The workshop has been around for most of the day, and all kinds of work are fresh, but Yang Congyi only stops at watching, not asking, not talking, and not guiding.

Professional people do professional things, from childhood to adulthood he is not good at handicraft, is not very interested in this, as the largest official in the western workshop at present, in this critical period of extremely heavy tasks, encourage the morale of the craftsmen, improve their enthusiasm, is very important to complete the task.

When he returned to the office, his mind was still full of the craftsmen at work, and everyone was busy, but because they had a lot to do, they were doing this and that, and they wasted a lot of time just preparing tools or finding tools, so a question came to mind.

Why not divide the labor further? The division of labor is a little more detailed, and each person devotes himself to a small item, which should save a lot of time.

After thinking about it carefully, Yang Congyi felt that it was feasible, so he immediately summoned all the stewards and came to discuss the matter.

After a quarter of an hour the stewards were assembled.

Yang Congyi first briefly analyzed the current heavy manufacturing errands of the western workshop, and then bluntly said that he found that the manufacturing efficiency was not high when he was patrolling around, and finally put forward his own suggestions, suggesting that each work should further divide its own manufacturing content, the more detailed the better, so that each subordinate craftsman is only responsible for a small division of labor, and one will be handed over to the next person after one is done, and everyone only does what they are most familiar with, and finally achieves the effect of the assembly line, which can greatly improve the manufacturing speed.

The stewards didn't understand very well, Yang Congyi picked up the teapot on the table and said, "Take pouring tea for guests as an example, how many steps does it take from pouring tea to delivering tea to guests?" Let's take a look, one brews tea, two opens the teacup, three lifts the teapot to pour tea, four puts down the teapot, and five holds the teacup to send tea, a total of five steps can be completed. Only pour tea for three or two people, pour a cup for one person, and send a cup of tea, which can also be completed quickly. But what if it's a happy event and there are hundreds or thousands of guests who need to pour tea? At this time, a lot of people are needed, and when there are many people pouring tea, it will inevitably be more chaotic. At this time, the best way is to pour tea into four types of work, one to make tea, two to place the cup, three to pour tea, four to send tea, each type of work is responsible for one person, each person only does one thing, neither will be messy, the efficiency of sending tea to guests will be higher. The same is true for the subdivision of manufacturing ordnance, all for the division of labor and cooperation, and work together to complete the errands of the imperial court, everyone understands? ”

Some of the stewards nodded, some frowned, and some whispered, but almost no one answered.

"Any questions?"

"My lord, if each craftsman only makes a very small part, how can the quality of the final manufactured weapons and equipment be guaranteed? Each of us makes something marked, and if the quality is found to be substandard, we will be fined, and if a weapon is completed by many people, who will end up with a problem? Is it counted as one person, or is it counted as all people? ”

"Naturally, if there is a problem with which subdivision of work, the person of which type of work will be responsible."

"My lord, it is impossible for any subdivision of work to be a single person, even if you can find out the subdivision of work, it is impossible to find out which person it is, how can this be punished?"

"If there is a problem with the manufactured weapon, once it is found that the problem is in a certain subdivision, everyone in this subdivision will be punished together!"

As soon as Yang Congyi's words came out, everyone was in an uproar, this is too ruthless!

"My lord, if this is the case, the craftsmen will definitely not be willing to divide the types of work too finely, the more people who handle a weapon, the greater the possibility of problems, who can guarantee that no one will cheat and cheat in the same type of work."

"So we also need to pick some skilled craftsmen to do quality inspection personnel, spot check the weapons and equipment being manufactured at any time, find problems, punish them immediately, and minimize mutual blame, if once the soldiers in the same type of work pass the buck to each other, everyone will be punished! The ordnance we manufacture is used by the soldiers to protect the family and defend the country, and also to protect the lives of the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, so the quality must be guaranteed, and anyone who has a quality problem must be punished. ”

Yang Congyi said and glanced at everyone.

Seeing that everyone was silent, he asked again, "Do you still have questions?" ”

The managers were still silent, and Yang Congyi said: "If there is no problem, go back and think about how your types of work are subdivided, and from tomorrow I will personally go to each work to assist you in subdividing the types of work until it is completed and forming a manufacturing line." ”

"Yes, sir."

The crowd was reluctant to respond, and then dispersed.

Assembly line operation, everyone has not been in contact, obviously they still believe in decades, hundreds of years of manufacturing experience, more believe in their own manufacturing skills, and the division of labor and cooperation is not only a matter of collaboration, do a good job is not their own credit, other people's mistakes will even affect themselves.

Starting the next day, Yang Congyi really walked around one by one, first asking the steward if they had any ideas about subdividing the types of work, and then guiding them to make corrections, and finally formed a more reasonable division of labor.

However, due to the number of personnel, space, tools and technology, the division of labor is not too detailed, and it is only divided into ten processes at most.

At the beginning of the subdivision of the work, almost all craftsmen were a little uncomfortable, because they subconsciously wanted to make the best weapon by themselves, and only made a little bit and handed it over to others, which made them feel very unhappy, just like the seeds had just germinated, and the crops in the field were given to others, and they could not see the follow-up growth process, nor could they see the final result, and everyone's hearts were empty.

In the first few days, Yang Congyi could still hear the craftsmen complaining privately about the division of labor, but after half a month, he could no longer hear any craftsmen say that the division of labor was not good, but many craftsmen praised the subdivision of work, because their labor has become simpler, from complex multiple processes, to simple one or several processes, and can also save a lot of energy.

In less than a month, Yang Congyi not only subdivided the manufacturing errands of more than 30 works in the western workshop, but also carried out the second process optimization, and assisted the managers to further adjust the number of craftsmen in each process, so as to avoid some craftsmen being too busy and some craftsmen being too idle, so as to achieve the optimal arrangement.

At the end of July, the number of weapons ready to be manufactured in a month came out, and the results greatly exceeded expectations, and all 1,500 soldiers and 300 miscellaneous soldiers in the western workshop suddenly became more enthusiastic, and the atmosphere of the entire western workshop was different, because judging from the current manufacturing speed, three months would definitely be able to complete the manufacturing task pressed by the ordnance.

Some people even guessed that the West Workshop would be able to complete the task in two months, full of confidence.

And at this moment, Yang Congyi poured cold water on them.

He began to emphasize quality again and again, and told the stewards that no matter how fast the speed is, if there is no quality assurance, no matter how fast the speed is, it will be zero, and even the young lives of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers will be buried.

In the second month, Yang Congyi still inspected each work every day, and this month he no longer optimized the process, nor did he adjust the number of soldiers in each subdivision, but focused on quality.

The most thing to do every day is to talk to the quality inspectors about manufacturing quality, at first it was just a general understanding, and then he began to study in detail what is excellent, what is good, what is medium, what is poor, until the quality requirements of most of the processes of each work are understood, and this work took him nearly half a month.

Then, like a quality inspector, he will randomly select a piece of weapons and equipment from the weapons and equipment being manufactured at any time, and discuss a certain piece of equipment and a certain process with the quality inspector in detail, and explain the importance of quality control to the quality inspector while studying.

In the end, the quality inspector involuntarily raised the quality inspection standard, and the original quality could be set as medium, but now it is directly set as poor, and there is no fuzzy assessment that can be or cannot be determined, either good or poor.

At the same time, Yang Congyi told the stewards that they should tell the soldiers under the tree to make weapons and equipment, and they should be good, and they must be good, but if it is bad, then I am sorry, and they must be punished immediately. In his own opinion, it is a trivial matter, but for the soldiers who suffer from inferior weapons and equipment, it is a major event of a lifetime, even a major event of a life, and even a major event, and even a major event, even a major event, a war won or lost!

At the end of the second month, only a small part of the ordnance manufacturing task assigned by the Ordnance Institute to the West Workshop remained, and it was estimated that it would be completed in a few days.

The head of the armory naturally didn't believe it, because the East Workshop, which had accepted almost the same difficult task, only completed less than half of the ordnance in two times, but the news from the West Workshop had a nose and an eye, and even if he didn't dare to believe it, he only believed a few points.

But whether it is true or not, he has to verify it in person, so he started from the workshop in the west of Renhe County, Lin'an City.

In the West Workshop, the head of the Ordnance Institute saw a very different scene from the East Workshop, and after seeing their manufacturing speed with his own eyes, he had to believe it.

When he learned that the current manufacturing model was thought up by Lord Yang, the deputy envoy of the Western Workshop, and with his unremitting efforts, it was promoted throughout the Western Workshop, and the head of the Ordnance Institute sighed and was prescient in the straight court.

I heard that Yang Congyi entered the West Workshop for two months, and walked around the workshop almost every day, either discussing the division of labor and management with the various managers, or checking weapons and equipment with the quality inspectors.

As the official of the western workshop, the chamberlain praised Yang Congyi, but it was only a verbal praise, for the ordnance institute in the extraordinary period, the faster the ordnance was made, the better, the more ordnance was made, the better, fast and more are normal and should be, and slow and less, it should never be, because the imperial court has to prepare for war.