What is the employment situation of the three major skilled workers in the development of China’s mold industry?
At present, the mold industry is generally divided into three categories of technical technicians: mold design and manufacturing, CNC machining, and mechanical automation and robotics. What is the employment situation of these three major skilled workers in the development of China’s mold industry so far?
After more than 20 years of development, China’s mold industry appears to be very developed on the surface, but there is still a certain gap compared to developed countries such as Japan and Germany. Take mold steel as an example, many of them are imported. Although there is currently an overcapacity in China’s steel industry, there are not many that can produce high-quality mold materials.
There are still many industries that graduates with a major in mold design and manufacturing can engage in, such as automotive, mechanical, electronic, electrical, light industry, plastic and other industries that cannot do without molds. Graduates majoring in mold design and manufacturing have a high demand in society and receive higher salaries. The work in the direction of mold processing includes mold design, mold CNC programming and processing, product development 3D design, manufacturing and maintenance, installation, debugging, maintenance and management of mold equipment, etc.
The world’s first use of digital technology for mechanical processing was achieved in the early 1940s by Pearson Corporation, a small aircraft industry contractor based in North Michigan, USA. They used fully digital electronic computers to process the machining paths of aircraft frames and helicopter rotating wings, taking into account the influence of tool diameter on the machining path, resulting in a machining accuracy of ± 0.0381mm (± 0.0015in), which reached the highest level at that time.
Graduates majoring in numerical control technology are currently mainly targeting regions such as the Pearl River Delta and Jiangsu Zhejiang in Guangdong. Especially in several major cities in the Pearl River Delta, although the industry has upgraded in the past two years, it is still relatively easy for CNC professionals to find jobs. For example, industries such as automobiles, toys, machinery, and molds cannot do without CNC machining, and the wages are also good, but the working hours are relatively long, and most of them work two shifts.
Although mechanical automation has existed for a long time, with the increasingly serious aging population and declining labor force in China in recent years, more and more enterprises have adopted mechanical automation and robots.
What is the employment situation of the three major skilled workers in the development of China’s mold industry?
At present, the global robot market is growing at an annual rate of over 10%, with the domestic market reaching 50%. Its absolute volume ranks third in the world, second only to Japan and South Korea. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the growth rate of domestic robot demand will be 15% -20%. It is expected that the sales revenue of domestic robots will reach 8 billion to 10 billion yuan in the future, and with the addition of system design, key components, and after-sales supply, the market size of robots will reach 100 billion yuan. China’s industrial robots will have significant development in the next 5-10 years.
Guangdong Province is promoting the “robot replacement” strategy, and the scale of information, home appliances, communication, equipment manufacturing and other products related to robot technology has reached over 300 billion yuan. Robots and intelligent systems will become the main driving force for the next wave of development in the manufacturing industry.