China industry daily Meng fanjun

China novel coronavirus pneumonia has been recovered rapidly, but China's market has recovered rapidly. It is estimated that China's industrial production and capital investment will increase by more than 5% in 2021, and the consumption of machine tools will probably achieve a strong growth of 10%. Germany is the second largest supplier of China's machine tool industry after Japan, and is in a leading position in the high-tech field. Its technology is widely used in various customer fields in China, such as automobile and aerospace, as well as mechanical engineering, power generation and other broad-based machine tool users. " At the 17th China International Machine Tool Exhibition (cimt2021), Shane sun from VDW China in Frankfurt explained.

In April 12th, at the CIMT2021 press conference of the German machine tool manufacturers association, the managing director of Wilfried, Sch, fer, Frankfurt German Machine Tool Manufacturers Association (VDW), said: "COVID-19 is affected by China's limited exit. German manufacturers will be mainly represented by its subsidiaries in China."

"Finally, we have a real trade show again." Exhibitors and visitors gathered at the booth for face-to-face discussion, which is exactly what many German machine tool manufacturers are looking forward to.

CIMT is a new starting point for umati to enter China

From 2020, German machine tool orders from China began to stabilize, even increased by 17% in the fourth quarter, with double-digit growth. In 2021, there are many signs that the global economy will continue to grow. Wilfried Sch? Fer said: "the development in 2021 will be more encouraging, because we should have already ushered in a turnaround."

China industry daily found that VDW has a umati booth in CIMT. According to the introduction, umati (general mechanical technology interface) is a community of mechanical engineering industry and its customers, which is used to promote and disseminate open standardized interface based on OPC UA. The purpose of the demonstration at CIMT is to introduce the interface specification between machine tool and higher level it system to Chinese industry, and show the convenience of its work. Six companies (also exhibitors of German Pavilion) have connected their machines   Unfortunately, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have prevented more companies from joining our activities. " Dr. Alexander broos, director of research and technology at VDW, responsible for OPC UA's activities in the machine tool industry, regrets.

In order to make umati fully enter China, the advanced manufacturing technology center (AMTC) of Tongji University is supporting its technology infrastructure in Beijing   We are also very happy to connect our machines and services with China's machine tool interconnection initiative NC link, which is a continuation of the successful cooperation at emo Hanover in 2019. " Alexander broos said.

At that time, a group of leading Chinese CNC machine tool manufacturers had established contact with umati. Alexander broos said that now the NC link team has realized the connection between OPC UA infrastructure and its own installation. The core element of umati participating in CIMT is umati demonstrator, which is composed of a data center connected with computer in real time and a special dashboard.

German machine tool supplier is an important partner of Chinese industry

Over the years, the German machine tool industry has been a valuable partner of Chinese industrial customers, and China has become the largest sales market of German machine tool industry. In the past two years, Germany's export volume has decreased by nearly 45%, and the export volume will increase from 2.3 billion euro to 1.3 billion euro. The main products involved are processing centers, grinders, spare parts, lathes, etc. In contrast, China's import volume has not suffered such a heavy blow, with a decrease of only 28% in 2020. Most of the imported products delivered are spare parts and accessories. Wilfried Sch? Fer believes that China's demand for modern production technology is still huge, especially because the next step for Chinese industry is to introduce higher quality products that can also meet the needs of the global market.

Wilfried Sch? Fer concluded: CMEA is a very good exhibition platform. On this platform, Chinese customers will trust and choose the products displayed by German manufacturers, and CMEA will make more contributions to promoting bilateral business development.

In fact, the same is true of the German machine tool manufacturers association. For many years, the German machine tool manufacturers association has been applying to the German Federal Ministry of economy and technology to set up a German joint exhibition stand at the China International Machine Tool Exhibition, and is responsible for the implementation of the project. At present, Germany has become the largest foreign exhibitor of the 17th China International Machine Tool Exhibition (CIMT 2021), with 150 companies exhibiting all kinds of machine tools, cutting tools, clamping technology, measuring technology, molds, CNC systems and software, with a total exhibition area of 7500 square meters.

"It's a great opportunity for us to participate in the exhibition, which will enable umati to gain popularity and experience abroad." Alexander broos concluded, "we hope this will happen again soon in other markets."