In the early 21st century, instrument industry develops featuring comprehensive utilization of modern high technology with a trend of being flexible, agile, intelligent and informative. Luo Baihui, the Secretary-General of International Special Tooling and Machining Association (ISTMA) indicated that China’s instrument industry and other machinery manufacturing were in a period of exploring, and private enterprises were struggling to grow.

The directions of China’s instrument industry under the trend of economic globalization are included in the following:

 First, turn from technology-oriented business to concept-oriented business, and indentify goals of the industry. Some enterprisers have produced and expanded blindly without knowing the essence of the industry, and have no good brand concept. In machinery manufacturing, China’s enterprises should first identify themselves as the vanguard fighting for the foundation of China’s industry, build their own brands, strengthen the brand effect and a sense of crisis, and have their own brand features and concepts of corporate culture. Soul of development is also one factor that determines the direction of machinery manufacturing, so enterprises should create distinct development modes and concepts in the time of economic and technological globalization. China’s companies have strong manufacturing capacity, and can make excellent products. However, for many enterprises, the production is not from the special needs of market or customers preference, but from the strength background, resources and marketing ability of the manufacturers. This kind of mode needs to be changed instantly. In the demand chain, products are not always from manufacturers but from customers.

 Second, increase the input of research and enhance personnel training, and preserve talents for the development of hi-tech in machinery manufacturing in the future. At present, many enterprisers are willing to invest in charity that can give them a tax break, but few are willing to invest in education field. A good phenomenon is that in China’s universities special scholarships are set up by enterprises to encourage achievements students made in every aspect, but just doing this is not enough. China’s machinery manufacturing should try all means to involve in educational affairs, cultivate more talents for our country and society, and then they will become the backbone of machinery manufacturing, if they want to step further in the world of globalization.

Third, turn from the emphasis of division of labor on the basis of specialization to multi-skill labors, and give the fullest play of labors’ intelligence. Since Ford invented assembly line, all people in the world thought that this method could greatly increase productivity, which must be the summit of non-smart technology, and it could not be improved any more. However, Japan’s Canon camera changed the assembly line into round table production line which greatly improved the efficiency. Labors can cooperate with each other around a table, play their own roles to assembly cameras, and the relaxing atmosphere can better improve productivity than the rigid assembly line can do. The same is true in machinery manufacturing, which allows labors with different jobs to participate in different positions in assembly line in order to enhance productivity.
      Fourth, enhance the reliability of products. Overall features of modern instrument industry are high reliability, high performance and strong adaptability, which are aspects in which most of our products lag behind foreign products. For instance, our own counters, timers, and electromagnetic flowmeter have approached international level in basic function and performance, but a gap still exists in reliability and engineering application capabilities.