pdf-ebookys #412 - Power reserve
#412 - Power reserve
"This is our tank engine workshop. Currently, we produce two types of tank engines. One is a low-power version modified from the GAA V8 engine core, the MD-500 gasoline engine. It weighs 30% less than the original GAA V8, and the output power remains basically unchanged, reaching a maximum of 500 horsepower. This is produced for the ZB55 infantry fighting vehicle. The other is a high-power version, the MD-720 gasoline engine, which has optimized and increased the maximum output power per cylinder, with a total output power of 720 horsepower. This is produced for the Dragon Tank IIA model," Zhao Tianbao said, leading Ren Zhong into the first workshop.
Inside, gasoline engines flowed along the assembly line, which looked quite spectacular.
"How is the quality of cylinder liners, bearings, and gearboxes now?" Ren Zhong asked.
Although Taiyuan Heavy Industry's power branch is one of the major engine assembly plants in China, not every part is produced by itself. A gasoline engine has hundreds of parts, and most of them are provided by parts manufacturers in the industrial chain.
Taiyuan Heavy Industry mainly produces large parts such as cylinder blocks and assembly.
"The quality inspection pass rate of parts is still good, maintained above 98%. We use a full inspection method, and all unqualified products are returned," Zhao Tianbao said. "Now that there are unified production acceptance standards, everyone's testing work before leaving the factory has also been greatly enhanced, from 95% in the past to 98%."
"This seems not enough. For important parts such as piston rods, flywheel crankshafts, transmission mechanism components, and camshafts, we must station inspectors at the production plant to check the raw material supply and production line process of the manufacturer, and not let quality problems remain from the source," Ren Zhong nodded and instructed Zhao Tianbao and the others. "A 98% pass rate is not the limit. In the future, we require more than 99.95%. The current difference shows that there are still signs of water release in the testing process by the manufacturer. With the same testing equipment and the same testing standards, there should not be so many defective products."
Standardization and quality standards have been implemented very early, starting with the first five-year plan, and the standard requirements are updated every two years. In Ren Zhong's view, nothing saves costs more than quality improvement, so from the early days in Yangcun, he consciously instilled the concept of quality first.
For example, quality management, he learned the thinking and methods of comprehensive quality management from the main world and introduced it into this Bright Sword world.
This has allowed the quality control of Dongda's large industrial production to avoid many detours.
"Yes, teacher, we have written it down," Zhao Tianbao said while instructing his office director to write it down quickly.
"I will give you a booklet on these knowledges later. The concepts and basic methods are all inside, but how to actually implement them and achieve results must be summarized and refined after you seriously implement them. After half a year, you summarize it yourself. If you have achieved results, promote it throughout the industry; if there are no results, honestly go to advanced factories to learn more!" Ren Zhong's purpose today, in addition to conducting on-site inspections to understand the latest level, another purpose is to improve the quality awareness and methods on the basis of ISO.
Now it's just taking this opportunity to beat and beat.
After all, the power plant of Taiyuan Heavy Industry is already a national excellent factory.
The tank power has been re-optimized and designed on the basis of the legendary GAA V8, and now three products have been formed. In the short term, this is enough. The power from the main battle tank to the chariot and self-propelled artillery has been solved.
However, gasoline engines are not the mainstream direction of tank power development. Next, it will be transformed into diesel engines.
Taiyuan Heavy Industry's power branch also has diesel engines. The 6K13-500 6-cylinder diesel engine with the largest output power currently produced has reached a maximum level of 500 horsepower, which is almost catching up with the legendary GAA V8.
The latest developed 6-cylinder diesel engine 6K13-600 aims to reach 600 horsepower, and the planned research on the strongest 840 horsepower 6K17-840 has obtained the original design size data.
These are mainly prepared for heavy trucks and 6X4 tractors, as well as large buses and other large vehicles. The prototypes come from several major diesel engine manufacturers in the main world, such as Weichai, Yuchai, and United Power.
Back in the main world, it is not difficult for Ren Zhong to buy these mass-produced diesel engines, but it is very difficult to realize the turbocharged version now. The difficulties of diesel engine turbocharging technology mainly include high failure rate, high maintenance cost, poor stability of power output, poor handling, low durability, energy efficiency loss, engine durability problems, increased cost, and safety hazards.
It can be said that except for increasing the maximum output power, all other aspects are shortcomings.
In the main world, these are all difficult problems, but for the world of "Bright Sword", these problems are even more serious.
Even with the original design dimensions, manufacturing them to achieve stable output becomes more troublesome as the power increases.
It's no less technically challenging than using the Legendary GAA V8 to modify a new version. Only after the diesel engine achieves 600 horsepower can the tanks and vehicles in the Bright Sword world start replacing their engines.
However, Ren Zhong was very satisfied with the high-power power aspect. After all, in the Bright Sword world, a 500-horsepower engine is already considered leading-edge.
"For high-power engines, just produce according to the plan. The quantity won't be too large. The demand for tanks has already been reduced. Future demand will mainly come from trucks and large buses. Next, you need to work closely with truck and bus manufacturers, paying attention to customizing the engines to better match our heavy trucks and large bus applications, especially in terms of maintenance-free mileage. The overhaul time should be at least 200,000 kilometers."
Ren Zhong saw that the situation on-site was basically consistent with the report he had seen, and he was very satisfied with Zhao Tianbao's work.
"Next, Taiyuan Heavy Industry's power plant is going to undergo a big change, Tianbao, you need to be mentally prepared."
"Ah, Teacher, what kind of change?" Zhao Tianbao was a little surprised. He really hadn't heard any rumors about this.
"It's a good thing." Ren Zhong glanced at Zhao Tianbao, but didn't elaborate. "At least for you, it's a great thing."
Instead, he walked into the workshop for small and medium-sized diesel engines.
"We currently produce more than twenty types of diesel engines, ranging from single-cylinder, twin-cylinder, three-cylinder, to four-cylinder. This is currently our main product, with an annual output of over 50,000 units. From agricultural machinery power of more than ten horsepower to small and medium-sized truck power of more than 100 horsepower, and tractor power, we can now provide very good supporting services." Speaking of this, Zhao Tianbao was quite proud.
After all, the largest power plant in the country is actually supported by these diesel engines.
"We now have 4 diesel engine branch factories, and our production capacity is undoubtedly the largest in the country."
"In terms of gasoline engines, we now also have 3 branch factories, with an annual output of more than 40,000 units."
After Ren Zhong inspected, he was very satisfied with the current assembly line status. As expected of someone managed by his direct student, the implementation of his production quality standards was very thorough. This can be seen from the qualified rate of the products leaving the factory, without any discounts.
"Tianbao, your current production capacity is far from enough. After a while, the Power Research Center will release two new automotive gasoline engines. The production capacity for the next 5 years should be on the scale of one million units or more. Now we need to layout the production capacity for this area."
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"Next, your branch factory will be independent and establish Northern United Power Co., Ltd. Based on the current branch factory, first expand the area in Taiyuan to more than 100 acres to build a new factory building. In the next three years, according to the second and third phases of expansion, build a production line with a capacity of 500,000 units. Next, United Power will expand its production bases to Jinling and Yangcheng, with a construction area of more than 100 acres respectively, preparing a space area for a capacity of 500,000 units. In the next five years, the capacity will be gradually expanded to more than 500,000 units according to the first, second, and third phases."
In the office, Zhao Tianbao's breathing became a little suffocated when he heard this news for the first time!
From 100,000 units to 1.5 million units all of a sudden!
What a leap this is! Although it is said that it will be expanded over 5 years, the size of this step has exceeded his imagination.
"Teacher, is the higher-ups starting a new round of preparations for war?" After a long silence, Zhao Tianbao recovered and asked weakly.
Apart from expanding the army and preparing for war, Zhao Tianbao couldn't think of any other reason to expand production capacity so much.
But with such a large quantity, is it going to be a nationwide preparation for war? Zhao Tianbao felt completely unprepared.
"Prepare for what war? This is for the large-scale mass production of civilian cars!" Ren Zhong shook his head when he realized that Zhao Tianbao had misunderstood. "We are going to make a large-scale breakthrough in the automotive industry next."
"Oh, is that so? Is it related to the four major automobile companies that were previously established independently?" Zhao Tianbao suddenly understood. "But our country's automobile production capacity can basically keep up with the growth of market demand. Can we consume such a large production capacity through exports?"
In front of his teacher, Zhao Tianbao was not embarrassed to ask anything, so he asked directly.
"We will launch 4 newly designed civilian car models for export. The main market is the automobile markets of European and American powers. Of course, domestic sales may also increase." Ren Zhong did not hide anything and briefly told Zhao Tianbao about the development plan of the automobile industry.
Only then did Zhao Tianbao realize that the higher-ups were playing a big game targeting the automobile industry, but did the step need to be so big?
Zhao Tianbao didn't have the ability to distinguish, but Ren Zhong had created countless miracles, and he only needed to blindly believe in Ren Zhong.
Moreover, everyone knows that Ren Zhong is the ultimate decision-maker behind the scenes when it comes to planning issues.
It's just that such a major task is weighing on his shoulders. Thinking of the heavy task of building three major bases, Zhao Tianbao felt a little scalp tingling. The current scale of workers for a production capacity of 100,000 units is already tens of thousands of people, and it's usually enough to give him a headache. If it expands to one million units or 1.5 million units in the future, wouldn't there be a scale of more than 100,000 people? This can be called a behemoth enterprise.
"Next, you don't need to worry about the infrastructure construction of the three major bases. Your task is to start increasing manpower in each position on the basis of the existing personnel to cultivate key talents for the new production line, to ensure that after the production capacity is expanded, there are sufficient personnel to take over the new production line and produce new types of engines according to the design.
In other words, what you will do in the future is talent cultivation and production management of the new factory."
After Ren Zhong finished talking about the requirements for Zhao Tianbao, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Only in this way will a large amount of work unrelated to production be reduced. For him, it is equivalent to the infinite replication of the production line, and Zhao Tianbao feels that he can still cope.
Thinking that he will be in charge of a super-large factory with the scale of a corps in the future, Zhao Tianbao is both apprehensive and proud.
For Ren Zhong, building this kind of super factory is not too out of line. Letting Zhao Tianbao continue to cultivate talents and take over the management of the production line, the most important thing is that he recognizes that the management model here is basically close to the modern production line management in his mind. Replicating it with a manager with Zhao Tianbao's military qualities can maintain maximum consistency and is easier to pass on successful production management experience than starting from scratch and building a new one.
The development of the automobile industry is imperative, and building good infrastructure now will not be a waste at all.