In November, 2021, China Forging Association conducted an online questionnaire survey, setting up a number of research topics such as sheet metal and manufacturing and related industries (including hardware or small and micro sheet metal parts) and stamping and related industries (including hardware or small and micro stamping parts), analyzing the core "the core of cost reduction", and listing the contents that everyone is most concerned about. The results are as follows.

Programs	Rate
Production plan and production arrangement	11.77%
Material using rates	11.77%
Improve process efficiency and reduce process transfer time.	11.77%
Big data collection, analysis, feedback and utilization	11.77%
Automated production	11.77%
Change tool (die) time	11.77%

The potential of cost reduction in sheet metal manufacturing and related industries (including hardware or small and micro sheet metal parts) seems to be more inclined to management, because the production characteristics of sheet metal manufacturing and related industries (including hardware or small and micro sheet metal parts) are mainly small batch, multi-variety and multi-batch. From the focus of everyone's choice, "improving efficiency" is the first element. This should attract enough attention from sheet metal manufacturing and related industries (including hardware or small and micro sheet metal parts).

Under the theme of this survey, there are still some problems to be judged, some of which belong to technical problems and others to management problems. Careful analysis, or management issues account for more.

Technical	Management
surface treatment	Per capita labor productivity
Reduce scrap rate	Material backlog or pressure storage
Lower repair rate	Knowledge accumulation, analysis and summary
Equipment reliability and failure rate	Reasonable production batch and inventory
Equipment efficiency and failure rate	Detection and monitoring

Stamping and related industries (including hardware or small and micro stamping parts)

Programs	Rate
Material utilization ratio	14.02%
Per capita labor productivity	10.28%
Automated production	13.06%
Reduce scrap rate	9.35%
Mold cost (including maintenance)	8.41%

If you think carefully, you will find that enterprises in stamping and related industries (including hardware or small and micro stamping parts) pay more attention to technology and management, because both of them have a great impact on their costs.

The above contents truly reflect the current concerns of the industry, and most of them are long-term and sustained attention. For example, improving the utilization rate of materials and reducing the cost of molds have always been paid attention to. In 2017, our company researched and developed scale cleaning equipment, serving more than 100 large and small forging manufacturers, and the market spread all over the world and was well received by customers. There is a customer who produces gears, who cleaned it with our oxide scale. Before, the net weight of their single blank gear was 1.83kg, and the weight of round bar was 1.90kg. After using our scale descaling machine, the weight of round bar was saved to 1.85kg, which is equivalent to saving 0.05kg of raw materials for a product. It seems unremarkable to look at such a single product. If it is 100 million products, we can save 500kg of raw materials. A gear processing factory needs to produce gears for a long time, 10,000, 100,000, one million or even more, so the saved raw material data is very considerable.

Since the outbreak of the new epidemic, it has seriously affected people's daily life and work, and some people's livelihood industries are deeply impacted, struggling, and some are even unsustainable and closed down. During this period, our company is still committed to the customer's research and development of phosphorus removal equipment with good functionality and high cost performance, which is more suitable for the market, so as to contribute to the forging industry.
Of course, in addition to the above choices, there are two enterprises that choose less, one is sales cost control, and the other is the proportion of self-made parts. Everyone doesn't seem to be very concerned about these two items. From one side, these two issues are an overview of the aforementioned issues. The sales cost accounts for a relatively low proportion of the enterprise's sales, and the proportion of self-made parts depends on the enterprise's business model.