, high-speed, CNC turning centers, machining centers, boring and milling machines, and flexible special machine tools were developed. The other refers to the "National Industrialization Base for Numerically Controlled Functional Components", which mainly produces 10 major functional components. The total investment of the two base projects is 1.5 billion yuan. After the project is put into production, the total economic output of Dalian machine tools in 2010 will reach 26 billion yuan.

Transformation project for Dalian Machine Tool "Strong brain fitness"

In recent years, the key functional components of the "brains" and "limbs" of CNC machine tools have always been "soft ribs," restricting the development of China's machine tool industry. Although the high-performance CNC machine tools such as 5-axis linkage CNC machine tools and multi-functional composite machine tools exhibited at various exhibitions at home and abroad can be compared with foreign equivalent products, it is clear to the insiders that these products are only manufactured in China. The core technology of the "body" and "shell" and its "brain" and "four limbs" also depend on foreign countries. The products of these core technologies account for 60% of the total cost. Since many of the machine tool product technologies are bred in key functional components, to become a major producer of CNC machine tools, it is necessary to first master the autonomy of the core technology of key functional components, and to break the market monopoly of foreign high-end CNC machine tools.

The total investment of 540 million yuan "CNC machine tools and key functional components transformation project" for Dalian machine tool "strong brain health", change "soft" to "hardware" laid a solid foundation.

In fact, the technology reform was supported by the funds of the national debt. Dalian Machine Tool is a good foundation for development. As early as 2002, Dalian Machine Tool sought to establish the first production base for complete sets of functional components in China and the world. This is a "shocking move" for the domestic and international machine tool industry. Dalian Machine Tool chose a bumpy road full of thorns and created an incredible performance for the industry. By 2006, not only had its CNC machine tool functional component bases been completed and produced, but also a large-scale manufacturing capacity with a full range of products and grouped new organizational forms, becoming the largest and most versatile CNC machine tool component in China. The production and supply base can be fully equipped for CNC machine tools. The products have reached 6 categories and more than 60 varieties, and have been identified as the first batch of state-level CNC functional parts industrialization bases.

To make the Group's comprehensive hardware reach the international level, in addition to building a modern factory area, Dalian Machine Tool Co., Ltd. also supported nearly 300 high-end processing equipment with over 500 million yuan of funds. In the introduction of foreign advanced equipment, it also absorbed the domestic and foreign advanced industry with the production process, and combined with their own characteristics to establish a unique advantage of the process. In order to effectively integrate the advantages of the world's resources, Dalian Machine Tool, on the one hand, went abroad to seek technical cooperation and joint venture partners in the world's related industries, and on the other hand conducted open recruitment of talents globally. After several years of hard work, it now has 24 wholly-owned, joint venture, holding companies, and joint-stock subsidiaries. These foreign-funded enterprises are well-known manufacturers in the world of high-end CNC systems and spindles.

Not only that, the functional components of Dalian Machine Tools in terms of grade, in addition to the current market demand for large economical CNC machine tools, but also for high-end CNC machine tools, some of the functional components of the technical preparation. Among them, the high-precision electric spindle fills the domestic gap and is at the advanced level of similar products in the world; the high-precision hollow ball screw pair is the first in China, and it is in the leading position in the industry; the linear guide rails are successfully manufactured, and the manufacturing level of the Chinese linear guide rails is improved. To a new level; the level of a number of functional components such as servo turrets and five-axis linkage numerical control systems are in the leading position in the industry.

From equip China to serve the world

Right now, an indisputable fact is that technological transformation has enhanced the company's core competitiveness. At the 2007 EMO machine tool exhibition in Germany, Dalian Machine Tool, as the sole stand of China's only CNC machine tool functional parts at the international machine tool exhibition outside China, attracted many foreign customers and became a domestic machine tool manufacturer. The "focus point." At the 5th China CNC Machine Tool Show, the 2,400-square-meter exhibition area of ​​Hall 4 of the Beijing China International Exhibition Center displayed all the CNC machine tools and key functional components developed by Dalian Machine Tools in recent years. An enterprise alone occupies a single exhibition hall. The number of exhibits, the high grades, and the variety of the exhibits are the highlights of this exhibition. The above two exhibitions have fully demonstrated the skills of the Dalian machine tool.

The foundation of Dalian Machine Tool lies in successfully blazing a trail of integrated innovation with its own characteristics. After the enterprise got rid of difficulties in 2000, Dalian Machine Tool firstly aimed at famous enterprises with high-end technologies in international machine tools, and jointly undertaken joint design, joint manufacturing and joint manufacturing through mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and cooperation to digest and master international advanced technologies and occupy the commanding heights of technology. Promote the improvement of technological innovation capabilities of enterprises, quickly narrow the gap with the world's advanced level, and firmly grasp the control of the enterprise.

In 2002, it wholly acquired the Ingersoll Manufacturing Systems Company, a world leader in the field of special machine tools and flexible manufacturing systems, and achieved a historic breakthrough in the merger and acquisition of developed country companies in the Chinese machine tool industry. In 2003, it wholly acquired the Ingersol Crankshaft Machining Systems Company, a world leader in the crankshaft complete processing equipment. In 2004, it acquired and controlled the German Zimmermann GmbH, which is the world leader in large-scale Gantry and five-sided machining centers. The 70% stake. Since this year, Dalian Machine Tool has established five joint ventures with world-class CNC machine tools and functional component manufacturers in a controlled manner to produce high-performance, high-rigidity, high-reliability, and high-precision vertical and horizontal machining. The center is widely used in the important fields of national economic construction, and it is in short supply in domestic and foreign markets. The company has thus entered the technological frontier of these products.

Nowadays, Dalian Machine Tool has grown from a single machine tool industry in the past to a large-scale industrialized group that operates across regions, multinational operations, and diversified operations. The company also makes full use of acquisition companies' overseas sales networks to build their own companies and expand sales in overseas markets. In the next few years, Dalian Machine Tool will set up 5,000 machine tool sales agencies around the world and establish 40 service warehousing centers to truly serve the purpose of serving the world.