Chapter 539 Automatic carbon fiber laying machine
"Has the fully automatic silk laying machine been installed?" Zhong Bing asked the staff.
"It's installed," said a staff member from Hongxin Group. They began to customize a mechanical device called the automatic wire laying machine of carbon fiber composites a week ago, which is a key equipment specially used for the synthesis of large-area carbon fiber composites.
"A fully automatic silk laying machine! I've wanted to see it for a long time!" Gao Wei said in surprise, "I'm so ashamed that we have been using manual half-machine silk laying method. This has resulted in the inability to synthesize carbon fiber composite materials on a large scale and can only be used in small areas such as beam wings."
Lu Zixin and others also arrived, and a group of people went to the machine room to prepare to visit Hongxin Group's new carbon fiber composite synthesis technology and fully automatic silk laying machine.
When they arrived at the machine room, they saw that an assembly line production equipment was laid here. The generation, laying of wires, structures, etc. of the new carbon fiber composite material were completely operated by the machine.
Anderson was shocked when he saw this machine. The several links of this machine are similar to the core technology of their company, which means that Hongxin's side may really master this technology!
"Mr. Anderson, what do you think of it?" Lu Zixin asked with a smile.
"It looks great, and I want to know how it works?" Anderson said. "The large volume of carbon fiber composite laying is far less simple than I thought."
"Yes, so we also put in a lot of effort to create it." Lu Zixin said.
"Hongxin Group has been studying this kind of material for a long time?" Anderson was puzzled.
"Can you start?" Peng Zhengge was even more looking forward to this, hoping to see a surprise.
The robot Zhang Ming nodded and said, "The raw materials are fine, but we need detailed data on the carbon fiber composite laying of your aircraft and input it into the fully automatic silk laying machine before we can proceed to the next step."
"I'll arrange this!" Gao Wei could start working, and ask someone to transfer data to input it into the machine.
"Mr. Zhang, I'm very curious. How large is the carbon fiber composite laying layer this machine can make at a time?" Anderson took the opportunity to inquire about the other party's information.
Zhang Ming said: "As long as the raw materials are sufficient, the size should be as big as possible!"
"This is impossible!" Anderson shook his head repeatedly and said, "Mr. Zhang, don't joke. I know this very well. As far as I know, the current hand-machine carbon fiber composite laying technology of Huaxia Commercial Aircraft Company can only complete small-volume laying like the beam wing of the aircraft."
"If it is a carbon fiber composite laying on the wing and fuselage, we still need to provide it with Honeywell International. Even if we are, we dare not say that there is infinite volume."
"High-performance, complex curved carbon fiber composite materials cannot have any flaws in the manufacturing process. The aircraft is a strict whole. From materials to systems, as long as there are problems on one hand, it will affect the overall performance."
Zhang Ming had a plain expression and said, "Of course I know that any change in the shape or weight of a tiny component will affect the torque balance and multiple parameters of the entire aircraft, and all counterweights may need to be overturned and started over again!"
"The most important thing about using carbon fiber composites is to make the aircraft lighter, which is where it is better than titanium alloys in some areas."
"So in addition to designing carbon fiber composite materials with better performance, we also used the most advanced intelligent algorithms in the setting of the wire laying machine. Each curved surface and every small detail are perfected. With our precision machine technology, it is enough to complete the laying of large-volume carbon fiber composite materials."
"Today we can start making composite layings of wings directly!"
"Start the wings directly!" Not to mention Anderson, even researchers from the Institute of Aeronautical Materials were shocked.
To make large-volume laying of carbon fiber composite materials for the wings, they have to do multiple tasks over and over again, saying less than a few months. If there are problems with the material or defects in the manufacturing process, it will take a few more months!
The Hongxin Group's team, which has been here for less than 24 hours, has to start manufacturing composite material laying for the wings. This is too exaggerated! If they follow their production efficiency, wouldn't they be able to produce aircraft on the factory assembly line?
This is not a private small plane, but a commercial large plane! The technical difficulty and work complexity are not the same concept!
"If you can directly manufacture composite material laying for the wings today, Mr. Peng, you can permanently remove carbon fiber composite material from our company's material purchase order!" Anderson felt that the other party was too arrogant!
During the negotiation and display process, he has been putting pressure on him, and he has to show the confidence and strength of Honeywell International as an international aviation materials giant technology company!
"Then let's wait and see!" Zhang Ming finished speaking and started working.
No matter how good the machine is, it must be strictly debugged and calculated.
Peng Zhengge, Gao Wei and others are all waiting. If they can take this step, it will be of great significance to them. Now Huaxia Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Company plans to match domestic materials and parts of their commercial large aircraft to 50%. The proportion of carbon fiber composite materials in new large aircraft is as high as 20%!
This will be an important step for them to get rid of their dependence on air technology companies in other countries!
Anderson Foggs was also waiting. After more than an hour, Hongxin's team adjusted the machines and data and prepared to start production.
In the production workshop, a group of technicians were watching.
"Start!" Zhang Ming ordered the machine to start. On the display of the machine, a three-dimensional projection was projected, with the appearance of the simulated finished product. This part of the carbon fiber composite material laying will perfectly cover the wings, instead of titanium alloy and aluminum alloy, with stronger performance and lighter the weight of the aircraft.
Through projection, they can clearly see the manufacturing process of each part and make timely modifications to the errors.
Everyone was holding their breath and staring at every step of the machine. First, it was the synthesis of new carbon fiber composite materials. The carbon fiber material was made into a filament by the machine, and then it was like a weaving cloth, and then it was scattered into a thin layer!
This is completely different from the simple process of making clothes. These silks are nanoscale, with ten layers of carbon fiber composite laid, which may not be as thick as a cicada wing!
What they have to do is to repeatedly lay hundreds of layers! And also take into account the curved surface and weight ratio of the wings. No errors that exceed the error range are allowed, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted!
Chapter completed!