Intelligent Industrial Empire

Chapter 59: The Price of Technology and Experience (seeking for inference)

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For a New Year's Eve dinner, Yun Fei didn't eat a bite of food, and was filled with wine from the time he was on the table.

In the end, he himself didn't know how to get off the table, how many times he vomited, nor did he remember.Bewildered and supported by someone to his single dormitory, he slept on the bed for two full days before getting into the bed feebly.

In the past two days, Luo Xiaoli served tea and water every day before and after the run.Yun Fei was afraid of delaying this secretary who was not much older than herself, and resolutely refused the courtesy of the female secretary, but Luo Xiaoli didn't care about Yun Fei's attitude at all, and still cooked food and fed water in her own way.

The New Year is getting closer and closer. Many people in the factory go home for the New Year, but the whole factory has not stopped production because of the New Year.The original two shifts turned into normal work and rest hours because many people took leave to go home.

Although Yun Fei had said that he would leave, he has not resigned now, and still occupies the position of deputy factory director of Qingfeng Machinery.Before and after the New Year, although the entire factory has a backlog of orders, Yun Fei did not force the workers who stayed in the factory and did not go home to work overtime. After six months of work, everyone took the New Year’s time to relax for a few days.

The perfect organizational structure of the factory makes him, the deputy director, idle. Even without him, there will be no confusion in the short-term production of the entire factory.Yun Fei, who was waiting for Ren Zhiguo’s news, was too lazy to get around in the workshop, staying in his office every day, thinking about adding standard PMC axis drive modules to the three-axis machining center.

This is quite simple in theory.But in terms of actual operation, it is extremely complicated.It not only involves the linkage of electronic circuits, hydraulics and pneumatics, and several different axes, but the most important thing is to design a single-chip microcomputer that can simultaneously control at least four axis linkages.

The so-called single-chip microcomputer is to integrate a computer system into a small piece of silicon.In later generations, this thing will be used in so many places, such as mobile phones, telephones, calculators, home phones, etc. will be used on most electronic products.

The single-chip microcomputer can also be said to be a simple computer.However, the single-chip microcomputer used in CNC machine tools is not comparable to those used in these small electrical products.In this era, all CNC machine tools use special industrial control chips.Because the technology is far less advanced than later generations, most CNC machine tools use dozens or even hundreds of industrial control chips in series at the same time to satisfy the control of various complex actions during the machining process.

In this era in China, the research on single-chip microcomputers has just started. Yun Fei doesn't know where to find people who can develop industrial control chips that can control four-axis machining centers that perform a lot of complex operations at all times.For the microcontroller, he just understands.

In his previous life, Yun Fei had thought about studying MCU when he was a graduate student, but later discovered that almost all the people who swept the streets were graduate students.In an era when it was better to study for a few more years than to spend a few more years, Yunfei entered the factory after graduation.

It is difficult to find a job, so that an undergraduate student learns machine tool operation technology from the workers. Starting from the simplest, it took ten years to get to the level of a senior technician.Regarding Yunfei's lack of proper work, he was a technician, but he followed the workers to learn machine tool operations. Not only the leaders had opinions on him, but colleagues in the entire department were criticized.

Yun Fei didn't care about the mockery of colleagues.At least, the income and status of ordinary technicians like him are far from comparable to those of skilled workers.

In the factory where Yunfei used to be, many masters in their 30s and 40s worked as ordinary operators, but they were paid higher than department managers.Every time there is a new product development, the department manager has to say good things to the experienced and skilled masters.

If anyone makes the master unhappy, just leave the job in his hands: "If you have the ability, you come, I will quit..." Even the boss of the company has to say good things.

Why is this?Isn't it because of the superb technology in hand!Teachers never worry about finding a job, and many small factories even support them.This is nothing else, just to be able to use the skills and experience in his hands to produce the products when encountering high-precision and difficult machining parts.

As we all know, the higher the precision, the more difficult the processing of parts, the higher the processing cost, which means the greater the profit.Yun Fei had encountered such things many times in a mechanical processing factory of a friend.

Once, a friend's factory equipment needed a complicated special-shaped part, and needed to process holes on eight sides, and each hole could not exceed an error of 0.02mm.I found countless outsourcing processing factories, and others were afraid to take over as soon as they looked at the drawings, and refused even without asking the price.In the end, my friend had no choice but found a retired veteran technician in aerospace system through the relationship. Others just looked at the drawings for a while and then quoted a processing fee of 20,000 yuan!

Someone said, use machining centers with more than five axes.The person who said this is definitely someone who doesn't understand the machining center.Because no matter what kind of high-end equipment, you need to clamp the parts during processing. Any high-end machine tool can't match such a special shape, and each surface needs to be processed.

As long as the processing cannot be completed in one clamping, the accuracy requirements of the position cannot be guaranteed.

Yun Fei was there at the time, and her heart was cold.This is simply Chi Guoguo's blackmail!He thought, no matter what, the processing fee for a fist-big part could not be so outrageous!Unexpectedly, his friend happily agreed on the spot and asked the teacher if the 20,000 yuan was enough.

Yun Fei was confused at the time.

In the end, when he saw the master's work, his mouth was open enough to lay an egg.The master spent three days making a few small toolings, and the processing time was less than one hour for each of the eight sides. In less than one hour, the time to actually start the machine would never be More than five minutes!The rest of the time is spent aligning!

In the end, Yun Fei asked his master, why did he charge such a high price in such a short period of time? Isn't this obviously a blackmail?

The master told Yun Fei: "This is the price of technology and experience."

In the end, Yun Fei’s friend told him that the master’s words were correct, and that this was the price of technology and experience.If that part is not limited to the spatial dimensional accuracy of each of the eight faces, any senior technician can do it.A four-axis or five-axis machining center can only process six faces of the part at the same time, and the position of the other two faces with these machined faces is difficult to control.

After all, even the most sophisticated CNC machining center will have machining errors.The machining error will accumulate.The machine tool is not a human being, and I don’t know how to automatically eliminate those machining errors.

Later, Yunfei met a repairman who repaired the equipment his company had bought back for tens of millions of dollars.Dozens of maintenance engineers in the entire factory worked for several days and couldn't find out the cause. In the end, they could only find maintenance personnel through agents.

The repair cost 10,000 yuan.And what the repairer did was just reconnect a small wire!

Yun Fei's boss was angry at the time: "You said you just connect such a cable, can it be worth 10,000 yuan? If our engineers come to do it, it will cost less than ten yuan!"

The maintenance master laughed on the spot: "Indeed, it costs less than 10,000 yuan to connect this line. My fee structure is like this-the cost of the connection is one dollar, and I find the line to connect, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine. Bucks."

This is technology; this also requires a wealth of experience!

Because of this, Yun Fei firmly believes that in order to become an excellent mechanical technician, he must be familiar with the operation of various equipment and master the performance of various machine tools.Only by understanding these can you be a better technician.Otherwise, I don’t even know how to process it, or even what equipment is needed to process the products in my hands. When the task is arranged, the operator just throws a sentence: "I’m sorry, I really can’t do this. The master didn’t teach it. , How about you teach me how to make an octahedron on the lathe without tooling..."

Once Yunfei met a colleague of the highest quality.The guy just came out of school and learned mechanical design, but he was in charge of the craftsmanship in the factory where Yunfei was located. He directly found a miller and asked that miller to mill threads on an ordinary milling machine.

Seeing that the New Year was about to come, not only did Ren Zhiguo not show up, he did not make a call.

Yun Fei's heart became more and more anxious.He can count on the military behind Kmart to provide himself with a variety of talents to develop PMC axis drive modules attached to the three-axis machining center.Without the various experienced technicians and engineers in the hands of the military, he alone, unless he has the super powers in the Internet text, or carries a supercomputer from an alien civilization, how can he get involved? Countless professional fourth axis come?

Tomorrow is February 2, 1992, which is the twenty-ninth lunar lunar month, and the Chinese New Year will be on February 3. There is still no news from Ren Zhiguo. Yun Fei is very cold, and starts to consider if there is no Kmart behind The military supports how they should start.

Working at Qingfeng Machinery is not only because Yunfei did not have the initial capital to start, but more importantly, this talent belongs to the era of state monopoly. If you want to open a technology-intensive and capital-intensive factory, how much is it? difficult.

The sky gradually darkened.Yun Fei was smoking a cigarette in the office and meditating, what should he do next year.It is impossible for him to stay at Qingfeng Machinery waiting for an unknown result.

The planned trip to Guangshu must be advanced.You can't wait for them to come up with a low-end system that cannot be lower-end until August. If that happens, the things they plan will be even more distant in the foreseeable future.

He didn't want to see German or English printed on the high-end machine tools of the whole country after he came to this world for twenty years.