Intelligent Industrial Empire

Chapter 393 The impact of CNC machine tools on the aircraft industry

"Old Deng, you are wronging me. These female workers have heard that you came to our Rongcheng Aircraft Factory to inspect work, and spontaneously organized to welcome you!" Huang Qiaosong knows the old man's temper, so how dare you say it now? truth?

The old man always doesn't like extravagance and waste, and he is very low-key wherever he goes. If he knows that in order to welcome him, most of the young female workers in the workshop will stop working to meet him, he must be the factory director.

Regarding Huang Qiaosong's words, the old man was noncommittal.

Although he didn't like this kind of welcome ceremony, but since the matter was like this, he didn't investigate anything any more, and walked forward to shook hands with the young female workers who were waving the plastic flowers in their hands and shouting welcome.

At this time, the cameras imported from abroad in the hands of the reporters of the news media began to flash quickly, as if the film was not asking for money.

They couldn't participate in many trips of the elderly in the Chengdu Aircraft Factory, because it involved military secrets, so they had to find news materials in these places to deal with their superiors.If anyone dares to go to the workshops of the 132 factory to take pictures, it is estimated that some secret department will invite them to drink tea before they get out of the gate of the Rongcheng Aircraft Factory.

"This is the boss of Jiuyi Heavy Industry, Yun Fei..." Huang Qiaosong shook hands with the leaders of the inspection team. Of course, the leaders of the provincial party committee and the provincial government who were arranged to accompany the elderly in the afternoon had to shake hands one by one, although every day Meet, a formal occasion.But when it came to Yun Fei, Huang Qiaosong saw such a young man unexpectedly, and thought it was the descendants of a certain big man who came to gain insight.

"Jiu Yang, long Yang... Boss Yun is really young and promising!" Huang Qiao held Yun Fei's young boss tightly.

With the development of Jiuyi Heavy Industry, Yun Fei, a young man who is almost a newspaper in the sky, is a household name in Rongcheng.

Rongcheng Aircraft Factory, a state-owned factory with tens of thousands of people, does not have high profits for a factory with less than 2,000 people. How could he not value this young man?

Besides, CNC machine tools have a considerable impact on the aircraft industry, and many precision key parts require CNC machine tools to ensure quality.

Rongcheng Aircraft Factory has merged with 611 Institute and changed its name to Rongcheng Aircraft Industry Company. Its design and R&D capabilities are still very strong.

No matter how strong the design strength is, it must be transformed into real objects to be verified.

Many of the parts on the airplane are complicated three-dimensional curved surfaces. General equipment processing, only the final manual correction and polishing, takes much longer than the previous processing time.Moreover, manual polishing is also very easy to make mistakes. If you don't pay attention, it will be scrapped.

With the gradual opening of foreign high-precision three-axis machining centers to mainland China, Rongcheng Aircraft Factory has acquired a lot of CNC machine tools from European and American countries and the little devil.However, it is not so easy for Rongcheng Aircraft Factory to get more three-axis CNC machine tools.

First, lack of money!Rongcheng Aircraft Factory did not make much profit despite the sharp drop in military orders.Even with the profit of civilian products, it is necessary to supplement all aspects of research on fighter jets. The country's annual financial allocation cannot fully satisfy all research projects. Where is there a large amount of funds to purchase imported CNC machine tools?

Second, there is still a lack of money.Although the three-axis CNC milling machine produced by Jiuyi Heavy Industry has greatly reduced the price of imported CNC milling machines, they are only CNC milling machines and CNC lathes.Rongcheng Aircraft Factory's demand for CNC machine tools is not CNC lathes and CNC milling machines. What they need is medium and high-end CNC machine tools with three-axis linkage or more!

At present, the total number of domestic four-axis machining centers in China does not exceed 30, which are divided among the major domestic aerospace and aerospace plants.Want to buy more?Even if others are willing to sell, China is reluctant to buy it.

Even though the price of a four-axis CNC machining center has been greatly reduced, one is more than 1.5 million US dollars!

What Rongcheng Aircraft Factory needs is a five-axis machining center that is more expensive than four-axis!

Not to mention that foreign countries will not export to China, the price alone is beyond China's ability to bear.

There is an international smuggling team saying that a six-million-dollar unit can help China get a second-hand five-axis machining center.

This price is actually very fair. You should know that if you smuggle a five-axis machining center into mainland China, you have to risk being chased by the whole world.Ten years have passed since the Toshiba incident that year, but European and American countries have now imposed even more severe embargoes on China, which became the leader of the socialist camp after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but it has turned from the surface to the bottom.

It can greatly improve the manufacturing technology of the military industry, especially the manufacturing of the core components related to the improvement of the overall combat effectiveness, such as the impeller of the engine and the propeller of the submarine. On the surface, the embargo imposed by the five-axis machining center on China is no longer in the Cold War. Strong, but it was not easy for China to get a five-axis machining center in the mid-1990s.

The Soviet Union received four five-axis machining centers from Japan at a total cost of more than 30 million US dollars.

You know, that was the price in the early 1980s.

The average price per unit exceeds 750 dollars.What was the per capita income of China at that time?three hundred?five hundred?

Therefore, the offer made by the smuggling team is not too high.

If China had not put the entire country's strategy on economic development in the mid-1980s, let alone six million dollars, it would be sixty million dollars, China would probably buy a few units.

Now that a world war cannot be fought at all, China's willingness to develop its military industry is not so strong anymore.

"Where, where! The kid is just an ordinary nouveau riche. He has his appearance, his appearance..." Yun Fei answered Huang Qiaosong's words with a smile on his face.

The Rongcheng Aircraft Factory now mainly produces some fighter parts and a small amount of fighter trainers. Most of the energy is put on the research of Xiaolong fighter planes, and at the same time, the theoretical design of the J-10 is being carried out.

Yun Fei knows that the theoretical design of the Xiaolong fighter has been completed, and now it is estimated that the test prototype is about to complete the final assembly. The news he learned is that the Xiaolong fighter, which has been studied since 1992, had its first flight in 1994. After all, the performance of this gadget has not been improved across generations. For China and Pakistan, it may be more advanced fighters. However, in the third-generation fighters and service abroad, the fourth-generation design has come to an end, the fifth-generation With fighter jets already beginning theoretical research, these aircraft produced by the Chengdu Aircraft Factory pose no threat to the European and American powers.

However, what made Yunfei most concerned was that the Rongcheng Aircraft Factory carried out its first flight of the J-10 in 1996.

Research on China's third-generation fighter jets began as early as the 1980s, but limited to materials and manufacturing levels, until now, there has not been much breakthrough progress.The most important thing about this is the design. Chinese designers don't have any physical reference.

In addition, China’s research has to be based on Russian engines. Old Maozi is no better than the Soviet Union. Back then, the Soviet Union in the same camp imposed restrictions on China’s exports because of China’s reform and opening up and feared that China would invest in the capitalist camp. , The newly established Russian economy is extremely depressed, and Russia will not export aircraft engines to China either.

Even so, Lao Maozi often increases prices and puts forward some additional conditions.

"Mr. Yun, can your company make a breakthrough in the research of CNC machine tools?" Huang Qiaosong is looking forward to when Jiuyi Heavy Industry will be able to successfully research a four-axis machining center.

If the Chengdu Aircraft Factory wants to upgrade its technology, it must first upgrade its manufacturing equipment on a large scale, and machining centers with more than three axes are what they lack most.Taiwan's machining centers can be bought in large quantities, but those gadgets are not only expensive, but the machining accuracy is not very high. It is very reluctant to process some precision aircraft parts.

"..." Yun Fei was speechless, this guy would not go to accompany the elderly, and behave well in front of the leaders of the central government and the boss of Pakistan, but now he is asking about the situation of his company!

"Director Huang, let's talk about this later, let's talk about it later..." Yun Fei could only remind Huang Qiaosong tactfully that now is not the time to talk about these things.

"Haha..." Huang Qiaosong turned his shining eyes to those leaders after Yun Fei's reminder.

The main investor of the Xiaolong fighter is Pakistan, and the main purpose of inspections by countries such as Iran and Yugoslavia is to conduct military procurement.They are very interested in the Fierce Dragon fighter jointly developed by Pakistan and China, which are said to have produced test prototypes.

Heavy fighter jets are not suitable for these small countries, otherwise, once the pilots get wind and accelerate, they will fly into the airspace of other countries...

In fact, what they want to buy most is Chinese missiles.

China's missiles are of good quality, high precision, and low price. They are simply the representative of the most inexpensive and good-quality products in the world.However, the base of the aerospace company next to Jiuyi Heavy Industry has not been completed yet. Only some civilian workshops for auto parts and other civilian products have been relocated. Otherwise, they will not visit the Jiuyi Heavy Industry and stop visiting the aerospace company. After a while, he ran to see the fighter under the flick of the Pakistani officials.

"Everyone, after these years of continuous expansion and transformation and upgrading of plant equipment, Rongcheng Aircraft Factory has an annual production capacity of 500 light fighters. Now these aircraft being assembled are the instructors of the most widely used fighters in our country. The plane..." Huang Qiaosong led everyone in the green paint passage in the middle of the workshop and walked forward, while pointing at the planes that were being assembled.