Digitalization empowers mining machinery and accelerates the industry
The mining machinery industry occupies a pillar position in the national economy and plays a great role and contributes to economic construction. Whether from the current market development status of China's mining machinery industry or from the global industry operation situation, China's mining machinery industry is in a historic window period.
In 2023, under the sluggish development of the domestic engineering machinery industry, mining machinery, as a bright spot, has a gratifying development trend. The mainstream companies in the industry believe that in 2024, in the field of Chinese engineering machinery, the mining equipment sector will still maintain a positive growth, and the overall growth rate will be much higher than the industry average.
Development trend of mining machinery industry
my country's current mining machinery and equipment technology research and development is developing in the direction of unmanned, intelligent and digital; in response to the national strategy of "green mines", companies in the industry will promote the integration of energy-saving and environmental protection technologies and equipment, and the equipment will continue to upgrade to "large-scale" and "intelligent". The mining machinery industry will change from complete machines to complete sets, and the industry's business model will change from pure manufacturing to a comprehensive model of "equipment manufacturing + service" to obtain better operating benefits.
01 In line with the development of the times, mining machinery is transforming and upgrading towards digitalization and unmanned operation.
With the rapid iteration of new generation information technologies such as 5G networks, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing, traditional mining is also facing digitalization and intelligent transformation. "Unmanned" is the basis of the overall concept of "smart mine". First of all, the operation of unmanned mining vehicles keeps practitioners away from the front line of operations, significantly reducing the number of personnel in high-risk areas, thereby reducing the possibility of accidents and greatly improving the safety of the industry. Secondly, unmanned mining vehicles can achieve continuous operation around the clock, breaking through the limitations of traditional mining working hours and significantly improving transportation efficiency and productivity. In addition, unmanned mining vehicles can be integrated into digital and automated mine management systems to achieve optimal resource allocation, path planning and operation scheduling, thereby improving overall operating efficiency. Precision operations and energy conservation and emission reduction under refined management can also significantly reduce environmental pollution caused by traditional mining, making the industry greener.
In the future, the manufacturing technology of mining machinery and equipment will continue to integrate with high-end technologies such as the new generation of information technology, and establish a complete digital and intelligent system in the design, research and development, mining, storage and transportation of mining machinery, thereby improving the operating efficiency of mechanical equipment; in addition, the industry will establish more general equipment manufacturing standards, and focus on solving the easy maintenance of equipment, and promote the steady improvement of the mining efficiency of mineral energy, so as to better serve end customers.
02 Respond to the national strategy of green mining and promote the development of equipment towards large-scale and energy-saving
With the country's high attention to the environmental protection goals of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality", mining machinery is required to be "ecological and energy-saving", and mining companies are also constantly reorganizing and changing. China's mining is accelerating towards green, safe, intelligent and efficient development. The new mining pattern has emerged, and large-scale and intelligent equipment has become an inevitable trend.
Safety and efficiency are the main themes of mining development. Large-scale mining equipment has higher production capacity and has inherent advantages in improving mining efficiency, shortening production cycles, and reducing safety costs.
In recent years, many domestic mining machinery suppliers have already smelled business opportunities and started to make efforts to deploy super-large mining equipment. Compared with small and medium-sized equipment, large equipment generally has the characteristics of high production capacity and intelligence, simple process flow and convenient management, so it can meet the needs of downstream customers to expand production scale, reduce production costs, and reduce energy consumption. Therefore, mining machinery is constantly moving towards "large-scale" and "intelligent".
03 Provide overall solutions for complete sets of equipment to improve the profit level of the industry
For mining machinery manufacturers, the sales of complete sets of equipment have better cost performance than the sales of complete equipment, and the sales scale is also higher, but at the same time, the sales of complete sets of equipment also have higher requirements for the manufacturer's solution design capabilities. Since most complete equipment is standardized, the complete set of equipment must be customized according to a series of factors such as the customer's on-site terrain, production requirements, rock properties, and finished product specifications, so that it can achieve the best results in environmental protection, safety, energy consumption, cost, and output. Therefore, the requirements for equipment manufacturers have been significantly improved. It can be foreseen that the overall solution integrating design, manufacturing, and service will be the main trend of the future development of the mining machinery industry.
With the provision of complete equipment solutions, for mining machinery manufacturers, providing customers with after-market equipment maintenance, parts replacement, production line operation, technical transformation and upgrading services are expected to become the entry point for transformation and service. The upgrade from equipment manufacturers to solution providers means that mining machinery companies are no longer just focusing on product production, but extending their business tentacles to the entire life cycle of the product, and continuously creating higher value for customers.
