Chapter 247: Expanding Production
When he woke up, Brother Jun still ate and drank as usual, and made a few jokes with Zhou Liwen from time to time, as if nothing happened last night. Of course, Zhou Liwen will not be stupid to mention the purchase of dramas, after breakfast, Brother Jian still has arrangements on the side of the municipal party committee today, but he left Secretary Jin to accompany them, and asked Zhou Liwen how they arranged, Zhou Liwen thought about it and decided to go to the assembly factory to have a look.
Brother Jun didn't have anything to do anyway, so he simply accompanied Zhou Liwen on a trip. I called Sha Bing and left the hotel in the car arranged by Secretary Jin, Heijiang City is not big, and the traffic is not as crowded as in the south, it only took half an hour for them to get to the place.
"Dong Chou!"
Smoothie and several heads of the assembly factory, who had been waiting at the door for a long time, saw the arrival of a car with a government license plate, and hurriedly trotted all the way over. When Zhou Liwen got out of the car, Sha Bing greeted him respectfully.
"This is our assembly plant?" Zhou Liwen stood in place and looked around, this place is not small, in addition to a few white-roofed and blue-walled factories, there is a large vacant land around, and the area is estimated to be 2o acres at a rough glance, which is much more than Sha Zihao's factory.
"Yes, the city has approved a total of 23 acres of land, and Dong Zhou, you see, the land behind is also owned by our factory. According to the plan, two more workshops will be built there later. ”
Glancing in the direction Sha Bing was pointing, Zhou Liwen nodded slightly. However, looking at the relatively simple workshop, Zhou Liwen frowned and asked, "This workshop should be a steel frame structure, right?" The temperature here in Heijiang is low, is it okay to adopt this structure? ”
"Please rest assured that Dong Chou has laid heating in the workshop, don't look at this structure is a steel frame, but there is absolutely no problem with sealing and warmth. In fact, this structure is used a lot in our northeast, even in the oil fields. A middle-aged man standing next to Sha Bing explained.
"This is our deputy director of production, Huo Minghua, deputy director of Huo." Smoothie introduced.
"Hello, Deputy Director Huo, we used to talk on the phone before, and this is the first time we have met." Zhou Liwen shook hands with him with a smile, Huo Minghua held Zhou Liwen's hand with both hands and said with a smile, and then Sha Bing introduced the other two to Zhou Liwen one by one, these people are Sha Bing's deputies, and they are also high-level executives in the factory.
After a few words of chatter with everyone, the military brother on the side seemed a little bored, and after a while, he couldn't help but urge Zhou Liwen, saying that the weather outside was very cold, and it was not too late to say anything into the factory. Zhou Liwen nodded with a smile, let Sha Bing lead the way, and the group walked straight towards the factory.
Entering the factory, as Deputy Director Huo said, there was heating inside, although it was not as comfortable as the hotel. The factory now has a total of three large workshops, each of which has two assembly lines, adding up to six assembly lines. Hundreds of assembly workers are busy working, one after another assembled finished mobile phones are tested under the assembly line, the problematic machines are picked out and put aside, and the rest are sent to the packing workshop for packaging and packing.
After a look, although the workers here are not as good as the factories in the southeast in terms of proficiency and work energy, the whole management is still good, the assembly degree and packaging requirements are basically up to the requirements, and because of the low labor cost in Heijiang, in terms of overall cost, it is cheaper than in the southeast.
After looking at the workshop and asking about the current monthly production volume, Zhou Liwen was generally very satisfied with the work of smoothies. However, for the current rapid development of the mobile phone market, Zhou Liwen is already considering adding an assembly line. With the advent of the ORZ mobile phone, the number of sales of ORZ mobile phones with better functions than most foreign brand mobile phones and relatively low prices continues to grow. In order to meet the market demand, Zhou Liwen has increased the order of the American chip factory several times, and compared with the chip system, the assembly of the finished machine is the most important part of production. According to the current sales situation, it is expected that this year's sales volume may reach about 3ooo million units, which has long exceeded Zhou Liwen's original budget.
And this is only a 2G mobile phone, a more ferocious 3G machine, that is, the smartphone trend has not yet begun. According to Liao Yuancheng, the development of smart phones in the research institute is progressing well, and according to Liao Yuancheng, smart phones will be preliminarily finalized in the first half of next year. As soon as smartphones appear, the entire mobile phone market will usher in another wave, Zhou Liwen knows better than anyone that the potential of smartphones is much greater than that of 2G mobile phones, and it is not surprising that this market will expand ten times or even a hundred times compared to today.
Foxconn, the name is probably heard of in 2o14, this company that started as an OEM company focuses on IT and OEM for various well-known brands, especially the famous Apple mobile phones, including tablets. With this simple foundry business alone, Foxconn has become the 371st company in the world's top 5oo companies, and the scale of its foundries and the number of employees employed are simply staggering.
Zhou Liwen remembers visiting Foxconn in his previous life, and only employing as many as 4o thousand employees in the Foxconn factory in the southeast, the entire factory covers an area of 3 square kilometers, almost like a small city, and entering it is like being in a small society that is condensed.
Compared with the later generations of Foxconn, although Zhou Liwen's current assembly plant is already a large-scale enterprise in Heijiang City, there is no comparison between the two. And Zhou Liwen knows the importance of foundries to a well-known brand more than others, so he has not stopped to continue to develop foundries and assembly factories in the southeast or in Heijiang.
Of course, these are just preliminary plans, and at present, Zhou Liwen is more assured to pinch these factories in his own hands in order to ensure product quality. In the long run, Zhou Liwen will appropriately give up the shares of these assembly factories and devote more energy to more important places.
Although OEM can make money, it is too cumbersome for management and production. And Zhou Liwen doesn't want to be blamed in the future because of the foundry and the Foxconn jumping incident, so he will give up part of the profits appropriately, relax himself, and make a good reputation, why not do it?
Zhou Liwen, an assembly plant in Heijiang, is currently the largest shareholder, with the remaining shares in the hands of Sha Zihao, Wei Zi and Jun Ge. However, except for Sha Zihao, Wei Zi and Brother Jun's shares are basically negligible, and as shareholders, they are just distributing dividends.
Sha Zihao sent Sha Bing to Heijiang, which consulted Zhou Liwen. However, Zhou Liwen also knows very well that Sha Zihao uses Sha Bing to manage the small abacus of this factory. After all, Sha Zihao started as a factory, out of mentality and habit, he attaches far more importance to the factory industry than others, and Zhou Liwen did not expose his calculations, and arranged Sha Bing to this position.
As Zhou Liwen originally planned, he plans to gradually withdraw from the factory's holdings in one to two years. Since Sha Zihao is interested in the factory, it is also a good choice to hand over the shares of the factory to him at that time. However, after yesterday's incident, Zhou Liwen had some other plans in his heart, while resting in the factory office, waiting for Smoothie and them to leave, Zhou Liwen asked Brother Jun with a smile what he thought of this factory.
"It's good, I think it's pretty good." Brother Jun replied with a casual smile while drinking tea, he walked around the factory, although he couldn't see any fame, but he could still see that the whole factory was in order.
"Yesterday, Brother Jian asked me about investing in Heijiang, do you remember?" Zhou Liwen lit a cigarette and asked.
"Remember, what? You made a decision so quickly? Didn't you say that you were going to take a look at the situation in various parts of Heijiang first? Brother Jun looked up in surprise.
"The situation still has to be seen, but it's for others to see, it's to invest in Jiangola or something." Zhou Liwen explained: "As for my own investment, it is mainly this factory. You were also there when I was talking to Xiaosha just now, and the production capacity here in the assembly plant needs to be further expanded, so I carefully considered it, if it is only for assembly for production purposes, this step is still a little smaller. If possible, I plan to directly raise this factory to the size of a foundry with production and assembly functions based on the current assembly plant, what do you think? ”
"I don't know what production is, don't you ask me if I don't play the piano to the cow?" Brother Jun immediately laughed: "Anyway, you are a good hand in business, if you are not short of money, of course I will not object." And if Brother Jian knew about this, he would still be unhappy. ”
"Haha, that's just as well." Zhou Liwen immediately smiled, and then asked: "By the way, Brother Jun, I don't have any problems with this additional investment, I want to ask you and Brother Wei about their intentions, after all, the two of you are also shareholders of this factory." ”
"Wei Zi must have no problem over there, he has made a lot of money this year, but I ......." Brother Jun shook his head a little embarrassed, he is now a donkey dung and eggs, and the poor can't even open a film and television company, where is there any money for investment?
"No money now doesn't mean there will be no money later, I said Brother Jun, don't forget that there will be a dividend after New Year's Day. Besides, the expansion of investment in this factory does not need to be done in one step, and I will give you a cushion when the time comes, right? ”
Brother Jun smiled and didn't speak, he knew that this was Zhou Liwen's kindness, as for dividends or something, except for Wei Zi's mobile phone sales, he didn't have many shares in the factory at all, even if there were dividends, how much could he have? I'm afraid this money can only maintain his film and television company.
"Thank you, brother, let's see when the time comes, anyway, this matter is not in a hurry." Brother Jun finally said this, and Zhou Liwen didn't persuade much, just smiled and nodded after hearing it.
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