"The crisis in China's manufacturing industry lies in the lack of innovation ability. The way out is to change the production mode." Guan Xiyou, chairman of Shenyang Machine Tool Group, said in an interview on the 27th that the production capacity of low-end products in the manufacturing industry is excessive, and the research and development capabilities and industrialization capabilities of high-end products are weak. Such problems have led to further intensification of industry homogenization competition.

Guan Xiyou said that as a machine tool manufacturer, it belongs to the manufacturing industry, and the customers it serves belong to the manufacturing industry. Therefore, it has the deepest feeling for the manufacturing industry. Taking the machine tool industry as an example, since 2012, the market scale has shrunk as a whole, the profitability of domestic enterprises has fallen sharply, and some enterprises have been at a loss. Due to the continued downturn, the average output value of industrial enterprises in 2013 fell by about 20%. “The key is that the industry is still in the downtrend channel and there is no sign of recovery. It may not be optimistic in 3-5 years.”

The industry generally believes that the number of enterprises in the machine tool industry is rapidly expanding, and excess production capacity is the soil for vicious competition. According to the statistics of China Machine Tool & Tool Industry Association, the number of metal cutting machine tools in 2011 was 1,070, and the output was 403,935, but by 2013 it had reached 1,264, an increase of 18.1%. The annual output reached 858,100 units, compared with 2011. The growth rate is 112.4%. The homogenization phenomenon of enterprises is very serious, and the signs of vicious competition in the industry have already appeared.

Guan Xiyou believes that the current global economy is still at the bottom of the fifth economic cycle, the European debt crisis has repeatedly deteriorated, the global economy has continued to slump, and China's economy has also shifted from high-speed growth to moderately stable growth. Under the background of the initiative to resolve the risks of investment and financing platforms and promote the adjustment of industrial structure, investment growth is facing downward pressure. The lack of export, overcapacity and low profit will affect the growth of manufacturing investment. Therefore, whether it is a machine tool demand enterprise or a machine tool manufacturing enterprise itself, it is a clear main line to adjust the production structure and eliminate backward production capacity.

Guan Xiyou said that from 2002, Shenyang Machine Tool Plant's economic scale was only 1.36 billion yuan to 18 billion yuan in 2011. It jumped from the 36th to the first place in the world machine tool industry ranking. The core technology is from imitation and learning to complete autonomy. From following to transcending to leading, the main source of power lies in transforming production methods and creating a new model of industrial services.

“We are not selling machine tools now, but system solution providers. There are no sales managers and only service consultants in the staff.” Guan Xiyou said that the backwardness of Chinese machine tool enterprises is reflected in the service. This is because modern manufacturing is based on service. The manufacture of the Lord. IBM's decisive sale of computer production to Lenovo in the past, transforming into a system solution provider, is to see the direction of a better business model in the future.

For the current difficulties faced by SMEs, such as difficulties in financing, difficulties in employment, and high costs, Guan Xiyou said that there is only one way out, that is, to change production methods, create market demand, and rely on market forces to force enterprises to transform. In particular, the new era of the Internet has arrived. 3D technology has opened the door to the third industrial revolution. The United States has begun to re-create the revolution and the European industry has been transformed into the 4.0 version. The industrialization trend is behind the manufacturing intelligence. For manufacturing companies, intelligentizing the entire production process is the best way to reduce costs. (Wei Zongkai)