In addition to recruitment difficulties and labor shortage, today, the electronic transformer and inductors industry is also facing a new "four corners dilemma" - to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance innovation, thereby meeting the customized needs. And automated production and innovation of high-performance magnetic materials is the key to overcome these difficulties.

Increase efficiency and reduce costs

As China's demographic dividend gradually disappeared, changes in the structure of the labor force, resulting in the manufacturing industry generally "recruitment difficulties" and "labor shortage" and other issues, but also led to a substantial increase in labor costs.

According to a group of data from the Oxford Research Institute, the productivity of U. S. manufacturing units grew by about 40% over the period from 2003 to 2016, over +25% and +30%. Although productivity in India and China has nearly doubled over the same period, productivity per unit of labor in America is still 80% to 90% higher than in India and china. But in contrast, the cost of our current labor force is close to that of the United States, more than two times that of India, significantly higher than China, Taiwan and Mexico, and japan.

China's manufacturing industry is now facing a "middle-income trap", the cost advantage is constantly disappearing. Therefore, the State advocates the adoption of transformation, upgrading and innovation to solve this problem, and even some people think that should use "comprehensive two children" to regain the demographic dividend.

However, it should be noted that the transformation, upgrading and innovation need to accumulate for some time, the effect is slow, if it is the only means, fear is "far water, save near fire."".

"Comprehensive two children" is not a reliable way. On the one hand, we should note that the new employment force is different from their parents. They prefer to open Taobao stores at home rather than go to work in factories. On the other hand, the transformation and upgrading and technological innovation is the key to competition in the future, the future will promote the automated production of the liberation of more of the working population, the population will rely increasingly reduced, while the real need is to improve population quality.

Therefore, it has been suggested that if the country is willing to do so, we have other ways to help enterprises reduce manufacturing costs, such as tax cuts and automated production.

Last year, Fuyao Group Chairman Cao Dewang on China manufacturing comprehensive high taxation views sparked widespread concern, even Professor exclaimed China rate is too high, the death rate". Therefore, some experts point out that as long as the country can cut taxes for manufacturing enterprises, our manufacturing sector still has a cost advantage.

The country is already paying attention to the problem, but it will take some time for the national tax cuts to come into play. At present, enterprises should pay more attention to the transformation of automated production.

"Spring plumbing duck prophet", as early as the country advocated "intelligent manufacturing" before, many manufacturing enterprises are aware of the need to change the mode of automated production, and many companies have achieved a transformation. In the late 1970s, automatic control systems began to be used in manufacturing. Mechanical and electrical integration, control integration to achieve assembly line process, according to the order of operations, to provide technical support for mass production, improve production efficiency, to a certain extent, saving the cost of the production, improve the production quality. In the future, increasing production efficiency and reducing costs are bound to become the key to enterprise production.

Enhance innovation

As the market competition intensifies, many enterprises are yearning for the past "good times", feeling that business is becoming more and more difficult to do. Indeed, before 2008, the global economy, especially Chinese society is still in shortage economy, then it is "what are people", not sell, but now the market increasingly saturated, everywhere is the Red Sea market.

However, some people believe that, in fact, demand has been everywhere, "Red Sea" just because of homogenization, and the lack of product innovation. Whenever there is a feature, to meet or even lead consumer demand products have been recognized by the market and can be generous returns. Tesla, for example, has surpassed Ford and GM, becoming the nation's highest market value of the car company, Model S expects sales in the United States this year will exceed the Mercedes Benz S+, BMW 7 Series + Audi A7 total.

The starting time of China's magnetic component products lags behind that of the leading European and American countries, but it has developed rapidly. In quite a short time, the sales of many products are in the leading position in the world. However, in the high-end market, our product innovation still follow other people's footsteps, but the brand appeal is still insufficient. China's magnetic component products have been winning for a long time. As our cost advantages are inevitably losing, if we want to continue to lead the world in sales, we must improve product innovation.

For China's magnetic component enterprises, the current competitive situation is "crisis in the organic."". On the one hand, the market environment is not optimistic, and many applications appear sluggish growth and even retrogression, while homogenization and price war also make the internal friction between enterprises seriously. But on the other hand, TDK, Murata Ko and other famous Japanese enterprises have gradually fade out the inductance and inductance of consumer electronics market, and at the same time, automotive electronics, industrial electronics and other industries strong growth, all of these will bring more development space China magnetics enterprise.

China enterprises want to successfully take the Japanese market smoothly into the high-end market, we must increase the development and use of high performance magnetic materials for innovation, so as to produce comparable Japanese enterprises innovative products.

Implementing customization

Enterprise has always been widespread desire for large-scale, high-volume production orders, however, as people consumption and increasing demand for personalized products, and product customization has become the new trend of consumption, thus the enterprise must face, more varieties of small batch production, so the production flexibility to become the biggest challenges facing the field of production.

Custom products have greater value space than standardized products because they are closer to the individual requirements. In the future, production efficiency and product cost reduction will be changed. Therefore, it is urgent for enterprises to transform the manufacturing process so as to form a mass production model which can be flexibly produced and meet the customized requirements. By combining the advantages of two production modes of customized production and mass production, the two contradictory problems of "customization" and "scale" are solved.

In short, the magnetic component industry is facing a new "four corners" dilemma, and it is urgent to win new opportunities for high-speed development through automation transformation and innovation.