On June 21, Huazhong CNC Chairman Chen Jihong (right) was a guest at Hubei Daily Entrepreneurs All-Media Talk. (Photo by Hubei Daily All-Media Reporter Zhu Xiyong)
Hubei Daily All-Media Reporter Xiao Liqiong Correspondent Zhang Ling
CNC machine tools are known as the "magic wand" and "scalpel" of modern industry. From smart phones to smart watches , from aircraft, missiles to aircraft carriers and other important weapons of great powers, they are all inseparable from high-precision CNC machine tools. Wuhan Huazhong CNC Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huazhong CNC") is a high-tech enterprise that equips CNC machine tools with "Chinese brain".
html On June 21, Chen Jihong, Chairman of Huazhong CNC, visited the 5G studio of Hubei Daily to share the story of the company’s 28 years of dedicated efforts to cultivate “Chinese brain” and break through the blockade.Business Card
Wuhan Huazhong CNC Co., Ltd. was established in 1994. It is a national high-tech enterprise, a research and industrialization base for domestic mid-to-high-end CNC systems , the first listed company in the domestic CNC system industry, and one of the first batch of "national High-tech development plan results industrialization base." Huazhong CNC adheres to cutting-edge innovation, strives to build China's own brands, equips "Made in China" with "Chinese brain", and develops five-axis linkage high-end CNC systems to break the foreign blockade. Huazhong Type I CNC system and other projects have won the second prize for national scientific and technological progress four times. Award is currently the highest honor for scientific and technological innovation in the field of domestic CNC systems.
Wonderful Quotes
Huazhong CNC shoulders the national mission, gnaws hard bones one hard bone, attacks bunker after bunker, and relays from generation to generation. It may take as little as 5 years, as many as 10 or 20 years. We will be able to break through each key core. Technology, Chinese industry, especially high-end manufacturing, will surely usher in a new situation that breaks through the blockade and will not be "stuck".
The processing accuracy reaches one thousandth of a hair
The chain rotates with a "clatter", and the iron arm holding the "sharp blade" is aimed at the target without bias, and the iron filings fly. In the shadow of "hand rising and knife falling", the original solid casting turned into a spiral impeller, with more than a dozen blades as neat as a copy.
Such magical knife skills are a real scene staged in Huazhong CNC Park. This super "swordsman" is an intelligent CNC machine tool equipped with Huazhong CNC's latest high-precision CNC system. The
machine tool is called the "industrial mother machine", which is the machine that makes the machine, and the CNC system is the "brain" of the machine tool. Just as the proud knight must learn powerful martial arts, a first-class CNC machine tool must also be able to perform a set of superb sword skills, and it is the CNC system that gives it the "secrets of martial arts".
"Huazhong CNC's ultra-precision machining CNC system leads the world!" In the studio, Chen Jihong combined two metal blocks with special-shaped surfaces into one, and the joint was "seamless." He said that the processing accuracy of these two metal blocks is controlled below 0.02 microns, which is one thousandth of the diameter of a human hair. To achieve this, micron-level machining accuracy must be monitored and adjusted in real time. This was once a confidential core technology of Western CNC giants, and has been independently broken through by Huazhong CNC engineers.
high-end CNC machine tools are related to national defense security, industrial security and economic security. In recent years, with the support of , a major national science and technology project, my country's machine tool equipment industry has achieved high-end domestic machine tools, and Huazhong CNC is one of the leaders.
Chen Jihong introduced that the Huazhong CNC system has iterated from "Huazhong Type I" to "Huazhong Type 9". The latter integrates the AI chip and integrates AI algorithms. It is a model of the deep integration of the new generation of artificial intelligence technology and advanced manufacturing technology. At present, Huazhong Type 8 CNC system has fully entered the main battlefield in aerospace, automobile manufacturing, energy equipment and other fields, with a cumulative sales of nearly 150,000 units.
independently developed to break through blockade and sanctions
html On June 28, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during an inspection in Wuhan that it was urgent to break through the "stuck neck" key core technologies. To promote the transformation and upgrading of my country's manufacturing industry and build a manufacturing power, we must strengthen technology research and development, increase the localization substitution rate, and hold the lifeblood of science and technology in our own hands, so that the country can become truly strong.“For key core technologies such as high-end CNC systems, you can’t get them, buy them, or ask for them.In the face of blockade and suppression, the only way out is to work hard and innovate independently! "For more than 20 years, Huazhong CNC has insisted on independent research and development of "Equipment Headed by the Republic". As a strong brand in the field of domestic CNC systems, it can directly compete with leading foreign CNC companies.
Chen Jihong told a sad story.
In 1986, Professor Huang Shuhuai, who was then the dean of Huazhong Institute of Technology (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology), saw in a famous research institute in Japan that the numerical control system of the displayed machine tool was painted in different colors. Someone quietly told: different colors indicate different ones. In the sales area, the products sold to countries such as China are low-end or nearly obsolete products.
"It is this kind of naked 'color discrimination' that makes us determined: we must develop China's own high-performance CNC system! "Chen Jihong said.
The results were achieved by breaking through the blockade and working hard to solve key problems.
In 1958, Huazhong Institute of Technology took the lead in starting research on CNC technology in China. In 1993, the Huazhong Type I CNC system with independent intellectual property rights was launched in Han. Achieve breakthroughs in domestic high-performance CNC technology, and Huazhong CNC was born.
Whenever China achieves technological breakthroughs in strategic fields, unwarranted accusations and sanctions from some Western countries will follow.
In 1999, American politician Cox framed China. Stealing cutting-edge CNC technology from the United States. In October 2008, the United States imposed sanctions on three Chinese companies including Huazhong CNC.
In the face of sanctions, Huazhong CNC people continued to make technological breakthroughs and successfully broke through the five-axis technology. Linkage and other high-level CNC technologies broke foreign monopoly.
In April 2016, the "Huazhong 8" high-speed and high-precision CNC system products successfully passed the scientific and technological achievements appraisal, fully reached the international advanced level, and quickly entered the domestic 3C manufacturing field. In the past, high-speed and high-precision machining machine tools have always been dominated by Japan and the United States, and CNC systems were mainly imported systems. "The 'Huazhong 8' not only cut away about 10% of the market share of foreign competitors, but also dominated the market." It also forced its competitors to reduce the product price from more than 70,000 yuan to more than 50,000 yuan, a drop of 30%! "Chen Jihong couldn't hide his pride. In the early days of the establishment of
, faced with the situation where imported brands still occupied the main track, Chen Jihong introduced that Huazhong CNC adopted a "guerrilla" plan of "getting out of the way and occupying both sides", starting from the CNC transformation of traditional machine tools Start to develop the market. At present, the "Huazhong 8" CNC system products have been applied in batches by thousands of companies, making contributions to breaking the foreign blockade, improving the CNC level, product market competitiveness and technological innovation capabilities of manufacturing companies, and providing
provides a strong guarantee for high-end CNC systems to achieve independent control
At present, on the campus of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, there are big-eyed and cute "panda" campus buses going back and forth. Shuttle has become a transportation tool for students. This is China’s first all-aluminum alloy, fully load-bearing new energy minibus, developed by Huazhong CNC. . "Chen Jihong introduced that "one core and three armies" means CNC technology as the core, intelligent CNC systems and machine tools are the first army, intelligent robots and production lines are the second army, and new energy vehicles are the third army. Centering on this strategy, Huazhong CNC It has built an industrialization base for CNC systems and machine tools centered in Wuhan, an industrialization base for intelligent robots and intelligent production lines centered on the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta, and a new energy vehicle industrialization base centered on Wuhan and Nanning.
Regardless of CNC systems, robots, or new energy vehicles, they are all high-tech strategic emerging industries that require high-level talent echelons to support.
Regarding this issue, Chen Jihong has a plan in mind, “Huazhong CNC was incubated at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, thanks to its establishment. Only by firmly implementing the talent strategy from the beginning can we develop from a school-run factory into an industry leader. "
Chen Jihong introduced that Huazhong CNC and the National CNC System Engineering Technology Research Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology have carried out close cooperation in industry, academia and research to achieve "talent exchange".In addition, Huazhong CNC also actively "recruits talents", attracting a group of top CNC engineers and entrusting them with important tasks. Chen Jihong said with confidence that in the future, he will continue to focus on intelligent manufacturing to achieve "overtaking" of high-end CNC systems, and strive to lead the domestic share of domestic high-end CNC systems to more than 60% by 2025.
