Songjiang Town

The diesel engine plant of General Machinery Company of Australia

Rows of tall reinforced concrete factories are neat and orderly, and the factories are connected by smooth concrete roads, with green trees on both sides of the road, and long flower beds full of flowers.

This is a modern factory with very high standards, and flatbed tractors shuttle through it, sending equipment parts into various stations in an orderly manner for assembly.

Hou Guangde, manager of General Machinery Company, accompanied Li Fushou to inspect diligently, followed by Wu Mozhou and other leading figures, and walked all the way along the factory.

"Lord Earl;

We just looked at the foundry branch, responsible for casting diesel engine alloy cast iron cylinder block, cast iron engine cover, intake and exhaust pipes and other components, the existing sand turners and related technicians 322 people, of which 37 are hired by the United States to experienced, highly skilled old technicians.

These are veteran technicians recruited by the Cargil Steam Machinery Works from other bankrupt factories in Detroit, and have extensive experience in the production of alloy castings.

What we are using now is to inherit the old with the new, and we are equipped with enough manpower in all processes of casting, sand turning, grinding and cutting.

According to the current production capacity, it can reach the capacity of producing 1,600 sets of engine blocks per month, which is almost 1/3 of the production capacity of the Detroit Cargill Company, including various engine castings. ”

"Wait a minute, isn't that a bit low?" Li Fushou interrupted him, frowned and looked at it and said; "Cargil is responsible for the production of large and medium-sized diesel engines, has reached a monthly output of 5,500 units, you are responsible for the production of small and medium-sized diesel engines, according to the reason the difficulty should be smaller, the output is larger, why only more than 1,600 sets of production capacity, Songjiang base transformation of production equipment and conditions are not inferior to Detroit, is it a lack of orders?"

"The production order has been scheduled for two years, and there is no problem in this regard."

"Then why is the expansion so slow?"

Seeing Li Fushou's displeased face, He Guangde didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly explained; "Lord Earl, please excuse me for an explanation."

"Well, you name it."

Hou Guangde bowed his hand and replied; "Here's the thing, the production capacity of the Songjiang base is designed to produce 60,000 sets of small and medium-sized engines per year, which can reach 20,000 sets of small and medium-sized diesel power generation equipment per year, and has an annual production capacity of 12,000 walk-behind tractors to meet the continuous strong demand around the world.

Since the beginning of the year, it has been put into production

The capacity curve has maintained a good upward trend, and the output has been gradually released.

But to reach full design capacity, it would take a year or more for General Machinery to reach full capacity, and this is because we have 4 difficult bottlenecks to overcome.

The first is that their own technical force is weak, most of the relevant skilled workers are newly recruited high school graduates, there are relatively few experienced masters, fewer skilled workers, and the number of defective products and scrapped parts in the production is larger, which requires a process from unfamiliar to proficient.

With such a large amount of production, it is not enough to rely on American technicians alone, and we must train our own skilled workers.

At present, the company has made great efforts to rectify this, and the production group led by the skilled master in the United States has been established, and the responsibility and power are implemented to the group, the reward to the group, the punishment to the group, and the production competition is carried out in groups.

The production group with high productivity, good product quality, and few scrap parts has additional incentives, and the wages in hand are more than double the average.

The poor performance of the production group was greatly reduced, not only the apprentice workers, but also the leading American technicians were also severely punished, only half of the average salary, and those who fell behind for three consecutive months were dismissed.

This month, 5 American technicians have been dismissed, and the production evaluation is carried out every month, which has greatly touched the American technicians and apprentices, and the bubbles, cracks, impurities and non-conforming products in the castings have been greatly reduced, and the yield rate has jumped from 43.6% at the beginning of the year to 71.5% today, and is expected to increase to a high level of 75% this month.

Compared to Detroit's Cargill Company's 89% yield rate, there is still a lot of room for improvement, and we are taking various measures to catch up. ”

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Li Fushou's face softened a little, nodded indifferently and said; "These American technicians are a bunch of cheap people, so let's tell the technical experts in charge of leading the team of Kargil that all American technicians who have been dismissed are not allowed to be hired by Cargil again. Awards and punishments for the inferior are held every week, and the amount of rewards for outstanding teams should be increased by 30%, so that they can be allowed to bring more apprentices, and the apprentices will be drawn from the teams with poor production quality to produce more products that meet the quality. In addition, contact the Detroit Cargill Company and ask them to select 20 talented technicians to help the foundry improve its level, and this matter was done immediately. ”

"Obedience." Hou Guangde bowed down and replied, and then continued to explain; "The second production bottleneck is the lack of accessories, especially the diesel engine drive shaft, which has been produced by the relevant supporting manufacturers in the United States, but their production capacity is limited, and the financial strength is not strong enough, and the pace of expansion is obviously unable to keep up with the production scale of our main engine factory.

The transmission shaft rod is a high-tech product, which must be produced by a steam hammer or a high-power hydraulic press, which is made by extrusion, cutting, boring, grinding and other processes, and there are few manufacturers who can produce it.

To this end, we contacted the artillery factory under the Deep Blue Weapons Company, and they specially imported a batch of processing equipment to produce various types of transmission shafts, intake and exhaust valves and other components.

It's just that because the supporting production has just begun, the relevant production capacity is also improving, and it cannot fully meet our needs for the time being.

We have received a promise from the artillery factory that we will be able to get 1,200 sets of Axis Xuan products per month after May, and will increase by more than 300 sets per month in the future, and it is expected that we will be able to reach the level of 3,000 sets by October to gradually meet our needs.

In this way, coupled with the matching of imported parts, it can basically meet the needs of releasing full production capacity. ”

"Well, what about the quality of their production?" Li Fushou asked.

"The Deep Blue Weapons Factory is a manufacturer of artillery, and has always been very strict about quality, and the shaft products produced can reach the average level of supporting manufacturers, but they are slightly inferior to the best."

"Then you bring the best products to them, let them see where the gap is, try to improve the production process, don't just be satisfied with the average level." Li Fushou paused, looked into the distance and continued calmly; "Tell the people of Deep Blue Weapons Company that as long as their production level reaches the best supporting manufacturers, then Cargil Company's product orders can also be given to them, you know, this is a big piece of fat! If you have the ability, you can eat it. ”

When these words came out, Wu Mozhou and the others next to him laughed understandingly.

Such a big piece of fat is thrown out, and I am not afraid that the Deep Blue Weapons Company will not pay attention to it.

The two factories add up to nearly 130,000 sets of shaft products, and the output is still growing, which is a large order worth more than one million pounds.

Hou Guangde also felt a great increase in confidence, the dark blue weapons factory is now in constant orders, and it is also very arrogant, and now that the earl speaks, he is not afraid that they will not obey.

After all, the examination and income of enterprise managers are closely linked to the efficiency of the enterprise, and if you can't grasp the opportunity, you will lose points in the eyes of the Earl if you don't do well, which is undoubtedly a big failure, and the future is worrying!

Hou Guangde smiled with him, and then said; "Our third bottleneck is Siemens, the supporting generator sets are all produced by Siemens, our diesel units are sent to Europe for assembly, their production capacity is slower than ours, only 950 generator sets per month, which greatly slows down the delivery of orders.

For this reason, we have explored or established the possibility of establishing a generator set manufacturer in Australia, but Siemens categorically refused, this is their core product area, and will never allow other companies to interfere.

The fourth bottleneck is that the production lines are in the run-in, not just the foundry, the carriage factory recruited 770 workers, but also after training before starting independent production, the new production group produces 11 sets of carriages a week, and the old production group composed of skilled workers can produce 23~26 carriages, the gap is very large.

Moreover, there are many quality problems in the carriage kit produced by the new production group, such as leakage riveting, wrong riveting, center line deviation, size non-standard and so on, which need to be gradually overcome and improved.

Wheel factories have a similar problem, due to the impact of the current war, the supply of raw materials for solid rubber tires imported from Malaysia is insufficient, which affects the delivery speed of walk-behind tractors.

There are too many novices in the main assembly plant, and we do not dare to start production with all our might, mainly to train industrial workers, and only after training a group of qualified can we participate in production, the next step is that the company is ready to increase training and productivity, and try to achieve eighty percent of the production capacity requirements before the end of the year, and fully release the production capacity before April next year. ”

"Well, the results are remarkable, and there are a lot of problems." Li Fushou was basically satisfied with the performance of the Songjiang base of General Machinery Company.

There was a great deal of work to be perfected, a great deal of difficulties to overcome, he suddenly remembered something, and asked; "Do you have solid tires on the tractor?"

"yes, it's all solid tires." Hou Guangde replied a little inexplicably.

The others didn't know what to say, and looked at Li Fushou with surprised eyes.

Li Fushou seemed to be a little stunned, and then the smile began to spread from the corners of his mouth to his entire face, and even the tips of his eyebrows were filled with joy.

Grandma drops, why did I forget this stubble?

Hollow tires, this is a big industry.

The real principle is that the fart is not worth it, that is, some steel wire is wrapped in the rubber, and if the high-strength steel wire does not meet the requirements, then the high-tenacity wire woven from hemp can also be used.

As early as 1836, the Belgian Diez had proposed the idea of pneumatic tires, but it was not put into practice, this guy was a complete visionary.

In 1845, Robert W. Brown, a civil engineer in Middlesex, England, W. Thomson invented tires wrapped in leather and filled with air or horsehair, but they were not actually used.

What's that......

John Bird Dunlop, a Scottish veterinarian living in Belfast, Ireland, hasn't invented hollow rubber tires yet!

Hahaha...... Lao Tzu picked it up, this invention belongs to me, and this big industry also belongs to me.

By the way, this thing works very well on bicycles, and it seems that we need to build a bicycle manufacturer to eat this market share.

yes, that's great.