Domestic instrument entities have large gaps in conversion

The quality of domestic scientific instruments is not stable

In 2012, there were 1,316 enterprises above designated size in China's scientific instrument industry (12 sub-industries), achieving a total industrial output value of 226.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.4%, accounting for 31.9% of the industry's total output value, and a profit of 20.23 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.34%. , accounting for 33.4% of the industry's total profit (60.4 billion yuan).

“In 2012, the scale of growth in the scientific instrument industry entered the top three for the machinery and equipment industry for the first time. However, in terms of the market, domestically manufactured instruments are still at a disadvantage compared to imported instruments.” Yan Zengxuan’s 2013 China Scientific Instrument Development held on April 19th Said at the annual meeting.

International instrument manufacturer Li Lin, general manager of the Agilent Technologies Chemical Analysis Group's Emerging Market Measurement Systems Division, also discovered that sometimes a domestic instrument is used for testing, and the indicators are not bad compared to foreign products, but they are changed. Again, there will be a large gap between the indicators.

“The stability and repeatability of domestic product quality have yet to be improved.” Li Lin said in an interview with reporters that how to ensure that the quality indicators he promised can all be achieved. This is a question that domestic companies need to seriously reflect on.

Sun Yufeng, professor at the School of Reliability and Systems Engineering at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, believes that the product's reliability is actually the durability of the product. However, there is still a lack of domestic scientific instruments.

“The quality of products cannot rely on testing alone. Many of the quality problems of domestic equipment are in the R&D and design process. Reliability should be given through design and guaranteed in production.” Sun Yufeng emphasized in an interview with reporters.

"Quality is the first factor to consider when selecting a user. If the quality is not too hard, the user will not dare to use it at a low price," Yang Songcheng, a researcher at the National Center for Biomedical Analysis of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, told reporters.

R & D technology is not inferior to the substantial conversion gap

In fact, at present, some domestic instrument manufacturers have already made great efforts to invest in and complete many prototypes of new and innovative technical instruments that achieve performance. The performance, quality, and specifications can even be comparable to international advanced levels, but once they are mass-produced, Quality is greatly reduced. The reason is that the manufacturer has a backward production process, and there are many problems in converting R&D results into actual products.

On the one hand, there is insufficient investment in R&D. On the other hand, some good technical achievements have no obvious market benefit. Many instrument manufacturers are faced with the bottleneck of development that is both survival and innovation. In order to survive, they often choose the mode of development that is eager for quick success.

In addition to the deficiencies in the conversion of physical products, the development of related subsidiary functions has also been stagnant. Compared with imported instruments, domestic instruments have another deficiencies in application method development. Domestic instrument manufacturers used to focus only on manufacturing, not on application. Foreign products are often launched at the same time the application method is also introduced accordingly, with their instruments can be directly applied, no need to explore methods, and domestic instruments in some applications still need to find ways. Obviously, users will choose imported products for convenience. Therefore, application method development is also one of the important issues facing the development of domestic instruments. ”

Yan Zengxuan, secretary general of the China Instrument and Meter Industry Association, put it: "The development of China's scientific instrument industry has entered the phase of structural adjustment and development opportunities. Enterprises must have adequate ideological preparations; the decline in corporate profits is a prominent problem faced by the industry and must attract everyone's attention. The import and export situation is strict and the international market needs to improve the competitiveness of domestic instruments; independent innovation, transformation and upgrading are the key to adjustment of the industrial structure and adjustment of product structure and efficiency of enterprises.”

In 2013, special national major scientific instrument and equipment development projects have been launched. The industry believes that the special project will enhance the independent innovation capability of the scientific instrument and equipment industry and help improve the competitiveness of local leading enterprises. The Ministry of Science and Technology requested that, combined with the characteristics of the development of major scientific instruments and equipment, as well as the actual development of China's scientific equipment and equipment industry, the risk-sharing mechanism should be strengthened, and the reform of financial aid nodes should be explored for projects led by enterprises.

The instrument industry personnel are in full emergency

The gap between China's current number of talents in instrument manufacturing and foreign countries is obvious, especially the shortage of high-end talent has become a bottleneck that hinders industrial development. In fact, there are very few high-end talents in scientific instrument companies, and this gap should exceed 30%.

In addition to the shortage of high-end talents, the shortage of comprehensive applied talents and the serious loss of talents, it has also become an urgent issue for the “problem proposition” of the scientific instrument industry in China.

“The talents in the Chinese scientific instrument industry urgently need to solve the problem of talent emergency through the combination of self-cultivation and social training.” For example, industry professionals say that hardware, electronic, mechanical, precision instruments and other hardware R&D talents need at least 5 years of work experience In order to meet the requirements, the reality is that colleges and universities' precision instruments and faculties are shrinking, and graduates are more inclined to enter government departments and financial institutions.

With the deepening of domestic openness and the intensification of market competition, domestic manufacturers will continue to shift to high-end products and services, and international competitiveness is expected to continue to improve. All of these put forward higher requirements for future talent education, training and introduction.

“The future development of domestic scientific instruments is riddled with thorny roads, but the work of the top leaders is still talented, and the most pressing issue is talent.” Zhuang Songlin, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at the Shanghai University of Science and Technology, reports to the “Journal of China Science” Indicated.