The compound eye camera was manufactured by a full-motion assembly platform.
The full-motion assembly platform was a magic weapon for Monster Industries to mass-produce small products. This kind of equipment could use many mechanical arms to assemble a product from the initial thousands of parts into a whole artifact through pre-set process steps. The ability of each one was no less than a flowing production line.
Take the manufacturing of mobile phones as an example. The mobile phone products produced by Foxconn required hundreds of thousands of assembly line workers to stand on the production line. Each person was responsible for a process. Only then could they create the production number of millions of mobile phones in a day.
There may be dozens of people on a line. The first person may be responsible for installing the camera, the second person may be responsible for installing the wireless communication module, and the third person may be responsible for installing the speaker.
Everyone stood in front of the workbench. When the guide rail brought the mobile phone to you, you only needed to put the parts and modules you were responsible for, and use the auxiliary tool that could automatically spit out the screws to make screws, or connect their joints.
All of your processes, even a raise of your hand, had been studied by engineers more than a hundred times. They designed any equipment they could think of to assist you in completing this not complicated process.
There was an automatic wire tapping machine for the installation of screws, and the screw-in process was all electrically operated. However, you could not have any extra movements during the installation process. It was so strict that a precision screw had to be installed within six to eight seconds. It was so strict that the toilet time was limited. Otherwise, if one person stopped, the entire line would stop with them.
In a day, this action was repeated thousands of times or even tens of thousands of times.
The mobile phone could be said to be the most sophisticated and advanced product among civil electronic products. However, looking at its production process, it was a thoroughly labor-intensive processing plant. No one could persist for a few years under this kind of boring, high-intensity work.
The full-motion assembly platform was to mechanize all of these actions.
The principle was not complicated. Whether it was the installation of electronic modules or the connection of wires, these were actually very simple mechanical actions. Humans could create a numerical control processing center to cut a piece of iron ingot into a bright metal crown. How could they not solve these simple mechanical actions?
But in fact, it could not be solved.
The biggest difficulty in this was precision. Humans could guarantee that the errors of the five-axis processing center were so small that the naked eye could not distinguish them. However, there was no guarantee that a piece of equipment would move around to pick up various electronic components of different specifications, align them, and install them.
This was not contradictory. Humans could design mechanical parts to complete these processes, but they could not make it repeat thousands of times. After tens of thousands of times, they could still accurately install the electronic components in place.
If the alignment was not accurate, there would be defective products, and technicians would need to dismantle the equipment for inspection.
A piece of equipment that was worth tens of millions of dollars might have to undergo frequent maintenance in less than half a month. Furthermore, each device could only correspond to one phone model. Every time a phone model was changed, a large number of mechanical parts would need to be replaced.
Therefore, at the moment, intensive production lines were still the only way to produce mobile phones.
Humans couldn't do it, but monsters could. Not only could the full-motion assembly platform assemble mobile phones, but it could also assemble any electronic technology product of a certain size.
However, the 400 full-motion assembly platforms in front of Ye Qing were different from the ones used to assemble cell phones outside.
If the mobile phone assembly platform was equivalent to a processing center, then these 400 units were equivalent to a photolithography machine.
The precision of the phone assembly only needed to be controlled at the micron level, and the ones used to produce the compound eye camera had to be controlled at the nanometer level.
The more complicated the process, the more difficult it was to ensure precision. Therefore, the full-motion platforms in Workshop No. 17 had been specially modified. They had been eliminated from the complex three-dimensional processing ability, and only had one-dimensional processing ability. The mechanical processing part could only move up and down, not even left and right.
It could only produce compound eye cameras, using densely packed needle-sized workpieces to tap on these electronic components that could not be distinguished by the naked eye.
One hundred Master Craftsmen were responsible for the most important process.
Aim.
Five hundred compound eye cameras were placed on the processing platform as a template component. The template and the processed workpiece were perfectly overlapped, and the linearity error between the two was less than one nanometer.
Ye Qing encountered the same problem as the human production of mobile phones. The monsters could not solve it now. When the mechanical structure clamped the template and moved to the working platform, the error accuracy was less than one nanometer.
In other words, the monsters could not solve the harsh requirements for precision in the case of mass production. On the manual production of one or two pieces, the Master Craftsmen could completely endure and process things with precision below one nanometer bit by bit.
Such as the iron ruler that was given to the Japan University of Technology and the gyroscope given to the President.
Now it can only rely on the Master Craftsmen, through the auxiliary electron microscope, through the laser aiming method, and through the specially designed manual lead screw guide to correct the error.
In this regard, the lithography machine needs a special set of complex alignment system to correct the error of the mask plate and the sample.
The difference is that those technicians, even if they are more careful and skillful, will cause the failure of lithography due to some negligence.
This failure is called the yield rate. The more complex the chip, the lower the yield rate.
The Master Craftsmen are responsible for the aiming of four pieces of equipment, and the yield rate is 100%.
What Ye Qing wants is to replace the Master Craftsmen through mechanical movement and then achieve a yield rate of 100%. Now one hundred Master Craftsmen are too occupied with the monster quota.
Unfortunately, even the monsters can't do this, and Ye Qing has no idea.
"Alas, I'm still not satisfied. Others may need thousands of people to produce cameras. Now one hundred Master Craftsmen are not that many."
"It's this output, it's really in short supply, and it can't continue to increase the number of Master Craftsmen." After sighing, Ye Qing was ready to leave. Anyway, he can't look at the output if he continues to look at it.
Ye Qing is going to go to the sealed berth again.
Before Ye Qing went to Europe, the Humpback was changing the reactor cooling system in the berth. Now the transformation work has long been completed, and two Wild Titans are loading industrial equipment into the cargo hold, preparing for the next trip to Nigeria.
Since the destruction of a U. S. patrol ship two months ago, Ye Qing has not sent any more cargo ships to Nigeria.
Because Ye Qing understands that if he sends ordinary cargo ships, he will encounter the same detention as the Horizontal. The U. S. only needs to hint at the countries that the cargo ship passes through, and those countries have to give them face and make things difficult for the cargo ship of Monster Industries for various reasons.
In the eyes of ordinary people who do not know the truth, this is just the personal behavior of the country along the way.
Because of this, the Sooto Rainforest Factory has not been supplemented with equipment, and the processed concentrate can only be flown back to China by air, causing the production capacity of plasma batteries to be unable to increase.
Now that the Humpback has finally come out, there is no way to solve the production capacity of compound eye cameras at the moment. Ye Qing naturally has to work hard to expand the production capacity of plasma batteries.
"Wait..."
Ye Qing just stepped out of the factory, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind.
I seem to have forgotten a very important thing.
It seems to be related to the Horizontal...
With this hint, Ye Qing quickly remembered what he had forgotten.
Lord's Battleship.
The last time the Horizontal was detained, it was the Lord's Battleship that rushed to the rescue and killed the patrol ship.
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