Intelligent Industrial Empire

Flexible manufacturing system, this is the technology that the world's mechanical powers are currently studying, but there are very few countries that have made much progress.For most companies researching this field, this project is actually just an integration of production equipment.

For those who do not understand this industry, a flexible manufacturing system is just a series of different types of equipment arranged in accordance with the process.But for the Jiuyi Research Institute, this is more than enough.

If it is just such a system, how could it become a scientific research project worth hundreds of billions of dollars?Moreover, it takes a long time. I don't know when the results will be produced.

What Jiuyi Research Institute is trying its best to build is a truly unmanned manufacturing workshop.

This is basically the top integration of various technologies in the world.Yun insisted to show the old man, and that was almost the same.

This technology has been studied by many companies in the sixty-seven years after the emergence and application of CNC machine tools. It was first developed by the British Molins in 1967 based on the basic concept of FMS proposed by Williamson. In the same year, the White Sunstrand Company of the United States built the OmnilineI system. It consists of eight machining centers and two multi-axis drilling machines. The workpieces are installed in the fixtures on the pallet. The cycle time is transmitted and processed between the machine tools.

However, these are not really flexible manufacturing systems.

Until 1976, Japan's Farrak Company exhibited a flexible manufacturing cell (FMC) composed of processing centers and industrial robots, which provided an important form of equipment for the development of FMS.

These are just the rudiments of a tradition.

Although it is a flexible manufacturing system, due to technical reasons and computer performance problems, there is no way to judge the wear of the tool during the machining process. Therefore, the equipment is a complete production line, but the operation is manual.

The most typical form of expression is some unmanned automatic production lines that have begun to appear in the world.The main performance is the welding production line of the automobile factory and the automated painting workshop.As for the stamping production line, because many molds weigh several tons or even dozens of tons, there is no way for robots to accurately replace these molds at any time and easily.

More importantly, these robots have no way to identify whether the tool is worn or whether there is a problem. After all, the robot automatically judges. As long as the time set by the computer is not reached, it will not be replaced at all, and will be processed at that time. A large number of waste products come out.

This is the problem of the whole world.

At the same time, this project cannot be researched with less than 20 billion U.S. dollars of funds.Yun Fei knew this thing, and naturally knew that it would be impossible to successfully research this project with 100 billion RMB.

However, regardless of the amount of money, the purpose of his nine-one research institute is to unswervingly strive in this direction.No matter how much money is invested, it is impossible for companies in foreign countries to make research in this area because of the large consumption of funds.

China is far behind foreign countries in this respect.

The research project established in the Jiuyi Research Institute of Yunfei is not just such a simple integration, but directly uses robots to replace the operators.This is not the most basic application of the Japanese Falak, and the Japanese are currently researching in this direction.

After waiting for many years, Japanese talents will find that they have actually entered a dead end and made the wrong way.

Just like the former Soviet Union.

The flexible manufacturing system studied by the Japanese can actually only be regarded as an upgraded template for large-scale special aircraft production in the Soviet Union.

Why does Yunfei research robots that can run around in the entire group company?

It should be known that such robots are not only more costly, and their technical content is far from being fixed in one position and can only be responsible for one or two steps. Even like welding robots, several or even dozens of robots can complete a process Industrial robots can be compared.

Of course, the flexible manufacturing system studied by Jiuyi Research Institute is not the kind of system the world thinks, but the kind of system understood by Yunfei.

Everything is a production model that uses robots to replace human operations.

Once such a production system is completed, basically most of the manufacturing machinery companies in the world will lose their jobs!

Because they don’t need management, quality inspection, or all sorts of miscellaneous workers. All they need is a super powerful computer and engineers who can ensure the safe and barrier-free operation of the processing from raw materials to finished products. .

These engineers will be born from September 1st University in the future.

At that time, China will not be a labor shortage, but a dilemma of high unemployment.

These have nothing to do with Yunfei. All he needs to do is to build his own intelligent industrial empire.It is best to be able to achieve the final level that only a variety of management personnel and technical personnel are required, and no ordinary technical workers are required.

After the country has expanded its enrollment on a large scale to the point where the sweeping roads are all college students, it will not be easy to find a large number of skilled workers.

What's more, when labor costs increase, the prices of various products fall, the currency depreciation, and the gross profit of the manufacturing industry drop to only a few percentage points, only robots that do not need to consider the house, do not consider marriage, and do not need to pay various insurances. It is the cheapest labor.

"Boss, why are you here?" The 43-year-old Su Yue, who had returned from Germany's Siemens Equipment Manufacturing Group, was surprised at the boss who rarely appeared in the research institute.

This guy used to be a publicly funded student of Huaqing University in the 1980s. He was studying in Germany and then to the Mitsubishi Group in Japan. Finally, he entered the General Motors Group in the United States because of discrimination. Then he was given by Deng Lanqing not long after he arrived in Germany. Flickered back.Su Yue did not get any good treatment because he switched to the three machinery companies with the strongest technical strength in the three most industrial countries in the world for more than ten years.Even, in many cases, he was discriminated against, which is why he wanted to return to China.

For this guy, Yun Fei didn't like it at first, because he jumped too many companies in a short time.

A person engaged in technology, if he has too many ideas that have nothing to do with technology in his mind, he will not achieve anything at all.However, Deng Lanqing and Sun Lin jointly gave him a package, and Yun Fei had no choice but to let Deng Lanqing relax.

This project is likely to lose all his net worth.

Anyway, this guy didn't have a long time in the Jiuyi Research Institute, and Yun Fei arranged for someone to stare at him. If he was a commercial spy, then Yun Fei would definitely make him regret coming to this world.

"It's okay, I just came to see the situation here." Yun Fei nodded to Su Yue, and said calmly.

The laboratory workshop of the Jiuyi Research Institute is very large, and the lowest floor has long been insufficient. For this project, Yunfei built a light steel structure workshop with an area of ​​more than 3,000 square meters next to the laboratory building. The entire unmanned production workshop project was moved inside.

A large number of CNC machine tools present a series of assembly lines. Among the three or five CNC machine tools, there is one that is several meters high and has several that can rotate in all directions. There are many cables that are bundled and suspended. Industrial robot.

Many robots with different shapes and functions, relying on electricity to drive wheels, move in an orderly manner.

Such a scene gives a sense of orderly disorder.The mess is because of crowding, and many test equipment are just some of the key parts in order to save costs.Many CNC machine tools are not equipped with protective covers at all, and the cables with various functions are not hidden from the outside of industrial robots.

Just because each component of this system is dispersed and separated according to different functions, it was originally a pipeline for overall research, but the progress of the research progress is very slow.

The welding robots that Geely Group needs and the completely unmanned welding robot production line that Yunfei wants to build for the Jiuyi Automobile Factory are also in this.Not to mention anything else, it's just that these CNC machine tools, industrial robots, and comprehensive automatic robots cost more than 100 million.And these gadgets have to invest more transformation funds because of the continuous improvement of their functions.

These are just the most intuitive display of hardware facilities.

Although this is only a project, it also has a huge area of ​​thousands of square meters, but for Yunfei's project that has invested a large amount of research funding, it is still crowded, in addition to being crowded.There are not too many things that an industrial robot can be responsible for, and in order to research progress, it is often that a research team will produce two or even three identical test samples at the same time.This is just to keep the research progress from stopping because of sudden problems or needs for improvement.

"The current control accuracy is still not going on. The main reason is that our computer functions are not powerful enough..." It is not too long for Su Yue to come to the September 1st Research Institute, only less than half a month, and many things are unknown. Yes, but before seeing this workshop, he absolutely could not have imagined that there would be such a large-scale research on automation in China.

The reason why he was willing to come to the September 1st Research Institute at the beginning was not only because of Deng Lanqing's flicker, but also because of the annual salary of one million US dollars.Even in Germany, his annual salary is only two hundred and forty thousand a year!