Chapter 149: A Foreign Country
After New Year's Day in 2007, there was new news from Shanpu that the Bincheng factory was going to introduce the production of electronic musical instruments.
In the past, this kind of product was in the Dalian factory, and the Dalian factory was mainly mobile phones, and some electronic musical instruments.
At present, due to the poor design ability of Shanpu's mobile phones, the market is shrinking more and more, and they have to abandon this kind of products, and at the same time sell the Dalian factory to other companies, and transfer the production line of electronic musical instruments to Bincheng.
In this way, it just fills the gap after the withdrawal of the phone. The electronic musical instruments of Shanpu are mainly electronic organs and electric pianos, and the market share is very low.
There is no comparison with the Japanese industry giants Yamaha, Casio, and Kawai, and they are basically following these giants to drink soup.
However, these products are designed in Japan, but there is no production line in Japan, and all of them are produced overseas.
The biggest feature of the electronic piano and the electric piano is that it has its own keyboard, which is unique, divided into three types: 1M, 2M and 3M.
To put it simply, when you play the electronic keyboard, no matter how strong you are, the volume and timbre that will not change are the 1M keyboard.
If there is a noticeable change in the sound, it is a 2M keyboard, and three changes are a 3M keyboard.
Because the pronunciation of the electronic keyboard is turned on when you press the keyboard, in this case, the volume has nothing to do with the strength of your playing, but the volume knob is used to adjust the size.
The so-called several M keyboards, that is, there are several silicone contacts under the keyboard, and the number of contacts connected is different according to the different strengths, and the circuits connected are not the same, so the sound emitted will be different.
This contact is also a very critical component, which is made of silica gel with a hardness of 25 degrees and is completed according to the glue injection process. Underneath the contact, the conductive ink is printed.
The corresponding keyboard circuit board also has conductive ink at the contact position, so that when playing, a connected circuit can be formed.
At present, there are six suppliers of silicone products made by Shanpu, all of which are made of remote controls and panel buttons, and the production process is also different from the contact.
In addition, there is an important integrated circuit on electronic musical instruments called sound source IC, and 80% of the sound source IC in the world is produced by Yamaha.
In order to let the Bincheng factory understand the main knowledge of electronic musical instruments, Nippon Design invited some of the main reserve forces here to study in Japan for a month to six months.
Technology and quality assurance and production department, learning is generally half a year, the procurement department is not required to go to the special study, originally planned in March, report to the work of Scarface for a week more, a total of half a month to understand on the line.
However, Mizuno believes that it is more beneficial to study more for future work, in fact, the main reason is that there is a surplus of funds, and if you don't spend it, you will have to reduce it in the next year.
When the Dalian factory manufactures electronic musical instruments, the contact point is purchased from the Japanese headquarters. In fact, the Japanese headquarters bought it from a supplier and sold it to the Dalian factory.
However, President Suzuki felt that this was too much work, and one of the issues that asked Scarface to go to Japan was to promote direct purchases.
It is Yamagahama Castle Company, skipping the Japanese headquarters and buying directly from the supplier. It's easy to say, but it's tedious to do.
Because it not only involves the delivery of orders, but also the minimum packaging quantity, the minimum delivery quantity, and a series of customs declaration and transportation issues.
This necessitates discussions with Japanese suppliers and logistics companies in Japan to find the best solution.
This matter was supposed to be Mizuno's intervention, but Mizuno felt that Scarface was more capable of solving the problem than him.
If he is asked to do it, he will have to wear a scarface, because he doesn't know about the customs declaration and transportation on the Chinese side.
Besides, he didn't think it was that difficult, it was just more tedious. This man's usual practice is to leave the tedious tasks to his subordinates. He also has more important things to do, and it's reassuring for Scarface to do it.
Scarface is nominally going to study, but in fact, the actual learning time is only one week, and the rest of the time is spent negotiating with suppliers all over Japan.
Because Suzuki and Mizuno want to take this opportunity to change all the things that can be purchased directly from Japanese suppliers.
It was finally determined that Scarface went to Japan on February 12, a week before the Spring Festival, and returned to China at the end of March, a total of more than 40 days.
The first week was spent studying in the Japanese design department, and the rest of the day was spent visiting suppliers, which was part of the learning and negotiating the best solution with the Japanese suppliers.
The other people who went to Japan to study abroad were studying abroad and lived in dormitories. Scarface is on a business trip, so he's staying in a hotel.
Throughout January to mid-February, before Scarface went to Japan, Scarface had only spoken to Xie Menghehe once. This is a very painful thing for Scarface.
Scarface's heart, in fact, really wants to be able to break down with Sister Liu and then leave, these more than 40 days are indeed a difficult day, Sister Liu's body makes Scarface feel very nostalgic.
It's a pity that Sister Liu has never looked for him, and of course he won't take the initiative to find someone.
There is still a week before the Chinese New Year, and more than a dozen backbones of the Bincheng factory embarked on a flight to Japan to study.
For most people, it is a very painful thing not to be able to spend the New Year at home, who is so lacking in virtue that it has to be arranged at this time.
But for Scarface, it's a good feeling, and finally I don't have to be bored to think about how the holiday will be over.
Everyone is reunited with their families, and it is better to have something to do except for themselves as a lonely ghost.
When they arrived in Japan, the others lived in special dormitories, and Scarface stayed in a hotel next to the subway station.
The previous week's activities were very uniform, with Japanese design to teach the principles of electronic musical instruments, as well as the difference between electronic pianos and electric pianos.
Although the electronic organ and the electric piano are both connected by circuits to produce sound, the ideas in terms of keyboard design, key design, playing feel and other design ideas are completely different.
In addition to the obvious difference between the appearance of the keyboard and the keyboard of the electronic piano, in order to make the player have the feeling of playing the piano, some counterweight functional parts will be added to the keys.
On Scarface's last day in the design department, Yamaga's purchasing department led everyone on a tour of Yamaha's sound source IC manufacturing factory, which is also in Hamamatsu City.
Listening to Yamaha's development there, Scarface felt that this company was definitely an alternative among Japanese companies.
Japanese companies generally focus on the vertical development of an industry to high-precision, and when the vertical reaches the extreme, it will develop horizontally to the relevant one, such as Sony, Panasonic, Sanyo, Sumitomo, etc.
However, Yamaha was definitely a non-business-oriented company in Japan, and it eventually split into two groups.
The big thing is that the two groups use Yamaha's name, and the logo is almost the same, but there is a slight difference, and the average person can't see it.
One is the Yamaha Motor Group and the other is the Yamaha Musical Instrument Group, which now belongs to a completely independent group.
Neither the shareholders nor the actual business have any connection. The industry is even more irrelevant, and they have all entered the world's top 500.
It is said that he is not doing a proper job because this company was founded by a piano repairer. I started repairing pianos for others, and then I started making pianos.
Later, he began to make electronic organs, and he was the first company in the world to put musical instruments on an assembly line.
The musical instrument was made day by day, and soon became the first in the world. But it started to make engines again, and then this engine group made motorcycles, and then made various automation equipment across industries.
The placement machine used by Yamaha Motor is Yamaha Motor, and it is an industry leader in the field of automation and engines.
The position of the musical instrument group in the field of musical instruments has not yet been shaken, but the group has begun to enter the field of microelectronics.
Semiconductors and ICs immediately became their new business direction, and they quickly became successful.
If I thought it would be over, it would not be too unprofessional, and I have started to enter the golf field again in recent years.
Golf clubs and various utensils are also well-known brands in the world. There is also a whole bathroom in the first few years, and it has become an upstart in the Japanese home furnishing industry.
From musical instruments to engines, to automation, to microelectronics, to golf, to the home industry.
Each of the newly opened industries is unrelated to each other, or has little or no relevance, but each has achieved great results.
This is rare in the eyes of well-known companies in the world, and it can be said that this is the only one, so it is the most unserious company in the world.
But a few people would have thought that the founder of this company was just a piano repairman.
After visiting this company, the biggest feeling for Scarface is that you must do everything to the extreme, which is one of the very important concepts for success.
It is very difficult to do things across borders, and there is indeed a lot to learn from doing things so successfully across borders.
After returning from Yamaha, Scarface's studies in the design department of the Yamapu head office were completed.
The next work is Scarface's solo activity time, which has been arranged a month in advance.
Since Scarface's Japanese skills are better than those of some Japanese people, he doesn't need to be accompanied by others at work.
Many Japanese people think that he is a native and they don't even know that he is communicating with foreigners. Those who are observant and have been in contact for a long time will see a slight difference in their behavior.
Scarface's first supplier was a rubber contact factory in Tochigi Prefecture, and the study tour lasted for three days.
In the past few days, the learning process has been very rewarding for Scarface, and he is not tired at all, and his mood is very relaxed.
Now it is the Chinese New Year, although there are no dear relatives, but every festive season to think of relatives, this is every Chinese can not part of the emotion.
Scarface called Xie Tingting, and greeted Lao Jia and Sister Diao, which must be called every year to greet the New Year.
I don't know why, Scarface really wants to talk to Lu Xiaocao, he knows that Lu Xiaocao will not go back this year, and he is also lonely and alone, spending the Spring Festival in a rental house.
Maybe it's sympathy, or maybe it's out of some special feelings, in short, I actually remembered this little girl at this time.
But in the end, Scarface still didn't make this call, because he knew that calling at this time would easily make the other party misunderstand.
In fact, Lu Xiaocao was also thinking about Scarface at this time, since he knew that Scarface and Xie Meng were not in love, Lu Xiaocao's mood became very good.
Although she still feels that she is not worthy of Scarface, her longing heart cannot be stopped. Since Scarface wants to lie to her, it means that Scarface feels her crush, and that's enough.
Some things depend on fate, and they can't be forced. Now she can't go home and come back, her parents don't have a phone, and she can't even receive a greeting, which is indeed worse than Scarface.
But the two of them, one thing is completely synchronized, it's just that they can't see it due to the difference in time and location of the hour.
That is, after eating, reading and studying, then running and exercising, bathing, reading, and sleeping, this regular and self-disciplined habit is almost exactly the same as that of the two.
On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Scarface took a shower after running and wanted to go out for a walk when he was bored.
Near the subway station, I met a few street girls, which made Scarface's restless heart even more difficult to control.
There are many street girls in Japan who are not young ladies in the true sense of the word, and most of them are foreign workers or international students.
There is also a large number of female students from Japan, but this part of them is only looking for Japanese. Among international students, the proportion of Chinese is very large, which is not meant to be demeaning, and this is the case.
It's the Chinese New Year, and generally speaking, Chinese people will return to China or find some friends to get together, after all, this is the most important holiday in the hearts of Chinese.
Therefore, the proportion of Chinese among today's street women is not large. Although Scarface is in China, he has always adhered to the style of not entering Flower Street and Willow Lane.
However, he felt that Japan's special culture of aid and friendship should be different from China's general health care, and this was just a self-deceptive statement he adopted in order to convince himself in his heart.
I also feel that the devil has done so many sins in China back then, and he has to take revenge. Now that Lao Tzu has come to you, I will also look for your mother-in-law.
So I quickly convinced myself that I must find a devil mother-in-law today, so that they can also feel the power of Chinese men. said a thousand ways and ten thousand, these are all excuses made by the sperm worm on his brain.
Scarface's speech and demeanor are no different from those of the Japanese, and these street girls are also different from those of China.
They just stand there quietly, and if you don't talk to you, they won't take the initiative to look for you, just like they stand there to pick up people and others.
The difference is that they all wear very heavy makeup, so that you can't see their true colors. Scarface looked closely for a few minutes, picked on a few Japanese girls he thought he thought, and then locked on one with the best figure.
In Scarface's view, a good figure means that the height should be more than 1.6 meters, many Japanese women are more than 1.4 meters, plus the age of coming out to stand on the street is not very old, and the body is petite, which makes him feel like an underage girl.
And the body shape should be slightly fat, there should be no obvious fat on the waist, and the front and back should be a little larger, especially in the back.
Recently, I have accumulated a little too much, and the impact must be strong, the shock absorption is not good, and the impact resistance is not good.
Scarface accosted the other party in the most standard Japanese, making the other party see himself as Japanese, and it was obviously more successful in acting.
Judging from her movements and speech, that girl is also a standard Japanese woman, that is, she is a head taller than the surrounding ones, about 1.7 meters, and she also looks slightly chubby.
The price negotiated by the two sides is 10,000 yen a night, and there is no limit to the number of times, which is basically the standard price, and Scarface has also heard from Mizuno's Japanese colleagues.
Back at the hotel, it's the standard process, untie your clothes, take a shower and flirt. The bathroom in the Japanese hotel was too small, and Scarface originally wanted to take a mandarin duck bath, but in the end he endured it, and let the woman wash it first, and then he went to wash it.
He hoped that the woman would also take off her makeup, but the other party said that these were all rules, and he was afraid that both parties would be unhappy because of their appearance. In short, it looks like the figure is the same as you imagined, and it doesn't matter if you take off your makeup or not.