China's continuous and speedy economy development has provided vast space for mold industry. In the future development of mold industry.

 

Firstly and most importantly, make strategic adjustment to mold structure, complex mold and precision mold should enjoy the develop preference. Mold industry development should follows closely market's demands. Without products demands for change, mold industry will not make progress in technique, and so will large size mold and high quality mold. For example, 90% of automotive parts are produced with molds, and in PRD and Yangtze River Delta area, annual output of auto mold industry increases 40% each year. Mold quality, to great extent, determines products quality, efficiency and new products development ability. Mold quality has been an important standard in measuring a country's manufacturing industry.

 

Secondly, to actively improve mold industry in western China, reduce the distance between developed regions and undeveloped areas. They have noted the importance of mold industry to manufacturing industry.

 

Thirdly, to actively promote mold enterprises, especially state owned mold enterprises for system innovation, to change manage system, develop mixed ownership, clear property, perfect legal person management system, and fully develop the inner power of enterprise development. Actively and positively speed up depart of large and medium size enterprises in regions where have solid foundation of manufacture of mid and western China to make mold workshop and factories convert mechanism via various ways in short time. To vigorously develop modern mold enterprises of clear property, independent operation and market satisfied, and head enterprises who will represent region industry and driven region economy.

 

Lastly, utilizing information technology to drive and promote mold making technique is the key to improve mold technique. The adoption of CAD/CAE/CAM, and rapid prototype has brought an innovation to mold design and manufacture. Furthermore, to improve mold development and making, CNC high precision and high efficiency processing equipments such as five-axis machine tools, high speed milling are also needed. High precision processing is also used in mold processing. At present, key point of mold process is no drawing production, single parts high precision process, no worker process, assembly and no repair. Reverse engineering, concurrent engineering, agile manufacturing and virtual technology have been commonly used in mold manufacture.