The Institute of Machinery of the Industrial Research Institute calls on CHMER, Leitong and other industries to jointly develop key components of the hydrostatic track, hoping to compete with Japanese and Swiss products.

Business Times Zhuang Fuan/Taichung Report

Taiwan's machine tool industry has gone through a long period of development. Although it has established itself as the fourth largest exporter of precision machinery in the world, its products have been stuck at the mid-grade level for a long time, and its gross profit margin has been declining day by day. It has also become a major hidden concern for industrial development. In view of this, the ITRI Machinery Research Institute has decided to call on the industry to jointly invest in the development of flagship models of wire cutting machines in the near future, so as to leap into the high-end machine tool market, and then spread the common technology to machining centers and other products to meet various needs. The effect of the breakthrough is that in three to five years, the image of Taiwan's machine tool industry is expected to be cleaned up and foreigners will give a thumbs up.

Zhang Canhui, leader of the Machinery Research Institute of ITRI, pointed out that machine tool products cover a wide range of products, including machining centers, lathes, milling machines, electrical discharge machines, punches, etc., but wire cutting machines will be chosen as the first step in a plan to comprehensively improve the quality of machine tools. Alchemy Stone, mainly because this product, except for a few components such as servo motors and optical rulers, including the core computer controller, is domestically self-sufficient. It has the highest self-made rate among all machine tool projects, which is conducive to joint investment by industry, government, academia and research. resources to comprehensively improve its quality, precision and reliability, bringing it to the same level as high-end products from major international manufacturers such as Japanese company Sodick and Swiss company Agie charmill.

Wang Wuxiong, chairman of CHMER, the leading domestic wire cutting machine manufacturer, said that in order to greatly improve the accuracy of wire cutting machines, two key components are the use of linear motors and hydrostatic rails, but their import unit prices are quite high, ITRI Machinery Research Institute Two industries, including CHMER and Leitong, have been called on to jointly participate in the development of static pressure rails. However, the research and development costs will be quite high. We hope to call on more peers to join the plan and share the research and development costs.

Following CHMER, Leitong and other manufacturers, there are more and more domestic manufacturers capable of producing wire cutting machines. However, most of their processing accuracy can only be maintained between one "line" and one micron, and they have only captured 2 million yuan in the international market. In the market below the price range, products from Japan and Switzerland remain in the price range of 500 to 10 million yuan, which is quite different.

According to the plan of the Institute of Machinery, the "Mechanical Accuracy Technology" specialist budget of the Technical Division of the Ministry of Economic Affairs will be implemented in the future. Starting next year, within three years, the accuracy of my country's wire cutting machine products will be significantly improved to five microns to 0. Within five microns, the reliability index Cpk value is less than one. Sixty-seven, through specific quantitative technical indicators, has pushed my country's wire cutting machine products to a level of more than three million yuan, so that it can compete with Japanese and Swiss manufacturers.

In the second stage, the above-mentioned accuracy technology will be used to further improve the accuracy of domestic machining centers to 0.0 in three to five years. Five microns to 0. With a level of one micron, it can narrow the accuracy gap with high-grade machining centers produced by major machine tool manufacturers such as Japan and Germany, which will help Chinese products capture the upper-level market of the pyramid.