The factory was progressing even more smoothly than Evan had imagined.

At the beginning of May, the plant was completed, and water, electricity, and safety facilities were readily available. At the same time, Magic's scheduled injection molding machines and assembly lines began to enter the factory, and ordinary assembly workers were also being recruited.

The components of the Rubik's Cube are divided into three categories: top, edge, and center surface, so the injection molding machine is also divided into three groups. According to the set plan, the whole production line can reach about 10,000 Rubik's cubes per day when running at full speed. This production is sufficient to meet the US market, according to Evan's estimates.

The installation and commissioning of the injection molding machine lasted about ten days, followed by another five days to straighten out the assembly line. With the arrival of workers and the completion of on-the-job training, on May 25, factory director Jason Davidson decided to conduct trial production. Prior to this, Rhone had just agreed with Girard and Evan on the production process of the plastic, as well as the final specifications of the mold. In order to get the best feel out of the Rubik's Cube, Rona and Miguel Estelle of the mold team worked on it. Estell) was almost driven crazy by Evan.

On the day Evan nodded and said "OK", Rona hugged Miguel excitedly on the spot, and then left the production workshop while scolding.

"FXXK, this damn thing is finally done, I'm going to take a leave of absence, I'm going to rest, I'm going back to headquarters. ”

When Evan said behind him, "Ronna, do you want to join Magic7, high job and high salary!", Rona turned his head and said, "Evan, I will sell myself to the devil, and I will not work under you." Because demons don't have perfect OCD. ”

Evan shrugged and said, "Not necessarily. ”

The day of trial production was the weekend, and Evan arrived at the factory early, along with his older siblings and Audrey. The governor and his wife were also interested in visiting, but unfortunately because the party primary date for the 1946 gubernatorial election was approaching, Earl needed to run the election campaign to mobilize, so he could only regret it.

There was no ceremony for trial production, and as soon as ten o'clock arrived, the factory director Davidson gave an order, and the production line was started.

All the personnel on the production line, management posts, and visitors, including Evan, are fully armed and have taken adequate protective measures.

Evan took Audrey and the others to start from the injection molding workshop, watching a bunch of granular plastic raw materials enter from a hole in the machine, and when they come out after a while, they become the desired shape, Dora and Dorothy look at it and exclaim, "Amazing!"

After watching the production process of the parts, the group came to the assembly and packaging workshop.

In fact, there are many processes required for the assembly of the Rubik's Cube, there are five kinds of plastic parts produced in the injection molding workshop, plus a total of six parts of the metal screws, these parts can only assemble a plain Rubik's Cube after six processes, and then paste a different color sticker on each side, after inspection, packaging, and warehousing, a new Rubik's Cube will be baked.

Such an assembly line requires about 100 people in all stations, and can produce about 200 Rubik's cubes per hour after proficiency. There are 8 production lines in the entire assembly workshop, and the daily output is up to 12,800 Rubik's cubes based on eight hours of working time per day. Of course, these numbers are still on paper, because the factory only employs more than 200 workers.

The assembly line of doing the same thing over and over again may seem interesting at first glance, but as time goes by, the novelty will quickly fade. Dora is like this, she was curious about everything when she first came in, and before she was halfway there, she was clamoring to go out.

Evan was a little annoyed by Dora's quarrel, and after asking Audrey, she also said that she didn't want to see it, so Evan recruited someone to take a few of the girls who were not interested in them out first.

Evan and several executives have been waiting for the final statistics at the inbound office. At eleven o'clock, the assembly line was suspended, and at eleven o'clock, after two rounds of inspections, the statistician reported the results.

176 Rubik's cubes were produced in one hour, of which 6 were unqualified.

The figure clearly didn't hit the intended target, and Evan frowned, a little dissatisfied. However, considering that it is the first time to produce production, this number will definitely increase further in the future as the proficiency of workers increases.

So Evan said to the Davidson factory director, who had a gloomy face because the output was not up to standard: "I think this result is good." It's just that the defective rate is a little high, and this needs to be improved. ”

"Capacity ramp-up is a process, I know that. Davidson, how to improve production efficiency in the future, you pay more attention. ”

Seeing that Evan was not too angry, but affirmed his work, Davidson was secretly relieved. Hearing Evan tell him to focus on improving productivity, he immediately nodded and said, "Evan, this is my job, I will pay attention." ”

Afterwards, Evan asked the executives on the scene to share their impressions and see if they could make some suggestions for production. It's a pity that among the other executives, Girard and Carl don't know anything about production, so naturally they didn't say anything, Ted Webb, the manager of the quality department of Magic7, understands production, but just now Davidson was embarrassed enough, so he didn't speak again.

The trial production ended hastily, and several people returned to the office building in the factory area and had a small meeting.

The meeting decided on the next few arrangements: first, the marketing manager, that is, Girard, needs to determine the marketing plan within two weeks, and the time when the product is officially launched; second, according to the time of listing and the market research in the previous period, Girard needs to give a stock quantity to the factory; third, the factory director Davidson arranges the production capacity according to the number given by Girard; fourth, Evan set a goal for Davidson, within 20 days, a single line needs to produce 185 units per hour, and within 40 days to reach 200 units, and the defect rate will be reduced to less than 1%.

By the end of the meeting, it was past twelve o'clock, and Evan hurriedly took everyone out of the factory and found a random restaurant to solve the stomach problem.

The canteen of the factory has not yet been renovated, and now the workers' lunches are made to order by the factory.

Before leaving, Evan gave everyone a Rubik's Cube that had just been taken off the production line, which was considered a souvenir.

In the afternoon, Virginia took her siblings home, and by the way, Audrey took her back with her. Evan didn't go back to Sacramento because he had to see someone.

Evan was meeting with a manager at 3M, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. The various colors of stickers used on the Rubik's Cube are 3M products. Originally, Evan wanted to produce Rubik's cubes with colors for plastic parts, but after adjusting them for a few months, the colors could not meet his requirements, so he had no choice but to use 3M stickers instead. It's a pity that the color of the sticker meets the requirements, but it also brings a drawback, that is, the production process has to add the process of sticker.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Henry Fisher, a manager from 3M, walked into the office belonging to Evan in the Magic7 factory building.