Many achievements in applied research

Assessing the bright spots in science and technology (S&T) activities in the mechanical field, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Pham Cong Tac said that hundreds of types of mechanical products are manufactured from the results of activities. S&T research has been successfully designed and manufactured at competitive prices, meeting production requirements, contributing to increasing localization of equipment and reducing imports. Some units have enough capacity to be a general contractor for large projects with billions of USD; Some products have met the quality standards equivalent to imported products, have qualified for export and compete with foreign products such as electrostatic dust filtration equipment system for thermal power plants with a capacity of 600 MW or in In the field of hydro-mechanical engineering, up to now, it has carried out over 20 hydropower projects with large capacity.

In addition, for the transport engineering major, a value chain has been formed to produce components, supporting equipment details, and can assemble high quality buses up to 80 seats at the domestic rate. up to 40%; to expand the manufacture of heavy trucks and special-use vehicles to meet the production requirements and means of a quality equivalent to that of other ASEAN countries. In the field of agricultural mechanics, a group of products, equipment, machines, production and processing lines for agriculture such as animal feed processing line, cassava starch processing, design and manufacturing submersible pumps with high technology, large capacity pumps up to 36,000 m3 / h replace imported ...

Mr. Dao Phan Long - General Secretary of the Vietnam Mechanical Business Association (DN) - said that in the past, all types of steel structures, non-standard equipment of industrial plants, oil and gas drilling rigs, Hydropower, irrigation, cement and chemical plants must be purchased from foreign countries ... but now Vietnam has been proactive with a high rate of localization. Vietnam can also build ships of 70,000 tons and 105,000 tons.

Need to support businesses

Currently, the Industrial Revolution 4.0 is opening up great opportunities for the mechanical industry, but the challenges are not small. Talking with reporters of the Industry and Trade Newspaper, Mr. Do Phuoc Tong - Chairman of City Association of Mechanical - Electrical Enterprises. Ho Chi Minh City (HAMEE) - said that in order to promote the development of the domestic mechanical engineering industry, it is necessary to have policies to support enterprises to borrow capital to invest in equipment, machinery, and factories; building technology innovation support programs; to plan, create conditions and have preferential treatment for mechanical enterprises to enter industrial parks and industrial clusters with reasonable costs.

At the same time, create favorable conditions and support for domestic and foreign organizations and individuals to participate in the development of human resources for the mechanical engineering industry; financial support for training costs to improve technical skills of engineers and technicians in supporting industrial products; building mechanisms to promote technology and technology transfer from FDI enterprises to Vietnamese enterprises.

On the other hand, mechanical enterprises need to actively restructure production, actively innovate, improve corporate governance efficiency, find ways to reduce input costs, improve productivity and quality; market expansion, actively participating in global value chains; connecting and linking businesses in the same industry ...

- According to Industry and Trade Newspaper -