Chapter 208 Events Successively

Quantum's first plant in Iowa, which is entirely powered by high-grade equipment from an alien planet, is the first manufacturing site in Earth's history to have alliance-level production.

There are three more factories of the same size in Europe and Asia, which could produce 1,200 sets of Energy Shield Boosters every 24 hours if all of them were put into operation.

In order to maximize the efficiency of the factory, all the equipment uses the alliance general model intelligent machine tools, these machines can not only be used for the production of energy shield synergists, once the company launches new mechanical or electronic products, the factory can also immediately switch to production, with good flexibility.

The four factories spent more than 80% of the capital reserves in Quantum's account, and it can be said that Xia Fei invested enough money in the construction of these factories.

All the workers are skilled technicians from the front line of production, and the alien engineers hired by the high salary have specially trained them for a month, and now everything is ready, and at the first order, the assembly line will continue to produce energy shield synergists.

The Vampire slowly landed in the open space outside the factory, Xia Fei, Potter and Charlie walked off the battleship, and Andre generally stopped moving around because he was old, so Charlie accompanied Xia Fei to the factory to have a look.

The factory covers an area of thousands of hectares, and the scale is not small, and all the new factories are scattered.

Since the official start has not yet started, the workers are training in the workshop, seizing the last time to learn the operation of the machine and prepare for production.

After a casual turn in the factory, the old Porter was full of praise for the advanced equipment introduced by Xia Fei, although the money was spent a little more, but these equipment have good potential, and the performance is also very good, and the benefits of this advanced investment will gradually appear in time.

In the laboratory, Potter finally saw the finished product of a set of energy shield synergists, Charlie handed him the test parameters, and Potter looked at it in detail and said: "The shield repair bonus of 3127% is very good from the data, and it should still have potential." ”

Xia Fei smiled slightly, "If it is produced in full accordance with the drawings, this equipment should be able to achieve a repair rate of more than 35 percent, but the factory has not yet been put into production, and the workers have no production experience, so some of the parameters have been modified to reduce the difficulty of production, and as the run-in of the factory becomes more and more smooth, one day it will reach a repair rate of more than 35 percent." ”

Porter nodded, "This makes a lot of sense, if the yield rate is reduced due to the difficulty of production, it will increase the cost, and the repair rate of thirty percent is enough to open the market." ”

"That's what I think, after the run-in period, I will pick out more than 35% of the products separately and sell them as an enhanced version, and of course the price will be higher." Xia Fei said.

Potter laughed, "Xia Fei, I found that you have a lot of talent for being a profiteer, the product design was originally thirty-five, but you insist on treating the defective product as an ordinary version and the good product as an enhanced version to sell, so I am afraid that your profit is not as simple as doubling." ”

"In order to pursue the highest performance, some high-end customers will definitely choose the expensive enhanced version, after all, the ship they can can itself is worth a lot of money and do not care about spending a little more, while the average customer can choose the standard version because the price is more affordable."

"Suppose you set the standard at 35% at the beginning, then anything below this value will become defective, and once any product is labeled as a defective product, the price will plummet, and you should treat the defective product as a standard product."

Xia Fei scratched his scalp embarrassedly, in fact, in Xia Fei's product planning, in addition to the standard version and the enhanced version, there will also be a super version and a cheap version, the standards are twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five and thirty-eight respectively.

Even state-of-the-art machine tools cannot guarantee consistent quality, as there are slight differences in raw materials from batch to batch, and even the temperature of the plant and the proficiency of the workers can have an impact on the final performance of the product.

Xia Fei divided the products into four grades, which not only solved the problem of product quality gaps, but also divided the market finely, even if it was a defective product, it would sell the price of standard products, as for the 38% super version, it would be even more expensive.

"Do you have any orders at the moment?" Potter asked.

Orders are the life of a company, and if no one wants to buy what is produced, even if the quality is good, it cannot be maintained.

Charlie said with a little concern: "At present, we have practiced several large channel suppliers, they are very interested in this energy shield synergist, but due to the size and prestige of our company, these channel suppliers are still very skeptical, they said that they need to send a batch of samples first, and if the test is qualified, they will place an order for purchase." ”

Potter frowned, "Although cooperating with channel suppliers can spread the product, these guys will definitely keep the price extremely low, so that the company's profits will be less, and they will control the channel and retail price, if you can, it is best to bypass these vampires and cooperate directly with distributors." ”

Old Porter now completely regarded himself as a member of the Quantum Company and began to put himself in the company's shoes, which made Xia Fei secretly happy in his heart.

"Uncle Potter, our biggest problem at the moment is how to promote the Energy Shield Booster to the entire universe, if you have any good suggestions, please say it directly." Xia Fei asked.

As the saying goes, good wine is not afraid of deep alleys, but contemporary marketing experience tells us that the better the wine, the deeper the alley, and no matter how good things are, it is difficult to achieve their due value without excellent marketing methods.

Potter nodded, "Every once in a while, the alliance will hold various competitions and procurement competitions, some of which are very influential, such as the Admiralty's annual battleship equipment procurement meeting, the Mechanics Association's Goldfinger Cup, and the Supreme Command's single-class super competition. ”

"Tournaments like this are not only for spectators all over the universe, but also for some of the most powerful departments and groups in the Alliance, and I believe that with the powerful ability of the Energy Shield Booster, it will definitely be able to make a name for itself in these competitions, if even the Admiralty uses this kind of equipment, then is it necessary to advertise?" Old Potter said with a smile.

Does Xia Fei know that Uncle Potter himself is the champion of the Mechanics Association Goldfinger Competition for three consecutive years, so he is naturally familiar with these competitions.

"Uncle Potter, I have also considered these ideas of yours, but these high-level competitions have extremely high requirements for the qualifications of the contestants, and the company does not have the qualifications to participate in the competition, and we can participate in those small competitions, but the advertising effect will undoubtedly be much worse, and the best publicity effect will not be achieved, so we are all headaches." Charlie then said.

Potter smiled, "Charlie, have you forgotten that these competitions can be competed not only in the name of the company, but also as individuals, isn't it appropriate to have someone right now?" ”

"Uncle Potter, would you like to represent the company? That's great," Charlie enthused.

Potter shook his head and pointed at Xia Fei with one hand, "It's not very convenient for me to show up, but Xia Fei has this condition, whether it is battleship piloting or mechanical maintenance, and even product design foundation is good, and he is a member of the Adjudicator Guild, it is very suitable for him to participate." ”

Old Porter's idea actually coincides with Xia Fei's, and there are not many options to achieve league-level publicity in a short period of time, and it is currently the most suitable means to increase his popularity by participating in various competitions and bidding conferences.

After all, the cost of participating in a few competitions or bidding is relatively low, compared to the overwhelming advertising campaign, and it is many times better than bombastic advertising to convince others through a real contest.

It's just that Xia Fei has not yet decided which competitions to participate in, the size of the Pan-Human Alliance is difficult to describe in words, there are many forces and organizations, and it is unrealistic to participate in any competition.

Xia Fei thought for a while and asked, "Uncle, you are more experienced, in your opinion, which events can we participate in to achieve the best publicity effect?" ”

Potter laughed, "That's the right question, I was a big fan of these interstellar tournaments when I was younger, but unfortunately I didn't get to do them all. ”

After finding a quiet office, Xia Fei turned on the ultra-microcomputer, and Old Porter pointed at the light curtain, and soon called up several high-end event materials that had started in recent months.

"I think it's the best place to participate in these competitions and tenders." "In a little more than three months, the High Command's single-class Super Rivalry will begin, which requires participants to use a fixed type of ship for elimination, with no requirements for ship modification and allows the use of any new equipment," Porter said. ”

"This is very beneficial to us, usually the event organizers will require participants to use fixed accessories for modification, energy shield synergist, as a new product, it is simply impossible to enter the supplier list in a short period of time, so we can only participate in this kind of event that does not specify the type of accessories."

"Of course, this competition has its drawbacks, many participants will spend a lot of money to buy the league's top accessories to install on the battleship in pursuit of maximum performance, we may not have the extra funds to buy expensive top parts at the moment, right?"

Xia Fei nodded, it would undoubtedly be unfair if an ordinary battleship and a battleship equipped with many top-level accessories had a one-on-one fight, after all, the performance of top-level accessories was far better than that of ordinary products.

Xia Fei still has some savings in his account, but all of this money has its own use, and even if all the funds are invested, it may not be able to gain the upper hand in performance, because the assembly investment is like a bottomless pit, and no amount of money can fill it.

Potter smiled slightly, "We can try this game, your operation of the battleship is still very good, although the equipment is not as good as the opponent's, but you also have the strength to fight." ”

"Don't worry if you can't win this event, because there's a more reasonable event to follow, and you can use the first race as a warm-up and the second one as a warm-up, so there's a good chance." Potter said excitedly.