Equipment transformation requires small and medium-sized enterprises

At present, the global economy is slowly recovering and domestic economic growth continues to slow down. Although China's equipment manufacturing industry is advancing at an annual rate, the overall direction of development is still in confusion. How can China's equipment manufacturing industry seek survival and development in the downturn? How can we truly achieve the transformation and upgrading in development? This is not only for the equipment manufacturing industry, but also for the entire Chinese manufacturing industry, it is related to the future in the global competition. Status and role issues.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in 2013, the scale of output value of China's equipment manufacturing industry exceeded 20 trillion yuan, accounting for more than one-third of the global equipment manufacturing industry and ranking first in the world. The output of most equipment products in China ranks first in the world. However, with the disappearance of demographic dividends, rising production costs, and ample supply and surplus, the importance of transformation and upgrading to equipment companies has risen to an unprecedented level. In fact, the concept of adjusting the industrial structure and implementing transformation and upgrading has already been mentioned in the government work report of the 10th Five-Year Plan. However, many years have passed and many transformational upgrades are still in form. The status quo of upgrading the equipment manufacturing industry based on “old ways” still remains unchanged. How to better play the role of the market in resource allocation and guide enterprises to improve their operation and management level has become the primary problem to be resolved in the process of transformation and upgrading.

However, Su Bo, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for small enterprises with a lack of supporting “specialized, refined, special, and new” enterprises, emphasized that in the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, it is necessary to continue to encourage and guide enterprises to improve their operational management. On the one hand, support large-scale enterprises and industry leading enterprises to innovate institutional mechanisms, improve corporate governance structure, establish a modern enterprise system that is compatible with the market economy, and improve strategic management capabilities. On the other hand, the SMEs should be guided to improve the management system, strengthen the infrastructure construction, make extensive use of advanced management methods and methods, and highlight specialization, refinement, specialization, and newness so as to promote the healthy development of the enterprise.

According to report, in the field of China's equipment manufacturing industry, not only a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, but also a considerable number of companies in the upper reaches of the equipment industry chain or a basic supporting part, to a certain extent, determine the height of the equipment industry chain can reach. However, for a long time, the concept of “heavy main parts, light fittings” and “imported foreign advanced parts” in the energy equipment system of our country have been stubborn, resulting in strong manufacturing capabilities and weak research and development capabilities; relying on the introduction of multiple technologies and independent intellectual property technologies Less; high production value, low industrial added value; single machine manufacturing ability, weak system integration and other defects.

The industry believes that the current large-scale equipment manufacturing industry in China generally lags behind in equipment standards, industrial chain is not standardized and the threshold is too low, to a certain extent, hindered the product transformation and upgrading. In the industry structure, state-owned enterprises dominate and develop according to their "customary habits," so that SMEs that do not have "unity" values ​​are in a state of survival and development. But no matter what kind of development method, the government's criteria for the existence of the enterprise should be unified.

In 2013, the "State-owned Domestic Enterprises' Survival Time Analysis Report" issued by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce's Bureau of Enterprise Information Center drew up a "life curve for small and medium-sized enterprises": nearly 50% of the companies have survived in less than 5 years, and the average life expectancy of dying companies was only 6%. year old. Therefore, to promote the transformation and upgrading of China's equipment industry and improve the quality of economic growth, it is necessary to adjust SMEs from the “spirited” living conditions to more easily develop their internal vitality and innovation capabilities, so that this positive energy is sustainable and easy for the industry. Absorbed format. Otherwise, the transformation and upgrading will only be empty talks.

Learn foreign business development ideas SMEs do not take the "uncommon way"

According to statistics, in the US industrial market, because SMEs are innovating but their financing is not easy, the federal and regional governments will support them in their policies. The government will strive to create an environment that encourages innovation and promotes the prosperity of SMEs, and strives to achieve permanent tax reductions for small businesses. To this end, the U.S. government has also enacted the "Small Business Law," which specifically establishes the Small Business Administration to provide protection, assistance, guidance, and support for the interests of small businesses as much as possible to protect the enterprise's system.

In China's equipment manufacturing industry, SMEs are weaker because of their capital and talents compared to large-scale equipment companies. Therefore, technological development needs to follow a path that is different from that of large companies and more independent of independent research institutes. The cultivation of core technologies for SMEs should be consistent with their market orientation. Targeting market segments focuses on the uniqueness and refinement of enterprises. Focus on the integration of equipment technology development mechanisms, plan all kinds of available social technology development resources, cooperate with scientific research institutes, actively absorb and utilize relevant advanced equipment scientific research results at home and abroad, pay attention to the development of new technologies and new processes and patent protection .

It is understood that in the international equipment market, large-scale equipment manufacturing industry is implementing brand strategy, striving to build core brands and enhancing the company's core competitiveness. Similarly for SMEs in China's equipment manufacturing industry, nurturing and creating high-quality equipment products or services are the material manifestations of the company's core competitiveness. Small and medium-sized enterprises should implement brand strategy at a proper time, build a well-known brand, and protect their own market with brands. In terms of industrial development, vigorously developing core products can provide material guarantee for the cultivation of core competences of enterprises. At the same time, the development of core products will enable enterprises to avoid fierce competition in the final product market, and develop core brands to shape the core competition of enterprises.

At the 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing held on May 7, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei pointed out that the focus of the small and medium-sized micro-enterprises is to further improve the information service system for small, medium, and micro enterprises, and to address the technological innovation and investment financing of small, medium and micro enterprises. The outstanding difficulties in personnel training, etc., reduce the threshold for the application of information technology in small, medium, and micro enterprises, improve the ability and level of information application of small and medium-sized enterprises, and increase the vitality of the development of small, medium and micro enterprises.