In recent years, the mold industry has not been as easy to do as before. Fierce competition has led to a decline in mold order prices. Some people have chosen to leave the industry. As a molder who has struggled in the mold industry for more than ten years, I am deeply touched by the evolution of these years. I will do some simple analysis here. I hope to be able to tell everyone, especially newcomers who have just been engaged in or will be engaged in the mold industry. They helped.
First of all, I have to mention that mold is the mother of industry, and mold can make products reach mass production, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. It is an industry that cannot be eliminated. Especially in the current era of rapid development of China's industrialization process, the mold industry is still a sunrise industry, and it is still an industry full of opportunities!
The problem is that China's mold industry mainly processes low-end to mid-range molds. There are not many high-end molds. I believe that in the near future, China's rise will be unstoppable, and the transformation of manufacturing industry will also be unstoppable. The same is true for our mold industry. . After all, it is impossible to make first-class products without first-class molds.
The future development of molds mainly has the following development directions:
1. High precision. Can the dimensional accuracy be achieved? The best done in the past was Japan and Germany. With decades of continuous learning and innovation, a large number of companies specializing in high-precision mold manufacturing have emerged in our Chinese mold maker industry. To make high-precision molds, there are two main elements: equipment and talents.
2. High efficiency means high automation. With the popularization of various automation equipment that cooperate with mold production, and the improvement of the degree of intelligence of the internal standard parts of the mold, the efficiency of mold production is getting higher and higher, and it will develop towards a higher and better state. In this process, the requirements for mold designers will become higher and higher. At that time, mold designers must not only understand the automation equipment, but also participate in the design. In the future when the degree of visualization is highly developed, the term general labor may also disappear. In the future factories, there are only three kinds of people: managers, technicians, and robots.
3. New molds are constantly advancing with technological innovation, and many molds that were originally required to be complicated and tortuous have become very simple. There are also many possible structures that were thought to be impossible. These are new opportunities and challenges for the mold industry. Specifically, they are opportunities and challenges for mold designers. Mold factories that master these new mold design and manufacturing technologies will have more initiative. Mould is always an industry that relies on technology and quality!
4. The trend of product development and mold integration is also inevitable. This change is a change that can affect the manufacturing model more than the replacement of the all-round mold master by the assembly line. Simply put, it is the integration of mold design and product research and development into a new position, a brand-new position that can be responsible for the entire product from appearance to structure, to mold, to mold processing, mold production, and product assembly. Become the absolute core of manufacturing.