Chapter 210: Fully automated factory
In the morning, wait for Mr. Brown at the entrance of the hotel. Hake, Lucy told him that she had visited the fully automated factories of many well-known high-tech companies, she had been to BMW before, and had already visited the factories and office buildings here, so she did not need to visit again, and at the same time, she hoped that he would take this opportunity to learn more about the fully automated factory, and to learn more about the true level of German Industry 4.0, so as to learn from the experience of Sino-American Xinfei's own fully automated factory.
After respectfully watching Lucy and the six scientists walk in the direction of the laboratory, Mr. Hake then asked Xu Xin to go to the factory with him.
The two walked and talked, Mr. Hake seemed very polite and always respectful to him, which made Xu Xincheng feel a little flattered, after all, he was the vice president of BMW, and he ......
Mr. Hake asked a few questions about the preparation of Sino-US Xinfei Company, and Xu Xincheng answered truthfully one by one. Hake is impressed with the efficiency of their company. Then, Mr. Hake asked several questions about Lucy in a row, and it was obvious that he was also curious about Lucy, and Xu Xincheng answered them one by one according to the standard answers given by the company.
Listen, Mr. Hake smiled and nodded, from his expression, Xu Xincheng already knew, and he knew very well that those answers were just some official statements, but he didn't continue to ask. Mr. Hake began to praise Lucy's expertise in intelligent car technology, saying that based on his experience, he could judge that Lucy's professional level had reached or even surpassed the height of the six scientists.
Chatting all the way, Mr. Hake led Xu Xincheng to BMW's fully automated factory. Ordinary tourists can only visit individual workshops of the factory, but Xu Xincheng's tour route is different from everyone else. Hake led him straight to the central control room in the back of the factory.
The central control room covers an area of about 3,000 square meters, with a height of about 8 meters, and is divided into ten districts, each of which has dozens of computers, each of which is responsible for controlling an automatic production process in the production line. Surprisingly, each community is only equipped with a few people, and at most only a dozen people are responsible for the monitoring and operation of computers. Each community has a flat panel display with a giant screen on the wall, and each giant screen display is divided into dozens of small grid screens, and each small grid screen can switch different angles at any time. According to Mr. Hake, ultra-high pixel cameras are installed at every angle in the factory, and every nook and cranny of every production line on every shop floor can be seen from the control room.
Each community is responsible for a workshop, a total of ten workshops, stamping workshop, welding workshop, spraying workshop, assembly workshop, testing workshop, etc., each workshop is equipped with different production lines, each production line has less than seven or eight processes, more than 20 processes, all processes are completed by fully automated equipment and intelligent robots.
From the first video wall on the far left to the last video wall on the far right, it shows the complete set of fully automated production processes of the BMW factory from the beginning to the completion of the assembly of the whole vehicle. Looking at the video wall, there is not a single person in the neat and clean factory, only five engineers in the welding workshop who are busy on a production line, they are repairing and maintaining some of the equipment.
Mr. Hake said that their factory has only more than 120 workers and more than 330 engineers, and they can produce a car every 80 seconds on average, and this factory alone can produce 1,000 cars a day, while BMW has more than 20 factories like this around the world, and many factories are much larger than this one.
Xu Xincheng had seen some videos of fully automated factories in Germany in the media before, but when he came to the scene to watch it at this moment, he was still deeply shocked. It turns out that this is the real German Industry 4.0 era, this is the real level of Industry 4.0.
From 1885, when German engineer Carl Benz built the first modern car in human history, to Henry Ford's invention of the automobile assembly line in 1913, and today, only more than 130 years have passed, and mankind has stepped into the era of Industry 4.0 represented by Germany's fully automated automobile factory.
Xu Xin felt extremely excited about the future of the company, but also felt tremendous pressure, he thought to himself: "In China, in China and the United States, in just a few months, can we really achieve such a high level of fully automated production? Can we really learn this set from Germany in one step?"
After visiting the central control room, Mr. Hake led Xu Xincheng to the third workshop of the factory. To his surprise, before entering the workshop, they had gone through three dust chambers in a row, and they also put on a white dust jacket and a pair of white gloves, and he remembered that the five engineers he had just seen were also wearing such dust suits and white gloves. Mr. Hake proudly told him that they have reached 200,000 levels of dust-free cleanliness here, which is the highest in the industry.
After entering the workshop, Xu Xincheng has the most intuitive feeling here, if just now, when watching the real-time picture in the central control room, his shock level is 100, then, at this time, his shock level is at least 200. In the past two years, because of his work, he has also visited more than a dozen factories in cooperation with Hongfei AI Division, and participated in the acceptance of products, their company has high requirements for partners, one of the hard standards is that it must be ranked in the top 20 in the same industry, but, compared with here, the level of those factories is at least two grades worse.
In the repeated secret praise, Xu Xincheng spent about half an hour visiting the factory. When he walked out of the workshop, took off the dust jacket and took off the white gloves, he found that there was no dust on the index and middle fingers of the gloves, and he couldn't help but praise it again.
Of course, although he admired it in his heart, Xu Xincheng did not forget that he must always remain calm, he has always been forced to suppress his emotions and not let those emotions show on his face, in this regard, he has the best teacher, and that teacher is Lucy. During this time, he has been learning Lucy's calmness and calmness. However, he also knows very well that Lucy's calmness and negotiation are from the heart, it is natural, and it is truly calm and calm, while his calmness and calmness are only pretended.
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Subsequently, Mr. Hake led Xu Xincheng to visit the famous BMW Building, known as the "four-cylinder building". The design style here shows the simplicity of modern technology everywhere, the windows in the office are bright and clean, almost every desk is neat and clean, the documents are neatly placed, every staff member is busy in a nervous and orderly manner, and every employee is in a serious and focused working state.
Xu Xincheng remembered the office environment of Hongfei AI Division and the working status of the employees, although everyone's working state is also good, but compared with here, he still found a huge gap, he said to himself: "Yes, in the future, the working atmosphere of Zhongmei Xinfei Company will be the same as here." Of course, the work environment should be a little more creative and energetic, as Lucy would like, but the seriousness and concentration of people in their work should be learned from here. This is a goal I have set for myself and a goal for the company. ”
At this time, Xu Xincheng suddenly realized that at this moment, he was actually thinking about the future of Sino-American Xinfei Company as the CEO of the company and at a high level. He suddenly realized that although he hadn't promised Lucy last night, he had already begun to think seriously in his heart, and subconsciously he had begun to think about it, and he had begun to think about what he would do to be qualified for this position after agreeing to her.
After realizing this, a strong sense of fear and weakness suddenly surged out of him, sneaking into his heart, rushing left and right in his heart, Xu Xincheng asked himself in his heart: "Can I really be qualified for such a high position? Can I really bear such a heavy burden?"
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At 14:15 in the afternoon, at the end of the visit, the six scientists came to the gate of the museum to see off Lucy, and they said to Lucy that they would keep in touch with each other often, hoping that they would have the opportunity to have more discussions with her in the future.
Mr. Hake personally drove Lucy and Xu Xincheng to the airport.