Talking about the contradictions and problems in China's bearing industry

The contradictions and problems in China's bearing industry (I) The development mode has not fundamentally changed The extensive development mode of low-level expansion and low-efficiency operation has not fundamentally changed. Advanced lean management, agile manufacturing model, and 6σ and 5S (6S) management methods have not been widely applied, and some applications have not been well adhered to. The application of information technology is still at a low level, and there is still a long way to go to meet the requirements of the integration of the two. The average labor productivity of the entire industry is only 100,000 yuan/person/year. Sales profit hovered around 5%. The general utilization level of bearing steel materials is only 50%. Million yuan of industrial added value energy consumption up to 0.64 tons of standard coal.

(2) The deep-seated contradiction of the industrial structure still highlights that the deep-seated industrial structure formed by the long-term and low-level repeated construction has not been solved, and the problem of low industrial concentration has not improved. CR10 and CR30 have long been around 30% and 45%.

Statistics on the production concentration of the industry (III) Lack of core technology independent intellectual property rights Due to the fact that the original industry was centralized in the scientific research institutes, the common technology research and development and service platforms in the industry were missing. At the same time, companies lack the endogenous power and vitality of independent innovation, and the entire industry has not yet achieved the transition from technological imitation and technology tracking to technological innovation and technology integration. The industry of 300,000 employees has only been granted more than 1,000 patents, including only 100 invention patents, and a considerable portion of patents that are not core technologies. Regarding more than 40 international standards for rolling bearings, none of them are formulated or participated in by the bearing industry of China.

(D) Slower progress in brand building due to the company's long-term “hard” light “soft”, heavy capacity expansion, and accumulation of light and soft power, resulting in core technology, leading products, management capabilities, marketing capabilities, financing capabilities, system integration The brand building supported by soft power, such as ability, corporate governance, and corporate culture, has progressed slowly. To date, there is not yet one brand that can be called in the world. In the way of doing product → doing sales → doing marketing → doing brand development, most companies are still in the stage of sales, and the dominant enterprises are just entering the stage of doing marketing.

(5) The product structure is not reasonable due to the low barriers to entry and the lack of exit mechanisms. A large number of small enterprises that do not reach the economic scale, lack of technical support, or even small workshops, use low-cost strategies to crowd out the ordinary bearing market, making large scale Companies are also engulfed in prices and have caused homogenized vicious competition in the low-end market at home and abroad.

Since the bearing accuracy and performance can meet or approach the requirements of the host user, the stability and consistency are not enough, and the life and reliability have a large gap or have not been verified, so the domestically produced bearings in the following areas have not yet been approved by the user, and all or none Most rely on imports: high-speed EMU bearings, wind turbine drive system bearings, imported high-speed, high-precision bearings supporting the metallurgical mill, large construction machinery including the shield machine, bearings, high-speed high-precision CNC machine tool bearings and electricity Spindles, new urban rail bearings, etc.