How to improve the competitiveness of testing machines

For domestic testing machine enterprises, the purpose of improving the competitiveness of Chinese testing machine products is not to enter the market, but to protect the domestic market more. Because half of the domestic market has always been occupied by foreign manufacturers. Especially in the field of testing machines.

Technology determines the product, and the product determines the market. The backwardness of testing machine technology has led to a bottleneck in the development of China's testing machine industry. At present, compared with similar foreign products, the vast majority of China's testing machine products are at a mid to low level, and products with high technological content have long been occupied by foreign production enterprises.

Throughout the development history of testing machines in China, they originated from several declining state-owned enterprises and gradually expanded from hardness testers to testing machines. The testing machine industry in China has gone through more than 60 years of history. After the reform and opening up, the emergence of domestic microcomputer servo control systems for testing machines has greatly developed the technology of testing machines in China.

The opening up of the market has also led many foreign testing machine manufacturers to enter the domestic market. The speed of technological updates and upgrades for foreign testing machine products is very fast, and the product performance is better than similar domestic testing machine products. In addition, after the restructuring of enterprises in the late 1990s, domestic testing machine enterprises generally lacked research and development investment, and product technology updates were slow. Therefore, the domestic product market is almost entirely occupied by foreign testing machine manufacturing enterprises. Even though the price of foreign testing machines is 4-5 times that of domestic similar products, the demand in the domestic market is still very high.

In recent years, there has been a significant demand for various types of testing machines in China, which has led to a continuous increase in the number of domestic testing machine manufacturing enterprises. At present, there are conservatively estimated to be 300 domestic testing machine production enterprises, most of which are small in scale, with low-end product positioning. Key components are obtained through imports, external purchases, and other means, adopting a low price strategy to "grab" the domestic market, and the competition is very fierce. However, such a chaotic market situation is clearly not conducive to the development of the entire testing machine industry in China. More importantly, many companies do not pay attention to products and technology, only focus on marketing, with advertisements flying everywhere, but products are plagued with problems. This will undoubtedly further deteriorate the environment of the testing machine industry. We need to call on the testing machine industry to return to basic values, rebuild industrial spirit, and solidly use products to enhance the competitiveness of the entire industry.