Manufacturing equipment industry LCD faces four challenges

After 20 years of development, China's LCD industry from scratch, from passive into active, has become the world's largest TN/STN LCD industry production and output ranked fourth in the world. At present, there are more than 180 production factories and research institutes related to the LCD industry in China, about 110 TN/STN-LCD production lines, 7 TFT-LCD production lines and a large number of TN/STN/TFT LCD module production lines. In the face of the trend of the development of the TFT-LCD panel industry, it is an opportunity and a challenge for China's LCD equipment manufacturing industry.

First, LCD equipment manufacturing industry in our country is in the TFT-LCD industry chain reconstruction and integration period. In the information industry "11th Five-Year" development planning, flat panel display industry to become the core focus of the development of basic industries, basic industries have a strong driving effect of industrial chain, and set up a special industry, in order to form a China, in flat panel display group breakthrough and the whole industry across a field. On the other hand, TFT-LCD industry is capital intensive, technology intensive, short product life cycle, production line technology, quick replacement related industry intensive, high barriers and the division of international patent special industry, its value is reflected in the whole industry chain, rather than a simple line of competition. Flat panel display pioneer in the field of BOE, SVA and other pioneers, but can not avoid the debt, liquidity and other issues. It is gratifying that the integration of China's flat panel display industry has kicked off. By the end of 2006, SVA, BOE and Ivo announced the integration plan for Chinese flat panel display development industry launched a new round of clarion. This involves the integration of Yangtze River Delta and the Bohai rim region, if Shenzhen Julong project goes smoothly, it will further open up the North-South channel of China's flat-panel displays, and with the help of the terminal industry in the Pearl River Delta region advantage, better through the flat panel display upstream and downstream industry chain, the realization of China's flat-panel display industry overall upgrade. In addition, the investment of 1 billion 300 million yuan rainbow LCD glass substrate project will be put into operation by the end of the year, can fill the lack of upstream industry chain TFT-LCD. Therefore, LCD China's equipment manufacturing industry is facing a very good opportunity, the reconstruction of industry chain integration and TFT-LCD manufacturers, can cut demand in the TFT-LCD industry seize the opportune moment, this is a good opportunity.

Second, based on China's LCD equipment manufacturing industry, manufacturing equipment in LCD, after years of efforts, China has been able to produce part of LCD manufacturing equipment and testing instrument. Specializing in the production of liquid crystal in manufacturing equipment manufacturers, China electronics technology group two, Taiyuan Fenghua, Shenzhen runzheng, Beijing Tsing, Shenzhen airlines and a number of enterprises with comparative advantage are emerging. Some of these enterprises have become the typical representative of LCD process system solutions.

But on the other hand, China's overall development ability, LCD equipment manufacturing industry, compared with Japan, South Korea and China's Taiwan region there is a certain gap, especially in the core technology. In China LCD manufacturing equipment is still in the beginning stage and provide local supporting single dispersed enterprises, key technology and production equipment has not been involved in the whole production line, to meet all of the production process of manufacturing facilities and provide the ability to still need to go through a hard process.

Third, enterprise innovation, product upgrades, old or new, this is the law of nature, but also the rules of the market, is the driving force to promote the development of the tablet industry. The development of LCD industry in China is in a critical period, starting from the product innovation foundation of production technology and manufacturing equipment, selecting the node key production technology is an important breakthrough, and then drives the entire system of production line solutions, to support and guarantee conditions of manufacturing equipment to promote the overall development of LCD industry, this will be the key to support the rapid development of LCD industry in China achieved a comprehensive breakthrough and scale. At this point, is also in line with China "to the enterprises as the main innovation" innovation system construction planning, implementation and implementation of the state should choose, carry out organized LCD manufacturing equipment special and innovative guide fund project, selection of key research projects, to achieve effective breakthrough, to enhance the ability of solving system the process of LCD production line in China to manufacture equipment.

Can predict, with the rapid development of TFT-LCD technology and mature manufacturing requirements and many other aspects of the equipment in manufacturing precision, process quality, yield guarantee, flexible manufacturing and production cost control of the production line will be higher. The flexible assembly line, one machine multi power, adaptive diagnosis and the adjustment of the fast process parameters can be used to represent the future development direction of electronic process equipment.

Fourth, the government actively participate in support, coordinated development. Strengthen policy guidance, play the national industry highly centralized command system function, regulate the market economic lever, fully carry out areas, departments and enterprises between the professional division, implementation of orderly collaboration, maximize every aspect of precision, special professional function. At the present stage, we should pay attention to strengthening the system improvement of precision machinery processing industry. The backward processing technology, is China's largest gap compared with the developed countries in the world where is the electronic production equipment in China is one of the weak links, also can rapidly improve the performance of resistance, which requires the administrative departments of science and technology