China's textile machinery industry can be described as a fully competitive market. If any company wants to avoid being eliminated in such fierce competition, it must speed up the pace of product structure adjustment and improve its core competitiveness. This is also an area for automation product providers. There is a certain opportunity.

According to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2009, textile machinery continued its downward trend in 2008, its growth was slow, coupled with competition from foreign products and the impact of the global financial crisis, China's textile machinery companies faced severe challenges. In the first quarter of 2010, the textile machinery industry experienced a slight drop, which was a drop of 5% to 10% from the previous quarter and an increase of more than 70% year-on-year. Affected by the double pull of exports and domestic demand, the second quarter of 2010 is expected to increase slightly from the previous quarter.

The decline in the textile machinery industry has brought certain impact on suppliers of automation products. Information from the National Bureau of Statistics shows that in 2009, the total market size of automation products for the Chinese textile machinery industry was close to 2.4 billion yuan, reaching 2.39 billion yuan, up year-on-year. Declined by 7.0%. However, in the first quarter of 2010, the market for automation products in the textile machinery industry increased by 70.5% year-on-year, down by 9% month-on-month.

As far as textile machinery products are concerned, the market capacity of traditional textile machinery with a low technological content has been drastically reduced, while textile machinery products with high efficiency, energy saving, and high added value have been greatly improved, which also brings certain degree of automation products. market.

Distribution of automation products in the textile machinery industry

The survey also showed that the larger the scale of textile machinery manufacturing enterprises and the wider the product coverage, the higher the level of automation and information, and the more automation products used.

Automation is the only way to improve the performance of mechanical products and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. With the development and application of computer networks and power electronics, its importance is increasingly prominent, and its application in textile machinery will become increasingly widespread. . The survey results show that more high-end textile machinery manufacturers have gone from the initial application of single automation products such as PLCs, inverters, and servos to the demand for integrated application of multi-automation products and digital integration of equipment networks.

Most of the companies participating in the survey stated that due to the impact of the crisis, in the first quarter of 2010, the research and development of new products in the textile machinery industry was less, but in the second half of the year, driven by demand, investment in new product research and development is expected to increase. Most of the interviewed companies continued their technical improvements or upgrades in terms of software, machinery, etc. For the sake of product reliability and stability, they basically did not change the configuration and brand of automation products.

The survey shows that the brand name of automation products used in the textile machinery industry is very broad. From Siemens, ABB, Mitsubishi, to B & R, Delta, Lenze, almost all automation manufacturers can find themselves in the textile machinery enterprises. User. The questionnaire also shows that the same textile machinery company uses at least three or more automation brands at the same time. A questionnaire from Shanghai Yifang Machinery Co., Ltd. shows that the brands they use for automation products involve Siemens, ABB, B & R, and Phoenix. , Mitsubishi, Schneider, Omron, Fuji Electric and other at least 8 brands. The smaller scale textile machinery enterprises, such as the automation products used by Changzhou Tonghe Textile Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., also include Mitsubishi, Delta, Lenz, and at least three brands.