The factory invested by Guangzhou Xiaobawang Company has received strong support from the political axe of Guangdong Province, and it is necessary to give manpower to manpower and resources to resources.

Robert and William Lin are also very strong in design and hands-on ability. However, small-scale production in the laboratory and large-scale production in the factory are two different concepts!

Fortunately, Huang Tingjun's connections are still relatively broad, and he helped Zhang Shaojie find some experts in Taiwan's consumer electronics industry to give Zhang Shaojie a short-term job.

After arriving in Guangzhou, these five experts invited from Taiwan looked at the laboratory sample assembly process of the Xiaobawang learning machine, and soon opened a production line of equipment.

Shhh

It's just an assembly plant.

However, most of the equipment needs to be imported.

Zhang Shaojie has a deposit of 9.59 million yuan, but the renminbi is overseas at this time and does not have the function of international payment. So, I had to use Hong Kong dollars!

This is because the Hong Kong dollar is in the Hong Kong market and can be easily converted into international currencies such as the US dollar.

HK$4,000,000 deposit, worth US$500,000.

However, it is a joke to spend $500,000 to get a production line for consumer electronics. Pepsi Cola, which invested in a beverage production line in Shenzhen, also invested $5.5 million!

"How much money do you need to invest in this list?" Zhang Shaojie asked.

"It should cost about six or seven million dollars!" An expert in the consumer electronics industry said lightly, "I designed a similar assembly line for a computer in Taiwan, and the investment in machinery and equipment alone reached 9 million US dollars!" ”

Zhang Shaojie said: "You know, the monthly salary in Chinese mainland is only 200 Hong Kong dollars. Many production processes, if they can be solved by hand, can save more money! Can you simplify the production line, so that the steps that can be replaced by manual are all manual for the time being! ”

"Okay"

These experts regard Zhang Shaojie as an unscrupulous businessman, and the production line has been greatly reduced.

"I'm dizzy, no, it's too easy!" Zhang Shaojie got this most cost-effective production line design plan, and was immediately embarrassed!

The entire production process begins with the use of a precision machine to print the electronic components onto the PCB.

After that, the workers only need to load the printed PCB into the plastic shell and use a screwdriver to tighten the plastic shell.

And then what?

Then the whole production process, it's done!

Such a simple production process can almost be seen in the copycat factory in Shenzhen at the beginning of the 21st century!

"Isn't that exactly what you're looking for?" Experts have used the mentality of intellectuals to despise Zhang Shaojie, a businessman.

Zhang Shaojie asked: "Are you sure that according to this production process, the product can be produced?" ”

"Printed circuit boards, the workers you need, are slightly more technical! For the rest, it's okay to find some illiterates! "The experts swear by it.

"What about quality inspection?" Zhang Shaojie asked.

"Oh, forgot! I thought you didn't need quality inspection, adding $300,000 in quality inspection equipment was enough! The experts looked amazed.

The cost of the whole set of equipment, after a significant reduction, can be won as long as about 1.1 million US dollars.

In this case, Zhang Shaojie no longer hesitated, leaving Robert, William Lin, and Ma Rongcheng to preside over the transformation of the factory, the recruitment and training of workers in Guangzhou.

At this time, many international electronics industry companies coveted the Chinese mainland market. However, it only set up an office in Chinese mainland and set up a branch in Hong Kong.

Generally not too sophisticated electronic industry equipment, in Hong Kong can be placed through Siemens, Motorola, IBM, Panasonic, NEC, Texas Instruments and other companies to place orders.

In the production process of the entire Xiaobawang game machine, the most technical content is to print electronic components onto the circuit board. That's the printed circuit board process, and that's just a $800,000 piece of equipment!

In the whole world, printed circuit boards belong to the low end of the electronics industry chain.

The really big companies are the ones that make semiconductor components – CPUs, memories, hard disks, and all sorts of more technical electronic components.

Originally, these electronic components originated in the United States.

Of course, in the 70s, the electronics industry began to rise and could produce a large number of cheap memory devices. In the international market, they are frantically competing with American companies for orders.

At that time, the cost of labor was low, only one-fifth of the salary of an American. Naturally, many expensive electronic components can be sold at the price of cabbage

By the early 80s, in the face of the company's low-price dumping, even if it was as strong as Intel, it was losing money. Later, Intel resolutely gave up the memory business and specialized in CPUs to turn the corner!

It is the equipment that Zhang Shaojie is preparing to introduce, many of which are equipment that major enterprises are about to eliminate, so major manufacturers are very happy to accept orders.

In particular, Fujiwara Toshio, the head of Panasonic in Hong Kong, contacted Zhang Shaojie privately and said: "In fact, you don't need to find American and European manufacturers at all, their equipment is flashy, far less expensive than our equipment!" ”

"Oh? What a way to put it! Zhang Shaojie laughed in his heart, since the 70s, the little devil's favorite thing is to grab business at a low price. Before the "Plaza Treaty" in 85, the manufacturing industry did have a cost advantage over Europe and the United States, but later it was exerted political pressure by the United States and many European countries, which led to a large appreciation of the Yuan. As a result, the export industry of this country was wiped out.

Fujiwara explains, "If you don't mind second-hand equipment, we can provide you with a complete set of printed circuit boards and electronic assembly products. New equipment costs more than $8 million, but we can sell you for $2.5 million for new used equipment! ”

"Dizzy, I asked for $1.1 million in equipment, and you sold me $2.5 million!" Zhang Shaojie frowned.

"Listen to me, sir! 2.5 million equipment, this is a complete set of assembly lines, production efficiency, will be more than 5 times your original plan! If you don't care about productivity, I'm talking about it! Fujiwara smiled.

As we all know, selling second-hand production lines - Panasonic's favorite thing to do!

In the early years of China's reform and opening up, Konosuke Matsushita enthusiastically invited Deng Xiaoping to Panasonic during Deng Xiaoping's visit, and unabashedly introduced the entire Panasonic company's factory and business philosophy to Mr. Deng.

With the friendly relationship with Mr. Deng, Panasonic became one of the first companies to enter the Chinese market.

In particular, Panasonic has made a feat that is unimaginable to all TV manufacturers - selling more than 100 sets of second-hand TV production lines to China, not only reusing second-hand equipment, but also selling it at a good price.

Moreover, Panasonic sells more than 100 TV assembly lines to China, but many of the core components, such as picture tubes, need to be imported from Panasonic.

In this way, Panasonic got rid of the low-margin assembly business in one fell swoop and specialized in the more profitable picture tubes.

Between the 80s ~ 90s, Panasonic became the world's largest TV company because it stood in the upstream of the industrial chain of Chinese TV manufacturers.

Zhang Shaojie looked at the shrewdness of the little devil and said with a smile: "Importing your equipment, you won't leave a hand in the key places of the equipment, right?" ”

"What do you mean?" Fujiwara Toshio was puzzled.

"In terms of TV assembly equipment, you guys are very unauthentic! On the surface, more than 100 complete assembly lines were sold to China. But the core components, such as the picture tube, still have to be imported from your Panasonic. This kind of cheating daddy keeps a hand, it seems to be very unfair! Zhang Shaojie said disdainfully.

Fujiwara Toshio smiled: "We have agreed in advance with all the manufacturers in China that we will only transfer the assembly line to them, not including the CRT production line!" But what they need most is only the assembly line! How can this be called deception. Moreover, even if there are TVs assembled in China, many of them are exported to Yuben, which is a win-win business! ”

"As long as you give me the equipment, don't keep a hand!" Zhang Shaojie said.

Fujiwara shook his head and said, "Of course we won't keep a hand!" However, your set of equipment itself is a printed circuit board plus an assembly line. The core electronic components must be ordered from the international semiconductor giants, right? ”

Zhang Shaojie was silent for a moment: "There is no problem with handing over the order of the production line to you!" By the way, do you Panasonic have ROM disk burning equipment - that is, a device that can burn written programs to disk? ”

A ROM disk is a type of read-only memory. Since Atari, the game cartridges of home consoles have been based on ROM disks.

The game cartridge of the Xiaobawang game console is no exception, you need to burn the game program to the ROM disk, and the game console can read the program in the cartridge, so that players can experience the game.

"There are such devices, the cheapest one is only 30,000 US dollars, but the efficiency is very low, you can only do it manually, and you can only burn a few hundred ROM disks a day! The more advanced equipment is digital, burning a large number of disks in batches, and can burn more than 1,000 ROM disks in an hour, and the price may cost 1.3 million US dollars! Fujiwara was even more excited when he heard that there was a new order.

Zhang Shaojie said: "Okay! The previous printed circuit board equipment, assembly line equipment, plus a set of $1.3 million ROM disk programming equipment! ”

Fujiwara Toshio was secretly happy in his heart, and the order of 3.8 million US dollars negotiated within a few hours could bring him a personal dividend of 38,000.

Therefore, for Zhang Shaojie's customer, Fujiwara Toshio was even more respectful, and said: "Mr. Zhang, this is our first cooperation. In the future, any technical equipment you need, as long as we Panasonic has, I can give you the most convenient preferential price! The bigger the order, the more savings! ”

Zhang Shaojie said in his heart, if he uses Panasonic's equipment, the products produced will defeat Nintendo, Sega or something. In the future, will the right-wing organizations of the company demonstrate outside the office building of Panasonic, shouting the slogan of "Heaven punishes the thief"?

(To be continued)