Domestic Instrument Development and Crisis Coexist

The quality of domestic instruments is not stable and repeatability has yet to be improved

In 2012, there were 1,316 enterprises above designated size in China's scientific instrument industry (12 sub-industries), achieving a total industrial output value of 226.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.4%, accounting for 31.9% of the industry's total output value, and a profit of 20.23 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.34%. , accounting for 33.4% of the industry's total profit (60.4 billion yuan).

“In 2012, the scale of growth in the scientific instrument industry entered the top three for the machinery and equipment industry for the first time. However, in terms of the market, domestically manufactured instruments are still at a disadvantage compared to imported instruments.” Yan Zengxuan’s 2013 China Scientific Instrument Development held on April 19th Said at the annual meeting.

International instrument manufacturer Li Lin, general manager of the Agilent Technologies Chemical Analysis Group's Emerging Market Measurement Systems Division, also discovered that sometimes a domestic instrument is used for testing, and the indicators are not bad compared to foreign products, but they are changed. Again, there will be a large gap between the indicators.

“The stability and repeatability of domestic product quality have yet to be improved.” Li Lin said in an interview with reporters that how to ensure that the quality indicators he promised can all be achieved. This is a question that domestic companies need to seriously reflect on.

Sun Yufeng, professor at the School of Reliability and Systems Engineering at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, believes that the product's reliability is actually the durability of the product. However, there is still a lack of domestic scientific instruments.

“The quality of products cannot rely on testing alone. Many of the quality problems of domestic equipment are in the R&D and design process. Reliability should be given through design and guaranteed in production.” Sun Yufeng emphasized in an interview with reporters.

Domestically-made equipment is currently greedy for customers who love and hate them

In the face of the current situation of domestically produced instruments, it was mentioned that the state has been supporting policies to support domestic companies and when can they be implemented? However, letting the country allow our users to support domestic companies is not to reject advanced technology and high quality. If we say that we have reached the level of technology and quality we need, I'm afraid there are very few people who want to go further. Supporting domestic production requires not only patriotic feelings, but also domestic equipment companies to come up with what they really need. As the saying goes: Natural races and survival of the fittest. At present, it is a globalized market economy. Although the country will have some related policies, it is impossible for our enterprises to rest on their laurels. In the industry of instruments, especially precision instruments, our country has a long distance from the world's leading level.

From the aspect of customer experience, many customers are love and hate for domestic equipment, and they have a lot of iron and steel. Many products are like this. If we can take what we are proud of, we will choose other people's products. After all, when domestic equipment meets our needs in terms of technology, quality, and after-sales service, will we still love “others”?

In fact, the market for domestically produced instruments is still huge, and the prospects are not pessimistic. It is only that something that is lacking needs to be remedied as soon as possible. For domestic equipment companies, support and support should be appropriate, but the company's own problems still need to be solved by the company. No one wants to support the "fighting Adou" and hope that we will no longer sigh in the near future: Domestic instruments, how can I love you?

There is indeed a gap between the quality of domestically manufactured instruments and imported instruments. The import price of instruments with the same parameters is three times that of domestic products, but domestic instruments have only been used for two years and they have been scrapped. However, imported instruments can be used for ten years. From here we can see that in terms of quality, domestic instruments still have a long way to go.

Domestic equipment urgently needs innovative companies should avoid weaknesses

Recalling the path taken by the instrumentation industry in China in 2012. In 2012, it was an unusual year. China's instruments and equipment industry was surviving in the complicated international environment facing the debt crisis in Europe and the economic downturn in the United States. It was a storm and there was sadness and joy. Today, with the rapid development of science and technology, we must not only see the major achievements made by China's instrumentation and instrumentation industry, but we must still soberly recognize the various problems that exist in our country.

By the end of 2012, the overall quality of China's domestic products was still certain, and the products independently developed by China have reached international standards in terms of performance and functionality. However, in terms of reliability of the products, it is still a major flaw in the development of the domestic instrumentation industry, which has also become one of the major flaws that domestic instruments need to solve.

In the fields of automation control systems, field instruments, and key precision testing instruments, there is still a big gap between us and the international advanced level. The situation in which medium-to-high-end instruments rely heavily on imports still remains unchanged. Therefore, the development goals of China's instrumentation industry in the future are to achieve, catch up, and lead the world.

Many instrument manufacturers are faced with the bottleneck of development that is both survival and innovation. In order to survive, they often choose the mode of development that is eager for quick success. In this regard, Li Lin believes that domestic companies should be able to avoid weaknesses and complement each other's strengths to achieve common development and common development. “Many companies want everything they can and do well. This is unrealistic.”