The Red Alert Begins in the Wasteland

Walking along the production line, Cai Ruichen felt that he really opened the world.

This kind of world can be seen here. I am afraid that no matter who it is, seeing the performance of these assembly lines will not be much better than him.

But the core of the tank factory, this production line, is just a very common part.

The production line of assembling modules, how to say, is just assembling the parts of a vehicle together.

The tank factory does not need any outsourced parts production factory, it can produce a complete vehicle by itself.

In the future, such an assembly line will not be used to assemble vehicles, but to assemble main battle tanks.

These parts and modules are all directly produced in the factory without any raw materials.

At least, Cai Ruichen did not send a screw down to produce the fifteen rocket launch vehicles above.

As the footsteps moved forward, Cai Ruichen's eyes were once again attracted by a tall device.

The dazzling red laser beam shone from this device. On the ground, it was a pool of ten meters by ten meters square.

The face of the pool is full of viscous liquid, which looks like mud, but there are some differences, and the surface seems to be shiny with metal.

The laser beam transmitted from the irradiation device above was scattered and irradiated in this pool. In the calm pool, an object that looked like an engine was slowly emerging from the liquid.

3D printing-light curing three-dimensional modeling?

Cai Ruichen doesn't understand these high technologies, but the viscous liquid in the pool in front of him also has the laser beam on it. It really looks like this.

Just looking at the rapid prototyping engine in the pool in front of you. It is completely a metal object. Is it possible that light-curing three-dimensional modeling can already play an effect on liquid metal?

The technology generally uses photosensitive resin as raw material, and uses computer-controlled ultraviolet lasers to scan the liquid resin point by point, from the point to line to the surface, so that the scanned area is The thin layer of resin polymerizes to form a thin section of the part.

When one layer is cured. The lifting table moves a distance of the thickness of the layer, and a new layer of liquid grease is covered on the surface of the originally cured resin for scanning and curing of a new layer.

The newly solidified layer is firmly bonded to the previous layer, and this is repeated until the prototype of the entire part is completed.

The method is characterized by high precision, good surface quality, and nearly 100% raw material utilization rate, and can manufacture parts with particularly complex shapes and particularly delicate appearance.

But Cai Ruichen has never heard of it, and he can actually print out a complete engine in this way.

But the fact was before his eyes, and what emerged in the pool was an engine.

There is a numerically controlled display next to the pool, which shows a good simulation diagram of the printing process.

During printing, the engine is the power heart of the Gaia special car, in the numerical control display. The structure and printing process inside the engine are shown in detail.

What makes Cai Ruichen the most magical is the whole printing work. It is not to print out the engine parts and then perform another assembly.

Instead, print an engine from the engine block, crankshaft connecting rod mechanism, valve mechanism, lubrication system, cooling system, fuel supply system, (the diesel engine does not have an ignition system) to the starting device, and print it all at once.

You need to know that the materials in the engine are not all alloys or metals, but also other materials.

But the 3D printer in the tank factory really printed a complete engine directly.

The engine produced in this way cannot be disassembled at all, and a screw cannot be seen from the top of the body, and the whole body cannot be divided.

In other words, even if one of the components inside is broken, it must be thrown away and replaced with a new engine.

The only way to disassemble the engine is to cut it directly with a cutting machine, but the engine will be damaged.

Since the industrial revolution, no such technology has appeared, but Cai Ruichen has seen it now.

It was displayed in front of him very concretely.

Turning over the production records on the CNC display, Cai Ruichen found that the production process of the Gaia special car he just took was from here to print out various assembled modules and then assemble them on the production line.

Even the leather mounts, bulletproof glass windows... and all the electronic equipment in the car are all printed from here.

Can the printed leather seat be called leather? Can electronic originals be printed?

Looking at the viscous liquid in the pool, he didn't know how to answer these questions.

Cai Ruichen has always known that the base is very strong, and he has never doubted it.

After all, the base already has many things that cannot be explained by science, but he still does not have a very intuitive understanding of the magic of the base.

Today, Cai Ruichen has really seen the powerful side of the base technology. Whether it is the fully automated production line that he just saw or this super-large modular production line, it has all subverted his impression of technology and industry.

Not to mention, the source of the raw materials in the pool must be the base, but why the raw materials can be converted into parts of various materials, even if he wants to break his head, he can't figure it out.

On the other hand, the automated production line also has light-cured three-dimensional modeling. Although it looks very magical, it is not a disruptive technology.

After all, with the current technology ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, it is possible to realize such a technology sooner or later. After all, automated production is also evolving to a high degree of automation, which is the ultimate manifestation of human industrial development.

And 3D printing technology is becoming more and more mature. Even Russia has sent a 3D printer to Syria to produce consumable weapons and ammunition for the troops stationed there.

The truly magical place in the tank factory should be the unknown materials in the pool.

"The base, what is the material in this pond?" Cai Ruichen, who was curious, immediately asked the base through the console on his wrist.

"The things inside come from the ore refinery to transform various ore to obtain liquid materials." The base replied very simply.

"Then why haven't I seen these materials appear in the ore refinery?" Cai Ruichen asked.

"The materials recovered by the ore refinery will be stored. After the commander chooses to produce weapons and equipment, these liquefied raw materials will be transported to the tank factory through the base, and then produced. In fact, a large part of the base’s funds are these raw materials. Digitization, every change in funding is well-documented," the base replied. (To be continued...)