Take Off My Aviation Era

It is not only Schumann and others' assistants and staff who feel this way, that is, they themselves also feel that the separation of Caigang twice is like two eras.

If everything behind them represents the industrial history thirty years ago, then the scene in front of them can announce the future of industrial manufacturing without exaggeration.

There are less than ten people in the huge production area, but even so, these people are not directly involved in the production and processing, but more are maintenance personnel who are responsible for monitoring the operation of the equipment, adjusting the procedures, and handling failures.

Who is responsible for the production?

Naturally, there are a series of strong and flexible mechanical arms, a series of automatic processing machines, a series of reciprocating suspension transport vehicles...

"This is a complete set of automatic processing area for the drilling and riveting of the main load-bearing structure and the skin of the helicopter. It consists of six automatic drilling robot arms, four automatic riveting robot arms, two automatic skin riveting machines and eight suspension vehicles. The composition, in conjunction with the flexible tooling equipment developed by our group, can realize about 65% of the helicopter's main load-bearing structure and the automatic drilling and riveting process of the skin."

When everyone was amazed at the production scene that looked like a sci-fi world, Wu Ping, who had been behind Zhuang Jianye, spoke slowly under Zhuang Jianye’s instruction. After the translator turned the words into words that Schumann and others could understand, they couldn’t help but eat. Surprised.

It should be understood that helicopters are different from other aircrafts. Due to their special flying methods, their structure is more complicated and the materials used are even higher. Because of this, the degree of automation of helicopter drilling and riveting is generally low.

Especially riveting, in many places, workers can only do it manually.

It's not that I don't want to use automated equipment to complete it, but because of the different thickness of titanium alloy structural parts of the helicopter, as well as the honeycomb structure, carbon fiber and other composite materials and other materials in the riveting process, different materials have different properties and stress For various reasons, automatic riveting equipment with a single program cannot be used.

Coupled with the lack of professional flexible tooling equipment, let alone ordinary aircraft manufacturers, the penetration rate of automation in drilling and riveting processes by helicopter giants such as Bell and Sikorsky in the United States will reach 50%. Most of the remaining has to be artificial.

However, the drilling and riveting process in the helicopter assembly workshop in Xiangzhou has achieved a 65% automation rate.

To be honest, if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, one of the foreigners present could not believe this data was true.

Especially Schumann, as an expert in helicopter maintenance, not to mention all the helicopter manufacturers in the world have seen it, but 80% have seen it carefully, especially the Soviet and American helicopter manufacturers, Schumann has made great efforts. I have studied, but none of them can have the high level of automation rate of Xiangzhou Helicopter Assembly Plant in terms of drilling and riveting process.

Suddenly suspicious, how can China, which is generally backward in the production of aircraft and shipbuilding, overtake the Soviet Union and the United States? Isn't it scientific at all?

Others can be said to be a dead duck mouth, but Schumann is an expert in this area, because others don’t know it, but he knows that the drilling and riveting process in helicopter production is not easy, and drilling is relatively good. Electric sparks, water cutting, lasers, electron beams... As long as you put in your mind, there is always a way to do it.

But riveting is not possible, which is not good. This process is to use brute force to flatten the rivets to fix the plates and components.

Of course, this process is very particular. After all, the strength used for riveting of different materials is different. Otherwise, the rivet will be beaten down, and the surrounding plate will be dry if it is cracked?

So what rivets are used for different materials, what force is used, where the force is applied, how to control... are all knowledge, not a senior skilled worker who has been working in this type of work for more than ten years, and simply can't play this business.

Since it is an experience-based process, you can imagine how difficult it is to automate.

This is like a top chef. With the same ingredients, the chef’s dishes are delicious, because his experience is there. How much oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are put in, how to put it, and when to put it, it’s only conceivable. explain in words.

This is why the same dish can’t be cooked by one person, and mass production is even more difficult.

The drilling and riveting of a helicopter is the same, and in some respects it is several times more difficult than a chef's cooking.

If this were other places, Schumann’s pure-bred Germanic urinary **** would have long opened his mouth and pointed out the inoperability directly. The problem is that at this moment he is in the Xiangzhou factory under the Ascendas Group, and he wants to curry favor. Zhuang Jianye stood not far away and watched them all kinds of surprises and surprises quietly, seemingly enjoying them.

Schumann was upright, loyal, and Zhuang Jianye had to throw all this into the garbage, so Schumann was wise not to speak, but squinted to observe the details.

That attitude is obvious. I can say nothing, but I must be thorough in my mind, otherwise Ascendas will use this set to tell them about Leipzig. I also know the details?

With this in mind, Schumann can take it more seriously. A few robotic arms responsible for automatic drilling are no big deal. They also have them in the Leipzig repair shop, and even two of them are the same model as the one in front of them. It is produced by a German company.

Flexible tooling equipment is pretty good. In this regard, Germany is weaker~www.readwn.com~The United States is more expensive, and it is said that we must not import some from Ascendas Group.

Just watching and evaluating like this, Schumann soon came to the riveting processing area. The two robotic arms that were brought into view were still the same models in their repair shop. Seeing Schumann was a little lacking in interest. The core machinery The arms are all imported from Germany, so it seems that the so-called automatic riveting is nothing more than that.

Thinking in his heart, Schumann was about to go around to see what happened to the two riveting machines at the back. At this moment, the two robotic arms that he could not put such a label on turned quickly, and just put them down from the trolley The two sides of the fixed board were straightened, and then "sud~~~~" rang.

Hearing this voice, Schumann, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped, and then the voice of "Sudden~~~~~~~" became clearer. Schumann's brows suddenly jumped and he immediately turned his head to look at the two. When the robotic arm was running, I discovered that the tips of the two robotic arms that were doing the riveting process seemed to be different from the riveting tools I knew.

The sound is very small, the speed is fast, and the forming rate is very high, especially the unique cable and capacitor structure. After just a few glances, Schumann's eyes are like seeing the natural world, and they start to open uncontrollably. He stretched his finger at the moving robotic arm, and shook his mouth and shouted: "This...this...this...this is only used by fighters and bombers...used...stress wave riveting!"