Intense competition in the instrumentation industry faces talent shortage

Instruments and meters in less than a decade, compared with 2000, both manufacturers and middlemen have doubled, reaching an unprecedented scale, the competition between peers is also becoming increasingly fierce.

There are many indications that the Chinese instrumentation industry is undergoing an important transition period. These include the significant changes in the economic structure of industrial enterprises. For example, in the past few years, private enterprises have achieved great development. The well-known foreign instrument and meter companies have continuously increased their investment in the Chinese market. Three foreign funds have developed rapidly, and the competitiveness of the local market has become apparent. Promote. At the same time, the industry has also undergone major changes in its forms, such as government policies and changes in market demand. In particular, the country has vigorously promoted energy-saving and emission reduction and green economy, modern manufacturing, clean energy, large aircraft, marine engineering, and smart grid special projects. New industries such as urban rail transit and people's livelihood have provided tremendous opportunities for development.

However, in the face of this upcoming change, Chinese instrumentation companies, especially SMEs, have many problems. Most business owners are aware of changes in the industry and are interested in adjusting the product structure, service development, and staffing. However, there are very few companies that are truly initiating and effective. What is missing from the development and reform of China's instrumentation companies?

First, funds. According to statistics from the China Instrument and Meter Industry Association, the industry's profit growth was 20% year-on-year in 2011. This increase was placed on the entire machinery industry and was an outstanding achievement. These statistics included state-owned enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, and private enterprises. However, as far as private companies are concerned, due to the fierce market competition, profits have come close to being pressed. How to adjust the industry ecology and allow private enterprises that account for more than half of the GDP to play their due vitality has become an important issue.

Second, talent. This is also an old-fashioned topic. The lack of high-end talents and lack of technical blue-collar workers have almost become a problem for the entire equipment manufacturing industry.

Today, large-scale precision test equipment, new instrumentation and sensors are the three major priorities for the development of the industry. These directions are precisely the direction in which the talents in the instrumentation industry are scarce. Many transformation companies are thirsty for technical talents. The professional knowledge structure based on light, machine, electricity, and mathematics as the basis for cultivating talented people with wide-caliber and wide-ranging knowledge is in line with the needs of the talent market and is also in line with the booming development of information technology. In dealing with talent issues, the following aspects can be noted:

(1) The methods of affiliation to instrumentation disciplines vary greatly. Instruments and meters have their own particularity in terms of main discipline composition, teaching arrangement, teaching practice, and scientific research. Therefore, qualified colleges and universities should set up independent professional departments for instrumentation. All schools that do this have made great progress in the instrumentation discipline. The relevant leaders can give the instrumentation profession sufficient room for development.

(2) The impact of graduate school entrance examination and employment on undergraduate education cannot be ignored.

(3) Inconsistent understanding of main discipline components Instrumentation is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary subject, which is determined by the tasks it undertakes in the information industry and is also required by contemporary talents with broad knowledge. However, some people think that this is a kind of “wholesaler” specialty that is not as good as mechanical specialty, which devalues ​​the wide-calibre and comprehensive image of the professional and has a negative and negative impact on students.

(4) The impact of the status of instrumentation industry on education Through the continuous increase in the number of enrollment in the profession and the apparent appearance of the employment situation, it will be found that quite a large proportion of graduates have entered the relevant industries through the diversity of disciplines in the profession. In the electronic information industry, there are not a lot of people who are really engaged in design and development research in the professional field of instrumentation. This situation is determined by the backward appearance of China's instrumentation industry. Therefore, it is necessary to control the number of students in the major in the near future.

Third, management. This is a general concept. We mainly discuss the company's management system. This is not a defect unique to instrumentation companies. The number of private enterprises in China has the drawbacks of management. However, as an enterprise with high technology content, the instrumentation industry requires only high standards for managers. However, we have seen that most of the business owners are sales or technical workers, and lack management knowledge of the company. There are also many companies that make up for it through the introduction of senior management talents, while qualified companies choose to go against the modernization of corporate management. It is difficult to determine which model is effective, but the problem of management is unlikely to be solved in the short term.