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Chapter 370 The Big Brother in the Eyes of the Big Brother

The research and development of the new motor is in charge of the company's project team responsible for permanent magnet synchronous motors, and the main research directions are servo motors and stepper motors.

The market size of stepper motors is only one tenth of that of servo motors, not because they are used less, but because the price is much cheaper than that of servo motors.

With the same power and torque, the price of a stepper motor is only one-third of that of a servo motor.

In addition to motors, bearings and screw rods are also Muyang's current key research and development work.

After Mu Yang worked on motor research and development for a few days, he shifted his energy to bearing research and development.

Bearings are widely used. For example, our bicycles have bearings installed on the front and rear wheels.

The bicycles born in the 1970s and 1980s were worn when they were young. After many years of use, the bearing beads fell off and they were found to be very worn.

Bicycles are driven at low speeds, and they wear out after a few kilometers. Bearings made with this technology must not be used in important equipment.

The market for bearings is large, much larger than servo motors.

In 2011, the main business income of enterprises above designated size in my country's bearing industry was 140.8 billion yuan, and the output of bearings was 16 billion sets. It can produce as small as 0.6 mm inner diameter and as large as 11 meters outer diameter!

That's right, the outer diameter is not 1.1 meters, but an exaggerated 11 meters. The type is a split thrust ball bearing, produced by ZWZ Group, and used on the largest tonnage reclaimer.

Although bearings have become standard parts, there are also many varieties, with a total of more than 90,000 bearings of various specifications.

However, more than 70% of the world bearing market share is occupied by eight multinational bearing group companies, including SKF (SKF) of Ruidian, INA and FAG under Deguo Schaeffler Group, NSK (NSK), NTN (NTN), Koyo Seiko (KOYO), Minebea (NMB), Nachi Fujikoshi (Nachi), Timken (TIMKEN) of the beautiful country, etc., the high-end market is also monopolized by these companies.

As for the low-end market share, which country is it occupied by?

Mainly concentrated in China.

This can be seen from the statistics of Huaguo's bearing import and export data.

In 2011, my country imported 1.875 billion sets of bearings and exported 4.899 billion sets.

However, imports amounted to $4.17 billion, while exports came in at $4.51 billion.

It can be seen that my country's high-end bearings still rely on imports.

Therefore, although my country is already a big bearing production country in the world, it is not yet a powerful bearing production country in the world. The industrial structure, research and development capabilities, technical level, product quality, efficiency and benefits of my country's bearing industry all have a large gap with the international advanced level.

In terms of the bearing application industry, global bearings are currently mainly used in the automotive industry, accounting for a quarter of the total sales of bearings, and it is also the main sales area of ​​high-end bearings.

Xinghai Group still has a head start in R\u0026D and production of bearings.

One is that it can be supplied to Hummer, and the other is that it can be exported.

Of course, Muyang's research on bearings is not for this purpose, but to solve the bearing problem of CNC machine tools, and also to avoid being stuck by the international bearing leader in the future.

Selling bearings is just incidental, and it can also break the monopoly of international bearing giants.

If Xinghai Group develops the world's top bearings, it can take a big bite from the import of 4.17 billion US dollars, and then take another bite from the international market. I dare not say too much. After all, there are too many model rules, and it is impossible to monopolize it no matter how powerful it is. In this bearing market, how can it bite off a market share of at least US$500 million.

So, where is the technical entry point for Xinghai Group to enter the bearing?

What is the most critical?

In fact, the problem of bearings is actually a problem of materials, and the same is true for the screw he wants to study.

If you want to develop bearings with high parameters, high precision and high reliability, you must give priority to the development of bearing steel smelting technology to improve the quality of bearing steel.

Materials are the most basic.

Secondly, it is the problem of heat treatment process.

Xinghai Group is strong in the production of titanium alloys and aluminum alloys, but has no experience in the production of alloy steel, especially bearing steel.

Titanium alloys, aluminum alloys and alloy steels are heterogeneous materials.

Their production equipment and processes are very different. It does not mean that high-strength steel can be produced if titanium alloy can be produced. This is wrong, and the two have little relationship.

Of course, the knowledge points are interlinked.

It is of course easy to study titanium alloys and then alloy steels.

Differences in material quality lead to many differences in speed, wear resistance, fatigue strength, high temperature creep resistance, etc., which directly affect the life of the bearing.

The bench test life of foreign deep groove ball bearings is generally 8 times or even more than ten times the calculated life, and the reliability is over 98%;

Foreign tapered roller bearings are generally 4 to 6 times, or even more than 8 times, the calculated life.

To give an example of products, in later generations, my country's bullet trains and high-speed rails are powerful, but bearings still rely on imports.

It can be said that the transmission basically relies on foreign technology, such as Ruidian SKF and Deguo FAG.

Transmission is one of the core technologies of high-speed trains. If there are no high-quality bearings, the quality and safety of the high-speed trains at speeds of 350 kilometers per hour and 200 kilometers per hour cannot be guaranteed.

When we were bragging about the comparison, most people didn't realize that the key parts of this train had to rely on foreigners.

Life is not as good as imported bearings, and so are other performances.

Perhaps, someone will ask: Why is the life of domestic bearings so poor? How is the bearing damaged?

Doesn't it mean that our country's design level is very good? With so many designers in our country, the bearings should not be bad, right?

This is related to the working condition of the bearing. Under the action of cyclic load, especially under the high-speed and high-pressure environment, the contact surface is prone to fatigue damage, that is, cracking and peeling, which is the main damage mode of the bearing.

Therefore, in order to improve the working life of the bearing, the bearing steel must have a high contact fatigue strength.

In fact, in addition to requiring reasonable design, good surface quality, good toughness and high surface strength are required. Heat treatment measures such as high-frequency quenching, carburizing, cyaniding, and nitriding are used to improve the fatigue resistance of component surface materials. strength capacity.

If the material is not up to standard, no matter how good the heat treatment process is, it is useless, and the material is always the basic project.

Therefore, the failure of the material and heat treatment process of bearing steel to meet the requirements is a problem of distance between my country and international giants, and it is also a key problem, not a problem of machining.

Machining will certainly affect the accuracy of the bearing, but domestic machining can basically meet the requirements.

It is not a design problem, it has nothing to do with the design, and now the bearings have been standardized.

Who said that our domestic design is not good?

nonsense!

There is not much difference in bearing design at home and abroad.

Of course, with the same load and the same speed, even if we use domestically produced bearings, the regular size is larger than that of imported ones, so that is of course not a problem.

The strength is not enough, the quantity is enough!

Quantity is not enough, size is thick enough! !

Sometimes, problems can be solved if space is not considered.

Just like our domestic cars, the strength of the steel plate is not as strong as that of the island country, but our steel plate is thick!

It’s just that, in the current popular compact design, especially high-precision equipment, it is not feasible to rely on quantity and size to win, and it will soon be eliminated by the market.

It is really not easy for Huaguo industry to go from reform and opening up to today. How many ancestors have condensed the sweat and wisdom of the crystallization. From nothing to the current Huaguo creation and the future Huaguo creation all reflect the rise and strength of the country. Therefore, people's living and working in peace and contentment are closely related to national defense, king industry and even industrial manufacturing.

Bearing, a seemingly inconspicuous little thing, is the key to modern industrial machines. It bears the operation and bearing capacity of the entire machine. It is the same as the joints of the human body, and it cannot be done without it.

Without exception, industrial powers are strong in bearing R\u0026D and manufacturing. It can be said that even if they can be imported, the problem is that imported bearings are not necessarily the best.

Just like the products exported by Xinghai Group, they are inferior to domestic ones, while the products used by our company are the best.

Aware of the importance of bearings, Mu Yang set up a special bearing project team. On the newly expropriated 2,500 mu of industrial land, there is a workshop dedicated to producing bearings.

Today, Xinghai Group owns 4,500 mu of industrial land and 1,000 mu of residential land.

The second phase of industrial land has been under construction for several months. After the construction of the second phase of industrial land is completed, Muyang plans to continue to expropriate land and make it into an industrial park of 10,000 mu, which will be called "Xinghai Industrial Park".

The citizens of City H know that the employees of Xinghai Group are rich, and the people of Xinghai Group are now one of the largest companies in City H, driving the local economic development.

It's just that what makes the real estate company very upset is that the employees of Xinghai Group have money, but they don't buy their houses.

In the past, sales of real estate companies went to the gate of Xinghai Group's headquarters base to advertise, but since Xinghai Group built its own house, it has not been able to sell, and even scolded the sales staff, "I bought your real estate company's house because I was out of my mind."

In the next few days, Mu Yang has finished dealing with the bearing project, and he will be on a business trip.

He is going to attend this year's Huaguo Green Company annual meeting.

Originally, the annual conference was planned to be held on April 21-23, 2012. This year, some things were delayed and it was postponed to August 12-14, which happened to be Saturday to Monday.

This annual conference focuses on private entrepreneurs as the main participant group, focuses on business ecology, studies and discusses practical issues of sustainable business development, and at the same time, strives to become a communication platform for building a new type of government-business relationship, and strives to provide suggestions for domestic industrial environment and policy revisions.

Every year, more than 1,000 visionary and transformative business leaders, politicians, academic authorities, representatives of NGO organizations and mainstream media personalities from all over the world, such as real estate tycoons and Internet tycoons, will attend.

Therefore, this annual meeting has become the most influential business forum in the field of sustainable economic development in Huaguo.

Mu Yang did not participate last year. In 2010, Xinghai Group did not reach the top 50 domestic private enterprises, and he did not join the Huaguo Entrepreneurs Club. The club was founded in 2006 by 31 Chinese business leaders, economists and diplomats.

He was invited to join the club at the end of last year, and Mu Yang joined after thinking about it, but he didn't want to take any position, he wasn't interested.

This year, he is invited to attend the annual meeting, which is the best opportunity to meet bigwigs from various industries.

With Mu Yang's current status, others want to get to know him. Mu Yang thought about it, and it would be good if he went, to get to know some great people in his previous life, and then pretend to compare himself in front of these good people, it seems to feel pretty good.

It's just a joke, it's not bad to go to relax, see what they have to say.

There are several forum topics every year, and nearly ten people will serve as guest speakers for each topic.

The club also invited Mu Yang to be a guest speaker, but Mu Yang refused, saying next year.

Even thinking that Liu Chuanzhi, Dalian Wanda Pharaoh, Zhongjin Li Jiange, economist Zhang Ying, Xu Danian and many other big names will give speeches at the annual meeting, Mu Yang would like to hear what these people have to say.

This year's annual meeting is held in Wucheng, and the theme is "Duty and Innovation in the New Reality".

On August 11th, Mu Yang came to Wucheng by car.

These big guys travel either in Rolls Royce or Maybach. Mu Yang feels that riding in Rolls Royce or Maybach is too high-profile. He doesn’t want to be so high-profile, so he has to take the car produced by his company, the Hummer EV.

Three Hummer EVs travel, well, Rolls-Royce and Maybach are not so eye-catching, it is difficult not to make a high profile.

It can be said that Rolls-Royce and Maybach are eclipsed in front of Hummer EV.

Mu Yang also said, I don't want to be high-profile, I just want to ride in the car produced by my company, blame me!

At 9 o'clock the next morning, the "2012 Huaguo Green Company Annual Meeting" hosted by Huaguo Entrepreneur Club will kick off, and Mu Yang came to the venue half an hour earlier.

At this point in time, most of the people had come, but Mu Yang came late.

In the venue, hundreds of business bigwigs have gathered, they are chatting in twos and threes, and they are also friends.

It can be said that Mu Yang is the youngest chairman among the big names in the conference.

Well, also the most handsome.

As soon as he appeared on the stage, he caught everyone's attention in an instant, and he was too stealthy.

The face is so recognizable that media photographers like to shoot it the most.

"Mr. Mu, this side, this side."

Hearing the familiar thick voice, Mu Yang turned his head and saw Li Shufu walking towards him while waving.

The two are old acquaintances, chatting on the phone for nothing.

"Mr. Li, when did you arrive?" Mu Yang shook hands with him, and the other big names were also a little curious, how did these two know each other so well.

Mu Yang is a super celebrity, few big names present are as famous as him.

Especially not long ago, the pre-sale of the Hummer EV was very popular, and the high profit margin of the Xinghai Group was not enviable by any bigwig on the scene.

"I just arrived, let me introduce some friends to you."

Mu Yang nodded, and Li Shufu introduced two friends beside him: "This is Mr. Yin from Lifan Group, and this is Mr. Nan from Normal Electric Group!"

"Hello, Mr. Mu, I've heard of you for a long time!" The two were very polite to Mu Yang. Mu Yang was no ordinary entrepreneur, but a mathematician and young scientist.

When it comes to wealth, there is nothing arrogant about Mu Yang beating them up.

Especially Mr. Nan, he also hopes to cooperate with Xinghai Group. Not to mention anything else, if Mu Yang said to the public that "Normal Electric's products are easy to use", it would be better than any advertisement.

Lifan Group's automobile brand strength is not good, and its performance is very poor.

As for the Xinghai Group, it's different, no matter what they do, everything is popular.

In the eyes of the two of them, Mu Yang is the boss.

"Boss Yin, Boss Nan, you two are polite, you are the business seniors, I know both of them, but I haven't met before." Mu Yang shook hands with the two and said very modestly.

Mu Yang's arrival attracted many people.

The four of them had just chatted for a while when Yadi's Wang Chuanfu and Ma Yun joined in.

Wang Chuanfu wanted to cooperate with Mu Yang. He wanted to cooperate with Xinghai Group. If they did not cooperate, the lithium iron phosphate battery developed by themselves could not compete with Xinghai Group's ternary lithium battery.

Ma Yun wanted to invest in the Xinghai Group's business, and Ali Company was adjacent to the Xinghai Group. Although they didn't meet much, they were considered acquaintances.

In addition to these people, Mu Yang also met many partners, such as the Huaguo presidents of BMW, Volkswagen and other automobiles.

"Congratulations to Mr. Mu, Hummer EV pre-sale is a big hit!"

"Thank you, everyone's good words."

Mu Yang's participation in this annual meeting also intends to disclose some news that the battery project is preparing for financing, so as to whet the appetite of some people first.

He was so popular that he was a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, he had done his homework before he came and didn't know his face, but he knew what the entrepreneurs present would do.