| Message: | Andy is our old hydraulic valve customer in the United States. The hydraulic cartridge valves he purchased from AAK in previous years always has a standard of machining surface roughness around 0.8μm. In February last year, Andy sent an email to inform us that in the future, the machining surface accuracy of their hydraulic cartridge valves will be improved to within 0.3μm. AAK engineers believe that based on the current equipment system, it is very difficult to improve the machining surface accuracy of hydraulic cartridge valves to 0.3μm. It is also very difficult to find such a hydraulic cartridge valve manufacturer in Ningbo.
I know that AAK has only two options, either give up the business of his hydraulic cartridge valves or accept his accuracy standard. This is the first time I have faced the choice of "standing in line" since I joined the hydraulic valve industry. The cooperation with Andy has always been trustworthy, pleasant and efficient. AAK doesn't want to give up such customers. After two rounds of communication internally, AAK technical team has not reached a consensus. I have to call my retired master and hope to hear his opinions.
My master told me that this is a rare opportunity to catch up with and surpass the accuracy of international hydraulic cartridge valves. The roughness of the working surface under 0.3μm is rare in China, but some European hydraulic cartridge valve manufacturers have this strength. AAK must first start with the equipment, and then select the most experienced operators from the factory for special aircraft training, so as to have the opportunity to compete with those top European hydraulic cartridge valve manufacturers. American HARDINGE precision CNC lathe is worthy of a try. At present, none of the domestic hydraulic cartridge valve manufacturers have this equipment.
After contacting the equipment manufacturer, AAK technical team took the hydraulic cartridge valves produced for Andy before to the equipment factory, |
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