Our consideration is to unite 20 of the largest machine tool companies in China to establish a joint conference system, referred to as G20. The joint meeting holds a summit every six months, uh, that is, a meeting of factory directors to discuss the most important issues in the industry and determine major policies. As for normal times, the office of the joint conference is responsible for coordinating the actions of each enterprise to ensure that everyone is in step with each other and advances and retreats together. Tang Zifeng talked eloquently.

The title of G20, of course, comes from Tang Zifeng's bad taste. However, the idea of forming a joint meeting with the largest machine tool companies made Zhou Heng and Xie Tiancheng feel bright. Nowadays, there is already a machine tool industry association in China, which is actually consistent with the concept of the joint meeting said by Tang Zifeng. However, the machine tool industry association is facing all the machine tool enterprises in the country, including both large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises.

When there are more units, the deliberative mechanism becomes more complicated. Moreover, large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises face different problems, and their interests are also different, and the association pursues the maximization of the interests of all members, among which the interests of large enterprises will inevitably be damaged. Every time the member units of the machine tool association meet together, we can only talk about some trivial things, can not reach any substantive cooperation, the role of the association is more like a club, just let everyone have a chance to chat and meet.

Tang Zifeng's suggestion is to separate the 20 largest enterprises in the machine tool industry and establish a new association. Since everyone is about the same size, there is more common language between each other, and it is easier to form consensus and reach cooperation.

In fact, large enterprises such as Linyi machine and Qinji also have some contacts between leaders on weekdays. For example, the relationship between Zhou Heng and Zhao Zhaoxin is very good, and when they are in the same capital for a meeting, they will occasionally get together to chat, drink or something. But this kind of interaction is, after all, informal, and fragmented.

In the words of later generations, the directors of 20 companies were able to build 100 groups, and each group said different things, and it was difficult to form a unified opinion in the end.

The role of the joint meeting is to bring 20 companies into the same group to facilitate everyone to discuss things. In the past, there was not much need to build such a group, because all enterprises carried out production and operation under the arrangement of the state's directive plan, and there were more elements of competition than cooperation among them, and nothing could be discussed when they got together.

But now the situation is different, the country is opening step by step, more and more foreign machine tool companies will enter the Chinese market, and the companies have become friendly from the original competitors, so that we need to keep communicating at any time.

"The joint meeting, it's kind of interesting. Zhao Zhaoxin nodded, "You're right, it's time for us companies to sit down together and discuss." Some time ago, the Koreans grabbed our market, and I thought about discussing with you to see how other companies are doing and what we should do. It is indeed much more convenient to have such a joint meeting, and everyone can discuss something. ”

Tang Zifeng said with a smile: "Director Zhao, the role of this joint meeting is not only to discuss something, but more importantly, to join forces to do something." For example, didn't we just talk about the development of new products? Our idea is that a joint technology research and development center can be set up under the mechanism of a joint conference, and each enterprise will contribute money and the results of research and development can be used by each company.

"There are some technical problems, and it may be very difficult for a single company to deal with them. If the technical strength of 20 companies is concentrated, these problems can be easily solved. In fact, a lot of the technology research and development work of our 20 companies is repetitive, and if we do it together, we can save a lot of manpower and material resources. ”

Listening to Tang Zifeng talk about technical issues, Xia Min, the chief engineer of the machine, interjected and said: "Director Tang, I'm afraid your idea is a little taken for granted. The things we do are different, for example, your Linyi machine is mainly for grinding machines and boring and milling machines, and we are making lathes.

Tang Zifeng said: "Chief Engineer Xia, what you said is reasonable, but in addition to the differences between us, there are also a lot of the same research and development work, right? For example, the ball screw, your lathe should be used, and our grinding machine should also be used, so the research of the ball screw can be put together to do it?"

"This can be ......"

"There is also the technology of five-axis linkage, and the core part is also common to our companies, right?"

"Five-axis linkage, are you working on this technology?" Xia Min asked in astonishment.

Tang Zifeng smiled slightly: "Yes, we have been researching this since last year. High-end CNC machine tools cannot always be in the hands of foreigners, and we must win this technology ourselves. After we cooperated with Factory 432 last year, with the help of Factory 432, we established a CNC technology research team, focusing on breaking through the technology of five-axis linkage. ”

Xia Min asked a little impatiently, "So, where have you reached now?"

Tang Zifeng said: "I don't know much about technical things. Listening to our Chief Engineer Qin, at present, we have preliminarily mastered the algorithm design principle of five-axis linkage, and the next step is to overcome various technical difficulties. During this time, I heard that Chief Engineer Qin was engaged in what space tool compensation technology, and I didn't know what it meant. ”

"Space tool compensation technology is to calculate the tool vector according to the position of the axis of rotation, and then calculate the compensation vector in the compensation plane, the two vectors are orthogonal relations...... "Xia Min seriously wanted to make a popular science for Tang Zifeng, but he was not born to be good at doing popular science, and what he said was equivalent to the Martian language for Tang Zifeng.

Zhao Zhaoxin interrupted Xia Min's words, returned to the topic, and said, "Lao Zhou is still courageous. Chief Engineer Xia mentioned to me a lot of secondary five-axis linkage technology, but I didn't dare to make up my mind. I've heard that this thing is a bottomless pit, and if you don't throw three or five million into it, I'm afraid it's hard to hear a sound. ”

Tang Zifeng said with a smile: "Director Zhao is still too optimistic. According to our chief engineer Qin, three or five million thrown into it can not hear any sound, if you really want to make a practical five-axis linkage technology, the investment of three or five million is the minimum, and three or five years may not have results. ”

Zhao Zhaoxin turned to Xia Min and said that they had discussed this issue in the past, and Xia Min should be advocating that this kind of research should be carried out, while Zhao Zhaoxin belonged to the opposition.

Five-axis linkage is the direction of the development of CNC machine tools. Previously, the CNC machine tools engaged in by various domestic enterprises were basically CNC transformation on the original three-coordinate machine tool to improve the degree of automation of the machine tool, but the processing capacity of the machine tool has not been significantly improved.

Five-axis linkage is to add the rotation of the tool to the three-coordinate machine tool, so that it can be processed with polyhedral and curved parts. Curved surface parts are widely used in electric power, ships, aerospace, molds and other fields, and the processing of such parts has always been a difficult point in machinery manufacturing. A machine tool that can process such parts is undoubtedly very important.

In addition, the application of five-axis linkage technology can also increase milling on the basis of the original CNC lathe, making it a turning and milling compound machining center, so that a machine tool becomes two, which can not only save space, but also save the turnover and transportation time of the workpiece between different manufacturing units, and improve the processing efficiency.

At present, many foreign machine tool companies are eliminating traditional CNC lathes and vigorously developing turning and milling compound machining centers. As a company focusing on lathes, Qinji also felt the pressure, but because of the limited conditions, it was unable to carry out research in this area, and Zhao Zhaoxin, Xia Min and others were also quite anxious.

Tang Zifeng said: "It is precisely because of the need for too much investment that we hope to be able to join forces with brother enterprises. The investment of 350 million yuan, if it is distributed to 20 companies, each is one or two million, which is not a lot of money. If each family does it separately, I'm afraid that no one will be able to do it. ”

"That's right. Zhao Zhaoxin frowned and said, "But if it's really like what you said, 20 companies come together to do it, how can it be coordinated?

Tang Zifeng said: "We have also considered this problem, and the solution is what I just said, the model of cooperation between us and the 432 factory, that is, the establishment of an independent legal entity to undertake this work." We can set up a new technology research institute, which is jointly funded by various enterprises, and the business of the research institute is not interfered with by various enterprises, so that there is no problem of which company does not contribute to the work. ”

"However, in this way, what is the difference between this research institute we jointly established and the mechanical design institute in the ministry?" Zhao Zhaoxin asked.

Tang Zifeng said: "The biggest difference is that our research institute is market-oriented, and there is no problem of drought and flood protection. All the engineers in the institute adopt the employment system, and there is no upper limit on the salary and no guarantee on the bottom. If you do a good job, it's no problem to get 3,000 or 5,000 a month, and if you don't do it well, you will be eliminated directly. ”

"Isn't this what a private company looks like?" Ms. Haemin said.

Tang Zifeng said: "It should be said that it draws on the management model of private enterprises, breaks the big pot of rice, and encourages innovation. The current situation is already very serious, and we must take some extraordinary measures and not slack off as in the past. ”

"So that's ......," Zhao Zhaoxin nodded slowly. Tang Zifeng said that the information was a bit too big, and Zhao Zhaoxin still needed some time to digest it, so he didn't dare to agree in a hurry.

"This matter is very high, and we may have to think about it again. Zhao Zhaoxin said.

(End of chapter)