The primary task of the machine tool remanufacturing industry is to regulate the market

As a promising emerging industry, it is particularly important to establish a sound market in the initial phase of development. At the symposium, representatives of machine tool remanufacturing companies unanimously agreed that the primary task of the current industrialization of machine tool remanufacturing is to establish a regulated market.

To borrow the concept of the automotive aftermarket, machine tool remanufacturing should belong to the machine tool aftermarket. This is because the machine tool product itself has a complete chain of sales, maintenance and remanufacturing.

Different from the remanufacturing of Auto Parts, the remanufacturing of machine tools is mostly creative remanufacturing, which realizes the function upgrade and numerical control, and does not belong to restorative remanufacturing, showing higher added value.

In this sense, remanufacturing is the advanced stage of maintenance and transformation. The main criterion for discrimination is that the technical performance of remanufactured machine tools cannot be inferior to new ones.

Wei Liancheng, chairman of the China Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Maintenance and Transformation Technology Association, said that China's machine tool remanufacturing business still remains at the stage of maintenance and numerical control transformation. In particular, maintenance and renovation of large and heavy-duty machine tools are the mainstay, and it is obviously difficult to form batch and industrialization. Wei Liancheng believes that compared with the mature remanufacturing industry in Europe and America, China's large and heavy machine tool maintenance and transformation is still in the initial stage of remanufacturing.

The reporter learned that there are currently three main categories of machine tool remanufacturing in China: professional machine tool remanufacturing companies, such as Wuhan Huazhong Automation Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Huazhong Automation), which is included in the pilot remanufacturing enterprise of machine tools by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Such as Chongqing Machine Tool Group and Wuhan Heavy Machine Tool Group; CNC system manufacturing companies, such as Siemens Automation Factory, Guangzhou CNC Equipment Co., Ltd. and so on. These three types of companies constitute the main body of the current domestic machine tool remanufacturing.

China's remanufactured machine tools, especially heavy-duty machine tools, are mostly order-based. Because there is no unified product technology standard and market pricing principle, it is greatly affected by the user market. Some user units overemphasized the importance of cost and price ignoring the technical solutions and the strength of the manufacturers, which invisiblely boosted some remanufacturing enterprises to only pay attention to the immediate interests and were reluctant to increase investment in fixed assets such as plant and equipment, and were unwilling to hire outstanding technicians. Only by conquering the operating costs and occupying the market at a low price, the remanufacturing market of the machine tools is uneven and disorderly.

In the developed countries where the remanufacturing industry developed earlier, the remanufacturing of machine tools has been carried out for many years, and a relatively complete industrial chain has also been formed. However, the implementation time in our country is still relatively short, and most of them are the maintenance and reconstruction of a single large-heavy machine tool, lack of process specifications, and the market is also slightly confusing.

The reporter believes that the original intention of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to establish a pilot enterprise for remanufacturing is to hope to form a demonstration role for the future machine tool remanufacturing industry. This will not only help establish the industry standard for future remanufacturing of machine tools, but also help to increase users' confidence in the use of remanufactured products. After all, the selected pilot companies are superior in terms of qualification and other aspects.