Yu Ming: Innovation changes the enterprise

Superhard material enterprise status

Transformation, upgrading and innovation are the needs of the development of the domestic and international situation. In the case of the world economic downturn, China's economy must maintain steady progress and GDP growth of 7.5%. This is not easy because the Chinese economy has an unreasonable structure and overcapacity. The problem of low economic efficiency. Take the industry related to our superhard materials as an example. Carbide tools, abrasives and abrasives are the most productive in the world, but China is a big country rather than a strong country. For example, artificial diamond production accounts for more than 90% of the world, cubic boron nitride accounts for more than 60%, and cemented carbide accounts for 45%, but the economic benefits are very low. Several homogenous equivalent products in superhard materials are 2-3 times lower than those imported from abroad. The cemented carbide brazing tool, the total output value of more than 300 enterprises in the country, does not have a high efficiency in a Swedish Sandvik company.

The reasons for the low efficiency of the company are roughly the following:

1. Labor costs have risen. At present, most enterprises in the super-hard materials industry still have difficulties in recruiting and using money. Labor-intensive enterprises are shifting to inland countries and underdeveloped countries in Southeast Asia. The advantages of China's cheap labor have been declining. We cannot rely on the past labor force to obtain benefits. We must rely on technological innovation and management innovation to obtain economic benefits.

2. The price of raw materials has risen. The prices of raw materials have risen, but there has not been much increase or increase in product prices, and some have actually fallen. For example, diamond prices have declined, so some small companies have difficulty maintaining production.

3. Financial difficulties. In particular, SMEs are under great pressure, bank loans are difficult, and mutual arrears between enterprises are widespread, forcing some companies to start working without money. At present, there are two major problems encountered in the synthesis of superhard materials: First, the quality of pyrophyllite, which is a sealing material for synthetic processes. Its quality directly affects the quality of products produced by superhard materials, production costs, environmental protection, etc. The second problem is that the source of pyrophyllite is depleted. The source of pyrophyllite in China is mainly from Mentougou in Beijing. The reserves of this mine are not much, and it is not easy to solve the problem in deep mining. The quality of pyrophyllite is poor and the price rises sharply. As a result, the cost of diamond and cubic boron nitride is increased. In addition, the quality of the pyrophyllite is reduced, which causes the pressure relief in the synthetic process.

4. Carbide top hammer material. With the development of production, it is an inevitable way to increase the size of presses for single-production and synthetic equipment. The size of the press is large, the synthetic cavity is enlarged, and the specifications of the top hammer are correspondingly expanded. However, at present, the quality of the top hammer with a diameter of 170mm or more in the domestic top hammer is unstable, and there are many crackers in the production process, resulting in high hammer consumption and rising cost. Therefore, pyrophyllite and top hammer are the two major bottlenecks that hinder the development of superhard materials in China. At present, some units have paid attention to it, and are researching and developing to explore the development of new or composite pyrophyllite. The Hard Alloy top hammer production process is also researching and improving quality.

Enterprises must transform and upgrade innovation

In the future, our entrepreneurs must have long-term vision and long-term development plans. They must constantly develop and innovate, improve the technological content of products, establish their own brands, conform to the market development situation, and develop their own enterprises through innovation.

In the past, our companies imitated more and more innovative companies. As far as I know, most companies are modeled after others. The small factory is modeled after the big factory, and the big factory is modeled after foreign companies. I have seen many companies are mostly the same products, similar process equipment, and some even the same paper. How can this be done? Without innovation, it will be difficult to develop. China's large-scale enterprises are big and not strong, driving small enterprises to develop poorly. Small and medium-sized enterprises are small and scattered and not specialized, with poor assistance and weak athleticism. These companies must quickly reform and innovate, change their mindsets, and seek faster development, otherwise they will be dangerous and will be eliminated. Enterprises should pay attention to transformation and innovation: First, we must emancipate our minds and change our concepts. The previous concept is that enterprises must become bigger and stronger. Now we must turn to be more sophisticated. In particular, we cannot rely solely on increased production, but rely on quality improvement. In particular, enterprises must further liberate their ideas. Holding the traditional old products, you should be soberly aware that the products of this company are advanced today, and tomorrow may be caught up by others. Someone will surpass you the day after tomorrow. Therefore, we must establish the concept of continuous innovation. It is best to let our products "people have no me, people have me, people are better." For example, in the past 20 years, Changsha Mining and Metallurgy has relied on catalyst products to create benefits. Later, powdered catalysts developed to replace flakes. Leaders did not grasp the opportunity in time, transformed and upgraded powder catalysts, and lost opportunities, causing the catalyst factory to close down.

Today's society has entered the information age, and our market is a big international market. The products needed at home and abroad can be found online, so Internet marketing is gradually expanding, and our traditional thinking should be transformed into Internet thinking, and we must further establish a new sense of competition. Everyone knows that shopping malls are like battlefields. Competition is fierce and cruel. The means of competition are diverse. The capacity of the domestic market is limited. Just like a pot of rice, everyone divides it, how to divide it, how to eat it, this is a scientific problem. In order to grab the market, some companies use simple and low-level means, such as price wars. This will harm the entire market and harm others. Everyone has this understanding! In the future, we can only rely on product quality, service attitude, especially after-sales service to win. Sales staff can't rely on old relationships and old acquaintances to sell products. Now sales people should learn to understand technology, understand the performance and scope of the company's products, and pay attention to the use process to win the market by satisfying customers. In addition, we must do a good job of shifting the market to developing countries such as Africa, the Middle East and ASEAN. These underdeveloped countries are in the formation stage, while China is in the stage of growth, and developed countries in Europe and America are in a stage of maturity, recession and retreat.

In addition, we must use high technology to transform traditional industries and upgrade traditional industries. In recent years, some new technologies have appeared in the use of diamonds, such as uniform coating technology, brazing technology, and coating technology. The quality of saw blades, knives, drilling tools and hardware tools has reached a new level. The performance and service life of new products have been greatly improved, and environmental pollution has been reduced. In the case of hard alloys, functional gradients and secondary sintering techniques have been used to change the metal structure. Improve the properties of the alloy and gradually overcome the contradiction between hard and toughness of cemented carbide. In the aspect of abrasives, the application of new technology makes the ordinary sandpaper corrected to mesh sandpaper, and the service life is increased by more than 4 times. In terms of coated abrasive products, such as ordinary grinding wheels, abrasive belts, super-hard material grinding wheel belts, the service life is greatly improved, and environmental pollution is reduced (dust and wastewater pollution are eliminated). Hunan has a company, Lan En Company, which originally produced flat glass. When faced with difficulties, the boss actively introduced talents to produce watches and mobile phones. Through continuous innovation, the company now produces display glass. The company has become a world famous enterprise. This is the product upgrade to A model of innovation.

Industry trends

According to the spirit of the central government, enterprises must adjust their structure, transformation, and innovation. However, there are many paths for transformation and innovation, such as industrial transformation and product innovation. No matter which way, enterprises must know that in the future, all products are overcapacity and there is no market. Don't wait for the market to improve, you must innovate, change the formula is innovation, transform the production process equipment is innovation, change management method is innovation, in short, technology innovation, product innovation, management innovation. Of course, innovation is not easy. It requires capital, technology, talents, market research, and understanding of the development of science and technology in China and abroad. In the direction of innovation, enterprises can focus on the following three aspects in the future:

1. Develop tools for superhard materials.

In particular, super-hard tools and drilling tools are highly sophisticated green products, which have great support for other high-tech industries, solve the difficult problem of processing with traditional tools, improve production efficiency, precision and reduce the environment. Pollution. China's product tools focus on the development of cutting tools and engineering drilling tools. We are a newly emerging modern manufacturing country and are moving towards a strong country. For example, aerospace, automotive, military, high-speed rail, and subways have higher requirements for tools and drills. Former cemented carbide tools and drills were difficult to handle, and superhard tools and drills had to be used. Such as Pcd, Pdc composite sheet cutters, drilling tools, its service life, processing efficiency increased by several tens of times, the car grinding, hard processing, dry cutting process can avoid dust in the production process, cutting source to the environment Pollution to achieve cleaner production. Superhard tool is a high-speed, high-efficiency, low-carbon environmental protection tool, which is the mainstream of future machining. The state attaches great importance to the inclusion of the national "863" plan and national major science and technology projects.

2. Development to composite materials

With the development of science and technology, single metal materials have limitations in the use process, high-tech products in the development of composite materials, such as aviation, the use of aluminum - aluminum-magnesium alloy - titanium alloy - modern composite materials, such as Boeing 787 aircraft, with 50% composite material, 15% titanium alloy. There is also a combination of ordinary steel and stainless steel, the performance is similar to stainless steel, but the price is much lower. The combination of ordinary steel and super-hard material greatly improves the performance, hardness and strength of the composite material, and the toughness is better. The performance of superhard materials and hard composites is even better. In recent years, the Foreign Materials Academy has studied the synthesis of graphene and metal to form super-strong composite materials. The above examples are all development trends in the field of new materials.

3. Development of superhard materials to high-tech industries

(1) The core technology of the solar photovoltaic industry is the slicing technology of solar cells, monocrystalline silicon and polycrystalline silicon. This high-hard and brittle material is sliced ​​into thin slices, which requires special diamond wire saws and super-picked chips for solar cells. Semiconductor chip. The photovoltaic industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Solar power generation in the world as the focus of energy-absorbing energy and renewable energy development. The Chinese government also attaches great importance to it and has also implemented financial subsidies. However, in the past two years, due to the anti-dumping and countervailing effects of European and American countries, the development has tended to stagnate. The EU anti-dumping has improved since last year, and the industry has slowly recovered.

(2) Thermal management materials, using the thermal conductivity of diamond to make heat sinks, thermistors, microwave devices, high-power integrated circuits, lasers, etc.

(3) The use of diamond light transmission performance, from UV to infrared full transparency, can be used for cruise missile infrared detector window, lens materials.

(4) Nano-diamond also has its special properties, which are used in defense science to make invisible materials.

In short, the new materials are an important pillar industry in China. We must do a good job in the work of the enterprise in accordance with the spirit of the Central Committee of the "Three Central" Plenary Session and the Economic Work Conference, strive for progress, strive to achieve development quality and efficiency, and at the same time improve and drive the economy. Speed ​​of development. What needs to be mentioned here is that energy conservation and emission reduction and the development of a green economy are major tasks facing China at present, which is also a severe test for every enterprise. In the process of steady progress, enterprise leaders need to further emancipate their minds, change their concepts, produce high-value products with innovative spirit, analyze the laws of domestic and international market demand with the scientific development concept, and grasp the market turn with wisdom. Seize the market opportunities, strengthen confidence, meet difficulties, and make new contributions to the development of China's superhard materials.