On the first day of class, Ding Wenjiang mainly talked to the students about the history of CAD application and the current situation abroad. He also talked about the application of computers in industry as the basis of precision manufacturing.
The students of Tianyang Yeyuan were full of energy. When they heard that they were learning the most advanced technology in the world, and then looked at the most advanced personal computers in front of them, they were collectively excited.
It seems that this road is not difficult, and the money has a long way to go!
CAD drawing is obviously easier than manual drawing. There are a large number of ready-made parts libraries in the software, and the parameters are adjustable. Even if the drawing is wrong, it can be easily modified without wasting a lot of time.
"Tell the students some good news." Mr. Ding deliberately revealed some information that was about to be made public in order to stimulate his enthusiasm for learning after class.
"Mr. Zhou of 'Shengguang Machinery' is drafting a document to increase the salary of all management and technical personnel in the company.
For example, for me, my monthly salary will be up to 2,000. But if you finish your studies and start working, your monthly income will not be less than 800."
In order to cope with inflation, wages increased significantly in the early 1990s. Zhou Qingfeng also took precautions and directly increased wages for employees.
The screams of "Wow" resounded repeatedly in the classroom, and a group of college students in their early twenties flushed with joy. This kind of income would allow them to directly enter the high-paying class.
This is equivalent to an annual income of more than 200,000 yuan in thirty years.
Ding Wenjiang looked at the students and smiled, took the handouts at hand and sighed secretly, and walked out of the electronic classroom.
Zhou Qingfeng wants to raise wages, doubling the wages of veteran experts and senior managers. At the same time, he wants to increase the wages of middle-level technicians by 50%.
This will definitely attract more talents to join, which is a good thing.
What Mr. Ding sighs about is not the salary increase. He knows that Zhou Qingfeng is rich and has seen Zhou Qingfeng's investment intensity, but he feels pressured by the tasks assigned by Zhou Qingfeng.
Returning to the teaching and research office, several middle-aged lecturers stood up and served Ding Wenjiang tea and water. These were brought by Lao Ding from his original unit and were the disciples he had trained over the past few decades.
The former state-owned units only paid four to five hundred for high-level professional titles. This amount of money is very high for ordinary people, but high-level talents can earn dozens of times as much as they go abroad.
Lay leaders also like to criticize scientific researchers, ask for money to buy computers, and go abroad for inspections and trips, which is quite lavish.
For scientific researchers, this is really like, 'If you don't leave me here, I will leave you somewhere. If you don't leave me everywhere, I will go to the Eighth Route Army.'
The state-owned factories are not picking up the slack, and wages cannot be paid, so why wait there to die?
In the past, there was no way out, and everyone was trapped in place, unable to move. Things are different now...
Lao Ding made a round of phone calls and brought to Tianyang the three or four middle-aged disciples he had trained over the years, plus a dozen young disciples.
He even took away many senior technicians with level four or above, who were involved in turning, grinding and milling, completely halting the production of the original unit.
When Lao Ding recruited people, everyone was still worried, fearing that if the future was not good, they would have to return to the original unit, which was really shameful.
When we arrived in Tianyang, the accommodation conditions were a bit poor because there was really no room to accommodate the sudden increase in employees. But the treatment given by Mr. Zhou was really nothing to say.
For example, there is a sand foundry worker in his fifties who has worked faithfully in the original factory for more than thirty years. He has superb sand casting skills and is an indispensable soul figure in mold production.
But it doesn’t matter if they are uneducated, the wages of experienced sand foundry workers are not as good as those of related workers who just joined the factory.
Sand casting work is too hard and tiring, the pollution is serious, the dust exceeds the standard, and lung disease is a common phenomenon. Most people are not willing to do it at all.
The old sand foundry worker arrived in Tianyang and was sent to the hospital for examination the same day. The next day, an unknown miraculous doctor came back to life and cured his lung disease that he had suffered for many years.
Not to mention the amount of money to be paid, not to mention taking care of family members' employment and children's schooling. Just the treatment of illness is enough to make the old workers work in Tianyang with all their heart.
People who jumped out of the fire pit inquired later and learned that the original factory, which could have lasted for a few years, went bankrupt and closed down half a year later. They all laughed happily.
There are so many experienced manpower, but everyone still frowns when facing the requirements issued by Zhou Qingfeng. Because the task is too difficult.
Lao Ding sat down behind his desk and asked several nearby lecturers: "How is the research on the new standards going?"
The lecturers are not young, the youngest is in their thirties. They are painstakingly studying the documentation of the CAD software. The more they think about it, the more advanced and reasonable they feel, but the more they think about it, the more difficult it becomes.
China's technological system was inherited from the Soviet Union, but now that it is "open", it has to turn around and learn from the West.
The West has a completely different set of technical standards, which are more in-depth and detailed. Their production system is turning to computers to take over. This is a set of disruptive innovations, and the old system is completely abandoned.
The team led by Lao Ding is faced with new materials, new technologies, and new processes. Everything is new.
Domestic engineering personnel used Soviet standards in their study and practice. Now in the 1990s, they were forced to turn to European and American standards, which is the famous ISO standard.
This involves all aspects of management, materials, and quality control. In particular, people's thinking must be completely reversed, otherwise it will be building a tower on sand and wasting all their efforts.
Are ISO standards good?
very good!
But whether it can be used or not is another matter.
It’s not that technicians don’t want to use it, it’s just that reality has constraints.
Zhou Qingfeng chatted with the old consultants. Some of them came from the 640 Institute of Magic City. Some details were very revealing.
For example, the 'Yunshi' was designed by 640 in the 1970s, and it was very advanced at that time to use American Standard as the structural standard.
For example, the large forgings of the airframe are made of LC7 grade aluminum alloy, which is thin and light and can significantly reduce weight and improve aircraft performance.
But Rabbit only introduced technology in the 1980s, and it was only in the 1990s that the aluminum alloy material LC7 of the 1950s was developed. When the design of the 640 Institute was completed, the 5703 Factory responsible for manufacturing was dumbfounded.
The factory only has Soviet standard LC4 aluminum alloy. The large forgings on the drawings can only be changed into small forgings and welded together. The performance is not up to standard, the machine body is overweight, and the service life is extremely short.
If it were a military aircraft, the troops would have to pinch their noses to recognize it. But this is a civilian airliner, and such advanced design and brutal manufacturing will not work.
There are no shortcuts to technological development.
Propaganda often carries the slogan of "spend less, do more", but this kind of reckless behavior that does not follow scientific rules will inevitably be punished scientifically.
Now Lao Ding's team, and even all the consultant teams invited by 'Holy Light' are doing industrial planning for Zhou Qingfeng. But all smart brains have to face the laws of nature.
If foreign high standards are used, domestic factories, equipment, materials, and even personnel often cannot be used.
Considering the current domestic technology situation, it is definitely impossible to produce high-standard products.
Faced with this dilemma, China’s approach is to ‘import’.
Just like Baosteel in Shanghai, the entire production line is imported from Japan, and the personnel are sent to Nippon Steel for training. Even if the production line is completed, many consumables must be imported from Japan.
It all costs foreign exchange, and Japan has been a "fat sheep" that has been slaughtered for many years.
For Zhou Qingfeng, this road was immediately blocked. He did not have that much manpower and material resources to introduce foreign production lines, so he had to follow his own path.
‘Holy Light’ has recruited hundreds of senior engineering and technical personnel, but almost everyone asked Zhou Qingfeng the same question – what kind of technical route are we going to take?
Should we follow the old path? Or take the new path abroad?
We must take a new path.
But taking a new path without the support of a supporting industrial chain will be like fishing for the moon in the water, and it will only end in nothing.
"Can we create a set of temporary standards based on the current domestic technical level?"
Zhou Qingfeng also asked, "We don't seek perfection, so we can just use the engine casing as a test project. Is that okay?"
Develop your own set of more advanced standards to make do?
Everyone feels that Mr. Zhou is a bit whimsical. This workload is too large, time-consuming and labor-intensive. It requires a lot of research and testing, which cannot be done by hundreds of people.
Everyone still shook their heads, "Mr. Zhou, isn't it possible to use the local method? It won't work, it really won't work!"