After solving the Changsha incident, Liu Yongzhuo returned to the factory building that Huayang Heavy Industry is building in Dongguan. This place will be the focus of the development of the Liu family in the next 30 years, and will enter the machinery manufacturing industry with a high profile and start its own brand.

The tall and spacious factory building, flat and open land, the machines have already been in place, and some of them have even officially started construction. This is Huayang Heavy Industry, a prosperous family business...

"I said, Lao Xi, don't you feel embarrassed about this awkward manual controller you made? Isn't it embarrassing?"

Liu Zhi, chief engineer of Liu Bei Forging Machinery Factory, accompanied by Liu Yongzhuo, An Haoyu and others, accompanied by Xi Leiming, director of the Fenggang Forging Machine Tool Branch of Huayang Group, was inspecting the production workshop of Fenggang Forging Branch.

Liu Zhi looked at the funny fine-tuning handle on a plate shearing machine that was about to be assembled, and couldn't help but feel contempt.

"Are you talking about this handle?" Xi Leiming walked to the shearing machine, reached out to grab the handle and turned it around for a few times, and smiled and said, "Master Liu, you said this handle is embarrassing, but my favorite is this handle."

"Quality, pay attention to your quality." Liu Zhiji was very dissatisfied with this attitude. He was originally a proud person. During this period, he had a lot of dealings with Xi Leiming. He was very familiar with him and spoke carelessly.

"Old Xi, why do I think you are a little shameless, but rather proud? The feeding and cutting of your shearing machine is controlled by Loongson's industrial control chips. But the last fine-tuning part uses a small handwheel of a township enterprise in western Guangdong, which has reduced your product level suddenly."

An Haoyu also spoke with a helping voice: "Director Xi. I remember that I had helped you solve the problem of steel plate positioning last time? The prototype has also been tested, why haven't you changed the product yet?"

Xi Leiming replied with an orderly smile: "You two don't know that the positioning system designed by Master Liu for us is indeed very good. But there is one problem, it is too expensive."

"A set of laser probes and a set of fine-tuned stepper motors are a bit unsuitable in our current environment. If you buy a set from Loongson, it costs more than 3,000 yuan, and the cost will increase suddenly. You said I will change it to a handwheel now, and the effect is the same, and the machine is more than 3,000 yuan cheaper. Why not do it?"

Loongson Technology Company is Zhong Yang's own industry and has almost no reputation in the eyes of ordinary people. However, this company is very famous in the field of specialized automation industrial production.

Almost all automated smart chips in the country are provided by this company, and all computers, whether military, civilian, commercial or domestic. The core components of the computer are provided by this company. Only Zhong Yang has enough technical strength to produce such silicon crystal chips with such high technical accuracy.

"Uh..." After hearing this, Liu Zhi was speechless. He was a technical person. He was very clear about what Xi Leiming said. The cost of CNC machine tools mainly lies in some CNC accessories, measurement devices, stepper motors, etc.

At present, even China, which is at the forefront of the world, is just starting out. Only a few factories can manufacture it, and the output is seriously insufficient. The quality is not very stable.

Of course, Loongson's products do not have these troubles, but if you use Loongson's chips, the price is indeed amazingly expensive.

The sales price of a shearing machine is more than 50,000 yuan, and the material cost is only 23,000 yuan. If this set of accessories costs more than 3,000 yuan, the cost will increase in an instant.

Liu Yongzhuo also walked forward, turned the handle, pondered the mechanical structure, and then smiled and said, "My opinion is the same as Mr. Xi, and I also think this handle is the most creative."

Xi Leiming saw that his point of view was supported by Liu Yongzhuo, and he couldn't help but feel proud. He patted Liu Zhi's shoulder and laughed loudly, "General Manager Liu, in this regard, you should learn more from General Manager Liu. Don't think you were studying at Nanhua University, General Manager Liu... Well, I didn't read much, but General Manager Liu knows our national conditions better. You can't accept it."

Liu Zhi was not convinced and asked Liu Yongzhuo: "General Manager Liu, do you really think this handle is fine?"

"Of course there is no problem." Liu Yongzhuo smiled, "Old Xi is right. Since one handle can solve the problem, why do we have to spend more than 3,000 Huayuan extra to do automatic control? In fact, when performing the shearing operation, there were workers next to him. Letting the worker do fine-tuning work will not increase much workload. For the company, it saves more than 3,000 Huayuan extra cost. The company can calculate this account."

Although Liu Zhi's surname is Liu, he is not a family with Liu Yongzhuo, and their relationship is a bit unfamiliar.

"But..." Liu Zhi dragged his long voice and wanted to find some reason to refute Liu Yongzhuo, but he really couldn't find it. The point that Liu Yongzhuo said was a bit subverted his knowledge.

In his mind, things that can be done by machines should not be done by people. This is the concept taught by a professor of mechanical engineering at South China University. This concept is also the core concept that China's domestic manufacturing industry is currently beginning to promote.

But Liu Yongzhuo's statement is correct. The workers at Liubei Forging Factory often tell him this.

Liu Yongzhuo also understood Liu Zhi's mood, but there is always a difference between ideals and reality. "Haha, General Manager Liu, you need to understand the current national conditions. We are a developing industrial country. No matter what we do, practicality is the most important. If other fancy things cannot satisfy practicality, you don't have to consider them. When our technology develops, it will be time to think about other things."

"Mr. Wang of the Machinery Commission often talks about this idea." An Haoyu took Liu Yongzhuo's words and said that the member Wang he was talking about was Wang Xueling.

Wang Xueling is an industrial engineer who specializes in accounting for cost and benefits. He often instills some ideas about industrial engineering in the senior executives and engineers in the company.

"Messenger Wang often said that the so-called quality refers to the degree to which the product meets customer needs. All qualities that exceed customer needs are a waste of customer money, and such quality is ineffective." An Haoyu briefly introduced this idea.

"Actually, I have learned this idea too." Liu Zhi murmured. He remembered that he had learned this knowledge, but when it comes to doing things, the thinking of an engineering student was the dominant one.

In everything, he always wants to pursue perfection and cannot tolerate flaws. After Liu Yongzhuo, An Haoyu and others said this, Liu Zhi had a deeper understanding of what he said in this article.

"Our products are all simple and try to save as much as possible. As a result, the price is lower than the cost of Longyuan Company. It is very competitive in the market. Now in terms of low-end products, we have completely regained the market. The mid-end market has its own winnings and losses, and we have completely given up on the high-end ones."

Xi Leiming gave a detailed report to Liu Yongzhuo. He was much older than Liu Yongzhuo, but he had always had a humble attitude in front of Liu Yongzhuo. Since Liu Yongzhuo promised to help Fenggang Forging Branch develop CNC technology, Xi Leiming has placed himself in the position of Liu Yongzhuo's subordinate.

In his own words, he was willing to serve Liu Yongzhuo in front of his saddle.

"The high-end part depends on General Manager Liu." Liu Yongzhuo pointed to Liu Zhi beside him, smiling confidently.

Seeing that the topic turned to his head, Liu Zhi put away his smile and turned to Xi Leiming seriously: "Director Xi. I invited Mr. Liu to come this time, not to pick on your products. I asked Director Xi for your help if I have something to do."

"Is it the car stamping production line that Mr. Liu told me last time?" Xi Leiming was prepared for this matter.

"It's this." Liu Zhi was overjoyed after hearing this, "Director Xi. Your Fenggang Forging and Pressing Branch is also an old enterprise in the forging and pressing industry. He has rich experience and has many complementary aspects with our Hun Forging and Pressing. This time we set up a car shell stamping production line, and the overall design has basically been completed."

"But there are still some difficulties in some details, so I would like to ask Director Xi to open the door to facilitate the work and arrange a few capable and experienced engineers to come to our Liubei Forging and Proofing to assist in the work."

"No problem!" Xi Leiming agreed without saying a word, "As long as it is the person from our Fenggang Forging Branch, whoever you like, I will take it away directly, and I will never say a word."

"That's great, then I'll thank Director Xi first." Liu Zhi bowed to Xi Leiming to express his gratitude.

Liu Yongzhuo also praised this cooperation: "Lao Xi, you will not suffer any loss when participating in this project. The automobile stamping line is a big project, and a line has an output value of about 70 to 80 million yuan. At that time, you will definitely have to assist you in completing part of it."

"That's great! In this way, I should thank General Manager Liu for thanking you." Xi Leiming hurriedly returned the greeting to Liu Zhi, and the two bowed to each other, and then burst into laughter together.

After laughing, Liu Zhi replied with a serious expression. He said to Liu Yongzhuo: "General Manager Liu, according to what we have learned, Longyuan Company is also selling their car stamping production lines internationally. Ford and General Motors in the United States have received the materials handed over by Xihu Company. At present, these two companies are comparing prices, and there is not much time left for us."

Since the end of the war, American merchants have been very interested in some of China's new industrial technologies, and the US government seems to be interested in introducing these new production processes that can increase their production capacity.

Therefore, the United States has become a market with great prospects. As a domestic company that mainly engages in CNC machine tool business, Longyuan Company naturally has made sufficient preparations and intends to enter the US market and be the first to take the lead.

As for this piece of fat, other domestic strong competitors are also very concerned about this piece of fat, such as Chen's Heavy Industry, a subsidiary of Tianyu Group, and Huayang Heavy Industry of the Liu family.

Liu Yongzhuo also understood the importance of this kind of thing: "When will our design be finalized?"

Liu Zhi shook his head: "It's hard to say."

"It's hard to say?" Liu Yongzhuo was surprised. "Didn't you have an idea more than a year ago? You told me some time ago that the design was almost over, but why are you hard to say now?"

Liu Zhi smiled bitterly: "If I just want to submit a design similar to Longyuan Company, I can say that it has been completed. But I am very dissatisfied with the design I have completed. I hope there will be some new ideas. Do you understand?"

"What creativity?" Xi Leiming didn't understand and interrupted.

"Mr. Liu means that he hopes to have some new ideas or new ideas. He does not want to repeat the work that others have already done." An Haoyu explained to Xi Leiming.

Liu Yongzhuo frowned and said to Liu Zhi: "I understand your idea, your idea is right. Compared with Longyuan Company, our technical strength is still much worse. If our product design is consistent with them, then we will definitely lose in the final bidding stage."

"If you want to defeat Longyuan Company, you can only create innovative ideas in design. However, this is very difficult. After all, there are places where innovation can be done. Others may have tried it."

Liu Yongzhuo probably knew that Zhong Yang was behind Longyuan Company. Just competing with technical strength, I'm afraid Huayang Heavy Industry Group is still not enough to see it.

Seeing Liu Yongzhuo's attitude, Liu Zhi quickly encouraged him: "This matter is not that pessimistic. Although my design is similar to Longyuan Company and is a technology commonly used by various manufacturers, our cost is still much lower than that of Longyuan Company. If we purely compete for costs, we also have a 30% chance of winning."

"This kind of spelling is a killing of 1,000 people. It's a 800 yuan loss for oneself." Liu Yongzhuo doesn't quite agree with this idea of ​​hurting people with it. "Low cost is definitely our advantage, but if it's just low cost, at least the advantage in stamping production line is not obvious. Unless we achieve low cost through optimizing design, we can truly impress customers."

Not to mention that everyone is a Chinese company, lowering the price will only reduce their respective profit margins. Uncle Sam is cheap.

Moreover, stamping production lines are high value-added products. If you want to compete for the price, the result can only be to reduce the company's income. To build a stamping production line, you need to purchase some special equipment, tooling, etc., and these costs also need to be calculated within the total cost.

If the profits are reduced, it will be difficult to recover the investment of these special equipment, and this project will be like a loss. Hunzhuanxi's current financial resources are not strong and cannot support the practice of losing money and gaining publicity.

Liu Zhi smiled and pointed to the small handle on the plate rolling machine in Fenggang Forging Branch, and said, "General Manager Liu, I just heard you talk about the beauty of this handle with Lao Xi, and suddenly I felt like I was clearing the sky. I felt that I cared too much about automation in my past design. If part of the automation can be simplified and replaced with manual control, the cost can be reduced by more than 30%.

"In addition to the cost advantage we already have, the price of our products can be at least 50% lower than that of Longyuan's products. I think there is no way to refuse such a large price discount, whether it is Ford or General Motors."

Liu Zhi’s idea is really wonderful. Anyway, Americans nowadays have lower technical requirements for mechanized production than in China, so they think that cost is the most important. As for automation, it is the plot in science fiction novels, and pragmatic Americans are not keen on this.

"Is this why you want to borrow someone from Director Xi?" Liu Yongzhuo suddenly realized.

Liu Zhi kept a secret: "That's right, not right. Actually, before I came, I thought about working with Director Xi, because the Fenggang Forging Branch has some technical level higher than our Liubei Forging Branch, and I hope to learn from our strengths and weaknesses. I just thought of a new idea of ​​modifying the design. I think there should be some people on Director Xi's side who can help me."

Liu Yongzhuo praised Liu Zhi more and more: "General Manager Liu, it is very rare that you can think of this. This shows that you have truly transformed from a scholar into an engineer needed by the company. I would like to give you a suggestion, not only should you borrow people from Director Xi, but you should also mobilize all the workers who were forged by Liu Bei, and work together to come up with ideas."

"As an 18-year-old factory, Liubei Forging has accumulated a lot of very valuable experience among workers. You need to develop and utilize this experience."

"I understand." Liu Zhi smiled, "I will solve these problems as soon as possible. The future machinery manufacturing industry will definitely have a place for our group!"

Several ambitious hands were held tightly together, as if in their palms, they were in control of the future of the world.

Five days later, Liu Yongzhuo had already returned to the Huayang Heavy Industry Headquarters factory in Wanjiang, Dongguan. The cooperation plan between Liubei Forging Factory and Fenggang Forging Branch has begun to be implemented, but Liu Yongzhuo no longer needs to be in charge of the company himself. The headquarters still has a crucial plan waiting for Liu Yongzhuo to preside over it.

In the spacious casting workshop, a huge molten steel bag has been hoisted in place through a casting truck, waiting for the order to open the bag and pour. Among these four molten steel bags, there are more than 500 tons of hot molten steel, and the workers will use this molten steel to cast the first beam of the 15,000-ton water press.

"Master Jiang, whether it is successful or not depends on you." Liu Yongzhuo stood beside the old stylist Jiang Tao and said to him with a smile, his attitude was like treating a respectable elder.

Everyone in the entire workshop was taking their place, nervously preparing for the last moment. The only two idle people were Liu Yongzhuo and Jiang Tao.

As the general manager of the group, Liu Yongzhuo naturally does not need to operate it in person. Jiang Tao is the honorary commander-in-chief of casting and molding appointed by Liu Yongzhuo. He has been busy with dozens of stylists for more than a month before. Now, he can finally take a break.

The casting process was very tense. With Jiang Tao's age, he could not adapt to this rhythm, so he could only retreat to the side and be an audience member.
Chapter completed!