-      The future direction: low carbon, environmental friendly and energy saving materials

Stamping and sheet metal production involve all aspects of the manufacturing industry, it has large volume and a wide range of work, products shapes and manufacturing processes are in a tremendous difference, it involves cutting, bending, welding, press, punching, painting, fabrication etc. process . Over the past ten years, with China becoming the world's manufacturing center and consumer power, as one of the basic industries in the manufacturing industry, the stamping and sheet metal fabrication industry has also made unprecedented progress.

It is said, at present, there are about 70,000 manufacturing enterprises and 4 million employees in the stamping and sheet metal industry in whole country, annual production of 50 million tons of stamping and sheet metal parts, the total sales amounted to 900 billion yuan, annual consumption of thin steel sheet under 3 mm per year is about 40000000 tons , purchase fee for stamping die is 40 billion yuan,  the yearly purchase cost of new equipment is 20 billion yuan.

The development of China's stamping and sheet metal industry in the future must conforms the wisdom of low carbon, environment friendly and saving energy in design, production and consumption, and production must go in the direction of precision and efficiency.

- American model: automatic, safety and reliability in production

In comparing the current situation of stamping and sheet metal processing enterprises with the manufacturers abroad, Mr. Qi junhe has chosen the United States and Japan as a reference, the biggest deference between American and Chinese stamping and sheet metal production is that the level of informatization and automation is deferent.

First, the closed-loop production automation adopted by American enterprises is more secure and reliable, and it is easier to do maintenance for the whole production line. Every enterprise has its tooling maintenance workshop, various sensors are installed or embedded in the mold, and the application of these sensors has greatly improved the safety and reliability of the whole production line.

Second, American stamping and sheet metal enterprises have high awareness in safety. All press machine are installed with safety grating, when worker get close to machine, the press machine will automatically stopped,  to protect workers from getting hurt.

Thirdly, American enterprises have their own management information system. The materials supplied by the raw material suppliers all have bar code, through the scan all the information of raw materials will automatically go into production database. With the raw material entering the process, computer processors on every processes step automatically input processing information to the database, by this system all the information will be attached to the final product.

In addition, although the scale of American enterprises is relatively large, but the product series is not very much, all them have fixed buyers, for example, Delphi, Ford,  the mass production is the their common feature. The American enterprise mode is the future direction of our stamping and sheet metal enterprises development.

- Japanese model: technological and equipment is shocking

In general, Japanese stamping and sheet metal fabrication are specialized, in high automation, in large production, high precision, and humanization, and basically they all have the ability to develop, design and produce molds, and generally, with Japan's complete machine manufacturers coming to China, they also follow and setup division in China.

Compared with Japanese stamping professional enterprises, the level of business indexes of Chinese stamping and sheet metal manufacturing enterprises is still far behind, it still has big room for improvement. In particular, the various production know-how and process equipment accumulated in production, it is a perfect combination of modern advanced manufacturing technology and traditional human intelligence, it shocks every coming visitors. Therefore, Chinese enterprises should gradually improve their manufacturing technology, process and equipment in the future.

-  At present: introduction of advanced manufacturing industrial equipment

The overall situation, stamping parts and sheet metal manufacturing enterprises in China is relatively small, manufacturing equipment is poorer, and production is mainly relied on manual operation, they have poor product quality stability, low production efficiency, difficult to realize mass production, and deliver on time. At present, enterprises still need improvement in the following aspects:

First, improve the present technology and equipment, work hard and skillfully, Improve the quality of products, meet the increasingly market demand requirement in product quality and supply quantity, and try to introduce advanced technology and equipment under the financial capacity, establish and improve the quality assurance system, improve the manufacturing level of precision, specialization, automation and informatization to meet the requirements of mass production and flexible production.

Secondly, enterprises should constantly improve, increase production efficiency and improve the sales, reduce the cost of management, truly improve quality and efficiency through management, and enhance the overall competitiveness of enterprises.

Thirdly, we should pay attention to the building of the talent team， while constantly introducing high-quality talents , we should also pay attention to re-education and training of the existing workforce, Keeping the technology and management level synchronized with the times. Then our stamping and sheet metal fabrication industry will catch up with the international advanced level.