"The wide application of robots is definitely the future trend of industrial development. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoI haven't seen an actual industrial robot before, and I can't imagine what an industrial robot can do. But after visiting the laboratories of the Fu Lang and Fei Society, I suddenly felt that it was inevitable that robots would replace workers.

The low cost of labor in our country seems to be able to ignore this issue, but this is also because the robot technology in Western countries is still in the early stage of development, and the cost is too high to compare with our labor cost. If they develop for another 30 years, they can make the application cost of robots lower than the cost of our workers, and then we will be completely uncompetitive. If you want to compete with robots with human power, it is equivalent to using spears against tanks. ”

Yang Haifan said to Feng Xiaochen with a serious expression.

Feng Xiaochen's face also sank, and he said slowly: "And, in fact, with the continuous development of our country's economy, labor costs will also rise. At that time, we will have no hope. ”

"Exactly. Yang Haifan said, "I have been thinking just now that our country's enterprises may not be able to use robots now, but the research on robots must start immediately, and we must not fall behind others." I even think that if our construction machinery company has some profits, we should take out a small amount of money to specialize in robot research, even if it is just to make a welding robot for our own company, it is a success. ”

Feng Xiaochen said: "There is no problem with this, in fact, construction machinery and robots are not contradictory." Now some countries have special wrecker robots, demining robots, are used in high-risk areas of construction machinery, we can start from this aspect. ”

"Demining robot, this is good!" Yang Haifan's eyes lit up, "Xiaochen, if you don't say it, I really forgot." When I was a child, I saw that there were demining heroes in comic books, and I thought at that time, if we could build a robot to clear mines, wouldn't our heroes not be sacrificed? Now that I think about it, I don't think it's difficult, it's really just an intelligent construction machine. ”

"You don't mean that you want to do this after you go back, do you?" Feng Xiaochen asked with some consternation.

Yang Haifan smiled slightly and said, "Why not? Let's make some contributions to the soldiers, what's so bad?"

"However, there are too many technical aspects involved. Mr. Zhang is a mechanical expert, and we have always been engaged in machinery in the past, so we are not familiar with electronics. If you want to build a robot, you have to at least set up an electronic team, where do people come from?"

"If we make contributions to the soldiers, wouldn't it be better for the military to work with us to tackle key problems? There are too many talented people in the army who are engaged in electronics, and they are much stronger than the local technology. Yang Haifan said assumedly.

"You mean ......" Feng Xiaochen laughed halfway through his words. He pointed at Yang Haifan with his finger and said: "Haifan, you have really become bad, I really thought you were patriotic and wanted to help the army make some contributions, who knows your real intentions are here." ”

Yang Haifan was exposed by Feng Xiaochen, and he couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, he argued: "I originally wanted to help the troops do something, but later I found out that this matter is also good for us, is this the kind of thing you always say...... Win-win?"

Yang Haifan really didn't lie. At the beginning, he proposed to help the military develop demining robots, and he did have some thoughts to make some contributions to the army, which can be regarded as the instinctive idea of a young man born under the red flag. But after this idea came up, he suddenly found that this matter was also beneficial to his future construction machinery company, and even the benefits he got were far greater than the military's gains.

Chen Yu company to develop construction machinery, electronic technology is indispensable. Traditional machinery generally uses hydraulic components to achieve control and information transmission, but modern machinery has increasingly used electronic equipment to achieve these functions. To develop intelligent devices like robots, of course, is only a long-term plan, but at least some electronic sensing, electronic control and other functions, in the future products of Chen Yu company must have.

Yang Haifan is a doer, since Feng Xiaochen talked to him about the idea of producing construction machinery, he has been comprehensively considering the obstacles that need to be solved. Zhang Guodong's joining, so that Chen Yu company's mechanical technology has enough protection, but Zhang Guodong is only a mechanical expert, not an electronic expert, the bottleneck of electronic technology, still plagues Yang Haifan.

If the company can take the opportunity to help the military develop demining robots and get in touch with the military's electronic technicians, then the company will have a solid backing in electronic technology. Among the various industrial technologies, electronic technology is probably China's biggest shortcoming, and the gap with foreign countries is far greater than that of other aspects. But this situation is mainly manifested in the civilian field, and the technology that the military has is still very powerful.

It's a bit like a joke in the former Soviet Union, where electronics engineers can receive electronic signals in Moscow as far away as the South Pacific, but not Moscow television. The root cause of this is that the state has invested all its technological strength in the military field, while the civilian field has been neglected.

In the early 80s, China's technical level in radar and radio communications was very good, and the Galaxy computer developed by the National Defense University of Science and Technology could also rank among the world's supercomputers. But in terms of civil electronic technology, it is very embarrassing, TV factories around the country are imported from foreign production lines, and various components are also heavily dependent on imports. Finally, there are several integrated circuit production lines, or second-hand equipment imported from Japan, and the level lags behind foreign countries for several generations.

In this case, finding a reason to help the army develop equipment and obtain electronic technical support from the military is indeed a "win-win" choice. Thinking about it this way, it seems that Yang Haifan originally put forward this idea with the intention of taking advantage of the military, how not to embarrass Yang Haifan.

Feng Xiaochen still knows Yang Haifan's personality quite well, and can somewhat restore Yang Haifan's mental journey, knowing that his original intention is good, and a good original intention leads to better results. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Pujiang people are indeed shrewd, and it is really rare for Yang Haifan to be able to come up with a result that is beneficial to everyone.

"We have to talk to the military about this matter, and people may not be willing to cooperate with us. Feng Xiaochen said.

Yang Haifan smiled: "Xiaochen, I believe you have this way." ”

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said nothing, thinking in his heart how to get in touch with the military. The military industry is a very large system, concentrating a considerable part of the country's industrial manufacturing capacity, and it is also the most cutting-edge batch of capabilities. When he was working in the heavy equipment office, he considered how to borrow part of the capabilities of the military industrial system to promote the development of civilian industry, but he did not find a suitable opportunity for a while.

During this period, the state had not yet begun to put forward the policy of converting the military industry to civilian use, and the military industrial enterprises had always been regarded as units that required strict secrecy, and had little contact with the local government. However, with Feng Xiaochen's foresight, he knew that it would not be long before the state would put forward a policy of making the army temporarily patient, and the life of the military industrial system would become very difficult, and a large number of military industrial enterprises would turn to civilian production. At that time, I am afraid that it will not be Feng Xiaochen who will ask the military industry for help, but the military industry will rush to beg Feng Xiaochen to find them a bowl of rice to eat.

In the process of the transformation of military enterprises in that period, there was a lot of loss of talents and technology, which is a pity in hindsight. If history can repeat itself and the country does a better job in this regard, at least it can retain some talents, and when the country's economic situation improves, these talents can play an important role.

Since fate has sent him back to this era, isn't it just to let himself change this period of history? It seems that even if he goes to the Academy of Social Sciences to study for graduate school, he still has to spend some energy on industrial management, and Luo Xiangfei will not refuse, right?

And so the episode passed. In the following days, accompanied by Peiman, Feng Xiaochen and Yang Haifan visited other research institutions and enterprises, and saw many things that opened their eyes.

At the Technical University of Munich, they visited the design department of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and saw that the students were using computer-aided design methods to design machinery, which could not only draw graphics under the control of the operator, but also simultaneously calculate the man-hours and costs required for part processing, and propose the best cost-effective part structure.

At the Technical University of Braunschweig, they visited the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Regulation Technology and saw how experts were working on mask devices in semiconductor equipment and fast-acting small valves used in precision instruments, among other things.

Yang Haifan recorded everything he saw hungrily, calculating in his mind what the future Chenyu company should do, and what needs to be done by finding partners in China to complete together. In this regard, Feng Xiaochen's mentality is more peaceful, he has seen far more technology than he has seen these days, he thinks more about what are the current shortcomings of the technology in Western countries, and whether he can use the prophetic sense of a traverser to gain some benefits in it.

"Mr. Feng, Mr. Yang, this is the company we want to refer to today, Prometheus. It is one of the most well-known construction machinery enterprises in Germany, and it is also very famous in the entire European market. Its most competitive product is the concrete pump truck, which last month just delivered a 62-metre boom, the longest boom in the world to date. Because the long arm of the pump truck resembles the trunk of an elephant, the industry calls Prometheus an 'elephant'. ”

When Peiman led Feng Xiaochen and them into a large-scale factory, he introduced them to the fame of this factory with envy.