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The appointment by the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry came more than a year later. During this year, the output of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill had shrunk to 40% of its previous level.

After repeated research, the leaders decided to conduct a pilot reform at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. Director Yang was demoted to a sinecure at the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry. Comrade Xu Yueling was appointed the director of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill.

This time, the ministry gave her great power, allowing her to give a certain amount of bonuses to the steel mill employees within the prescribed scope.

When the news reached the Red Star Steel Mill, the workers were excited and encouraged. The production system implemented by Director Xu more than ten years ago had already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

More than a year ago, after Director Yang came back to work, the outdated system he used decades ago was already despised by the vast majority of front-line workers. Seeing those lazy guys slacking off every day while getting the same salary as them, everyone would complain in their hearts.

After Xu Yueling took office, she began to make drastic reforms. Every rule and regulation was implemented on an individual basis, and the cadre responsibility system stipulated that if there was a problem in production, the first person to be held accountable would be the relevant cadre.

This will prevent some grassroots cadres from doing nothing all day, staying in their offices with a cup of tea, a pack of cigarettes, and a newspaper to read the day's situation.

After the first quarter, the output of Red Star Steel Mill was immediately restored to the level when she was in charge more than a year ago. But if it wanted to grow further, it would have to add new advanced production equipment.

She submitted several reports to the ministry requesting additional production equipment, but all of them fell on deaf ears.

The Red Star Steel Mill is not a pure metallurgical enterprise, but a combination of a steel mill and a machinery plant. It uses open-hearth furnaces to make iron, blast furnaces to make steel, and converters to make special steel. However, the Red Star Steel Mill does not have an open-hearth furnace, and does not have the most basic production of smelting pig iron.

The Red Star Steel Rolling Mill has all the complete production workshops that belong to the machinery factory. There is no shortage of punching, pliers, lathes, planing, boring, grinding, riveting and welding workshops! In addition to the metallurgical workshops of steelmaking, rolling, forging and sand casting, the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill has a total of 27 production workshops and more than 16,000 employees.

Since the mechanical production workshop is so complete, why not produce advanced mechanical equipment yourself?

Jingyi went into the space for several days and searched for various information on the shopping platform. She compared for a long time and finally chose the advanced twenty-roller integrated continuous rolling mill.

The existing rolling mills and fine grinding mills of Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant are composed of three-roller roughing mills and four-roller fine grinding mills. Not only are the equipment old, but the degree of mechanization is not high. The products need to be rolled repeatedly before they can be finished. It is really time-consuming and laborious!

This 20-roller continuous rolling mill, which can form products in one piece, only needs to feed the materials once to automatically produce finished products. When equipped with an automatic punching machine, it can produce various specifications and models of plates, wires, seamless steel pipes and other products.

However, to produce this kind of internationally leading steel rolling equipment, many problems still need to be solved. This kind of mechanical equipment requires very high strength of steel, especially for rollers, springs, and bearing bushes, which require special alloy steel.

There are also motors and circuits, hydraulic systems, and various instruments and meters, which require the concerted efforts of brother units.

Jingyi bought a complete set of drawings of the twenty-roller integrated continuous rolling mill on the shopping platform. She had studied liberal arts for three lifetimes and had only a superficial understanding of mechanical theory. She could only summon several senior engineers from the steel mill and give them the complete set of drawings to study and discuss whether the Red Star Steel Mill had the ability to produce this equipment and how many difficulties it would need to overcome.

After receiving the complete set of drawings, these senior engineers were overjoyed. Several of them stayed in the drawing room all day to do research. About ten days later, they came to the factory director's office and came to the same conclusion as Jingyi expected.

As long as the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill overcomes those technical obstacles, it will definitely be able to produce this set of advanced rolling mill equipment according to the complete set of drawings.

Jingyi took a full set of rolling mill drawings and went to the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry to ask Minister Lu for help. It was stated that the alloy steel and bearing steel in the declaration would be developed by the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill itself.

The rest, such as high-horsepower motors and circuits, a complete hydraulic system, special bearings and bushings, and instrument panels, all require the Ministry of Metallurgy to contact various relevant units.

"Where did you get such advanced rolling mill drawings?" Minister Lu glanced through a few drawings and asked Jingyi in shock.

"I went to Hong Kong on a business trip a few years ago, and I met a patriotic old gentleman. His family has been transporting advanced Western equipment to China at great risk. This time he asked someone to give me the blueprints, but there was a condition that I could not send anyone to contact him in order to reduce the risk."

Jingyi had already prepared a set of words, pushing the Lou family of Hong Kong as a shield. For the safety of the other party, this side would definitely not easily contact them.

Minister Lu immediately called and summoned relevant experts to study and verify the complete set of drawings. This was advanced steel rolling equipment in the early 1990s. Even the most advanced rolling mills in the West now only have seven rollers and eight rolls.

With a complete set of production drawings, the expert team was able to quickly conduct a demonstration. They all agreed that this was completely feasible! However, there were still some difficult problems that needed to be solved.

The Ministry of Metallurgical Industry set up a special project for this purpose and entrusted the production of this advanced rolling mill equipment to the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. A special expert group was also set up and stationed in the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill to provide technical support.

The first breakthrough was high-strength alloy steel. Jingyi bought the formula of alloy steel bearing steel from a shopping platform and asked the expert technical team to start trial production in the converter workshop of the steel rolling mill according to the formula.

The alloy steel produced had a yield strength of 580 MPa, which was fully applicable to key parts of new equipment. The yield strength index of this alloy steel even alarmed the military.

This is far beyond the level of military materials! The military placed a batch of orders with the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, hoping to test the application of this alloy steel in key parts such as tanks and submarines.

A furnace of red-hot molten steel is poured into a special foundry mold. After cooling and forming, it is sent to the forging workshop for repeated forging to form rough blanks of various parts. Then it is sent to various metal processing workshops for a series of precision processing such as turning, planing, and boring, and finally becomes a part of the twenty-roller integrated rolling mill.

The Red Star Steel Rolling Mill was working at full speed, but the brother units involved in related production were facing difficulties and were unable to make any progress.

The research and development of high-horsepower motors in the power machinery factory has encountered a bottleneck and has not made any progress. When the news came, Jingyi could only go to the shopping platform and buy a series of motor drawings such as high-speed rolling mill synchronous motors, rolling mill transmission motors, rolling mill gear reduction motors, etc., and provide them to the power unit.

There was no breakthrough in the hydraulic system, so Jingyi provided comprehensive drawings of the hydraulic system. Jingyi also took care of the alloy steel formula for the bearing bushings.

This most advanced continuous rolling mill equipment, once it can be manufactured, will change the quality and output of domestic steel products. This will be her greatest political achievement!

He had to succeed and not fail. In order to maintain the precision of the parts, he even invited retired masters to come back to the steel mill to help.

Yi Zhonghai, an eighth-level fitter, and Liu Haizhong, a seventh-level forger, both returned to the steel rolling mill and devoted themselves to their work.