Industrial problems are not only a competition of technology and hardware equipment, but also a competition of management and collaboration. When it comes to industry, people often think of roaring machinery and those knowledgeable engineers and other industrial technicians, and think that they directly determine the strength of a country's industry, this statement is indeed true, but not completely, in addition to the hardware conditions such as technology and equipment, there is also the soft power of management and cooperation that determines the operational efficiency of a large country and a small factory.

When it comes to efficiency, people will definitely know that the assembly line has doubled industrial efficiency and dropped the price of industrial products through professional operation and division of labor. And the first industrial product to use assembly lines and standardization was the famous Ford Model T.

The 1908 Ford T had too many competitive advantages over other cars of the period, and the $825 price tag was a no-brainer compared to the $2,000 to $3,000 cars of the same period. The assembly line and the professional operation of skilled workers made the production of the Model T extremely efficient, and by the later stage, it was only 93 minutes to assemble a Model T, and by 1921, the price of the Model T had dropped to $260 a piece. That's the power of assembly line production.

But the strength of the assembly line is only one aspect of the success of the Model T. Subcontracting some parts of the Model T to other manufacturers and letting more professional people do the professional work is another secret to the success of the Model T. Ford has firmly grasped the core technology in production, rather than grasping the eyebrows and mustaches, focusing on and giving up. And an industrial vertically integrated approach has been adopted to reduce the cost of automobiles. For example, the wicker basket used to transport the lead ship can be used as a prefabricated part of the car after completing the task of transporting parts. It can be said that the raw materials are fully utilized.

Ass-line production is indeed powerful, but everything is based on one premise, that is, the standardization of parts. If there is no standardization, assembly line production plays an important role in the production of some simple industrial products at most, but if the product is standardized, even large and complex industrial products such as ships can still be standardized, and the most obvious example of this is the production of free wheels during the Second World War.

One has 4 large warehouses and 1 small warehouse, which can carry 9,000 tons of cargo in the hold. (Items such as airplanes and tanks can also be placed on the surface of the ship, which is counted separately.) It can transport 2240 jeeps at a time. Or 440 tanks, or 230 million rounds of ammunition, consuming 11 tons of fuel per day at an average speed of 30 knots. The 10,000-ton giant ship with a cruising capacity of 19,000 nautical miles actually only costs 1.8 million US dollars! What is the concept of $1.8 million in 2 WW2? It's nothing more than the price of 36 Mustang fighters! Cheaper than U-boats!

What's even more terrifying is its production speed, which can assemble a bunch of parts into a 10,000-ton giant ship in just one week! And that's the average speed, and if you talk about the top speed, it's even more amazing. Emperor Caesar's Shipyard in California during the construction of the Robert Pirry Libership. Assembly began at 12:01 a.m. on November 8, 1942. By November 12, 1942, it took just 4 days, 15 hours, and 19 minutes to assemble 250,000 parts worth more than 1.4 million pounds! What a terrifying speed! The U-boat breakdown in the face of the terrifying Liberty Wheel is simply a joke!

The reason why free wheels can have such efficient production efficiency is inseparable from the standardization of parts and industrial collaboration. The high versatility of the components, as well as the close cooperation between the upstream and downstream industries, have reduced the production speed and cost of free wheels! The same can be said in the UK, where the wing parts of the famous Havilland Mosquito aircraft can even be prepared and processed in the factory where the piano is made! The pressure of producing an expensive industrial product was distributed to a large number of general enterprises, and through coordination and cooperation, efficiency was finally the only way to improve efficiency in the industrial age.

And in military terms. Standardized parts are of great significance, and the international brand and hodgepodge will always be the eternal pain of an army. For example, Xu Jie's Indian army in that plane, can you imagine that a country's air force is equipped with the Russian MiG-29 Su-30 and the French Mirage 2000 at the same time, the Jaguar jointly developed by Britain and France, and the LCA designed and produced by itself? A country's air force actually has 4 systems! Each type of aircraft has to have its own full set of maintenance support and weapons equipment, and it is simply not common between different systems. Some people say that the most NB personnel in the Indian Air Force are logistics support personnel, and they are so capable that they can go back and forth between 4 different systems at the same time.

So, whether it is to increase industrial capacity and efficiency, or to integrate armaments to increase combat effectiveness. Xu Jie must provide unified standards for domestic production and military equipment, and this is the earliest national standard of the Chinese Republic! In terms of standardization, Xu Jie tries his best to use German products in the field of domestic heavy industry production, on the one hand, because the performance of German industrial products is indeed top-notch, no less than that of Britain and France, and on the other hand, because German products are more competitive than British products in terms of the degree of technical openness and price.

In terms of industrial cooperation and coordination, Xu Jie decided to integrate a large number of private enterprises into the upstream and downstream fields of large industries, and large factories produce core components and are responsible for assembly, such as some unimportant parts or parts with low production efficiency are handed over to specially selected private factories to do, which can not only improve the production efficiency and production capacity of important enterprises, but also solve the livelihood problems of a large number of private enterprises, and lay a good foundation for further expanding the scale of enterprises.

In the field of military industry, Xu Jie pays attention to the compatibility and versatility of military and civilian products. A large number of simple products and consumables are produced directly by civilian enterprises to compensate for the lack of supply. And the specialized military-industrial complex devoted its energies to the production of precision equipment and power equipment for heavy artillery. After some effort, it can be said that as long as the infantry can pick up with one hand, the unit price does not exceed 20 pounds, civilian enterprises can produce, for example, bullets, grenades, rifle machine gun accessories and so on. Although the sophistication and efficiency of the products cannot be compared with that of the professional arsenals, under the huge demand of the army, the output is the first, and the efficiency and price are tolerable.

While improving the hardware and management level, Xu Jie did not forget to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of workers and welfare, which is not only a matter of production enthusiasm, but also involves the fairness of society and the future development of the country. For Xu Jie, breaking an old dynasty is just the beginning, and building a fair and progressive country is the key.

First of all, I apologize that the author has made a mistake in the chapter numbers of the last few chapters——! I'm really sorry everyone, and secondly, thank you for the update ticket of the book friend Tianji Scholar~~. I'll add another chapter of ~~~ later today. (To be continued......)