Chapter six hundred and eighty first joint research and development

Chapter 681 Joint Research and Development

Dr. Yang really said that? Isn't he just looking for an excuse to perfuse us? Li Weidong asked.

Yue Anan nodded: At first I was also worried that Dr. Yang was making excuses to perfuse us, so I specifically asked the farmers who grow hybrid rice. If the mud feet are too deep, it is indeed not conducive to the growth of hybrid rice.

The mud foot refers to the depth to which the agricultural machinery has been used to grow and sink into the soil.

If it is a dry field, the depth of the mud foot does not matter, and 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, directly below the depth of the seedlings, the seedlings will definitely not survive. Therefore, for paddy fields, if the mud foot is too deep, the entire field will be considered useless, and the water needs to be released again for reclamation.

The hand-push miniature agricultural machinery hardly has the problem of too deep mud feet, because the miniature agricultural machinery is relatively light and ordinary people can carry it. When working, the driving wheel can be directly replaced with a paddy field wheel without deep mud feet.

But for larger agricultural machinery, the situation is completely different. Large agricultural machinery is large in size and heavy in weight, and additional tires must be installed to move normally. However, during paddy field operations, tires can easily produce too deep mud feet and damage paddy fields.

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

After hearing Yue An'an's explanation, Li Weidong pondered for a moment, and said, Well, let's 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 Anan informed Ni Guilin of the situation, and after thinking for a while, Ni Guilin said, When we were doing product development, we really didn't consider the problem of mud feet.

Our north is dominated by dry land, and there are almost no paddy fields. Even if we grow rice, we only grow upland rice, and we don’t need to pay attention to the depth of mud feet. Now it seems that it is necessary to set up 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 the problem of mud feet.

Li Weidong continued to ask: The weight of those rice combine harvesters is not light, and they can be several tons at every turn. The paddy fields must not be able to bear it. How did they solve the problem of mud feet?

It's the track.

Ni Guilin opened his mouth and replied: Large paddy farm machines all use crawlers. 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 the tracks too! Li Weidong blurted out.

Ni Guilin showed a embarrassed expression, and 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 you can push it, you can't move it when you are working. More laborious!

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

The engine we originally used could not provide so much power, so a larger engine must be used, and a larger engine also means larger volume, more fuel consumption, and more professional maintenance.

If we use a large engine, we don't need to make a hand-push agricultural machine. Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to directly add a steering system to make a self-propelled agricultural machine!

It makes sense, crawlers are indeed not suitable for small and micro agricultural machinery. If so, then as you said, let's make a crawler self-propelled rice rotary cultivator! Li Weidong said.

Well... Ni Guilin hesitated for a while, and said; There are some difficulties. Currently, the track system is mostly used for large-scale agricultural machinery, such as combine harvesters and the like.

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 reserves or research and development experience, it is almost zero!

Yue Ping'an also explained from the side: The track system is much more complicated than the wheel. In the past, only large-scale agricultural machinery companies with strong strength would manufacture tracked agricultural machinery. Ordinary agricultural machinery enterprises either directly manufacture wheeled agricultural machinery, or they manufacture wheeled agricultural machinery directly. Large corporations buy track sites.

The predecessor of our Fukang Agricultural Machinery was just a county-level agricultural machinery factory, which 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 track 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 be able to obtain 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 relatively difficult, and ordinary enterprises could not master it. Li Weidong said.

Yes, that's the reason! Yue Anan continued: If we are making rice harvesters, we can directly purchase the tracked chassis from other companies, after all, that thing is relatively large, and other companies have ready-made track systems.

However, the size of the rice rotary tiller is much smaller. It is impossible for those big companies to develop a small track specifically for us, so we can only develop it independently. But for 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 door to you?

Yue Ping'an and Ni Guilin were taken aback at the same time, and then said in unison; Beverly Project?

That's right, Fukang Agricultural Machinery doesn't have crawler technology here, but Fukang Engineering next door does! Li Weidong replied.

Fukang Engineering is a company that produces excavators. How could it not have crawler technology?

Li Weidong went on to say: Well, I'll connect the two companies and let you two companies form a research and development team, specializing in conquering the technology of small tracked sites!

Once this technology is successfully developed, not only will you benefit, but Fukang Engineering will also benefit. If you develop small construction machinery in the next step, this small track technology will just be used.

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The concept of crawler self-propelled rotary cultivator was proposed by a private agricultural machinery company in about 2004. However, 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-propelled rotary tiller officially came off the assembly line, but the product at that time was still relatively crude and not yet practical.

After another two years of improvement, until 2008, the crawler-type self-propelled rotary cultivator 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, and there are many aspects that need to be improved.

The land in each province of China is different. Some places have hard soil, some places have soft soil, some places have a lot of sand, and some places have less sand. If you only adapt to the soil quality of one of the provinces, it is very likely that the soil and water in other provinces will not be acclimatized.

After another three years, in 2011, the mature and efficient crawler self-propelled rotary cultivator was officially put into the market. It has withstood the test of the market in Hunan, Hubei, Fujian, Guangxi, AH, Jiangxi, and then sold to Southeast Asian countries.

In other words, it took seven years for this product from research and development to formal 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 is just a combination of existing technologies, but even so, it will take seven years. It takes time to integrate a usable product.

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

Not to mention the help of Beverly Engineering.

Although Fukang Agricultural Machinery does not have a reserve of crawler technology, Fukang Engineering has mature crawler technology. As a construction machinery company, many products such as bulldozers and excavators need to use crawlers.

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

Construction machinery and large-scale agricultural machinery actually have a lot in common at the technical level, so many construction machinery companies are also agricultural machinery companies themselves.

For example, Caterpillar, the world's number one in construction machinery, also produces agricultural machinery; and John Deere, the world's number one in the agricultural machinery industry, also ranks among the best in the world in the field of construction machinery.

There are also 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 Heavy Industry also has engine business and traditional business.

Fukang Engineering and Fukang Agricultural Machinery have jointly conducted research and development, and it is not difficult to overcome the small crawler technology. After a few months, the crawler self-propelled rotary tiller was successfully rolled off the production line.

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

In order to purchase raw materials, Dayang Machinery borrowed a large sum of money from the bank. As a result, these raw materials could only be sold at a 50% discount.

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

The order was given by Kubota, but the order was suddenly withdrawn in the end. According to the contract, the party who must have breached the contract must pay compensation. Dayang Machinery also planned to seek compensation from Kubota.

However, Kubota gave the reason that the cancellation of the order was caused by the protests of Thai farmers. This is not Kubota’s human error, but a force majeure factor. Therefore, except for the sentence Smi Masai, no penny will be lost. of.

Dayang Machinery also consulted a lawyer. Farmers protesting such things can be regarded as political turmoil, which is indeed a force majeure factor. Even if it is a lawsuit, the chance of Dayang Machinery winning is not high.

Therefore, Dayang Machinery could only swallow this huge loss by itself.

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

As the chairman of Dayang Machinery, Song Chengde is not incompetent. After suffering a huge loss, 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 considered a 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 catalog 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 local snake enterprises like Dayang Machinery, if their products enter the agricultural machinery promotion catalog, they 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 strongly. The sum of the scattered pieces can reach half of the product price, which means that farmers only need half the price to buy agricultural machinery.

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

Therefore, the importance of entering the agricultural machinery promotion catalog of the Ministry of Agriculture is self-evident for a new product.

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 tried his best to find ways through various connections, hoping to enter the agricultural machinery promotion catalog of the Ministry of Agriculture.

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In the test field, Yang Yuming looked at the tracked self-propelled rotary tiller in surprise.

The crawler rotary tiller was made so soon? Yang Yuming walked around the machine, and then said; The concept of the crawler rotary tiller has been mentioned by some companies before, but no one has really done it. After all, the research and development It's a bit difficult. I didn't expect you, Fukang Agricultural Machinery, to make a crawler rotary tiller in such a short time. Your technical level is really extraordinary!

Dr. Yang's praise. Yue Anan hurriedly said; Actually, our technology in crawler tracks is still relatively weak. The reason why we can produce products 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 company in China. They have relatively deep technical reserves in crawler technology.

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

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

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

The next agricultural machine test was very successful. The rotary cultivator carried by the two crawlers ran very smoothly in the paddy field, the mud was well cultivated and the mud was sufficient.

In a blink of an eye, one mu of land was cultivated.

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

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

The teacher is in Sanya, and he will probably be here in the near future. Yang Yuming replied.

Then when will Mr. Yuan come back? Yue Anan then 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 are a batch of experimental fields in Sanya that are about to be harvested. It is estimated that the teacher will come back after the harvest is over. Yang Yuming thought for a while and replied: Mr. Yue, since the Ministry of Agriculture has a deadline, you should go deliver the newspaper first. Right! I will report to him as soon as possible when the teacher comes back here.

Then thank you Dr. Yang. Although Yue An'an felt helpless, he did not dare to be negligent in terms of etiquette.

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