Chapter 557: Worry
When a person is praised by Zhang Xiaofan, the people around him must know that this technician will definitely have a certain impression in Zhang Xiaofan's heart, and it will definitely be beneficial in terms of promotion or other benefits in the future.
Therefore, regardless of the advantages or disadvantages, as long as they find it themselves, they will speak enthusiastically.
Professor Qin and Zhang Xiaofan did receive suggestions for improvement in equipment and powder coatings, or some defects encountered.
After the meeting, Zhang Xiaofan directly stated that he would give a suggestion today, and in the future experiments, if it is converted into practice, it can be rewarded, with a minimum of 10,000 yuan.
This is a substantial reward, so that this group of people feel that today's efforts are rewarded, and the brain cells consumed by today's brains can be compensated by money, and they will be more willing to think about problems and explore problems in the future.
Zhang Xiaofan always believes that a company, especially the technical department, must maintain a very strong vitality, must innovate and innovate, constantly innovate, and explore and solve problems.
"Now that you're all done, I'll also put forward one of my ideas, of course, whether or not you can achieve this depends on your ingenuity in the future experiments.
In fact, you have said so much, one thing is very important, that is, the convenience of use and the user-friendly design.
I don't think we can add some chemicals to the powder coating that can produce gases, but at the same time do not affect the performance of the powder coating. ”
There are not a few stupid technicians around, so as soon as Zhang Xiaofan brings it up, everyone knows what the situation is.
The storage tank of the equipment is closed, so once the powder coating is added, chemicals that can react with water or other solvents are added, of course, the product of this reaction must be gas, because only gas will form air pressure in the closed container.
It is more convenient when there is air pressure spraying, there is no need for manpower to increase the air pressure at all, and some restrictions can be added when designing this spraying equipment.
For example, the slow addition of reactive substances keeps this air pressure at about 0.4 is very conducive to spraying, and it also simplifies the steps of the whole operation.
In the best case, this is a substance that produces gas from water, and it is necessary to use it alone, so that the air pressure can be controlled relatively easily.
But in this case, then the device would have to be redesigned, because it needed a separate small container to store the chemical, and the switch to the main container had to be a barometric switch, which would turn on when the air pressure decreased, and turn off automatically when the air pressure reached a certain point.
Basically all the technicians will agree with Zhang Xiaofan's suggestion, whether this suggestion is feasible or not, because Zhang Xiaofan is their boss and the chief technical engineer of the entire company.
But Zhang Xiaofan's suggestion works most of the time, and even the best suggestion, the best suggestion, so there is no hindrance.
Professor Qin also agreed to improve this equipment, this is a relatively simple air pressure switch, a small container, this difficulty does not need Professor Qin to design it himself, his students can easily complete it.
The whole equipment has gone from complex to simple, and now it is basically molding, and the process it has gone through is actually mainly the improvement of powder coating.
At the beginning, Zhang Xiaofan's idea was to design a device that could allow powder coating to enter thousands of households, but in the end, it was still the improvement of the coating and the innovation of the coating.
Then some people may say, is it worth it if you invest tens of millions of dollars to come up with such a simple device?
Zhang Xiaofan can't tell whether it's worth it or not, because if you don't try many things, you will never know whether it will work or not, in fact, many things are very complicated at the beginning, but you slowly study and dig deeper, and what comes out in the end is actually very simple.
Just like the current equipment, in fact, it is not much more complicated than the paint spraying equipment, and even simpler in some aspects.
But one of these two devices is spraying paint, and the other is spraying powder coating.
Again, this is the essential difference.
The change brought by this equipment to powder coating is simply unreasonable, so investing tens of millions of dollars is not the point, the focus is whether this equipment can lead powder coating to really fly into the homes of ordinary people.
But in any case, although Professor Qin has many projects that she needs to support, this electrostatic spray gun project will definitely not stop, at least for a few years.
In such a long period of time, there are always one or two patents that can be used, or some aspects have made great breakthroughs.
You must know that Zhang Xiaofan is not very clear about the real trend of powder coating in the next few years, because many trends have been messed up by Zhang Xiaofan.
What worries Zhang Xiaofan even more is that the formulas and coating knowledge in his memory are all relatively mainstream ones, and there is no very special powder coating formula and technology.
Especially now, by changing the structure of the raw material length of the powder coating, and then adding a system to promote the reaction, the powder coating can react at room temperature, which is not in his knowledge system, and it is also not in the formulation system.
This is really what Zhang Xiaofan is worried about, how should he go in the future?
Zhang Xiaofan is not worried about the mainstream powder coating, he has this confidence and strength.
Thankfully, he has now developed a powder coating that can barely be sub-cured at room temperature.
But technology is sometimes just a piece of paper, others can easily pierce it, and then they don't have to pay you royalties, especially powder coatings.
Take the current coating industry as an example, many large coating companies have developed a certain paint with a very good effect, but after half a year or a year, the manufacturer will find that there are many similar coatings on the market, and the plagiarism is the people in the industry.
Because for many technicians, they just didn't think of it, but once you have a product out, they will follow the map and easily crack your formula, so how to make your formula difficult to be cracked by others is the point. You have to find the latest chapters by yourself to read books?