Chapter 1346 "Assembly Machine"

To make an airplane, it is actually the same industrial process as making a laptop or a mobile phone.

When there is a successful product, building an aircraft is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Follow the diagram and piece it together slowly.

Of course, the scale of this puzzle is very large, and it is extremely difficult to put it together. There are millions of parts of different models, and even these parts have different processes, numbers, and materials, but they are assembled into various flat shapes. part.

Fuselage, wings, tail, engine, cockpit... and other components.

Although an aircraft is usually divided into five parts: fuselage, wings, tail, landing gear and power plant, in actual construction, the aircraft is so large that each part will be disassembled.

For example, the fuselage of an aircraft will be decomposed by engineers into several major parts such as the nose, front fuselage, middle fuselage, middle and rear fuselage, front section of the rear fuselage, rear section of the rear fuselage, and door. Each large component will be broken down into small components by the responsible team, and each component has corresponding processes for manufacturing and protection.

The tail also includes a vertical tail and a horizontal tail. Under normal circumstances, aircraft manufacturing companies will hand over these tails to different manufacturers for manufacturing, and then send them to the final assembly factory for assembly, but Jiuzhou Technology's smart manufacturing factory can make up for this shortcoming.

Because each tail wing can be produced and manufactured to the extent that "no one" knows about it. After all, in the beginning, it is impossible for designers to be sure that the tail wing they design will be manufactured.

And after these steps are simplified, they are just the process of aircraft manufacturing, and they only refer to the process of manufacturing aircraft according to design requirements.

It only refers to the manufacturing of airframe components, assembly of components and final assembly of the entire aircraft, and does not involve other parts of the aircraft.

Other important parts of the aircraft, such as aero engines, airborne equipment, hydraulic systems and other equipment, if it is Blue Star's other aircraft companies, these parts will be developed and manufactured by other excellent company factories around the world.

After the manufacturing is successful, these parts are placed on the already built aircraft frame for installation.

"From process preparation, to equipment manufacturing, parts manufacturing, partial assembly, final assembly, inspection and testing, and final assembly off the line. Perhaps in today's world, only our company is so weird that we can produce and install all aircraft parts, and then Let's get it into a wind tunnel and test it.

If something goes wrong, the loss will be more than hundreds of millions.

We will also need to check the parts and components later, hoping that there will be no major problems with the seals, otherwise it will be too troublesome. "

Luo Yongshan, chief engineer of Jiuzhou Science and Technology's Zhuyue Starship Project, said with a solemn expression.

While Gu Qing listened to what this mature and prudent academician said, he nodded with deep feeling and replied: "Design, research and development, and manufacturing according to traditional processes involve not only materials science, bionics, fluid mechanics, Dynamics, physics, mathematics and dozens of other subjects.

Moreover, the things used in aircraft manufacturing are different from the coordination technology and large amounts of process equipment used in general mechanical manufacturing to ensure that the aircraft being manufactured has an accurate shape, and then a large number of various special equipment required in the aircraft production process are manufactured according to different types of aircraft. Molds and special manufacturing tools.

But we have a simulation laboratory of Lingjing Ecology. Now 90% of physics-related experiments at Jiuzhou Technology will be tested in this simulation laboratory, allowing intelligent program AI and supercomputing to be used for these tests. Trillions of experiments were conducted to find errors that have a very low probability under normal usage environments.

Moreover, these experiments will be followed by real experiments after the virtual experiments. All detailed data of each real experiment will be fed back to the experimental server of Lingjing Ecology.

At the same time, there is also an intelligent program AI Tiangong to assist, allowing these data to be highly unified and matched.

So what we are conducting now is the largest experiment in which virtuality crosses reality. If we can completely match the level of real experiments by relying only on virtual experiments, then all our experiments related to machinery and physics at Blue Star will save more than 60% in the future. Material resources. "

After hearing Gu Qing's words, Luo Yongshan, the engineer of the Moon Starship, also sighed.

“Yes, when virtuality and reality can communicate with each other from the perspective of experimental science, then this virtual world will soon become the second world of us humans.

The spiritual realm is making the vision of our predecessors a reality. I didn’t expect that our generation would be able to see it. "

Because he is the chief engineer of the Moon Starship project, Rayong Shan knows more than ordinary people.

As long as the so-called virtual laboratory can really complete the wind tunnel test of the finished product of the project that this laboratory is fully responsible for, then Jiuzhou Technology will be able to start a true unmanned manufacturing mode.

In the actual aircraft manufacturing process of other Guo Jiahe organizations, a set of manufactured parts must first be assembled into relatively simple structural parts, such as wing spars, wing ribs, and bulkheads.

The structural parts and a set of parts are then assembled into large and complex components such as wings, vertical stabilizers, and noses.

After the component assembly is completed, the complete aircraft frame is assembled according to the requirements of the aircraft engineer. The laying of the engine, landing gear, cables and conduits of each system, and the installation of antennas and accessories are all in place one after another.

On an assembly platform in the wind tunnel, cargo compartments carried by trucks were transported here, and then mechanical claws opened these cargo compartments to reveal the aircraft parts inside.

Then, the engineering robots and other machines and equipment began to disassemble and install, and there were large mechanical arms with a diameter of several meters in the air, helping these robots and equipment to assemble and manufacture the aircraft.

At the same time, there were countless sensors working all the time, and detection and testing were carried out throughout the entire manufacturing and assembly process.

Under the control of these mechanical creations, parts were assembled and placed one by one, just like playing with building blocks, and an aircraft soon appeared on the platform.

The flat forward-swept wing design, the total length of the fuselage is 27 meters, the wingspan is 15 meters, there is a very sci-fi cockpit, as well as mounted missile weapons, hidden weapon bays, and the fuselage has a special paint job with colorful colors.

It looks like a game console, more like a so-called fighter.

When this plane was assembled, some staff and engineering robots came on stage together to sort out the equipment and cargo warehouse.

Everyone looked serious, for fear of seeing extra screws on the ground.

In this special case, the engineering robots all lowered their heads.