Automotive maintenance equipment classification and automotive insurance industry development

2024-09-19 11:05:14

Auto maintenance equipment refers to all kinds of equipment used for automobile maintenance, including maintenance tools, these equipment is sometimes called car cleaning equipment, because the current owner is paying more and more attention to car maintenance, maintenance and maintenance two concepts have been mentioned side by side.

The development of the automobile maintenance equipment industry has a long development process, because the automobile was invented during the Industrial Revolution, the economically developed capitalist countries took the lead in using and popularizing automobiles. The mass use of cars is facing the problem of repair and maintenance, at first, people repair cars by hands and simple tools, and these simple equipment and tools are also produced by automobile manufacturers or spare parts companies. With the improvement of car ownership, auto maintenance equipment has produced a huge business opportunity, developed countries such as Germany, the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom and other auto maintenance equipment enterprises began to be born, professional designers began to design and provide some professional auto maintenance equipment for the use of repair plants, tire removal machine, balancing machine, four-wheel alignment, lifting machine began to be born. With the extensive use of automotive electronic control systems, automotive decoders were later invented. After hundreds of years of development, the auto maintenance equipment industry has developed into an independent industry, and around the auto maintenance equipment has produced related service industries, such as maintenance technology training, auto maintenance equipment exhibition, auto maintenance equipment supermarket, auto maintenance equipment store.

China's auto protection equipment industry also has a long development process, many of China's auto protection technology is referred to foreign enterprises or improved, so as to become their own products. Although the current rapid development of China's automobile industry, but in some places behind the economic development, advanced Car maintenance equipment has not been widely used.

Classification of auto maintenance equipment

Automotive maintenance equipment can generally be divided into: automotive diagnostic equipment, testing and analysis equipment, automotive maintenance and cleaning equipment, sheet metal painting equipment, automotive maintenance supplies, repair tools, tire equipment, automotive machinery equipment, etc., due to the variety and variety of automotive maintenance equipment, strict classification is more difficult, but the above is basically the mainstream classification method of the industry.

Automobile diagnostic equipment mainly includes automobile fault computer diagnostic equipment, automobile decoder, code reading card, data flow analysis, special computer, etc.

Detection and analysis equipment mainly includes test bench, detection line, locator, detector, leak detector, detection table, brake table, analyzer, endoscope, sensor, oscilloscope, smoke meter, [3] and other detection equipment.

Maintenance and cleaning equipment mainly includes automatic transmission cleaning and oil changing machine, power steering oil changing machine, butter filling machine, refrigerant recovery and filling machine, oil nozzle cleaning and testing equipment, polishing machine, waxing machine, vacuum cleaner and water suction machine.

Sheet metal painting equipment, mainly including paint room, paint lamp, paint mixing room, girder correction, ground eight diagrams, spray gun and so on.

Tire equipment, mainly refers to balancing machine, tire removal machine, nitrogen filling machine, tire repair machine and so on.

Maintenance supplies, mainly including repair paint, refrigerant, brake fluid, antifreeze, lubricating oil, repair agent, glass water, sealant, soot, rust inhibitor, water tank, car wax, car glaze, refrigerant, auto and motorcycle cleaning agent, tire polish agent, automobile adhesive, other maintenance supplies. From the broad sense of auto maintenance equipment, auto maintenance supplies can also be summarized as auto maintenance equipment.

Maintenance tools mainly refer to various types of maintenance tools used for manual operation, such as wrenches, screw batches, sets, tool carts, tool boxes, worktables, etc.

Mechanical equipment, there are some auto maintenance equipment is not easy to classify, in line with the properties of mechanical equipment, especially summarized into this category, such as lifts, jacks, cranes, cranes, etc.

The development of automobile insurance industry

The automobile warranty equipment industry is a sub-industry of the national transportation industry, which belongs to the industrial equipment class, and provides maintenance and testing equipment and tools for an important tool of transportation - automobiles, which is an important material basis for ensuring the maintenance of normal technical conditions of automobiles. The quality of automobile maintenance is related to road traffic safety, air pollution prevention and control, the quality of public life, the healthy and sustainable development of the automobile industry, and the livelihood services. Therefore, promoting the healthy development of the automobile warranty equipment industry has important social and civic nature, and is also an important symbol of the progress of the national automobile industry and the modernization level of the national economy.

1. Current situation and evaluation

During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, in the face of profound changes in the international and domestic environment and risk challenges, under the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee and The State Council, China's economy has maintained steady and rapid growth, the adjustment of the national economic structure has achieved positive results, and China's automobile warranty equipment industry has been sound and rapid development.

(1) The industry maintained sustained and rapid growth

After five years of development, China has developed into a major manufacturer of automobile warranty equipment. The total amount of equipment manufacturing has jumped to the forefront of the world, and the product types can also cover the needs of all automobile manufacturing, testing and maintenance industries. The current auto insurance products include: vehicle detection and diagnosis; Auto parts diagnosis and maintenance; Automobile body repair; Automobile spraying equipment; Automotive lifting equipment; Automobile wheel related service equipment; Vehicle and parts cleaning, beauty, maintenance, decoration and modification equipment; Automotive related professional teaching AIDS and equipment; Vehicle oil testing equipment; All kinds of maintenance tools, etc.

Driven by the rapid growth of car ownership in China, during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the average annual growth rate of the industry's added value reached 10.3%, and the total output value of the industry is expected to reach 33 billion yuan in 2015. The scale of the industry has expanded, the strength of enterprises has increased, after years of development, there have been nearly ten enterprises listed, and a number of enterprises are actively preparing for listing, and the development momentum of the entire industry is strong.

(2) Technological progress has brought great changes to the face of the industry

During the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, the auto insurance industry is still a small enterprise scale, a large number of enterprises, the total output value of less than 20 billion yuan of the industry, and now, the number of several major products in the industry has reached more than half of the world market, some enterprises more than 80% of the products for export. This change has benefited from the introduction and digestion of foreign technology, and benefited from the research and development and innovation of its own technology. So far, the whole industry has obtained a total of more than 1,000 patents for invention and utility models, and the backbone enterprises have established their own research institutions, the technical strength of enterprises has been significantly enhanced, and the research institutions of cooperation between enterprises have developed rapidly. This situation has laid an important foundation for the further development of the whole industry during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.

Relying on national or local R & D centers, key laboratories and innovation bases, enterprises in the auto insurance industry continue to introduce innovative products, form market advantages and bring vitality to the industry. Based on the backbone enterprises, seven technology research and development centers in the auto insurance industry are established, namely, automobile spray paint technology research and development center, automobile collision repair and testing equipment technology research and development center, automobile fault diagnosis technology research and development center, automobile lift technology research and development center, automobile education and teaching equipment research and development center, tire service equipment technology research and development center, motor vehicle testing and maintenance inspection and supervision At present, the management technology research and development center has been completed and is gradually moving into the normal operation stage, and has made some gratifying achievements. Among them, the R & D centers of Quanta, Yuanzheng, Guangming and other enterprises have come up with original scientific and technological achievements. Most R & D centers rely on enterprises with provincial R & D centers and provincial high-tech enterprise qualifications. Driven by the R&D centers, the scale of investment in technology research and development funds of automobile insurance enterprises continues to expand, and the number of patents obtained continues to increase. At present, the annual investment scale of backbone enterprises is more than 3 million yuan, and individual enterprises have reached a scale of 30 million yuan. As the number of patents owned by enterprises increases, patent protection becomes more and more important. At the same time, how to make good use of patents, not only to protect ourselves, but also to achieve greater results through patent authorization and exchange, will be a new topic placed in front of the whole industry during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.

3. The industrial structure has been continuously improved

During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the industrial structure of China's auto insurance industry has been continuously optimized. First, through the technical upgrading of existing products, improve product quality and reliability; Second, according to the needs of the market segment, according to the maintenance information disclosed by the automobile manufacturers, tailor-made special maintenance equipment to meet the needs of the market; The third is to use the power of capital to build international brands and enable enterprises to embark on the road of scale, branding and modernization; The fourth is to increase development efforts, create products with independent intellectual property rights, increase the technical content of equipment, and make breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation, automation, personalized customization and specialization of services; Fifth, positive progress has been made in energy conservation and emission reduction, green maintenance, safety and reliability, personalized customization for different maintenance processes, and new energy vehicle maintenance services; Sixth, the pace of enterprise mergers and reorganizations has accelerated, and the degree of industrial concentration has significantly increased.

With the strong support of the local government, China has established and gradually improved two large-scale auto insurance professional industrial parks: one is China (Yingkou) Auto insurance Industrial Park located in Yingkou City; The second is the China International Automobile Aftermarket Industrial Park (Yancheng) located in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. The establishment of the above two major auto insurance professional industrial parks has played an important demonstration and leading role in promoting technological progress and intensive development of the industry.