1747 Chinese Aviation Manufacturing Thriving Under Internal and External Pressure
Under the leadership of Xiong Fengshang and others, Liu Yijiu visited the entire large aircraft factory in detail and in full. The large aircraft factory has been built for so many years. Even if Liu Yijiu started to support it, he had not seriously visited the entire aircraft manufacturing process for the entire aircraft factory.
Of course, this is just the process of assembly, and there is also production here, mainly the precision processing of aircraft engines and precision mechanism components.
Aircraft manufacturing is a very tedious process, and the entire production process is extremely huge. This is perhaps the most complex structure of human manufacturing and the most demanding of technology.
Various parts are assembled together to form a huge aircraft, especially ones that can be flew.
In the research and development of Yun-20, almost every company in China that can manufacture related parts has participated in it.
"We mainly make the core key parts of the engine, core structural parts of the aircraft and other products. Our precision processing factory has to process it on its own. So far, few domestic companies have such huge precision machining capabilities as we do." In the precision machining factory, watching various complex large parts piled up in the material storage area, and at the same time, many parts are placed in the processing areas of various equipment, Liu Yijiu spoke.
"We are not processing the blanks by ourselves, are we?" Liu Yijiu asked when he saw some large pieces of overall materials in the material warehouse.
According to the previous arrangement, most of their processing units have formulated production processes that can carry out outsourced processing, and they directly send processing orders to outsourced processing manufacturers. The rough processing, semi-finishing processing and other processes are handed over to the supporting outsourced processing factories.
Whether it is Factory 132 or Large Aircraft Manufacturing Factory, it is surrounded by various large and small outsourced supporting factories. Some of these outsourced supporting factories only have one equipment and three or two people. Many of them are people who have opinions on the company's management model and other aspects and have good processing and manufacturing technology, mainly technical workers who leave from Factory 132 or Large Aircraft Factory to go into business.
Larger scales have good relationships, either with funds or technology.
In particular, there are some other companies that set up supporting processing plants and processing workshops here, which has created a huge large aircraft manufacturing base.
These processing capabilities outside do not require the large aircraft factory to invest themselves, but the processing capabilities belong to large aircraft manufacturing plants. After all, all companies rely on large aircraft factories.
In such a situation, the people of the Management Committee are welcome and will not crack down on this model because there may be some problems here.
When he came, Liu Yijiu passed these supporting factory workshops and was a little surprised at the scale of development outside.
In this case, how could Liu Yijiu not be surprised to see that the material warehouse in the production and processing workshop is not processed as a whole part, but a huge blank?
Seeing Liu Yijiu questioning, Xiong Fengshang, the head of the large aircraft factory, took the initiative to speak without waiting for the person in charge of the precision machinery processing factory to answer, "Director Liu, these parts are not without outsourcing. We are the manufacturers that can be outsourcing for the most parts and processing processes that can be outsourcing for supporting the production. However, at present, there are some large parts with high material requirements and high requirements for equipment. The outsourcing supporting units do not have the huge technical capabilities of our own processing plants..."
"Rough processing and semi-finishing processing require very strong technical capabilities? We can do all kinds of CNC machine tools provided by our country, right?" Liu Yijiu is still very clear about domestic CNC machine tools.
The most top-level precision processing equipment may not be as good as foreign countries, and there should be no problem in producing and manufacturing these aircraft structural parts.
"There is indeed no problem. However, the price of CNC equipment that can process these large parts is very high, and it is often millions or even tens of millions per unit. Except for those relatively powerful supporting factories and ordinary machining units, they cannot afford such high equipment costs." The director of the precision factory explained bitterly to Liu Yijiu. "Our entire factory has been investing in over the years. The value of various CNC equipment combined is more than 500 million, which is not considered hidden assets such as technical workers..."
"In order to promote the use of CNC machine tools in China, our own Jiuyi Bank can not lend to these purchased units?" Liu Yijiu didn't remember some things, but it does not mean that everything was forgotten.
The Ninth Academy has huge funds. If these funds are only stored in the bank to earn interest, they are not in line with the development of the Ninth Academy. At the same time, they do not have much effect on promoting some domestic industries. Therefore, after the approval of the superior competent department, the Ninth Academy and the military jointly established a commercial bank. This bank was named Jiuyi Development Bank, which is mainly used to support industries related to the military system.
In this way, the interest on commercial loans was also obtained, and it also promoted the upgrading and development of the domestic basic processing technology system.
In terms of CNC machine tools, in order to promote it quickly, it is naturally the focus of the funds of Jiuyi Bank.
What's more, Jiuyi Bank also likes such a business. Every precision CNC machine tool manufactured by the CNC machine tool factory under the Jiuyuan has a positioning device. At the same time, the operating system has a preset program. The monthly loan unit must repay the loan before obtaining the system unlock code for the next month, or use the satellite network system to unlock it remotely through the CNC machine tool company. If it does not repay, the code cannot be obtained. At the time, the entire device will naturally be unable to be used and cannot be operated at all.
This forces loan processing companies to repay on time.
In this mode, how can there be a problem that the processing unit cannot afford CNC equipment?
"My Director Liu, our loan is only for ordinary CNC processing equipment, super precision and large-scale machining centers and other mechanical equipment. They were originally only used in large enterprises, especially military processing units. These units have money. Even if they don't have money, as long as they have such a plan, they can get funds. So they naturally won't and cannot get loans from our Ninth Hospital. The funds from state-owned enterprises are not so easy to collect..." Xiong Fengshang looked bitter.
Liu Yijiu knew that these things were normal.
This regulation seems to be what I proposed back then?
"We need to think of a solution, so that we can only continue to expand our production scale by ourselves." Liu Yijiu said.
"It's true. If we have sufficient funds, we will choose some companies with larger production scales and better cooperation with us to cooperate and help them build some equipment..." The person in charge of the precision factory said to Liu Yijiu.
Xiong Fengshang secretly gave the factory manager a thumbs up.
This is asking for money from Liu Yijiu.
Liu Yijiu did not answer, but walked forward.
In the precision machinery processing factory, a workshop originally set up by technical backbones drawn from the third district of the Jiuyuan Base for the purpose of producing engines has become quite large after more than ten years of development. In the entire workshop, except for a few top-level ordinary machining machine tools with high precision, most of them are CNC machine tools.
Small CNC machine tools are neatly arranged in a huge workshop, and there is no such situation in a large structural parts processing workshop. A workshop that is hundreds of meters long and dozens of meters wide may be occupied by three or five large CNC machine tools.
There is no such crowded scene in many workshops.
This is the case for technology-intensive enterprises. There are many equipment and relatively few people. In the empty factory buildings, it seems that there are too few people.
In this case, in order to better produce and improve efficiency, there are many more automation devices than in other factories. This is also an experimental platform for the intelligent production of the Ninth Hospital.
From raw materials to mechanical processing, to heat treatment, surface treatment, and finally into the assembly process, a huge number of parts became an advanced aircraft. Liu Yijiu spent two days to visit this process.
Especially in the assembly workshop, more than ten huge YTT aircraft lined up in the open workshop, and various auxiliary equipment was around, even if the aircraft that had begun to be formed, it looked extremely shocking.
In the huge workshop, there are actually very few people assembled.
"In fifteen years, it is very difficult for us to develop from a blank space to the present level. However, this is not enough! We need a larger production and assembly workshop, and we need more orders. Only in this way can our large aircraft business catch up and catch up with the United States and the former Soviet Union. I believe that with the joint efforts of all of us, we will let a huge aircraft like An-224 go out of our assembly workshop..." Liu Yijiu stood at the highest point in the assembly workshop where the entire workshop could see the panoramic view of the entire workshop, and said proudly.
Under the current circumstances, an aircraft like the An-224 can be said to be the limit of human manufacturing, but China does not have the ability to design and manufacture it.
Even the Twenty Years of the Year has been completely finalized so far.
The foreign aircraft industry has been developing for more than 80 years, and China started from a blank level when other people's planes were able to fly intercontinental. Liu Yijiu is already very satisfied with the current situation.
"Director Liu, that day will not be too far away." Ma Fengshan assured Liu Yijiu.
This is the most powerful chief aircraft in China. He is in good health and is full of energy every day.
"Yes, although the test flight of Yun-20 has not been carried out and has not been finalized, our next generation of large aircraft has begun to take shape. It will have higher speeds, longer ranges, larger load capacity, and lower operating costs." Xiong Fengshang also added to Liu Yijiu.
Liu Yijiu just nodded.
There was no surprise, "This shows that we have accumulated enough experience in the past fifteen years and have improved the basic supporting facilities and other aspects. In this case, larger and more advanced aircraft is not difficult. However, I hope everyone will not set their goals too high, chase Europe and the United States step by step, and surpass them."
Xiong Fengshang and others mean that they obviously hope to obtain project funding for new projects in advance.
Before, Liu Yijiu might have agreed, but now he doesn't. The Ninth Academy's funding is not much, and it is impossible to guarantee whether the military will agree. He is too lazy to convince the military, and there is no need to raise it. If he wants to survive in the future market, he must keep improving and making breakthroughs.
"McDonnell was acquired by Boeing. Now the only suppliers of civil aviation passenger aircraft in the world are Boeing and Airbus. These two companies are both giants. It is not easy for us to reach their level... "Bear Storm reminded Liu Yijiu.
The European Airbus Company started at the same time as China's Y-10 project, but now it has developed to the point where it can run side by side with Boeing.
This is a strange thing for Chinese civil aviation aircraft personnel to have no pressure.
Liu Yijiu was not surprised by Boeing's acquisition of McDonald's company. McDonald entered the Chinese market and almost made Yunshi die. Liu Yijiu was so angry that Tu Sen had produced hundreds of Yunshi so far. This result is already quite large, but compared with Airbus that started almost at the same time in Europe, it is not on the same level as the same magnitude.
"There is no need to envy them. We are completely different from Airbus. Everyone knows this. Airbus was created by the United Kingdom, France and Germany. It is a unit that has consumed the entire European aviation manufacturing resources. With the order support from European countries, Airbus can develop so quickly. Europe is originally developed countries, with people's living standards, and it is normal to choose aircraft for travel, which has created a huge market demand. Our country has just solved the problem of food and clothing, but now there are more people who are becoming rich. The market demand for the aviation industry is growing rapidly, and domestic flights are also increasing rapidly. You can imagine how many planes it takes if each city in our country opens flights like Europe and the United States... If we also open direct flights to each country, how many planes it needs. The question is whether we can hold on our own domestic market and grab a part of the foreign market from Airbus and Boeing..." Everyone can understand this.
Airbus and Boeing, two airlines, almost occupy the vast majority of civil aviation orders in the world, forcing other aircraft manufacturing companies to either go bankrupt and be acquired by them, or transform and withdraw from the civil aviation market.
Chapter completed!