029 An olive branch from Deere & Company
CNC technology, whether in the United States, Germany, or even any country in Europe, is not a small Chinese private enterprise can match.
Therefore, after a little visit to the CNC workshop of Qingfeng Machinery, Smith White, the leader of the delegation, asked Yun Fei to take them to visit the ordinary machining workshop of Qingfeng Machinery.
White's attitude made Wang Qingfeng, who had made enough effort to let foreigners recognize his CNC workshop, and Ren Zhiguo of Cammart Company were discouraged.
During this period of high-precision parts processing, Cammat Company and Qingfeng Machinery have made a lot of money. Therefore, they all wanted to get more orders for high-precision parts processing from foreigners and earn more dollars, but they didn't expect that the purpose of Wright and his party was not high-precision parts processing, but low-precision rough machining.
Yun Fei has a clear understanding of this. Foreigners, if it were not a last resort, would certainly not be put into China, a market that they still do not have a deep understanding of.
Yun Fei introduced the situation of the ordinary machining workshop to the members of the inspection team, and at the same time walked towards the machining workshop.
"Our factory currently has 54 sets of various types of high-precision ordinary horizontal lathes and two vertical lathes, which can process various types of rotary parts with a diameter of 0.5mm~5000mm, with a maximum processing length of 10 meters. 22 lifting platform universal milling machines, three high-precision turret milling machines; There are eight radial drills, ten high-precision internal and external cylindrical grinders, and eight surface grinders. We are about to set up a second machining workshop, and all kinds of equipment have been contracted with the manufacturer, and these equipment will be installed in our newly established second machining workshop in June this year......"
Yun Fei's words made Ren Zhiguo of Camart Company stunned. In the past few months, I have been dealing with Wang Qingfeng every day, and I have never heard him say that he has such a plan. Wang Qingfeng, Ren Zhiguo knows too well, and he doesn't have too much purpose in doing anything, and his processing factory can develop to such a big extent, to a large extent, it still relies on this young man who is less than twenty in front of him in the past six months.
Wang Qingfeng was even more stunned, Yun Fei had never mentioned this plan to him, and from today before, he didn't even mean this. However, in front of the foreigners, he didn't show his stuffing, buried everything in his heart, and waited for Yun Fei to explain to himself after these foreigners left.
"Mr. Yun, we have already learned about the scale of your company in detail before we came. Now, can you tell us about your company's technical level and your company's processing costs? Maxim finally asked the question that was holding back his mind. The skills of the Germans are among the best in the world. However, their processing costs are also among the best in the entire world.
"Yes, because our ordinary equipment is divided into many processes in the process of processing mechanical parts, if it is a large number of medium and low-difficulty parts processing, our total cost is only three-fifths or even less of the international average. Among them, the labor cost is only one-third of that in Europe and the United States. Due to our equipment resources, the cost of high-difficulty and high-precision parts processing is only about 20% lower than the international level, and some are even higher than the international level......"
For these foreigners, Yun Fei definitely can't tell them his bottom line, otherwise, when he bargains with these foreigners, he will have to spend the strength of the old man's nose, and when the time comes, he will be tired and tired, and he will not be able to earn any money from the foreigner.
"Mr. Yun, you're not very honest. As far as we know, the cost of your company's high-difficulty and high-precision parts processing is less than one-third of the international level......" Carlos heard that Yun Fei directly reported the production cost high, and hurriedly interrupted Yun Fei's words. Negotiations, the Germans can't do it, and the Americans have to come forward.
"Mr. Carlos, you do know what you know. Eight months ago, our costs were exactly that. But now, our costs have gone up a lot. Because of the expansion of the scale of the factory, our management team is several times that of the previous one, and other related departments have been established. To be honest, the increase in labor costs is not too large, mainly due to the expansion of the factory scale, and the management cost has increased too much. I don't know if I explain it like this, can you understand? ”
For Carlos's thoughts, Yun Fei, who is a person in two lives, may know better than himself. It seems that now the other party has the intention to cooperate, but his side does not have the slightest understanding of the other party. And the cost of management is an unavoidable problem in any country or region of the time and space where you originally came.
In this era when there is no ferry aunt, this is a big disadvantage. It's hard to determine your opponent's bottom line.
Ren Zhiguo handed Wang Qingfeng an inquiring look, and what he got was also confused.
Yun Fei silently pondered the identity of this inspection group mixed with Germans and Americans. For the introduction of ordinary machining workshops, there is also a little absent-mindedness. It stands to reason that in the early nineties, it was difficult to meet a delegation with people from several countries.
I saw that Qingfeng Machinery divided most of the products in the entire workshop into countless detailed processes, and even the steps were divided into details. A group of foreigners couldn't help but widen their eyes and open their mouths. It is important to know that even if it is an assembly line production, the steps will not be divided into such details. With a large number of CNC machines, most of the processes began to be concentrated.
The backwardness of mechanical processing in Chinese mainland can be seen from this!
In foreign countries, due to the presence of CNC machine tools instead of senior operators, assembly line production is more popular. In North America and Europe, two industrially developed regions, although the pursuit of humane management has begun. However, with a large number of CNC machine tools to replace high-quality technical workers, the production of the assembly line is more perfect.
Workers, not robots, especially skilled workers. If they are asked to repeat the same action every day, it is easy to cause mental exhaustion, which can lead to a reduction in accuracy levels and batch scrapping. It is precisely because of this that the wage costs of the machinery manufacturing industry in Europe and the Americas, two industrially developed regions, have risen to the point that shareholders are about to be unbearable.
As economic development slows across Europe, countless companies have set their sights on Chinese mainland, which is becoming more and more dynamic. This is not only because of the vastness of the market, but also because of the availability of low-cost skilled workers. Of course, at this time, foreign-funded enterprises were far from being as NB as later generations, and their attraction to skilled workers was not as strong as that of local enterprises.
After visiting the factory, Wang Qingfeng took the group to the large conference room on the second floor of the office building.
"Boss Wang, Director Yun, let's take a look at this contract first." As soon as he sat down in the office, Ren Zhiguo took out two documents from the briefcase held by the secretary next to him and handed them to Wang Qingfeng and Yun Fei. He knew that this factory, the young man in front of him was completely capable of being Wang Qingfeng's master, of course, Ren Zhiguo also knew that this young man was not as easy to fool as Wang Qingfeng.
Carlos, White and the others also stared at Yun Fei and Wang Qingfeng, the two potential partners they had chosen for a short time, with expectant expressions.
As soon as Wang Qingfeng saw this contract in Chinese and English, his head was big, and when he saw Yun Fei looking at it with relish, he directly threw the document in his hand to Yun Fei and let him take a closer look. Seeing that Ren Zhiguo was talking to Smith White and Carlos in whispered English, he began to lean on the back of the sofa and close his eyes to recuperate.
Seeing the contract, Yun Fei understood the identity of the other party. However, after knowing their identities, they became even more confused.
Ren Zhiguo brought this eight-member foreign delegation from Deere Corporation, the world's largest agricultural machinery manufacturer. As early as 1958, Deere surpassed the International Combine Harvester Company to become the largest manufacturer of agricultural machinery in the United States. After becoming the world's largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in 1963, its position has never wavered.
In China, Deere has always been the main business of technology transfer, engineering personnel training and complete machine export. Now it has actually begun to build a factory in China!
It didn't make him figure it out anyway. Deere Company in China, not without layout, but does not occupy much market share in the Chinese market.
In the original world, although Deere Company had business dealings with China in 1978 at the beginning of the reform and opening up, it was not until 1995 that it set up an office in BJ, and it was not until 1997 that the first joint venture in China's agricultural machinery industry was established with HLJ Jiamusi Combine Harvester Factory.
The contract given by Ren Zhiguo is very simple, that is, the United States Deere, Cammat, Qingfeng Machinery three joint ventures to establish an agricultural machinery production company. Camat is responsible for the market, Qingfeng Machinery is responsible for most of the parts production, and Deere is responsible for the overall technology, power equipment and after-sales service. The new plant will be built in HeN Zhengzhou and will be responsible for the final assembly.
Deere invested 5 million US dollars and technical technology, the new factory shares Deere accounted for 51%, Cammat invested 6 million US dollars and market channels accounted for 42%, Qingfeng Machinery provided parts processing and assembly of all technical workers to get 7%.
The shares in the new plant will be redistributed after receiving a new capital injection. Seeing this, Yun Fei smiled.
In the eighties and nineties, many foreign-funded companies played such capital games. Due to the imperfection of China's market mechanism, it is difficult for foreign wholly-owned enterprises to open up the market in China. Therefore, they all find excellent local Chinese enterprises to make joint ventures, and then inject a large amount of capital into the joint venture company to dilute the equity of the Chinese side. Among them, SH FAW is the most famous example, not only the vast majority of skilled workers, but also a lot of land and market share. Later, with the continuous capital injection of German companies, SH Volkswagen was only a subsidiary of German Volkswagen, and most of the profits were divided by German Volkswagen! In the end, not only did they lose their own advantages, but they were also subject to the Germans.
Many foreign-funded companies use their own technology and financial advantages to find Chinese companies with great potential in Chinese mainland to join shares, and finally completely annex each other.
In this regard, the state-owned enterprises that suffer the most are joint ventures with foreign-funded enterprises. Domestic infrastructure construction needs money everywhere, while due to the shrinking market in foreign countries, a large amount of idle funds from foreign-funded enterprises have poured into the Chinese market. The foreign side of the joint venture injected capital, but the Chinese side took the HLJ Jiamusi combine harvester factory is the most obvious example. From the establishment of the plant in 1997 to the end of 2004, the joint venture became a wholly owned company of Deere.
After reading this peace agreement, Yun Fei was even more confused. Closing the document in his hand, Yun Fei clapped his hands lightly, and when he saw that Ren Zhiguo and the members of the Deere delegation were looking at him, he said solemnly:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry for interrupting your conversation. I have a lot of doubts about this contract, and I don't know if any of you can help me. ”
"Mr. Yun Fei, what doubts do you have about this conditional preliminary intention contract?" Carlos asked Yun Fei with a smile. He believed that the company they fancied would fully agree to such lucrative terms.
"Let's not talk about the content of this contract, my biggest question is that you are a giant in the agricultural machinery industry in the world, and there are not a few manufacturers of agricultural machinery in China. Whether they are in terms of scale or technology, they are far more than our newly established machinery processing factory that is only doing accessories, I would like to ask, for what will choose our Qingfeng machinery. ”
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