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China novel coronavirus pneumonia has been recovered rapidly, but China's market has recovered rapidly. It is estimated that China's industrial production and capital investment will increase by more than 5% in 2021, and the consumption of machine tools will probably achieve a strong growth of 10%. Germany is the second largest supplier in China's machine tool industry after Japan, and has a high-tech position. Its technology is widely used in various customer fields in China, such as automotive and aerospace, as well as mechanical engineering, power generation and other broad-based machine tool users. " At the 17th China International Machine Tool Exhibition (cimt2021), Shane sun from Germany machine tool manufacturers association (VDW) in Frankfurt explained.

In April 12th, at the CIMT2021 press conference of the German machine tool manufacturers association, the managing director of Wilfried, Sch, fer, Frankfurt German Machine Tool Manufacturers Association (VDW), said: "COVID-19 is affected by China's limited exit. German manufacturers will be mainly represented by its subsidiaries in China."

"Finally, we ushered in a real trade exhibition again." Exhibitors and visitors gathered at the booth for face-to-face discussion, which is what many German machine tool manufacturers are looking forward to cimt2021.

CIMT is a new starting point for umati to enter China

From 2020, the orders of German machine tools from China began to stabilize, and even increased by 17% in the fourth quarter, reaching a double-digit increase. In 2021, there are many signs that the global economy will continue to grow. Wilfried Sch? Fer judged that "the development in 2021 will be more encouraging, because we should have ushered in a turnaround long ago."

China industry daily found that VDW has a umati booth in CIMT. It is reported that umati (universal mechanical technology interface) is a community of mechanical engineering industry and its customers, which is used to promote and disseminate the open standardized interface based on OPC UA. The purpose of CIMT demonstration is to introduce the interface specification between machine tool and higher-level IT system communication to Chinese industry, and show the convenience of its work. Six companies (also exhibitors of the German Pavilion) have connected their machines“ Unfortunately, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have prevented more companies from joining our activities. " Dr. Alexander broos, director of research and technology at VDW, who is responsible for OPC UA's activities in the machine tool industry, regrets.

In order to make umati fully enter China, the advanced manufacturing technology center (AMTC) of Tongji University is supporting its technology infrastructure in Beijing“ We are also pleased to connect machines and services with China's machine tool interconnection initiative NC link, which is a continuation of the successful cooperation in emo Hanover in 2019. " Alexander broos said.

At that time, a number of Chinese CNC machine tool manufacturers had established contacts with umati. Alexander broos said that now the NC link team has realized the connection between OPC UA infrastructure and its own installation. The core element of umati participating in CIMT is umati demonstrator, which is composed of a data center connected to the computer in real time and a special dashboard.

German machine tool suppliers are important partners of Chinese industry

Over the years, the German machine tool industry has been a valuable partner of Chinese industrial customers, so China has become the sales market of German machine tool industry. In the past two years, Germany's export volume has decreased by nearly 45%, and the export volume will increase from 2.3 billion euros to 1.3 billion euros. The main products involved are machining centers, grinders, parts, lathes, etc. In contrast, China's import volume has not suffered such a heavy blow. It has only decreased by 28% in 2020. Most of the imported products delivered are parts and accessories. Wilfried Sch? Fer believes that China's demand for modern production technology is still huge, especially because the next step of Chinese industry is to launch higher quality products that can also meet the needs of the global market.

Wilfried Sch? Fer concluded that China International Machine Tool Exhibition is a very good exhibition platform. On this platform, Chinese customers will trust and choose the products displayed by German manufacturers. China International Machine Tool Exhibition will make more contributions to promoting the development of bilateral business.

In fact, the same is true of the German machine tool manufacturers association. For many years, the German machine tool manufacturers association has applied to the German Federal Ministry of economy and technology for the establishment of a German joint booth at the China International Machine Tool Exhibition and is responsible for the implementation of the project. At present, Germany has become an overseas exhibitor of the 17th China International Machine Tool Exhibition (CIMT 2021), with 150 companies exhibiting all kinds of machine tools, cutting tools, clamping technology, measurement technology, molds, CNC systems and software, with a total exhibition area of 7500 square meters.

"Participating in the exhibition is a good opportunity for us to gain popularity and experience abroad." Alexander broos concluded, "we hope this will happen again in other markets soon."