Chapter 442 Breaking through the high-end resistance

Although he said he would focus on materials, it was obviously impossible for Chang Haonan to contact materials research and development personnel across the country.

The research direction of high-speed bearings is an unpopular one. There are not many research groups working on it in the country, and there are only a few at the forefront, and they happen to be concentrated in a few universities under the Science and Technology Commission system. Put together It's easy to hold a meeting.

But materials, even relatively unpopular metal materials, definitely belong to prominent science (easy articles). There are so many researchers. Even some scholars who are not originally in the field of materials science will join in the fun just to publish a few more papers. If they are published in batches By holding meetings for them, Chang Haonan probably won't have to do anything else in the next few years.

Even if we focus on the industrial end of metallurgy, the number of domestic steel plants...

You have no idea which steel mill has done something weird in which segment.

We can't conduct a large-scale industrial survey in 1997.

To do this kind of hard work before the information age, the manpower and material resources mobilized, and the various twists and turns that may be involved are enough to cause the entire industry to go into chaos or even stop.

At this time, we must learn to grasp the key contradictions.

In the entire bearing industry chain, the most concentrated part in China is actually the bearing manufacturer itself.

Only three companies, Ha, Luo and Wa, can produce relatively high-end bearing products.

That is, Bingcheng Bearing Group, Luoyi Bearing Group and Fuzhou Bearing Group.

They are all established companies in the industry and have close ties with the upstream machine tool, metallurgy, and precision instrument industries, as well as many downstream manufacturing industries, especially the civilian manufacturing industry.

This is very important.

As mentioned earlier, in order to further improve his theory and benefit end users from it, a large amount of data accumulation from the industry is required.

But this kind of thing is easy to say, but there is a big problem in doing it.

At present, the localization rate of China's high-end bearings is almost 0. How can we make users trust and start using domestic bearings?

The Science and Technology Commission system can indeed provide some assistance, but the models and production capacity of aerospace rockets are ultimately limited, and the usage conditions they are intended for are too monotonous.

For example, the core bearings of a turbofan engine are actually 5-6 sets, and aircraft engines of the same type are highly similar, so not much data can be provided.

Compared with the civilian field, which has a wide variety of products and a huge market, the military industry has inherent shortcomings in this aspect.

But the environment in the civilian field is much more complicated.

High-end bearings from foreign brands such as NTN, SKF and FAG have formed complete and solid market barriers. Whether from the perspective of stability or profit distribution, users will not easily choose to change suppliers.

This is actually a problem faced by China in many fields——

High-end users don't care about cost performance at all. As long as they have performance and stability, once they form a habit of using it, they won't change it unless they have to. Price reductions and other means are completely useless.

Even in the previous life, many industries in China, especially the basic industries, would not have been so easy to develop if it hadn't been for the push from the King of Understanding.

So for now, we can only start slowly with state-owned enterprises.

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Considering that none of the three bearing groups were affiliated to the Science and Technology Commission system and had no business contact with Chang Haonan in the past, the latter finally decided to send a letter of inquiry in the name of the general manager of Torch Company.

To his own surprise, all three inquiry letters were responded to on the same day.

The content of the reply is basically the same——

Send someone to the capital immediately.

Chang Haonan has never seen such an attitude and efficiency in his entire life.

"It went really smoothly beyond expectations..."

Chang Haonan held three faxed reply letters in his hand, with a hint of surprise in his tone.

"Of course. Although our company has not had direct business contact with them and does not belong to the same system, you are a member of the expert advisory group in important scientific frontier fields of the 973 Project. How can all domestic companies and institutions with some research and development capabilities? You have to give me some face."

Song Jingming, the office director who sent the reply letter, paid the right compliment:

"Besides, this matter itself is of no harm to them. If I were the person in charge, I would definitely rush to do it, for fear that the other two companies would take advantage of it."

"Right."

Chang Haonan put the things in his hands aside and turned to look at Song Jingming:

"Then Lao Song, go and arrange the reception and the meeting. The specifications can be a little higher, but it must be as soon as possible."

As the development of Torch Company gradually gets on the right track, other departments besides technology are gradually enriched.

Fortunately, the de-administrative reform of state-owned enterprises has not been completed at this time, and even grassroots units can harvest wool from other places.

Song Jingming was transferred from the General Office of the Science and Technology Commission.

For this reason, I even gave him a half-level upgrade.

Of course, because Chang Haonan is not planning to build a large and comprehensive company, many departments are still relatively thin.

For example, there are only two people in the administrative office including Song Jingming, so many things require his own hands as the director.

There is only one Yang Huimei in the marketing department. Fortunately, she has many graduate students under her, who can help share some unimportant work.

……

It should be said that Song Jingming's guess was accurate.

When Zhang Xu, the head of R&D from Bingcheng Bearing Group, walked into Chang Haonan's office and found that his colleagues from Luoyi and Fuzhou were already sitting inside, his face turned pale at that time.

If the other two families had secretly negotiated something while he was away, he would definitely not get any good results after he returned.

You know, before departure, the general manager of Ice Axis Group specially called him to the office and repeatedly warned him that although the meeting was small in scale, it was of extremely high importance. The general manager Chang Haonan who presided over the meeting was young but regardless of his ability. The relationship is still very good. All the institutions and companies that had a relationship with this person in the past took off.

To sum it up, if you don’t get any competitive technology when you go to the capital this time, then you should stay in the capital and never come back.

In just a few seconds, Zhang Xu had already started thinking about how to find his next job.

At this time, Chang Haonan cleared his throat:

"Now that Mr. Zhang has arrived, let's get started."

"I have several technical documents related to bearings here. You three should take a look at them first to see if you are interested in this project."

Chang Haonan motioned to Song Jingming to send the document to the three people sitting on the sofas on both sides.

Zhang Xu's expression finally softened a little. Looking at this posture, he shouldn't have missed anything important.

But the relaxed mood didn't last for a few seconds when he felt his heart suddenly shrink again after receiving the technical documents.

The document begins as a series of performance requirements for bearings.

As R&D director, Zhang Xu could see the difficulty at a glance.

A high speed of more than 3, an operating temperature of more than 250C, irregular and extremely high levels of external overload, plus a life requirement of no less than 3000 hours...

In another situation, Zhang Xu would probably have asked why you don't go to heaven?

Of course, what he didn't know was that this bearing was really going to go to heaven.

At the same time, the other two people also looked embarrassed.

Although the three of them have their own strengths in specific fields, their overall levels are not much different. Problems that one finds difficult will not be easy for the other two.

"The first request is so difficult, what will happen next..."

With this thought in mind, Zhang Xu mustered up the courage to turn to the second page of the document...

"What the fuck?"

The second page is not another technical requirement, but the specific design of this bearing.

In other words, Chang Haonan is not giving them questions, but letting them see the process of solving the questions.

Then, the more Zhang Xu looked at this document, the more shocked he became.

He finally understood why his general manager had to let him come on this trip.