As electronic components accelerate towards miniaturization, integration and customization, the demand for complex PCB assembly in consumer electronics, automotive electronics and other fields continues to rise. As core production equipment, special-shaped insertion machines are entering a golden period of development. Reporters learned that domestic special-shaped insertion machine enterprises have successfully broken the long-term monopoly of Japanese and German enterprises through core technological breakthroughs, achieving a leap from following to keeping pace, and injecting strong momentum into the intelligent upgrading of the electronic manufacturing industry.
For a long time, Japanese and German enterprises have dominated the global special-shaped insertion machine market. The blockade of core technologies and the monopoly of key components have become major obstacles to the development of domestic enterprises. Coupled with the dual pressures of an average annual increase of 8%-10% in labor costs and a high manual insertion error rate of 0.5%-1% in the electronic manufacturing industry, domestic enterprises have accelerated independent innovation, and a number of highly competitive equipment have been launched one after another, effectively solving the pain points of traditional production such as low efficiency, high cost and unstable quality.
Domestic special-shaped insertion machines have achieved multi-field coverage: solving the insertion problems of intelligent controllers in the home appliance field; adapting to the insertion of components such as high-voltage connectors in the automotive electronics field to support the intellectualization of new energy vehicles; in high-end fields such as medical electronics and aerospace, meeting strict quality control requirements with high precision, full-process traceability and other characteristics. The lightweight insertion robot system developed by Shandong University of Science and Technology has been applied in Hisense factories, saving more than 20% of costs for enterprises.
Industry data shows that the global revenue of the special-shaped insertion equipment market reached 525 million US dollars in 2024, and is expected to exceed 1.146 billion US dollars by 2031, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.8% from 2025 to 2031. Domestic enterprises continue to increase R&D investment. Hongtuo Weiye has accumulated 73 patents, and Huajida has been rated as a national specialized, refined, featured and new small giant enterprise with 100 authorized patents (including more than 20 invention patents).
