Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 942: Chapter 478 Did I Come to the Wrong Place?_1

Red Wind Industry Technology Research and Development Center.

Zhou Haoren, accompanied by the company’s leadership team, took a comprehensive tour to understand the Technology Department.

In the meeting after the New Year, Zhou Haoren helped Red Wind Industry gain inclined policy support. For the next three years, they could allocate a portion of their tax payment directly into high-end manufacturing-related R&D investment.

This part of the tax totaled five to eight billion yuan, which meant that the national treasury was supporting Red Wind Industry with five to eight billion yuan for high-end manufacturing-related technology R&D. With several billions more in R&D funds, deciding where to invest required a detailed understanding.

Zhou Haoren placed great emphasis on R&D work. He planned to use a portion of the funds for upgrading the equipment of the Technology Department, another part for hiring professional talents with high salaries, and the remaining for collaborating with related field labs on technological R&D.

Red Wind Industry’s product design extended to fields like military and civilian industries. The core of the civilian segment was machine tools, heavy machinery, and steel products. The latter hardly made a substantial profit. Weibo’s profits were negligible, while profits from machine tools represented the bulk of earnings.

However, the machine tools and heavy machinery products manufactured by Red Wind Industry were not competitive internationally. They could only produce relatively simple heavy machinery, and their machine tools could compete only within the domestic low-end manufacturing field.

This was what restrained the development of Red Wind Industry.

Zhou Haoren understood that if Red Wind Industry wanted to develop, it had to invest heavily in high-end manufacturing R&D, upgrade existing technologies, and, if not catching up with international advanced levels, at least reach the next-tier level to possess higher competitiveness.

Therefore, regarding the investment in R&D for the technology department, he seriously asked several frontline technicians as well as staff from the product department, hoping to understand more thoroughly. Only then could he make a more rational allocation of R&D funding.

After a busy day, Zhou Haoren returned to his office, feeling exhausted all over but immediately powered up his computer to search for high-level domestic mechanical labs, hoping to find a suitable partnership for high-end manufacturing technology R&D.

At that moment, Zhou Haoren thought of Zhao Yi and the collaborative R&D on the main spindle technology, his lips unwittingly curling into a bitter smile.

"Academician Zhao probably has forgotten about the spindle R&D, right?"

"Lately he’s been focused on the production of an engine prototype and has conducted research on an ’np problem.’ It’s making headlines all over the world, seems quite impressive..."

"He definitely doesn’t have the time to care about spindle R&D."

"But then again, it doesn’t matter. I didn’t have much hope for it anyway," thought Zhou Haoren as he shook his head. When he initially decided to collaborate with Zhao Yi, he started with a ’give it a try’ mindset, thinking it wouldn’t matter if there were no outcomes, especially since the investment was only five million.

Five million in R&D funding may sound considerable, but in fact, it’s not much in the realm of high-end manufacturing.

Take the electric spindle, for example.

An advanced commercial electric spindle internationally could easily sell for tens of thousands of yuan, and a spindle mounted in a high-end machine tool could fetch hundreds of thousands of yuan.

If it’s the most top-notch machine tool or machinery, a custom-made spindle could cost even more, with prices starting from a million yuan being quite normal.

So what counts five million as?

Of course.

Five million in R&D funding going down the drain still stings a bit, but Zhou Haoren thought if it helps build a good relationship with Zhao Yi, then five million wouldn’t be a huge deal.

In business, one cannot just focus on the present.

Although this collaboration might not yield any results, perhaps if Zhao Yi makes a breakthrough in other high-end technology R&D, he would think of Red Wind Industry, right?

This wouldn’t be surprising.

Zhao Yi was capable of developing top-notch nickel-iron alloy materials, designing high-end turbofan engines, and conceiving advanced fifth-generation fighter jets, so developing technology related to high-end manufacturing was quite normal too.

Zhou Haoren, deep in thought, shook his head. It was still more important to find a reliable mechanical lab for collaboration. freewebnøvel.com

Just then, there was a knock at the door.

"Xiao Wang? Come in!"

Zhou Haoren raised his head and called out.

Assistant Xiao Wang entered and said, "Manager Zhou, you have an email in your private mailbox. It’s from Academician Zhao and comes with several files. They seem to be related to R&D, but I didn’t open them."

"My mailbox?"

Zhou Haoren paused and said, "It’s right for Academician Zhao to send things directly to me... What did you say about the files?"

"They’re related to technical R&D. I’m not sure about the details," Xiao Wang said uncertainly.

"I see."

Zhou Haoren logged into his private mailbox and started checking the email from Zhao Yi, with the subject marked, "Electric Spindle Technology Upgrade R&D."

The email included several attachments.

Zhou Haoren read them out one by one, "Standard Electric Spindle Technical Drawing 1."

"Standard Electric Spindle Technical Drawing 2?"

"Electric Spindle Technical Drawing."

"Electric Spindle with Built-in Motor Closed-Loop Vector Control Technology?"

"Electric Spindle Intelligent Monitoring System..."

Zhou Haoren downloaded all the files and started to look into them in detail. As expected, the files about the electric spindle technical drawings contained a wealth of technical data.

The other two files were full of text mixed with some technical images.

Zhou Haoren’s head started throbbing because he didn’t comprehend them at all. He simply said to Xiao Wang, "Send these to the people in the Technology Department, and have them take a look."