Chapter 24 Planned R&D
After talking about the situation and these people, there are other things, where is the root of a factory, naturally it is the technical department, no matter how good the management is, it is useless without technical support, unless it is a leather bag company.
Lin Chen thought deeply about this, so he naturally had to talk to the technicians in the factory separately about what the specific situation was, and then take corresponding measures.
"Okay, that's all for today, the technical department will come down to the conference room."
After signing the contract, Xinjiang Battery was Lin Chen's, and he was not polite, and he was directly in control, and after Zhou Guo commanded the employees to be arranged into the factory, he also followed him to the conference room.
On the first seat of the conference room, Lin Chen looked at the list, there were 32 people seated, two technical managers, the team leader was Ma Yi, and the deputy team leader was You Bangzhong.
After looking at the detailed information of the technical department, Lin Chen was a little confused, it seemed that there were no R&D personnel, and the maintenance workers were also technical. "Ma Yi, don't you have a R&D department in such a big factory, and you do the maintenance?"
"Mr. Lin, there is no now, but there used to be a maintenance department and a research and development department, but the efficiency of the factory was not good, and they were all abolished, leaving only the technical department. Our technology is bought, and the R&D department used to be promoted, and now it is good to have a list to do, where is the capital to engage in R&D. ”
Ma Yi's face was full of helplessness, when the benefits were good in the past, everyone's welfare was good, and all kinds of expenses were quite generous, but the situation in the past few years has been so bad that the salary cannot be paid.
The factory has thought about all the things that can be saved, the departments have been laid off one by one, the benefits have almost all been cut, and those who can find something to do outside have left their jobs early, and they have lived together, and there are more people left in the factory.
As Lin Chen knew, this was generally the case, and the others didn't bother to ask, so there would be no discrepancies.
"Ma Yi, You Bangzhong, you sort out the technical information in the factory, and I'll take a look. In addition, the people from the previous R&D department and the technical department can be singled out, and there are other capable people, who can also be included, and you should also pay attention to the talents in this area and call them back. ”
"Divide it into departments, this is no problem, but you still need to add people? There are not many orders in the factory, and the government's orders can be given for a few months in the future, so I am not sure. ”
Yu Bangzhong was not happy that Hu Lin had divided the various departments back to the distant position, and if there was no list, he still had to recruit people, not to mention that this small number of lists was already uncertain for everyone to know.
"You don't have to worry about this, a few months are a few months, even if it is distributed to other factories, it doesn't matter, we will make better products in the future and find the list ourselves."
Lin Chen can't look down on the government's list, and if he goes to maintain it, he has to work hard and make a lot of money. Generally speaking, after the transfer to the private sector, there will be a few months to renew the order, which is considered a transition, and whether it will continue to place orders in the future depends on the relationship between the private boss and the people above, before deciding the issue of the ownership of the list.
The retired old man Bi should not be too small an official, and he can stabilize these lists, but Lin Chen doesn't want to do this, there are not many orders led by the government, and they have to be distributed to other factories, and it is not interesting to ask for these lists that can be the living expenses of other factories, anyway, Lin Chen is not short of this money.
There are mobile phones and computers that can connect another time and space, and if you want to make money in this era, there is no problem at all, so why care about these subsections.
After Zhou Guo came in, he sat next to Lin Chen, the place left for him, and he didn't interject after sitting down, and after Lin Chen asked, he said something about how to do a good job in production, what to do well with Mr. Lin, and what to do well with Mr. Lin.
The others left, and Lin Chen was waiting for Ma Yi and them to sort out the information. Anyway, it was empty, and it took a turn in the factory, and there were only a dozen sets of equipment in production, and it was not half working.
Not long after, Ma Yi and Zhou Guo came, and the technical information in the factory was summarized and sorted out and placed in the former R&D department. In fact, it is just to clean up, and then move all the materials scattered to each workshop.
Come to the R&D department, which is a small workshop, plus two small cubicles. In the small workshop, some test equipment compartments store a small amount of various test raw materials and data boxes.
Calm down, in the compartment where the data is stored, check all kinds of technical data, as well as equipment parameters, etc., while Ma Yi helps Lin Chen pick up and place the data folder.
Lin Chen is an electronic engineering major, and later achieved the position of manager in Lenovo, and these battery-related information can still be roughly understood.
In the past, there will also be contact with these materials, mainly the company's optional accessories, and customers have provided detailed parameters. As a leader, as long as you can understand and plan the direction, the technology will do the rest.
As far as batteries are concerned, another time and space has experienced zinc-manganese batteries, zinc-silver batteries, etc., of the zinc series; Nickel series batteries, such as nickel-cadmium batteries, nickel-hydrogen batteries, etc.; Lead-acid batteries, such as lead-acid batteries, etc.; lithium-ion batteries, lithium-manganese batteries; Manganese dioxide series batteries, such as zinc-manganese batteries, alkaline manganese batteries, etc.; Air series batteries, such as zinc-air batteries, etc
In 1990, Sony Corporation of Japan proposed a new type of lithium-ion battery with graphite as the negative electrode and LiCoO2 as the positive electrode, with a specific energy of 210Wh/L, 88Wh/kg, a longer cycle life of more than 1200 times, and a monthly self-discharge rate of 12%, which is significantly higher than that of MH-Ni and Cd-Ni batteries.
By 1992, practical ion-based batteries were developed, and by 1995, the global lithium-ion battery market had expanded to 38.5 billion yen, while Japan reached 33.9 billion yen, accounting for 88.06% of the world's total. Korea! France! Germany! Canada! China and other countries have focused on the development of lithium-ion batteries.
In 2011, South Korea took the lead in surpassing Japan's market share, and in 2011, Korean companies accounted for 39% of the global lithium battery market share, surpassing 35% of Japanese companies for the first time. In 2012, it accounted for 44% of the global lithium battery market share, while Japan's lithium battery market share was squeezed to 31%, and in 2013, the spodumene battery market is predicted to reach 47%, and Japan's lithium battery market share is less than 29%.
It's 95 years now, and the lithium batteries on the market are basically occupied by Japanese companies such as Sony and Fuji, who let them make it first. And most of the patents are in his hands.
In the world as a whole, patent applications for lithium batteries were in a slow start from 85 to 99, with a small number of applications, and in 10 to 14 years, the number of lithium battery applications increased rapidly. Entering a stage of rapid development, the decline in the number of applications in 14 years is related to the development perfection of the lithium battery industry.
After any new thing is born, the early development is the slowest, in addition to researching to find more suitable materials, but also to find the direction of progress, during which the money spent on the experiment is huge.
Of course, this requires a big investment, and there will be a big income. For example, Microsoft burns tens of billions of dollars a year on system programmers.
It looks like a lot of money, but I don't think it's too much to calculate the income, and the system that burns out with so much money will have no more income.
If you invest more money in R&D than others, and naturally obtain more technology, then you can stay ahead of competitors in the market, and go further, just like Microsoft is now, becoming a monopolist in the world and making a fortune.
As far as China's electronics industry is concerned, due to system reasons, it needs to pay hundreds of billions of foreign funds. Only the shell of the computer is really domestic, the main accessories such as CPU, the north and south bridges are basically imported, and the mobile phone is not excluded, it can only be regarded as a domestic assembly machine.
This is true in hardware, and even less in software. Almost all of them are other people's systems, the installation cost of various systems, a few tens of dollars, patent fees, are increasing every year, and you can carry it as you want, just because you don't have it, and you don't work hard.
In the sixties and seventies, our supercomputer was at the forefront of the world, and we often went to the top three, and the technicians who came back from overseas Chinese came up with how many technologies and patents in various research institutes, and as a result, a paper was published in European and American newspapers and magazines, and it was praised, the technology was taken by others, and the patents were applied for by others.
When researching, there will be a considerable investment, although the development will be slower, and there will be considerable benefits in the later stage. If you can develop quickly, you can only pay patent fees to others, and you can use it almost if you take it.
At this time, Japan's patents on lithium batteries are not very many, they still have to take the road of research and development, Lin Chen is different, you can directly see the road ahead, this speed is equivalent to not paying patent fees, directly get the technology.
It is still in the initial stage, and the patent coverage is small, and there are many ways to bypass the existing patents at the moment, Lin Chen plans to find out what patents Japan has at this time in another time and space, and then use other patents to bypass.
In this way, if you get the information, you can apply for a new patent and sell it to the international market, so that you will not only be in the country in this era. The domestic demand is really not complimentary, and the main manufacturers and customers are international companies.
At present, the mobile phone market is still dominated by Big Brother, such as Nokia, Ericsson, and Motorola, which mainly use nickel-metal hydride, lead-acid, and nickel-chromium batteries. Lithium batteries are still in the application stage, they are not very mature, and the power is relatively small, almost all of them are about 500 mAh.
It was almost at night, Lin Chen saw the information in the factory almost, no wonder the efficiency of the factory was not good, there were some technical data, and it was passable, but the production of water products could not keep up, how could it make qualified products.
I didn't have the money to buy good equipment, so I just got a few better ones in the first two years, and the R&D department was withdrawn, basically cutting off the back way to eat these materials.
Lin Chen didn't ask where he got this large pile of information, but it was somewhat useful, although it was a little outdated. This is 95 years, and Japan has been making lithium-ion batteries since 92.
Tell Ma Yi that the R&D department will first eat the original information, and then send more information.