CNC machine tools need to overcome the control technology bottlenecks

CNC machine tools are the technological foundation of high-end equipment manufacturing. Only high-quality CNC machine tool production and research and development capabilities can make a country's high-end manufacturing industry have a significant development. The control system occupies an important position in its R&D process.

In the field of CNC machine tools, FANUC and Siemens still occupy the dominant position of medium-to-high-end controllers among imported CNC machine tools controllers. The two companies have a global market share of more than 80%. Traditional controllers (such as the FANUCO series) have occupied most of the market, but in recent years they have gradually been replaced by open controllers (such as the FANUC18i, 16i, Siemens 840D). These controllers are complex and powerful, but they are also very expensive.

Followed by imported CNC machine tool manufacturers to develop their own dedicated controllers, such as the United States Haas, Heike, Japan's Sodick, most of them developed their own CNC system software, transplanted to other brands through the OEM OEM customization At the same time, even directly merging some small CNC brands, and thus patented technology with independent intellectual property rights, has unique characteristics in some special processing areas, and is suitable for the centralized assembly of the entire assembly line in professional scale production.

At present, China is the largest country in terms of machine tool consumption and production. In the production industry, the main products of its machine tools are still dominated by low-end products, and its development in the high-end and middle-end products is seriously deficient. The serious homogeneity of products has also caused the deterioration of the market environment of machine tools. China's industry is in urgent need of transformation and is moving toward the middle and high-end markets. The control system has always been China's soft underbelly. Apart from the shortage of relevant technical personnel, its system does not have a clear industry standard, which means that there are no technical parameters for reference development. In the aspect of high-end control, China's machine tool industry can not reach at present, so we need to concentrate on conquering the bottleneck of the mid-end control technology. In this way, step by step closer to higher-end technology.