Monster Factory - 376

In the afternoon, the drizzle became heavy again.

Compared with the midsummer rainstorm, this amount of rainfall is nothing. Only in late autumn, the cold brought by the heavy rain made people shiver constantly.

Fortunately, Ye Qing had prepared a lot of long clothes for herself, so she didn’t feel cold right now.

In the civil air defense project, Ye Qing and the master craftsman walked through a long and wide passage into a large equipment room that was blazed with fire and was obviously modernized and refitted.

The old steel cast explosion-proof door here has been transformed into an automatic explosion-proof door that requires a swipe card to enter. Now the door opened, and a sci-fi corridor leading to the computer room of the Red Queen appeared in front of the two of them, as if in Resident Evil.

Swipe the card again to enter the glass door, and blow the air vortex like a blower on both sides. A synthetic electronic sound echoed in the corridor made of glass and metal.

Of course it is not a warning, and there is no high-energy laser sweeping over.

“After the verification is passed, please store the electronic products you carry with you in the electromagnetic shielding storage box, and replace the clean clothes.”

Two metal boxes popped up on both sides of the corridor and opened a glass door of a dressing room full of anti-static clean clothes of different sizes.

Putting his cell phone and keys, he went to the locker room to change into a fitted clean suit, and Ye Qing stepped into this 10,000-class clean room that was cleaner than a baby’s skin.

This is the newly planned product research and development department. This morning, the equipment ordered by the research and development department just arrived. Ye Qing came here to visit.

Any company that wants to maintain long-term product competitiveness has to continuously invest massive amounts of money in research and development of new technologies and products.

With Monster Factory, Ye Qing has an advantage that no company can match in terms of new technology. But in terms of new products and convenient functions, you have to do it yourself.

For this reason, Ye Qing ordered a batch of cutting-edge industrial laboratory instruments that few people were willing to use. After a not-so-long wait, these cutting-edge industrial laboratory instruments formally settled in the newly built dust-free operation room of Behemoth Heavy Industries.

Class 10,000 dust-free workshop refers to the number of dust particles greater than or equal to 0.5 microns per cubic meter in the air, not exceeding 10,000.

This sounds like a lot, but in the outdoor natural environment, even in the beautiful grassland with clean air, the content of particles per square meter is so large that it can only be calculated by weight. The number is not responsible for statistics. .

Entering here, Ye Qing seemed to walk into a pure white world.

The equipment is pure white, the ceiling is also pure white, the walls are also pure white, only the floor, which is different from the dust-proof clothing on the employees.

Transmission electron scanning microscope, thermomechanical analyzer, material stress detector, isotope mass spectrometer…

The employees of the product development department, one by one, are accompanying the technicians sent by the instrument manufacturer to carefully study the debugging and daily maintenance procedures of the instrument.

The last time I recruited, the product development department had the highest requirements for diplomas.

Among the forty new employees who have joined this department, there are more than 20 with a master’s degree and seven with a Ph.D. A quarter of them came from Ye Qing’s alma mater, and the rest were top students in major universities.

These employees have been soaking in the laboratory behind their mentors all year round. They have strong hands-on ability and are very familiar with the various instruments in the laboratory.

No, the transmission electron scanning microscope has just been adjusted. A master’s student graduated from Zhongyun University volunteered to get into the closed ventilated operating room next door to polish the sample.

Observation samples of different microscopes have different production methods.

The sample of the projection electron scanning microscope, not the ordinary optical microscope that students come into contact with, needs to be coated with a layer of light-transmitting glass, and it needs to be in the shape of a metal flake.

This master’s student followed his supervisor before studying the process of bainitic steel.

Bainite steel is widely used in aviation, vehicles, ships, and materials for pressure vessels and high-pressure pipelines. If you want to study bainite steel, the first step is to observe the characteristics of bainite steel.

Characterization is commonly known as the magnification structure. From its appearance to the magnification of the crystal structure, the crystal lines of bainite can be observed with the naked eye.

When Ye Qing went in, the employee was in the ventilated operating room, dipping the abrasive liquid with an eraser, and mechanically wiping back and forth on a sheet of stamped metal that was so thin that it was almost invisible to the naked eye.

“Boss~” The employee stopped wiping, stood up and greeted Ye Qing somewhat cautiously.

Because no suitable candidate was found for the time being, the manager of the product development department was temporarily held by Ye Qing. Ye Qing held a meeting for them before, so the new employees here can recognize Ye Qing.

“Tang Bo, do you…are you planning to rub the sample to a thickness of five hundred nanometers with an eraser?” Ye Qing also had a reflection on the senior from this alma mater. Seeing this, my eyes widened.

That’s right!

The thickness of the sample of the scanning electron microscope is only a few hundred nanometers.

This thickness is roughly equivalent to one-thousandth of a strand of hair, and only those special machine tools that are often only responsible for one process can cut it out.

“Grind out a rough thickness, and then use a laser thickness gauge to test at any time.” Tang Bo scratched his head: “This method was taught by my senior brother. He said that the sample slices are processed by high-precision machine tools. Other metals go in and affect the observation effect.”

“With manual polishing, as long as the correct method is mastered, the time will not be slower than machine processing. And the samples produced have only a single bainite structure, which is very conducive to observation.”

Ye Qing gave him a thumbs up in praise and motioned him to continue working hard.

Hand-grinding can indeed slowly grind the metal flakes to that thickness. The eraser only grinds on a large piece of metal flakes, and finally, under an optical microscope, cut out a suitable sample shape.

There are extremely advanced laser thickness gauges that constantly measure the thickness. As long as you have patience, in theory, ordinary people can grind out a thickness of 500 nanometers. It doesn’t matter if it is worn out, the sample only needs a small disc of 3 mm in length, and you can cut a piece from anywhere.

Of course, this is just a theory, ordinary people don’t say five hundred nanometers, fifty thousand nanometers will have mania.

Seeing that Tang Bo was very happy, Ye Qing realized that he had recruited talent, a talent with extraordinary patience.

“Boss, your instruments here are too advanced, even atom probes are available.” Tang Bo worked harder and harder: “This is like the Garden of Eden for industrial dogs. Only the chemical laboratory in Zhongyun University can handle it. We industrial If the dog wants to be characterized by electro-scanning, it has to look at the face of the chemistry laboratory.”

“On the obsolete products ten years ago, compare it to the boss, the gap between the pheasant and the Phoenix. As for the atom probe, I guess only those professors have seen it.”

“Boss~ If it wasn’t for my senior brother who was in charge of the academic exchange meeting with the Japanese University of Science and Technology, if you didn’t pay him, he would be willing to work in the R&D department.”

“Then do it hard. If your brother comes to apply for the job, I will definitely welcome you with both hands.” Ye Qing has a happy feeling that all the talents from all over the world are in my heart, and he said boldly: “As long as the equipment can be purchased on the market, the price will never be the same. It’s not a problem.”

With a few more words of encouragement, Ye Qing turned around to visit other places.

As soon as Ye Qing walked up to the isotope mass spectrometer and the dust removal tunnel, he walked in a person wearing a dust-free suit and constantly shouting: “Boss~Boss”.

The person here was sales manager Kong Tao. After seeing Ye Qing, he ran over and said, “Boss, I couldn’t get through when I called you. Cai Chenning from Zhongyun University called and said I would like to ask you for a favor.”

“He introduced your university teacher, so I hurried to find you here.”

“Well~ he is indeed my teacher.” Ye Qing nodded, walked to the dust removal channel to take out the phone, and dialed Professor Cai Chenning’s phone.

“Teacher, are you looking for me?”

“Eh~Mr. Ye, I’ve lost all the old faces of our school.”