Automobile Mold Industry In The Current Situation And Development Trend

  According to statistics, at present, the size ofstandard parts in the car, my only two have a
my little car with a mold factory (company) aboutcertain volume of business.
30 more than the number of employees 7,000Secondly, the design and manufacturing process
people, including design, manufacturing andtechnology behind. The most prominent
management staff of about 1,000 people,manifestations of the secondary development of
accounting for 14% of the total number ofpoor software. In recent years, China has
workers. Industry-wide fixed assets of about 9introduced many advanced mold design software.
billion, net of about 7 million yuan, annual salesBut our data on all aspects of automotive
income of about 4.4 billion, overall laborproducts, as well as with foreign materials and so
productivity of about 45 yuan / person, thedifferent from the introduction of the software
annual manufacturing capacity of approximately 12must be based on the combination of China's
million man-hours, in which large and medium-sizednational conditions, the secondary development of
mold manufacturing capacity of some 5 millionsoftware to design and manufacture of molds
man-hours / year. In particular, after "95" periodthat meet market requirements. Mold software
of transformation, automotive mold industry isdevelopment capabilities of China's weak second
not only improved productivity and yield, productmain reason is the lack of development
standards and quality has been improved. Forexperience and technical strength is weak.
example, automobile body dies in the real modelThe third is the low quality of management and
and a new air-cooled steel casting technologystaff. In recent years, a number of major auto
popularization and application, to improve themold factory have introduced the world's most
quality of automobile panel dies and reduce theadvanced mold processing equipment, including
workload of machining has played an active role.FAW, Dongfeng, days, steam, Cheng Fei and
At present, trucks, light trucks, mini vans moldsother fixed assets of four companies has reached
can basically self-sufficient and able to produce200 million yuan or so, but the product
part of the car covered by mold. However, theperformance and technological level of as
car still has to import most of the mold, mainlycompared with foreign advanced level there are
interior body panel molds and mold parts, thestill significant gaps, the main reason is that the
annual value of imports of more than 100 millionlow quality of management and personnel,
U.S. dollars.resulting in low capacity utilization, performance,
China's auto industry have been developing rapidlylack of full play.
mold, progress is also great, but when comparedAuto Mold market is enormous, and in
with foreign advanced level, there are stillindustrialized countries could account for about half
significant gaps. Is mainly manifested in theof the mold market. Expected that by 2005,
following points:China's basic model cars will reach 170 to update
First, poor manufacturing precision. In order tomodels and alteration of up to 430 kinds of
seal, for example, many people are reflected inmodels, the demand for cars is also a great mold.
poor performance of China's domestic automotiveThe next few years, automotive mold industry
sealing. In fact, this not only with the manufactureshould focus on developing the following types of
of sealing material and the level of sealing, andproducts:
related more directly related to the level of mold.Large and medium-sized automobile panel dies. As
At present, the foreign car companies are in thethe car to the high-speed, comfort, style-oriented
implementation of "2 mm" project, but in China,development, and body structure will become
the single part can also do so, hundreds of partsincreasingly complex and demanding mold to the
assembled together there is no guarantee, andlarge-scale, complex, high-precision quality direction.
the key is mold.-2,005 Expected in 2000, China's average annual
The second is a short die life. Only aluminumdemand for auto body mold is about 15 million
die-casting mold, for example, has reachedman-hours, of which large and medium-sized
advanced level in more than one million, but onlymolds demand for 9.36 million man-hours per year.
20 million in China, only the foreign level of 1 / 5.At present, China's large and medium-sized
Third, die a long development cycle. Previously,automobile mold production capacity of only 5.2
China's Vehicle for several decades, themillion man-hours / year, a shortfall of 4.36 million
development of automotive die is also very slow.man-hours / year, to meet the rate was only
As the intensity of competition, upgrading of53.4%.
automotive products faster, with a correspondingPlastic mold. The trend in lightweight body, driven
request to shorten mold die industry developmentby the application of plastics in the car a marked
cycle. At present, foreign medium-sized die-castingincrease in the number of plastic per vehicle and
mold of the development cycle is only 1-2total weight of the rise. By 2005 annual output of
months, the automobile panel dies development3 million calculations, China's total of all kinds of
cycle of 6-7 months, but China was 2-3 times theautomobile accessory plastic parts 300 thousand
level outside. Therefore, some of the moretons, while the current production capacity of only
powerful the domestic auto mold factory despite20 million tons, production and demand a great
the strength of the development of new molds,contradiction. Particularly in the manufacturing
but often due to lag behind the pace ofbumpers, instrument panels, fuel tanks, steering
replacement automotive products lose theirwheel and other needs of large and medium-sized
market competitiveness.plastic mold, in 2005 demand is expected to meet
The main reason contributing to this problem isonly about 50% of the planning.
China's auto industry, corporate mold structure isMotorcycle mold. A type of motorcycle require a
irrational, software development, managementtotal of nearly 1,000 sets of molds, valued at
and staff quality and a larger gap between themore than 1,000 yuan. China has the world's
foreign advanced level.largest motorcycle producer, more than 10 million
The first is the low level of specialization andmotorcycles annually. Although the majority of
standardization. Internationally, the automobilemotorcycle molds can be produced internally, but
mold has entered the professional, standardizationin the casting needs to work on localization.
phase. Foreign automobile mold is comprisedAgricultural vehicles mold. Previously, die mold
largely of professional mold manufacturers, moldindustry paid insufficient attention to agricultural
commercialization rate of 70% or more, andvehicles. In recent years, the rapid development
many specialize in the production mold standardof China's farm vehicle market, the annual output
parts of the business, car mold standard parts ashas reached more than 200 million vehicles, the
much as several hundred. The mold productiondemand for mold growing rapidly. Meanwhile, with
capacity of China's major focus on the OEMthe agricultural vehicle to comfort the direction of
factory or workshop within the mold, mold thedevelopment, but also to the mold has set higher
low rate of commercialization. "Ninth Five Yearrequirements. "Tenth Five-Year" period, automobile
Plan" period, conducting the enterprisemold industry, the need for this market seriously
restructuring, die proportion of self-production andenough.
distribution remained as high as 70%. Mold