As an active military officer of Chen Geng, going to Czechoslovakia is not something that can be finalized at the two sessions in a while, even if he is the chairman of Runhua Industry, the time to go through the procedure is not short, fortunately, Chen Geng is not in a hurry, whether it is two months or three months, it is not a problem, but now there is a very depressing problem that makes Chen Geng a little anxious: the automatic transmission project has encountered a roadblock. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Any OEM that pursues a little bit is impossible to ignore the automatic transmission, and the OEM that has a little bit of pursuit is either a controlling shareholder of an automatic transmission manufacturer or simply produces its own gearbox, such as BMW's major shareholder Kuangte family, which is also the world's largest independent automatic transmission supplier: ZF's shareholder, such as the relationship between Toyota and Aisin Seiki, which everyone knows, such as the technical otaku Honda always likes to play with its own automatic transmission......

Chen Geng thinks that he is still a bit of a pursuit, so of course he does not want to give up the automatic transmission, since more than a year ago, Runhua Industry began its own automatic transmission development work, has worked in the ZF company's torque converter production plant Pascal Schultz is of course the project supervisor.

The whole project was of course highly confidential, and Chen Geng knew too well what kind of virtue those automatic transmission suppliers had, but now, he was in trouble.

Chen Geng, who arrived in a hurry, immediately found that everyone's mood was not very right, and they all seemed to be very depressed, obviously the continuous failures for more than a year have hit everyone hard.

That's not going to work.

Chen Geng clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention, and then smiled: "What's wrong with everyone?" Has our project team canceled it? How could I not know about such a big thing? ”

"Chen Dong, the project has not been canceled, but we feel that the company has spent so much money on our project, but we have not yet produced results, and everyone feels ashamed......" Yang Kai, deputy leader of the project team, one of the experts in the field of automatic transmissions in China, and Pascal Schultz's main assistant, whispered with a look of shame.

"What did I do at the time," Chen Geng had already laughed before Yang Kai finished speaking: "Automatic transmission is the most difficult and highest-tech product in the field of automotive technology today, and there are only a few companies in the world that can produce automatic transmissions, Yang Gong, I remember that before our project started, you told me about the difficulty of this thing, why I was not discouraged, but you began to be discouraged?" Don't you want to see our first real and commercial automatic transmission in China born in our Runhua Industry? ”

In fact, the republic has long been able to produce automatic transmissions, and the big red flag sedan in the 70s was equipped with a 2-speed automatic transmission, although there are only 2 gears, but it is indeed an automatic transmission, but the automatic transmission carried on the big red flag is not a commercial product, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a thing made in a laboratory state regardless of the cost.

"I didn't mean that," Yang Gong immediately blushed, and hurriedly defended: "I just think that this project has cost the company too much money......

"Yang Gong, have you forgotten, I also studied automotive engineering, and I understand the difficulties of automatic transmissions, so our project team formulated two unrestricted 'no restrictions on R&D funds and R&D time'." Stopping Yang Gong with a smile, Chen Geng said.

"That's it, we feel even more embarrassed...... Yang Gong sneered, his face flushed, and the other engineers and technicians of the project team also lowered their heads in shame.

Chen Geng understood what they meant: Runhua Industry has invested a lot of money in this automatic transmission project, not including the purchase of R&D equipment in the early stage, and the R&D funds spent in the past year have exceeded 5 million, but the 5 million has been spent, and there is not even a splash, and everyone is beginning to panic - when can they spend money so unscrupulously without taking responsibility in their unit before?

Knowing why everyone is like this, Chen Geng has a bottom in his heart, clapped his hands, and said loudly: "I know that the progress of this project has caused a lot of pressure to everyone, but what I want to tell you is that the company and I have a full understanding of the difficulty of this project, if I can come up with the first engineering prototype within three years, I am already very happy, and I will not feel strange to come up with the first prototype within 5 years, it has only been 1 year, that is to say, everyone still has a lot of time, I am not in a hurry, What are you anxious about? ”

After speaking, without waiting for everyone to reply, Chen Geng continued: "You are all Lao Pa's subordinates, but today I will take care of you and give everyone a three-day vacation, everyone has a good rest, relax and relax your brain, and go back to accompany your wife and children...... Old Song, look at your beard, you haven't shaved for at least ten days, right? Hurry up, go and shave this beard, otherwise your wife won't recognize you when you go back, who are you going to cry to? ”

"Chen Dong, it's not like Song Gong hasn't shaved for more than ten days, he hasn't shaved this beard for at least a month."

Chen Geng smiled: "Then you should scrape it off, I'll go!" Old Song, what's in your beard? It can't be lice, right? Do you still want to keep a few lice in the gearbox? This can't be done, hurry up, go and scrape now. ”

Engineer Song, who was named by Chen Geng, touched his long beard with an embarrassed face.

"And you!"

It has never been Chen Geng's habit to bury only one, and after burying Lao Song, of course, there is no reason to let others go, Chen Geng pointed over from everyone one by one: "Lao Song has lice in his beard, aren't you afraid of infecting you?" Hurry up and clean up, everyone in the company approved your 500 yuan of funds, cleaned yourself up, and avoided going home to be kicked out by your wife, go ...... now"

Since everyone is under a lot of psychological pressure, then use this way to help them reduce pressure, and now it seems that the effect is not enough, and the engineers and designers who were so laughed and scolded by Chen Geng were buried in a lot of depression just now, and they looked at Pascal Schultz one by one.

"See what I do? I'm not a dictator," Pascal Schultz said angrily: "Chen is my boss, the boss has spoken, can I disagree?" Let's go, let's go! ”

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, although I am very excited, but I am still a little embarrassed.

"Okay, let's go quickly," Chen Geng waved his hand: "Everyone has been working for more than a month, and if you don't go home to see, your wives and children should ask me for someone, so go back." ”

Get!

It's all said and done, since the boss of the project team and the boss of the boss have given everyone a holiday, so why hesitate? And not to mention the wife and children, just like that, I really think about it in my heart, and the engineers and designers who just had a look of "I'd rather die in the laboratory" suddenly scattered!

It was only at this time that Chen Geng asked Pascal Schultz, "Old Pa, what's the matter?" Is it a problem with the material or a problem with the machining accuracy? ”

"There are both aspects, the problem of machining accuracy is not very big, the equipment we have now is enough, now it is mainly a problem of materials," Pascal Schultz replied in a low voice: "The blade material that can be found now cannot withstand the oil pressure inside the torque converter." ”

"Didn't the company find some aviation-grade blade materials?" Chen Geng frowned, a little strange.

"I know, the materials you found are indeed fine, but on the one hand, these materials are very difficult to process, on the other hand, the cost of these materials is very high, we can't finally make a torque converter that is higher than two purchased automatic transmissions, right?"

This is a bit of an exaggeration, although the blades on the aero engine are very expensive, but it is not enough to buy two finished automatic transmissions for a set of blades used in the torque converter, which is too much to buy - just one and a half.

But of course, this will not be the result that Chen Geng and Pascal Schultz wanted, the two walked out of the laboratory, and Chen Geng handed Comrade Pa a cigarette: "Get one?" ”

"Then one," Comrade Lao Pa didn't say anything polite to Chen Geng, lit a cigarette and took two puffs before sighing: "Chen, up to this test, we have tested more than 130 kinds of materials, but none of these materials can meet the strength requirements of manufacturing the pump wheel blades and turbine blades inside the torque converter, and also meet the cost requirements, so I have no choice here, you have to think of a way." ”

Chen Geng took a deep breath of cigarette and didn't speak, but frowned.

Before Chery and BYD came up with their own automatic transmission products, many people, including well-known experts and senior engineers in the automotive industry, were constantly instilling a concept in the Chinese: automatic transmission technology is difficult, very difficult, and the technical content is very high, and the Chinese cannot build a qualified automatic transmission.

Is that right?

Sounds right.

In fact, it's just nonsense, these words are just those OEMs and supporting factories that have mastered the technology in order to maintain their own transcendent status, suppress China's national automobile industry and deliberately release remarks, just like the boss of a large state-owned automobile manufacturing enterprise once said in the media that "without an annual production capacity of more than 1 million, you are not qualified to do independent research and development", it is all nonsense, all in order to cover up their laziness and incompetence, It's all bastard talk about helping foreigners fool their own people in order to protect their own vested interests.

Chen Geng even scoffed at this statement: Those who say such things are simply guilty of punishment! (To be continued.) )