Shenyang Machine Tool Group: Innovation makes old companies rejuvenate

In recent years, the medium and high-end CNC machine tools from Shenyang Machine Tool Group have entered the core manufacturing fields of national key industries in batches, and have become the development equipment of Shanghai Maglev trains and Shenzhou manned spacecrafts; some have broken the foreign manufacturers in the field of automobile engines. The monopoly was adopted by domestic engine companies such as Dongfeng Chaochai, FAW Engine Factory and Eastern Cummins.

From a large state-owned enterprise struggling in the 1990s to the top ten in the world's machine tool manufacturing industry, what has happened to the Shenyang Machine Tool Group? Chairman Chen Huiren said: "Insist on innovation is a decisive factor."

“Without your own technology and brand, the waist will never be straight!”

In the 1990s, Shenyang Machine Tool Group, the largest machine tool manufacturing group in China, fell into a trough and struggled. The Zhongjie factory of more than 10,000 people has only a few thousand dollars in cash on the books! The main machine tool factory of the main force could not open the salary for four consecutive months. The third machine tool factory went bankrupt, and the experts, technicians and experienced workers were lost in large numbers. The whole group was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Enterprise products "consistent system for decades", no innovation, resulting in the loss of the market, is an important reason for the group's troubles. At that time, Master Li Yongxun, who was in the assembly workshop of the third machine tool factory, said: "A few products will be drummed up in the end of the year. I can install it with my eyes closed!" Wang Lin of the Product Development Department recalled that the domestic machine tool factory was under 1 million yuan. The product field competes for the market, in order to sell a product to compete for price. Due to the high technical content of foreign products, the sale of one piece of equipment to 13 million yuan is still in short supply. The price of one piece is worth more than 10 domestic similar products and nearly 400 ordinary machine tools!

Like most companies in that period, Shenyang Machine Tool has also gone through a path from "taking a gourd painting" to introducing technology.

The third machine tool factory introduced a set of equipment, and the technician opened the package and saw a piece of soap inside. The "soap problem" has become a major event in the introduction of technology: is it a must-have for lubrication? Or is it purely an accident? The technical staff negotiated to negotiate, or decided to put a piece of soap in their product packaging - foreign technology is certainly not wrong! Later I learned that it was only after the foreign workers washed their hands! On another occasion, the equipment produced by a set of imported technology leaked oil, so obvious product defects, the technicians did not dare to change. The oil spill equipment was put on the market in batches, until the customers came to look for it, and they dared to “block” the oil spill.

"Photographing the gourd painting scoop" is not enough, the group began to take the road of technology introduction. In 1995, a company of the group spent 40 million yuan to introduce a technology of American Bridge Company. Due to the lack of understanding of the technical field, the forefoot was just introduced, and the hind legs were behind. 40 million yuan hit the water drift; behind the hustle and bustle, the company wants to introduce a set of advanced Japanese "longmen five-sided processing center", began to do not give people, and later the other party to the factory to investigate, but the pain quickly agreed. The equipment was introduced, and the training was also done. The products were not produced, and the imported equipment became scrap iron.

Talking about the relationship between technology introduction and independent innovation, Guan Xiyou, general manager of Shenyang Machine Tool Group, deeply felt: "Technology introduction is necessary at a certain stage, but it must be adapted to its own research and development capabilities. Moreover, core technologies and key components are absolutely introduced. If you don't come, you still have to rely on yourself. Without your own technology and brand, your waist will never be straight!"

Cultivate innovative "fertile soil", everyone is eager to innovate
Redundant, debt burden, and enterprise-run society are the “three big mountains” that are pressed against the heads of state-owned enterprises. The old concept formed under the old system and the old mechanism is a more heavy “fourth mountain”, which interferes and hinders Enterprise innovation and development.

In order to cultivate the "fertile soil" of innovation, in 2002, with the innovation of mechanism as a breakthrough, Shenyang Machine Tool Group resolutely "moved the knife" to the cadre, labor and distribution system: a worker worked hard and worked hard, according to the new accounting standards, one After the month, the salary can get more than 4,000 yuan, three or four times more than the average person! This incident has sensationalized the entire factory, and the old habits that obstruct the innovation, such as old-fashioned and "smart", have been swept away!

The management department of the group has cut from 9 to 9 and set up “eight departments and one room”. Only one middle-level cadre is set up in the department above the workshop. The single head responsibility system is implemented, which completely changes the long-term management and mutual wrangling in the previous work. The phenomenon of pushing each other.

Mechanism innovation has moved the “fourth mountain”, and the system design that respects technology and respects talents makes innovation become the culture and soul of the company. The reporter heard two new words here: “Marginal Contribution Award” – who engages in technological innovation to bring value to the market, and who will share the profit, and the share ratio will decrease from 3% of value-added profit to 1% year after year! "Technical Expert System" - for the technical experts who are awarded, give the same treatment to the department leaders!

A large number of innovative talents stand out. The general age of the technical staff of the Group R&D Center is only 28 years old. Zou Ying, 30 years old, is already the technical director of the national “10th Five-Year” scientific and technological research project when he was 25 years old. In 2001, she led the research team to innovate, and the spindle speed of three to four thousand revolutions in the minute was increased to 7,000 rpm in a short period of time. All the indicators reached the advanced level of similar products in China.

Everyone is thinking about innovation, everyone is proud of innovation and forms an atmosphere in the machine tool group. The first-line grinding machine Fan Chunying's previously processed spindles were thick and stupid, and the surface polishing relied on hard grinding, which was laborious and difficult to guarantee accuracy. He first tried to use the oil and sodium chloride and silicon carbide as the grinding paste. He found that the workpiece was “pulled” and tried to change the oil to kerosene. This new trick is really spiritual – now the spindle that has been processed by Laofan, the surface can Take a picture!

Get out of the good three, and achieve leapfrog development
Not in the same starting line of the 100-meter sprint, there is no supernormal means, talk about catching up and leading opponents!

The machine tool group has gone well.

The first chess: use the "stone of other mountains", and the high-end docking with international advanced technology.

On October 29, 2004, Shenyang Machine Tool Group acquired the German company Heath! German TV commented on this: "The Chinese dragon has saved the German company in trouble." The German company Heath is a 140-year-old company whose products are used in basic industries such as aerospace, energy equipment, shipbuilding, and general equipment. . Due to the overall situation of the European economy and other reasons, Heath declared bankruptcy on August 1, 2004. For Shenyang Machine Tool, the acquisition of German Heath can establish a production and procurement base in Europe. More importantly, the production of large and heavy machine tools is the advantage of Heath, and the acquisition of Heath can achieve this field. The high-end technology complements and innovates, helping Shenyang Machine Tool Group to quickly move closer to the world's machine tools.

Second chess: adhere to the principle of autonomy and build your own high-end innovation research and development base.

At the 2005 German Summit, Shenyang Machine Tool Group offered favorable conditions to three German technology companies, and was looking for cooperative development on 14 series of products, but the German company only accepted two or three of them for the simple reason: Technology is too core, and working with you is tantamount to digging the grave!

The reality once again makes Shenyang Machine Tool Group realize that it is necessary to establish its own innovative R&D system. This is the group's “evergreen foundation”. The Shenyang Machine Tool Group's independent technological innovation strategy, named "PRD Program", was included in the development strategy outline of Shenyang Machine Tool Group. The planned investment of 100 million yuan has been fully launched. The innovation direction will cover automobile, aerospace, shipbuilding and energy. Different fields such as power and electronics; the development and application of high-performance functional components for CNC machine tools, and the research on the key technologies of CNC machine tools are also included in the “PRD Plan”, and established branches in Shanghai, Beijing and Germany, and Tongji University. Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics cooperated with the University of Technology in Berlin as a talent training base to reserve the company's technology and talents five years later.

The third game: independent innovation around the market.

In the workshop of the machine tool group, the reporter saw that every machine being produced is marked with the purchaser and delivery time. The workers told reporters that every machine tool here is produced according to the order.

The market has become the baton of the Group's technological innovation. Shenyang Machine Tool Group constantly researches how to face global sourcing and marketing, how to keep close to the market and determine its own market innovation strategy. Wu Chunyu, director of the technical department of Zhongjie Radial Drilling Machine Factory, said that it is necessary to achieve “combination of research and research” in close to market innovation – researchers often go to customers to understand the demand, and even go to the marketing department to “hang up”; Shenyang Machine Tool Group demands innovation Technology should serve the individualized customer needs, and design and production of products should be able to be tailored to the market.

In the past, a new product in the factory had to undergo market research - new product development - prototype trial production - production test - stereotype identification - small batch production - mass production, a product from research and development to mass production, in less than three years and five years. Now in addition to research and development, the order production process is: customer ordering - design and installation - delivery of production, the whole process is only about half a year, greatly improving the market competitiveness.

Chen Huiren, chairman of the group, said that high-end CNC machine tool technology is still our weakness. The gap between China's machine tool industry and the machine tool industry in developed countries is 10 to 15 years. They are ready to use 3 to 5 years of innovation and development. Shorten the gap to zero!

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