When I visited the JK-1 lithography machine of the Institute of Optics and Mechanics, the equipment was placed directly in a bungalow, with some wallpaper pasted on the wall, and a device about the size of a sewing machine was quietly placed in the corner.

That's right, the JK-1 developed by Shudu Optical Machine is no different from the size of an ordinary household sewing machine, if you don't see that there are still optical parts exposed outside, you really can't believe that this is a lithography machine.

Xu Guangcheng stepped forward and patted the side of the lithography machine, and said bluntly: "Chief Engineer Jiang, who was responsible for the design of JK-1, has a lot of feelings for the sewing machine, so in the shell design of this lithography machine, the shape of the sewing machine can be vaguely seen. ”

He also pointed to the table next to the lithography machine, where a set of scattered equipment was placed, which looked similar to the total station of later generations, but it was very different in many places.

"Oh, that's it, when this thing was designed, Chief Engineer Jiang's family of six still lived in a house of more than 20 square meters, and there was no place to put a table after the bed, so every day after work, I could only curl up on a folding sewing machine bench to translate materials and do design pre-research. ”

There are six people in the family, living in a room of 20 square meters, it is really quite that, the older generation of scientific research workers is indeed not easy, the conditions in the mountainous area of Dayi are difficult, and it is natural for the light machine to move to Shudu.

Looking at a set of equipment on the table, I was suddenly surprised to find that this thing actually has a photo function, lens, shutter, film, all alive, I really didn't see it at first.

"This thing can take pictures, and you also develop special cameras?"

Although it can also be seen that this thing has a photo function, but judging from the appearance of the equipment and additional parts, this is definitely not an ordinary camera, and it should belong to special imaging equipment.

grinning and pointing to a few yellowed old photos on the table: "That's right, this is the photo of the equipment that was developed, the ballistic trajectory image of a certain type of artillery, so, you see this thing, it is actually a ballistic camera." ”

If you don't do anything too much secrecy, and being able to take it out and display it in the product showroom of the institute means that this thing has passed the time when it needs to be kept secret, and maybe the equipment of the same model has been withdrawn from the weapon testing range.

When someone heard this ballistic camera, in fact, their hearts were suddenly touched, this is a ballistic camera, the most cutting-edge special imaging equipment, in order to be able to grasp the ballistic trajectory of high-speed flying projectiles, it is definitely the product of integrating many cutting-edge military technologies.

Of course, to put it bluntly, this is actually just a high-speed continuous shooting camera, in the era of film cameras, subject to the limitations of film machinery and equipment, it takes a huge price to achieve high-speed continuous shooting.

But after entering the era of digital cameras, the related problems are easy to solve, nothing more than to control the optical sensor to take pictures at high speed, the continuous shooting speed can be set at will, maybe this is a good project, when the time comes, we should talk about it, and I silently made up my mind to pay more attention to this thing when I look back.

If you want to say that the most urgent problem to be solved now is naturally the lithography machine, or to get the JK-1 first, and then talk about other things.

"Okay, let's talk about the lithography machine first, first of all, I want to tell you clearly, this thing looks ugly, very ugly! As the most critical high-tech equipment in the semiconductor integrated circuit industry, it doesn't look like this, and now I ask you to design a better shape for it. ”

It's not that Wang Zhengguo deliberately targeted the JK-1 lithography machine, but it is really time for this thing to make up, although someone is not Yan Gou, but he must take into account the corporate image of Kaiyang Semiconductor, which is obviously one of the top high-tech factories in China, and the ugly appearance of the JK-1 lithography machine cannot be allowed to destroy the overall beauty of the factory.

How important is the shape of an industrial equipment, which in Western countries, that is even specially developed the concept of industrial aesthetics, the whole industrial design is actually in the "ease of use", "function", "aesthetics" three aspects to achieve organic harmony.

Therefore, the importance of industrial aesthetics is actually mentioned to be as important as the product function, European and American countries pay attention to these aspects, the design of the product is very beautiful, with a sense of science and technology, in the market competition can give customers a deeper impression, and even the price can get a certain increase.

To take the simplest case, after 2000, a domestic machine tool factory redesigned the shell of a domestic machine tool priced at 80,000 yuan, but sold it for 58,000 US dollars in the United States.

The reason why the huge gap can be reflected is that the new products achieve a balance between function and aesthetics, and the power of Yan Dang is everywhere, they are distributed all over the world, waving money all the time.

The market is like this, customers need practical, beautiful products, and foreign counterparts have indeed done this, whether domestic competitors feel the need or not, we have to make up for this shortcoming.

"Redesigning the shape of the machine, it's no problem, we can do it, the reason why we didn't pay attention to this aspect is mainly because we didn't have an order for equipment production before, so naturally we didn't continue to toss. ”

As a young man, Xu Guangcheng was of course dissatisfied with the appearance of this lithography machine, but he was too lazy to work on it because there was no order demand before.

Hearing that the Institute of Optics and Mechanics is willing to improve the shape of the product, at least it can be regarded as passing the first hurdle, and in addition, what worries Wang Zhengguo, the issue of production capacity is particularly important.

The problems of the machine itself have all been solved, and the only thing that still plagues the JK-1 lithography machine is that the Shudu Optical Machinery Institute does not have enough production capacity, and it must be known that this is just a research institute that simply does scientific research.

Although the institute also designs ballistic cameras, the technology is very advanced, but the demand is not much, the production of about ten units, can meet the needs of the major military equipment test range, more production is definitely not necessary, so the optical machine is actually more like a laboratory production in terms of equipment capacity.

The production of high-end optical equipment has never been simple, it requires skilled senior industrial workers, and the Institute of Optics and Mechanics obviously does not have enough reserves in this regard, requiring the delivery of 15 pieces of equipment in less than half a year, anyway, Wang Zhengguo is very worried.

"The second question, whether you can complete the product delivery within half a year, Kaiyang Semiconductor needs to achieve a comprehensive increase in production capacity in 85 years, which means that you need to complete the order production within half a year. ”

Obviously, there is a contradiction between the huge order and the production cycle that requires delivery in a short period of time, which makes Xu Guangcheng feel very embarrassed, and the delicious cake is placed in front of him, but he can't digest it, this feeling makes people beat his chest.

The reality is cruel, but he can't solve it, so he can only tell the truth.

"I'm afraid it won't be delivered within half a year, and there is a serious shortage of workers in charge of production in the institute, and it is already the best to be able to produce one piece of equipment in a month, so we need to think of some other ways. ”