Back to the 80s Machinery Factory

Chapter 275 We Are Not Here to Give Lectures
It is simple and convenient to open the double doors of a car, and everyone can do it.

Let’s not talk about whether everyone can get used to the sliding door.

Once the slide is stuck or the oil dries up, the side sliding door is extremely prone to failure.

What should we do if the people on the bus cannot get off and the things below cannot be transported up?
There is absolutely no point in modifying this sliding door!

Marco Polo and others wrote down the "car door" in a small notebook.

The most popular door in the European market is the side sliding door.

The side sliding door design not only makes effective use of parking space, but also looks elegant when opened and closed.

Many customers who purchased this product like the design of the sliding door.

So when designing the car for the machinery factory, Italian engineers also added this type of sliding door.

“We designed the sliding door mainly for parking and loading goods.”

Marco Polo said, "Compared to bifold doors, sliding doors can make full use of space and facilitate the transportation of people and goods."

Cao Qinghang and others were stunned after hearing this.

What's the reason?
What does opening your car door have to do with parking space?
"Deputy Director Yu, Engineer Cao, this is what happened."

Chen Luyang took the initiative to explain.

"Many small streets in Italy and Europe are very narrow. Some are so narrow that only one car can pass through, and there is no space for anything else."

"Plus, there are a lot of cars on the road, so when people park, they end up parking right next to each other."

"So when they designed their own cars, they adopted a sliding door design, taking the space into account."

After hearing this, everyone suddenly understood.

Xiao Wu was surprised: "The roads there are so narrow! Aren't the aisles cramped?!"

Chen Luyang smiled: "Why bother holding it back? There's the sea just below the path, with blue sky and white clouds, it's so beautiful."

Xiao Wu was even more shocked!

The car drove directly into the sea, and it’s still beautiful?
But now is not the time to discuss this.

Cao Qinghang said:

"Xiao Chen, tell them that our cars are mostly driven in cities and villages, where there's plenty of space! There's no such thing as having no room to open the car door."

When Marco Polo and the others heard this, they were all stunned.

They wrote down the actual situation in a notebook and then said, "We've got that in mind. Any other feedback?"

Cao Qinghang pointed to the roof and said, "And here."

The Italian representatives looked over.

The car in the drawing has a streamlined roof design.

The design purpose is the same as that of the front of the car, which is to enhance the dynamic appearance and optimize air resistance.

However, Cao Qinghang and others were also dissatisfied with this design.

"People buy our cars because they value their loading capacity."

"This streamlined roof will affect the space utilization of the vehicle."

Marco Polo took note of the feedback and replied, "We can adjust the roof height and angle and redesign the design details."

Cao Qinghang couldn't help but interrupt: "We can work out the details later. Should we first decide on the general direction of the research?"

Now the machinery factory's cars have been listed as the number one project.

All policies in the province are tilted towards machinery factories, and we are just waiting for them to produce results!

The workers in the factory and the production line were all waiting anxiously, day and night for the upgrade of the cars.

Faced with heavy pressure from all directions, Cao Qinghang and his colleagues urgently need to first determine the direction of development and improvement of automobiles, and then fill in the blanks in the big framework.

Instead of watching Italian engineers drawing the outer shell today and the interior tomorrow, wasting time like a young girl embroidering, you should do divergent thinking questions.

Marco Polo refused: "Designing a car requires inspiration. Inspiration comes from the bursting out and free exploration."

"If we rigidly determine the direction, our inspiration will be limited, which is completely contrary to our work philosophy."

Cao Qinghang patiently advised, "Inspiration and direction are not mutually exclusive. Let's set our goals first, then overcome difficulties and achieve them. Isn't this approach more suitable for our cooperation?"

Marco Polo wondered: "I don't think it's appropriate."

“Designing a car is art, and art is a beautiful thing.”

“Beautiful things should be explored.”

“We should explore as much as possible and then gradually refine the design details to continuously achieve the standard of beauty.”

After listening to Chen Luyang's translation, Yu Anshan, Hao Fengchun, Cao Qinghang and others really felt that all the good things were said to the cow.

When the two sides first met,
The machinery factory has already made it clear that it will upgrade the car within the first half of the year and successfully launch it into the market!

They are racing against time to develop the main technologies for cars, while Italy is still talking about wild ideas!
The Italian engineering delegation looked at the unhappy looking engineers from the machinery factory.

The topic was brought back to the discussion about the design of the front of the car.

Italian engineers used a new aerodynamic optimization method to design the car body, which involves complex fluid mechanics theory and a large number of high-order mathematical model descriptions.

Although Chen Luyang is good at Italian and has a good grasp of the relevant technical terms of automobiles,

But as someone preparing for the college entrance exam, he really couldn’t understand the description of fluid mechanics and advanced mathematical models!!!

for the first time,
Comrade Chen Luyang, a great translator, is facing an unprecedented translation crisis!

but! !
Fortunately, he read a lot of reference books, and by combining the language's alphabet and phonetics with the context, he was able to translate a few technical terms.

Although some of these nouns are not translated accurately, fortunately Cao Qinghang and his colleagues are all technical people, and they can understand some of the words as soon as they hear them.

However, Cao Qinghang and his colleagues did not quite understand some knowledge that was beyond their familiar technical background.

"Xiao Chen, what are eddy separation control and laminar flow transition point?"

Cao Qinghang wrote these two words in his notebook, drew a circle around them, and his eyes were full of confusion.

Chen Luyang was thinking about what to say...

Brother..., you don’t understand, so I don’t understand even more!

Seeing that the Italian representatives were eagerly waiting for their response, Chen Luyang decisively suspended the discussion and asked the Italian engineering delegation what "eddy separation control and laminar transition point" meant.

Marco Polo was stunned for a moment, as if he was surprised that the other party didn't even know what this was.

Fortunately, they have an aerodynamics expert in their team: Jimenezada.

Ximendalada picked up a pen and paper and briefly described and transformed the eddy separation control and laminar transformation point to Chen Luyang.

Chen Luyang looked at the pictures, listened to the explanation, and asked a few key questions, and finally he understood it.

"Mr. Cao, this is what happened."

"That 'eddy separation' can be likened to the 'vortex formed when water flows around a rock,' and 'laminar flow' and 'turbulent flow' can be visualized as the two states of 'smooth stream' and 'turbulent river'."

After hearing this, Cao Qinghang, Xiao Wu and the others suddenly understood.

Chen Luyang asked, "Engineer Cao, should we continue discussing this with the Italian engineers, or do you need me to ask again?" Cao Qinghang replied, "We understand. Let's continue."

Chen Luyang nodded and continued his translation work.

Originally, he thought that "eddy separation control and laminar flow transition point" was the end.
But I never expected that this was just the beginning.

Marco Polo and his colleagues are accustomed to using a lot of technical terms and professional expressions in their daily work.

Many expressions go far beyond the scope of automobile manufacturing.

In the end, every time a word was spoken, Chen Luyang would interrupt to ask what it meant. After he understood it after some hesitation, he would try his best to translate it to Cao Qinghang and the others in its original form.

Once or twice.

But every sentence was like this, and in the end not only the people in the machinery factory couldn't stand it, but the Italian engineers couldn't stand it either.

“We are here to design, not to give lectures.”

Ximendarada clasped his hands together, looking extremely upset and angry.

"Sir, if you could reduce the amount of technical terms and professional expressions, I think our communication would be easier."

Chen Luyang also pinched the five fingers of both hands together, trying to communicate calmly and politely.

There was no way, even though he could guess what the names of those words were.

However, he really couldn't understand the series of fluid mechanics theories and a large number of high-level mathematical model principles and applications involved.

"Oh, God……"

Ximendarada clasped his hands together and looked up at the sky as if asking for help.

"Let's end the meeting here for today." Yu Anshan said.

Although he didn't quite understand the technical stuff.

But he could clearly see the fatigue and irritability on both sides.

The current situation between the two sides is no longer suitable for further talks.

After hearing Chen Luyang's suggestion of "Should we end today's meeting here?", the Italian engineering representatives felt relieved, picked up their bags, put on their clothes and left.

in the conference room
Everyone in the machinery factory sat on their stools in silence.

Ugh……

A soft sigh came out of Cao Qinghang's mouth.

Originally, they thought they could come up with something at today's meeting, and after the meeting they would put the workshop into production and start the machines.

But in the end, the discussion couldn't even progress and I couldn't understand what others were saying at all.

What can I do?!

Chen Luyang sat next to him under great pressure, and his usually relaxed and happy face became unusually serious.

He still thought the translation work was too simple...

If I could have more knowledge and understand more,
Then today's meeting would definitely not end like this.

With a hint of self-blame, Chen Luyang said, "Deputy Director Yu, Engineer Cao, I wrote down everything the Italian engineers said just now."

"I'm going to the provincial university to look for teachers and search for information in their library."

“Make sure the content is translated as soon as possible!”

……

The provincial university had already started classes at this time.

The quiet campus in winter becomes lively with the return of students and teachers.

In the past, Chen Luyang entered the campus as a student taking supplementary classes.

This time, he brought a letter of introduction from the provincial machinery factory and came to the teachers of the provincial university to seek technical support and help to answer his questions.

Chen Luyang is very familiar to the teachers and students of the Provincial University.

In addition, the province designated the automobile project as the "No. 1 Project" and there was also a letter of introduction.

The Provincial University fully welcomes Chen Luyang’s visit!
Not only did all the teachers of relevant subjects come forward to help answer questions and resolve doubts, but the library even made an exception and issued Chen Luyang a library card to facilitate his borrowing of relevant books and materials from school.

That night
Fusion Workshop
Chen Luyang and everyone in the workshop stayed up late to study the theory.

These days, he temporarily handed over the work of the rubber workshop to Huang Pingtao. Apart from accompanying the Italian representatives for meals and asking them if they had any problems that needed to be solved, he spent the rest of his time concentrating on studying and following up on the translation work of the Italian representatives.

There were several books placed side by side on his desk, and a lot of notes were written on the draft paper next to them.

at last!

Everyone in the fusion workshop managed to understand the theories put forward by the Italian engineers with some difficulty.

"The things these people are researching are really advanced!"

Cao Qinghang looked at the lines on the draft paper in the light of the lamp and couldn't help but sigh.

"They just started earlier than us and took one more step than us."

Chen Luyang raised his right hand and turned his arms and neck.

These days, he has been reading books and materials like crazy, and now his neck feels stiff.

Cao Qinghang sighed softly: "They've taken a huge step. I don't know when we can catch up with them."

Chen Luyang is optimistic: "Of course! Let's take it one step at a time."

Seeing that all the materials had been translated, everyone in the fusion workshop decided to hold a second meeting with the Italian engineers tomorrow. Everyone put on their coats and prepared to go home and have a good rest.

"Xiao Chen, aren't you leaving?"

Cao Qinghang put on his scarf and hat, turned around and saw Chen Luyang sitting at the table flipping through a book again, and asked curiously.

"I'll read for a while." Chen Luyang showed a trace of fatigue on his face.

"I don't know what the Italians will say tomorrow when I translate. I'll learn more so I can understand more."

Cao Qinghang walked over and said, "Come on! Do you think this is a closed-book exam and that studying all night counts as review?"

"The technologies those Italian engineers talk about are all over the place, some of which we haven't even heard of. Even if you finish reading this book tonight, it doesn't mean that what they talk about tomorrow will be in this book."

"You should put on your clothes and go home to get some sleep."

Chen Luyang sighed and rubbed his hair with his left hand.

"Engineer Cao, if I graduated from university and was proficient in physics and mathematics, I would understand everything they said and wouldn't have to waste everyone's time on translation."

Cao Qinghang shook his head: "That's not the case. You are the best translator I have ever seen, bar none."

"Building a car has always been a team effort, not a one-person job."

"The team they're bringing here includes both aerodynamics experts and chemical materials experts. Even if you've mastered physics and math, do you really still need to learn chemistry and materials?"

“There’s no way you can learn all that!”

(End of this chapter)