The production method of additive production (commonly known as 3D printing) is gradually moving from concept to industrial practice. Its extensive use makes people infinitely associate with its future shopping mall space, and is even hailed as the new type that leads the third industrial revolution. skill.

In the past two years, the industry of additive manufacturing has risen to the national strategic level. The documents such as "China's production 2025" and "National Additive Manufacturing Industry Action Plan (2015~2016)" were released, and the additive manufacturing industry was launched rapidly. The technology-based companies of vitality are booming.

Despite this, due to the early stage of the production industry, there is still a low degree of scale. Experts admit that the imported equipment is now "attacking" China's shopping malls. Take metal printing equipment as an example, foreign implementation of data, software, equipment, process integration tied for sale. It is necessary for China to accelerate the development of center skills and original skills to create its own stand-alone chain and industrial chain.

Prospects for shopping malls

According to a statement by McKinsey, 12 skills that have a subversive effect on human days, additive production ranked ninth, before new data and shale gas, and guessed that in 2030, additive production will arrive internationally. The size of the mall is about 1 trillion US dollars. In 2015, the statement moved the process forward, thinking that by 2020, three years later, the global malls for additive manufacturing could reach a value of $550 billion.

McKinsey’s statement is not sensational. Lu Bingheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the National Center for Additives Production and Innovation, used the "four and a half" to summarize the future prospects of additive manufacturing. He said that more than half of the product value in the future is planned; more than half of the products are customized; more than half of the production forms are crowdsourced; more than half of the innovations are done by the makers. Additive production is a disruptive skill in the development of lead-based operations, and is the most suitable skill to support planning, custom production, customer innovation and crowdsourcing. ”

"More importantly, additive production is a rare skill in syncing with China. Now China's research on 3D printing has been at the forefront of the international market." Lu Bingheng said that China now relies on its own large-scale metal 3D printing equipment, in the aircraft. The use of large bearing parts is internationally advanced, and it has served as a rescue team in the development of military aircraft and large aircraft. Moreover, titanium alloy large structural parts have been first used in the development of aircraft landing gear and C919.

The reporter was informed that in terms of use, China's industrial-grade equipment installed capacity ranks fourth in the world, but the commercial equipment for metal printing is still relatively weak, relying mainly on imports. However, according to the leak of Academician Lu Bingheng, the overall goal of China's additive production is: the completion of the world's second installed capacity in 5 years, equipped with the third place in production and sales; the world's first installed capacity in 10 years, the center equipment and original skills, equipment sales are second in the world. In 2035, the "Made in China 2025" was completed.

Industrial development

According to statistics, in the past three years, the scale of shopping malls with additive production has increased by 33.8%. In 2016, the scale of global shopping malls was about 6 billion US dollars. The size of China's shopping malls is about 8 billion yuan, accounting for 19.6% of global shopping malls. As long as 7%, the speed of the industrial development in China is higher than the international uniform speed.

The development of Xi'an Platinum Laser Forming Skills Co., Ltd. is the epitome of the rapid development of 3D printing skills. The company was established in 2011 and sold more than 100 million yuan in 2014, 180 million yuan in 2015 and 230 million yuan in 2016.

Jia Xin, general manager of Platinum, told reporters that the first half of 2017 has completed the amount of the previous year, which is estimated to be close to 300 million yuan this year. He introduced that in the past two years, with the progress of the maturity of the mall, the number of companies involved has been rapidly added, and the cost of 3D printing professional equipment is rapidly declining, resulting in a decline in the profit of the company in the sale of equipment, but in the service category, it is recognized by customers. The degree of increase, the growth rate is very fast. “Especially in the production of products, our order volume has now doubled.”

The 3D printing industry culture base in Weinan, Shaanxi Province is a typical example of the transformation of the advantages of 3D printing skills into industrial advantages under the support of local governments, and the transformation of traditional industries into clusters.

Jiang Tong, director of the 3D printing industrial medium in Weinan, said that the Weinan High-tech Zone can focus on the industrial incubator concept of “3D printing+”. It is not simply a 3D printing industry, but a 3D printing device, 3D printing metal data development and production. 3D printing uses talent training as the starting point, actively 3D printing skills are rooted in the local leading industry, the main points around the implementation of 3D printing industrial demonstration use, accelerate 3D printing and traditional industry combination, implementation of 3D printing + aviation, car, medical, cultural and creative A series of 3D printing + industrial forms such as casting, education, etc., with the advantage of 3D printing skills, dealing with the difficulties and pain points of traditional industrial skills, transforming and improving traditional industries, and introducing various types of small and medium-sized technology enterprises.

According to statistics, as of May 2017, the number of enterprises in the 3D printing park in Weinan has reached 61, and more than 50 projects including 3D molds, 3D medical, 3D industrial machines, 3D materials, and 3D cultural and creative products have been stored. It is estimated that the number of enterprises will exceed 100 by the end of the year.

Activate the vertical chain and the industrial chain

Despite the accelerated development of China's additive manufacturing industry, the industry is still in the early stage of development, and it still has a low degree of scale. However, the maturity of skills is lacking, the use of capital is relatively high, and the scale of use is relatively narrow, resulting in a situation of “small, scattered, and weak” in the whole profession. Although many enterprises have begun to enter the category of additive production, the leading enterprises are short. Driven by the industry scale.

Academician Lu Bingheng said frankly that additive production as one of the key skills of the future industrial revolution, the development has yet to be accelerated, because 3D printing skills are in the midst of a skill blowout period, the industrial start-up period, and the enterprise's “horse race” period.

The huge demand for shopping malls can drive a skill, a range of development, and it is necessary to maintain and make full use of it to guide and support our equipment production. Lu Bingheng said that imported equipment is now "attacking" China's shopping malls. Metal printing equipment, foreign implementation of data, software, equipment, process integration tied for sale, Chinese companies need to develop center skills and original skills, to build their own stand-alone chain and industrial chain.

According to industry insiders, regarding the current domestic 3D printing industry, the level of skill development is now completely ahead of industrial use. Many of the skills and achievements only stay in the laboratory stage. The main reasons for this problem are: first, due to various standards, There are intangible barriers to entry for entry qualifications; secondly, scientific research institutions and enterprises do not have economies of scale. New skills and new industries are less well understood, there are incomprehensible or misunderstood, and the pace of formation of skills is slow.

Zhao Jiyuan, general manager of Xi'an Additives Production National Research Institute Co., Ltd. said that resources are limited and cost-effective. The specialty of additive production is in the period of prosperity and rise. All kinds of scientific research, industry, enterprises, institutions and arrangements have invested a lot of manpower, financial resources and material resources. In all kinds of developments, how to coordinate and optimize the equipment of various resources, prevent repeated development, and prevent low-end industrial collection is one of the central issues in the orderly development of the 3D printing profession. The uncertainty of the value and profitability of the shopping mall, the uncertainty of the research work on the cost, the cycle and the danger, and the coordination of the contradiction between the two are the second central issue.

Zhao Jiyuan believes that from now on, to deal with the above problems, the demand is guided by the government, accelerating the construction of the qualification standards for admission, supporting and inspiring national-level innovative channels to blend professional resources, and establishing an increasingly broad professional coordination and self-discipline. Different arrangements, accelerate the production of skills and the exchange of skills in various occupations, so that talent can quickly promote career development.

(Editor)