"Uh... the cost is relatively large, about 500,000 US dollars. The main reason for the high cost is that these twenty-four probes work in a highly vibrating environment, and their detection accuracy is relatively high, so the quality requirements for components are also increased accordingly." Li Xiaomin answered truthfully.

He knew in his heart that the cost issue is the biggest shortcoming of this technology, and stamping production lines provided by other manufacturers generally do not solve this problem. In addition to the technical difficulty, another reason is that the probability of stamping parts being scrapped is not high and the losses are not large.

If the cost to solve this problem is too high, it will be more than worth the effort.

Some people asked this question when evaluating this technology within Longyuan Company, but they eventually integrated it because it could make the stamping production line look more modern.

Don’t underestimate this. Now the mainstream technology in the Western world lags behind China. At this time, they need some "advanced" things in their self-esteem, even if it is not practical.

Carlkin inserted his words: "We do need this technology to prevent punch position deviation, but if we have to pay $500,000 for this technology, I think we cannot accept it. Is it possible that you can find an easier way to solve this problem, which is not much," he said.

No matter how stupid Americans are, they will not be willing to be suckers. After all, General Motors is now facing competition from Donald Industrial Group, and they need to consider costs more than face issues.

"We have been looking for such technology," Lee Xiaomin emphasized. "However, so far, we have not found a better solution. I don't think it's a big number. After all, the cost of a production line is more than 30 million US dollars."

Calkin smiled slightly and turned to Shen Shanping and said, "Mr. Shen, please ask me if you take the liberty to inquire about whether the plan for this production line you proposed can limit the price to less than 23 million US dollars?"

"You know, we will update four production lines this time, and if possible, our overseas factories will also update the same production lines. If your prices can be controlled within 23 million US dollars. I think the possibility of our cooperation will be greater."

"Two three million US dollars? This..." Shen Shanping almost blurted out and said, "Impossible".

However, he tried hard to swallow the words back, and replaced them with a more euphemistic statement: "Mr. Kalkin. I think our costs are relatively transparent. If the price is reduced to less than 23 million, we will have no profit at all."

"You also know that we have invested a lot of R&D funds in this project in the early stage. If there is no profit, we will not be able to recover these R&D funds."

Kalkin shrugged and said lightly: "If so, that's great. Please continue to introduce your skills."

He Yiqing felt a chill in his heart, and the other party's expression showed that they had already given their plan a very low score. If the subsequent introduction could not have a special highlight, they would probably have no chance of winning this time.

"Well... our entire stamping beat is five pieces per minute. If it is aluminum profile, it can be increased to nine pieces per minute. This level is already the best technology in the world so far." Li Xiaomin said stutteringly.

Kalkin shook his head and said, "No, Mr. Li, you are talking about the technology of the past, the best technology at present, which can easily reach fifteen pieces per minute. I mean steel stamping parts."

"This is impossible!" Li Xiaomin retorted with a thick neck, "This is completely impossible!"

"Why?" Karl Jin smiled and looked at Longyuan Company and his group with a calm look.

In fact, before that, he also thought that fifteen pieces per minute was impossible to achieve, but two days ago, another bidding company from China convinced him to let him know that there were always solutions.

Li Xiaomin couldn't believe this, and he shouted loudly: "If the robot uses a vacuum suction cup to pick up the stamping parts, the acceleration during picking will be limited by the suction force of the suction cup. The suction force of the vacuum suction cup cannot be increased infinitely because it is affected by atmospheric pressure."

"Unless anyone is whimsical and able to apply two atmospheric pressure on the production line. We have conducted theoretical calculations. Under the most ideal conditions, the speed of the robot picking up stamping parts can only reach nine pieces per minute, which does not take into account any factors such as resistance. In fact, this ideal condition is impossible."

This principle is actually not complicated. Lee Xiaomin understands, Kalkin also understands, and other professional colleagues in the industry also understands that this has always been the bottleneck of stamping production line speed.

However, Jiang Tao's inspiration broke this iron rule.

Instead of increasing the suction force of the suction cup, he added a bottom-up thrust to the stamping part, which solved the contradiction of insufficient suction force, so that the stamping beat could easily rise to fifteen pieces per minute.

After seeing Huayang Heavy Industry's plan, Kalkin felt amazing.

This solution is so simple, that is, after the stamping is completed, when the robot picks up the stamping part, the mold below will push up a section simultaneously.

To achieve this, you only need to add four hydraulic rods under the mold. For companies engaged in forging equipment, designing a few hydraulic rods is simply a common occurrence.

Fifteen pieces per minute and nine pieces per minute are half the work efficiency, which is equivalent to turning the original four production lines into six. This performance improvement fascinates the people of General Motors, and ignores the flaw that Huayang Heavy Industry has not produced similar equipment before.

"Mr. Li, we have just obtained a design plan that can reach fifteen pieces per minute. Moreover, after our engineers simulated on the computer, they confirmed that the speed is completely proven and may even exceed it. So, I think, is your company a little too conservative in terms of design ideas?"

Carkin shrugged. He was now happy to see the anxious embarrassment of the Chinese in front of him. This seemed to have regained the superiority of white supremacy in the past.

"The plan you got? Are you talking about Huayang Heavy Industry's plan?" Li Xiaomin raised this rude question regardless of the unspoken rules.

Calkin turned his head and looked at Bruno, asking if he could disclose this information. Seeing that his boss nodded, Calkin said: "Mr. Li, you are right. This is indeed the plan of Huayang Heavy Industry."

"This is impossible! This is completely impossible!" Li Xiaomin, who was a professional engineer, had his eyes red.

Before setting off, they analyzed the advantages of China Yang Heavy Industry in this bidding, and everyone agreed that the other party's advantage should be in terms of price, and it may even lose money and make a profit, which will keep the price very low.

But the people of Longyuan Group are very disdainful of Huayang Heavy Industry's technology. They never thought that if they were not as good as the Huayang Heavy Industry Union in terms of technology, they would be like this.

But now, General Motors has clearly told them: Huayang Heavy Industry's production line can reach fifteen pieces per minute, but they can only reach nine pieces. Such a gap can be regarded as a generation gap. How is this possible!

According to the rules, General Company should not disclose the details of the plan provided by Hanhua Heavy Industry to Xihu Company. They only need to listen to the plans of both parties, and then comprehensively evaluate them. Then determine which product to choose.

But Bruno intends to reveal some of Hanhua's situation to Longyuan Company so that Longyuan Company can understand. Their failure makes sense, and it is not that General Motors prefers one to the other.

From the perspective of General Motors, Longyuan Company is a trustworthy partner. Whether it is technical strength or previous cooperation experience, it is much more reliable than Huayang Heavy Industry.

However, the times are getting worse, and General Motors is also under pressure from other aspects and has to consider the cooperation with Huayang. Bruno received instructions from the board of directors that unless the plan provided by Huayang Heavy Industry is obviously inferior to Longyuan Company, Huayang Heavy Industry's planning project should be given priority.

When Bruno just received this command, he was quite resistant.

However, he still has some hope, that is, he believes that Huayang Heavy Industry's plan cannot be compared with Longyuan Company, and even if it has some advantages in price, it cannot make up for the technical gap.

Price is a factor worth paying attention to, but it is not an irreplaceable factor. For General Corporation, the difference of less than one million US dollars is indeed not a big obstacle.

The day before yesterday, Huayang Heavy Industry's team came to General Motors, and Bruno led a group of engineers such as Kalkin to listen to the plan of Hanhua's report. What surprised Bruno was that Huayang Heavy Industry's plan was very exciting, far exceeding his expectations.

First of all, although Huayang Heavy Industry has never had experience in producing stamping production lines, the production lines they designed are completely in line with classic specifications. The other party even issued their qualification materials for producing large machine tools and traditional forging equipment, proving that they are fully capable of realizing the technical requirements put forward in the plan.

On the basis of the above, Huayang Heavy Industry's plan also reflects their unique craftsmanship everywhere.

Huayang Heavy Industry cleverly proposed solutions to noise control, deviation monitoring, production rhythm problems, and all the problems existing in traditional production lines.

Although some plans did not completely satisfy Bruno and others, they clearly felt the importance given by Huayang Heavy Industry to this project. Only an ambitious company would work so hard to improve every detail.

In contrast, although Longyuan Company has shown its importance to the project on the surface, it is difficult to see this from the plan. Longyuan Company's entire plan is derived from their previous designs.

Some limited improvements are more about whitewashing than innovation.

Judging from this plan, Longyuan Company does not have the sense of crisis of fighting against the enemy at all. They are still addicted to their own technological advantages and are unwilling to spend extra energy to ponder their products.

The final decisive factor is of course the important technical gap in production rhythm, as well as the price proposed by Huayang Heavy Industry that makes Bruno feel excited.

At this point, Bruno also pushed the balance to the side of Huayang Heavy Industry.

After all, Longyuan Company is an old friend who has experience in cooperation with General Motors, even if the orders for stamping production lines are lost. General Motors has other equipment to purchase from Longyuan Company in the future.

So Bruno naturally didn't want to make the relationship too stiff. He had to let the people sent by Longyuan Company understand that their failures originated from him. Please don't blame General Company for not being reminiscent of old love.

"Okay. Mr. Chen and Mr. Li, we will no longer be entangled in the technical details. If you are interested in the issue of the thrust beat, you can discuss it with your colleagues at Huayang Heavy Industry. I think they will tell you the secrets of the technology."

"What I care about now is, according to your plan, how much is the price of this production line?" Bruno asked the final question. Once he got the answer, he would basically announce the answer.

Chen Shanping did not hesitate and directly quoted the planned price: "30 million US dollars."

"But the price we can accept is only 23 million US dollars," Reed replied. "We have decided that we will not accept any of the above-mentioned options."

"Mr. Bruno, did you say that Huayang Heavy Industry's quotation is less than 23 million US dollars?" Even Chen Shanping, who has always been a persistent person, couldn't help but ask a question that he shouldn't have asked.

Bruno smiled and said, "I'll repeat it again. We won't consider any plans above $23 million."

This is a disguised answer. Since General Motors intends to adopt Huayang's plan, it proves that Hanhua's quotation is less than 23 million US dollars.

Otherwise, Longyuan Company and Huayang Heavy Industry will be eliminated at the same time.

However, Chen Shanping understood that GM would not let both companies be eliminated at the same time. Because other Chinese companies that can provide such production lines will only have higher quotations than them. If both of them are eliminated, it means GM does not want to replace the production lines.

As for the technology of other countries, they may only remain in the technology of World War II era and cannot be compared with China's mainstream production technology.

"Mr. Bruno, please forgive me for taking the liberty. Did the proposal proposed by Huayang Heavy Industry make a lot of cuts in performance?" At this point, Chen Shanping didn't care about his face and simply continued to ask.

Since he knew that he had been eliminated, he had to at least understand that he had to lose. He wanted to know why Huayang Heavy Industry defeated them.

Bruno smiled faintly: "Their plan has no performance defects compared to your plan, and it is even better than the plan you proposed in some places. As an old friend, what I want to say is that Longyuan Company seems to be a little uneasy about this bidding, and your opponent is doing his best, it's that simple."

"Then, if we make some modifications to the plan, will there be a chance?" Chen Shanping continued to ask.

Bruno also seemed generous: "Of course there is a chance, we are still partners. I think if you can modify your plan and meet our requirements, we will have other cooperation opportunities in the future."

At this point, there was no need to continue talking. Bruno stood up politely to see the guests, and Chen Shanping and others also stood up tactfully, bowed their bodies and bowed, and then said goodbye to the door.

Kalkin and Lee Hyomin are both technical people and have had many dealings in the past. They have had good personal relationships. He sent people from Longyuan Company downstairs and outside the door.

Li Xiaomin looked at the left and right and pulled Kalkin and asked: "Kalkin, as an old friend, I want to ask, is Huayang Heavy Industry's plan really better than ours?"

Kalkin nodded: "Indeed, their plan is more refined than you."

"So, have they solved the problem of position deviation of robots?" Li Xiaomin was still curious. This was an innovation that he was proud of. He was eager to know how Huayang Heavy Industry did in this regard.

Carlkin replied with a mysterious smile on his face, "I'm very sorry, they did solve it, and it was very clever."

"How is this possible?" Li Xiaomin was shocked after hearing this. He had said this sentence many times today. Countless impossible things appeared in front of him like this, which made him feel unacceptable.

"The microelectronics technology of Xinghua News Agency and Huayang Heavy Industry is far inferior to our Longyuan Group. Could it be that Wanhe Electronics helped them improve their monitoring technology? How did they achieve it?"

Seeing this expression from his friend, Kalkin simply gave the answer: "Actually, their solution is very simple. They installed a camera on the production line to transmit real-time video signals to the console."

"If a deviation occurs when the robot picks up the steel plate, the production line will temporarily stop and then an alarm will be issued to the console. The console workers can use the mouse to control the robot to adjust the position. It's that simple."

"They use manual control!" Li Xiaomin was stunned when he heard this.

He spent countless efforts to analyze various situations, and then designed an extremely exquisite automatic adjustment system, thinking that he was invincible in the world.

Unexpectedly, Huayang Heavy Industry actually used manual control methods to hand over the adjustment task to the workers on the operating table. It just solved the problem by adding a camera to a display screen.

This idea is just a layer of window paper. Once it is picked up, Li Xiaomin will completely understand.

In fact, the design of Huayang Heavy Industry is more reasonable, because the position deviation of steel plates is not common, and it is much more reasonable to leave such things to the operator to solve than to design a system specifically.

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