Intelligent Industrial Empire

When he arrived at the CNC workshop, Yun Fei's depression in the machining workshop was wiped out.

Not only was the space in the CNC workshop large, and the installation of each piece of equipment was reasonable. The most important thing was that from the very first three CNC machine tools in operation, Yunfei had strict requirements for the workers he trained.

For Qingfeng Machinery, the CNC operators traded from Kmart are a fortune.At least, most of the CNC workers who have received systematic training have largely solved Qingfeng Machinery’s demand for skilled CNC operators in the initial period of time. This has made it possible for these equipment to be moved from Kamath to Qingfeng Machinery. It produces benefits.If Kmart had only found a technician who was familiar with CNC machining technology, then Qingfeng Machinery would not take advantage of this advantage.

The CNC machine tools of this era are not as fast and convenient as later generations.Computer programming in later generations is almost still kept secret from mainland China.In China, there are not even a few computers.For the CADCAM software used for computer design and programming, it is even harder to find a few people.

In this era, due to the Batumi embargo, the degree of openness of CNC equipment to the Chinese market is still very low, especially for high-end precision machine tools. Up to now, it is estimated that only a few machining centers are in those institutes. Placed.Those so-called multi-axis machining centers are not machining centers in the true sense.

Even after twenty years, the true five-axis machining center still belongs to the world's top machine tools.

If you can't buy high-end precision machine tools, of course there will be no supporting computer design software.Therefore, in the early 1990s, more than 99% of CNC equipment in China were manually programmed.

Manual programming of complex parts requires very high requirements for CNC technicians.The processing of complex curved surfaces not only requires a lot of calculations, but also requires considerable knowledge of the equipment.A technician who can manually program and produce complex parts cannot be trained in just a few months.

Yang Guang, who was promoted by Yun Fei as the workshop director of the CNC workshop, was one of the two CNC engineers of the original Kmart Company.It was a senior technician who came out of the aerospace system. He didn't know how to be hooked up by Kmart, and finally made Qingfeng Machinery cheaper.

Since arriving in the CNC workshop, Yun Fei has never left this workshop where he has spent countless efforts.

Since these CNC equipment came from several generations and several countries, except for later generations, there is a lot of knowledge about CNC systems in the three countries of the United States, RB, and Germany. Really no one can play. All equipment.

Even if Yun Fei, he can only explore on his own with the foreign language materials at hand.

As soon as he entered the CNC workshop, Yun Fei was entangled by Yang Guang and Feng Yumin, another CNC engineer from Kmart.

Although the two worked in state-owned factories for several years of CNC machine tools, most of them were CNC machine tools purchased when China established diplomatic relations with RB America in the late 1970s and early 1980s.The CNC lathe is no problem for the two, but the complicated part programming of the CNC milling machine makes them a headache.

For the programming of complex parts of CNC milling machines, many complex CNC operations must be designed.Especially when the CNC system is processing the curved surface, the calculation amount of the Boolean operation that needs to be performed is even greater.For several geometric bodies or even dozens of geometric bodies, the complex operations of intersection, union, and difference are continuously performed. If a little data is incorrect, or a certain part is not considered, the part will have to be scrapped.

Unlike later generations, there are many kinds of CADCAM software. As long as the CAD software is used to complete the modeling of the parts, and then the CAM software is used to automatically calculate the parts to be processed, the software will automatically generate the program.

For Boolean operations, Yun Fei is not good at mathematics, and is simply not as good as Yang Guang and Feng Yumin, the first undergraduates who resumed the college entrance examination.

Although the calculation is not comparable to these two people, the calculation method knows more than the two people.Since these two guys arrived at Qingfeng Machinery two months ago, Qingfeng Machinery has dared to accept any complicated parts.Especially in the processing business of molds, countless complex cavities require a lot of calculations. In an era without computers, there are no mathematics talents from academic classes, which is unimaginable difficulty.

After ten o'clock in the morning, while Yun Fei was still instructing Yang Guang and Feng Yumin on the CNC machining process, Luo Xiaoli had already ran over and told him that Camart had driven several cars with a large group of them. Gao Nose foreigner arrived at the factory and is now coming to the CNC machining workshop.

Hearing that the Kmart Company was bringing the customer, Yunfei didn't bother to communicate with the two, and hurriedly walked towards the door of the workshop.The customer is God, and God is here. He, the deputy director, should meet him anyway.

Seeing Yunfei at the door of the workshop, Wang Qingfeng, wearing a suit and tie, introduced to the crowd behind him.It is estimated that it was the translator invited by Kmart Company, or the translators brought by these foreigners. For a time, English and German rang out with Wang Qingfeng's words.

"Everyone, this is Yun Fei, the chief engineer and deputy director of our Qingfeng Machinery. If you have any questions during the visit, you can directly contact Mr. Yun."

As soon as Yun Fei arrived at the door of the workshop, he met white men who were seven, eight, forty and fifty years old, and he did not know which country these foreigners came from.There are too many English-speaking countries in this world.But when he heard German words that he could only know a few words, he understood that at least two or three of these foreigners were from Germany.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, labor costs across Europe and the United States increased significantly, and the blowout development of their CNC industry was spawned in this environment.With the reform and opening up of China, a large number of skilled workers in state-owned enterprises have been laid off and re-employed. A large number of foreign companies have focused their attention on this country whose labor costs are less than one-fifth or even lower of their own countries.

The first batch of foreign-funded enterprises built factories in mainland China, using the low labor costs and tax exemption policies of this populous country, not only brought back the bankrupt parent company, but also rapidly expanded its market share.This has caused more foreign-funded enterprises and even large companies to set their sights on mainland China.

"Mr. Yun, I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time! I’m Ren Zhiguo, the deputy manager of Kmart. These are customers from the United States and Germany. If we take them down, not only will our company have unlimited benefits, but also your Qingfeng machinery. Expand it three or five times." Ren Zhiguo didn't dare to despise Yun Fei's half-aged child who has not yet grown his beard.

Hearing the introduction of the translator, several foreigners opened their mouths in surprise.Such a young chief engineer can only appear in China, a country with a red regime!

Now they have no hope for this trip.If it weren't for the high-levels of Kmart for the equipment that does not exceed 100 units, the workers would also admire the small machinery factory in their early 200s. They would not even be interested in understanding the company.If Kmart hadn't shown them the stainless steel thin-walled samples made by Qingfeng Machinery, how could they agree to inspect this small factory?

It was only when I arrived at this factory that the owner of this factory did not know anything about his own factory, especially the technical aspects; this time he actually told myself that a 17-year-old child was actually their chief engineer. Responsible for the technology of the entire factory!

"Hello everyone, and welcome to visit the Chinese factory with the most modern management in China. During the visit, if you have any questions, as long as no commercial secrets are involved, I will answer them in detail. Let's look at the CNC workshop first." Yun Fei said After that, he ignored the foreigners who looked suspicious and contemptuous, and walked into the workshop.

On the far side of the workshop, there are the latest models, CNC equipment bought from Camat.

"This is our latest CNC lathe and CNC milling machine from Germany and RB. Of course, there is also a machining center from FADAL in the United States. We welcome your valuable comments." Yun Fei introduced the CNC machining workshop to the foreigners. Of course, these equipments are considered high-precision machine tools in mainland China, but they are not even mid-range in foreign countries.

However, Qingfeng Machinery does not have computer-aided design software, so he will not tell foreigners.

The appearance of a large group of high-nosed and blue-eyed foreigners did not stop the workers who operate CNC machine tools.While the workers are operating the machine tool, they use the micrometer to inspect the size of the last processed part in their spare time during operation.

Some foreigners nodded and shook their heads.

"Mr. Yun, I am Carlos from the United States. As for the workers of your company, who check the size of the processed parts so frequently, I would like to ask you. Is this your company's workers' lack of confidence in themselves, or about these CNC machine tools? Are you not confident?" A tall and thin white man in his fifties suddenly asked Yun Fei.

"Mr. Carlos, I have to say that your keen observation makes me admire. Please don't doubt that our workers behave like this, not because they are not confident in themselves, let alone in the equipment. They are all through their own systems. Trained skilled workers. The reason for doing this is to be responsible to our customers. I think you know better than me, the stability of the quality of CNC machine tools when producing large quantities of workpieces. Our customers do not have high requirements for us, often They give us a tolerance range of 0.1mm or more, but we will control these tolerance ranges within 0.04mm, so as to facilitate customers' requirements for parts interchangeability and increase the service life of parts, thereby increasing our customers’ market Competitiveness. Of course, this is mainly due to our need for stable business. I don’t think any company wants its customers to go bankrupt, thereby affecting its own development. What do you think!"

After Yun Fei finished speaking directly in English, Carlos couldn't help but give a thumbs up.The other foreigners applauded.They did not expect that such a young Chinese could actually speak fluent English.

A German named Maxim in his forties did not believe Yun Fei’s words. He thought the young engineer was bragging. He ran directly to an operator, picked up the micrometer on the workbench, and started measuring production. Good parts.

After sampling an operator's parts, he sampled almost every part produced by the operator. In the end, he had to give a thumbs up.Because, among all the parts he randomly inspected, the error of the same kind of parts in the same batch did not reach the 0.04mm that Yunfei said, but only 0.01mm.

In Germany, under mass production, it is also difficult for workers to control the error to such a small range.

"Mr. Yun, please forgive me for the suspicion I had before you. Your workers are all the most advantageous skilled workers in the world." The seriousness of the Germans made Yun Fei admire.

Although foreigners are secretly amused by the so-called state-of-the-art machine tools of Qingfeng Machinery Factory, they still admire the quality of the parts processed by these CNC equipment.