Chapter Ninety-Four: Capacity

The optical laboratory has obtained all the technology needed now, and after John left, according to the professor, it will take ten days at most for the laboratory to fully master the corresponding technology required for military goggles, which is quite satisfying, and Shu Hang can afford to wait.

As for the frame technology, this is a small matter, since the decision to switch to plastic frames, the first frames were quickly put into trial production, and with the new frame successfully rolled off the assembly line, it was the sunglasses that were about to be sold nationwide, and this was a plan that had been set for a long time.

With the installation of the PMMA resin injection molding production line, it has now begun to produce lenses in odd weeks and frames in even weeks, ensuring that at least 2,000 pairs of sunglasses can be mass-produced within two weeks.

In the face of such a high production efficiency, it can be regarded as a shock to Lao Zhang, a traditional optical glasses craftsman, he never thought that glasses could be produced in this way, and such a high output broke out in one day, which has completely subverted his inherent understanding of glasses.

The traditional view is that glasses are handmade, each pair of glasses is unique, is the work of craftsmen, where did you ever think that you can also directly apply molds for mass production, not only high production efficiency, but also a look out of high quality, it must be admitted that this era has changed too much.

"Now the inventory of sunglasses is about 3,700 pairs, the people from all over the country who participated in the procurement conference have settled in Shudu, after the preliminary statistics are as high as 8,000 pairs of orders, and there will definitely be additional orders in the follow-up, now our gap is too big, even if the delivery is delayed for a week, it is impossible to meet their needs. ”

Tu Zhenying, as the manager of the sales department of Shuhang Optics, has been worried about whether she can sell sunglasses, but now after the procurement personnel of state-owned stores around the country have initially summarized the demand, they have found that the production capacity is seriously insufficient.

This is really painful and happy, now I fully understand how hot the glasses industry is, and the degree of profiteering is simply staggering, as a family child of the 123 factory, she has heard of how profitable the military industry is, but compared with the two, only to find that the degree of profiteering in the military industry may not be as good as the glasses industry.

To put it bluntly, glasses can be regarded as medical care equipment in general, but as long as they have any relationship with the medical industry, it is really not something that can be simply described with violence.

Since the supply gap is too big now, Wang Zhengguo naturally made a decision: "The production capacity gap is indeed not small, and the production line we have at hand is definitely not enough, and in the second half of the year, we will launch myopia/reading glasses with larger shipments, as well as military goggle models to ensure production, so I still want to add another production line, and then the production of lenses and frames will be separated, so as to improve our production capacity." ”

The production line obtained from the translucent factory is relatively old, and when this production line was first designed, it was not to make small parts such as lenses, and after the transformation, although it can also produce lenses, the efficiency is always not high. If you really want to improve production, you still have to use a special production line before there will be a qualitative change.

Speaking of which, the current Shuhang Optics has not paid off all the procurement funds for the production line of the translucent factory, and is actually thinking about expanding production again, which Wang Zhengguo's heart is big enough. But when you think about it, this choice also seems to be an inevitable consequence.

The same idea is not actually Wang Zhengguo, Tu Zhenying, as a middle and senior manager of Shu Airlines, also clearly knows how tight the production plan of Shu Airlines is in the second half of the year, if you want to solve these problems, the only way is to complete the expansion of the production line as soon as possible.

However, before the expansion of the production line, there is at least a window period of more than a month for capacity demand, and the order gap during this period must be solved, which is even a major event that is burning to the brow.

"The new construction of the production line is something we must put on the agenda, but the new production line can no longer have ready-made machines directly like we did before, nor is it transportation between the same city of Shudu. It takes time from confirming the purchase, to arranging the production of the machine, and then transporting it to Shudu for a long time, installing it in place, etc., and it is expected that it will never be in place without one or two months, so I propose that from now on, the production department will work overtime. ”

The unit efficiency is good, some overtime or something, in fact, it is a good thing, many times the fear is not to work overtime, as a large-scale industrial production unit, not to work overtime is not something to be proud of, so overtime is a thing that people love and hate.

Shuhang optics' work and rest time are implemented in accordance with national standards, the so-called 9 to 5 is actually about the same, just such a little working hours every day, there is indeed a lot of room for efficiency improvement, now it is a special situation, we must fiercely "squeeze" the labor ability of workers.

As a black-hearted boss, Wang Zhengguo doesn't care so much: "There is some truth in saying that the current work is often too short to meet the order gap, so we will increase the working hours per week, it is summer now, the morning dawns early, and the evening is dark." ”

After a few seconds of silence, he may have made up his mind: "I think we will go to work an hour earlier in the morning, and leave work two hours later in the evening, and work overtime for three hours a day, so that we can have an extra eighteen working hours in a week, so that our production capacity can still be increased by about one-third." ”

In the 80s, China still implemented a single rest system, that is, six days a week, which can indeed increase 18 working hours, which is also a solution to part of the production capacity problem, but even if it works overtime every day, I am afraid that the production capacity still cannot keep up.

It's not that I haven't thought about working overtime directly on Sundays, but if you think about this kind of thing, the workers of the Republic at this time are really not like the workers more than ten years later, as long as the money is in place, the current workers still pay some attention to the protection of their labor rights and interests, if you even deprive yourself of a single rest every week, maybe he really dares to make trouble with you, and it will be Shuhang who will suffer at that time.

So is it feasible to work in three shifts? This is another bad idea, which says that socialist countries do not allow oppression, and that appropriate overtime is acceptable, and this is a dedication to the construction of the motherland, but what is the difference between working three shifts day and night, and capitalist exploitation, which is already a proper departure from socialism, and this is certainly not good.

"If you still can't meet the order after adjusting the production plan, then limit the purchase appropriately. We don't have a good way now, the situation is only like this, when the time comes, I will explain it to the buyers, I believe they should be able to understand, the current national environment is like this, the production of industrial products has always been in short supply, and they should have been used to it as buyers. ”