Chapter 27

On Monday, September 5, 1977, baozixuan will welcome his first class after settling down at MIT. It takes two years to complete three and a half years of courses. Most of the college students who communicate in other colleges and universities are not under great academic pressure.

There are only 22 students in their class, including 14 from other famous universities in the world. Some study civil engineering, some study computer and some study bioengineering. After all, when they just entered the university two years ago, they chose double degrees and should be responsible for their choice. As a result, the teacher will talk about a book in the second class, and then practice and examination.

Their first lesson is relatively simple, including the development process and future direction of machinery. This is not only a very simple course, but also a process of human production and use of machines. This class is taught by a 50 year old professor to these children. Kevin Bowman, a professor of German descent. He was born in a mechanical family. His grandfather was the chief engineer of Rhine metal in Germany. His family moved to the United States because of the war.

Kevin Bowman: "in this class, let's talk about your views on the future development of machinery, including how we can help enterprises build factories and what kind of factories to build. As for the machines invented by human beings in ancient times, take it as a foundation. Textbooks like MIT are the lessons taught to you by history teachers. Who would like to share with you the relationship between machinery and factories in the future and the role of MIT in it? "

At this time, one of the only two girls in the class stood up and said, "Professor Bowman, Hello, my name is Jane Jones. I think the production efficiency of machines will be higher in the future; Higher requirements for production accuracy; Some labor will be gradually replaced by machines. " In the 21st century, anyone who reads a little can express their views, but not many people can have such views in this era.

Another girl then stood up and said, "I have to add that the proportion of CNC machine tools will be higher and higher. We will have fewer and fewer manual operations, and the factory will produce after the customer places an order. "

Everyone is constantly expressing their views, and at this time, a person's speech makes baozixuan feel bright. I think we should integrate many current machines so that people in need can buy all the needed machines with less money, and the parts should be universal on a large scale to find a standard interface, So that the products produced by different factories can be exchanged and used with each other. To achieve the rapid replacement of parts, and the standard revolutions of the motor should be integrated according to the different needs of each industry to achieve the required standard revolutions, multi pole division.

At this time, Professor Bowman nodded thoughtfully and asked, "what's your name?"

"My name is Louis Wallace," said the boy who had just returned to the question.

Bowman: "OK, Louis, what you said is very reasonable. I hope you will work hard in this regard."

After everyone kept expressing their views, it was finally baozixuan's turn.

Bao Zixuan: "Hello everyone, my name is Bao Zixuan. What I just heard from your classmates is very reasonable, but I think the improvement of machinery manufacturing is a systematic project. It needs the overall quality of our staff, precision processing ability and people's requirements for product use to balance and decide. I think we should expand machinery manufacturing into the industrial system. "

"I'm thinking about a problem this holiday, that is, how do we divide the big industry? I preliminarily divide the industry into four times. I.e. industry 1.0, industry 2.0, industry 3.0 and industry 4.0. "

"The so-called industry 1.0 is the steam age; Industry 2.0 is the era of electrification; Industry 3.0 is the information age; It is also the era we are experiencing, and industry 4.0 uses information technology to promote industrial change. I define it as the intelligent era. "

"What we are experiencing now is the industry 3.0 stage, the electronic information age, that is, GF applies electronic and information technology to further greatly improve the degree of automatic control of manufacturing process. Turn the information we receive into products produced by the factory. "

"Industry 4.0 should be the integration of the physical world and the virtual world calculated by the computer, the whole product life cycle, the digitization of the whole manufacturing process and the module integration based on communication technology, so as to form a new production mode of highly flexible, personalized and digital products and services."

"In industry 4.0. We should pay attention to the construction of intelligent factories, the degree of artificial intelligence of intelligent production and the overall supporting facilities of intelligent logistics. At present, I am still trying to build an intelligent factory. In my computer, I can realize the factory construction of 16 uncomplicated parts, as well as all data connection and integrated production. If there are more, my computer computing ability will not meet the requirements. "

At this time, everyone looked at baozixuan like a monster. The proposal of industry 4.0 was 40 years ahead of schedule, but he just wanted to prove himself at MIT. Moreover, the MIT Laboratory will certainly have this experiment before the German proposal, and the cost factor has not been realized.

At this time, the world can only be in the mechanical manufacturing class of MIT. The people who put forward such a theory will not be considered crazy. Through this speech, they still conquered the students of MIT. Of course, Professor Kevin Bowman was conquered.

At this time, Professor Kevin Bowman was the first to respond and applaud, and everyone followed. In fact, baozixuan wanted this effect. Only in this way could his research results not be so abrupt.

Professor Bowman: "Bao, your point of view is very novel, and I think it has great development prospects. You really did it. You can build a virtual factory with 16 parts. "

In fact, when Luoluo company, they were able to simulate the whole process of the production and assembly of tens of thousands of parts on the computer, and baozixuan participated in the core part of the plan, so the simplified version of the software had already been written.

Bao Zixuan: "yes, professor. I can simulate it for you next class. "

Professor Bowman: "well, you can form today's ideas into a paper. I'm a member of the review committee of science magazine. I can recommend your paper to science magazine."

Steamed stuffed bun Xuan didn't expect, just to let everyone remember his words and have such an effect. And as a man of science and technology, no one doesn't know science magazines. It seems that this is also a way to increase his influence!

Bao Zixuan: "OK, Professor; I'll give you my paper tomorrow. In fact, I've finished writing it during the holiday, but it's not refined or simplified. "

Professor Bowman: "great, I look forward to your paper. That's all for today! Class is over! "

At this time, everyone began to walk outside the classroom. Professor Kevin Bowman asked Bao Zixuan to wait for him at this time. Everyone admires it here. But everyone thinks it should be. Bao Zixuan's performance today deserves the professor's separate attention.

Professor Bowman: "Bao, you are a young man with great ideas. I hope you will be my teaching assistant and my laboratory assistant."

Bao Zixuan: "Professor, don't you have to be a master's student to be a teaching assistant! And the assistants in Bowman laboratory are doctoral students. I'm afraid my qualifications are not enough. "

Professor Bowman: "there are not so many rules and regulations at MIT. As long as you have strength and ideas, nothing is a problem. The main task of my laboratory this year is to study the multi-function of NC machine tool application. Originally, I wanted to find someone from the computer department to join, but I think you are the best choice when I heard your idea and your computer strength that you can build a virtual factory. "

Bao Zixuan: "I have a question. How to calculate the patents generated during R & D? I'm not afraid of your jokes. My family has a factory in Xiangjiang, but the technology is not very advanced. I need to use what I have learned to complete the upgrading of technology and industry."

Professor Bowman: "these are not problems. No one dares to possess your research results at MIT. The patent is yours or yours, but you have to pay service and use fees when using the resources of the school."

After the constant communication between the two people, baozixuan didn't promise to be a teaching assistant, but agreed to join Bowman laboratory.