Some characteristics of CNC machine tools
CNC machine tools, with unique industrial characteristics, are basic, complex and strategic materials in modern industry. CNC machine tools (especially high-end CNC machine tools) have the following characteristics in industry and technology:
(1) Technology-intensive and iterative accumulation. CNC machine tool is a kind of product that highly integrates multi-disciplinary and multidisciplinary technologies such as mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, control, hardware, software, information, network, sensor, etc. into a physical carrier. The technology is highly intensive and needs long-term accumulation and iteration.
(2) The process is subdivided and various. It involves different categories and processes such as cutting, forming and special processing. The process division is relatively fine, and the product categories and models are various.
(3) Small market volume and low profit. The machine tool industry is often only a few percent of the size of the end product industry it serves (such as automobile, engineering machinery, aircraft manufacturing, etc.). It provides products of manufacturing tools, with high requirements for product functions and performance but low profits.
(4) Labor-intensive, craftsman spirit. Due to the high requirements for motion accuracy and dynamic performance, but the small market scale, it is difficult to carry out large-scale automatic production, and a large number of skilled workers with craftsmanship spirit are required.
(5) Capital alienation and implicit monopoly. Although the machine tool industry is a fully competitive industry in the world as a whole, in the field of high-end CNC machine tools, the first-movers tend to establish strong market competitive advantages based on their own technology accumulation, with the characteristics of implicit monopoly, that is, the market mechanism in this field is partially ineffective.