Riger Precision Machinery, a leader in the field of precision transmission, is moving towards a new level of industry-university cooperation with the Department of Mechanical and Computer-Aided Engineering of Feng Chia University. This is not only a technical exchange, but also a knowledge inheritance across generations. Through a series of carefully designed physical courses and visits, Riger is turning decades of accumulated industry essence into valuable nutrients to nourish future engineers.

 

After the first visit, the students of Feng Chia University stepped into Riger again with full curiosity and questions that could not be answered in class. This time, the Riger Precision Machinery technical director, who is respected by the students as "Professor Hong", personally taught a vivid industry practice class with a white wall and a pen.

 

The core of this teaching perfectly reflects the three levels of education: "teaching, imparting knowledge, and solving doubts":

 

Teaching - Establishing life coordinates: Before discussing technology, Chief Technology Officer Hong first shared his life experience and talked with students about career planning and direction. He encouraged students to explore and establish their own life goals, and used his own experience to explain the importance of sticking to dreams in an engineer's career.
Teaching - Deconstructing the overall picture of the industry: In response to the research and questions asked by students after their last visit, the course deeply explored the development of the reducer industry. From the advantages of customized design, the selection of key components (such as bearings and oils), to the characteristics and applications of different raw materials, they were explained in detail one by one.
Solving doubts - Mastering the details of design: Chief Technology Officer Hong did not hide the technical details that students were most interested in. He made a detailed comparison of the differences in angle design between worm gears and gears, analyzed the tolerance issues of forming tools and the selection of tool materials, and conducted an in-depth analysis of the design principles of planetary reducers and the industry application selection of different transmission systems.
In order to give students a more complete understanding of the entire industrial chain, Ruige further arranged for students to visit the upstream supplier of reducers - the foundry. From hot smelting to formed castings, students witnessed the process of the reducer housing from scratch. This visit connected the upstream casting, the midstream precision processing of parts, and the downstream assembly of finished products, allowing students to have an immersive understanding of the complete supply chain structure of a product.

 

Ruige Precision Machinery emphasized that the primary goal of this industry-university cooperation is not to solve the pain points of a single customer, but for "inheritance." The purpose is to systematically organize the valuable practical experience beyond textbooks - including the design principles, oil circuit planning, material selection, and application tips for different industries of various types of worm gears, worms, and gears - into living teaching materials and pass them on to Taiwan's future mechanical engineers.

 

"We create differentiated services, extending from finished product manufacturing to customized gearboxes, from parts processing to grinding wheel grooving, and even developing multi-functional thread rolling equipment to achieve flexible production," said the representative of Ruige. "We hope that children can also learn this spirit, always pay attention to their surroundings, and perceive and get close to the real needs of users, because that is the most perfect design. We hope that they can combine the computer technology accumulated in four years of school with the trend of industrial transformation, strengthen their own strength, and become indispensable industry pioneers in the future."

 

This in-depth industry-university cooperation is not only the transmission of knowledge, but also a spiritual inheritance. Rig Precision Machinery and Feng Chia University are jointly proving that industry-university education is the cornerstone of a country's future competitiveness, and Taiwan's children are our most precious common assets.