Siheyuan: Craftsmen of a Great Country

Chapter 234 Sangang machine tool parts are in place

After the discussion, Jiang Chen came to the factory director's office to find Yang Weimin and Tao Yuan.

Yang Weimin threw a cigarette over: "Come here, I was going to find you."

Jiang Chen sat on the chair opposite Yang Weimin: "Oh, Director Yang has something to do with me?"

Yang Weimin said: "The first batch of Sangang machine tool spare parts produced by various brother manufacturers have been arrived. With the core components produced by ourselves, the assembly work of Sangang machine tools can be started."

"That is to say, the first batch of 200 Sangang machine tools produced by our factory will be officially launched soon."

Two hundred units is the initial output set by the Ministry of Industry.

One hundred and fifty of them are used by flower growers and factories, and fifty are sent to the Ministry of Foreign Trade for export.

Subsequently, based on the feedback and sales of Sangang machine tools, production will be gradually increased according to actual conditions.

Jiang Chen said: "This is really good news, but I don't know if this product can open up the international market."

Jiang Chen shook his head: "I think the fragrance of wine is also afraid of deep alleys. At this stage, it is not that easy to export our mechanical products."

At the same time, there are issues of blockades and boycotts to consider.

Moreover, the appearance of this advanced machine tool involves the national strategic level, and it is not something they can interfere with.

Apparently he doesn't like this kind of blind trust.

Yang Weimin asked: "Ah, yes, yes, Lao Tao is very enlightened."

Jiang Chen said: "Sangang machine tools are officially put into production. Professional personnel are required to conduct quality inspections in the early stage to ensure that every product that comes out is qualified, so as not to ruin its own brand."

The Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Industry may have contacts, but they do not have much interaction with the No. 3 Steel Plant.

"As a result, our engineering department will not have enough manpower! So, when will the personnel mentioned before be available."

Yang Weimin said: "Leave this matter to the Ministry of Foreign Trade to worry about. We provide them with excellent products. It is their business not to sell them."

Jiang Chen said: "It seems reasonable to say so."

"As long as the Ministry of Commerce can follow our suggestions and price it a little cheaper, or even price it at 50, there will be no need to worry about finding a seller."

Yang Weimin said: "That is inevitable. I have learned before that the performance of Sangang machine tools is leading in the world."

"The most advanced machine tools on the market today are not as good as our machine tools, and the market price has reached US$50 per unit. There is no market for them yet."

Therefore, if Sangang Machine Tools wants to open up the market, it needs a country as a transfer station.

"First, there is no visibility, and second, there are too few export channels. Most of the countries we have good relations with now, except for Big Brother, do not have advanced industrial systems, so it is difficult for them to become our stable customers."

Nowadays, apart from Big Brother, those who have close trade relations with flower growers may be a limited number of countries such as Pyramid Country and Pakistan Railway.

These countries are now relatively poor and their industries are still relatively backward. It is not obvious that they want to export Sansteel machine tools to these countries.

Tao Yuandao: "You must believe in your comrades and believe that the Ministry of Foreign Trade can perfectly solve the machine tool sales problem. We only need to provide high-quality machine tools in a timely manner."

Tao Yuan said: "I have communicated with the Ministry of Industry a long time ago. Mr. Zhou promised that the personnel will be in place next Monday."

Jiang Chen said: "Now that the personnel are in place, it will take at least a week to teach them how to test the performance and quality of Sangang machine tools."

"Then, next Monday, March 9th, we will officially start the assembly work of Sangang machine tools." "In the past few days, I have suspended R&D work from the application R&D team to carefully check the quality of parts produced by brother manufacturers. Hopefully nothing goes wrong.”

Mobilizing personnel from the application R&D team will definitely affect the R&D of supporting machine tools.

Quality inspection of parts and components must be carried out.

Although the logistics department will conduct a preliminary inspection when receiving, they do not know the specific parameters of Sangang machine tools after all, so it is difficult to achieve perfection.

To truly test whether these parts are qualified, the application R&D team that participates in the entire R&D process is the most suitable candidate.

Yang Weimin said: "This is a project spearheaded by the Ministry of Industry, so there should be no problems."

"By the way, how is your alloy steel development going?"

Jiang Chen said: "We have entered the final optimal ratio debugging stage, which should be completed in the next few days."

Yang Weimin was stunned: "So fast?"

Jiang Chen said: "When the elements are known, we only need to find the correct ratio. As long as we use the right method, the results will be fast!"

Tao Yuan said: "I don't know what the progress is on Chen Tongshan's side."

Jiang Chen said: "Unless they can think of the same method as us, the results will never come out so quickly."

"I heard that they chose my hometown as the experimental site. This was one of their failings. The efficiency of that steel-making furnace was far worse than that of our experimental steel-making furnace. Even if it works 24 hours a day, it will only last about Can produce two furnaces of steel.”

"Moreover, the furnace has a simple structure and high risks. It cannot withstand long-term continuous operation."

Yang Weimin nodded: "That's good! We must not let others take advantage of the projects we want to undertake."

"You came to us for something, right?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "Yes, there is something! The opinion is of greater significance than the development of alloy steel. It is something that can change the steel smelting pattern of flower growers."

Even though they were already used to Jiang Chen bringing surprises from time to time, Yang Weimin and Tao Yuan were shocked when they heard this.

Yang Weimin's voice was trembling: "Change the pattern of steelmaking? What do you want to do?"

Jiang Chen said: "I plan to improve the steelmaking method. The efficiency of open-hearth steelmaking is too low, which is a serious waste of manpower and limits the steel production capacity of flower growers."

"So, I am going to study the converter steelmaking method."

Yang Weimin frowned: "Xiao Jiang, it's not that I don't believe you. I have no objection to your development of machine tools, alloy steel, etc. and I fully support it."

"But this steelmaking is a brand new field. There was no result with the help of Big Brother. Doing this may waste too much of your time and energy. Maybe if you use them in other research, it will be better." more meaningful."

The development of Sangang machine tools was because Jiang Chen had a lot of contact with machine tools, and he learned a lot from Malotov, which was considered an engineer's job.

The development of alloy steel was also based on the discovery of the composition of tungsten-chromium alloy steel by chance, and then the calculation of the ratio was based on this, and there are traces to follow.

But steelmaking is a completely unfamiliar field. Even Yang Weimin, who trusts Jiang Chen the most, hopes that he will be more cautious at this time.

Because as far as Yang Weimin knew, Jiang Chen's few steelmaking experience was to observe steelmaking several times while experimenting with alloy steel.

Of course, no matter how the No. 3 Steel Plant develops, it is impossible to carry out steelmaking work, which is one of the reasons why he is not very in favor of it.

(End of this chapter)