Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 50 Gonggong Manufacturing System

2012 2 Month 1 Day.

Gonggong Manufacturing System Special Team was established.

Zhong became the team leader, and the team members included Zhao Wei, Liu Yuzhu, Zhou Hu, and Gui Bin.

Zhao Wei didn't say anything. The basis of this information management system is the control program, but it is much simpler than the CNC program of the machine tool. Zhao Wei said that there is no pressure.

Liu Yuzhu is because the electric car project has not yet been approved, and he is idle for a while, so he might as well come over to help and get some credit.

Of course, Liu Yuzhu is quick in thinking, hardworking, and has a deep understanding of information systems. This is the main reason why Zhong Cheng let him join the project team.

Pulling Zhou Hu into the project team was a bit selfish.

Zhou Hu is a major in industrial management. He is engaged in technical support work in the crankshaft production workshop of the engine division, and it is difficult for him to make great progress.

Among the few friends, Zhou Hu's thinking is the closest to his, and he agrees with the selfless dedication of military workers.

Taking advantage of this project, Zhong Cheng wanted to give him a hand.

The future development of the Gonggong system is very large, and he hopes that Zhou Hu can become an expert in this field.

The last member, Gui Bin, is a full-time computer manager in the administrative department of the engine business department. He came to help him install the computer in the technical department.

The Gonggong system requires a lot of network installation, deployment, and computer hardware work, and Zhong Cheng doesn't know anyone else who works on computer hardware, so he directly ordered Gui Bin's general.

However, after talking with Gui Bin, Zhong Cheng felt that he had found a treasure.

Gui Bin is a talented student majoring in computer hardware at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. After graduation, he joined Red Star Company for some reason.

Because of the wrong major, he became a computer network manager and "waited to die" in the company.

For the opportunity provided by Zhong Cheng, both Zhou Hu and Gui Bin cherished it very much, and said that they would cooperate with the work "hardly".

In the special team office provided by the machine tool factory, Zhong Cheng explained the details of the Gonggong system to the team members.

Zhao Wei suddenly realized when he heard the name of this system.

"Zhong Cheng, I just discovered that you still have a habit of picking names! From Nuwa, Shenshi, Cangjie, Kuafu to Gonggong now, you must be addicted to picking names!"

Zhong Cheng blinked his eyes a few times and realized this too.

In the past two years, he really took a lot of names.

But it's not enough!

"Where is this? I am afraid that the names of the ancient Chinese gods are not enough for me!"

"what!"

These words stunned everyone in the project team, Zhong Cheng, your heart must be too big.

In order not to affect the production tasks of the machine tool factory, the special team selected a gear gearbox assembly line of the machine tool factory for the pilot.

Gearboxes use a wide variety of parts and are one of the core assemblies of machine tools. They have a huge impact on the performance of machine tools, and the complexity of the manufacturing process is the most representative.

Zhong Cheng has already designed the basic framework of the Gonggong system, but a specific manufacturing process is still required to fill each functional module.

They first go deep into the production site and grasp the first-hand information elements.

The first is the order execution process for various components, parts and other materials, which involves various documents, operation steps of relevant personnel, and existing problems.

Then there is the warehouse management of materials, the intermediate inventory management after the production workshop receives them, the warehouse management of semi-finished products, and how to connect data to the financial cost system.

The last part is the most complicated one. How to put various components and parts online, how to process and assemble them, process technical requirements, quality measurement methods and standards, and employee operations involve the most detailed things in the manufacturing process.

They just want to collect all this information into the computer, and after processing it through the set program, send it back to the site to guide the production, and even let the machine tool automatically process it.

Eliminate the influence of human factors as much as possible, and reduce lag and distortion in the process of information transmission.

The Gonggong manufacturing system is Industry 4.0, which is actually the information flow management of the manufacturing process. The biggest difference from Industry 3.0 is that it not only simply collects information, but also processes information, feeds back information to the site to guide the production process, and realizes intelligent manufacturing.

Except for Liu Yuzhu who is not very familiar with the production site, the five members of the special team have all experienced the production site, so it is no problem to collect on-site information.

Especially Zhong Cheng and Zhao Wei, they are too familiar with the machine tool equipment of the machine tool factory, and they have solved the most difficult problem of machine interconnection in Industry 4.0.

It is to connect all the machine tool equipment to the network through the local area network, collect all the parameters in the operation of the machine tool equipment, and judge the operating status by the program module in the main control server.

The production order is sent to the machine tool equipment through the process management module and the production planning module, and the machine tool equipment automatically starts running and feedbacks the execution status.

This is the true sense of fully automated production and flexible production.

The on-site workers will be freed from the heavy operation of machine tools and only do relatively light work such as measurement and machine tool maintenance.

Of course, the sharp reduction of on-site personnel is certain, but at present, the machine tool factory is increasing its production capacity too fast and seriously lacking personnel.

The reduction of on-site personnel is just in line with the current needs of the machine tool factory.

It took only one week for the special team to complete the collection of on-site information.

The project has entered the program planning and design stage.

Zhao Wei started writing the system modules, and Zhou Hu provided him with consultation on the workflow. The two of them also needed to code all the materials and equipment on site.

Just like assigning an ID number to a person, it can be uniquely identified in the information system, but it is infinitely more complicated than the rules of the ID number.

Because there are complex interrelationships between various machine tools and their components, for example, the simplest rolling tooling is composed of hundreds of parts, and some of them are composed of many parts. The relationship between them must be reflected in the rules, some are special, some are general, some are wearing parts, some are standard parts and so on.

The coding rules were formulated by Zhong Cheng. He decided to use the barcode management method in the system to manage materials and equipment, and replace manual judgment with programs and machines, so as to completely eliminate the problem of wrongly installing sensors that occurred during the Spring Festival.

Liu Yuzhu was in charge of compiling all the paper report documents on site into system report documents, which was very cumbersome.

Fortunately, the system input of process documents and inventory data was assisted by the staff of the branch factory, otherwise it would have caused them even more headaches.

The work of Zhong Cheng and Gui Bin is to plan the hardware equipment and network required by the Gonggong system, and also to budget the project cost.

The server is easy to say, Gui Bin can assemble a suitable server at the lowest cost, tens of thousands of dollars is enough.

The office already has computers and the Internet. It is not expensive to equip the production site with some computers and a network. 10,000+ will do it.

The machine tool equipment only needs to install network cards and network cables, and its own CNC system can complete data collection and automatically execute tasks.

They figured out that the most expensive thing is the barcode reader, which they don't pay much attention to.

The barcode readers used in supermarkets and shopping malls only cost one or two hundred yuan, but they read one-dimensional barcodes on white paper.

The two-dimensional code (DM code, with a larger information storage capacity) is used on the production site, and it is printed on components and parts by a laser marking machine. An industrial code reader with a higher resolution must be used. There are handheld mobile and fixed ones.

The price of a handheld industrial code reader is more than 5000 yuan, and a fixed industrial code reader even costs tens of thousands of yuan.

A gear transmission assembly line needs to be equipped with 40 to [-] barcode readers, and the cost will be more than [-] to [-] yuan.

Even if the company agrees, Zhong Cheng does not agree, it is too expensive!
Barcode reader costs must be reduced!

(PS: Some readers will ask if the laser marking machine is not expensive? This thing sounds very expensive, but it is not expensive. A 20W laser marking machine only costs [-] to [-], and a production line only needs one. enough.)
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