Chapter 222 Special Celebration and Toshiba Incident

After hanging up the phone, Li Xiaofan hugged Tang Xinyi excitedly and kissed her hard. Tang Xinyi almost suffocated with this enthusiasm.

"Honey, why are you so excited?"

"Just now, Mike from Arco Department Store in the United States called and said that he has confirmed our company's first order! Xinyi, do you know how significant this is? This is the first time in the history of our Yifan company to directly supply to an American supermarket chain. The order has ten categories and the amount is US$520,000. If there is no problem with this order, we may have a gross profit of about US$150,000!”

The price of the seven-piece set of microwave lunch boxes at the back was reduced to US$4 per set by Mike and others. Even US$4 per set would still have a 100% gross profit of US$2 for Li Xiaofan's Yifan Company. A set of 50,000 would be US$100,000. gross profit.

"Wow, that's great, Van, congratulations!"

"Honey, how about we congratulate you in a special way?"

"What special method?" Tang Xinyi expressed confusion.

Li Xiaofan put down his seat and said with a smile: "We use a special way and posture to make our car vibrate, which is called car shock for short..."

Tang Xinyi finally understood what Li Xiaofan meant, and her face turned red with embarrassment: "I hate it, be careful of passers-by spying on you!"

"We drove to the lawn in the coconut grove in front. There were almost no people there. It was very safe and quiet..."

On this exciting night when they received the news about the order from Arco Department Store in the United States, the two of them also completed a difficult night of tossing in the car...

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In the afternoon of the next day, Li Xiaofan, Aaron, Gu Qijun and others came to a JTC Industrial Park near Weiyi MRT Station next to the National University of Singapore.

Their trip was to visit Tang Jiaming's friend Peng Ge, the boyfriend of Azhen who opened the gift shop on Orchard Road.

Brother Peng's full name is Dai Zhanpeng, and his family has a sizable factory in this industrial park. The name of the factory is Singapore Pengfei Precision Pte. Ltd.

Their factory mainly provides mold design, processing and production as well as other precision parts processing and production services for multinational companies. This factory was originally owned by Brother Peng's father, but now it is basically left to Brother Peng to take care of it. Brother Peng and Tang Jiaming were classmates and besties in junior high school.

Brother Peng warmly received Li Xiaofan and his delegation in his factory office.

After the assistant brought them coffee, Brother Peng said: "Afan, I heard from A-Zhen that the sunglasses gift box business you two collaborated on is very prosperous, and A-Zhen also made a lot of money. Thank you!"

"Brother Peng, you and Sister A-Zhen are so polite. I should say that Sister A-Zhen helped me sell goods and helped me a lot!"

"This is mutual benefit, the best win-win model! Affan, why are you free to come to my small factory today?" Brother Peng asked.

"Brother Peng, when we were having late-night snacks in Geylang last time, I remember you mentioned that your factory has a lot of CNC processing equipment. Recently, I was discussing with HP the supporting processing cooperation business of ICT test fixtures, which requires the use of CNC numerical control Machine tools are used to drill holes, so we would like to visit the CNC machine tools in your factory, is that okay?”

When Li Xiaofan and others make ICT test fixtures in the future, they will first obtain the circuit board PCB circuit diagram file from the customer, and then need to compile it into a CNC drilling program and use a CNC machine tool to drill the test fixture board. This is a very important link in making ICT test fixtures.

Brother Peng replied: "Of course you can. Come on, I'll accompany you there!"

The CNC Li Xiaofan is talking about is the abbreviation of computerized numerical control in English and computer numerical control in Chinese.

CNC machining equipment is a digitally controlled machine tool, an automated machine tool equipped with a program control system. The CNC machine tool at that time was a high-precision equipment. It could better solve the problem of complex, precise, small batch and multi-variety parts processing. It was a flexible and high-performance automated machine tool. The CNC processing equipment at that time represented the most advanced equipment. Advanced machine tool control technology is a typical mechatronics product.

At that time, this kind of CNC machine tool equipment was rarely seen in domestic factories in mainland China. Only a few scientific research units and special units had some such equipment.

In 1952, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States developed the world's first three-axis milling machine with a controller, marking the birth of the world's first CNC machine tool. In 1958, it developed a CNC machining center, which was ahead of other developed countries in the world. Since then, due to the strong support of the U.S. government and the continuous improvement of national defense requirements for high-precision manufacturing, the U.S. machine tool industry has maintained close ties with the application market, rapidly fighting in the aviation industry, construction equipment manufacturing, and medical equipment. It is widely used in the industry, making its technology and related high-tech industry technology levels leading the world.

When relations with China were not good, such CNC equipment from developed countries in Europe and the United States was strictly prohibited from being exported to the mainland.

In the CNC equipment processing workshop, Li Xiaofan asked: "Brother Peng, are these CNC equipment in your factory all three-axis machine tools produced by Toshiba?"

Brother Peng was a little curious and said: "Yes, Afan, you seem to be very knowledgeable!"

Li Xiaofan smiled inwardly. In his previous life, his company had a dedicated workshop in Shanghai's Minhang Industrial Zone to produce ICT test fixtures, which contained many CNC machine tools.

"Brother Peng, once I receive the ICT test fixture business in the future, can I use your factory's CNC machine tools to drill holes for our products? Of course, I will pay your company the processing fee according to market conditions."

"There's no problem at all. You see, sometimes one or two of our machines are idle. When the time comes, just come to me! If the quantity is not large, this processing fee will be waived."

"That won't work, Brother Peng. Friends are friends and business is business. If you come to process it, you must pay the processing fee!"

Li Xiaofan turned to Gu Qijun and said: "Brother Jun, you will have to work hard to help develop the software that compiles CNC drilling programs..."

Gu Qijun said: "How to do this? Is it complicated?"

“When we obtain circuit board PCB circuit diagram files from customers like Flextronics, we then develop software that compiles CNC drilling programs, compiles them into CNC drilling programs, and uses CNC machine tools to drill test fixture boards... …This is very complicated for people who don’t understand it, but it’s a piece of cake for you and me. I will help you develop it when the time comes.”

When Li Xiaofan and Gu Qijun were chatting about developing software for compiling CNC drilling programs, Brother Peng remembered something and said to Li Xiaofan and the others: "Do you know the Toshiba door machine tool incident in the 1980s? Eight years ago, because of a CNC machine tool incident In the export case, the Japanese National Police arrested Ryuji Hayashi, the director of the casting department of Toshiba Machinery Corporation, and Hiroaki Tanimura, the director of the machine tool division, and others..."