The type 63 107mm multiple rocket launcher, designed and manufactured by a group of Chinese in 1963, seemed simple and crude at first. Covered with mud, you cannot even tell whether it was a weapon or a farm tool. However, this rocket launcher, not high-tech nor digitized, is regarded as the AK-47 rifle in rocket launchers and the “tomahawk cruise missiles” for the poor by its users. After 50 years, the type 63 multiple rocket launcher still achieved brilliant results on the battlefield in regional conflicts. On October 14, 2005, two harrier jump jets were attacked by the type 63 multiple rocket launcher in US military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and shot down for the first time since US forces entered into Afghanistan in 2001. It was depressing for the US that yet now they are not able to avoid the attack from the rocket launcher even with the help of high tech and informatization equipment.

The rocket launcher made in China is still on active duty and enjoys great popularity for nearly half a century though it has nothing to do with any high-technology. This indeed inspired me on the technological innovation and development of TAIPU electric tapping machine. Yet we know that not all high quality manufacturing requires the cutting-edge technology. The key to high quality is the concept: a good design and the proper thinking on operating, to some extent, will compensate technical weakness while correct market guides will multiply the effect of those slight advantages.

High-end technology does not mean high-end product, nor does the high added-value product. Especially to those private owned manufacture enterprises, the level of their R&D and innovation is not only subject to their own investments and abilities but also to their upstream and downstream industries. Therefore, in order to achieve the transition of product from usable to user-friendly, TAIPU electric tapping machine have to improve the existing technology, and enhance the product applicability to meet the market demand. That is the R&D and innovation positioning that suits the enterprise itself.

Experienced in tapping arm manufacturing and continuous feedback from users have made TAIPU tapping machine a fine machine. To become type 63 107mm rocket launcher in the tapping machine industry is the goal for every staff of DoneCNC in the next 3-5 years.