Chapter 159: CNC Machine Tools Cannot Produce Even the Drawings (Ask for Monthly Tickets)

Sure enough.

When Liu Tao met Wang Baoguo, he was told about Factory 356.

"How about it, do you have the confidence to take on this heavy responsibility and bring Factory 356 to new glory?" Wang Baoguo looked at Liu Tao.

Since the liberation of the southwest, Wang Baoguo has been working in Yunnan Province and is very familiar with and understands the military industry system of Yunnan Province.

Even earlier, Wang Baoguo served as the director of Factory 356.

Later, Wang Baoguo was transferred to the director of the Yunnan Provincial Defense Management Office.

Wang Baoguo has a lot of feelings for Factory 356, and he is not happy about the current predicament of Factory 356.

A good machine gun production factory ranked in the top three in the country, but it produces "Chunhua" brand bicycles, how aggrieved it is.

It's better to make bicycles than guns!

Wang Baoguo proposed to transfer Factory 356 to Panshan Machinery Factory, and he also had his own considerations. Now Panshan Machinery Factory has a very good development momentum and a lot of funds.

With money and technology, Factory 356 can get out of trouble.

"Leader, please rest assured that we will lead Factory 356 to a new recovery." Liu Tao patted his chest and promised.

We only need to rebuild the factory area of ​​Factory 356, and then as a branch of Panshan Machinery Factory, we will only produce light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns, so that Factory 356 can regain its vitality.

The biggest problems of Factory 356 are two points. On the one hand, the machines are old and the production quality has declined seriously; on the other hand, there is a lack of orders and funds.

And these two problems can be perfectly solved by Panshan Machinery Factory.

"It's just that the leadership of Factory 356 cannot be solved by our Panshan Machinery Factory. The director of Factory 356 is higher than me." Liu Tao said.

Wang Baoguo nodded, "I will consider this matter and will mention it at the meeting."

"Now your Panshan Machinery Factory can produce CNC machine tools. Can you mass-produce and supply other factories?" Wang Baoguo asked about CNC machine tools.

CNC machine tools are definitely high-end equipment in China.

Even CNC machine tools that are very common abroad are high-end equipment in China.

I don’t know how many factories want to import CNC machine tools, but due to limited foreign exchange, only some key factories can import some CNC machine tools.

“The number of CNC machine tools produced now is very limited. The output in the next two years can only meet the needs of our Panshan Machinery Factory for its own use.” Liu Tao said.

Wang Baoguo said, “Can’t we speed up the production by handing over the CNC machine tool technology to the machine tool factory?”

“Leader, I have learned about my country’s machine tool industry. The foundation is too weak. It is almost a blank in CNC machine tools. Even if you give us drawings, it is difficult to produce qualified CNC machine tools.” Liu Tao said helplessly.

At the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, my country’s machine tool industry was very backward. When the Republic was founded, the national machine tool inventory was about 95,000 units. In 1952, the output of metal cutting machine tools was only 13,700 units. Only a few factories in Shanghai, Shenyang, Kunming and other cities had the ability to produce belt lathes. In contrast, European and American countries designed screw-driven lathes in 1797 and developed CNC milling machines in 1952. The gap is huge.

As the mother of industry, in order to build an industrialized country, the country attaches great importance to the machine tool industry, pays attention to the cultivation of machine tool technology and talents, and even sent many people to study in the Soviet Union. With a lot of support from the Soviet Union, my country's machine tool technology has accumulated rapidly, successfully created a group of backbone enterprises (commonly known as the "Eighteen Arhats"), and gradually established 7 comprehensive machine tool research institutes and 37 various professional machine tool research institutes, laying a good foundation for my country's machine tool industry.

In the field of CNC machine tools, my country had its first CNC machine tool in 1958, which was only 6 years later than the United States and only 2 years later than Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union.

However, in the field of machine tools, my country mainly imitated, and the Soviet Union provided a large number of drawings and technologies, and the Soviet technical professionals taught hand-to-hand. As the two sides later became enemies, there was no master. At that time, there were still many core technologies of machine tools that were not mastered, and the motivation and stamina for the subsequent technical research and development of machine tools were obviously insufficient.

For example, in the field of CNC machine tools, it was obviously stagnant, and it can even be said to be a retreat.

Previously, China paid too much attention to machine tool output and ignored quality and long-term development. In this regard, China paid a painful lesson. In 1958, the output of machine tools was twice that of 1957, and in 1960 it was five times that of 1957. From 1961 to 1978, a total of 1.64 million machine tools were produced, but the qualified rate was 60%!

The qualified rate was 60%, and this was still the official data!

Originally, the machine tools of Panshan Machinery Factory were to be purchased from the state-owned machine tool factory, but after careful understanding, Liu Tao gave up. He developed the drawings himself, and then Panshan Machinery Factory produced them by himself, including the current CNC machine tools, which were developed and produced by Liu Tao himself.

The qualified rate of machine tools produced by Panshan Machinery Factory was not high at the beginning, but it soon rose rapidly and now has reached 70%.

With Liu Tao, it is almost impossible to directly scrap all unqualified machine tools and waste resources. They can still be qualified after repairing them.

As for CNC machine tools, they are in the initial stage, and Liu Tao has to do it himself.

After all, only when he produces and uses them himself can CNC machine tools be upgraded.

Panshan Machinery Factory urgently needs five-axis CNC machine tools and build a five-axis machining center.

If he buys machine tools from a state-owned machine tool factory, the qualified rate of the machine tools delivered may be only 60%, or even worse, only 30%!

"The machine tool factory can't produce it?" Wang Baoguo frowned slightly.

"Well, we lack talents in this area. CNC machine tool production is different from traditional machine tools. Its core is the program control system, which can logically process programs with control codes or other symbolic instructions, decode them, and express them in coded numbers. They are input into the CNC device through information carriers, and various control signals are sent by the CNC device after calculation and processing to control the movement of the machine tool. According to the shape and size required by the drawing, the parts are automatically processed." Liu Tao nodded, "Without talents in this area, the debugging of the control system and machine tools is a big trouble."

"Now our Panshan Machinery Factory is also in the exploration stage. CNC machine tool workers have to be specially trained and explore step by step." Liu Tao said.

Wang Baoguo sighed: "It seems that the First Ministry of Machine Building is happy for nothing, and they still want to beg for money from our Fifth Ministry of Machine Building."

The First Ministry of Machine Building, also known as the First Ministry of Machine Building Industry, was established in 1952. Its functions were to manage civil machinery, telecommunications, and shipbuilding industries. In 1958, the First Ministry of Machine Building, the Second Ministry of Machine Building, and the Ministry of Electric Machinery merged to form the new First Ministry of Machine Building Industry. In 1960, the Third Ministry of Machine Building was split from the First Ministry of Machine Building, which was responsible for managing the aviation, weapons, tanks, radio and shipbuilding industries divided from the First Ministry of Machine Building, while the First Ministry of Machine Building was responsible for civil machinery. In 1963, the Third Ministry of Machine Building was divided into three industrial ministries according to the aviation industry, conventional weapons, and shipbuilding industries, namely the Third Ministry of Machine Building, the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, and the Sixth Ministry of Machine Building.

Speaking of it, the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building and the First Ministry of Machine Building have a close relationship and are of the same lineage. Many people know each other.