First of all, the mould industry technology to improve comprehensively. In order to adapt to the new situation, China's mould industry in recent years to continuously improve the level of technology. Many enterprises have applied CAD/CAE/CAM integration technology, three-dimensional design technology, ERP and IM3 and other information management technology, as well as high-speed processing, rapid prototyping, virtual simulation, robotics, intelligent manufacturing and network technology and many other new technologies, through a variety of quality system certification of enterprises more than one year.
In general, mould enterprises in the production process, should continue to learn advanced technology, and strive to management information technology, technology integration, equipment refinement, manufacturing digital, refinement, processing high-speed and automation direction.
Secondly, significant economies of scale, cluster development is expected to accelerate. In the ‘small and specialized’ specialization continues to develop at the same time, in recent years, the scale effect has been paid more attention to, in addition to making enterprises stronger and bigger, so that the economies of scale to produce benefits, mould cluster production also continues to show its superiority, and thus ‘mould city’, ‘Mould Park’, “mould production base” and other forms of cluster production in the country's rapid development.
Third, pay attention to brand zhuanli, strengthen innovation and research and development. For a long time, the mould has been in the ‘back’ and ‘passive’ position, therefore, there are few ‘brand’ and ‘zhuanli ‘. With the development of the market economy, in recent years, mould enterprises pay more and more attention to ‘brand’ and ‘zhuanli’. Some enterprises have recognised the importance of innovation and research and development, investment efforts to improve very quickly.
Fourth, mould industry personnel training efforts to increase. Although in recent years China's mould industry workforce has developed rapidly, is estimated to have reached nearly one million people, but still can not keep up with the industry's development needs. First, the total amount is insufficient, the second is not enough quality to adapt to the needs of industry development. According to the survey, the national mould industry practitioners about 30-50 million people, including engineering and technical personnel accounted for about 20%, is particularly in short supply of high-quality and high level of mould enterprise management personnel and senior technicians and senior technical workers.
Finally, import dependence is high. Although China's mould industry has sailed into the fast lane of development, China's mould industry, a number of enterprise innovation has also stepped into the tracking from tracking-based to tracking and running parallel to the new stage, part of the enterprise has entered the international manufacturing D a square. But in general due to the precision, life, manufacturing cycle and capacity, with the international level and industrial advanced countries compared to still have a small gap, so, still can not meet the needs of China's manufacturing development. Especially in terms of precision, large, complex and long-life moulds, the supply still exceeds the demand, and a large number of imports are still needed every year. According to customs information statistics, China's total import and export of moulds in 2017 was $7.54 billion, an increase of 11.01% over the previous year. Of which the total imports of 2.051 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 2.43 per cent over the previous year; total exports of 5.490 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 14.61 per cent over the previous year.
The increase in exports is much larger than the increase in exports, also shows that China's mould industry has made extraordinary progress. In the future, China's mould products will continue to large (multi-process, multi-component, multi-cavity) precision, high performance, integrated direction. Mould companies have long been transformed from processing according to the map into the mould downstream users of product design, forming research, in providing moulds, mould forming process at the same time, but also provide mould forming peripheral equipment, that is, the mould manufacturer is still with the mould downstream customers together with the provision of products partner integrators. Reconstruction of the relationship between the mold and the user, to provide differentiated, customized, personalized precision service zero (part) parts forming the overall solution of the new model, making the mould enterprise to become the future downstream customers inseparable from the important part of the molding equipment support.
