Recently, the news that Tesla will mobilize 200 Chinese engineers to California, USA, to help expand Tesla's super production plant in the United States has attracted attention within and outside the industry. In the past, since the reform and opening up for more than 40 years, foreign technical engineers have mainly come to support China. This time, it turned out to be Chinese engineers going abroad to support. What should be more noted is that the dispatched employees are mainly production personnel, automation engineers and control engineers.
Bozhon Seiko Research Institute believes that this phenomenon may seem accidental, but it is actually inevitable. During the 21 years that Bozhon Precision has been engaged in the R&D, manufacturing and service of production equipment, whether it is consumer electronics equipment that has been applied in smart factories around the world or equipment in new energy and other fields, equipment R&D and field engineers are working closely with partners. The people with the closest connections are also the human capital that can best create value for customers. Especially due to the nature of the industry, the R&D and application of automation equipment will be deeply involved in the customer's product production design front-end, subsequent parameter modification and adjustment and other core sectors, which plays a vital role in the final quality of the product. With the further implementation of the national strategy of becoming a manufacturing power, the localization of equipment manufacturing will become a top priority. Especially in the semiconductor industry, which is currently stuck, equipment manufacturing is the key to hindering China from achieving greater breakthroughs in this field. Therefore, in the future, high-end equipment research and development and field engineers will become the most popular.
High-end equipment manufacturing industry refers to the high-end field of equipment manufacturing industry. "High-end" is mainly reflected in three aspects: first, high technical content, manifested as intensive knowledge and technology, reflecting the inheritance of high-precision technology in multiple disciplines and fields; Second, it is at the high end of the value chain and has the characteristics of high added value; third, it occupies a core position in the industrial chain, and its development level determines the overall competitiveness of the industrial chain. High-end equipment usually comprehensively uses computer technology, information technology, new material technology, precision manufacturing and measurement technology, industrial vision, AI robots and other modern technologies to achieve established production goals through more intelligent and flexible production technology. High-end equipment has the characteristics of high dimensional accuracy and high performance requirements, and has been widely used in many fields such as aerospace, weapons and equipment, semiconductors, new energy, and rail transportation.
But at present, China is still controlled by others in the fields of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and machine tools represented by photolithography machines. If China's manufacturing is to rise, China's equipment manufacturing must first rise, which requires a large number of outstanding talents. Talents who can enter this field now will gain huge space for development and create huge social value in the future.
My country's high-end manufacturing industry started late, and there is an obvious shortage of professional and managerial talents with strong technical capabilities. With the further advancement of China's national strategy of manufacturing, this demand will be even greater.
In addition to R&D talents, the demand for field engineers has also surged. Even as the job market tightened this spring due to the pandemic, demand for field engineers in high-end manufacturing remained unmet.
According to the "2022 Spring Job Market Trend Observation" released by the BOSS Direct Recruitment Research Institute, the recruitment scale of this type of positions has increased by 77% year-on-year, making it the fastest growing subcategory. At the same time, engineering and technical positions also account for the highest proportion of the overall recruitment demand in high-end manufacturing, reaching 24.8%, an increase of 6.7% from the same period in 2021.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated: Build a modern industrial system, insist on focusing economic development on the real economy, promote new industrialization, and accelerate the construction of a manufacturing power, a quality power, an aerospace power, a transportation power, a network power, and a digital China; Implement the innovation-driven development strategy, accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, be guided by national strategic needs, gather strength to carry out original and leading scientific and technological research, resolutely win the battle against key core technologies, and accelerate the implementation of a number of strategic and overall forward-looking major national science and technology projects to enhance independent innovation capabilities.
However, if China wants to achieve a high level of technological self-reliance, it needs more high-end equipment manufacturing R&D and on-site engineers. On this point, in the field of stuck chip equipment, Japan's Nikon has learned a profound lesson:
Before 2000, Nikon had a larger share of the advanced micron process semiconductor lithography equipment market than ASML. Semiconductor lithography equipment is a product that requires extreme refinement, and it is an area that Japanese companies are good at. However, ASML has achieved new breakthroughs and efforts in its technical route, and its modular architecture is superior to Nikon's overall architecture.
Since then, semiconductor lithography machines have ushered in an important turning point: architectural innovation. The key lies in the dual scanning technology that can handle two wafer stages at the same time. Another topic is the immersion technology that can improve the resolution. At that time, ASML successfully changed its architecture. Nikon has also tried to use the same architecture, but has been unable to produce results. With the gradual growth of ASML, by 2010, ASML's market share was approximately 80%, while Nikon's share was only 20%. This has also resulted in Nikon still being unable to make a comeback in this field.
To sum up: every era has its center of development. Starting from the industrial revolution represented by the steam engine, talents in the fields of power, electrical, information technology, Internet and other fields have been leading the economic and social development of their era, and also Become a "gold-collar talent" in every era. With the vigorous development of the digital economy based on the real economy and the strong advancement of the manufacturing power strategy, the equipment manufacturing industry, which determines future economic development and the wave of digitalization, will usher in huge development space, as will equipment R&D and field engineers. The best of times. Every outstanding talent who joins this field at this time will gain considerable development space and lead social development in the future, and will also become one of the indispensable backbone forces on the road to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(The author of this article, Wei Longteng, comes from Bozhon Seiko Research Institute)
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