Changzhou Technical Standards Help Advance the Transformation and Upgrade of Springs and Other Industries

According to the statistics of Changzhou Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, in the past five years, 108 industrial enterprises in Changzhou have completed (revised) 134 national standards and 127 industrial standards, handled 2020 bids, and achieved output value More than 200 billion yuan, together with Suzhou and Wuxi, ranks first in the province. Many companies have adopted comprehensive standards and improved product quality, and have promoted independent innovation and high-tech industrialization and embarked on the road to industrial upgrading and transformation.

In May this year, Changzhou Mingjin Spring Co., Ltd. cooperated with China Railway Construction Electrification Bureau Group to jointly establish China Railway Construction Electrification Bureau Group Rail Transportation Equipment Co., Ltd. Why is it that a silent spring manufacturing plant has reached a cooperation with a powerful central government to achieve industrial transformation and upgrading?

In 2003, Mingjin received an order for China Railways to build a rail transit compensation spring. The original supplier was Siemens Germany. This cooperation made Ming-Jin Springs family member Ma Youfang immediately think: Why not allow their companies to participate in the development of international standards, if it is recognized by the International Organization for Standardization, it will bring greater business opportunities to the company. In 2006, Mingjin passed the multi-party certification of the International Spring Standardization Committee and became the main drafting unit of the international standard “Hot Spring”, which opened a new chapter for Changzhou companies to develop international standards. It is reported that this standard will be released in 2011. The formulation of standards has greatly promoted the upgrading and transformation of enterprises. After successfully developing the first “Hot Coil Spring” national standard in 2006, the annual production value of Ming Jin Spring increased at a rate of 30%, and the profits tax increased by nearly 10 million Yuan each year, becoming a leading company in the manufacture of international motorcycle spring parts. Later, because of this standard, this “matcher,” Mingchun Spring has achieved cooperation with China Railway Construction Electrification Bureau Group Co., Ltd.

From the point of view of the city's participation in the development of national standards or industry standards, Changzhou has been involved in the wind power industry, biomedical industry, creative industries, photovoltaic industry, LED industry and functional new materials industries.

To do business, the most feared is the technical monopoly. Changzhou Qianyu Rehabilitation Equipment Company has eaten this bitterness. The company's early development can only be done in the industry's low-end market, because foreign companies often bundle patents and technical standards to form a technical barrier.

In order to break through technical barriers, the company drafted and formulated the "General Requirements for the Safety of Rehabilitation and Training Equipment for Persons with Disabilities" and "Four Quadriceps Training" through cooperation with Nanjing University and the Hefei Intelligent Machinery Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with the assistance of the Municipal Quality Supervision Bureau. "chairs" and other national standards for rehabilitation equipment products, thereby gaining technical and standard authority. This authority is directly reflected in the company's effectiveness. At present, the company's share in the domestic market has exceeded 60%, and product upgrades have also broken the status of high-end markets for imported products monopoly rehabilitation equipment, sales for three years The speed of growth has reached 100 million yuan last year.

It is said that first-rate companies are selling standards, but it is not simple to truly realize this "selling". Of the 108 companies that have participated in the (repaired) standard setting in Changzhou, there are only one company that can truly be considered as selling standards.

According to the Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision, a standardization expert, generally speaking, the standard cannot be sold, and the “sales standard” in the usual sense refers to the “technology involved in selling the standard”, that is, the company has buried the need in the standard. For a certain technology to achieve the target, to achieve compliance, it must purchase related technologies.

Recently, Changzhou Jia Deshun Antibacterial Material Technology Co., Ltd. and a thermal cup company in Guangdong signed a contract to help them meet the requirements of the National Standard for Surface Antimicrobial Stainless Steel developed by Changzhou Jia Deshun Antibacterial Material Technology Co., Ltd. The technical guidance cost spent in the first year is more than 3 million yuan. After that, it must also pay more than 1 million yuan per year for standard technical guidance. This is a kind of selling standard. However, companies that make money in this way are currently only one in Changzhou.