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Chapter 177 Lathe is the Mother of Industry

The lathe is the true mother of industry.All rotary equipment such as milling machines and drilling machines are based on the improvement of lathes.

Lathe processing mainly involves rotating parts and linear motions of cutting tools; while milling machines, cutting tools do rotary motion and parts linear motion.Lathes and milling machines are the most widely used machining equipment in the world.

Although it will be gradually replaced by CNC lathes, machining centers, and other professional CNC machine tools in later generations, CNC lathes, no matter how they are improved, are still lathes, and there is no change in the principle of ordinary lathes, except that the original workers are manually operated. The tool change, advance and retreat of the tool are replaced by computer chip control.

The same is true for the machining center, which also replaced the manual operation of ordinary milling machines with computer chip control.

Lathe is the first machining and cutting equipment used in the world.

The first lathe appeared before the British Industrial Revolution.At that time, it was only used to process some revolving parts made of wood. It is said that the earliest simple lathe in Britain was mainly used to process the axles of carriages.However, due to the problem of machining accuracy at that time, the structure of the lathe was very simple, or even crude.Of course, the machining error is also calculated in millimeters.

With the promotion of the industrial revolution, various machinery and equipment have higher and higher precision requirements. As the main machining equipment at that time, the lathe was continuously improved.With the continuous development of machinery and equipment, as well as new equipment and raw materials, the requirements for cutting machine tools are higher, and lathes have gradually become mature.

The earliest lathes used in the industrial revolution were powered by steam engines.

In a lathe processing workshop, the lathes are neatly arranged. On the top of the head of the lathe, there is a huge shaft with a pulley on it. In other words, several lathes use the same drive shaft.As long as a lathe is running, the lathe that uses the same drive shaft, or the belt is not attached, as long as the belt is attached, it must be started.In addition, a machine tool that is started cannot be changed manually during processing.

According to parts of different diameters, the speed of the lathe must be adjusted before the machine is started.If you want to adjust, you have to stop all the lathes driven by that drive shaft.

Later, with the advent of electric motors, the lathe really matured.Each lathe has an independent transmission system.

"Brother Yunfei, I heard that there are many factories in China that are producing lathes, and many of the factories are not very efficient." Although he has been in the hospital since he was young, Ni Lishuang, who has been determined to become Yunfei's good help , But has been caring about Yun Fei's affairs.

Since knowing that Yunfei took over the 9327 factory, although she didn't know where Yunfei got so much money, she was smart enough to just ask about this.Many people are not optimistic about Yun's production of machine tools, but she still silently supports Yun Fei. Every day in the hospital, she constantly asks the Mao sisters to help her buy magazine papers on company management or find some mechanical aspects.

Since she was a child, although she did not receive professional training from old men like Yun Fei, but she has also listened to a lot of them.She didn't want to be ignorant of what her brother Yunfei did when she grew up.

Although I know a lot about the basics of machinery, I don't know anything about management.When she was in technical school, she went to an accountant. Yun Fei had already revealed to her what she meant to be the chief financial officer of the entire company.Although she wants to be the chief financial officer of a factory with thousands of people, she also understands that she can use the basic accounting knowledge she has learned in the technical school and even the most basic financial statements. It's all difficult. It is impossible to manage a company's finances.

If the old accountants under her colluded to make tricks on the books, she would not be able to bear this responsibility if she had no experience.

"You don't understand this. Although there are many factories producing lathes now, their production experience is more abundant than ours. However, lathes are also the most used machine tools in the world, and the number far exceeds that of milling machines and planers. Equipment. We have just entered the civilian machine tool market and can only produce the largest amount of lathes. This will not only open up the market more, but the same machine tool sales funds will allow our factories to have more funds to invest in the development of new equipment." For why one At the beginning, Yunfei had not explained it to anyone before producing the most domestic lathes.

The reason why Yunfei wanted to produce lathes at the beginning was not only because Yunfei has a lot of contacts in mechanical processing in the Pearl River Delta. Lathes can bring more capital to their company, and more importantly, they must CNC machine tools, CNC lathes are entry-level CNC machine tools.

As long as the ball screw is developed and the stepper motor is used, it is possible to produce a simple CNC lathe that occupied most of the domestic market when Yunfei left his own world.

The production of simple CNC lathes can not only accumulate a lot of production experience, but with experience, you can develop in the direction of precision CNC lathes. Similarly, with the huge profits brought by CNC lathes, CNC milling machines will have more research funds.

It is not that Yunfei now does not want to produce CNC milling machines or more advanced CNC machining centers as soon as he comes up.

However, although many of the engineers and technicians from the Soviet network have research experience in CNC machine tools, Yunfei really scoffed at the Soviet Union's technology in CNC technology.

They went in the wrong direction, even further than China.

Although China followed the Soviet Union's big brother in the research of CNC machine tools, it did not go far in terms of production lines due to its poor foundation and weak foundation.Now if you want to develop numerical control technology, you only need to understand the development direction of European and American numerical control technology. Although China has no foundation and a thin foundation, it is very difficult to study, but it will not be replaced by inertial thinking like the Soviet Union.

Yun Fei also knew that it is impossible to count on these electrical engineers from the Soviet Union to study CNC machine tools.The company will produce the first batch of CNC machine tools, he will use the Long CNC system produced by Huadu CNC.That system was originally copied by him himself, and it is completely sufficient for CNC machine tools with low precision.

Yun Fei didn't want to be hostile to those foreign CNC machine tool manufacturers when he was just starting out and fled.

He knew that Taiwanese machine tool manufacturers would definitely act as cannon fodder for foreigners if they were to work with foreign CNC machine tool manufacturers.At that time, if you have been smashed by the fight with Taiwan's machine tool manufacturers, any company that exports CNC machine tools to China will be able to wipe out its Jiuyi Heavy Industry.

Now the domestic production of CNC machine tools has begun to become hot due to the emergence of Long CNC.Yunfei’s newly established factory, as long as it does not produce machine tools that far exceed those of other domestic machine tool manufacturers in the same industry, it can develop itself and wait for its strength to suddenly burst out. It will definitely let those foreign CNC machines. When machine tool manufacturers do not respond, they occupy half of the country.

On the Internet in his own world, Yun Fei has also read many analysis papers by the so-called brick and beasts, but he sneered at them.

Many people think that as long as Chinese machine tool manufacturers unite, they can fight against foreign machine tool manufacturers.

This is simply not feasible.In China, a country where everything is in charge of the state, if this can really enable the rapid development of China's CNC technology, will the state not support it?

If the entire country resists foreign CNC machine tools, then all foreign CNC machine tool manufacturers will retaliate.

Everyone knows that China cannot produce the most high-end, super-precision CNC machine tools, but various domestic industries want to develop, especially the manufacturing of high-precision and cutting-edge production equipment. Without those high-end CNC machine tools, China simply cannot produce them.

China needs foreign high-end CNC machine tools.Although the CNC machine tools sold in China can never be the most high-end, but they are not the most high-end CNC machine tools, and China cannot produce them.

Therefore, even in the era of Yunfei, due to the rise of some CNC machine tool manufacturers such as Huashu and Capital, they accounted for half of the domestic CNC machine tool market, and even occupied most of the domestic market share in the low-end CNC machine tool market.

Even under such circumstances, no one dared to propose that foreigners should be squeezed out of low-end CNC machine tools from China.

Under the trend of such a big environment, Yunfei can only keep a low profile.It can’t be like the traversers in the Internet articles, when the protagonist has just arrived in an era, the whole world has to surrender, catching up with the Premier League is a matter of minutes.Yun is not a true traverser. He came to this era to understand that people in any era are not that simple.

Unless, as the protagonist, he has the best artifact on his body, all technology does not require too many people, and he can appear out of thin air.

Even if they have the skills, no production experience, and the workers are not skilled enough, they simply cannot produce.

Take the current Yun Fei as an example. He has a lot of design concepts for CNC machine tools. He also saw real objects and understood detailed functions in his own time, but only after learning about this era did he understand that he had By designing the drawings, the drawings can be turned into reality.

This is why China has been imitating foreign high-precision and cutting-edge machine tools and equipment, but has never been able to achieve the accuracy of imported machine tools.

Not only because of materials, but also because of assembly technology.

Therefore, Yunfei still has to honestly start with the most basic lathe.Lathe is the foundation of all machine tools. Only by thoroughly understanding the lathe, can we gradually realize the accumulation of technology for other equipment.