Future PCB Industry's Internet Development Trend

The PCB industry has developed for many years, but the lack of follow-up growth in recent years is not optimistic. According to news reports, more than 10% of PCB companies in China disappear every year. The appearance of this situation is closely related to changes in the industrial structure brought about by the development of the times. Only change, the PCB industry can survive in the fiercely competitive reality.

As we all know, PCBs are high-pollution, high-energy-consuming, high-investment, labor-intensive industries. In the transition period, companies face many problems. In terms of environmental protection, due to the continuous improvement of the environmental protection requirements of the country in recent years, the formulation of policies has become more and more stringent, which has led to increasing environmental protection pressures for companies; in terms of costs, not only has international raw material prices continued to rise in the face of high inflation, but also To face the sharp increase in wage costs caused by the implementation of the new labor law; coupled with the appreciation of the renminbi, the rise of low-cost manufacturing industries in Southeast Asia and many other external factors, many low-end manufacturing companies in the PCB industry have even reached the point of survival. .

The cost control methods adopted by many companies are nothing more than lower wages and provincial raw materials, but the cost and cost of these savings are very limited and cannot fundamentally solve the problem. Some companies may also lack investment in R&D and marketing, leading to unbalanced development and losing their core competitiveness. Although some companies have begun to shift their costs to the central and western regions in consideration of the cost problem, they actually increase the costs of other design, R&D, and logistics. In the long run, they are not cost-effective.

The popularization of information technology and software applications has promoted the development of various industries. The emergence of "Internet +" thinking has even subverted the industrial structure of certain industries and broadened people's horizons. This thinking was first introduced into the service industry and then extended to industrial production. Of course, this thinking also brought a spring breeze to the PCB industry.

Although there are still many PCB companies who choose to believe in the traditional PCB design, production, sales, operation, and management models, there are still many doubts about the Internet, so they are in a wait-and-see state, but there are already individual companies that have to test the water first and put the PCB first. In combination with the Internet, we have created a new type of PCB cloud platform for product design; in terms of engineering operations, we have achieved full automation of Internet management; in terms of sales and management, Internet-based thinking has dominated. Of course, some of these companies have also gotten a lot of success from it.