MFC in-depth recommendation: How to obtain the latest information about the stamping and sheet metal industries?

Liu Mingxing Li Jian Wang Sijie Sheet Metal Forming House 2017-11-09

MFC sheet metal forming platform

1. Official website: www.mfc-china.org

2. Today's headline: the home of sheet metal forming

3. WeChat subscription account: MFC-home Sheet Metal Forming House

4. Group of friends address book: "MFC Sheet Metal Forming Magazine" 16,000 address book

5. Thousand Chats Excellent Class: MFC-Stamping Union Masters Live Room

1Effort is important, choice is more important

The upstream is a concentrated raw material supplier, and the downstream is facing scattered customers. Both are very strong. It is not easy for stamping and sheet metal companies to negotiate life in the cracks.

Constant pressures on cost, price, delivery time, quality, and customer development have made most companies tremble, like walking on thin ice. In a fully competitive market, no one can sit back and relax. If you want to live better, you have to look farther than others and run faster than others. As an industry dominated by processing SMEs, our products depend on the needs of the user industry.

This requires our company to do several things:

First, find fast-growing industries, reserve in advance, recognize declining industries, and gradually withdraw;

Second, establish management and technical advantages, and have stronger competitiveness than peers.

When the downstream industry emerged, there were few qualified suppliers, and the latter had considerable bargaining power.

In the past few years, the logistics industry, financial self-service equipment, new energy vehicles, wind energy, solar energy, new energy, infrastructure and other industries have generated huge demand. Those foresighted sheet metal and stamping parts companies have received at least two years of dividends , Once the peers of the entire industry pounced in, the market became a red sea of price wars.

Therefore, it is very important for the company's decision makers, as well as technical and production management personnel, to obtain the information that determines the development of an enterprise through various channels.

2New energy vehicles and labor insurance industries still have a wave of dividends

Take the automobile industry as an example. At present, new energy vehicles have become China’s national strategy. Forging related to traditional automobile engines will inevitably shrink, followed by lightweight technologies such as carbon fiber, aluminum, high-strength steel, fiber-reinforced plastics, and fiberglass. The wide application of other materials will have a huge impact on traditional stamping, welding and riveting technologies.

The severity of this year's environmental protection storm is beyond imagination. This is pressure from the government. MFC predicts that the labor protection industry for workers will also have a big development in the next step. At foreign exhibitions, workers’ labor protection clothing, shoes and hats, eyepieces, noise reduction, dust removal, rust removal, air purification, and labor intensity auxiliary equipment have a large number of products displayed, accounting for almost 10% of the total number of exhibitors~ 15%. If China does not develop these products, it will be difficult to attract workers from the 90s and 00s to enter the traditional manufacturing industry.

Closer to home, which channels allow companies to stay one step ahead?

(1) The fastest way is to directly contact hundreds of industry customers at one time. The development trend of the industry is clear at a glance, and the latest conceptual technologies are generally displayed at the exhibition.

Internationally, stamping and sheet metal related exhibitions include EuroBLECH in Hannover in Germany, Blechexpo in one year, Lamiera in Milan, Italy, MF-Tokyo and Intermold in Japan, and MetalForm in the United States every year. The +Fabtech+AWS+Coatech exhibitions are all professional exhibitions in the stamping sheet metal industry, showcasing the world's advanced equipment and technology, and also showing the latest developments in the parts industry.

For example, in foreign exhibitions, there are many innovations in metal furniture, lamps, toys, handicrafts, household health care equipment such as oxygen chambers, and car streamlined structural parts such as integrated car doors. The speed from concept products to practical applications is very fast.

The comprehensive industrial exhibition is of course Hannover Messe Hannover Messe, which showcases the latest developments in various fields of industry. Enterprises and governments all over the world are studying and looking for ideas.

The traditional stamping and sheet metal manufacturing industry cooperates with artists, using various drawing, grinding and spraying techniques to produce interesting, exquisite surface quality and ergonomics of various metal daily-use products, fitness equipment and decorations. It is a developed country The emerging trend, the single products are very expensive, which deserves attention.

There are many domestic exhibitions, the larger ones include the MWCS CNC Machine Tool and Metalworking Exhibition in the International Industry Fair, the SIMM Shenzhen Machinery Exhibition, the CIMES Machine Tool Exhibition in the Biennale, the CIMT Machine Tool Exhibition in a single year, the MetalForm China Metal Forming Exhibition, Shanghai DMC Mold Exhibition, Essen Cutting Exhibition, Dongguan DMP Mold and Metalworking Exhibition, Cwmte Chongqing Lijia Machine Tool Exhibition, etc.

In the field of sheet metal, MWCS in East China is absolutely the number one exhibition, while the RS Robotics Exhibition and IAS Industrial Automation Exhibition at the same time are also top exhibitions in their respective fields;

In the north, the international CIMES machine tool exhibition is one of the largest in scale and influence;

In the south, SIMM Shenzhen Machinery is the first choice in the industry.

During the same period of the exhibition, there are generally many forums and conferences, as well as a large number of industry reports and technical lectures. This is an opportunity to understand the industry in depth.

As a professional magazine in the industry, MFC Sheet Metal Forming Magazine has reached strategic cooperation with the above-mentioned top exhibitions and provided the organization of concurrent conferences and forums.

As for exhibitions in user industries, such as wind power, nuclear power, automobiles, new energy vehicles, logistics, kitchenware, musical instruments, aluminum doors, doors, windows, curtain walls, fitness equipment, and hardware, all fields have their own brand exhibitions. You can go to www.expofiles.com Retrieval.

Through the exhibitor list of the exhibition, we can easily find most of the leading companies in different regions.

（2）Professional magazines, publishers and websites are important channels for obtaining information

As a professional media in the industry, MFC is committed to introducing the most advanced international information to domestic stamping sheet metal counterparts. We have been paying attention to these domestic and foreign media.

The ones worth paying attention to are:

DVS MEDIA in Germany is a professional publishing house specializing in welding, cutting and surface treatment. There are many data and video CD publications;

The website www.blechnet.com is a website under the Vogel Group. This website and the MM newspaper are the official cooperative media of Euroblech and blechexpo. There are many case introductions to equipment and parts companies;

German umformtechnik.net and magazines, focusing on serving stamping and sheet metal industries;

Beuth publishing DIN is the standard publishing house for various industries in Germany;

Www.mtm-online.it under the banner of D.F.Edizioni srl in Italy shows the situation in Italy;

MM manufacturing: www.maschinenmarkt. de;

The International Sheet Metal Review bimonthly in the United Kingdom belongs to the same group as the EuroBlech exhibition;

Japan: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun’s newspapers, as well as a large number of professional books. The stamping and sheet metal books of Japanese manga editions are definitely the most intuitive and interesting textbooks in the world. The drawing is extremely detailed and vivid; its プレス (press machine ) Monthly technical magazines are also very influential;

In addition, there is the plain material forming center www.sokeizai.or.jp which is very influential in Japan. The concept of plain material was invented in Japan, and it probably covers four fields of casting, forging, stamping and powder metallurgy;

United States: FMA’s thefabricator.com has several magazines such as The Fabricator (sheet metal) and Stamping (stamping), Welding (welding), Tube&Pipe (pipe), etc.;

PMA's metalforming.com website and the magazine Metalforming Stamping Magazine regularly publish the prosperity index of the American stamping industry;

The German, Italian, and Japanese magazines above have a large amount of information, and there is no corresponding English version, but the powerful translation function of Google does not affect the reading of English-speaking professionals.

Domestic magazines, currently influential magazines focusing on the stamping sheet metal industry include MFC "Metal Sheet Forming" (www.mfc-china.org); China Metalforming Association's "Sheet Metal and Manufacturing" and "Forging and Stamping" monthly publications ; "Forging Technology" of Beijing Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, "Forging Equipment and Manufacturing Technology" of Jinan Institute of Casting and Forging Machinery;

Magazines and newspapers covering stamping sheet metal include "MM Modern Manufacturing", Ringier Industrial Resources, "Laser Manufacturing Business Information", and "Metal Processing Magazine" of the Institute of Machinery Industry Information.

Companies such as Bruderer, Amada, Trumpf, Han's, Heforge, and Yangli all have corporate magazines and internal magazines, and there are also many wonderful information.

（3）After the rise of the mobile Internet such as social media and WeChat public accounts,

Most people's broken reading time is basically eaten up by several major mobile apps. In the professional field, there are also some big V numbers.

Currently influential WeChat public accounts include MFC Sheet Metal Forming Home (MFC-home), Stamping Industry Union (press_union), Sheet Metal Processing 2025 (SheetMetal2025), Sheet Metal Circle (Banjinquan), CMC Mold Additive Manufacturing (CMCtwsh) As well as the public accounts of companies such as Salvagnini, Amada, TRUMPF, Hanzu, Primabao, and Yangli, there are a large number of cases and professional articles.

On today’s headlines, MFC’s Sheet Metal Forming House has released more than 400 videos, most of which are selected domestic and foreign equipment, processes and production site videos of top factories, which have attracted the attention of more than 20,000 fans. There are many updates.

Generally speaking, foreign companies attach great importance to publishing information on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook. Especially before the start of the exhibition, they will upload a large number of videos to the Internet, so that there is no need to print a large number of samples, and interested audiences can directly follow the account to obtain the information they need. In China, WeChat public accounts integrate some of the functions of these three software.

As a stamping sheet metal company, you can search through the company name or keywords such as Deep drawing and search for a large number of stretching application videos, not only equipment manufacturers, but also a large number of applications of parts and components. For China There are many lessons for the stretching companies. For example, the French sheet metal equipment giant Dimeco has a large amount of industry application data on its website, and Denmark's Hydraulico has a large number of applications for hydraulic presses.

As for how to use Google and Baidu to search for academic papers and reports from various industries, and what reliable channels are available, MFC Sheet Metal Forming Magazine will write a separate recommendation.

（4）Special meetings and WeChat groups, group friends address book, etc.

Most of the information is not written down and stored in the minds of industry professionals. Only face-to-face in-depth exchanges or reports can obtain some important information. Participating in such meetings is essential for expanding contacts and quickly obtaining first-hand information in the industry.

In the automotive stamping industry and sheet metal industry, there are a large number of special conferences and seminars on the market, and some market-oriented conferences are well organized; some leading companies also have their own technology open days, such as the 116 project, Leading companies such as sheet metal processing 2025 national tour technical lectures, Salvagnini, TRUMPF, Amada, Primabao, Yawei, Jinfangyuan and other leading enterprises have the strength to hold technical conferences in industrial concentration areas.

MFC's 2017 Stamping Sheet Metal Annual Conference in Langfang, and the upcoming "National First Deep Drawing Deep Drawing Innovation Technology Forum" in Suzhou on November 29-30, 2017 gathered a large number of very professional upstream and downstream companies in the industry, gathered in the magazine's The thematic WeChat group has very active communication, and the internal personnel communicate frequently online and offline, which really promotes the communication of information.

For participants, it is a very cost-effective investment to make so many professionals on a business trip.

MFC and Stamping Industry Alliance jointly created the "MFC- Stamping Industry Alliance" live broadcast room of famous experts on the Qianchao platform. It has accumulated more than 30 high-quality technical lectures covering all aspects of stamping and sheet metal, breaking through the time and space limitations of traditional lectures. Unlimited repeated listening, with an average of 1,000 to 10,000 listening performance per lecture. Interested companies can contact MFC to apply for a lecture.

MFC and Stamping Industry Alliance have respectively 15,000 and more than 13,000 contact directories in the stamping and sheet metal industry in the group friend address book, and there are often various supply and demand information and industry event announcements.

(5) Various machine tool and stamping sheet metal industry associations are also important sources of channels.

In order to facilitate retrieval, the author retains the original English text: Machine tool associations and organizations include:

United States: AMT-The Association for Manufacturing Technology.

Europe: CECIMO——European Committee for Cooperation of the Machine Tool Industrie.

Germany: VDW——German Machine Tool Builders’Association.

Italy: UCI MU-The Association of Italian Manufacturers of Machine Tools, Robots, Automation systems, and ancillary products.

China: CMTBA-China Machine Tool Industry Association.

Japan: JFMA Japan Forming Machinery Association.

South Korea: K O M M A —— K o r e a M a c h i n e T o o l Manufacturers’ Association.

Taiwan: TAMI-Taiwan Machinery Industry Association.

Stamping Sheet Metal Craft Association:

ICOSPA members: FIMMEF in France, IBU (Germany) in Germany, CBM in Britain, JMSA in Japan, CCMI in China, China Forging Association and PMA in the United States.