In March 1987, Lin Qi brought a printed drawing and asked Xinai Electronics Group and the company's technical team to find a way to build a suitable ergonomic chair.

Although, Xinai Electronics Group is mainly engaged in electronic foundry business. However, there are 200,000 employees under Xinai Electronics, and there is no shortage of skilled workers of all types, and all kinds of processing machines are also complete. Mold opening, injection molding and other processes are very commonly used.

Even though building a chair is not the same thing as an electronic foundry, it can do even more sophisticated electronic processing, let alone an office chair.

Moreover, the drawings given by Lin Qi are also dispersed into different parts, and the materials, specifications, and dimensions of each part have clear requirements. According to the specifications of the parts, it is possible to make them by hand even if there is no machine.

The most complex thing about an ergonomic chair is, in fact, the design of the chair. Why do chairs have certain parts, the shape of the back, the shape of the armrests, why are the cushions designed that way. These designs require a large number of people to cooperate with the test to arrive at better parameters. But now, these hardest ones, have been solved. The design drawings are ready-made, and the shape, size, and dimensions of the parts have specific parameters. This is equivalent to taking the design to make a sample, which is the job of the foundry!

Although these skilled workers may not be able to understand what ergonomic design concept, however, Lin Qi requires the fastest speed to make the sample, Xinai Electronics Group still attaches great importance to it, and specially dispatched a group of first-class skilled workers to customize a batch of parts according to the size of the parts, with machines combined with manual methods.

It took only three days to process a batch of parts that met the requirements and assembled them into a prototype of an Aeron engineering chair.

This engineering chair is made of local materials, which may be different from the later Aeron engineering chair. However, the engineering chair should have the functions, it has all the functions. Ergonomic backrest, headrests, armrests. A movable five-star foot slide and a lifting suspension system that adjusts the height of the chair. Well, including armrests, headrests, backrests, and other parts, they are all adjustable.

Basically, even if there is a certain gap between such a seat and the reference object, the experience difference is not too big, and it is definitely not expensive to get the 21st century sales price of 2000 yuan.

"Boss, this chair is so comfortable, I don't want to get down when I sit on it, I won't be tired of working all day in the chair, and it's even more comfortable than lying on the bed and sofa. I don't know, which master designed it?" A Xinai Electronics executive who often sits in the office looked at the chair greedily and said, "If this chair is willing to sell, even if it is 1,000 yuan, I am willing to buy it!"

Lin Qi said with a smile: "This is customized for Lin Meng Technology Company, and the design is also taken out over there." It is mainly to solve the problem of office personnel, sedentary and uncomfortable. If you want, when the chair is finalized and mass-produced, it will definitely have a share!"

"Is it expensive after mass production?" The executive hesitated, though greedy. As a sweatshop that exploits labor, the wage standard is higher than that of most domestic enterprises, but it is certainly not too high, even if it is an executive, it is currently a few thousand monthly salaries.

The interns who have just joined the company even only get a salary of 120 yuan. After the regularization, it was mentioned that 200 yuan a month. After that, with the increase of seniority contribution and seniority, the salary is gradually increased. However, most of the more than 200,000 employees of Xinai Electronics Factory are paid less than 300 yuan. Those who can get a salary of more than 300 only account for about 5%.

And an engineering chair, just the materials used, are very much. According to the idea of this era, a chair weighing 50 pounds also used a bunch of metal. The rest of the mesh, sponge, and plastic are not low-grade goods, and it is conservatively estimated that the production cost alone is not less than 300 yuan.

Because, the cost of metals and plastics in this era may not be cheaper than in the 21st century. In the case of steel, the price has fluctuated for decades, but the price of steel in 80 years is not lower than the average ex-factory price of steel in the 21st century.

This is mainly because although the prices of materials and labor in the 21st century have risen, the progress of production technology has also brought about a reduction in costs.

In the 80s, basic industrial raw materials such as steel were expensive, because the production process was backward, offsetting the advantages of low labor costs and low energy costs. In addition, there is the fact that many raw materials are in short supply and are in a seller's market. It is the uncle who can produce these materials, and he does not have to worry about not being able to sell them, so the price cannot be cheap.

For a large enterprise like Xinai Electronics Group, the domestic supply is tight, or the technical indicators of some materials have not yet met the requirements, and a considerable number of raw materials are still imported from overseas. Of course, as a company that attaches great importance to the localization rate of parts, the new business department will also focus on cultivating the growth of domestic suppliers when importing overseas raw materials and parts.

"Insiders don't need money, everyone can get an office chair!" Lin Qi said indifferently, "When it can be mass-produced, the first batch will be customized for Lin Meng Technology Company." After that, it was a new start-up company, and the office chair was completely upgraded and replaced with an Aeron ergonomic chair......"

"It's so good, why do you want to take a foreign name?" Many workers and masters were a little indignant.

After all, they also understood that the design of this chair should be domestic science and technology. And the manufacturing samples are also handmade by domestic workers. Even so, the English name is still taken, which makes the workers feel unfair.

Xinai Electronics Group, as the largest foundry in China. In addition to liking cheap labor, he also likes to recruit skilled people. For example, those middle-aged and elderly workers, in order to solve the employment problem of their children, let their children take up jobs, and retire early. And the retirement of this era, but not as many retirement benefits as later generations, basically, many units themselves are very difficult, retirement can never get the salary when you are on the job, at most the unit subsidizes a little firewood, rice, oil and salt living expenses, but it is definitely not enough for the family.

However, a large number of middle-aged and elderly workers at the beginning of reform and opening up were often the real technical backbones. Young people are not trained at all, and they are hastily replaced by their parents' jobs.

Xinai Electronics needs a large number of experienced workers, so in the country's major industrial cities, a special recruitment has been carried out to recruit masters with solid technology and humanoid machine tools. There are machines that can make parts for you, and there are no machines that can make parts for you with hammers and files.

This kind of hands-on ability of the workers and masters has made a lot of efforts to the factory when the foundry has just started and lacks the necessary equipment. Even now, when encountering some processing technology, there is no special machinery and equipment in China, but also rely on these experienced masters, brainstorming, and find a way to come up with a solution.

Of course, these masters also have shortcomings, and the biggest disadvantage is that because they have been in the system for a long time, they have been assimilated by the unit and the collective. Moreover, when they were young, they lived at the height of the Cold War, so they did not have much good impression of countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union.

Of course, history has proved that reform and opening up is a good move, although some negative factors have been reinforced. However, in terms of material and productivity, there has indeed been a tremendous increase.

And material and productive forces are the root of everything!

In modern Western countries and the Soviet Union, the so-called ideological struggle is basically a different understanding of how the wealth of society is distributed.

However, from the long-term perspective of human society, the real promotion of human social progress is not to share the cake, but to make the cake.

Therefore, the Soviet-American countries of modern society, in essence, are all wrong, and none of them are right.

China's reform and opening-up course will prove to be right in the coming decades. Because, this route is to make a fortune quietly, don't make trouble, and everyone gets rich together...... If all countries in the world think like this, only seeking to get rich and not making trouble, then the world will be peaceful.

Lin Qi couldn't help but be amused and said: "Fellow old comrades, you are not open-minded enough, but at this stage, the country has put forward a clear goal, with economic construction as the center. The coastal provinces, with a clearer task, are to use their geographical advantages to export our domestic cheap products to the international market and earn profits to feed more Chinese. At the current stage, the ergonomic chair is of course exported to developed countries to earn foreign exchange, the customer is God, of course, we have to take an international market to understand the English trade name! Of course, we will also develop some simplified versions, in the domestic and underdeveloped countries market sales, this brand name, the chair minimum grade of 500 US dollars!

"It's still Boss Lin who is shrewd, and if he takes an English name, he sells it for $500 to make a foreigner's wallet. ”

"With such an expensive chair, it is estimated that only the Yankees will buy it. ”

"The Yankees sit in the office more than in the factory, and they have a sore back from sitting all day, and this kind of chair must be easy to sell!"

Under the current situation, policies such as reform, opening up, and economic construction as the central task are indeed the main theme and general righteousness advocated by the state.

After Lin Qi shouted a few slogans, the mood of the skilled workers present improved. Moreover, he took the initiative to give advice to Boss Lin and discuss how to make money from foreigners.