The formation of everything has its subjective and objective reasons, and the formation mechanism is complicated. The status of non-standard equipment is also the result of various factors. Although the non-standard equipment is still a relatively healthy industry, the seven difficulties in front of it have more and more obviously affected the development of the non-standard automation equipment industry.

1、 Non standard equipment can not be mass produced, large enterprises are not willing to do it, and small-scale enterprises are easy to get living space.

Non standard equipment is a kind of equipment that has no standard to follow and is customized according to the production status of enterprises. The equipment of enterprise a can only be applied to enterprise a, and cannot be copied to enterprise B in batch production.

Usually, it takes two or three months for a piece of equipment with several hundred thousand RMB to meet the needs of customers, to provide scheme design by non-standard equipment factory, to discuss and determine the scheme, to sign a contract, to produce design drawings, to process parts, and to assemble and accept the equipment.

Because the input-output ratio is too low, large enterprises are reluctant to cut such trivial and long-term small orders.

However, such a project is quite attractive to small enterprises with only 10 people. A sales and a few mechanical engineers, a few software engineers of small-scale enterprises crazy growth.

2、 The scale of the non-standard equipment market has increased, but the cake is bigger, and more people share the cake.

In 2000, only some Taiwan enterprises in the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta were well-known for making non-standard equipment in China, and the total number of these enterprises was about 30.

According to the relevant statistics, the scale of non-standard equipment in that year was estimated to be about 600 million, accounting for about 70% of the market share.

By 2012, there are nearly 70 non-standard equipment and automation equipment enterprises in Dongguan. There are countless small-scale non-standard equipment in China, with the order of magnitude of more than 10000. The market scale is estimated to grow to about 60 billion.

In a word, although the market scale has increased by 100 times, the manufacturers have increased by 1000 times. The new market is occupied by many small manufacturers. Failed to form scale enterprises.

3、 The threshold of non-standard equipment enterprises is low, and the quality of personnel is uneven.

Why there are so many non-standard manufacturers in the market? The reason is that the initial investment cost of the non-standard equipment factory is low, and the whole investment is estimated to be about dozens.

Usually, the entrepreneurial mode of non-standard equipment factory is that two or three shareholders invest together, one shareholder is responsible for sales, one shareholder is responsible for technology, and one shareholder is responsible for after-sales. It does not need the intervention of large capital and large enterprises.

This situation leads to the non-standard equipment industry is relatively closed, the industry can not be shuffled, good money can not drive out bad money, and the good and bad enterprises are intermingled.

4、 It pursues the principle of "taking" and has few innovative research and development.

There are few new inventions, new creations and new applications in domestic non-standard enterprises. It is popular for domestic enterprises to visit exhibitions at home and abroad. One of the important purposes is to discover new applications, new processes and new technologies.

In many ways, this approach has a very positive significance. It shortens the level of equipment gap between China and developed countries, improves the degree of industrial modernization and agricultural modernization, and reduces the labor intensity of the masses.

However, there is no doubt that this kind of plagiarism in the name of reference has seriously reduced the enthusiasm of enterprises to develop new technologies and new applications; over time, it has affected the technical ability of China's automation equipment industry, making the core always in the hands of European and American enterprises.

For long-term development, we must attach great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights, so that enterprises can get long-term and stable benefits from R & D. the non-standard equipment industry especially needs to protect intellectual property rights.

5、 The requirements of enterprises for automation are still relatively primary, which restricts the development of non-standard automation industry to a higher level.

Under the pressure of human resource shortage, manufacturing enterprises choose automation. However, from the perspective of saving human resources, automation can be roughly divided into three stages: semi automation, full automation, automation and information integration.

Based on cost considerations, many enterprises choose semi-automatic equipment, and the slightly complex processes are completed manually. For this kind of semi-automatic product, a person who knows more about Mechatronics can complete all the designs independently. A large number of such low-level automation requirements restrict the development of non-standard industry to a higher level.