Super military empire

Under the leadership of Xiong Fengfeng and others, Liu Yijiu visited the entire large aircraft factory in detail and completely. The large aircraft factory has been built for so many years, even if Liu Yijiu first supported the entire large aircraft factory. I haven't carefully visited and understood the entire aircraft manufacturing process.

Of course, this is only the process of final assembly. There is also production here. The main thing is the precision machining of aircraft engines and precision mechanical parts.

Aircraft manufacturing is a very cumbersome process. The entire production process is extremely large. This may be the most complicated structure manufactured by human beings and the most technically demanding thing.

Various components are assembled together to become a huge aircraft, especially a flying aircraft.

In the R&D of Yun20, almost every domestic company capable of manufacturing related parts has participated in it.

"We ourselves mainly make the core key components of engines, the core structural parts of aircraft and other products. Our precision processing plants have to process them by ourselves. So far, few domestic companies have such huge precision machining capabilities as ours. "In the precision machinery processing plant, watching all kinds of complex large parts piled up in the material warehouse area, and at the same time, many parts are placed in the processing area of ​​various equipment, Liu Yijiu said.

"Aren't we all processing the blanks by ourselves?" Liu Yijiu asked when he saw some large pieces of overall materials in the material warehouse.

According to the previous arrangement, most of their processing units have formulated production procedures that can be processed by outsourcing. They directly send processing orders to the outsourcing processing manufacturers. Rough processing, semi-finishing and other processes are all handed over to the supporting equipment. The outsourcing processing plant.

Whether it is the 132 factory or the large aircraft factory, the surrounding area is crowded with various large and small auxiliary factories. Some of these auxiliary factories have only one equipment and three or two people. Few people who have opinions about the company's management model and other aspects, and have good processing and manufacturing skills, are mainly skilled workers who have resigned from the 132 factory or large aircraft factories.

Larger ones have a good relationship, or have capital or technology.

In particular, some other companies have set up supporting processing plants and processing workshops here, which has created a huge large aircraft manufacturing base.

These external processing capabilities do not need to be invested by the large aircraft factories, but the processing capabilities belong to the large aircraft manufacturers. After all, all companies rely on the large aircraft factories to exist.

For such a situation, people in the management committee are happy to hear and will not attack this model because there may be some problems in it.

When he came, Liu Yijiu passed through these supporting factories and workshops, and was a little surprised at the scale of development outside.

Under such circumstances, how can Liu Yijiu not be surprised to see that the material warehouse of the production and processing workshop is not a processed integral part, but a huge blank?

Seeing Liu Yijiu questioning, the person in charge of Xiong Fengfeng, a large aircraft factory, did not wait for the person in charge of the precision machinery processing plant to answer, so he took the initiative to speak, "Director Liu, these parts are not without outsourcing. Most of them can be outsourced. We are all manufacturers that outsource parts and processing procedures for production. However, at present, there are some large-scale parts that require relatively high material requirements, and the requirements for equipment are also very high. The outsourcing unit does not have our own processing plant. Such a huge technical ability..."

"Rough machining and semi-finish machining require very strong technical capabilities? We can do all kinds of CNC machine tools in China, right?" Liu Yijiu is very clear about domestic CNC machine tools.

The most top-level precision processing equipment may still not be as good as foreign ones. There should be no problem in producing these aircraft structural parts.

"There is indeed no problem. However, the price of CNC equipment that can process these large parts is very high, and the price is often millions or even tens of millions. Except for those relatively powerful supporting factories, ordinary mechanical processing units , But can’t afford such high equipment costs.” The director of the Precision Factory explained bitterly to Liu Yijiu."Our entire factory has continued to invest in these years. The total value of various CNC equipment exceeds 500 million. This is not considered as hidden assets such as skilled workers..."

"In order to promote the use of CNC machine tools in the country, our CNC equipment company, can our own Jiuyi Bank loan these units purchased?" Liu Yijiu does not remember some things, but it does not mean that everything has been forgotten.

The Ninth Institute has huge funds. If these funds are only stored in the bank for interest, it is not in line with the development of the Ninth Institute. At the same time, it does not have a great role in promoting some domestic industries.Therefore, after the approval of the higher-level authorities, the Ninth Academy and the military jointly established a commercial bank. This bank was named the Jiuyi Development Bank and was mainly used to support industries related to the military industry system.

In this way, the interest on commercial loans has also been obtained, and at the same time it has promoted the upgrading and development of the domestic basic processing technology system.

Regarding CNC machine tools, in order to promote quickly, it is naturally also the key target of Jiuyi Bank's funds.

What's more, Jiuyi Bank also likes this kind of business. Every precision CNC machine tool manufactured by the CNC machine tool factory of the Ninth Institute has a positioning device. At the same time, the operating system has preset programs and loan units every month. All must obtain the system unlock code for the next month after the loan is repaid, or use the satellite network system to unlock remotely through the CNC machine tool company.If you don't repay, you won't be able to get the code, and the entire device will naturally be unusable when the time comes, and it won't work at all.

This forces processing companies that have loans to repay on time.

In this mode, how could the problem that the processing unit cannot afford CNC equipment?

"My Director Liu, our loan is only for ordinary CNC machining equipment, ultra-precision and large-scale machining centers and other mechanical equipment. They were originally only used for large enterprises, especially military processing units. These units have money. Even if there is no money, as long as there is such a plan, they can obtain funds, so naturally they will not, and it is impossible to obtain loans from our Ninth Institute. The funds of state-owned enterprises are not so easy to collect..." Xiong Fengyi The bitterness of the face.

Liu Yijiu knew that these things were normal.

This regulation seems to have been proposed by myself back then?

"We need to think of a way, so that we can only continue to expand the scale of production ourselves." Liu Yijiu said.

"This is indeed the case. If we have sufficient funds, we will choose some companies with larger production scales and better cooperation with us to cooperate and help them build some equipment..." The person in charge of the precision factory faced Liu Yijiu Said.

Bear Storm secretly gave the factory director a thumbs up.

This is asking Liu Yijiu for money.

Liu Yijiu did not answer, but walked forward.

In the precision machinery processing plant, the workshop, which was originally set up by technical backbones drawn from the three districts of the Ninth Institute Base for the production of engines, has become quite large after more than ten years of development.Except for a few top-level and high-precision ordinary machining machines, most of the workshops are CNC machine tools.

Small CNC machine tools are neatly arranged in a huge workshop. In a large structure processing workshop, there is no such situation. A workshop that is hundreds of meters long and tens of meters wide may be occupied by three or five large CNC machine tools. .

In many workshops, there is no such crowded scene.

Technology-intensive enterprises are like this. There are many equipment and relatively few people. In the empty factory buildings, it seems that there are too few people.

In this, in order to better produce and improve efficiency, there are many more automation devices than other factories. This is also an experimental platform for intelligent production of the Ninth Institute.

From raw materials to mechanical processing, to heat treatment, surface treatment, and finally to the assembly process, a huge number of parts become an advanced aircraft. Liu Yijiu spent two days hurriedly visiting this process.

Especially in the assembly workshop, more than ten huge Yunshi aircraft lined up in the empty workshop, all kinds of auxiliary equipment are all around, even if they are surrounded by the aircraft that has begun to take shape, it looks extremely shocking. feel.

In the huge workshop, the number of assembling personnel is very small.

"In fifteen years, we have grown from a blank to the present level. It is very difficult. But this is not enough! We need a larger production and assembly workshop, we need a larger number of orders, only in this way, we Only with the large aircraft business of China can we catch up and catch up with the United States and the former Soviet Union. I believe that with the joint efforts of all of us, we will let an aircraft as large as the An-224 go out of our assembly workshop... "Liu Yijiu stood at the highest place in the assembly workshop where he could see the entire workshop, and said proudly.

Under the current circumstances, an aircraft like the An-224 can be said to be the limit of human manufacturing, but China does not have the ability to design and manufacture it.

Even the transport of twenty, so far, has not been completely finalized.

The foreign aircraft industry has developed for more than 80 years, but China started from a blank level when other people's aircraft were already able to carry out intercontinental flights. Liu Yijiu is already very satisfied with the current situation.

"Director Liu, that day will not be too far." Ma Fengshan assured Liu Yijiu.

The most powerful chief aircraft commander in China is in very good physical condition and is full of energy every day.

"Yes, although the Yun-20 has not yet undergone test flights and has not been finalized, our next generation of large aircraft has already begun to take shape. There will be higher speeds, longer ranges, and larger payloads. Lower operating costs." Xiong Fengfeng also added to Liu Yijiu.

Liu Yijiu just nodded.

Did not show too many surprises, "This shows that we have accumulated enough experience in the past 15 years, and the basic supporting facilities have also been perfected. Under such circumstances, larger and more advanced aircraft, and It is not difficult. However, I hope that you will not set your goals too high and catch up with Europe and the United States step by step and surpass."

The meaning of Xiong Fengfeng and others is obviously that they hope to obtain funding for new projects in advance.

Before the replacement, Liu Yijiu might agree, but now he will not. The funds of the Ninth Academy are running low. Whether the military will agree is not guaranteed. He is too lazy to persuade the military, and he doesn’t give too much. necessary.If you want to survive in the future market, you must make continuous progress and make continuous breakthroughs.

"McDonnell Douglas was acquired by Boeing. Now the world's only civil aviation airliner production suppliers are Boeing and Airbus. These two companies are both giants. It is not easy for us to reach their level..." Bear Storm reminds Liu Yijiu.

Airbus in Europe started almost at the same time as China's Yun-10 project, but it has now developed to the point where it can keep pace with Boeing.

For the personnel in the civil aviation industry in China, it is strange that there is no pressure.

Liu Yijiu was not surprised by Boeing’s acquisition of McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas entered the Chinese market and almost killed Yun Shi. Liu Yijiu was so angry with Tu Sen that Yun Shi has produced hundreds of products so far. frame.This achievement is already not small, but compared with Airbus, which started almost at the same time in Europe, it is not in the same order of magnitude.

"There is no need to envy them. The situation between us and Airbus is completely different. Everyone knows this. Airbus was created by the three countries of Britain, France and Germany. It is a unit that drank the entire European aviation manufacturing resources. In addition, with the support of orders from European countries, Airbus can develop so quickly. Europe is originally a developed country, and people’s living standards are high. It is normal to choose airplanes for travel, which creates a huge market demand. In our country, The problem of food and clothing has just been solved, but now more people are getting richer, the market demand of the aviation industry is growing rapidly, and domestic flights are increasing rapidly. You can imagine that if every city in our country opens flights like Europe and the United States, we need How many planes... How many planes are needed to open direct flights to each country. The question is whether we can hold onto our own domestic market and grab a portion of the foreign market from Airbus and Boeing... "Everyone can know this.

The two airlines, Airbus and Boeing, account for almost the vast majority of civil aviation orders in the entire world, forcing other aircraft manufacturers to either go bankrupt and be acquired by them, or to transform and exit the civil aviation market.

It is conceivable that China’s large aircraft encountered such a powerful enemy just after spreading its wings.