Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 301 Something's Wrong, Something's Haunted! (First Update!)

Looking at the equipment that had been adjusted, the team leader tilted his head like an owl, staring intently at the equipment.

The equipment in front of us was improved bit by bit by the predecessors of the research institute, who racked their brains and devoted themselves to its development.

It's fair to say that this one piece of equipment is enough to write more than a dozen academic papers.

That's why everyone at the research institute cherishes these devices so much.

New recruits, especially those assigned to specific groups, must learn the theory for a long time before they can actually operate the equipment.

The reason we were willing to let these young people do hands-on work this time was because the partner company offered a good price.

Once they've finished producing the parts, they can replace two new machines.

Theoretically, these young people should need at least two or three days to get a basic grasp of the material before they can gradually become proficient.

but……

Am I just getting old?

With this question in mind, he personally took matters into his own hands, readjusted the equipment again, confirmed that it was properly adjusted, took out a key from his pocket, opened the locked cabinet next to him, and took out a roll of packaged optical fiber.

The optical fiber was placed on the equipment, and the optical fiber disk of the optical fiber gyroscope was then fixed in place.

Push the person who just adjusted the equipment to the front of the equipment:

"Recall the drawings you just looked at, and input the parameters from the drawings into the device."

"Then, following what I told you and what you've learned, start winding the wire now!"

The fiber optic gyroscope windings consist of one pair of positive and one pair of negative windings.

The two sets of lines complement each other.

The accuracy of a fiber optic gyroscope is closely related to the length of the fiber optic cable.

The longer the optical fiber, the more significant the phase difference caused by rotation, and the higher the sensitivity.

However, longer is not always better. The length of optical fiber is also limited by factors such as the light source and the raw materials of the fiber.

At the same time, due to the special properties of optical fiber materials and light, the winding angle must be strictly controlled during the winding process.

Otherwise, two optical fibers, one positive and one negative, which should be the same length, might have different lengths due to a slight difference in angle, causing the materials to be positioned differently.

This means that the fiber optic disk had errors from the very beginning.

Under the watchful eyes of a group of people, the young team member, who had been forced into the task, stood in front of the equipment and began to carefully operate the equipment to wind the wire.

Fiber optic gyroscopes used in aerospace applications require high precision, and the length of the optical fiber used varies from 5 kilometers to 10 kilometers, depending on the thickness of the fiber itself and the manufacturing process.

Therefore, manually rerouting the cable is a dead end.

By using both manual labor and equipment to wind the wire, there's still a chance of survival.

During the winding process, personnel must stop the equipment after each turn, carefully inspect the optical fibers on the fiber optic reel, confirm that the winding angle is correct, and ensure that the lengths of the two released optical fibers are consistent before starting the next turn of winding.

When inspecting these optical fibers, the young team members worked quickly, almost instantly identifying any problems with the winding by just a glance.

Beside him, the team leader, seeing how quickly he moved, was also on tenterhooks.

He would check it once for each of the younger team members.

According to the normal procedure, the efficiency should be slowed down by two people checking. However, because the equipment was running smoothly, both of them checked very quickly. The entire winding process not only did not slow down, but the overall production speed was actually accelerated.

In just three hours, they completed the production of their first fiber optic tray after adjusting the equipment.

High-precision probes and cameras scanned across the fiber optic reel, and the feedback detection results and images were fully displayed to the team members.

The winding is extremely even, practically perfect!
After removing the fiber optic reel from the fixed device, the team leader quickly fixed it to another device.

Solder the wire ends at both ends of the optical disc to the wire ends on the device, close the cover, and begin optical signal testing.

The equipment starts running, and optical signals are input from one end of the optical fiber and output from the other end.

The device's timer pop-up time.

Two signals arrived simultaneously!

Immediately afterwards, the internal workings of the device began to operate, controlling the fiber optic disc to tilt and sway, simulating the working conditions of a fiber optic gyroscope in space.

Signals are output one after another, each time consisting of two signals, followed by their arrival times.

After the test was completed, the team leader took the light disk out of the equipment, held it in both hands, and displayed it under the cool white light:

"This is the fiber optic disk, which is the most important component in a fiber optic gyroscope."

"Xiao Fu has already demonstrated how to make this. Now, let's have someone else do it!"

Setting down the fiber optic tray, the team leader took a deep breath, his gaze sweeping over the expectant faces of the group before him. His eyes landed on the timid-looking girl in the corner, and he gently beckoned to her, saying:
"Xia, come here!"

The girl whose name was called froze for a moment, then pointed to herself: "Me? Can I operate the equipment?"

The team leader gritted his teeth, stepped forward, disassembled the control head of the equipment, sorted the parts into categories, pointed at the equipment, and said: "Go!"

"You go through the whole process, from installing the control head to the final winding."

As he spoke, he took a half step back and said to Xiao Fu, who had just been tangling the wire:
"You keep an eye on Xia and help her correct her mistakes!"

Having received permission, the girl nervously approached the equipment.

Then, the team leader's voice rang out: "Don't rush, think about the installation steps first!"

This girl was assigned to their group and has been doing clerical work ever since.

My main daily tasks are receiving and sending reports, issuing notices, and contacting other groups.

Therefore, they have virtually no practical experience.

Xiao Fu has practical experience, so he can get started, and the group leader can understand.

If Xia can also master it, then there's definitely something wrong with it!

With Xiao Fu's help, Xia Xia began installing the parts and then started adjusting the equipment.

It was very fast; the equipment was adjusted in less than half an hour.

Once the fiber optic reel is installed, a new round of winding begins.

Compared to Xiao Fu, Xia Xia's movements were a bit slower, but not by much.

In less than three and a half hours, a brand-new fiber optic disk was successfully unveiled.

After seeing the final test results, Xia raised her hands, staring intently at them, unable to believe she had accomplished such a task.

As she watched, she started chuckling to herself.

Every now and then it would let out a strange laugh: "I succeeded?"

"I actually managed to complete this task?"

“I’m so awesome!”

She was chuckling to herself, while several young team members who hadn't yet gotten the hang of it looked at her with envy.

The remaining elderly members of the group, however, looked at the equipment and Xia with a solemn expression.

After watching for a while, one of them approached the group leader:
"Team leader, do you believe in geniuses?"

The team leader nodded: "I believe there are geniuses, the kind of geniuses who can easily solve any project once they get their hands on it."

"but……"

He paused, then pointed at Xia: "It's obvious, she isn't!"

This sentence left the group members who wanted to say something speechless.

I want to say a few more words, but I'm not sure how to say them.

After all, growing up under the red flag and working in the aerospace industry, it would be a bit much for them to turn around and engage in feudal superstition. The team leader held his head and rubbed it for a long time, still unable to figure out what had caused his subordinates' skills to improve so dramatically today.

He sighed, walked up to Xia and the others, and clapped his hands together.

"Xiao Fu and Xiao Xia, they both completed the practical exercise."

"It's faster, and the finished product is perfect."

"We should all learn from them."

"It's almost time to get off work today."

"After you go back, study the blueprints carefully and try to recall what you just saw."

"Then tomorrow morning, as soon as I get to work, they'll start working on it for me."

"Besides getting hands-on with the equipment, you also need to think of ways to make the equipment save us working time, increase efficiency, and improve the yield rate."

"I'm going to take the exam!"

"get off work!"

Despite saying they were leaving get off work, the team leader didn't rush off. Instead, he waited until everyone else had left, then grabbed his laptop, plopped down in front of the equipment, and started reviewing the blueprints from beginning to end.

He reviewed the processing instructions again, started the equipment, and began winding the wire.

He hadn't walked around for long when he heard footsteps behind him.

Turning around, I found it was Chief Engineer Gu Shuchuan, who was carrying a boxed lunch.

"Gu Gong, are you bringing a boxed lunch because you're working overtime?"

Gu Shuchuan pushed the boxed lunch in front of the team leader and pointed at the equipment: "What about you? Everyone's off work now. I didn't see you eat lunch. Aren't you going to eat this afternoon?"

"I don't want to eat it, but I have an idea in my head that I want to try!" The team leader turned around and continued winding the line.

Compared to Xiao Fu and Xiao Xia, he was faster at controlling the winding of the equipment, and he didn't even need to stop the machine to check.

With this speed advantage, a brand new fiber optic disc was completed in less than 50 minutes.

After removing the fiber optic tray from the equipment, he immediately put it back into the testing equipment, soldered the fiber optic cable, and began testing right away.

The test ended after 10 minutes.

The test results are perfect!
After looking at the test results for a while, the team leader put down the fiber optic tray, picked up the cold boxed lunch, ate it in a few bites, and started a new round of winding.

But this time, he used the research institute's previous plan.

Adjust the equipment and fix the fiber optic tray.

Winding begins.

However, after only a few minutes of working on the winding, he turned off the equipment and stared at it blankly with his arms crossed.

At this moment, Gu Shuchuan walked over with a fiber optic disk and patted the team leader on the shoulder:

"Xiao Bai, this mission is very important, but we shouldn't feel pressured."

"Understand?"

"It's not that I'm under pressure!" The team leader shook his head, pointed to the stopped winding equipment, and then took the fiber optic reel from Gu Shuchuan's hand:
I feel like something's wrong!

"When I was working on the parts from Xiaomi Heavy Industry, everything went very smoothly!"

"It's like when you've had a stomachache for ages, then you just sit down on the toilet and have a smooth, easy bowel movement."

"Whether it's adjusting the equipment or trial production, everything goes very smoothly."

"But when I used our solution, I found that although it was also smooth, it didn't achieve the same smoothness as working on Xiaomi Heavy Industry's equipment."

"It's like... it's like you've only pooped halfway, and the other half just won't come out. That's the feeling."

Gu Shuchuan pressed his hand to his head, replying with a speechless expression:

"I don't know whether to respond to your analogy or not!"

"Actually, it's not just you, other people feel the same way."

"It's like producing parts for Xiaomi Heavy Industry. It feels very smooth, like a sudden enlightenment."

"But once you start working on other things, like our own parts, that feeling of sudden enlightenment disappears."

“I heard from other people that you haven’t left work yet, so I guessed that you must have noticed this feeling as well.”

"How about it?"

Have you found the cause?

When questioned, team leader Bai Feng spread his hands, looking helpless, and said:
"I have no idea!"

"Moreover, as the group leader, I have to ask you for advice on this matter and confirm whether it is true."

"So you came here to ask me, what could I possibly say?"

"I can only say I don't know!"

After listening to a few words of nonsense, Gu Shuchuan waved his hand and said, "Forget it!"

"Leave work early so you can start work early tomorrow, and remember to turn off the power when you leave!"

After giving his instructions, Gu Shuchuan turned and walked out, disappearing into the workshop in a few steps.

After leaving the workshop, Gu Shuchuan didn't go home, but returned to the administration building, to the director's office. He had caught Zhou Xuemin, who was preparing to escape.
"Director, I have something very serious to tell you."

As he was about to be caught on his way home, Zhou Xuemin said sternly, "Speak!"

"I suspect there's something fishy going on in our institute!"

Upon hearing the word "ghost," Zhou Xuemin's eyes widened instantly. He quickly glanced around, and finding no one nearby, he grabbed Gu Shuchuan's shoulder, pulled him to a corner, and, with his back to the wall, looked outside, asking:

"You mean, we investigate all spies?"

Gu Shuchuan was still curious about Zhou Xuemin's actions, but this sentence completely shattered his curiosity.

He straightened his back, patted the dust off his buttocks, rolled his eyes, and said:

"Not a spy!"

"What I mean is, our research institute might be haunted."

"Regarding that part from Xiaomi Heavy Industry, everyone received the blueprints today, and we'll start simulating production according to the design specifications and related processing techniques on the blueprints."

"And then, we all became prodigies!"

“They all became very quick and efficient, producing the same parts as before.”

"Our yield rate for individual parts is less than 50%, and the overall yield rate for parts is only 37%."

"But today, our institute's people broke their previous records."

"The winding team only produced two fiber optic reels today."

"Then both of them passed the test."

"Moreover, even the clerks in their group can directly operate the computer."

"I had just finished talking with Bai Feng before I came to find you."

"In his words, when producing parts for Xiaomi Heavy Industry, he felt a particularly relaxed feeling, but when producing our own parts, he didn't feel so good."

"I asked other groups about this situation this afternoon as well."

"That's why I said our institute is haunted!"

(End of this chapter)