0284 Nine years of change, streamlining manufacturing and micro-factories

"The switch between microwave and electric heating is a big hassle, a lot of people are doing it, and few of them can pass the safety certification. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Yes, this determines the control of the heat, who makes Chinese food changeable? I tried the random door engine of the stars, the teacher of the inventor is an expert of the Sinterstar Academy of Sciences, and he used the control principle of the ion engine, and it feels good, and now I am testing mapo tofu......"

Zhang Yue muttered to his friend while staring at the movement in the kitchen.

The kitchen was replaced by a long, flat machine with no enclosure, and you could see the intricate coils, circuit boards, and various parts inside, and in the center was a container that resembled a concrete mixer, spinning and making a deep low sound.

"The noise is a bit loud, and the shell has to consider sound attenuation......"

Zhang Yue sketched in the virtual field of vision and noted down the problem.

A few minutes later, there was a clink, the machine stopped, and a single-use container was pushed out of the front outlet, steaming hot.

Zhang Yue took the container, looked at the contents inside, and frowned.

"In appearance, it's just a beach, or a thin ......"

He said to himself as if he was experimenting: "The tofu is broken, it seems that you can't use water tofu, you can only use northern tofu, but it's not authentic mapo tofu." There is no way, the principle of the cooking machine cannot deal with too fragile ingredients. ”

He sniffed it again, his brows furrowed, it seemed to be good, scooped it up with a spoon and took a bite, and said with satisfaction: "The taste is okay, at least it is better than ordinary restaurants." ”

"The traditional stewed soup clay pot series, the fried shredded pork and fried pork slices series, the stir-fried vegetable series, plus mapo tofu, it's okay, Chushen No. 7, take off!"

Zhang Yue logged in to "Phantom Galaxy", opened his own exclusive space "Kitchen God Star", pulled out the design drawing of the machine, made some detailed adjustments, added a lot of notes, and then submitted it to the "Civil Electrical Appliance Design Scheme Safety Certification Committee", and made a public announcement at the same time.

In a matter of moments, a whole bunch of messages were sent directly to his PEI.

"The Great Leap has been updated again, you can make mapo tofu, okay, it's a must-have for otaku!"

"Great Leap, you're also diligent, aren't you? No. 6 has only been sold for four months, and No. 7 has been made, and it is very troublesome for us to change modules, you are forcing us to do monthly rent, too cunning! ”

"I've seen the dawn of the universal kitchen, come on!"

"When to get the pancake fruit series, Yueshen, foreigners' cooking machines are popular for making pizza or something, and they can't lose to them!"

Zhang Yue handed over the reply to PEI, and he took care of the full joy in his heart.

This is an era of freedom, this is also an era of otaku, robots have been widely used in the family, taking on a lot of housework, and this cooking machine like the one designed by Zhang Yue has even liberated people from cooking.

As a freelance designer, Zhang Yue, like thousands of his peers, designs a variety of household appliances for his life. Unlike previous designers, they face countless factories and even users directly. They get a licensing fee for every physical design they make.

This is all thanks to "Phantom Galaxy" and the transformation of social production forms.

Zhang Yue sighed that the earth in 2036 is becoming more and more like the world depicted in many science fiction novels.

In the eyes of sociologists, Zhang Yue and his colleagues are the gravediggers of "socialized mass production", and their rise has been accompanied by the closure of factories of all kinds. Clothing, shoes and hats, daily necessities, household appliances, etc., in short, the manufacturing of finished products related to human daily life has now languished to the point that it can only maintain the market in backward regions and backward countries in the third world.

The simulation design environment provided by Galaxy of Illusions is one thing, and 3D printing and streamlined manufacturing are another, and the latter plays a key role. The wave of streamlined manufacturing sparked by the concept of "Space Oxons" has spread to the entire industrial system. Up to now, in the developed regions of China, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Europe, and Russia, the "community factories" and even "family factories" spawned by "streamlined manufacturing" have replaced the traditional manufacturing industry and supported the daily consumption of industrial products in these regions.

After a few hours of busyness, Zhang Yue was so thirsty that he casually flipped up the armrest next to the sofa, and under the armrest was a small and delicate refrigerator, took out a Coke from it, and poured a big mouthful.

"Look at the new design of the refrigerator, if I want to make Western food, there are more kinds of ingredients, I have to get a home freezer......

On a whim, he searched the Internet.

Galaxy of Illusions provides simulations of gravity, electromagnetic fields, and many other physical and chemical reactions, making designs more realistic, and turning designs into reality relies on 3D printing and robotic assembly.

In the past, only 3D printing was mature, which was not enough to support micro-factories, and then the concept of streamlined manufacturing was mature, and robot assembly was rapidly popularized from the field of scientific research and precision manufacturing to all aspects of society.

The price of the entry-level robot assembly library is only tens of thousands, plus the 3D printer that manufactures specific parts, as well as various specific functional modules, such as fabric weaving, shoemaking and hat making, luggage, household appliances, etc., a set is only one or two hundred thousand, and it has become a micro factory that does not require additional labor.

Such factories have spread to every residential area in the big cities, and they are like the former neighborhood stores, providing industrial products for daily consumption. From clothing, shoes and hats to cooking machines, refrigerators and other household appliances, everything is available.

This kind of "streamlined manufacturing of industrial products" has three major characteristics, one is to meet the individual needs, whether it is the shape, function or material of the individual requirements, can be met. The first is real-time, the purchase process is very short, and the order is placed directly through the network to the micro factory, and it can be received in a few hours at most. And the most important factor is cheapness.

The original traditional industrial products have countless links, each link has an additional layer of value, and finally to the hands of consumers, even if it is a large-scale production in the form of a factory, the additional labor value far exceeds the material cost of the product.

Now, micro factories only need to buy raw materials in their initial form, as well as core components such as refrigerator compressors, and then pay for the authorization fee of the product design scheme, which is extremely streamlined and very low-cost, and in the face of a limited and stable user base, the price is naturally not high. Just like refrigerators, the refrigerators sold by micro factories are only half of the brand refrigerators mass-produced by large factories.

The three characteristics became the three advantages of the micro factory, and it soon spread from the fashionable trendy in the otaku circle to the ordinary people, and it took only a fraction of the time to popularize online shopping.

Originally, both the government and the public were worried that the quality of the products of microfactories would cause many social problems, and traditional manufacturing groups also used this as an excuse to repeatedly hinder the rise of microfactories.

But people soon found out that the design is provided by the designers of the entire "Phantom Galaxy", and the manufacturing is responsible for 3D printing and robot assembly libraries, and in the production process of micro factories, the influence factor of people is lower than that of traditional large factories, and there is no difference in quality, and even because it is personalized manufacturing, it is more precise than mass production. The worries quickly dissipated, and the obstruction of traditional manufacturing groups became a mantis arm.

Of course, the development process of micro-factories is not all positive things, in the initial period, many micro-factory owners in order to squeeze out more profits, in the selection of components and raw materials to do a lot of tricks, this aspect of supervision is not as convenient as the traditional manufacturing industry, the initial also ruined the reputation of the micro-factory, become the traditional manufacturing industry attack.

However, the users of "Phantom Galaxy" have organized their own supervision system, exerted the power of the people, established the credibility standard of the micro factory, and evaluated the micro factory from the realization level, quality, price and other aspects of the design plan. After the government intervenes and integrates it into the general environment of quality standards, safety supervision and other management policies, the product quality problem of the micro factory is no longer a big problem.

At first, the traditional manufacturing industry also attacked another disadvantage of micro-factories, that is, after-sales service, but after several years of operation, everyone found that micro-factories did not have a problem with this problem.

The reason is very simple, the products of the micro factory are very cheap, and the frequency of product updates is very fast, once there is a problem, it is not distressing to replace it directly. Even if there is a need for maintenance, the micro factory is customized on demand, flexible manufacturing, no need to wait for spare parts, the process is very simple. Finally, the demand of the micro factory is to try not to do after-sales, designers want to strive for the micro factory to buy their own solutions, in the design of the brain, to minimize or even eliminate after-sales problems. In the end, the products manufactured by the micro factory can already ignore the after-sales problem.

To meet the individual needs, cheap, good quality, do not consider after-sales, micro factories have completely overwhelmed the traditional manufacturing industry, in addition to food and beverage and other fields, micro factories are still somewhat ungraspable, not allowed to enter, the country does not dare to let go, other areas, micro factories swept the market like a flood, so that the traditional manufacturing industry avalanche like closure.

Up to now, people who are still willing to use traditional manufacturing to batch finished products are either micro-factories in poor areas are not yet popular, or they are still obsessed with "brand value" and use these things to distinguish the petty bourgeoisie from the "lower riba people". Of course, in the eyes of others, these people are gradually becoming a laughing stock because of their stubbornness.

Even in food and beverages, whether it is the industry's obstruction or the country's worries, all obstacles are crumbling, and designers like Zhang Yue, who aspire to design "automatic universal cooking machines", are constantly contributing to micro-factories.

The reason why the traditional manufacturing industry and even the country can't stop the wave of micro factories is because designers like Zhang Yue use "Phantom Galaxy" to refresh the face of daily industrial products with each passing day, which is more convenient, faster and more personalized to meet people's needs, and at the same time gain fame and remuneration, and the emerging industries formed are infinitely vibrant.

The traditional manufacturing industry had struggled for a while, but they soon found that they had put their best foot forward to design a new model a week, which was a record miracle in the past era. But their competitors are hundreds of designers in "Phantom Galaxy", who can come up with thousands or even tens of thousands of new designs a week, and at least hundreds of them are good designs that make users' eyes shine and open their wallets, how can they compete!?

What's more, people's design, micro factories can be delivered to consumers' homes on the same day, no need for advertising, no need for huge and complicated production links and logistics channels, and people are not at the same level of opponents.

The traditional manufacturing industry has found that the only way to save itself is to take the path of micro-factories. There is no shortage of large companies that have dismantled production lines and broken down into countless "urban stores", especially mobile phone factories, such as wheat mobile phones.

Like other appliances, mobile phones are now just a form of PEI and a terminal dedicated to making calls. In addition to highlighting personal taste, mobile phone brands have no more meaning, not to mention to highlight personal taste, watches or something more stylish than mobile phones. People either choose to customize according to their preferences, or choose a variety of trendy designs according to themes, feelings, interests, etc.

Wheat mobile phone efforts,Just barely stand in the third and fourth tier cities,First of all, good designers are doing it alone,Secondly, we must give priority to obeying the interests of the group,Let the flexibility of these urban stores is still far lower than that of micro factories,Now,"Wheat mobile phone"The image has been similar to that of the big speaker copycat machine。

Gongsun Cong's evaluation of wheat is: "They think that they can be better than Apple, and if Apple is still alive, it will have changed careers a long time ago." ”

Gongsun Contempt's hammer technology, has long stopped playing with mobile phones, honestly followed the tide, first did PEI matching, after seeing the rise of micro factories, quickly switched to robot assembly libraries and mobile phone manufacturing modules, although it is not the top in the industry, but the life is quite moist.

However, the rise of microfactories and the disintegration of traditional manufacturing of everyday industrial goods have brought more than good effects. Although the field declined many years ago, the overall scale is still there, and the unemployment problem is getting worse under the impact of micro-factories.

This is not caused by micro-factories alone, the rise of robots, the popularization of 3D printers, the promotion of streamlined manufacturing, and the continuous disintegration of the entire manufacturing industry by the continuous progress of technology, just in China, the employment of millions or even tens of millions of people has affected the stability of hundreds of millions of people.

For Zhang Yue, this is not something he needs to think about, but he also often feels such pressure indirectly, from his father.

Because of this, he was very tired of the path arranged for him by his father, and preferred to live by himself and live a peaceful and contented life. He feels that in this era, everyone is faced with choices, and everyone is responsible for their own choices. There are so many ways to go, why not break free from the shackles and take the path you want to take, and others must be responsible for themselves?

"I'm not going, you know, the future? What future does humanity have? The world is already like this anyway, and human beings are destined to squat in the solar system, thinking so much, why do they want to do so much? ”

My father happened to send a communication to take Zhang Yue to attend some meeting, but Zhang Yue unceremoniously refused.

He said to his father very seriously: "I have faith in Starlink, but it's been 9 years, I don't have confidence in whether I can live to the next century, that's right, I believe in instantaneism, don't confuse me with those decadents, I just live according to my own ideas." ”

Zhang Zhicheng stared at the prompt of "communication interruption" in his field of vision, and sighed helplessly.

The eldest son can't be counted on, so it depends on whether the second son in school can be relied on.

At Yanjing Airport, Zhang Zhicheng just got off the plane, sat in an all-electric driven luxury car, and rushed to the center of the city.

The eldest son's escapist mentality made Zhang Zhicheng very annoyed, but the taste of the words also made Zhang Zhicheng's heartstrings flutter, yes, 9 years......

It has been 9 years since the Star Gate lost contact, although the remaining Star Alliance branch claimed that the Star Alliance was still there, and the Star Gate was victorious, but the Star Gate has not been reopened, and the solar system is still left in a black box, everyone understands that the so-called victory is just to appease people's hearts.

9 years ago, the eldest son who was still in middle school was full of passion and longed to join Starlink to fight for mankind when he grew up, but after such a long time, no matter how hot the passion was, he lost his life goal, and was reduced to the point of tinkering with small household appliances for a business, and he had no interest in inheriting the family business.

To be honest, Zhang Zhicheng himself has this feeling, and it will take a lot of effort to overcome the sadness that "the future of mankind has been limited to the solar system" and continue to do what should be done now.

In the past 9 years, there have been many changes in human beings on the earth, both good and bad, if you only look at the material level, of course, it is very good for Zhang Zhicheng. (To be continued.) )