Competing for the high-end market, domestic scientific instruments cannot be "built on the beach"
Our reporter Jiang Yun and intern Xin Jingjing
The data shows that from 2012 to 2020, the industrial added value of my country's instrumentation manufacturing industry has shown a trend of year-on-year growth. In 2019, its industrial added value will grow at 10.5%.
However, at the beginning of 2020, a sudden epidemic caused a huge impact on the entire society and also caused great harm to the instrument manufacturing industry.
At the 2nd China Scientific Instrument and Equipment Independent Innovation Summit held in Hangzhou Qingshan Lake Science and Technology City, a number of experts from scientific research institutes and senior executives from leading companies in the instrument industry gave a speech on "Analysis of Pain Points of China's Scientific Instrument and Equipment Independent Innovation R&D and Marketing Mechanism With the theme of "New Breakthrough", discussions were conducted on how to further enhance the independent innovation capability of China's scientific research instruments and equipment, and build a new model of collaboration mechanism of "R&D enterprises-key users-management experts".
"Scientific instrument companies have weak market competitiveness and low brand effects. The world's top 50 companies have no seats for domestic companies; scientific instrument products have limited coverage of categories, varieties, models and specifications, and many high-end sciences are required for laboratories and manufacturing. Instruments are still dependent on imports.” Talking about the development status of scientific instruments in China, Nian Fushun, chief expert of the 41st Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group, said that in recent years, to promote independent innovation of scientific research instruments, China has carried out a series of measures and achieved certain results. , But there is still a gap compared with foreign high-end technology.
According to statistics in 2018, in the electronic measuring instrument industry, Keysight Technologies in the United States has a total of 851 models of products, ranking first in the world in terms of scale and market share.
my country's largest supplier of electronic measuring instruments, China Electric Instrument Company, has a total of 275 models of products, the number of products is second only to the former, but the market share of high-end instruments is very low.
"Many well-known foreign instrument companies are century-old stores with strong professionalism, brand recognition, and high credibility. Most domestic related companies have been established in the past 20 years, with small scale and low brand effect. Many state-owned instrument companies with a long history have also Were eliminated in market competition.” Nian Fushun suggested that the development and application of scientific instruments in the future has great potential, and measures such as cultivating large-scale instrument enterprises and invisible champion enterprises should be adopted to achieve autonomous control of high-end scientific instruments.
It is not difficult to understand that scientific instrument is a multi-disciplinary integrated system engineering, which not only requires breakthroughs in basic theories and key technologies, but also requires the support of industrial foundations such as materials, equipment, components, manufacturing processes, and design simulation software.
"Without a strong industrial foundation, it is like building high-rise buildings on the beach." Experts at the conference emphasized that my country's scientific instrument industry has a weak foundation and the industrial chain has not yet taken shape, requiring more investment and long-term training.
In addition, the innovative development of scientific instruments can also play a role in improving manufacturing equipment level and production efficiency.
Li Hua, director of the Science and Technology Platform Division of the Department of Basic Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that the Department of Basic Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology is currently planning and formulating a major instrument research and development plan for the "14th Five-Year Plan". Innovation and development.