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Chapter 2180 The crush of technology is comprehensive

The robot accurately locates the surface of the component, the powerful suction cup grasps the surface of the guide rail, and after a reversal, it is directly sent into the machine tool.

Another robot automatically drives screws, and the micrometer of the measuring robot pushes forward for inspection. With simple movement, the entire guide rail is fixed.

Ji Donglai pointed to the hanging basket lowered from above, and everyone went up in several groups. Bu Jialuofu, Ji Donglai, and Ran Bo were in one group. The rest of the people were in one group with the guide. Ji Donglai nodded, and the hanging basket slowly rose, and then several people went in to visit the cable car.

"The machine tool in front is the highest-level five-axis and a half machine tool produced by our company. So far, there is only one in China. Some people say that we are benchmarking against DMG. Now I can say without hesitation that we have far surpassed DMG. At least so far, DMG has not developed machine tools other than five-axis."

"It is precisely because of such advanced machine tools that we can now undertake the processing of any high-precision parts, including drone parts. Now our company's drone parts, even our suppliers have to use our machine tools, because the machine tools of other manufacturers cannot meet our technical requirements."

"This machine tool can process in one piece, which can guarantee the consistency of product precision and uniformity of errors to the greatest extent! Generally, manufacturers who order this machine tool from us produce military parts and aerospace parts."

Ji Donglai pointed to the machine tool with the largest area below and introduced it to Bugalov. The other party almost leaned forward and wanted to lie down to take a look.

Everyone likes such precision machine tools, especially since Bugalov also accepts military orders.

"Do you have an exit?"

Staring closely at every detail of the machine tool production, Bugalov's assistant asked questions and took as many photos as the camera in his hand could not.

"Before the export restriction, we exported five devices to Space Company. Each device cost 50 million US dollars. We still have follow-up orders, but recently our equipment has been restricted from export."

"Space is trying to convince the Ministry of Defense to complete these orders. The one below is for export to Saudi Arabia. This one is a special model, and its dust protection is better than that of other regions. As you all know, Saudi Arabia has very heavy dust, and sand will easily enter the machine tools."

"Qatar has imported a lot of machine tools from us in recent years. They are negotiating for this machine tool. They plan to order ten of them, but they don't have enough local supply."

"We need to send technical workers to the site to guide the processing, but we are not willing to do this. The workers there don't like to do the maintenance and upkeep of machine tools, which is not acceptable. Their industrial background is still too shallow, and we need to train them!"

"In addition, Lebanon and Israel are talking to us, hoping to import these machine tools. The problem now is that export restrictions are a headache, and of course we don't want to sell our machine tools to unfriendly countries..."

Ji Donglai is not shy when facing customers and potential customers.

As the saying goes, good wine needs no bush, and this is true of Xinyu Machine Tool’s products.

Despite various restrictions, many countries still buy them secretly because these equipments are indeed advanced enough. And the price can be negotiated, without so many restrictions as those of foreign countries.

In Egypt, Africa, Xinyu Machine Tools exported a batch of three-and-a-half-axis machines to the United States, which are now in great use. Almost all high-tech parts for neighboring countries are now produced by this company in Egypt. Egypt is now negotiating with the United States to purchase Xinyu Machine Tools' high-end machine tools.

At present, Jiang Haokun is traveling around the world, hoping to find a breakthrough for his company's products. The Kuwaiti consortium is also lobbying the US Congress.

"I see. Does your technology have any application in the aerospace field?"

Space went to Russia to buy aircraft engines but was rejected. Then it developed an aircraft engine on its own, which is now reusable.

This incident spread throughout the world and everyone regarded the Russians as clowns.

Since the other party came to China to purchase machine tools, it can be foreseen that the quality of Xinyu machine tools is up to standard.

We toured the entire machine tool factory in the air, and after getting off the car, some people didn't want to leave.

"Mr. Ji, can we have a closer look?"

Pointing to the assembly area in front, Bugalov and his companions were still not satisfied.

"Yes, but everyone needs to wear shoe covers, gloves, and thick masks. There must be no dust in our assembly area. When we were in the air, the exhaust air directly sucked away the dust on our bodies, but now it is not possible."

Ji Donglai walked to the shoe cover machine and put one foot in. With a swish, a shoe cover was put on his foot, and the same happened to the other foot.

Then put on gloves and complete self-protection in minutes.

A group of Russian guests were stunned, especially the automatic shoe cover machine, which was the first time they had seen it.

“Can this be exported?”

Squatting down and carefully examining the equipment, Bugalov confirmed that he had never seen it before.

"Yes, all the equipment you see in this factory can be exported, including the robots, which are all factory equipment developed by us!" "We have improved the cranes in the air ourselves, and you can export them if you need them. Our automated production lines are not processed by external parties because they cannot meet our requirements. In recent years, we have been at the forefront of the market in production automation and AI applications. We can do whatever you need..."

Now is the best time to compete for the market share of Shengduo Market. Ji Donglai pointed to everything in the factory without any hesitation.

Bugalov gave a wink to his assistant, who immediately frantically pressed the shutter button for the equipment he needed.

"Don't use the flash, it will interfere with the robot's light rod!"

Ran Bo yelled at the man and pointed at the sign hanging above, but Bu Jialuofu immediately scolded his men, and the other party hurriedly began to close, staring at every sign above, only to find that what his group was doing now had signs hanging on it.

In this way, Ji Donglai led Bugalov and several others up the ladder into the machine tool assembly platform, where the robotic arms were quickly assembling machine parts.

There was a cordon around, and Bügalov leaned out in the hope of seeing more clearly, but was pulled back by Ji Donglai, who handed him a telescope.

"Use this to see that when the robot is operating, people should not get close. They are following a fixed procedure. It is true that there is protection, but it does not mean that they will avoid you. We can visit, but we should not enter the operating area!"

Pointing at the sign next to him, Ji Donglai warned everyone.

A group of people kept nodding their heads. Looking around, each workstation had different signs, especially a lot of safety signs. Bugalov made a gesture to show he knew.

Through the telescope, Bugalov was able to check every detail of the assembly of the robot, especially during the assembly, when there was a thin tube on the robot, and every speck of dust produced on it was sucked away.

"It's a bit cold here, what's going on?"

After standing for fifteen minutes, Bugalov returned the telescope to Ji Donglai and rubbed his hands.

"Look under your feet. This is a constant temperature platform. Our machine tools are all assembled on the constant temperature platform. The parts there are also stored on the constant temperature platform one day in advance. The assembly starts the next day when the temperature stabilizes."

"It's no more than 30 meters from the parts area to here. This has been precisely calculated by the engineers. If you hit it with this, the temperature difference between the various areas on this equipment will not exceed two degrees."

Ji Donglai handed Bugalov a thermometer. The other party was a little confused, but he scanned various areas of the machine tool platform with the thermometer and found that the difference was really very small, even one degree.

"Why not have a constant temperature workshop? Wouldn't that be better?"

Looking at the scale of the surrounding assembly workshops and then at the constant temperature platform, Bugalov was somewhat puzzled.

In the other party's memory, it seems that Toyota's Prado model is assembled in a constant temperature workshop, which ensures the car's tight reliability.

"No, for this level of machine tool, a constant temperature platform is enough, but it is not enough for the chip printer. We assemble the chip printer in a constant temperature workshop, fifteen meters underground. Do you want to see it?"

Faced with these people's complaints, Ji Donglai was too embarrassed to refuse and just smiled.

In the past, Chinese intellectuals who were paid made up all kinds of myths about Japanese equipment. A Toyota Prado was assembled in a constant temperature workshop. Bullshit!

If that's the case, there's no aftermarket for that car at all.

Moreover, this kind of thing was published in newspapers and "The Poisoner". In fact, the other party originally talked about the engine assembly of Toyota Prado, but when it came to China, it became a whole vehicle.

"We would like to visit if possible, is that ok Mr. Ji?"

Who among these people would not want to see the manufacturing process of a chip printer? It is comparable to a photolithography machine. It is estimated that few people in the world can refuse such an invitation.

"Let's first visit the equipment processing and manufacturing workshop. If we have time, we will go there for a visit. We need to change clothes and equipment. The clothes we are wearing now are not suitable. The temperature there is only five degrees, and it is very high. We can't stand it."

Looking at the time, Ji Donglai called everyone out.

In this way, a group of people walked along the tour corridor to the precision parts manufacturing workshop. Similar to the video that Zhang Yu showed to everyone in Moscow, all the production here was automated.

The workshop was pitch black. As people entered, the lights turned on automatically, gradually, rather than all at once.

This time, everyone just viewed the workshop from a distance through a side passage, because the products in the workshop were relatively large and they were worried that it would be dangerous for these people to visit inside.

(End of this chapter)