Transition of Concrete Mixer Industry to Service-Oriented Manufacturing

With wide and pervasive application of information technology, value chain of machine building industry, including concrete mixer industry, has changed greatly; what’s more, technique and service have been independent forms of commodity. Profit margin of production-oriented manufacturing has been reduced while proportion of service is increasingly large during the course of fabrication. To adapt to change of industrial chain’s value distribution, manufacturing industry is transforming from production-oriented manufacturing to service-oriented manufacturing.

Today, with rise of service-oriented manufacturing, no enterprise or country can possess advantages in the whole value chain. To reduce cost and strengthen core competitiveness, they should concentrate resources on the most competitive link, seize strategic control point of industrial value chain, and subcontract other links to others. Apparently, transformation from production-oriented manufacturing to service-oriented manufacturing can not only be beneficial to combination of informatization and industrialization but also be conductive to transition and upgrade of China manufacture.

Informatization of concrete mixer manufacturing industry is the key point to drive development of service-oriented manufacturing. The transformation is benefited from widespread use of information technology in production and management areas of manufacturing industry, especially integration of information technology and manufacturing technology in all links, such as, research, development, design, productive process, business administration, etc., which has promoted demands and development of service in manufacturing industry.