Back at the institute, Jiang Yan had not immediately begun the manufacture of tanks and other equipment.

Because before that, he had to do a big project - to make a five-axis linkage CNC machine tool.

Five-axis linkage CNC machine tools are simply a weapon for the manufacturing industry. It can move in five directions, and is dozens of times more efficient than ordinary machine tools when machining complex shape parts. With its super processing ability, it can achieve fast and accurate machining of parts.

This is simply indispensable for the production of high-end equipment such as tanks. You must know that the shape of each part of the tank is complex, and the processing efficiency of ordinary machine tools is too low, which cannot meet the needs at all. However, if there is a five-axis linkage CNC machine tool, the processing difficulty is sharply reduced, and the manufacturing of tank armor, gun barrel and other components can be easily completed, and the increase in production capacity will be huge.

Not only can military manufacturing develop rapidly, but the entire manufacturing industry will enter a new era of precision, automation and numerical control.

The famous "Toshiba Incident" can be said to be the most famous military-sensitive high-tech smuggling case during the Cold War that posed the greatest threat to the security of Western countries, and its impact was very huge.

Advanced CNC machining equipment is an important strategic material for any country! For a long time, the western industrialized countries, led by Eagle Sauce, have been imposing a blockade and embargo on CNC machine tools on the socialist camps such as flower planters and hairy bears.

Later, Toshiba exported four TDP-70 and TDP-110 boring and milling machines to Mao Xiong, but according to the information obtained by intelligence officers, in fact, Mao Xiong obtained not these two kinds of equipment, but four nine-axis five-linkage large CNC propeller milling machines!

This machine tool can complete the mathematical modeling and high-precision machining of complex surfaces through a set of complex and complete algorithms and precise control systems, which is very suitable for processing high-performance propellers required by nuclear submarines.

With this advanced CNC machining equipment, Mao Xiong's military industry quickly produced a large number of nuclear submarines with advanced technical performance, and even the process of its naval construction was greatly accelerated because of the arrival of this batch of foot basin chicken machine tools.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan couldn't wait.

He was determined to build a production line of five-axis simultaneous machine tools and use it to complete the machining tasks of core components.

So, Jiang Yan summoned most of the scientific researchers in the institute, except for the research lithography machine, to the conference room.

"Comrades, I'm going to work on a big project, but I need your help." Jiang Yan said solemnly.

Everyone came to the spirit, and hurriedly said: "Chief Engineer Jiang, you said, we will go all out if there is any project!"

Hearing that Jiang Yan was going to take himself to do the project, everyone was very excited.

"Since everyone is so passionate, then I'll be blunt." Jiang Yan put on a mysterious expression. "This time, we're going to develop. Five-axis linkage CNC machine!"

"Five-axis linkage CNC machine?"

"What is this?"

Everyone looked at each other, confused.

I saw that several old experts had some different looks on their faces.

"Five-axis? Now that he has a three-axis CNC machine, what is the concept of a five-axis machine?"

"That's too technical, isn't it? Can we do it?"

Everyone looked puzzled, and although they were surprised by the novelty, they were more puzzled.

Jiang Yan saw everyone's confusion, so he explained with a smile: "The five-axis linkage CNC machine tool sounds very tall, but in fact, the principle is not difficult, that is, two rotary axes are added on the basis of three axes."

"Its biggest advantage is that it has extremely high processing efficiency, and it can achieve multi-axis compound movement, and easily process complex shape parts."

"If we can take the lead in developing it, it will be a huge boost to industrial development!"

When everyone heard this, their faces were full of shock.

"I'll go, five-axis linkage, this concept is too advanced!" A technician sighed, "Three-axis machine tools are still very rare, he directly crossed to the five-axis, how high does this have to be!"

"Chief Engineer Jiang's thinking is too advanced, we really can't keep up." An old engineer said, shaking his head.

But what does such a machine mean? Any complex shape of the part can be machined!"

"Yes, yes, planes, tanks, whatever, why do you need so many processes?"

Everyone was dancing and shouting excitedly.

But soon, they gradually calmed down again, and a worried look appeared on their faces.

"But can we really make this thing? This technology is still too advanced for us, right?, to achieve five-axis linkage, the control system alone is very complicated, and our people may not be able to play it."

But if it succeeds, how fast the industrialization process will advance! What a contribution! Everyone was entangled, full of longing for this project, but also deeply overwhelmed.

Jiang Yan saw their lack of confidence and encouraged: "Comrades, I understand your concerns. But as long as we work together and persevere, we will definitely succeed!, besides, I'm with you! Let's all work together.

With Jiang Yan's encouragement, the five-axis machine tool project was in full swing in the institute.

Jiang Yan understands that the key to the successful development of a five-axis linkage machine tool lies in the design of the control system. This determines the accuracy of the machine's movement and repeatability.

This is undoubtedly a big problem, the most difficult of which is the chip, the research on the chip in his own factory is still progressing, there is no way, Jiang Yan can only ask for help from the big leader.

After receiving Jiang Yan's call, after listening to Jiang Yan's introduction, the big leader agreed after a little thought.

Hearing that the big leader agreed, Jiang Yan was relieved, he couldn't do it himself, and the country could still get some chips through other channels.

In less than a week, twenty chips arrived in Jiang Yan's hands.

In this week, the complete design drawings of the five-axis linkage machine tool have already been prepared.

Jiang Yan took out the drawings and looked at them carefully, comparing them with the chips in his hand.

"Well, the chip performance this time is enough to complete all the control functions."

He nodded in satisfaction and began to annotate the control system section of the blueprint.

For the parameters of the new chip, Jiang Yan made accurate calculations.

He detailed the design drawings of how the chips would be connected, the layout of the logic circuits, and the framework of the programming code.

These are streamlined versions of modern 5-axis simultaneous machine control systems that can be simplified and implemented entirely with existing chips.

Then, Jiang Yan came to the laboratory and programmed and soldered the chips he brought out. He used a delicate pen tip to draw the circuit connections on the chip and set the logic gates. A simple control board is then soldered.

"Okay, test it out."

Jiang Yan connected to the power supply and wrote a simple code to run the machine.

The circuit board immediately starts working, and the control signals are output according to the code commands.

"Works fine, perfect!" With this control system, the manufacturing problem of the five-axis machine tool breaks through the most critical step.

Since rolling mills have recently been producing a wide range of machine tools in large quantities, most of the required parts are readily available.

Jiang Yan checked the design drawings of the five-axis linkage machine tool, and only a small number of key parts needed to be remanufactured.

In order to quickly obtain these customized parts, he dispatched a group of senior workers for processing. After several days of sleepless work, all the parts have been machined.

At this time, all the parts required for assembly were in place, and he began to lead the technicians to assemble the five-axis linkage machine tool.

(End of chapter)