Chinese automobile mold companies rely on ＂overtaking＂
2021-08-26 09:29:19
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The car industry is a measure of a country important indicator of industrial level. In automotive design, development and manufacturing process, the design and manufacture of body mold occupy a large proportion, it has become an important factor in the possibility of shortening cars change type cycles, improve product quality automobile. Therefore, rapid development of automobile panel dies, in order to meet the production needs of the development of automobile business has become imperative now the automotive industry.
As automotive panel stamping dies, the leader, Toyota in drawing die, mold wedge, compound die, progressive die, and other branches of technology patent portfolio. By analyzing the characteristics of Toyota's development and patent portfolio, we hope for the domestic enterprises in technology development and patent portfolio provide reference.
Throughout the development of the road Toyota's initial multi-car companies to learn from other models, but the company had to start from the imitation has focused on improving. Since the 1970s, Toyota continues to develop a variety of best-selling model, and achieved good results in the low-end car market, the market in Europe in 1989 launched the luxury car brand Lexus. This is Toyota's focus on research and development are inextricably linked, the company's annual expenditure on R & D accounted for 4% to 5% of sales last year, the company more explicitly encourage inventions management system. "Models did not push, patents first" Toyota attaches great importance to the protection of intellectual property, automobile panel stamping die of patent applications increased steadily since the 1970s. Whenever a new model launch, Toyota patent applications in automotive panel stamping dies field is the emergence of the peak. It can be said Toyota's strong manufacturing capability for automotive die from imitation to creation, from low-end cars to the road of development of high-end cars and lay a solid foundation.
With the development of society, the industrial division of labor in the continuous refinement. Any business difficult to grasp all of the advanced technology in the whole industry chain. As the world's largest carmaker, Toyota's stamping plant is one of the largest and most advanced automotive mold factory in the world, but it does not produce all the molds required for the company, Die homemade rate of about 60%. In the automotive panel stamping mold research and development, innovation, and Toyota both upstream industry chain Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd., NSSC Co., Ltd. and other materials enterprises, but also with Asian Luck Co., Takatsu sports Seiki Co., Clubs and other machinery manufacturing advantages enterprises. Toyota's cooperation model has certain characteristics: play to their technical strengths, take advantage of each company's technical superiority, to avoid duplication of research and development of waste R & D funds, so as to shorten the development cycle, to seize market opportunities.
Chinese automobile panel stamping die technology started late, but the market potential is huge. Chinese patent application in the automotive panel stamping die areas emerge from the 1990s, but patent applications increased significantly in recent years. As of July 31, 2014, it retrieved the Chinese patent involved in automotive panel stamping dies to apply a total of 1667. The volume of applications which cover domestic applicants involved in automotive parts account for a large share of stamping dies, the amount of overseas application in China accounted for only 12% of Chinese total. This gives China's automobile panel stamping die in the field has brought opportunities for development, domestic applicants should take full advantage of foreign companies patent portfolio, correctly grasp the direction of technology development, and actively seek new breakthrough.
The next five years, China's auto cover mold industry will have a good opportunity for development. First, China's auto industry will maintain a rapid growth, in 2015 vehicle production is expected to reach 30 million. On the total demand for automobile die equipment, automotive die for quite some time equipment capacity gaps in production capacity, especially high-grade mold equipment is still great, which is the auto body mold equipment imports are still the main reason for the increase. Second, the rapid increase in recent years, China's automobile mold equipment manufacturing level, has been Europe's auto industry concern. Because of cost considerations, the equipment manufacturing industry in developed countries to Asia, and to purchase a large number of auto mold equipment. Under this opportunity, in order to remain invincible in the fierce competition in the market, I believe that Toyota's development of the road to the domestic mold companies can bring the following revelation: on the one hand, domestic enterprises should grasp the development direction of technology, With the application of new materials, for example in the car cover is bound to drive the car cover mold of innovation; on the other hand, domestic enterprises can learn from Toyota's experience in various enterprises play technology, to carry out research and development cooperation, the formation of complementary advantages, improve R & D efficiency and achieve win-win situation.
