The informatization of the injection mold industry has become the general trend

In recent years, the Plastic Mold industry has developed rapidly in my country, followed by increasingly fierce market competition. After entering the WTO, foreign Mold manufacturers have entered the domestic market. They must stand out in the fierce competition, develop mold standard parts, implement mold Specialized production is essential.

As one of the pillar industries of my country's light industry, the plastics industry has maintained a growth rate of more than 10% in recent years. In the plastics industry, the plastic hardware market is very active, becoming a new consumption hotspot and a new economic growth point. The market prospect of plastic hardware mold is considerable, but it is far from the level of foreign technology.

At present, my country's mold needs to break through the bottleneck restricting the development of the mold industry. Because with the rapid development of pillar industries such as machinery, automobiles, home appliances and building materials in China, plastic molds account for about 30% of the entire mold industry. However, due to the complex shape of plastic mold parts, there are high requirements for their design level. Therefore, the technical level of mold test results inspection must be innovative to keep up with the development trend of the times, otherwise the development of plastic molds will be restricted.

The industry believes that mold manufacturers must improve their own technology if they want to break through the bottleneck. At the State Council meeting on the 26th, the Prime Minister also stated that today's technological revolution plays a crucial role in economic development and promotion of economic upgrading. He advocates mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and also uses innovative means to promote entrepreneurship.

The foreign trade deficit of molds is increasing year by year

Although the growth rate of mold exports has been greater than that of imports in recent years, the absolute amount of increase is still that imports are greater than exports, resulting in an increase in the foreign trade deficit of molds year by year. This situation has improved in 2006, with a slight reduction in the deficit. There are two main reasons for the increase in the foreign trade deficit of molds: First, the sustained and rapid development of the national economy, especially the rapid development of the automobile industry, has brought about a strong demand for molds. Some high-end molds cannot be produced in China and have to be imported; Molds can be produced domestically and imported. This is related to China's current tariff policy and project approval system. Second, there is not enough encouragement for the export of molds. Now, like other mechanical and electrical products, the export tax rebate rate is only 13%, not 17%.

From the forecast report on the development prospect of China's plastic mold industry, we understand that plastic mold manufacturers should focus on developing large, precise, complex, and long-life molds with high technology content, and vigorously develop international markets and export molds. With the rapid development of China's plastics industry, especially engineering plastics, it is foreseeable that the development speed of China's plastic molds will continue to be higher than the overall development speed of the mold industry, and the annual growth rate will remain around 20% in the next few years.

New trends in the development of plastic molds

In the four elements of mold quality, delivery cycle, price and service, more and more users have put the delivery cycle in the first place. It has become a trend to require mold companies to deliver as soon as possible. Enterprises do everything possible to improve their adaptability, improve the technical level, improve the equipment level, improve the management level and improve the efficiency are all effective means to shorten the mold production cycle.

Vigorously improve development capabilities, push the development work forward as much as possible, until involved in the product development of mold users, and even develop before there is no clear user target, and change from passive to active. At present, this method has been adopted for TV and monitor casings, air conditioner casings, motorcycle plastic parts, etc., and the development of mobile phone and telephone molds has also begun. This approach breaks the long-term passive situation that mold factories can only design molds according to user requirements after they have a contract.

With the improvement of the design and processing level of mold enterprises, the manufacturing of molds is changing from relying mainly on the skills of fitters to relying mainly on technology. This is not only the transformation of the means of production, but also the transformation of the mode of production and the rise of ideas. This trend makes the standardization of molds continue to improve, the precision of molds is getting higher and higher, the production cycle is getting shorter and shorter, and the proportion of fitters is getting lower and lower, which ultimately promotes the continuous improvement of the overall level of the mold industry. China's mold industry currently has more than 10 national high-tech enterprises and about 200 provincial and municipal high-tech enterprises. In line with this trend, it is an inevitable requirement that the main backbone of the production mold be gradually transformed from skilled talents to technical talents. Of course, at present and for a long time, skilled talents are still very important, because after all, it is difficult for molds to completely get rid of their dependence on skills.

Mold enterprises and their mold production are developing rapidly towards informatization. In the information society, as a high-level modern mold enterprise, the application of CAD/CAM alone is far from enough. At present, many enterprises have adopted technologies such as CAE, CAT, PDM, CAPP, KBE, KBS, RE, CIMS, ERP and other advanced manufacturing technologies and virtual network technologies, which are all manifestations of informatization. The trend towards informatization has become an industry consensus.