The only way we're going to meet Taiwanese industries 'need to upgrade themselves further is by producing ever-better precision machine tools, "says PMC president Chan Ping-chih. He cites the Taiwanese automotive industry's lack of a highly efficient engine as a case in point: it takes very precise integrated machine tools (e.g. horizontal machining centers) to produce fuel-efficient, low-emission engines.
只有愈來愈高階的精密工具機，才能應付未來台灣各產業升級發展所需，」精機中心總經理詹炳熾舉例，台灣的汽車工業拼圖中獨缺「高效率引擎」這項關鍵零組件，而只有複合程度、精度更高階的工具機（臥式綜合加工機），才能做出燃燒效率高、省油、排放廢氣少的引擎。