When will I have a long tassel?

"Foreigners can have fun, but why can't we? We have one less head than foreigners or something? Old Liu, why didn't I see before that you, a thick-browed person with big eyes, admire foreign things so much?"

Hearing Liu Zhifeng's question, Han Weichang pretended to be unhappy and retorted, and slapped Liu Zhifeng with a big hat.

"What does it mean to worship foreigners and favor foreigners? How many years have passed since we are still using such words?"

Liu Zhifeng didn't care at all. The term "favoring foreigners and favoring foreigners" was popular when he and Han Weichang were young. It was indeed a big label at that time. Times have changed, and people today no longer use this word. It is not a shame to be said to be a foreigner.

"I mean, a multi-station machine tool is not a simple thing. You haven't done it before, so how come you can do it all of a sudden?" Liu Zhifeng said in a euphemistic way.

Han Weichang said: "Multi-station machine tools do have some technical know-how, but if you understand it, there will be no mystery. Multi-station machine tools mainly solve the coordination problem of various working surfaces and ensure a good working rhythm. In this aspect , we invited experts from the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences to help us design and build an operations research model.

"By the way, our group has also hired a group of Russian mathematicians to help. These people are all experts in this kind of model. I said earlier that some of our designs are better than Heimsat. This is what those Russian mathematician said so.”

"The Russians and the Germans are sworn enemies, and what they say may not necessarily count." Liu Zhifeng commented, but he already believed it in his heart.

"The other thing about the mutual influence of tool vibration is actually a problem of flexible connection of the cutter shaft. We have experimented with more than a dozen cutter shaft connection schemes and have successfully solved this problem. If you don't believe it, you can ask your assistant Checking the technical patents, we have applied for seven international patents for the flexible connection of the cutter shafts. At least in this aspect, our level is higher than Someno." Han Weichang continued.

"Is everything you said true?" Liu Zhifeng was a little surprised. He is also someone with some mechanical foundation. Even if he doesn't understand the things Han Weichang talks about, he can still understand some of them. When Han Weichang spoke to such an extent, even if it was a bit exaggerated, it would not be too exaggerated.

"So, what's the price of your machine tools?" Liu Zhifeng asked an important question.

Han Weichang stretched out his hand, waved it in front of his face, and said: "The specific price needs to be calculated in detail. However, we have made a comparison. Compared with similar machine tools in Someno, our price is only 50% of theirs."

"Can it be so low?" Liu Zhifeng couldn't believe it.

As mentioned before, the automobile industry is the largest user of the machine tool industry. In turn, machine tool procurement is also the largest item in the equipment procurement of automobile companies, generally accounting for 40% of the total investment in the automobile industry. The new production line that Puzhou Automobile plans to build at Fengmei Automobile Company is expected to invest nearly 6 billion yuan, half of which will be used for the purchase of machine tools, of which the most expensive part is the import of several sets of special multi-station machine tools.

The price of a single special machine tool is not very high, but the production volume of modern automobile factories is large, and the number of machine tools required is also extremely considerable. Assuming that a production line has an annual output of 200,000 vehicles, an average of nearly 600 vehicles will be produced every day. Of course, the parts required for these 600 vehicles cannot be produced with one set of equipment. Instead, several sets of equipment must be produced in parallel.

On this production line of Fengmei Company, there are as many as 50 special machine tools for processing gearboxes, which means that 50 gearboxes are being produced at any time. Only in this way can the demand for a daily production of 600 cars be guaranteed. In addition to gearboxes, the production of large components such as engines, frames, and cockpits also requires multiple machine tools to work simultaneously. According to a rough calculation by Puzhou Automobile's technical department, the total number of multi-station machine tools required may reach more than 300.

Multiply the price of a single machine tool by more than 300, and this number cannot be underestimated. If the price of each machine tool can be reduced by 50%, the saved equipment investment will be calculated in the hundreds of millions, which is why Liu Zhifeng will not be tempted.

"Let me tell you, Lao Liu, the prices of the machine tools sold to us by foreign companies are exaggerated several times. What they make is money you can't build yourself. It's just like the cars you build, the same car , the imported price is several times the domestic price, how much difference do you think the performance can make?

"Isn't a car just four wheels and three sofas? How much can it be worth? However, an imported car can cost more than 200,000 yuan or more, and it can cost millions. Could it be that the cars made by foreigners are better than ours? Is it more fuel efficient?" Han Weichang was talking nonsense.

"Cars made by foreigners are indeed more fuel-efficient than ours." Liu Zhifeng corrected Han Weichang with tears in his eyes. His family knows their own business. As far as cars are concerned, the quality of imported cars is indeed better, which Liu Zhifeng dare not say nonsense.

However, he also understood what Han Weichang meant, which was that there was a lot of water in the quotations of foreign equipment. In comparison, the prices of domestic products would appear more conscientious. In the past, domestic companies could not produce multi-station automobile-specific machine tools, and it was normal for foreign companies to charge exorbitant prices. Now Linji Group has developed machine tools, or to be precise, they have been able to develop machine tools. The price is only 50% of imported machine tools, which is not surprising.

Liu Zhifeng also believes that if the multi-station automobile-specific machine tools of Linji Group are genuine and the technical level is not much worse than that of foreign countries, companies such as Someno and Heimsat will definitely reduce the prices of their products significantly in order to maintain their market share in China . When the opportunity arises, Liu Zhifeng will no longer dare to boast that the price will be only half of the imported price. Being able to achieve 70% or 80% will be enough to satisfy Liu Zhifeng.

"Well, Mr. Han, I can't make the decision on this matter. I will report your situation to the group headquarters and let them make a judgment. If you have any technical information, please give it to me as much as possible, and I will let the technical department study it carefully. Let’s take a look and see if your technical solution is credible,” Liu Zhifeng said.

Han Weichang left a pile of technical information and left. Liu Zhifeng did not dare to neglect, so he took the information to see Mo Jingrong, the deputy general manager of the group in charge of technology and equipment, and reported the matter to him.

Hearing that Linji Group could provide multi-station machine tools, Mo Jingrong also became interested. Together with Liu Zhifeng, he came to the technical department and asked technical director Xu Mao to analyze the authenticity of the matter.

"Judging from the information provided on the fly, they have indeed put in some effort. It is possible that they can build multi-station machine tools similar to those in Japan and Germany," Xu Mao said.

"What about the quality?" Mo Jingrong asked.

Xu Mao said: "In terms of quality, I'm afraid I'm not too optimistic. Both Someno and Heimsat have decades of experience in producing multi-station machine tools. Before this, I had never made such a machine tool. How can their quality compare with Someno and the others?"

"Linji still attaches great importance to product quality." Liu Zhifeng said, "During the period from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, the leadership team of Linyiji's factory at that time had chaotic management, and there were indeed some problems with product quality. Later, the Machinery Department sent Zhou Henghe and Tang Zifeng, who is now the general manager of Linyiji, went to Linyiji and carried out down-to-earth rectification. Since then, the product quality of Linyiji has been very reliable.

"Later, Laiyiji merged with Tengji and established Linji Group. Linji Group attaches great importance to product quality and after-sales service, and is well-known in the industry. Although they have not built multi-station machine tools in the past, since they dare to sell them, I think they know the quality of their products."

"Old Liu, you can't speak based on impressions." Xu Mao choked unceremoniously. Most of the technical people are a little arrogant. They always feel that those who are engaged in sales and purchasing are too philistine and not as pragmatic as the technical people. He said: "Multi-station machine tools are not traditional machine tools, and the difference between the two is very big. Even if Linji has some experience in traditional machine tools, it also pays more attention to quality. Now it is inevitable that it will be somewhat stretched to build multi-station machine tools.

"They don't necessarily ignore product quality intentionally. I'm afraid they don't know how to control the quality of multi-station machine tools. They have no experience of successful application at all. How can they know what kind of problems this kind of machine tool will cause? Woolen cloth?"

"Then what does Mr. Xu mean?" Liu Zhifeng asked somewhat unhappily.

These words stopped Xu Mao. He was stunned for a while, looked at Noila Mo and asked, "Mr. Mo, what does the group mean?"

Mo Jingrong did not evade, he said: "Linji claims that their machine tools have similar performance to Someno's machine tools, but the price can be 50% lower than Someno's. The group is very strapped for funds now. If Fengmei's production line can save 200 million to 300 million The funds are very important to the group.”

"However, if there is a problem with the quality of the machine tools at the machine, or the performance does not reach the level they claim, it will affect the production of Fengmei Automobile in the future, and our losses will be even greater." Xu Mao reminded.

Liu Zhifeng said: "Mr. Xu, you haven't even seen the design of the machine. Why do you think there will be problems with their quality? Whether there is any problem with the quality, we can check it out when we purchase. At the same time, we can also work with We sign a quality assurance agreement on the spur of the moment, and if their products do have quality problems in the future, we can just ask them to compensate us for our losses."

"If such a situation really occurs, they cannot afford to compensate for our losses." Xu Mao said stubbornly.

"Linji is an old company with a history of several decades, and they still do things in a measured way."

"I don't believe in propriety, I still believe in science."

"What is science? Foreign machine tools will not have problems? Believing in foreign countries means believing in science?"

"Foreign products are indeed more reliable, don't you admit it?"

"According to you, the cars produced by our Puqi Automobile Group are no longer reliable?"

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