Chapter 202: Assembly Line

The plan for the textile machine has already begun, and the construction of the factory is underway at the new site of the machine factory, and at this time, the assembled workers and fitters who are gathered together are still working in Yang Yuanzhao's warehouse.

Because it is necessary to coordinate the textile projects of farmers, and even to develop a series of methods to prevent waste and loss, Yang Yuanzhao is more focused on the overall situation, almost three days later, when he accidentally asked about the output of the textile machine, he got a figure that he could not imagine, a total of more than 300 units per day.

Textile machine is a new equipment, most people, for the textile machine is not familiar with, at the beginning, the efficiency of the machine is not high, in the past responsible for the assembly of workers, or fitters, they are all working alone, there are fast and slow conditions, the average speed, about 2 a day, even if it is a simple loom, there are at least more than 100 parts, each part is used, it will take a certain amount of time, and then fast, there will even be errors.

At present, in addition to those workers who have assembled tractors, only fitters can assemble looms, and now the entire Baotou, counted, there are only more than 200 fitters, and less than 70 assembly workers before, of which there are a small number of them, which need to be distributed in various factories, responsible for ensuring the smooth progress of those equipment, and some assemblers, must stay in the construction team of Qian Hu, Baotou has more and more steel structures, They are needed to construct.

In this way, the daily output, even if it is the most, will not exceed 500 units, now, 300 units is already the limit, 300 units relative to Jin Shang, is enough, only less than 2000 units of orders, at most six or seven days of time, can make all the machines complete, but Yang Yuanzhao does not want this, he wants a large-scale rollout, just like the Jiangnan water town, almost every two or three households, there will be a loom, whether it is usual, In this case, the demand is at least 50,000, and the number of 300 units is too little.

4 people, for the average person, the labor force is absolutely enough, in this way, just the whole package, now hundreds of thousands of idle labor, at least 40,000 units, if this loom is promoted to Mongolia and Shanxi, this number will be doubled several times, this number, too little, too little.

300 units per day, a month, but 9000 units, it will take a year, or even more time, to be able to complete all the production, this is too slow, the most important thing is that in the future, the use of such looms, not only in Baotou.

Most of the parts of the loom are made of steel, 8 tons per hour, Yang Yuanzhao can produce a lot of loom parts, plus carpentry masters, with the help of woodworking machine tools imported from abroad, in production, compared with ordinary carpentry, there is a great improvement, at least 10,000 sets of loom parts can be completed in a day, and the parts of these looms are placed there, which is a bit wasted.

Knowing the output of the loom, and personally inspected the production situation, Yang Yuanzhao's mind, the first time, thought of the assembly line operation, separate production, more handicraft workshops, only the assembly line, can improve efficiency, and even make production, no longer the work of fitters, some other workers, after training, can also become assembly workers.

The current assembly line has appeared in the United States, and Ford in the United States has produced cheap and used Model T cars with the help of this assembly line, which has occupied the American market for a certain period of time and has become synonymous with cheap and best-selling.

The first design of the factory that put York and other engineers together, ready to complete this assembly line, is the conveyor belt, with the theme of steel plates, design a clock control zhì, starting from 20 minutes, on the long assembly line, set 18 different positions, and then 18 people stand there, waiting for the installation, fixed down the machine, until all the installation is completed, will be completely sent, this will be after the final inspection, and then loaded into a special box, As a finished product, it was either sent to Jin merchants or to the people.

Yang Yuanzhao carefully inspected their assembly process, divided the whole process into 18 different parts, and then, let the most skilled 18 workers start the installation, they are all fitters, and they are also the best in the previous assembly, among which the fastest, almost 3 textile machines are completed in a day, and the weakest can also reach two and a half.

From the beginning of the assembly line to run, it is dangerous, some steps are designed too little, some of the position of the machine qì is unreasonable, sometimes, the order is wrong, in the encounter with such and such problems, after such and such adjustments, it is a full 2 days of effort, only to gradually stabilize up, in the case of an interval of 20 minutes, everyone spends the same time, usually, it takes a morning, to be able to assemble a one, with the cooperation of 18, 20 minutes, on the completion of one, 72 units a day, which means this, it means that each person is an average of 4 units, you know, before, their highest was only 3 units.

In their opinion, the speed of their work is even slower than before, and the assembly process is much easier than before, but the total output has gone up.

Yang Yuanzhao watched coldly, from everyone's actions, he had found that there was a possibility of improvement, after repeated familiarity, everyone, under the condition that they already knew their own steps, Yang Yuanzhao decided to improve efficiency.

First of all, the speed has been increased from the original 20 minutes to 15 minutes, and the speed has almost increased by 25, these workers can still successfully complete the work, so that 18 people, the workload of an hour is 4, and the number of 96 units has reached a day, so that on average, the number of 5 units is a little more than that, which is enough to make everyone look sideways.

The assembly line, a special assembly method, works collaboratively according to a certain method, and everyone does the part they are most familiar with, which can significantly improve efficiency, even if it is improved to 15 minutes, everyone has an obvious leisure.

Yang Yuanzhao temporarily left the machine workshop, a production line, from design to completion, the time to adjust is very long, what is the step in the machine, each method of installation, need to be carefully considered, what method can be used, can improve the overall efficiency, better complete the production of films, to adjust slowly, has taught the method to York and other engineers, Yang Yuanzhao has the kung fu to take care of other things.

From the beginning of the decision to carry out the method of the company and farmers, and to train as many weavers as possible, Yang Yuanzhao was full of confidence in this project, and handed over the recruitment and expansion work to the eight major Jin merchants, Yang Yuanzhao knew that it would definitely succeed, but the progress in the past few days still stunned him.

After seeing the model of the loom and understanding most of the working principles, they began to publicize, first around Baotou, and expanded to Shanxi and Mongolia.

In this era, China was still dominated by a small-scale peasant economy, with men plowing and women weaving, especially in Shanxi and Mongolia, where there were fewer lands and more people, and Mongolia was a little better, but the Mongolian reclamation of that year, to put it bluntly, was a method for the central government to circle money.

After Baotou reaped a bumper harvest in the cotton planting of the Baoken Company, a large number of landlords have incorporated the fields into the Baoken Company, which has Hou Jinsheng and other large landlords deliberately promoted the reason, and there are also factors that move people's hearts, an acre of land is close to 20 income, even if there is more investment, even three or four percent, it is possible to be annexed, and it will be put aside, from a few yuan per mu of land to more than ten yuan, which is still the income after deducting the other party's commission, hundreds of acres is thousands of yuan, tens of thousands of acres, or even 100,000 acres, this number, It's even more amazing.

In this sense, when the land is recovered to the reclamation company, waiting for many tenants, it will be a catastrophe, after the reclamation company uses mechanization, it will not need these manpower, and if it is the wages of a large number of low-level laborers, a group of high-income people would have been created, if it is not for Baotou to develop industry at the same time and absorb tens of thousands of people, perhaps, Baotou would have been in chaos.

Not everyone has a chance, to be able to join the company, it will not be everyone willing to leave the family, to the company, the system of the company is quite strict, resulting in a group of people, at least more than 100,000, must rely on relief, work for relief, this is an excellent idea, on the one hand, Baotou's urban construction, as well as road construction, need a large number of personnel, on the one hand, these people at the bottom, and have to relief, in Yang Yuanzhao's view, these people, is the foundation of the future, it is not easy, With the help of land annexation, they were freed from the land and reduced to vagrants, which was an important direction for the source of workers.

It's a pity that Baotou can't turn stones into gold, the construction of a series of factories, the previous construction process, is already a limit, in this case, the solution of these personnel, is a kind of has to be a burden of it, if not carried up, Baotou because of many tenants who have lost their land, and turmoil, for Baotou, is definitely an event that outweighs the loss, must be pacified. RS