3D printing will become the direction of the traditional foundry industry

The foundry industry is the foundation of the manufacturing industry and an important guarantee for the innovation and development of high-end technical equipment. The reporter has learned that China has become a veritable foundry industry, but in the face of big but not strong, the industry believes that smart manufacturing will be an important channel for China's foundry industry to break through, in order to ensure the smooth transformation and upgrading of the foundry industry, relevant people It is believed that it is advisable to use intelligent manufacturing as an opportunity to strengthen coordination and help China's foundry industry become stronger and stronger.

Zhang Libo, vice president of China Machinery Industry Federation and executive vice president of China Foundry Association, said at the recent exchange meeting on innovation and transformation and upgrading of the foundry industry held in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, that the total output of China's castings reached 45.6 million tons in 2015. It accounts for about 45% of the total global casting production, which is equivalent to the 2nd to 10th largest founding country, and has ranked first in the world for 16 consecutive years.

Despite this, compared with industrial powers, China's foundry industry is still large but not strong. The gaps in industrial structure, quality efficiency, independent innovation capability, process equipment, and energy resource utilization are obvious. The task of transformation and upgrading is urgent and arduous. Li Dong, director of the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, believes that this is mainly reflected in the following: First, the problem of overcapacity of structural capacity is prominent, there is a considerable amount of backward production capacity, the consistency of key casting quality and stability is obvious; second, the ability of independent innovation is relatively Weak, some high-end key castings still can not meet the development requirements of major domestic technical equipment; Third, the overall performance of some special casting equipment is not high, especially the large-scale advanced cupola and other major equipment rely heavily on imports; the fifth is energy resource consumption and pollutant emissions High, high input, high consumption, high emissions, low output, and low efficiency are still relatively obvious.

3D printing will break into the important direction of the foundry industry. At the beginning of this year, Ningxia Shared Equipment Co., Ltd.'s 3D printing casting technology has attracted wide attention because of the gorgeous turn of the traditional foundry industry from “stupid big black” to “窈窕淑女”.

According to the reporter's research, the shared equipment company has been at the forefront of the industry in many aspects, and these experiences have also been recognized by the relevant departments such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

First of all, the company is guided by the concept of change, and systematically promotes the transformation and upgrading of enterprises. Peng Fan, chairman of the shared equipment company, said that in the face of the impact of the international financial crisis, the company began to deploy transformation and upgrading since 2008, starting with the change of thinking and understanding, emphasizing the "transformation" before the "transformation", condensing the enterprise system to promote transformation The consensus on upgrading has been promoted from eight aspects: ideological concepts, products, technological innovation, design and manufacturing, process reengineering, internal management, and business models, and achieved good economic returns.

Secondly, with the innovation and application of emerging technologies such as 3D printing as the driving force to promote the transformation of traditional casting methods. Li Dong said that Ningxia Shared Equipment Co., Ltd. actively adapts to the development of the new round of industrial revolution, dares to try and make mistakes, promotes the combination of emerging technologies such as 3D printing and "Internet +" and traditional crafts, fosters the development of new formats and new models, and takes the lead in China. Achieve 3D printing mass production of casting products, and create a new casting production method of “casting 3D printing and other new technologies + casting smart factory”, which makes the casting production simple, the casting workshop labor consumption is greatly reduced, and the product qualification rate is greatly improved.

Third, with digital operation management as a means to promote the deep integration of the two. Ningxia Shared Equipment Co., Ltd. officially proposed the transformation and upgrading policy of “Digital Leading, Innovation Driven, Green Manufacturing, and Efficiency Doubled” in 2012, closely following the policy orientation of the country's promotion of deep integration and integration, and compiled a “fully integrated digital enterprise (TIDE)”. The general plan for construction will promote the formation of innovative applications from emerging technologies in “points”, integration of casting intelligent units “line”, construction of a new model of casting smart factories, and step-by-step promotion of the “body” of the foundry industry. It has become the first batch of national two-integrated management system, the Internet and industrial integration innovation pilot enterprises and the country's first batch of 46 intelligent manufacturing pilot enterprises.

Finally, encourage employees to carry out “double innovation” as a guarantee to stimulate innovation vitality and motivation. Zhang Libo said that Ningxia Shared Equipment Co., Ltd. is good at "using the external brain and gathering wisdom" to gather social innovation resources and intelligence, and has carried out more than 10 production, research and research projects with the China Casting Association, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Tsinghua University, and built them within the company. Innovative platform, set up R & D project team, establish "Technology Innovation Reward System", effectively stimulated the company's employees' enthusiasm and vitality for innovation. The company's R&D personnel actively use the Internet and online crowdsourcing platforms to obtain R&D design information, shorten the time and cost of new product development, and shorten the development time of 3D printing equipment from 3 years to 2 years.

Li Dong and Zhang Libo said that intelligent manufacturing is the commanding height to seize the new round of industrial competition. As the basis of equipment manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing technology is also the key development direction of China's foundry industry in the future. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will comprehensively analyze representative enterprises such as Ningxia Shared Equipment Company. Transforming and upgrading, carrying out the successful experience of new and old kinetic energy conversion, forming a complete case, providing experience reference for the transformation and upgrading of foundry enterprises.

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