The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 10 Factory Reset
The workers are about to take the steel pipes and start working.

"Wait a minute, let me check again." Liu Tao stopped him.

"Comrade Liu Tao, hasn't this boring machine been repaired? Is there still some problem?" Lin Shengli was a little puzzled.

The boring machine has obviously been repaired and is now able to operate.

"Minister Lin, let me check again to see if there are any problems." Liu Tao said.

"Okay, everyone is not busy anyway." Lin Shengli nodded.

Liu Tao stroked the boring machine, and the virtual panel displayed: [Upgrade Points: 2]

Just repaired the boring machine and he got 2 upgrade points.

"Analysis, old." Liu Tao muttered to himself.

Suddenly, a new three-dimensional image appeared on the virtual panel, a three-dimensional image of a boring machine, with red dots and red blocks everywhere.

Liu Tao took a breath of cold air.

So many places are old?

If this were placed abroad, it would probably have been eliminated long ago and thrown into the garbage dump or sold as scrap metal.

It's just that China is too poor and people are used to being poor, so they mend their ways for three years, and then mend their ways for another three years.

Too many parts are aging!
How could an old machine tool like this possibly produce a gun barrel that meets the design requirements?
"Analysis, complete design drawing!" Liu Tao muttered to himself.

"Host, to analyze the complete blueprint, 20 upgrade points are required." The system's metallic voice sounded.

Liu Tao frowned slightly. He didn't expect that 1 upgrade point would not be enough, but 20 upgrade points would be needed.

It seems that different items require different upgrade points.

Even for the same item, different states will require different upgrade points.

"How is it, Comrade Liu Tao, have you found any other problems?" Lin Shengli was a little nervous.

Liu Tao's frown was so severe that it made him feel uneasy.

Now Lin Shengli dare not underestimate Liu Tao.

Liu Tao improved the Type 54 pistol and became a technical expert in the factory.

"It's not optimistic. This boring machine can't work today." Liu Tao said in a deep voice: "If it continues to work like this, I'm afraid this boring machine will be scrapped in a short time."

"So serious?" Lin Shengli was shocked.

Panshan Machinery Factory has only five boring machines in total.

The loss of a boring machine means that the barrel processing is greatly affected.

Every machine tool is very important to Panshan Machinery Factory. If one breaks down, you may never find another one to replace it.

"Yes, it's very serious." Liu Tao nodded: "Next, I will disassemble many parts of this boring machine and spend a day or two to repair it."

"Okay, I will communicate with Director Tang Ming here." Lin Shengli nodded.

Tang Ming, director of this production workshop, manages the production workers in the workshop.

The new pistol is also produced in this workshop.

Of the ten pistols originally produced, Wang Tiezhu kept one and let Wang Baoguo take the other nine away.

Now that this boring machine needs an overhaul, it is natural to let Tang Ming, the workshop director, know.

Liu Tao then started knocking here and hitting there.

Many people were confused when they saw Liu Tao doing this. Can the problem be fixed in this way?

Late at night, Liu Tao was so tired that he had no strength left.

"Repair!" Liu Taoqiang perked up a little and stroked a piece of steel plate.

Swish!
A faint light flickers.

The steel plate was repaired. Although it still looked the same, it was the same as when it was first produced. "Repair!" Liu Tao stroked the gear.

Although, since he is not a fabricator, he cannot upgrade the boring machine.

But he can repair various parts by upgrading points.

Restore these old and severely worn parts to their factory condition.

After finishing all this, Liu Tao looked at the 3D image of the virtual panel again and found that all the red components had returned to normal.

The virtual panel displays:
[Item: Single-axis gun barrel drilling and boring machine]

【Maker: James】

[Item Level: LV1 (0/10) (Cannot be upgraded)]

[Upgrade Points: 1]

[Item status: intact, analyzable]

Liu Tao showed a satisfied smile. His whole day's hard work paid off as he finally repaired the boring machine.

"System, analysis, complete design drawing." Liu Tao muttered to himself.

"Host, complete design drawing, upgrade point 15, current upgrade points are not sufficient." The system reminded.

Liu Tao shook his head secretly. It seemed that he had to find time to accumulate upgrade points for this boring machine, otherwise he would not be able to obtain the complete design drawing.

Only by obtaining the complete design drawings can we produce parts, assemble the boring machine ourselves, and continuously upgrade it.

To be honest, Liu Tao is very dissatisfied with this boring machine, because it has been eliminated by the times.

The production efficiency is not high and the precision is difficult to control.

You should know that machine tools entered the automation era in 1950, that is, CNC machine tools. CNC machine tools use digital control principles to store processing procedures, requirements, and tool change operation numbers and text codes as information, and control the machine tools according to the instructions issued to perform processing according to the required requirements.

As early as 10 years ago, in 1968, the world's first CNC production line was born.

Just a few years ago, from 1970 to 1974, three technological breakthroughs occurred due to the widespread use of small computers in machine tool control.

Now, Panshan Machinery Factory is still using old machine tools from decades ago.

Liu Tao urgently wants to develop these machine tools into CNC machine tools.

"And it's not just this boring machine, there's also the stamping machine. I guess there are big problems with it as well." Liu Tao said secretly.

Liu Tao felt it necessary to carefully check all the machine tools in this production workshop one by one.

You know, machine tools are the "mother machines" in the mechanical field. The quality of machine tools can greatly improve work efficiency and production quality.

In addition to machine tools, tools such as calipers also need to be improved.

"However, no matter how good a machine tool is, it is still operated by people. The human factor is more important." When Liu Tao thought of this, he felt it necessary to reach a consensus with others.

Throughout the production workshop, raw materials, finished products and scraps were piled randomly on the workbench in the middle.

Calipers, rulers, etc. are either rusted or have missing corners. Obviously, workers will not use them during normal production, and technicians in the production workshop will not emphasize it.

You should know that any process of military products has three procedures, namely, initial inspection, process inspection and final inspection.

Even process inspection is in name only, let alone other things.

To sum it up, the quality system is not sound, or simply speaking - it does not exist!
Liu Tao couldn't imagine how low the pass rate of guns and ammunition would be in such production.

Delivering unqualified guns and ammunition to the troops is tantamount to murdering the lives of the soldiers.

Liu Tao could not accept this kind of thing.

The war is not far away, and Liu Tao doesn't want his soldiers to use substandard guns and ammunition produced by his factory. As a result, they can kill the enemy without dying themselves, but instead they fail to kill the enemy and get killed.

If that happened, Liu Tao would never be able to forgive himself for the rest of his life.

When Liu Tao returned to the dormitory, it was already very late, but he was holding a notebook and writing on it. It was about the quality system.

(End of this chapter)