More and more enterprises begin to pay attention to this field of industrial automation equipment. Especially non - standard automation equipment, We don't think it's as easy to make as traditional standard equipment, more like customized, Easy operation and diversified functions, it also bringing new development opportunities to industrial manufacturing. China's non-standard automation equipment began to emerge, but there are obstacles along the way. Non-standard automation equipment is in great demand, The better development of China's manufacturing industry relies on an abundance of cheap labor. Automated production is increasingly recognized by companies.

Huge market demand

In the past, The better development of China's manufacturing industry relies on an abundance of cheap labor. However, with the decrease of new labor population in recent years and the improvement of people's living standards, labor is no longer a cheap resource and it has become more and more harder to find workers. In order to meet the needs of production, automatic production is gradually recognized by companies. As an important part of automatic production, non-standard equipment has become more and more popular in the past 10 years, and a large number of non-standard equipment manufacturers have emerged in the market.

At present, the needs for enterprises to use automation equipment is increasing. Due to the specific situation of different companies, the demand for non-standard automation accounts for a large proportion. Expenditure on non-standard equipment and machinery can be budgeted in advance, For example: Depreciation of machinery, daily maintenance of electrical equipment, wages of operators or more. The productivity of a machine can range from several (at least) to dozens to hundreds of people, but the faster the machine, the more expensive it is. The production cost of the product has been maximum savings. Moreover, the quality of the products produced by the machine is more assured. After the financial crisis in China, the non-standard automation equipment is bound to flourish.

The non-standard automation market will grow rapidly, automation products continue to increase the demand. In this field, compared with developed countries, the overall domestic level is 10 to 20 years behind. Mostly, The new non - standard automation equipment is mechanical and electrical integration equipment,make full use of the latest achievements in information technology. Some designers of Chinese companies are not familiar with electronic products, dare not or don’t know how to choose, badly limited the level of improvement. But the last 10 years, the non-standard automation has been widely applied in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Pearl River Delta, Beijing and Tianjin. The domestic companies are catching up.

Although there is an obvious uptrend in the whole non-standard equipment industry and the market is big, also some traditional industries may become the most potential market. But there are many non-standard automatic mechanized enterprises in China and most of them are small scale, relatively backward technology and similar production, and compared with developed countries, there is at least 10 to 20 years behind. The new non - standard automation equipment is mechanical and electrical integration equipment,make full use of the latest achievements in information technology. Some designers of Chinese companies are not familiar with electronic products, dare not or don’t know how to choose, badly limited the level of improvement. And many core technologies are not really independent, so it is difficult to reduce the cost of importing equipment.

At present, high-end products are still mainly imported from abroad. Look at market logic, the growing market space can improve the technology research and development level of enterprises and expand the scale of enterprises, provide good development opportunities for enterprises. But the objective situation is the opposite, the domestic non-standard equipment enterprises have not walked out of the vicious circle of low quality and low price. Still in simple imitation, did not develop their own characteristic products, patent products, did not accumulate more funds for the development of the enterprise. At present, the small workshop production of a dozen worker is still the mainstream of non-standard equipment industry.

There are subjective and objective reasons to discuss the formation of any thing that hinders development, and the formation mechanism is complicated. The status quo of non-standard devices is also the result of various elements. Although non-standard equipment is still a relatively healthy industry, but in front of these obstacles have been more and more obvious impact on the development of non-standard automation equipment industry. Non-standard equipment can not be mass produced, large enterprises are not willing to do, small enterprises are easy to obtain living space.

Non-standard equipment is no standard to follow, according to the production status of the enterprise customized equipment. The equipment of enterprise A is usually only suitable for enterprise A, and cannot be mass produced and copied to enterprise B. Usually, an equipment of about 300,000 RMB from the customer’s  demand, non-standard equipment plant to provide the plan design, the two sides to discuss and determine the plan, signed the contract, design drawing, parts processing, to the equipment assembly acceptance will takes two to three month. Because the input-output ratio is so low, large enterprises will not cut back on such trivial and long-term small orders. But this kind of projects, for small companies with only a dozen or so people, have considerable appeal. A small company with couple sales, a few mechanical engineers and software engineers will grew like crazy.

The market for non-standard equipment has grown, even the pie is bigger but more people are sharing it. In 2000, only about 30 Taiwanese non-standard equipment factories in the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta were known in China. Query statistics related data, the size of non-standard equipment is estimated at about 600 million, the 30 companies take about 70% of the market. By 2012, there were more than 70 non-standard equipment factories in Changan, a major hardware manufacturing center in China, and there were numerous small-scale non-standard equipment factories in China, an order of magnitude over 10,000. The market size is also expected to grow to about 60 billion. In a nutshell, the size of the market has increased by a factor of 100, but the number of manufacturers has increased by a factor of a 1000. The new market is occupied by a large number of small manufacturers. Failed to form a scale enterprise. Non - standard equipment enterprises low threshold, personnel quality is intermingled.

Why are there so many non-standard manufacturers in the market? The reason is that the initial investment cost of the non-standard equipment plant is relatively low, and the total investment is estimated at about 300,000 yuan. A few grinders, a few milling machines, hundreds of flat houses, a dozen people can run a non-standard equipment business. Usually, the entrepreneurial mode of non-standard equipment factory is two or three shareholders to invest together, one shareholder is responsible for sales, one shareholder is responsible for technology, and one shareholder is responsible for after-sales service, which does not require the intervention of large capital and large enterprises. This situation leads to the non-standard equipment industry more closed, the industry can not be reshuffled, good currency can not expel bad currency, the good and bad enterprises are intermingled. Pursue take doctrine, innovation research and development of little.

The domestic non-standard enterprises rarely have new inventions, new creations, new applications. One of the most important purposes for domestic enterprises is to discover new applications, new techniques and new technologies. This is very positive in many ways. He shortened the equipment gap between China and developed countries, improved the degree of industrial modernization and agricultural modernization, thus reducing the labor intensity of the masses. However, there is no doubt that this kind of plagiarism under the banner of reference seriously reduces the enthusiasm of enterprises to develop new technologies and new applications; Over time has affected the technical capabilities of China's automation equipment industry, making the core forever in the hands of European and American enterprises, so that we rely on the pollution of the environment, sell physical strength, demolish houses to develop the economy, this is a very sad thing. In order to develop in the long run, we must attach great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights, so that enterprises can obtain long-term and stable benefits from research and development. The non-standard equipment industry in particular needs to protect intellectual property rights. The requirement for automation of enterprises is still relatively elementary, which restricts the development of non-standard automation industry to a higher level. Under the pressure of shortage of human resources, manufacturing enterprises choose automation. But automation from the perspective of saving human resources can be divided into three stages: semi-automation, full automation, automation and information integration. Based on cost considerations, many enterprises choose semi-automatic equipment, slightly more complex processes or by manual completion, this semi-automatic products a better understanding of mechanical and electrical integration can be completed all the design. A large number of these low - level automation requirements restrict the development of non - standard industries to a higher level.

Industry loose, did not form an organizational advantage. There is no trade association for non-standard equipment. As the saying goes, there is milk for the baby who can cry. Without the trade association, the government will hardly hear the voice from the non-standard industry, and we will not get any benefits policies, at least on the tax. The manufacturers never spoke to each other. Non-standard equipment enterprises are more defensive, afraid that their technology was learned by others, afraid that their customers were snatched away by others, afraid that their backbone personnel were poached by others.

This kind of non-contact, non-group cooperation led to the non-standard equipment increasingly into the mud pit of price competition. A non-standard enterprise should sell technology and solutions, but now many non-standard enterprises are talking with customers about the cost of materials and management. We should think if no technology, non - standard equipment is a heap of scrap metal, so we should explain how much cost and how much benefit our non - standard equipment can save for our customers. we take a reasonable return on our mental work. The advantages of scale enterprises are not obvious.

Although small enterprises are the mainstream of the non-standard industry, some medium-sized non-standard enterprises with more than 100 people have also emerged. The annual output value of these medium-sized non-standard enterprises is in the tens of millions, but due to management problems, designers and equipment personnel do not show enough responsibility, resulting in the product quality performance of some medium-sized non-standard enterprises is not satisfactory. Over time, many manufacturers turn to small non - standard enterprises to buy relatively cheap non - standard products.

At present, there are many non-standard automatic mechanized enterprises in China, But most of them are small scale, relatively backward technology and similar production.So how to compete in this industry has become a new challenge! Difficulties bring opportunities. In the face of good market prospects and development space, is the special attraction of this industry, through the survival of the early stage of the enterprise, will usher in the rapid development of the industry.