Chapter 248 Automation Transformation

In the history that Zhang Yunfeng knows, the final result of C929G is failure, although core engine did not adopt domestic, adopt the engine that General Electric provides instead, but failure reason still has a lot of, for example: Avionics equipment is backward. Unbalance of whole machine performance. Most of the machine parts and Boeing, Airbus is not common, maintenance costs increase, man-hour increase.

Boeing was able to form a worldwide monopoly with Airbus not only because of their advanced technology, but also in large part because each of them expanded its product line-up, not only every civil airport in the world has its own aircraft taking off and landing, every airport in the world also has technicians who can repair and maintain their own brand of aircraft, and every airport in the world, there are a large number of spare parts for their aircraft at any time for maintenance, maintenance, civil aviation, such a security industry, this is particularly important.

History has shown that the failure of C929g was a failure of integrity, not a failure of a single link, and now the state is targeting new materials for COMAC, even if it does sell them new materials, the result is the same: their product, the soon-to-be-launched C929g, ends up failing.

Regarding Nie Minhui's reference to COMAC's purchase intention, Zhang Yunfeng did not refuse and responded easily to Nie Minhui, "Nie Ayi, exclude all the materials Dongchen needs, the rest can be sold to them first, but the price, they do not expect us to give what concessions, all in accordance with the market price go. "

"Why? " Nie Minhui Asks Curiously: "Don't give a preferential price? After all, it is the key project of the country. "

"What about the key projects? " Zhang Yunfeng smiled, "Don't worry, aunt Nie, as far as the current trend is concerned, they will not succeed. In fact, the future of civil aviation will be a battle between Boeing and Airbus. It is impossible for other countries to reverse this pattern. "

"The outside world seems to like COMAC, " said Nie, somewhat uncomprehending. "The C929 rating is also very high. "

Zhang Yunfeng shook his head, sentence is too long, please supply a shorter sentence

Nie Minhui took one look at Zhang Yunfeng and asked, "so you mean to say that COMAC has no prospects at all? "

"Well, " said Zhang, nodding his head, "the current capacity is simply not good enough to develop and build a mainline passenger plane. If COMAC is bent on developing an aircraft with more than one hundred and fifty seats, I dare say they will fail. "

"Oh, " Nie minhui said, "We have seen so many painful cases where years or more of hard work have gone to waste. We hope that COMAC can create a little miracle and not waste the hopes that the whole country places on it. "

Zhang Yunfeng silently shook his head. Civil Aviation passenger planes, especially those with more than 150 seats on the main line, can be said to be the most high-tech products in the civil field, and the synthesizer of all advanced technologies. There are so many developed countries in the world, boeing and Airbus are the only two brands, and there are only ten main models still in production! Boeing 737 to 787, MODEL 6. Airbus A320,30,50 to A380, four models.

How can COMAC compete in a market already transformed by Boeing and Airbus?

UNLESS..

The C929G is also likely to gain market share because of its high performance, low fuel consumption and low maintenance costs, unless it can produce a new turbofan that leads the world.

The newly established Zhongchen new material research and production company, under the leadership of Chen Rongguang, has started trial production of three materials by making use of various equipment and facilities provided by Zhongyu Group, these three materials were all trial-produced, and through the final monitoring, all the indicators, and Zhang Yunfeng document said the general.

Now that it has passed the test, the next natural step is to start mass production. All the production lines originally provided by Zhongyu Group for the new material business have been divided up, while other own production lines have also tried their best to give the green light for the production of new materials, although mass production has begun, but because the secrecy work done extremely well, has not revealed any related wind.

At this moment, Zhang Yunfeng is not far from Yanjing in Zhangjiakou. All the equipment he ordered from Nie Minhui has started to be delivered one after another. The rest will be in place in the near future. The five-axis processing platform equipment has also been delivered, we're in the middle of a major installation in Zhangjiakou.

Wuhan's industrial base is in the middle of building infrastructure that, even if designed with heavy steel, will take at least half a year to be ready for use, zhang was forced to temporarily build a high-precision machining centre in Zhangjiakou, alongside an engine production line.

At the same time, substantial improvements were made to the engine assembly line, and the workers found a large group of foreign technicians beginning to work on the factory assembly line, according to a precise construction drawings for the installation of the mechanical arm.

Those arms are long or short, some arms, five or six meters long when fully extended, and the joints are four or five, as flexible as a snake, and the workers are well aware that the introduction of these arms, will represent a higher degree of automation in the factory, but it has also raised concerns among workers that the higher the level of automation, the less Labor is required, and the factory is now being automated, so is the next step going to be layoffs?

In just three days, as many as 100 sets of robotic arms have been installed on the entire production line. In addition to the steps that need to be completed manually, the entire production line is within the range of the robotic arms, the makers of the robotic arm are also surprised by the number of robotic arms used. The cost of developing software that would allow the hundreds of robotic arms to work together would be no lower than the cost of developing the arms themselves.

After the installation was completed, Paul, a project leader from the company's parent company, led Zhang to check and inspect each arm of the line one by one. Each arm has three arteries, one is a cable, to provide the most basic source of power. One is the hydraulic line, the robot arm flexible movement, all depends on the various parts of the hydraulic parts of the collaborative work. The third is the data entry port, which is used to input all the instructions.

Paul has a joystick device, and every time he gets to a robotic arm, he connects the data port of the joystick device to the data port of the robotic arm, and then, using a rocker device to control the robotic arm to complete the demonstration of each component and each joint. After all the equipment has been checked, Zhang Yunfeng and Paul sign the acceptance form together.

"I've sent you the children, " Paul said in a cockney accent. "It's up to you how well these children will be educated. "

With a smile, Zhang understood that Paul regarded the robotic arms as his children, but the children were blank sheets of paper about what they did and what achievements and products they produced, depends on the science on your side.

After Paul and the others left the factory, Zhang immediately connected all the robotic arms to the main control computer, which is still a blank, with no command program to precisely control the more than 100 robotic arms, however, it doesn't matter. Zhang Yunfeng has made some changes to the master computer. The computer has been installed with a wireless network card, while Zhang Yunfeng has set up a high-end, high-speed network base station in this factory, high enough to have wireless coverage of the entire plant.

If he was inside the factory, Shōni would be able to operate the control computer directly from the Internal Lan, giving instructions to it, and if he was somewhere else, just make sure the boy was connected to the network, shōni has the means to connect to the main computer here, via the Internet, to ensure complete control of the device.

When everything was ready and the workers had left the factory, Zhang closed the whole building and looked at the brightly lit production line without a single worker. "Shōni, show me your hands, " he said to Shōni

Then, Zhang Yunfeng suddenly found that the entire production line on the mechanical arm suddenly moved at the same time! All the robotic arms are doing a movement at the same time, a kind of salute, the steps are very neat, and then, each robot arm in their respective working radius to do a variety of different movements with other robot arms, extremely fast, extremely accurate.

"I'm good at driving, boss, " Shōni said, a little excited. "It feels good! "

Zhang Yunfeng is also very satisfied. In this way, the production line, in terms of technology, can approach its own requirements to the greatest extent, and can also manufacture the products in the industrial skill bag to the greatest extent. Now, the production line has been transformed, when Zhongchen new material company will send a lot of raw materials, this production line can start.