Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon - Vol 2 Chapter 681

Chapter 681 Joint R&D

“Dr. Yang really said that? He didn’t make excuses to perfunctory us, did he?” Li Weidong asked.

Yue An An nodded: “I was worried that Dr. Yang was making excuses to perfunctory us at first, so I went to the farmers who grow hybrid rice and asked, if the mud feet are too deep, it is indeed not conducive to the growth of hybrid rice. ”

Mud Feet refers to the depth at which the agricultural machinery has grown and plunged into the soil.

If it is a dry field, the depth of the mud feet does not matter, it will basically not affect the growth of crops.

But if it is a paddy field, the situation is completely different. If the mud feet are too deep and directly below the depth of the seedlings, the seedlings will definitely not survive. Therefore, for paddy fields, if the mud feet are too deep, the whole field is considered to be abandoned, and it is necessary to release the water for reclamation.

The hand-push type of micro-agricultural machine hardly has the problem of deep mud feet, because the weight of the micro-agricultural machine is relatively light, and ordinary people can move it. When working, the driving wheel can be directly replaced with a paddy wheel, which will not produce deep mud feet.

But for larger agricultural machinery, the situation is completely different. Large agricultural machinery is large in size and heavy, and must be installed with additional tires to move normally. However, in paddy field operations, the tires are prone to excessively deep mud feet, causing damage to the paddy field.

The planting requirements of hybrid rice are higher than ordinary rice. If the mud feet are too deep, hybrid rice cannot grow. Therefore, wheeled agricultural machinery is not suitable for the cultivation of hybrid rice.

After listening to Yue An’an’s explanation, Li Weidong pondered for a moment and said, “Well, call Chief Engineer Ni and let’s discuss together how to solve this problem.”

After a while, Ni Guilin also came to the office.

Yue Security informed Ni Guilin of the situation, after Ni Guilin thought for a moment, he said, “When we were doing product research and development, we really didn’t consider the problem of mud feet.

The northern part of us is mainly dry land, and there are almost no paddy fields. Even if we grow rice, we are all planting upland rice, and we don’t need to pay attention to the depth of the mud. Now it seems that it is necessary to build an experimental field in the south. ”

“We already have an experimental field in the south. We can do experiments slowly in the future. However, we should find a way to solve this problem of mud feet.”

Li Weidong went on to ask: “Those rice combine harvesters are not light in weight, they can be several tons at every turn, and the paddy fields can’t bear it. How did they solve the problem of mud feet?”

“It’s the crawler.” Ni Guilin replied: “Large paddy field agricultural machinery uses crawler. The crawler has a large contact area, and the pressure on the ground is relatively small, and deep grooves will not be rolled out during use.”

“Then let’s use crawlers too!” Li Weidong blurted out.

Ni Guilin showed an embarrassed expression, he said, “Chairman, the weight of the track itself is relatively large, plus the weight of the entire transmission assembly, if you push it by hand, even if it can be pushed, it will not work during work. Rather laborious!

Therefore, if the track is used, the engine must be used to provide power support. In this way, the engine must provide power output to the rotary tiller wheel and power output to the track, and the requirements for the engine will be relatively large.

The original engine we used could not provide so much power, so we had to use a larger engine, and a larger engine also meant larger volume, more fuel consumption, and more professional maintenance.

If we use a big engine, we don’t need to do hand-push agricultural machinery, and it is more cost-effective to directly add a steering system to make self-propelled agricultural machinery! ”

“It makes sense, the crawler is indeed not suitable for small and micro agricultural machinery. If so, then according to what you said, let’s make a crawler self-propelled rice rotary cultivator!” Li Weidong said.

“Well…” Ni Guilin hesitated a little and said, “There are also some difficulties. At present, the crawler system is mostly used for large-scale agricultural machinery, such as combine harvesters and other products.

If you want to make a rice rotary tiller, you need to develop a small crawler powertrain. And this aspect belongs to our research and development gap, whether it is technical reserve or research and development experience, almost zero! ”

Yue Anan also explained from the side: “The crawler system is much more complicated than the wheel. In the past, only large-scale agricultural machinery enterprises with strong strength could manufacture crawler-type agricultural machinery. The general agricultural machinery enterprises either directly made wheeled agricultural machinery, or they made agricultural machinery from Large corporations buy crawler sites.

The predecessor of our Fukang Agricultural Machinery was just a county-level agricultural machinery factory, which itself did not have crawler technology. In the past few years, our main products were agricultural tricycles, and no crawler system was involved. The cotton harvester developed later also used tires.

Therefore, in terms of crawler system, our technology is relatively weak. If we develop it from scratch, it will not only cost a lot of money and time, but also may not get satisfactory results. ”

“I understand! More than ten years ago, many tractor companies were imitating Dongfanghong’s small four-wheel tractors, but no one imitated Dongfanghong’s crawler tractors, because the crawler technology was difficult, and ordinary enterprises could not master it.” Li Weidong said.

“Yes, that’s the truth!” Yue An An went on to say: “If we make a rice harvester, we can directly buy the crawler chassis from other companies. After all, the thing is relatively large, and other companies have ready-made crawler systems.

But the size of the rice rotary tiller is much smaller. Those big companies cannot develop a small crawler specially for us, so we can only develop it independently. However, if we do independent research and development, we have no technical reserves. This is the most contradictory place right now. ”

“Who said we have no technical reserves.” Li Weidong smiled slightly and then said, “Have you forgotten who is next to you?”

Yue Anan and Ni Guilin were stunned for a moment at the same time, and then said in unison; “Fukang Project?”

“Yes, you Fukang Agricultural Machinery don’t have the crawler technology here, but the Fukang project next door has it!” Li Weidong replied.

Fukang Engineering is a company that produces excavators, how can there be no crawler technology?

Just listen to Li Weidong and say: “Well, I will draw the line, let the two companies form a research and development team, specializing in the technology of small crawler site!

Once this technology is successfully developed, it will not only benefit you, but also benefit from Fukang Engineering. If you develop small construction machinery in the next step, you will be able to use this small crawler technology. ”

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The concept of crawler self-propelled rotary tiller was proposed by a private agricultural machinery company in about 2004, but the technical foundation of this agricultural machinery company is relatively general. Although they thought of this product, they were unable to carry out research and development.

It was not until 2006 that the first domestic crawler self-cultivation rotary tiller was officially launched, but the product at that time was relatively simple and not yet practical.

After two years of improvement, until 2008, the crawler-type self-propelled rotary tiller was put into the market in small batches and tested in Hunan, Jiangxi, AH and other places.

But this product is still not a success, there are many aspects that need to be improved.

The land of each province in China is different, some places are hard, some are soft, some have more sand, and some have less sand. If you only get used to the soil quality of one of the provinces, it is very likely that you will be unaccustomed to the soil and water in other provinces.

After another three years, in 2011, the mature and efficient crawler self-propelled rotary tiller was officially put into the market. Southeast Asian countries.

In other words, it took seven years for this product to be developed and put into use.

This time is not short. You must know that the rotary tiller is not a new type of agricultural machinery, and the crawler is not high-tech. The crawler self-propelled rotary tiller just combines the existing technologies, but even so, it takes seven years. It takes time to integrate a product that can be used.

Although Fukang Agricultural Machinery is also a private enterprise, its scale and technical level are not comparable to ordinary small and medium-sized agricultural machinery factories. If you want to develop a crawler self-propelled rotary tiller, it will definitely not take seven years.

Not to mention, there is the help of Beverly Engineering.

Although Fukang Agricultural Machinery has no reserves of crawler technology, Fukang Engineering has mature crawler technology. As a construction machinery company, many products such as bulldozers and excavators need to use tracks.

And many technologies of Fukang Engineering can also be directly transferred to large-scale agricultural machinery.

Construction machinery and large-scale agricultural machinery actually have many similarities at the technical level, so many construction machinery enterprises are themselves agricultural machinery enterprises.

For example, Caterpillar, the world’s No. 1 construction machinery company, also produces agricultural machinery; and John Deere, the world’s No. 1 agricultural machinery industry, ranks among the best in the world in the field of construction machinery.

There are similar cases in China. In addition to being a top construction machinery supplier, Zoomlion is also a leader in the agricultural machinery industry. In addition to agricultural equipment and construction machinery, Lovol also has engine business and traditional business.

Fukang Engineering and Fukang Agricultural Machinery jointly conduct research and development, and it is not difficult to overcome the small crawler technology. After a few months of hard work, the crawler self-propelled rotary tiller has been successfully rolled off the production line.

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The agricultural machinery subsidy for the first half of the year was finally distributed, and Dayang Machinery also breathed a sigh of relief.

In order to purchase raw materials, Dayang Machinery borrowed a large amount of money from the bank. As a result, these raw materials could only be sold at a 50% discount. The money sold was not enough to repay the principal of the bank, and Dayang Machinery suffered heavy losses.

It was not until the agricultural machinery subsidy in the first half of the year was released that Dayang Machinery completely paid off the loan.

This order was given by Kubota, but the order was suddenly withdrawn in the end. According to the contract, the party who was in breach of contract would have to pay compensation. Dayang Machinery also planned to seek compensation from Kubota.

However, the reason given by Kubota said that the cancellation of the order was caused by the protests of Thai farmers. This was not Kubota’s human negligence, it was a force majeure factor, so apart from the sentence “Simi Masai”, I would not pay a penny. of.

Dayang Machinery also consulted a lawyer. The farmers protesting this kind of thing can be regarded as a political turmoil. It is indeed a force majeure factor. Even if it is a lawsuit, the chance of Dayang Machinery winning is not high.

So this huge loss, Ocean Machinery can only swallow it by itself.

Having lost so much money, Dayang Machinery will definitely have to tighten its belt to survive in the next few years.

As the chairman of Dayang Machinery, Song Chengde is not an incompetent person. After suffering huge losses, he immediately launched some self-help measures. The most important thing is to launch several new products. As long as the new products can have good sales, the company is even survived this disaster.

In terms of rice planting agricultural machinery, the technical level of Dayang Machinery is still very good. They have just developed a rice combine harvester and plan to put it on the market.

But before the product is officially launched, it would be great if it can enter the agricultural machinery promotion catalogue of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Once you enter this agricultural machinery promotion catalog, it means that you can easily apply for agricultural machinery subsidies. In addition to the agricultural machinery subsidies given by the state, there are also many local subsidies.

For example, a local snake enterprise like Dayang Machinery, whose products enter the agricultural machinery promotion catalogue, will definitely be able to apply for a large amount of agricultural machinery subsidies from the province.

In order to help farmers, the state still subsidizes agricultural machinery very vigorously. The scattered additions can reach half the price of the product, which means that farmers can buy agricultural machinery at half the price.

are also rice combine harvesters, some are sold at full price, some are 20% off, and some are half price, as long as you are not a fool, you all know how to choose.

Therefore, it is self-evident that it is important for a new product to be included in the agricultural machinery promotion catalogue of the Ministry of Agriculture.

However, the number of places in the agricultural machinery promotion directory is limited, and it is not easy to enter this directory.

This rice combine harvester is related to whether Dayang Machinery can get out of the predicament, so Song Chengde also used all his powers to find a way through various relationships, hoping to enter the agricultural machinery promotion catalogue of the Ministry of Agriculture.

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In the test field, Yang Yuming looked at the crawler self-propelled rotary tiller in front of him with surprise.

“Did you come up with a crawler rotary tiller so soon?” Yang Yuming circled around the machine and then said; “The concept of a crawler rotary tiller has been mentioned by some companies before, but no one has actually done it. After all, research and development It’s a bit difficult. I didn’t expect that you, Fukang Agricultural Machinery, have come up with a crawler rotary tiller in such a short time. Your technical level is really extraordinary!”

“Dr. Yang’s praise.” Yue Anan said quickly; “Actually, our technology in crawler is still relatively weak. The reason why we came up with the product so quickly is thanks to the help of another company.

Our chairman Li Weidong is also the chairman of Fukang Engineering Co., Ltd. Fukang Engineering is a first-class construction machinery enterprise in China. They have a relatively deep technical reserve in crawler technology.

So we went directly to Fukang Engineering and jointly developed this small track. Thanks to the technology of Fukang Engineering, we have completed this product in such a short period of time. ”

Yue Security deliberately introduced the Fukang project to tell Yang Yuming that the technology of this crawler rotary tiller is reliable and can be used with confidence.

Sure enough, Yang Yuming heard that the technology was provided by a company that manufactures construction machinery, and immediately dispelled his doubts.

The following agricultural machinery test was very successful. The rotary tiller carried by the two crawlers drove very smoothly in the paddy field, the mud was badly cultivated, and the mud was abundant.

In the blink of an eye, one acre of land was cultivated.

Yang Yuming bowed down, carefully inspected the plowed land, and said, “Yes, this crawler rotary tiller is a good thing. With this machine, the efficiency of rice planting will be greatly increased!”

Yue Security quickly asked with a smile, “Dr. Yang, can I trouble you to recommend our product to Mr. Yuan?”

“The teacher is in Sanya, and it is estimated that he will be here in the near future.” Yang Yuming replied.

“When will Mr. Yuan come back?” Yue An An added: “I’m really anxious here, after all, the deadline for submitting new agricultural machinery to the Ministry of Agriculture this year is approaching.”

“There is a batch of experimental fields in Sanya that are about to be harvested. It is estimated that the teacher will come back after the harvesting is completed.” Yang Yuming thought for a while and replied, “Mr. Yue, since the Ministry of Agriculture has a deadline, you should send the newspaper first. Come on! I will report to him as soon as possible when I wait for the teacher to come back.”

“Then thank you Dr. Yang.” Although Yue Anan felt helpless, he did not dare to be slighted in etiquette.

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