The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 159: CNC machine tools cannot produce even the drawings (asking for monthly tickets)

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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 lead 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 knowledgeable about Yunnan Province's military industry system.

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

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

Wang Baoguo has deep feelings for Factory 356, and he feels bad about the current predicament of Factory 356.

It is so frustrating that a machine gun manufacturer ranked among the top three in the country is producing "Chunhua" brand bicycles.

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. Panshan Machinery Factory is now developing very well and has a lot of funds.

With money and technology, we can help Factory 356 out of its predicament.

"Please rest assured, leader. I will lead Factory 356 towards new recovery." Liu Tao promised, patting his chest.

All we need to do is rebuild the factory area of ​​Factory 356, and then make it a branch of Panshan Machinery Factory, producing only light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns, so that Factory 356 can be revitalized.

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

Panshan Machinery Factory can solve these two problems perfectly.

"It's just that the leadership of Factory 356 cannot be solved by our Panshan Machinery Factory at the same time. The director of Factory 356 has a higher rank than me." Liu Tao said.

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

"Now that your Panshan Machinery Factory can produce CNC machine tools, can you produce them in large quantities and supply them to 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 is very limited now. In the next two years, the output can only meet the needs of our Panshan Machinery Factory." Liu Tao said.

Wang Baoguo said, "Can't we speed up production by handing over the CNC machine tool technology to the machine tool factory?" "Leader, I've learned about my country's machine tool industry. Its foundation is too weak. It's almost a blank in terms of CNC machine tools. Even if we are given the 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 9.5 units. In 1952, the output of metal cutting machine tools was only 1.37 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 drive lathes in 1797 and developed CNC milling machines in 1952. The gap is huge.

Machine tools are 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 the Soviet Union to study. With a lot of support from the Soviet Union, my country's machine tool technology has accumulated rapidly, and a number of backbone enterprises (commonly known as the "Eighteen Arhats") have been successfully created. Seven comprehensive machine tool research institutes and 7 various professional machine tool research institutes have been gradually established, 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 2 years later than Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union.

However, in the field of machine tools, my country mainly relied on imitation, and the Soviet Union provided a large number of drawings and technologies, and Soviet technical professionals taught us step by step. As the two sides later became hostile, there were no more masters. At that time, many core technologies of machine tools were still not mastered, and the motivation and stamina for subsequent technological research and development of machine tools were obviously insufficient.

For example, in the field of CNC machine tools, it is obvious that there has been no progress, and it can even be said that it is moving backwards.

之前过度重视机床产量，忽视了质量和长远发展，华夏在这方面付出了惨痛的教训。1958年机床产量是1957年2倍，1960年是1957年的5倍，1961~1978年生产的机床足足164万台，但是合格率60%！

The pass rate is 60%, and this is the official data!

Originally, Panshan Machinery Factory was going to purchase machine tools from a state-owned machine tool factory, but after careful investigation, Liu Tao gave up the plan. He developed the drawings himself, and then Panshan Machinery Factory started production, including the current CNC machine tools, which were developed and produced by Liu Tao himself.

The qualification 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 around, it is almost impossible to scrap all unqualified machine tools and waste resources. They can be made qualified after some repairs.

As CNC machine tools are now in their infancy, Liu Tao has to do it all himself.

After all, only if he produces and uses it himself can the CNC machine tools be upgraded.

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

If he purchased machine tools from a state-owned machine tool factory, the qualification rate of the machines delivered might be only 60%. Even worse, it might be only 30%!

"The machine tool factories are unable to produce?" 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. The information carrier is input into the CNC device, and after calculation and processing, the CNC device sends various control signals to control the movement of the machine tool and automatically process the parts according to the shape and size required by the drawing." Liu Tao nodded, "Without talents in this area, debugging the control system and machine tools is a big problem."

"Now our Panshan Machinery Factory is also in the exploratory stage. The workers of CNC machine tools need to receive special training and explore step by step." Liu Tao said.

Wang Baoguo sighed: "It seems that the First Ministry of Machine Building is so happy for nothing, and they are trying to get some 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 that were 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 which, the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building and the First Ministry of Machine Building have a close relationship and are of the same lineage, and many people know each other.

(End of this chapter)