1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 13 Debugging Precision CNC Machine Tools
Fuxian Hongxing Agricultural Machinery Factory is located at the foot of one of the branches of the northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains.

The factory covers a total area of ​​3051 acres and is fully equipped with facilities. Its main business is the production of large agricultural machinery such as crawler tractors, bulldozers, rotary plows, etc. There are currently employees and cadres on duty.

In terms of size alone, it is definitely a large enterprise and a large unit in Fu County.

Even though it is just a county-level state-owned unit.

But on the way here, I listened to some relevant introductions made by Director Wang.

This made Lu Yifan understand.

This is a state-owned unit with the sign of a county-level agricultural machinery factory.

The production and manufacturing tasks it currently undertakes are such an important "screw"-like unit in the national chess plan.

Actually!
This is the Fuxian Red Star Agricultural Machinery Factory.

And the military factory that is actually hidden deep in the nearby mountains and is identified to the outside world by a digital code.

They originally belonged to the same company, and in the early days they even had the same leadership and management team.

Even in the current agricultural machinery factory, military representative managers are still the most core part of the leadership team.

Let’s jump forward three to five years, or even longer.

It is the Red Star Agricultural Machinery Factory that is on display.

Ordinary people are forbidden to approach at ordinary times, and the area within a hundred meters around the factory is a military control area.

Anyone who wants to visit the factory for a "visit" or something like that has no chance of getting into the factory at all without going through multiple identity checks.

But times have changed.

The grand three-vertical-segment national defense strategy that was so vigorous back then.

With two missiles and one satellite in our hands, we have the nuclear strategic defense capability.

The special period when everyone became a soldier and was always on guard against the giant northern neighbor, and when a torrent of chariots swept south, gradually became a thing of the past.

Externally, without that kind of deterrence that can destroy our entire territory with nuclear weapons at any time.

As a result, countless local enterprises and units such as the Fuxian Red Star Agricultural Machinery Factory, which are located at key strategic points of the three vertical lines of national defense, have gradually become in an awkward situation.

Among these, allowing local enterprises and units to find their own way out has become a necessary way to reduce the burden on military industry.

Director Wang is obviously a man who can accomplish great things.

He was very courageous and, taking advantage of being neighbors with Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group Co., Ltd. for many years, he quickly adjusted his own positioning and found a way to provide supporting processing parts for the Fuxian Red Star Agricultural Machinery Factory.

The two parties have been cooperating with each other for some years and have always worked closely together, taking advantage of each other's strengths and complementing each other.

The factory went to great lengths to acquire this set of new high-precision machine tools, the Utz-50, imported from Europe.

It cost a considerable amount of foreign exchange at the time.

The purpose is to meet the Xi'an Aircraft Industry Corporation's requirements for more precise processing and manufacturing of core components such as engines.

As the old saying goes, if you want to do a job that requires you to have the right tools, right?
Who would have thought that when the equipment arrived, the factory technicians discovered that the machines did not look quite brand new, but more like refurbished second-hand goods.

It is obvious that this was a case of being taken advantage of by those damn foreigners.

Fortunately, even if it is a second-hand refurbished product sold by foreigners after dismantling the factory.

But after inspection, the parts are basically still in about 70% to 80% new condition, and the wear is not too serious. As long as the machine is properly assembled and debugged, its performance should be far superior to the rough domestic machine tools that are currently made by hand in the factory.

So the factory organized its best workers and technical elites to assemble the machine by themselves and learn how to assemble it.

What? Ask foreign technical engineers to provide on-site service? !
Firstly, there is no extra foreign exchange to allow the factory to waste like this.

Secondly, the workers were motivated by a simple desire to win. They knew that the foreigners were setting a trap by not providing the Chinese operating manual, waiting for the opportunity to rip them off when we came to them. The factory technicians were determined to work hard and vent their anger.

Without wasting any time, we headed straight to the newly established precision-processed parts production workshop.

"Comrade Yifan, the current situation in the factory is that the machine tool commissioning and installation is stuck at the final step of setting the program control parameters. The foreign manual from the foreign devils only gave a rough example. No one has ever used such an advanced machine, so before thoroughly understanding the meaning of those parameters, no one dared to set the parameters randomly, so they were stuck at this step. The foreign devils are so deceiving..."

Director Wang brought Lu Yifan to the workshop.

In the workshop, in front of the basically assembled new Utz-50 high-precision machine tool imported from Europe.

A team of twenty to thirty technical workers and cadres gathered here, all looking at Lu Yifan expectantly.

Lu Yifan nodded to the technicians, smiled confidently, and called everyone forward. He took the technical manual and compared it with the actual object, and started chatting with the technicians first.

Yes, basically, let's establish mutual trust first!

This thing called program-controlled precision machine tools.

He certainly had never come into contact with it in his previous life.

But the wonderful thing is that this is a machine tool with basic programmable custom parameter mode.

In addition, in terms of its degree of precision, it is far from being as complex as the highly integrated and multi-functional level of a photolithography machine.

For this kind of shallow level of program control programming.

Even if it's your first try.

In my previous life, I was a graduate with double master's degrees in computer science and mathematics from a 985 prestigious university, so it was a piece of cake for me.

What he lacks most at the moment is the knowledge of the machine tools themselves.

After rebirth, perhaps the perspective, pattern and cognitive ability of two lives as human beings are enhanced, or there may be other inexplicable reasons.

He is now in memory,
Understand and deconstruct new things,

Master all aspects such as the ability to learn new knowledge.

All of them have greatly increased their strength.

In a blink of an eye, I had spent the entire afternoon communicating and interacting with dozens of technicians from the agricultural machinery factory.

While he explained the entire technical manual to the technicians by referring to the actual objects, he also thoroughly understood the principles and functional mechanisms of this precision machine tool that had been basically assembled.

said with no exaggeration.

He can now be considered a half-expert in precision machine tool mechanics.

Completed the most basic technical manual translation work.

Everyone had a quick meal in the staff canteen and immediately returned to the precision machining workshop.

At this time, it was gradually getting dark outside and night was falling, but it seemed that no one was in a hurry to get off work and go home to rest. Instead, everyone rolled up their sleeves and prepared to fight a sudden battle overnight to thoroughly understand this imported foreign machine.

Lu Yifan was also influenced by the enthusiastic enthusiasm of the technicians, and he couldn't help but recall his past life when he was a capitalist social animal who worked 996 hours a day and became bald.

It is also a desperate waste of life's potential.

Even what he is doing now does not deserve high salary at all.

But it is so strange that the things I am doing right now, inexplicably, make me full of endless energy.

A spirit called selfless dedication naturally permeates among the craftsmen.

Could it be that the workers and masters of this era are collectively stupid...

(End of this chapter)