The "12th Five-Year Plan" of Gear Industry Solved the Import Dependence of High-end Parts and Components

Recently, Li Shengqi, secretary general of the Gear Professional Association, elaborated on the industry's "12th Five-Year Plan" development plan. He said that reversing the situation in which high-end gear transmissions and their components rely on imports is an important task for China's gear industry during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period. This must solve the common problems of the industry and overcome key problems. At the same time, it is necessary to cultivate the sustainable innovation capability of the industry, enhance the overall strength of the industry's international competition, and lay the foundation for becoming a global gear country.

Industry situation is not optimistic

In recent years, driven by the rapid development of automobiles, wind power, high-speed rail and infrastructure, the gear industry has shown rapid growth. By the end of 2010, the total demand of China's gear market will exceed 140 billion yuan at the end of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan”, more than double the 68.3 billion Yuan in 2005. This is truly a world-renowned gear manufacturing country, and the industry’s backbone enterprises initially have a new Product development capabilities.

However, it cannot be avoided that at present, the comprehensive technical level of product quality, product design, process development, manufacturing equipment, and testing and testing of the gear industry in China is only equivalent to that of developed countries in the mid to late 1990s. The research and development cycle is the same for foreign products. ~3 times, but the service life is only 30% to 50% of similar foreign products. On the one hand, overcapacity of middle and low-end products leads to vicious competition for homogeneity; on the other hand, high-end products have insufficient capacity, automobiles, construction machinery, and high-speed rails. High-end gear transmissions such as coal, coal machinery, and large-scale agricultural machinery rely heavily on imports, and the import and export deficit has increased year by year.

"In the next five years, the uncertainties that will constrain the development of the global economy will increase." Li Shengqi analyzed. With the resurrection of trade protectionism, the pressure of RMB appreciation and the risk of export exchange rate increase, the declining consumption levels in developed countries, the “re-industrialization” policy, and the increasing manufacturing competitiveness of neighboring developing countries, export competition will intensify. “The industry must rely on new advantages such as technological advancement, quality improvement, and cost-effectiveness to expand exports while maintaining some of its cost advantages.”

During the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s gear industry faces historical development opportunities of adjustment and rejuvenation and changes from strong to strong. Competition in domestic and foreign markets is intensifying, and domestic deep-seated conflicts will inevitably affect the progress of the industry. However, the basic forces that promote the innovation and development of industrial technological progress are irreversible, and the entire industry will achieve stable development with an average annual growth rate of around 10% in the process of transformation and upgrading. Therefore, the industry has established a development strategy of “Catch-up in learning and transcendence in innovation”. Li Shengqi said, “We must open up our learning, integrate global resources, and shorten the gap with developed countries; cooperation and win-win, rely on independent innovation beyond, master the core technology of the industry, transfer to the high-end of the industrial value chain.”

Lock in five development goals

First, it is necessary to break through and master the core technologies in the field of sustainable development and improve front-end research and development capabilities and high-end manufacturing capabilities. This includes the autonomy of self-branded auto transmissions, the autonomy of the 200-km speed trains and 5 MW wind gear transmissions; the autonomy rate of major equipment spare parts reached 85%, and the autonomy rate of major equipment key spare parts reached 70%. The industry's average R&D investment accounted for 1.2% of sales revenue, and the new product output value increased to 35% of the total industrial output value.

Second, we must optimize the industrial structure and enhance the overall competitiveness of the industry. Cultivate 3-5 domestically-owned, internationally-oriented, internationally competitive multinational corporations and world-renowned brands; construct 5 gear manufacturing bases with annual sales of over 5 billion yuan; create 2 annual sales of more than 200 100 million yuan in industrial clusters; 20 specialized, sophisticated, and specialized parts and components manufacturing companies participating in the international division of labor; on this basis, the industrial concentration is increased by 10%.

Third, change the mode of growth, improve product quality, and transfer to the high end of the industrial value chain. The utilization rate of raw materials during the “12th Five-Year Plan” will increase by 5% to 10%, and the energy consumption per unit of added value will be reduced by 15%. At the same time, the quality level of gear transmissions for major equipment will meet the requirements of the host and the quality level of the backbone enterprises in the industry. To achieve the international advanced level of similar products. In addition, the proportion of sales in modern service industry increased by 15%

Fourth, the industrial scale and market share have steadily increased. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate will reach about 10%; the domestic market share will increase to 85%; in 2015, the domestic industry's total sales volume will reach 220 billion yuan and the export value will reach 30 billion yuan.

Fifth, build an industry innovation system and build a team of three talents. To establish an industrial technology center, two national engineering laboratories, three engineering technology centers, five product testing centers, and eight state-certified enterprise technology centers. At the same time, it is necessary to achieve 95% of the top management of senior management personnel of key enterprises, more than 60% of the training level of middle managers, 10% of the training of engineering masters, and deliver high-quality modernization to the industry during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period. 500 professional and technical workers.

Focus on the implementation of the six major projects

During the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the gear industry must focus on implementing product breakthrough projects, industrial structure adjustment projects, platform construction projects, standardization projects, technological renovation projects, and quality improvement projects.

The reason for increasing the quality improvement project, Li Shengqi explained that after years of quality education and fierce market competition, the overall quality level of industry products has increased in recent years, and the physical quality of some products of some enterprises has reached the international advanced level. In general, however, there is still a relatively large amount of product life, stability, reliability, consistency, assembly product noise, leak tightness, early failure rate, and first-time average breakdown time (mileage), compared with similar foreign products. The gap is not optimistic.

"We must understand the special urgency and importance of improving product quality while standing at a new historical high point," he cautioned. In today's global market competition, quality is both a technical management issue and a political and economic issue. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, it is of great significance to enhance industry product quality in an all-round way, to enhance the competitiveness of the industry and enterprises in the international and domestic markets, to increase market share, to change the mode of economic growth, and to achieve industrial upgrading.

Li Shengqi believes that with the unremitting efforts of 5 to 10 years, excellent companies with high market share and good reputation will certainly be able to create world-famous brands. To this end, the entire industry should focus its efforts on the following aspects.

First, we continued to conduct in-depth comprehensive, full-staff, and full-process quality management advocacy and education and training focusing on user needs, and extensively launched QC group activities, relying on the standardization of employee quality behaviors, improving employee operating skills, and giving full play to the stability of employees' subjective initiative. product quality.

Secondly, focusing on product quality issues, we have targeted technological transformation and personnel training, and improved product quality through technological advancement, technological breakthroughs, and all-round innovation.

Second, establish and improve the quality management system, combined with the actual situation of enterprises, and vigorously promote the "high performance model", "lean production management", "Six Sigma management" and other international advanced management techniques and methods, using modern quality management ideas and tools to improve product quality.

In addition, establish the concept of winning quality, establish brand awareness of all employees, establish a global awareness of competition, and build a distinctive corporate quality culture.