Chapter 22 Craftsmanship is the center of gravity
To put it simply: the method of producing a product is called a process. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Take fried poached eggs, for example.
Poached eggs are the products of enterprises, and the concept of poached eggs is a product design. How big a poached egg should be, salt or sugar, and frying until medium-rare or medium-rare, all belong to the category of product design.
But it's not enough to design a poached egg, you also need a set of correct cooking methods to be able to perfectly achieve the design requirements. This method belongs to the category of craftsmanship.
A good chef is able to choose the right amount of heat, control the oil temperature, master the timing of each side of the frying, and determine the timing of the salt to fry delicious poached eggs. A rookie chef will be in a hurry, either frying the paste or frying it yellow, and the final product is unpalatable.
Traditional handicraft production is to control the quality of the product hope are pinned on the chef's skills, while modern large-scale industrial production, especially emphasize the importance of process specifications, to ensure that any rookie after a simple training, can fry qualified poached eggs.
To do this, you need to carefully analyze the process of the good chef's omelette and write a detailed recipe that explains how many settings the heat should be set to, what degree Celsius the oil temperature should be, and how many milliseconds each side should be fried, so as to ensure that the poached eggs fried by different chefs are of the same quality. This recipe, which is detailed down to every step, is known in industry as a process document.
In order to improve the efficiency of the omelette, some restaurants will make a special omelette that allows the chef to fry the eggs as long as they are put in the omelette and turn them over at the specified time, so that the manpower and time costs of the omelette are greatly reduced. This kind of omelette is called craft equipment.
Linbei Heavy Machinery Factory developed a 12 cubic meter excavator, which naturally involves a large number of production processes. Because it is a single piece production, and it is not sure whether there will be orders in the future, Lin Bei Heavy Machinery has a mentality of simplifying because of ugliness from the beginning. Many components are processed in pursuit of results, not about the process, let alone the preparation of complete process documentation.
For example, the welding of some large parts, the workers have not been in contact, and they do not know how to do it, so the factory organizes the best welders to take turns to test, even if the welding is successful, if the welding is not good, it will be tried again by another person. Often after a piece of successful welding, the workers themselves can't tell how it succeeded, and if they try again, they may not be able to weld this result again.
The same is true for process equipment, because only one excavator is produced, and the factory does not think it is worth developing special process equipment. Or take large-scale welding as an example, in order to ensure quality, there should be a special bracket to fix the parts, so that welding is more convenient. But in the case of producing only one piece, it is impossible to make a special bracket, so the workers use soil methods to find some substitutes as brackets, and then dismantle them after welding. If the same part needs to be made in the future, the worker will have to rebuild the bracket, and there is no guarantee that it will be the same as the last time. Once the structure of the bracket changes, the original stress relationship is also changed, which may lead to the successful experience of the previous welding, but this time it cannot be replicated.
The same situation also occurs with the upstream supporting enterprises of the final assembly plant, and the performance is more obvious. For example, the hydraulic parts used in the excavator need two or three sets in total, and the professional hydraulic parts manufacturing enterprises are not worth developing process documents and process equipment for such a few hundred yuan output value, basically trying to find a way to make a few errands. Due to the non-standard process, the quality of the purchased parts is difficult to be guaranteed, and there are repeated problems in the process of sample testing, which makes the engineers of the assembly plant angry and scolds their mothers.
Luo Xiangfei and Meng Fanze are clear about this situation, but they both hope to solve these problems in the production process. Higher-level leaders often don't understand what craftsmanship is, they only know that Chinese companies have once again created something new, "throwing the hat that China can't make forks and forks into the Pacific Ocean". In those years, the list of products that China has the ability to manufacture is very dazzling, but insiders know that a considerable part of the products have high cost, low manufacturing efficiency, and unstable quality, and the front-line production departments are trying their best to refuse to use domestic equipment, and finally form an embarrassing pattern in which many painstaking domestic equipment developed by great effort are shelved, and first-line departments import a large number of foreign equipment.
As a traverser, Feng Xiaochen clearly understands the transformation process of China's equipment manufacturing industry from single-piece production to mass production, and understands the price and pain that needs to be paid in this process. The idea he put forward is to shift the work goal of the equipment department from blindly meeting the requirements of front-line departments to paying attention to its own technological development. To put it bluntly, it is all about making better equipment, and rejecting the one-shot deal of those who deal with the errands.
Taking such an approach, for a period of time, will lead to the dystocia of the new model, so that the superior leaders will not be able to see the new product that makes them happy for a long time. However, after practicing internal skills, there will no longer be a bottleneck in the development of new products, and there will be a gratifying scene of new models emerging one after another.
In real history, China's equipment manufacturing industry in the 80s and 90s of the last century was in a period of hard work, and the development progress of new models was slow, which made people feel as if they had come to a standstill. In fact, during this period of time, the equipment enterprises have comprehensively improved their technological level, and after entering the new century, such as large-scale thermal power equipment, hydro turbine units, metallurgical equipment, etc., have burst out like a blowout, and as long as the first machine is put into production, it can have the ability of mass production. This is a later story, so let's put it aside.
"It's no wonder that Minister Meng has repeatedly asked you to participate in the adjusted project, and your thinking is indeed a little different. ”
After thinking about it, Luo Xiangfei said slowly:
"There are a lot of shining points in your ideas, and there are also some unrealistic points. As for what is unrealistic, I won't go into detail with you now, you can go to the practice department to test whether they are right or wrong. I decided to organize a group to participate in the 25 cubic excavator project of the Ministry of Coal, and I will propose it at the party group meeting tomorrow for consideration by the party group of the bureau. If the bureau's party group agrees with me, Xiao Feng, you will be a member of the working group and under the personal command of Minister Meng.
However, I have to say ugly things ahead, you can't your tail, and you can't get carried away just because Minister Meng attaches importance to your opinion. When talking to Minister Meng and other veteran comrades, you must remain humble and not have a conflict with them, understand?"
The latter words can be understood as the result of Luo Xiangfei's undecidedness. The fake news brought by Tian Wenjian before really scared Luo Xiangfei into a cold sweat, and he still felt a little chill in his back. After this time, he had a new understanding of Feng Xiaochen's lethality, this child was really a newborn calf, and he dared to fire a cannon in front of anyone. This is also to meet him Luo Xiangfei and Meng Fanze, who is also work-oriented, if he is replaced by another narrow-minded leader, he may be sent to the eighteenth layer of hell because of Feng Xiaochen's arrogance.
Of course, in that era, broad-minded leaders like Luo Xiangfei and Meng Fanze were still very common, and these old people who had been fighting in the war had a very high ideological consciousness. As long as subordinates are genuinely motivated by their work, they will generally be more tolerant. If this subordinate can still show some talents, then he can even get their special favor.
"I understand, Director Luo, don't worry, I will pay attention to the ways and means. Feng Xiaochen replied sincerely.
Hearing Feng Xiaochen's answer, Luo Xiangfei rolled his eyes, and almost wanted to pry Feng Xiaochen again. What is the means of paying attention, in the final analysis, you still want to continue to fire guns, and use your shocking views to scare the old comrades into running to the hospital overnight. But when I think about it, isn't the place where I like Feng Xiaochen because of the sharpness of his thoughts? If you suppress his thoughts and let him speak for three points, wouldn't it be a waste of such a talent?
"Well, the way, that's a particularly important thing, you have to keep it in mind. Luo Xiangfei emphasized in a heavy tone, and without waiting for Feng Xiaochen to make another move, he changed the topic and said, "By the way, you just came back from the Coal Research Institute, haven't you eaten yet?"
Feng Xiaochen's tears were about to flow out, and the leader finally said a word. When he was still on the bus, he was already hungry, and when he came back, he was thinking of Wang Weilong and them going to eat something, so he was summoned to Luo Xiangfei's office, and after chatting casually, an hour passed, and he already felt so hungry that his heart was attached to his back.
Luo Xiangfei saw Feng Xiaochen's mental activity, he patted his head and reviewed: "I'm sorry, I ignored that young people of your age are prone to hunger, I thought of this earlier, I will let you eat before talking about things." Well, the cafeteria is closed now, and I still have a few biscuits here, so why don't the three of us deal with it?"
The biscuits that Luo Xiangfei stocked up in the office were just for him to use as a snack when he stayed up late working overtime. At Luo Xiangfei's age, the amount of food is no longer large, so the number of biscuits is very limited. Although Luo Xiangfei desperately encouraged Feng Xiaochen to eat more, Tian Wenjian also pretended to endure hunger and said that he couldn't eat too much, so Feng Xiaochen made more than seventy percent of the biscuits by himself, but Feng Xiaochen still felt that his stomach was empty.
After eating the biscuits, Luo Xiangfei asked Feng Xiaochen a few more words of saliva, such as whether he was used to life in the north or not, and sent him away. Feng Xiaochen returned to the collective dormitory building with a trace of resentment that he had not eaten enough, knocked on the door of Wang Weilong's room, and was about to ask him for some more food, but found that there was another woman and a child in Wang Weilong's room, and Wang Weilong's face seemed to have some depressed looks.