Chapter 110 High Precision Machine Tools (First Order Request)

October 2nd.

Wei Ming, who had an engagement ring on his left ring finger, went to work at Black Hole Technology Company.

In fact, he didn't want to go to work. He planned to spend another night at Xu's house and keep up his efforts to win Xu Chuxia's first time.

He almost succeeded last night. At the last critical moment, he didn't expect that his aunt would have her last day.

Wei Ming said that he could wait another day, and he could wait for one day.

Unexpectedly, Xu Chuxia disappeared this morning. Sister Xu told him that Chuxia had to go to the imperial capital for something and would be back in two days, so that he did not have to worry or misunderstand.

grass!

Wei Ming felt fucked up in his heart.

It must be the behind-the-scenes boss who did it. Even if he didn't come to attend his daughter's engagement ceremony, he even called her to the imperial capital and asked him to stay alone in the empty room. How...

Forget it, he is the prospective father-in-law after all, so he should keep his mouth shut.

Go to work, go to work.

Only by being busy can you avoid being burned by desire. A virgin's concentration is so poor.

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Black Hole Technology Company, Factory Three.

This is the latest "high-precision machine tool" factory to be established. In recent days, it is recruiting a large number of research talents in machine tools.

Because Wei Ming discovered that if he relied on his "god-level polishing" to solve the problem of EUV lithography machine parts, even if he came to the factory to work every working day, he could only satisfy about 10 Tyrannosauruses throughout the year. EUV needs.

In order for the lithography machine factory to achieve the mass production capacity of 20 Tyrannosaurus EUVs per year, it would have to work overtime every day and polish parts for hundreds of hours every week.

This is obviously not possible.

In industrialized mass production, one cannot rely on him to work overtime every day to solve problems.

Machine problems can only be solved by machines.

He said to Zhu Guangji, the person in charge of the high-precision machine tool factory, an old engineer who was over fifty and had a skinny build. He had worked in machine tool research and development for nearly thirty years at a well-known state-owned machine tool company: "Mr. Zhu, if the Tyrannosaurus EUV If the precision technology in our project is applied to the 'Phoenix' machine tool, can it increase the self-sufficiency rate of Tyrannosaurus EUV parts from 50% to more than 80% without my help? "

"It's definitely more than 80%."

Zhu Guangji wrinkled his face and said: "As long as the 'Phoenix' machine tool has the precision of Tyrannosaurus EUV, the photolithography machine factory's parts self-sufficiency rate can reach at least 99%, or even 100%, without the need for manual processing."

"Are you sure you really don't need it?"

Wei Ming was confused: "It is said that the pot cover lenses in Esmed's EUV are hand-polished by the old craftsmen of Caisi Company. Each one has more than 20 years of work experience. There is no such thing in our country." A few such old craftsmen.”

"This is a bit of a rumor."

Zhu Guangji shook his head and said: "If such advanced equipment as a photolithography machine relies on the polishing skills of a few old craftsmen, then there is no need to design and manufacture it at all, because such a production method is unstable."

"In fact, even the most difficult-to-process 'pot lid lens' is first processed to a certain extent using a machine tool. In order to improve the accuracy, it is finally processed by craftsmen manually. It is just to complete the final finishing work. If it is made from a complete piece If the glass starts to be polished, EUV will never be produced.”

“Machine tools account for 99% of the credit, and craftsmen at most 1%. Esmed’s EUV output has increased significantly in the past two years, which shows that Western machine tools have higher processing accuracy and are free of dependence on craftsmen, so they can achieve mass production. "

"I see."

Wei Ming nodded: "In other words, Esmed's leadership in EUV lithography machines is mainly based on the leadership of machine tools, not craftsmen."

"That's right."

Zhu Guangji said: "I have been working in the machine tool industry for more than 30 years. This industry is the same as the chip industry. The gap between us and the West is not getting smaller and smaller, but getting wider and wider, especially in the field of high-end machine tools. Twenty years ago, the machining accuracy of high-end Western machine tools was generally 0.1 micron (1 micron). Our high-end machine tools were about the same. But now, Western high-end machine tools can generally achieve 0.01 micron, and even the most powerful ones can reach 0.01 millimeter. A trace (10 nanometers), or even an exaggerated ten thousandth of a trace (1 nanometer), but we are still about 0.1 nanometers, almost standing still. "

"Standing still for twenty years?"

How can this be?

Wei Ming frowned and said, "Is there no one going to change this situation?"

"Of course some people want to change the status quo. I have asked the factory more than once to increase research and development efforts to conquer high-end machine tools. The factory leaders did approve some money to support us in conquering machine tools with one-thousandth of a thread precision. But today's leader It's useless to approve a little money if the leader doesn't give it tomorrow. The research and development funding for a high-end machine tool is at least 2 billion and it will take more than ten years. It won't work without firm and lasting support!"

Zhu Guangji said: "And like photolithography machines, the market size of high-end machine tools is small and has a long service life. It is common to buy a machine tool that can be used for thirty or fifty years, and it can be seen in many old factories. Machine tools from a hundred years ago are still usable, even better as they get older.”

"Finally, unlike other fields where the West is only allowed to sell products that are one or two generations behind, in the field of machine tools, the West is allowed to export machine tools that are one level ahead in precision, and the price is not particularly expensive. As long as we make a breakthrough, we will immediately reduce prices and let go For higher-precision machine tools, those factories that purchase machine tools, in order to pursue the stability of the machine tools, will still give priority to foreign machine tools, not domestic ones, even if imported machine tools are more expensive.”

"That is to say, due to the restrictions of various factors, our high-end machine tools have never been able to develop, and we can only eat the low-end market with meager profits. Considering the high R&D expenses, there are slowly few domestic machine tool factories. They are willing to do thankless things and live in comfort. They don’t even notice that the gap between high-end machine tools is getting wider and wider. It is so big that it affects the development of the country’s high-precision technology and becomes a bottleneck and ceiling that is difficult to break through. …”

When talking about the latter part, Zhu Guangji shook his head repeatedly, feeling sad!

Everyone has heard this truth countless times: live in sorrow and die in happiness!

Just because foreign countries allow the export of high-end machine tools, we cannot stop developing in this field. Machine tools are the foundation of a country’s industrial strength and the upper limit of a country’s scientific and technological potential. This cannot be overemphasized.

However, others may speak softly, and no matter how loudly they appeal, they cannot change the minds of the leaders.

Now it's better. The once-famous state-owned machine tool factory went bankrupt. He was completely disheartened and planned to retire early. After seeing the Black Hole Technology Company, which manufactured the Tyrannosaurus EUV, extended an olive branch to him.

The fire that had gone out in his heart was rekindled.

He quickly gathered a force, integrated a team, and recruited many frustrated people like himself to form the current research and development team of the "Phoenix" machine tool. Although there are many gray-haired people in their fifties. , but he is definitely a capable soldier.

"Short-sighted, a vicious cycle."

Wei Ming shook his head and said to Zhu Guangji: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhu, this kind of thing will not happen in my company. There are unlimited funds and unlimited resources! I will personally check this project and strive to complete it within half... uh, a year." , create an industrial machine with a processing accuracy of 1 nanometer!”

He wanted to say within half a year, but he was afraid that Zhu Gong would think he was impetuous, so he said a little longer. In fact, he thought that within half a year would be no problem, after all, he had Xiao Hei.

"well!"

Zhu Guangji clapped his hands, his face flushed with excitement: "With Mr. Wei joining us, our 'Phoenix' machine tool project will definitely succeed!"

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