Mould is a tool for forcing metal or non-metal forming. With great development in china’s industrial scale and technical level, industry transformation and upgrading will become the focus of enterprise development in 2022.

The rapid development of the mold industry can give strong support to the manufacturing industry. The industry drive ratio of the mold industry is about 1:100, that is, the development of the mold industry is USD100 million, and the development of related industries is USD10 billion. At present, all industrial developed countries attach great importance to the development of mold manufacturing industry, not only because the mold industry accounts for a higher proportion in the machinery industry of various countries, but also because the mold industry provides important processing tools and technical support for the development and application of new technology and new products. Therefore, the mold industry in Europe and the United States and other industrial developed countries is called "iron into gold" "magnetic industry".

1. Digital mold technology is gradually promoted and applied

Digital mold technology has been gradually applied to our country mould design and manufacturing. The development trend of the mold industry points out that the domestic strong mold enterprises have begun to apply the digital mold technology to the mold development, design, manufacturing and testing links, improve the reliability of the mold design, shorten the mold development cycle, and obtain good economic benefits. It is expected that digital mold technology will gradually become the mainstream technology of mold manufacturing, and be adopted by more mold enterprises.

2. Laser rapid prototyping technology is applied to mold manufacturing

Compared with the traditional molding process, laser rapid prototyping technology has the advantages of high utilization rate of raw materials (close to 100%), complex structure, easy integration and intelligence, and is the ideal molding process of mold. At present, laser lamination technology LOM, selective laser sintering technology SLS and other laser forming processes have been successfully applied to mold manufacturing. Laser rapid prototyping technology has broad application prospects in automotive mold manufacturing and is one of the important development directions of mold forming technology.

3. Management informatization and scientific

The development trend of die industry points out that the information and scientific management is an important aspect of the development of automobile die technology, which promotes die enterprises to constantly develop to the direction of just-in-time manufacturing and lean production. With the progress of modern management technology, many advanced information management tools, including enterprise resource management system ERP, manufacturing execution system MES, product life cycle management PLM and other advanced information management tools, have been applied in mold enterprises. Through process optimization, efficient utilization of resources and execution strengthening, mold production efficiency and enterprise management efficiency are improved to make production more accurate and efficient.

At present, our mould manufacturing industry is at the stage of coexistence of opportunity and challenge. Under the efforts of national policies and local enterprises, on the one hand, the number of various mold industry bases in the country has been increasing in recent years, which makes the system of mold manufacturing supporting services increasingly perfect, also makes the mold industry itself and the upstream and downstream industries supporting cooperation more convenient, promotes the mold production cost reduction, the production cycle is shortened, and the scale effect is gradually reflected. On the other hand, the mold industry has completed the transition from skill to technology compound, from mold manufacturing to mold + technical service, mold enterprises are not only mold suppliers but also become integrated technology service providers.