The machinery factory of the Manufacturing Director Department is located in Bairen Industrial Zone. [No pop-up novel website] Although there are many manufacturing companies under the manufacturing director, the most important one is this machinery factory - most of the various mechanical equipment brought from the old time and space are installed here except for the stc. . There are specialized machining workshops, assembly workshops, metalworking workshops, riveting and welding workshops, forging workshops, heat treatment workshops, casting workshops, electroplating workshops, woodworking workshops, standard parts workshops, bearing workshops, chain workshops, measuring tool workshops...a series of professional workshop. It not only manufactures various mechanical equipment, but also manufactures a large number of standardized parts, tools and measuring tools commonly used in the industrial field. It is the core part of Chuanchuan Group Industry.
In addition to these tasks, another important task of the machinery factory is to carry out self-replication of industrial equipment, ultimately achieving the goal of enabling the entire industrial system to self-replicate and self-upgrade without relying on equipment from old time and space.
The Machinery General Factory used to be nothing more than a greenhouse with bamboo poles on brick pillars and a straw curtain as a roof. As the Lingao regime continued to strengthen, the conditions of the factory also improved significantly. Like Bobu's arsenal, this place has gradually turned into a heavily guarded fortress. On the base of the 1-meter-high reinforced concrete wall stands a 5-meter-high plain red brick wall, with dense battlements and sentry towers standing on top. The factory walls themselves also serve as workshops, warehouses and offices. Two red brick circular towers guard the deep and tall doorway on the left and right. The arched lintel of the reinforced concrete door is inlaid with a line of large characters "Bailin Machinery General Factory Directly Under the Direct Control of the Manufacturing Directorate Department" made of red broken glass. On the tower walls to the left and right of the gate stretched out a pig-iron arm with clenched fists and bulging muscles, holding a cast-iron torch - at night, the gas flame burned brightly on the torch. Light up the entire gatehouse
The machinery in the General Machinery Factory roared all night long, and black smoke and white steam evaporated day and night. Those naturalized citizens who hold special passes and are allowed to enter for work and study will see a circular square as soon as they enter the gate. In the center of the square is a modern sculpture symbolizing industrial power - but ten out of ten natives cannot understand it. .
Surrounding the square are three-story buildings used for administration and offices. Ahead of the square is a cinder block road large enough for four heavy-duty carriages to pass side by side. On the east and west sides of the road are elevated factories with wrought iron truss structures and red brick exteriors, which are built very quickly. . The structure is light and is the mainstream of modern factories. Light rails embedded in the concrete roadbed are laid between workshops.
There is a power workshop on the east and west of the road. The powerful power output by the steam engine is transmitted to the ceiling of each workshop through the sky shaft, and to each machine tool through many belts and transmission boxes. Although the power of the workshop is a celestial shaft transmission, there is still power supply here - each machine tool has a separate lighting workbench for workers to use during operation. No matter day or night, the blue flame of the gas lamp burns behind the explosion-proof lampshade on the wall of the workshop, emitting a bright light. Cast iron water pipes are fixed on the wall, supplying a steady stream to the machine tools that require water cooling.
The workshop is filled with the smell of water vapor, soot, engine oil and heated steel, the roar of machinery and equipment, the sharp friction of processing parts, and the crash of loading and unloading materials. The natives who came here for the first time were all shocked by this scene, and then were impressed by the "magical power" of industry. The elders' ability to control such power at will makes the natives feel in awe.
The naturalized people working here are the elite among the naturalized people. There are not many people in traditional agricultural societies who are suitable to be modern mechanical workers. Those who can stay and work in the machinery factory, even if they are just handymen, are all natives who are ingenious and quick to respond. Almost all of them are young people under the age of 20 and have strong learning ability.
The working environment in pre-industrial society was very harsh. Exhaust gas, noise, vibration and highly concentrated work made workers' labor intensity extremely intense. In order to ensure that the industrial workers who have been painstakingly trained are healthy and can serve the time-traveling cause for a long time, not only are the industrial workers treated well, but canteens, public bathrooms, health rooms and temporary dormitories are also set up in the factory area. We also do our best in supplying labor protection supplies. Lingao's self-produced cotton gauze gloves, work clothes, masks, and even labor protection glasses and earmuffs are all available.
At the end of the road is another high wall with a closed gate guarded by a sentry tower. Pedestrians can only enter and exit through the small door on the side. The door will only be opened when the carriage or rail car transporting large goods arrives. At this time, the sentries on duty will guard the surroundings with live ammunition, and no unrelated persons will be allowed to enter.
Behind the heavily guarded gate are two of the only four joint processing centers in the Senate. It is installed in a well-built dedicated workshop. The other set is installed in a secret workshop in the Gaoshanling area. Another set was sealed. The high processing precision that the joint machining center can achieve cannot be achieved by all Lingao's current equipment combined. It is specially used to manufacture many molds and special parts that require high-precision processing. The use of the joint processing center requires the signatures of Zhan Wuya and Wu De from the Planning Institute.
There is also a warehouse directly under the jurisdiction of the Planning Institute in the tightly protected compound of the processing center. In order to facilitate the nearby access of the manufacturing department, the Planning Institute set up a pipe products warehouse here to store materials brought from the old time and space: special steel of various grades, non-ferrous metals, standard parts and tools, and measuring tools.
Turn left from the entrance of the Joint Processing Center, pass by a row of factory warehouses, and arrive at a large open space. This is a testing ground and heavy raw material storage yard specially used for assembling and testing large equipment. At the root of the fence of the open space, there stood a simple earthen crane. Next to it were piles of steel plates, steel materials and several machine tool bases. It had become rusty due to exposure to wind and rain.
In order to facilitate the testing of certain large-scale engineering equipment, a group of reinforced concrete columns were built in the open field to support the equipment. Now the chain dumper that has just been manufactured is installed on this pillar. A pot camel machine produced in Lingao was temporarily used as the power source of the equipment.
Tracks are laid on artificial slopes, and dump rail cars are parked on the slopes. The principle of the entire tipping bucket loader is very simple. Through the rotation of the chain, many tipping buckets are continuously raised to a high position, and then they are automatically overturned to tip the ore into the cargo hold. The tipping bucket goes down, and when it reaches the ground section, manpower is used to continuously fill the tipping bucket with ore. The chain and the tipping bucket hanging from the chain are a cyclic action. Although manual labor is still used for feeding, continuous loading and unloading of goods is achieved. The labor efficiency is much higher than that of dock workers carrying large baskets.
Although the principle is very simple, hanging the chain is a huge technical problem. It is a high-strength, high-strength circular link chain. There are 34 tipping buckets on hanging chains, and each tipping bucket also carries several tons of iron ore. There are high requirements on the load of hanging chains. It involves many aspects of materials, heat treatment and mechanical processing.
Now, the wooden dump bucket for the test has been all hung up, and the working load has been filled with sandbags and iron ingots. Zhan Wuya and some key veterans of the machinery factory were watching.
When Zhan Wuya saw that people had almost arrived, he waved to the workers and said, "Everyone, move back and start immediately."
When the workers heard Zhan Wuya's order, they immediately turned on the transmission switch. The pot camel machine output power through the transmission box, and then the winch began to rotate. The chain was tightened, and a row of hanging buckets began to move swayingly, rising with a rumble, rising higher and higher, reaching two-thirds of the height in an instant.
Zhan Wuya, Jiang Hongjun, Liang Xin, Sun Li and other mechanical veterans and all the workers present watched in rapt attention, the tipping bucket rising higher and higher, feeling more and more happy. Although the chain is small, it is a necessity in the field of industrial equipment. Now Lingao's self-produced hanging chains are very insufficient in terms of load capacity and durability. This time, both materials and processing methods have been greatly improved. , if it can be successfully manufactured, it will solve a big problem in industrialization.
Everyone looked at it, and suddenly there was a click and the chain broke.
"Oops!" As soon as everyone yelled, there was a loud bang, and all the hanging buckets fell to the ground, smoke was everywhere, and they were smashed to pieces.
Sun Li touched the helmet on his head: "The load capacity is still insufficient."
"We need to do a metallographic analysis," Zhan Wuya said, "to see if it is a material problem or a processing problem."
Immediately everyone carried the chain back and placed it in the forging workshop. The size of the forging workshop of the General Machinery Factory is comparable to that of the arsenal. Of course, the large steam forging machine was homemade after D-Day.
"Let's all do some analysis tonight." Zhan Wuya said to the disappointed robot elders, "Does anyone want to have sex with the maid at night? Those who have such a plan don't have to come."
Several people burst into laughter, and Sun Li said: "The maid always keeps it there. You can use it anytime you want. You can use the same thing in the morning and at night. I will definitely come."
Several others also said they would come. Machinery factories are the places with the highest concentration of veterans, and the operators on many machine tools are veterans themselves. Especially in lathes, fitters and joint machining centers, the main force is still veterans who are skilled workers. They not only have to operate the equipment themselves, but also take on the task of teaching apprentices. Work is very busy. Many people have lived in the machinery factory since its inception, and many people still sleep in their own offices. For many people work is their entertainment.
Zhan Wuya also lives in the factory, and he has a particularly deep affection for the Machinery General Factory - the earliest foundation of this Machinery General Factory is the small machinery processing factory he opened in the suburbs of Guangzhou. He sleeps in a dormitory in the factory on weekdays - just like when he was a small boss. . ..
