Since the beginning of the 21st century, the market demand of China's pharmaceutical equipment industry has been growing rapidly. According to hua xuewei, deputy director of the academic committee of China pharmaceutical industry information center, chemical preparation, Chinese patent medicine and biological preparation will remain the key sub-industries in 2016 and the 13th five-year plan, taking into account the economic scale, profit level, profit margin, growth and profitability of various sub-industries of the pharmaceutical industry. The traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces and health materials will have the expected growth driven by the big health industry and the biological innovation technology respectively. Pharmaceutical machinery could be a potentially profitable dark horse.

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China's pharmaceutical equipment manufacturing industry faces huge market space

In the six years from 2009 to 2014, the total demand of China's pharmaceutical equipment industry has increased from 18.7 billion yuan to 46.6 billion yuan, with an average annual increase of about 20%.

It is understood that since the beginning of the 21st century, China's pharmaceutical equipment industry market demand shows a rapid growth trend. On the one hand, foreign pharmaceutical equipment giants have also increased the investment scale and sales strength in the Chinese market one after another, and by virtue of their advantages in capital, talent, equipment, technology and research and development, they have occupied the main market share of domestic high-end pharmaceutical equipment. On the other hand, after decades of exploration and accumulation, China's pharmaceutical equipment industry has gradually formed a group of pharmaceutical equipment manufacturers with strong research and development capabilities, independent intellectual property rights, and strong competitiveness in the high-end market. Especially in the field of TCM processing equipment, Chinese enterprises have achieved considerable development in their research and development ability, product innovation ability and profitability. China's pharmaceutical equipment manufacturing industry is facing a huge market space.

China's pharmaceutical machinery has a long way to go

In recent years, although China's pharmaceutical machinery market has made some achievements, the market space is huge, but, compared with foreign products, China's pharmaceutical machinery still has a large gap.

According to the "2014-2018 global pharmaceutical industry market in-depth survey and development trend research report" issued by China report hall, it is pointed out that although the development of pharmaceutical machinery has made great achievements after decades of development, many enterprises are still in the stage of imitation, improvement and combination. Compared with developed countries, products of the same type are still far behind.

At present, some pharmaceutical enterprises are engaged in a price war, and the follow-up research and development, production, sales and after-sales service are all in need of financial support, which leads to difficulties in capital turnover. The disordered competition among enterprises also causes some companies to cut corners and cut costs by any means, resulting in inferior product quality.

The pharmaceutical machinery industry faces new challenges in the face of rising imports, expanding retail space and increasingly diverse customer preferences.

Pharmaceutical equipment products not only affect the quality and curative effect of drugs, but also have a direct impact on the energy consumption, cost, economic benefit and operator's health of the manufacturing enterprises. Quite a few pharmaceutical equipment manufacturers do not have the experimental conditions, so it is difficult to find the best process route and high efficiency. Therefore, China's pharmaceutical machinery industry has a long way to go.

Focusing on intelligent manufacturing opens the pharmaceutical 4.0 era

How can pharmaceutical machinery products improve their quality, production of high quality, high efficacy of drugs? Focusing on intelligent manufacturing will be an important way out for pharmaceutical equipment manufacturing industry. The key implementation areas of "made in China 2025" are new-generation information technology industry, biological medicine and biological manufacturing industry, high-end equipment manufacturing industry, etc. The new "intelligent manufacturing era" will bring new investment opportunities to the pharmaceutical machinery and equipment industry.

In the era of industry 4.0, the pharmaceutical industry is faced with opportunities and challenges brought by the global industrial restructuring. As the low-cost advantage of Chinese manufacturing is no longer available, the improvement of product precision, the transformation from manufacturing to "intelligent manufacturing", and the improvement of production automation level have become the key to the development of enterprises. The automation transformation project will upgrade the production of industrial enterprises from manual mode to automatic and intelligent mode, create an intelligent medical and health industry chain, and realize the sustainable development strategy of collaboration and sharing, mutual benefit and win-win between upstream and downstream enterprises in the pharmaceutical industry.

Facing the industry 4.0 era, the pharmaceutical machinery and equipment industry needs to take the high-end intelligent route. The author learned that pharmaceutical machinery enterprises are now also actively layout industry 4.0. For example, Truking Technology Limited actively builds industry 4.0 smart factory. October 31, chutian science and technology, the chairman of Tang Yue in "connect you and me, smart future" 15th anniversary celebration and industrial factory 4.0 wisdom exchange, said the company is with international advanced industrial innovation 4.0 pace, with all its strength "a vertical and a horizontal, a platform" strategic layout, chutian confidence in 2025 turned into world-class leading enterprise revenue in 20 billion.

With the popularization of intelligent manufacturing technology and the gradual recognition and utilization of intelligent equipment in social production, it has been generally recognized that intelligent mechanical equipment is better than traditional industrial production, and it will replace extensive traditional industrial production irreversibly in the future. At present, the new trend is that China's manufacturing industry has reached an important juncture, and the high-end transformation and industrial upgrading of pharmaceutical machinery industry has entered a critical period.