318. Intelligent machine tools
Liu Wancheng, who has no accumulation of time, can only be a small technical section chief who complains about the world.
In his own opinion, the achievement of such a career today is due to the accumulation of experience in his actual life, which has little to do with predicting the future.
Things often come from details. Even if a young boy knows many things in the future, he will not go too far.
Because your participation will change the future development at any time. No matter how many times you are reborn, the future will be unpredictable.
Only by relying on the experience and insight accumulated over the years, taking every step well and doing every detail well, can you remain calm in the face of changes, have a bright future, and achieve a career that others cannot do.
When Gao Qiang suspected Liu Wancheng's concept of intelligent machine tools, before Liu Wancheng could explain, Han Suyun, chief engineer of the company's enterprise department, spoke first.
Han Suyun is ten years younger than Gao Qiang. At this age, she had retired from the position of vice chairman of the Jiangshan Machinery Factory Trade Union and retired at home.
Even when she was the technical section chief in the second branch factory, she did not have much enthusiasm for work and was only dedicated. She just devoted more energy to establishing a good relationship with her leaders.
The marriage between Liu Wancheng and Gao Xiuju was Han Suyun's matchmaker. At that time, Gao Qiang was the director of a branch, and Gao Laohu's reputation was in Jiangshan Machinery Factory, which was better than the boss Liu Caicheng. Of course, Han Suyun would try his best to curry favor with him.
From the details of her daily work, Liu Wancheng saw that this was a person with a strong desire for knowledge and rich work experience to become a slippery person. She graduated from a technical secondary school in the 1960s, but even Liu Wancheng admired her professional knowledge. She couldn't see her taking the initiative to learn, but Liu Wancheng knew that she would work behind the scenes of every new craft or technology that appeared in the factory. When she expressed her views on new things the next day, it was definitely professional, which made others sigh.
This is caused by her strong personality and inferiority complex with her low education.
Liu Wancheng appointed her as chief engineer without hesitation, just to be familiar with the personality of his old superior.
Sure enough, Han Suyun's comprehensive knowledge and handling of key technical issues in this position made those engineers who graduated from college impeccable, and no one in this position would do better than her.
This is a strong intellectual who has been cultivated by China itself, without Liu Wancheng, will be buried in the laid-off wave of Jiangshan Machinery Factory and become an ordinary person who is busy waiting to die.
And in that era, no one can explain how many talents were buried. Is this a huge loss for this country?
When most of the talents in a country are wasted and become ordinary people, how sad is this? Is it a new generation that has just graduated, cannot be used to learn, and has only learned some social experience in school, and has no academic experience to talk about?
It's gone too far again.
Han Suyun explained to Gao Qiang: "Old Gao, the concept of intelligent machine tool proposed by Mr. Liu represents the latest technology in the future. If you talk about the use, then the use will be immeasurable.
For example, a while ago, how did you do the multi-curve complex parts that Wei Gong in the laboratory? You broke it into several parts rough processing, then welded them together, and you filed and grinded them manually. It took a week to barely work. Old Wei was not satisfied, but he just said it was embarrassed.
If you don’t have the experience of Lao Gao and the old foundation of a mold fitter, no one can make this thing. Lao Wei praised you as a treasure in Jiangshan Group.
However, if this part is not for one Lao Wei to use for experiments, but for ten, hundreds, or even tens of thousands of them, what about mass production? You can't even get it done if you are so tired.
This is what Mr. Liu mentioned about the intelligent machine tool.
Our micro feed technology is very mature. For example, if you use the current machining center to make a spherical part, you can see the knife marks with your naked eyes. When you zoom in, you will see the balls composed of trapezoids, which is not as accurate as the rolling ball process.
What is the reason? Microfeeding technology is not good and cannot be used for 3D calculation processing. Our current microfeeding technology has a high integration module that can achieve the accuracy of 1,000-meter meter at a time. Our 3D technology can allow the tool to move along the curve of the calculus equation. So, can you imagine how high the accuracy of the sphere we have made?
Such accurate spheres are the basis for making many valve bodies and high-precision bearings! The bearings with the highest accuracy in our country are not as good as ordinary-level bearings from other countries, which involve a series of problems that machine tools cannot meet the required accuracy.
If these problems are not solved, our industry will never be able to get rid of low-end and shoddy manufacturing. Our high-end products such as aircraft and rockets will never be able to be truly domestically produced. Only when our own equipment produces the high-precision parts we need can we truly be called domestically produced!”
The conference room was completely silent as I said this, and everyone felt a sense of depression.
At this time, Liu Wancheng broke the silence and said, "So, we have to build this kind of machine tool. Of course, it will be very difficult at the beginning. Our difficulties are not the electronic components now, but the mechanical parts.
Although we have high-precision machine tools imported from before, which can produce high-precision machines, we do not have high-precision bearings. We still have to do the same as before. We have to steal the high-precision bearing technology. There are also heat treatment technology and steelmaking technology, and there are so many difficulties. It is still a battle between bows and arrows and thermal weapons!
We have to solve these difficulties one by one. Many domestic companies are working hard on steel, especially casting machine tools. After continuous research by Mr. Han’s team, we can basically find what meets our requirements. In other words, we can entrust the machine tool beds we want to build in China, and we can do the timeliness ourselves. The gears and transmission shafts of the machine tools can also be found. The key is the accuracy of the bearings and ball screws.
The materials of ball screws are imported from abroad if they really don’t work. We use our own equipment to process them.
We don’t have high-precision heat treatment equipment, but it can be imported now. We have imported it, from physical structure to electronic control, and we have researched it, and it should be imitated. I think, we can do this now first.
Bearings mainly have the machining accuracy and ball accuracy of the inner and outer rings, which we cannot solve in China. We can only try to steal. With this technology, I considered to acquire a small domestic bearing company and we produce our own bearings. When this technology takes root in China and becomes completely mature, we can sell the bearing factory and only do the main business."
Before Liu Wancheng could finish his words, Wu Xiaobo spoke.
"You are patriotic, and we are also patriotic. No one can object to patriotic matters." He said, but his tone was very stiff, "But whether we are engaged in business or business, we should be businessmen first. What should we consider first? What is interests and profits!
We invested huge amounts of money in the electronic high-tech industrial park in the early stage. Where did these funds come from? It’s not our own, but the bank’s. Under the leadership of Mr. Liu Wancheng, Jiangshan Group is at its peak and the bank is easy to talk about, so it’s easy to borrow as much as possible. However, these loans have interest and need to be paid back, and we need to use our assets as collateral! When the electronic industrial park started, everyone we were sitting there was a sweat in their hands. If we fail to pay it successfully, all our assets will not be ours and we will have nothing!
Why don’t you talk and let you take out a loan or make a breakthrough? Because everyone trusts you, every adventure you take succeeds when we feel hopeless.
However, when we analyzed these successes together afterwards, there was still a component of luck.
Now, I will analyze our current industrial structure and asset liabilities for you. Our debt-to-asset ratio has reached 74%. If it is a state-owned enterprise, there is still no problem, and it is even insolvent. As long as there are high-profit projects and industries that can make a profit, there is no problem.
But don’t forget that we are private enterprises and cannot withstand the storms!
Our electronics industrial park is on track and starts to make profits, and the profits in the future will increase year by year. Everyone has a consensus, but there is no problem.
However, we cannot just pay back the bank interest. We have to pay off most of the loans and reduce the debt-to-asset ratio to less than 25%. We are insured. This is also the consensus among executives.
Now, our financial director has come up with a repayment plan. I wonder if you have read it? I will repeat it to you here. We plan to reduce the debt-to-asset ratio to less than 25% within three years. In this way, in the past three years, the group's profits, in addition to some dividends, will be used to repay loans, and will also support your high-tech laboratory. It can be said that within three years, our funds will be very tight.
The smart machine tool you just mentioned is of course a good thing for the country and the people, and we also want to do it. However, we don’t have the money to do it. If we borrow another loan, we will be insolvent, and our profits will soon be close to the interest on the loan.
If this thing can make a profit quickly, we can also consider to endure it. However, as you said just now, everyone has heard that this investment period is probably longer than that of the electronics industrial park!
Then I would like to ask Mr. Liu Wancheng, President Liu, where are you going to make money to tinker with your wonderful ideas? Want to delay reducing the debt ratio and withdraw funds? Then I tell you that before you held this meeting, General Manager Gao had already convened us for a meeting, and everyone had already formed a resolution that the repayment plan would not change, and the reserved working capital would not change.
If you don’t spend the company’s money, we will follow you and accompany you to the end. If you want to use the company’s own assets to realize your dream of a strong country, then, I’m sorry, we won’t play with you anymore!”
Liu Wancheng was a little stupid. His plan was that without reducing the company's debt ratio, the company was fully capable of operating another machinery manufacturing industrial park.
He discussed this matter with Gao Xiuju. Gao Xiuju didn't agree, but he didn't object, but just raised one difficulty after another with him.
Hey, you silly girl, you are so kind. First, carry me on your back, mobilize everyone, and block the road directly. If you are so trampling on the inside, are you still my wife?
Chapter completed!