Engineer Cheolwoo Lee (5)
The milling machine started right away.
Weiying- Weiying-
Unlike other existing milling machines, the milling machine I remodeled cut the basic material from various angles.
It was more spectacular than I thought.
“and…….”
“what?”
Changsu and Changsu’s father’s reaction.
“Oh, it works.”
“No…… what the hell is going on? It looks like some kind of milling machine has a robot arm attached to it.”
The milling machine I modified was processing metal with great freedom.
“It’s like sculpting something.”
“Oh? What else is that?”
This time the milling machine dug in.
“How can a drill go in at that angle? I can’t believe it when I see it.”
This was the part where the real performance of the Free Vector Gear came out.
Geometrically shaped gears. It was a gear so mysterious that it was mistaken that the laws of physics were broken.
The milling machine with that gear also cut down the steel, giving the illusion of ignoring the laws of physics.
Gying- Gying-
The milling machine made an elaborate sound for a long time, but stopped working shortly after.
A free vector gear was machined on the lathe of the stopped milling machine.
“…it was made.”
“Making a free vector gear with a milling machine with a free vector gear. It’s not some kind of self-copying.”
“Whew, I’m glad.”
When I saw the properly made gear, I sighed in relief.
“president.”
“Yes. Mr. Cheol-woo.”
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“If this is enough, I can match the unit price of 30,000 won, right?”
“……. Yes. It seems possible. I set the timer before I started, and it took 58 seconds. Hang on. Let me do the math.”
The boss started calculating something with a calculator.
“First of all, the price of a milling machine is roughly 200 million, 60 per hour, 1,380 per day.
I waited until the boss finished the calculation.
“…!”
He suddenly made a surprised expression.
“Why? What is it? What are you so surprised about?”
“It’s not 30,000 won. It could go down to 24,000 won.”
“Wow? Really?”
In this area, the boss knew much better than I did. Or Minseok.
No matter how much money is calculated related to such commercialization, it does not work well.
“If this is enough… Wow, how much did Hyunseong say they would pay?”
“It’s 36,000 won.”
“Profits will be almost 1.5 times. Wow… you really do this.”
“I think it was possible because of the free vector gear.”
“Really, it’s infinitely more than I thought.”
Just wait, Hyunseong.
I’m coming.
“I just saw it, but how many axes are there? I’m not sure.”
“Six by my count.”
“Six?!”
“Yes. The two free vector gears meshed together, so the axis increased tremendously.”
“Wait, six?”
“Yes. Why?”
“Ah, Mr. Cheol-woo, if you’ll excuse me, do we have the LT-220 model among our products?”
“yes.”
“Can you process it once with this?”
“Hmm… It’s not difficult. I see. Do you have the blueprint? Give me a try.”
“Yes. Wait a minute.”
After a while, the boss gave me the blueprint, and I put it on the milling machine with PLC programming suitable for it.
“I’ll process it right away.”
“Wow, the PLC program is really fast too. I see.”
I turned the milling machine right away.
After the milling machine ran for a while, the LT-220 product the boss wanted was processed.
“……. her.”
The lamentable boss. Is something wrong?
“Why is that?”
“This product requires 6 times of setting change and work process. However, with this milling machine, it is possible to make it only once. I have seen it for the first time. It is a 6-axis milling machine… I might have put some in.”
From what I’ve seen, you can make virtually any product.
“Is it good?”
“A good thing? It’s nagging if you say it twice, and it hurts if you say it in detail. Beyond good things, this is an innovation in the milling world. This is um… Yes, it feels like metal 3D printing.”
Is it a 3D printer?
“is it so?”
wait, then this will be money too? I’ll have to tell Minseok later.
“Are you thinking of selling this again? I’ll give it to you at a high price.”
“hahahahaha… that’s a bit difficult. I have to deliver to Hyeonseong, too.”
“Then, how about this? Mr. Cheol-woo, you’ll need a factory to deliver to Hyeonseong, right? I’d like to invest some money there.”
Well, the quantity requested by Hyeonseong was not something that could be made with just one milling machine.
There were so many things to do: select a site, set up a factory, put in a milling machine I made, find a worker, and so on.
“Well, I’ll have to talk to Minseok about that.”
“Yes. I understand. Then I will wait for you to contact me.”
“Yes. Changsu, I’m going back to the club room now? Are you going too?”
“Yeah, I’ll go too.”
Changsu and I returned to Busan.
* * *
“Minseok! I did it.”
When I returned to the club room, Minseok was waiting for me.
“Did you hear the story, did you do that? Wow crazy man, that’s really great. A 6-axis milling machine? Is it possible to have 6 axes?”
“Well, it happened by chance.”
“Oh, that’s great.”
“But from now on, it’s a problem. Isn’t the quantity requested by Hyeonseong not one or two?”
“yes.”
“Should we run the factory ourselves?”
“……. Well, I’m worried about that too. No, there are already three of AHS, CAK, and TSS. In addition to mass production of free vector gears, shouldn’t we commercialize a 6-axis milling machine this time?”
“Yeah. That’s a bit much.”
“So I said before that we should put professional managers in LFH?”
“uh.”
“I thought of it similarly.”
“What?”
“I guess we’ll have to be patent freaks.”
“A patent freak?”
Are you a monster that feeds on patents?
“Yes. Originally, a patent troll refers to a company that buys patented technology from individuals or companies and collects royalties… Since it has registered its own patents, there is no need to buy them. Should we just call it a company that only collects royalties?”
“Oh, you mean they keep getting royalties like CAK and TSS?”
“Uh. What do you think? And you said the other day. We’re going to make a hybrid engine with fuel economy of around 30.”
“It did.”
“If we make it that far, royalty income alone will exceed hundreds of billions per year.”
“…… Hundreds of billions? Crazy.”
“Yeah. In fact, if you earn that much, the money is good enough.”
“Crazy, no matter how many hundreds of billions.”
“So I’m going to try to pull the strands there. No, really… I didn’t know that I could make so many things so quickly until I made AHS.”
Well, it hasn’t even been a year since I made it.
A free vector gear created when creating the AHS system. A 6-axis milling machine derived from it… … .
I understood that Minseok was dying.
“Yes, that would be good. Then.”
“I need to file a patent for that 6-axis milling machine soon. The technology that went into AHS is still waiting to be registered… Huh…”
“Then how much royalties should I get?”
“It’s up to you to talk about it.”
“So you’re saying you need to find a manufacturing company that will make 6-axis milling machines, and also find a factory that can mass-produce free vector gears? You’ll get royalties there, right?”
“Yeah. Wouldn’t it be fine if Changsoo’s father’s company mass-produced free vector gears? I heard that they wanted to invest?”
“That’s right, it’s a company that originally delivered to Hyeonseong, so I think it would be nice to have a line.”
Oh, isn’t that the company that originally supplied Hyeonseong? It’s because I started delivering some time ago.
“Okay, let’s proceed like that.”
* * *
Team Leader Seo saw Free Vector Gear in the previous news and did a lot of research.
The first study was whether the gear could withstand high power and high rotation. More precisely, it was able to withstand the power and rotational force of the vehicle.
As a result, the free vector gear was effective only at low rotation and low power. It didn’t fit the vehicle’s power train.
Still, it had many uses.
Places that are used at low power, such as when operating the steering wheel, seat, or side mirror inside the vehicle, are overflowing.
Then I met Chul-Woo Lee by chance and asked for a quote.
Of course, I didn’t have high expectations.
It was team leader Seo who had been thinking about how to design a vehicle that was safer and more fuel-efficient throughout his life. I was aware of various new technologies, and I made many inquiries to introduce them.
But the answers that came back were all the same.
‘There is no method of mass production.’ Or, the only answer was that delivery could not be made because ‘difficult to meet the unit price’ or ‘low stability’.
It was that difficult to actually apply a new technology to commercialization.
‘Is there no answer after all?’
While I was thinking about that, I received an e-mail from a person named Cha Min-seok.
「Answer to Free Vector Gear Delivery Request.」
‘what? I thought the answer would not come, but it came?’
While thinking about that, he read the contents of the e-mail.
‘… … . what? Can you meet all our requirements? No, aren’t you crazy?’
Hyunsung Motor sells more than 10 million cars a year.
There are roughly 5 free vector gears in one car. Then, it would have to produce 50 million free vector gears a year.
‘no… … . Even if it’s only going to be used in test models at first, how are you so sure you’re going to print 50 million units so easily in the future?’
50 million a year, or over 120,000 a day.
It was not usually easy to process 120,000 items a day.
‘and… … . But they say they even match the unit price?’
But what surprised him even more was the price.
Eliminate 6 parts that cost an average of 5,000 won and replace them with one free vector gear.
The total amount of parts that must be included is 30,000 won. Instead, as it is replaced with a free vector gear, the complexity of the design is reduced and the weight of the vehicle is also reduced.
So, in Hyeonseong, I gave up a little on the price side and called it 36,000 won.
It was difficult to raise the unit price beyond that. It’s not a part that goes into the core.
‘however… … . Can that gear be made at that unit price? How did you match the unit price?’
In previous studies, individual orders were placed.
The price at that time was 120,000 won, and according to team leader Seo’s experience, if you change to a large order here, it will usually be reduced by about half.
In fact, even if mass-produced, the unit price was predicted to be around 60,000 won. I didn’t know the details because I didn’t know.
So I was practically giving up.
Originally, new technology is difficult to apply to industry.
‘Is it possible to reduce the unit price by almost two times from 60,000 won? Or did they not even think about their profits?’
It was a figure that made no sense even without thinking about profits.
‘How on earth was he able to match the unit price?’
Team leader Suh kept asking questions.
Could it be that the delivery request response was actually wrong? Or is it because they are still young students and don’t know what to do?
I thought I’d do a bit of checking later.
‘But what if the real unit price was right?’
I had my doubts, but on the contrary, if it was real, then what on earth was Lee Cheol-woo? Chief Seo thought.
Team leader Seo has met many geniuses who are researching various new technologies.
Certainly, the new technology created by geniuses was great, but as I said before, when I sent a delivery request, only answers such as ‘There is no method for mass production’, ‘It is difficult to match the unit price’, and ‘Stability is low’ came back.
Every time that happened, I thought, ‘Aren’t you a genius, not a con artist?’
However, Lee Chul-woo did not answer like that, but the answer was ‘I will meet all the requirements.’
‘A real genius.’
Not a scammer like the ones I’ve met before.
Lee Cheol-woo was a true genius.