Return to the exciting era of 1999

Chapter 2179 Seventy Years Later, Buyers and Sellers Exchanged

The prevention and control measures in 2022 are not as strict as those in the previous year, but they should not be underestimated. The delegation from Moscow was quarantined in Xi'an for a full month before being allowed to come to Hebei. They wore protective clothing and masks throughout their visit to Yiyuan Intelligent Manufacturing.

Isolation suits are originally needed in the chip workshop, and the other party just happens to have them for a reasonable price.

Separated by a huge glass cover, people filed in along the viewing passage. Some people took videos. Ji Donglai generously allowed these people to film. After all, there are no secrets in the field of chip manufacturing, only technical patents and implementation capabilities.

Every manufacturer in China that wants to make lithography machines has a full set of videos of chip factories, and so far no qualified manufacturer has been able to overcome this difficulty.

The chip printer is already a fourth-generation and a half product. Ji Donglai's chips are now sold at a price cheaper than lithography products. Any latecomer who wants to enter means first having to overcome the many technical barriers of lithography manufacturers, and then having to overcome Ji Donglai's chip printer barriers.

Then there is the huge price difference. Even the manufacturers who use lithography machines to manufacture chips are now sweating profusely when faced with the impact of Ji Donglai's company's chips, let alone the latecomers.

The popularization of production automation is very unfriendly to latecomers, especially the industrial version has entered the 4.0 era, with higher technological barriers. After people's framing, it has basically been out of the scope of technology, so Ji Donglai generously allows everyone to take pictures, even the details are fine.

"Mr. Ji, why are you so confident that you can let us take pictures like this without stopping us? When we go to many factory workshops, we are restricted from taking pictures, and even our camera equipment is snatched away. You just watch it happen?"

Bugalov followed the center of the team. The Chinese team leader in front was introducing the production line. Bugalov kept staring at Ji Donglai and found that Ji Donglai did not express anything.

"Mr. Bugalov, this is easy to explain. The lithography machines they use are all imported products. Before the lithography machines are exported, the manufacturers of foreign factories will set any restrictions on the application manufacturers."

"For example, some of the baffles above can never be removed or repositioned. Often, their engineers have finished debugging the equipment for you, and you can never move it."

"When it comes to equipment maintenance and repair, the application manufacturer must hire engineers from the manufacturer. We have also suffered this situation. Every time their engineers come to us, it means we have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars."

"These application manufacturers later began to quietly maintain their own products. For example, some of the baffles installed on purpose can be removed by our local engineers."

"There are some minor maintenance, such as when certain parts of the lithography machine are dirty, which we can also maintain ourselves. This way we can save at least $700,000 a year."

"But this kind of situation is absolutely not allowed to happen by the lithography machine manufacturer. There are clear provisions in the contract terms. If our people repair the lithography machine without authorization, they will cancel the maintenance of our lithography machine."

"Often their lithography machines will have all kinds of problems, and the application manufacturers can only keep these lithography machines in a mysterious state throughout the process. When the lithography machine breaks down, we provide warranty, and then give the engineers some money when they arrive at the site. We have reached a tacit understanding. If you take pictures and leak the fact that we have modified the lithography machine without authorization, we will lose the maintenance of the lithography machine manufacturer, which will not be beautiful!"

"This will not happen in our factory, because our chip printer is designed and manufactured by Uni-President Intelligent Manufacturing. We are fully aware of any situation. We will allow anyone to modify the equipment, write a report, and make a demonstration if it is feasible!"

"Our equipment has been developed through countless improvements and modifications on site from the first generation to the current four and a half generations. If any of you want to buy our chip printer, we welcome everyone to improve our products together. We will never put it in a cage."

Ji Donglai did not hide anything when facing Bügalov.

Since he first started his factory, Ji Donglai has been drooling over several machine tools imported from the United States.

To this day, there are still machine tools in the workshop that were rented from Swire by Zhu Cunxin. They have been severely worn out and can only be used for rough cutting.

As for Xinyu Machine Tool's high-end machine tools, they are now the main force of the processing plant. They have stable performance and can almost be processed with one click. Almost no one in the entire industry can compare with Ji Donglai's unified intelligent manufacturing.

What is progress? It means that your industrial mother machine is produced by yourself, can be replicated at any time, and can be improved.

Bugelov kept nodding his head. He was in his fifties and felt a deep sadness in his heart.

I remember that Chinese businessmen used to go to Moscow in groups to buy goods. They would bring back any machine tool products, even broken equipment, and treat them as treasures.

What about now? Chinese private entrepreneurs have begun to export machine tools to Moscow and have built mother machines capable of producing chips, which now have performance far exceeding that of European lithography machines.

This happened in the former Soviet Union before, but with the fall of the red giant, it has become history.

"Mr. Ji, can we visit Xinyu Machine Tool's manufacturing workshop? And your equipment manufacturing workshop. You know it's not easy for us to come here. We have been isolated in a separate room for a month. We can't just buy some chips and leave!"

As the deputy captain, Bugarov's eyes are full of expectations.

With the conflict in the Black Sea, the entire country's equipment is in danger of being locked. Although now everyone is calling for negotiations to end the conflict, those are just lies believed by the generation that has not experienced war. Since the Soviet era, Europeans have never lowered their defenses against the Red Giant.

In one war, millions of people died in the former Soviet Union, and the fate of almost the entire Slavic people was saved in the whole of Europe.

Of course, this war also cast a shadow on the whole of Europe. The Soviet prisoner camps in Europe made many mistakes in their later years, and this kind of thing was happening throughout the Allied forces.

After the war, as the Iron Curtain was drawn, all the hatred was directed at the Soviets. The fall of the Soviet Union was entirely blamed on Russia.

As long as the war starts, the whole of Europe will think that Russia wants to re-enter Europe. So this is a war that can only be won and not negotiated, unless Russia can accept demilitarization and become a sheep permanently, which is impossible.

Putting all his expectations together, Bugalov knew that it would be difficult for his factory to receive high-end equipment from Europe, or even mid- and low-end products, in the next 20 years.

It is hard to say when China will catch up with Europe, so we must take advantage of China's friendship and import large quantities of high-end equipment from China in case of emergency.

Even if we take a step back, the current demand for military products is so strong that if we need to expand production, we must also import these equipment.

"Okay, Ranbo, arrange for us to go to Xinyu Machine Tool!"

The machine tool production base has been moved here for a long time. Especially in the past two years, Gan Ping's health was not good, so Ji Donglai asked the company's industrial base to start being centralized.

The original Xinyu Machine Tool headquarters now only produces accessories and is still in operation.

Xinyu Machine Tools will go to the Capital Machine Tool Expo every year. During the Machine Tool Expo every year, a large number of people will come to Xinyu Machine Tools with their business cards to visit and order machine tools.

After entering the factory, the protection here was not as strict as that in the chip workshop. Bugalov and his team just had their body temperature checked and then entered the factory.

“Who are you selling all these machine tools to?”

Sitting in the tour car, 1Bugalov pointed at the machine tool being hoisted on the big flat top in front of him and asked in surprise.

There are at least five machine tools on the entire semi-trailer, all of which are machining centers.

"In Uzbekistan, a lot of factories have suddenly opened there. We have a sales company in Uzbekistan and also have processing partners."

"They saw the excellent performance of our machine tools, so they came to us. We have been in Uzbekistan for 2005 years. We opened a company there in , and now more than % of the elevators in Uzbekistan are our products."

"You can also stop by there before you return home. Many of our products can be exported directly from Uzbekistan to Moscow. They are cheap and durable."

Patting the car, Ran Bo slowly stopped the car. Ji Donglai took the cargo list from the deliveryman and showed it to Bugalov. Sure enough, it was all in Russian.

Ji Donglai didn't say it explicitly, but Bugalov already understood that this was a company opened by businessmen from his country in Uzbekistan. Now there are suddenly more of them? They just escaped military service, and everyone knew it.

Others have gone there to start companies, so why not our own people? At least the young people in the family can go there to look after the company.

Anyone who has experienced that war knows how cruel it is. Bugarov did not participate in the war with the Third Reich, but he participated in several Chechen wars and the Georgian war.

From that time on, the other side knew one thing: any writer who portrayed war beautifully should go to hell, or these people should be sent to the front line to serve as soldiers.

In this way, the other party had made plans to order machine tools before even entering the machine tool factory workshop.

Even though he had expected it, Bugalov was still shocked when he entered the manufacturing workshop of Xinyu Machine Tools. The four-dimensional automatic pasting workshop in the video was right in front of him.

Almost all of the parts are assembled by robots. The mechanical arms in the air can even hand over parts from hand to hand. Especially when it comes to precision guide rails, workers only need to unpack the package and then put the guide rails into the designated position.

(End of this chapter)