Chapter 1130 Assembly, something went wrong?
Bain's request was based on the objective factor that he was not very clear about the situation, but also the subjective consideration of avoiding being pulled out to take the blame if something went wrong.
Although he considers himself to be a relatively simple engineer, since he managed to get into the position of production department manager, he must be wise in protecting himself.
Otherwise, we would have been kicked out long ago.
“No problem.”
Of course, Casore knew what the other party was thinking, but he still nodded:
"Just gather everyone together."
Now, there is no time to argue.
And no matter what, the modification work of the early warning aircraft will still have to be carried out in China.
Even if there is a problem with this process, the worst result is just to return to the original schedule and waste some man-hours.
He can still carry it.
Soon, a dozen production line engineers were quickly gathered in the conference room.
Almost at the same time, the secretary’s office had also prepared the required paper materials——
Even in the 21st century, in many cases paper and pen are still inferior to curtains and curtains. A projector is better.
Due to the tight schedule, the drawings brought back by Casore did not have time to be completely revised according to French habits. They only forcibly translated some necessary annotations based on the Chinese version.
Fortunately, China's own aviation manufacturing standards are highly compatible with Europe, so there will be no hardware troubles during the manufacturing process.
If we cooperate with Boeing, then just the conversion between metric units and imperial units will make people peel off a layer of skin.
“There is an urgent order now, which requires temporary adjustments to the factory, cutting the queue to produce a batch of skins and trusses, and then pre-assembly...”
Casore is the leader of the Falcon Z project One of the main designers is not an unfamiliar face to these school leaders who are equivalent to foremen.
So he even skipped the self-introduction process and went directly to the drawing board with the drawings hanging on it to get to the point:
"Time is tight, let me talk about the subsequent production and assembly process..."
"..."
Just the description of the first step of the production process cost more than Two hours of time.
It's not that Casore is unwilling to speed up, it's because the plan given by Liang Shaoxiu is too detailed.
It is no exaggeration to say that if the assembly process is not so delicate and cumbersome that current industrial robots cannot perform certain basic actions, then a considerable number of these tasks can even be completely performed without manual labor.
Such almost harsh and meticulous requirements were not so easy for the production engineers present to accept -
These people all rely on first-hand experience.
Now that you have fixed all the areas that require free play, aren't you using them as apprentices?
Of course, we are all workers, and it is impossible to openly refute the leadership's instructions just because of this.
Especially "foreign" leaders like Kasore.
But if you don't say it openly, it doesn't mean you don't have thoughts in your heart.
After the meeting, everyone returned to the production line, preparing to adjust production work according to the tasks just assigned.
As their direct leader, Bain is still quite responsible for work matters even though he has just taken away all the responsibilities.
Soon he and Casore came to the workshop.
First, to supervise the work as usual.
Secondly, I really want to see if this set of heaven-defying craftsmanship that Kasore pulled out from nowhere can work?
However, before the two of them took a few steps, an engineer came over with the production instructions:
"Manager, supervisor."
"According to According to my experience, if the above process and parameters are followed, then during assembly, the unit 17X far away from the positioning datum is likely to be pre-connected before the unit 16X close to the positioning datum. In this way, the two The gaps between units cannot flow out of the inside of the unit, causing the siding to buckle..."
"Can you please elaborate on the reason for this arrangement?"
The other party's tone was very polite, and what he said was very specific, and there was no fault at all.
But no matter how you look at it, it seems like you are taking the opportunity to make trouble.
Casore took the instruction manual from the engineer. On the surface he looked as calm as an old dog, but in his heart he was panicking.
Because he doesn’t know either. After all, Dassault and the Aerospace Power Group are only cooperating, not merging. It would be good if someone else can fully demonstrate the new process flow. Can he still directly ask the other party what your design and process optimization methods are?
That must be kicked out as a commercial spy.
But now he has attracted a lot of attention from around, which is equivalent to being roasted on the fire. If he doesn't say anything or uses force, then this production may not be easy to carry out. Go down.
Therefore, Kasolei had no choice but to bite the bullet and recall some of the few words Liang Shaoxiu revealed before he left on this trip. Combined with some of his own speculations, he started to make nonsense:
"Apparently Compared with the original model that uses a higher proportion of carbon fiber, the back skin of the AWACS version is entirely made of lightweight alloys, and the material properties are easier to predict, so the impact of the pre-connection of each unit on the initial gap between adjacent units can be calculated before assembly. influence, thereby constructing the pre-connection sequence model and the calculation model of gap flow between units..."
"As for the wrinkle problem you just mentioned...under the premise of satisfying the clearance after pre-connection. , a margin has been left in advance by optimizing the number, location and order of pre-connection points, which can maintain a relatively loose state between each unit..."
"..."
What he said is not entirely false.
It's just that it's a little too big.
It is equivalent to "putting an elephant into the refrigerator is a three-step process: open the refrigerator door, put the elephant in, and close the refrigerator door."
Correct, but of little operational value.
In fact, the core of the entire pre-connection solution is the establishment and solution of the pre-connection process expression.
Casore completely avoided these two parts.
Fortunately, the theoretical foundation of front-line engineers is limited after all, so they were still stunned by the large paragraph above that was the same as Guankou.
Although I instinctively felt that something was wrong, I couldn't find any well-founded objection.
He just frowned slightly and returned to his work.
Kasore, who finally breathed a sigh of relief, was afraid that someone would see his guilty conscience. After wandering around for a few more minutes, and after making sure that all the production teams were in working order, he made an excuse at the speed of light and left the production workshop.
……
It must be admitted that under Bain’s leadership, the production efficiency of the Toulouse factory is indeed considerable.
It only took three days to produce all the components that needed to be pre-connected.
The remaining task is to assemble according to the requirements of the process instructions.
If nothing else happens, the first completed large component will be sent to China in about two days.
However, just when Kasore felt that he could breathe a sigh of relief...
On the afternoon of the first day of assembly, Bain rushed in like a gust of wind to prepare for the former in a temporary office.
I didn’t even knock on the door.
“Supervisor, something went wrong over at the assembly line!”
One sentence almost made Kasore jump out of his chair.
After a brief period of mental blankness, the first thing that came to the latter's mind was the question that the engineer asked him before:
"Isn't there really a wrinkle in the siding? ?”
The biggest problem with pre-connection is that it affects the whole body.
Once the wall panel wrinkles occur, it will directly affect the mechanical balance within the skin and long girders, causing all or most of the assembled parts to be scrapped.
"That's not the case."
Bain shook his head:
"Anyway... you'd better go and see for yourself."
Casore moved quickly, not Two minutes later, he followed Bain to the No. 1 station in the assembly workshop.
Then I saw a heart-stopping scene.
As he said before, the units maintained a relatively loose relationship.
But the problem is that it is too loose -
The two sets of skins that are supposed to be spliced together have a gap about two fingers wide in the middle!
In other words, they are not connected at all...
(End of this chapter)