Analysis of Japanese Bearing Competitiveness in China Bearings

In order to further understand the current situation of Japan's production and market, recently, at the invitation of the Mayor of Kobe, Japan, a delegation of Chinese industry co-organized by the Planning and Marketing Department of the China Federation of Industry and the Industry Committee of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade recently conducted a mission to Japan. The 10-day visit was a complete success. The delegation was headed by Song Xiaogang, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Federation of Industry, Sun Zhenbin, Consultant of Planning and Marketing Department of China Federation of Industry and China Industry Expert, and the members of the delegation were China Industrial Association, Harbin Group, and Luoyang Group Co., Ltd. Chongqing Changjiang Industry Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Xinchang West Micro Co., Ltd., Fujian Nanan Co., Ltd. and other 13 units consist of 24 people. After inspecting Japanese production companies, the delegation members felt deeply about the advanced production technologies used by Japanese companies. After returning home, some of the techniques and management methods were soon applied to their own companies. Through the communication and exchanges between the leaders of the Chinese and Japanese companies, trade between China and Japan has been further promoted.

During the visit, the delegation members considered that the production and operation of Japanese companies had the following characteristics:

First, advanced technology and equipment, product manufacturing level, work efficiency, both into the Japanese company's production workshop, a row of equipment neatly placed, the roar of the motor, the operation of the workshop is very small. For larger batch sizes, it is basically responsible for 1 to 2 production lines per person. A series of processing procedures such as part loading, loading, processing, inspection, cleaning, assembly, oil coating, packaging, etc., are completely completed by high-precision and high-efficiency automated equipment, and advanced processing and inspection technologies, such as adaptive grinding technology, online Measurement technology, fault self-diagnosis technology, etc. have been widely used, thereby reducing the product quality unfavorable caused by human factors, and the work efficiency is very high. Another example is the Japanese company's production of ball mill processing automatic lines of the existing two modes, one for the grinding process automatic line process equipment, an automatic line inside and outside the ring a total of 18 sets of equipment, one person to look at two grinding super automatic line. 6200 grinding super line beat 4.8 seconds / piece, the workshop has a total of 8 automatic lines, managed by 4 people, monthly production of 1 million sets. Another automatic grinding line consists of 27 devices with only 2 persons in charge and 400,000 sets per month.

Second, create a specialized production pattern and maintain quality brands Japanese companies mainly produce heat treatment processes, grinding processes, and assembly processes. All rough machining processes and parts are outsourced. Each component has 2 to 3 companies and the company supplies it. This kind of specialized production pattern has created good benefits for enterprises, with labor productivity of up to 3 million yuan each. Whether it is NSK or NTN, the reason why it is world-famous is undoubtedly due to its excellent quality. For the ultra-high precision requirements of customers, they consistently report the highest reliability. They advocate the standardization of production at global production bases. Nearly half of the NSK brand's balls are produced at overseas factories, and they can also maintain the same level of quality as produced in Japan. Because of this, NSK and NTN products, which are leading, are always in sync with the most advanced technologies of the era.

Third, adjust the industrial structure, to adapt to market demand Japanese companies in the structural adjustment, change the market strategy, change blindly attack for advance and retreat. Its strategic features are: implementation of closure, stop, and transfer, optimization and combination. Expand the market for superior products and shrink the market for weak products. GM adjusts to high-volume, low-cost directions; multi-species and small-volume products adjust to the unit direction. Japanese companies generally attach importance to product development, and based on the premise that the economy has no borders, they are based on global development strategies. The company's unique products are continuously introduced, and new products that meet the requirements of the host can be provided before the host invests according to the needs of users. This has won the trust of consumers around the world.

Fourth, Japanese companies pay attention to the development of manufacturing technology and technology Among the manufacturers visited by the delegation, companies are highly automated production and online automatic detection. However, on the production line, not all equipment is the most advanced, and some are equipment of the 1960s or 1970s, but they can be combined with production lines and can guarantee product quality, thanks to the general emphasis on production by Japanese companies. Technology development. Most of the companies visited by the delegation are manufacturing plants, but the technical development departments have strong development capabilities. While paying attention to the development of new products, they also focus on the development and innovation of production technologies and processes to ensure the quality of products.

After visiting and inspecting, the delegation members believed that the following production technologies could be used by domestic enterprises for reference.

Grinding and assembly automatic line technology.

Automatic online automatic detection technology.

Precision steel ball manufacturing process and testing technology.

Heat treatment production line material automatic arrangement technology.

Ball double face grinding machine inner and outer ring wear technology.

CBN abrasive use technology.

Members of the delegation learned from this visit that although China has become the world's largest producer after Japan, the United States, and Germany in terms of total production volume and production system, it has developed from product development capability, product quality, and manufacturing scale. From a point of view, there is still a big gap between our country and a powerful country. Chinese enterprises should strengthen technical cooperation with Japanese companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, and combine the advantages of Japanese companies' technology, capital, and management with the advantages of China's market, manpower, and resources to achieve mutual benefits and common development.

In order to further promote the better development of our country's industry, the delegation members put forward the following suggestions in conjunction with the Outline of China's Industrial Tenth Five-Year Development Plan:

1. The current industry is not strong big companies, small businesses do not specialize, the loose state of the relationship between the companies less, into a big business, strong, small, special, large and small between companies, with a small combination of reasonable care .

2. The internal organizational structure of an enterprise is transformed from "olive type" to "dumbbell type".

3. The capital structure of the enterprise has changed from a state of heavy emphasis on state-owned capital to a coordinated development of public, private and multinational enterprises.

4. The product structure consists of many low-grade products, many common products are transformed into high-quality products, and the physical quality is close to or reaches the level of international brand-name products; from the emphasis on the final product, emphasis on tangible products, into the simultaneous emphasis on intermediate products, value of service value.

5. Accelerating the technological progress of enterprises and improving the technological innovation capabilities of enterprises, the valve trading network will transform the existing backward cluster-type production methods into a linear production method.

6. Promote the construction of specialized production systems to increase labor productivity and reduce production costs. Pump and valve trading network companies must be lean in the main body, separation assistance; adhere to the fine processing, including rough machining, finished products, parts and components outside the professional development of the production direction.

7. Accelerate the pace of internationalization and strengthen economic and technological cooperation with foreign countries. Encourage qualified companies to build factories abroad.