Chapter 685: Automatic Sorting
"You better reflect on it first, why do the film sellers target you!"
Hu Shengli and Secretary Lu just walked in from the side door of the logistics center and saw such a scene.
The old squad leader with a videotape in his hand was holding a young man and training him in frustration.
The rumbling sound of equipment operation around the two made the old squad leader have to shout his voice to the maximum.
"How do I know ......"
The young man lowered his head and muttered, but the sound was completely muffled by the operation of the equipment, and the old squad leader did not hear it at all.
"Alright, squad leader Wu. Hu Shengli walked up, patted the young man on the shoulder, and motioned for him to return to his workstation with his eyes.
"Young people's personal lives, let's not worry too much. β
"Hey, how can that work?" Squad Leader Wu, who seemed to be a young man, glared: "Be a person in advance, we state-owned enterprise workers, we can't make too much money, and our ideology and morality are corrupted, right?"
Hu Shengli also looked helpless at the old squad leader, and said with a wry smile: "Squad leader Wu, I brought a leader to visit today. If you think it's suitable or not, please take us around the logistics center. β
"The leader from above?" Squad Leader Wu looked at Secretary Lu indiscriminately, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it." Wait, I'll explain to the people below, and then we'll go. β
Squad Leader Wu This is a typical state-owned enterprise worker, as long as you do your job well, you don't care where your leader comes from. People don't ask for people, and what leaders come is not as important as my work.
Secretary Lu was embarrassed by Team Leader Wu for a while, and hurriedly smiled and said, "I'm sorry for you, Team Leader Wu." β
Squad leader Wu waved his hand, looking generous: "It's okay, it's also a good thing for your superiors to learn more about the work of the people below us!"
Seeing that squad leader Wu turned his head to find someone to explain his work, Hu Shengli also spread his hands a little embarrassed: "The leader is more responsible, and we are also the company's regulations." Off-site workers must be accompanied by a staff member when entering the work area. Mainly considering the safety of production, this matter must not be sloppy. β
Secretary Lu smiled and nodded: "I understand this, but there are not many units that can implement it as seriously as you." β
Hu Shengli smiled bitterly and nodded: "Lessons, all lessons." β
Secretary Lu shook his head and disagreed: "It's already great to be able to learn a lesson, the leaders of some units, things have happened countless times, but no lessons have been learned." β
While the two were talking, squad leader Wu had already arranged his work and turned around and walked over.
"Two leaders, it's okay. Squad Leader Wu waved his hand and led the two of them to the interior of the logistics center.
After passing through a small door and through the workers' locker rooms, the three finally entered the work area of the logistics center.
When you enter the workspace, the first thing that catches your eye is a huge sorting area. Secretary Lu was slightly surprised and nodded with satisfaction.
"This is our main sorting area, with an automated sorting line. The leader can look this way, the container of the train is unloaded to the freight flat car, and the freight flat car transports the container to the unloading area. Here, we can unload a hundred containers at the same time, and the maximum daily unloading capacity reaches two thousand containers. More than 70% of the daily necessities of the citizens of the entire embroidery city are imported from here. β
Hu Shengli nodded and added: "Now our business is not only consumer goods and daily necessities, but also a new industrial logistics sub-center is being prepared in the industrial development zone of Xiucheng. After completion, it will be able to meet 50% of the industrial logistics needs of Xiucheng. When our other northern sub-center is completed, Xiucheng will become the most efficient place in China. β
Automated sorting line, these technologies are not new in the eyes of Secretary Lu. Similar conveyor belt systems are also used by many enterprises in China, and the technical level of the National Postal Center is even higher than this sorting line. Soon, however, he discovered something that was a little different from his impression.
"Comrade Hu Shengli, it seems that there are fewer workers in your sorting line?"
"Oh yes. Hu Shengli nodded and said with some pride: "Our sorting line adopts many technical achievements of the New Academy of Sciences. And that includes thisβ"
Following the direction of Hu Shengli's finger, Secretary Lu saw a device emitting red light standing on the sorting line.
"It's a barcode scanner, and it's capable of scanning barcodes on mail bags. And the information of these barcodes has been entered into our computer system as early as when the goods are loaded. β
"By reading the information from the barcode, the automated sorting line knows which storage area the goods should be sent to. Then, through the regional wireless network, this information can be transmitted to the RF module of the handling robot for automatic storage. β
"Automated storage!"
Secretary Lu suddenly realized a special situation that he had ignored before.
Yes, whether it is the FedEx logistics center or the national postal center, it is a crowded work scene. However, in Dongfeng Express's logistics center, it is only in the loading and unloading area that you can see that the goods need to be disassembled and put on the conveyor belt. The goods then follow the conveyor belt into the storage area, as if they were entering a cold no-man's land.
"So...... How many workers do you use in this logistics center?"
"Five classes and three downs, each class is one hundred and twenty people. β
"In other words, this logistics center can be run with only 600 workers, and it can supply the daily needs of a million people?"
Hu Shengli nodded a little proudly and said, "Yes." β
"How did you do this, so few people will have an impact on the employment rate of Xiucheng, right?"
As an official, Secretary Lu's first thought was the impact of the massive adoption of automation technology on the employment rate.
In fact, this logistics center of Dongfeng Express is equivalent to replacing the wholesale market that exists in other cities.
Normal urban logistics should be a wholesaler to purchase goods from manufacturers. Then wholesale to retailers in the wholesale market, and the retailers will send the goods to the terminal store, and finally be bought by customers.
Dongfeng Express, on the other hand, directly connects retailers and production enterprises, and the existence of wholesalers becomes dispensable.
The number of wholesalers in a city is quite huge, and now Dongfeng Logistics does not say that it will be completely replaced, at least in Xiucheng, I am afraid that their life will not be easy. And after the disappearance of so many wholesalers, the number of employees in the logistics center that replaces them is only 600 people, will it bring serious unemployment problems?
Hu Shengli was a little proud, shook his head and smiled: "Your idea can't be wrong, in a narrow sense, it will indeed lead to the unemployment of many wholesalers." However, this is not necessarily the case when looking at the conditions of society as a whole. β
Secretary Lu asked inexplicably, "What's going on?"
"It's actually very simple, because the middle channel is eliminated, and the retail industry in Xiucheng can basically be regarded as a perfectly competitive market. There is not much difference in the profit margin of goods, so on the one hand, merchants should improve the quality of service and increase the price by improving the shopping experience. On the other hand, the price of goods is more transparent, and no one buys them when they are expensive, so they are much lower than those in other cities that have been sold by wholesalers. In this way, it not only increases the employment of the service industry, but also increases the consumption power of consumers, and the feedback to the production enterprises will naturally need more production workers......"
Hu Shengli concluded: "The more advanced the technology we use in Dongfeng Express, the lower the labor cost required, and the lower the logistics cost that we can provide to our customers. The expansion of domestic demand will create much more jobs than the reduction of wholesalers. At the social level, unemployment has naturally decreased. β
"But to tell you the truth, at this stage, the logistics center of Xiucheng is actually not lower than the cost of the semi-automatic manual sorting line. In other cities such as Shengjing and Dagang, we did not follow this extreme model, but took into account that the current domestic labor cost is still relatively low, and appropriately increased the proportion of manpower. Xiucheng Logistics Center is more of a technical reserve. When the conditions are ripe, it will be promoted to other regions. β
Hu Shengli's words, Secretary Lu was slightly moved. If the good management of the enterprise is a matter of ability, then he can see the social phenomenon behind these operations, which is the problem of personal level, vision and mind.
As the saying goes, the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change. Ability may be cultivated, but the level determines the upper limit of a person's achievement. Standing tall, far-sighted, and broad-minded are the most worthy talents to cultivate.
It seems that Hu Wenhai's recommendation this time is right, the old Hu family is full of talents!
In his heart, he had a basic judgment on Hu Shengli, Secretary Lu was quiet on the surface, but he paid attention to it everywhere during the actual visit.
Many of the automation and information technologies used in the Xiucheng Logistics Center were carried out by the New Academy of Sciences at the request of Hu Wenhai. For example, the neural network algorithm of the handling robot, the positioning of the network base station, the identity recognition, and the information logistics system, these pre-technologies of the Internet of Things technology are only in the experimental stage.
But in the eyes of Secretary Lu, he belongs to the kind of devil hidden in the details. Many functions may be mundane in a logistics center, but in other areas they are exciting.
In this way, the three of them walked around the empty logistics center for an afternoon, and when they were about to get off work, they returned to Hu Shengli's office.
At this time, the office occupied by Director Zhu has long since lost its previous tranquility. The elite generals who were drawn from the Bureau of Statistics and the Bureau of Finance were even full of people in the corridors outside the offices.
Director Zhu sat behind Hu Shengli's desk, holding stacks of data in his hands, sweating profusely.