The development history of Nanshan Group for so many years has proved the correctness of Cao Yang's decisions.

At the beginning, the people below still had a lot of questions about Cao Yang's strange decisions.

But with successes one after another, everyone has become more and more confident in Cao Yang's decision.

Even if it is something that is difficult for everyone to accept for the time being, it is often just to raise some questions, and in the end it is still implemented very seriously.

This time, Cao Yang arranged the development of three hard-core SUV models.

Zeng Tingting: Although they feel that the market for hard-core SUVs is too small, it is not worth investing so much manpower and material resources.

But Cao Yang insisted on doing it, and everyone immediately began to act.

However, the development of the model is certainly not a matter of one or two days, and other work must be carried out as usual.

And during this time, a news on Autohome once again aroused Cao Yang's interest.

"Mi Ying, this information about the strike of Nanhai Honda, you arrange someone to sort it out and see how it goes."

"Then let the personnel department investigate and see what strikes have occurred among various parts suppliers in the automotive industry since last year."

Early in the morning, Mi Ying sorted out some relevant news to Cao Yang as usual.

Originally, the news of a strike by a parts manufacturer, Mi Ying didn't plan to put it in.

However, considering that this supplier is in Lingnan Province and is an affiliated manufacturer of Yangcheng Honda, she still sorted it out.

I didn't expect other news that Cao Yang had no problem with a single problem, this news that seemed inconspicuous and seemed to have nothing to do with Nanshan Group aroused Cao Yang's interest.

"Mr. Cao, this accurate information estimate sounds a bit difficult."

"The strikes of various suppliers are often handled in a very low-key manner."

"Like this situation with Nanhai Honda, it should be relatively rare."

"Of course, it may also have something to do with the size of each supplier."

"It is easier for large manufacturers to attract everyone's attention when they strike, but for some smaller manufacturers, everyone does not pay special attention to them."

Although this job can be thrown to the personnel department to do, Mi Ying feels that the personnel department may not be able to handle it.

After all, there is a lot of information that you simply can't find a channel to inquire about.

However, Cao Yang obviously doesn't see it that way.

"Every OEM must be very clear about which of its suppliers have gone on strike in the past year."

"If the personnel department can't handle it, let the sales department help, they have docking with so many OEMs, and you can still get a lot of news if you inquire about it."

Cao Yang wasn't really that gossipy, but from this strike, he thought of something else.

Or even something that is beneficial to the Nanshan Group.

"That's right, I'll talk to Minister Zeng and Minister Liu, let them try it together and see if they can sort out a more complete list."

As big as Nanshan Group, everything must be planned and predicted slowly.

Taking this opportunity, Cao Yang wants to form a think tank team internally, analyze some situations in the development of the industry, and then give relevant opinions.

Soon, after arranging for someone to investigate the strike, Cao Yang called Li Shigui of Nanshan Robotics to his office.

"Mr. Li, has there been any change in our robot sales this year?"

Although the volume of Nanshan Robot is not very large in the entire group, Cao Yang attaches great importance to it.

Whether it is Nanshan Group's own factories or suppliers, they all need to use a large number of robots.

It's definitely a sunrise industry, and it's worth investing in.

"Compared to the same period last year, the sales volume has increased by almost 30%, but the number of new customers has increased a lot."

"Especially in recent months, there have been a lot more manufacturers consulting and buying robots, and customers have come to visit the site almost every day."

"Our sales team is also almost a trapeze artist, traveling every week."

"Mr. Cao, I feel that the robot business is expected to usher in a wave of rapid growth."

Obviously, Li Shigui has also felt some changes in the robot industry.

China's economy has developed rapidly for decades, and it has been relying on the advantages of relatively low labor costs to develop many foreign trade processing industries.

But in the last decade, workers' wages have also begun to rise.

Even all localities are consciously guiding enterprises to appropriately improve the treatment of employees and enhance everyone's spending power.

This is naturally a good thing.

However, for enterprises, labor costs have become higher.

Combined with the rapid economic development in the past two years, especially the rapid growth of the automotive industry, almost all OEMs and parts companies are expanding production.

Correspondingly, it becomes more difficult to recruit on-site workers.

For example, a skilled welder, even if you have a relatively high salary, you may not be able to recruit in a short time.

Even some factories that are located in remote locations and are treated mediocrely have begun to find enough employees.

Correspondingly, workers' awareness of rights protection is also increasing.

Begin to learn to fight for more benefits for yourself.

In this context, the number of strikes in the auto parts industry is obviously increasing.

"There is nothing wrong with this feeling, and the next five years will be five years of rapid development of the robot industry."

"Especially in the manufacturing industry represented by the auto parts industry, many processes in the past were completed manually, and the degree of automation was not very high."

"However, with the increase in labor costs, the motivation for enterprises to promote equipment automation is becoming more and more sufficient."

"Today I saw the news of Yangcheng Honda's core supplier strike, and I think this will be a more representative event in the automotive industry."

"In the future, due to the continuous improvement of workers' treatment and the difficulty of recruiting skilled workers, we will consider using robots to replace human labor as much as possible."

"For example, in the past, most of the stamping parts suppliers were manual welding, and the proportion of robots was not very high."

"In the future, as long as robots can be used, there will be opportunities to replace them with robots."

"In various stamping manufacturers, TDM production lines will also be slowly automated."

"Automation can be achieved by adding one or two robots between two TDM machines."

"Even in the field of logistics and warehousing, there is room for automation transformation."

"We Nanshan Robot should seize this opportunity to promote various automation solutions with various auto parts companies."

"Whether it is our own suppliers of Nanshan Group, or other suppliers in the industry."

"The size of Nanshan Robot's sales team can be further expanded, take the initiative to win more orders."

"I hope that this year, Nanshan Robot's sales can directly achieve the goal of doubling."

As soon as Cao Yang said this, Li Shigui was immediately under great pressure.

He is confident that he will increase his sales by 30%.

But doubling it is very challenging.

However, what Cao Yang said is also very reasonable, the best time for robots to enter the workshop has arrived.

The days when you could recruit a worker for less than 1,000 yuan are completely gone.

There are fewer and fewer obedient workers who used to be obedient and hardworking.

Even people would rather go to the restaurant to serve dishes than go into the factory.

In this case, robots are not much easier to use than humans?

Not only is it easy to use, but if you calculate the cost, the robot is actually cheaper.

"Mr. Cao, I want to unite the purchasing departments of various OEMs to engage in a joint cost reduction plan to sell our robots to various parts companies."

"If we go directly to the parts manufacturers, some manufacturers may not have the motivation to transform, and even the attitude is high."

"After all, we are Party B, and others are Party A."

"But if we can cooperate with the main engine factory to carry out a larger event, invite personnel from the procurement and sales departments of various stamping parts and other manufacturers with a relatively large demand for robots to participate in the event."

"For the procurement of OEMs, if this activity can really reduce their supplier costs, so as to contribute to the annual price reduction, there should also be a certain motivation."

"However, there may be some OEMs that need Mr. Cao or Minister Zeng to help communicate with them, and the effect will be better."

Li Shigui also has some ability, otherwise Cao Yang would not have let him be in charge of Nanshan Robot all the time.

Now that Cao Yang has proposed the task of doubling sales this year, he will soon have an idea.

There are so many domestic parts suppliers, and many manufacturers Nanshan Robot do not even have contact information, but the other party is likely to have relevant needs.

If you don't take the initiative to find the other party, then it is likely that people will find other manufacturers to buy.

At this time, it is obviously a very good plan to connect through the main engine factory.

For OEMs, this kind of automation transformation exhibition or implementation plan can really reduce the cost of parts, which is definitely a good thing.

And this kind of automation transformation is in line with the trend and can be reported as a political achievement.

For component suppliers, although not every manufacturer is willing to accept this kind of change or transformation.

After all, the competition in parts and components has not yet reached the level of white heat, and most manufacturers still have good profits.

Some people will not bother to toss.

However, if the procurement of the main engine factory is promoted, they will have to deal with it seriously.

Since these solutions can indeed reduce their costs in the end, there is no way for them to oppose them on the surface.

Even the bosses of these manufacturers must be happy.

As for whether the person doing the work is happy or not, it is not so important.

Cao Yang can naturally realize the advantages and disadvantages of the plan that Li Shigui said.

So I immediately agreed.

"For self-owned brand OEMs, I can call their bosses directly."

"On the side of the joint venture, some of them are in charge of communication, and some of them you ask Zeng Tingting to find the other party's purchasing director."

"But before that, you have to come up with a plan for a technology exhibition as soon as possible."

"When we explain to the other party, we should also show some specific cases and the effect of cost reduction."

"It is necessary for everyone to fully realize that this automation transformation is beneficial to suppliers and OEMs."

Taking advantage of this round of strikes, Cao Yang feels that all OEMs and parts suppliers will have pressure on automation transformation.

There are many cases of Nanshan robot in this regard, and if you sort it out, this technology exhibition is still very interesting.

At that time, it may not be difficult to achieve the goal of doubling sales by going to one or two OEMs every week to exhibit at the main engine factory.

"No problem, give me a week, and we'll come up with a plan that can be implemented directly."

Li Shigui is not a grinder, Cao Yang has already built the bridge for him, if he is not angry, the position under the ass may not be able to be kept at that time.

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"Xiao Lu, this supplier strike has caused our production line to stop production for two days."

"This situation must be avoided as much as possible in the future."

Unlike Cao Yang and others who are watching the excitement, Yangcheng Honda itself is busy internally because of the supplier strike.

Today's market is very good, whether it is the Accord or the Odyssey, or their Fit, they are selling very well.

Although it has not reached the point of selling the car at a higher price, it is actually a very good situation to be able to sell the car with almost no discounts.

However, at this time, the suppliers went on strike, and the supply of parts was not available, resulting in the production line being suspended.

It's a huge loss every day.

Even if the sales for the whole year do not meet expectations in the future, the purchasing department will have to take responsibility.

Because people will say that there is no way to ensure the supply of parts and components for procurement, and there is no way to produce enough cars, so the sales are not up to standard.

Li Huarong definitely does not want to see this situation.

Forget everything that has happened now, just find a way to solve it as soon as possible.

Other manufacturers will definitely draw inferences from each other in the future and avoid such a situation as much as possible.

Otherwise, his life will be more difficult in the future.

After all, no one wants to suddenly receive a phone call in the middle of the night saying that the production line has stopped production because the supplier is on strike and the parts are not available.

Unlike other industries, the automotive industry has a long industrial chain, and the OEMs themselves will not have too many parts inventory.

Even some large parts, such as seats, are basically delivered a little earlier on the same day.

As long as the supplier stops production, the production line of the OEM will immediately have to stop production.

The point is, the impact doesn't stop there.

If an OEM shutdown occurs due to the shutdown of one component supplier, the production of all other suppliers may be affected.

After all, the production line has stopped, so you can't let other suppliers continue to send parts over, right?

"We have communicated with each supplier to judge the labor disputes of each manufacturer, so that everyone needs to report to us as soon as there are signs of labor disputes."

"In the future, we will also do some training on how to deal with labor disputes to reduce the risk as much as possible."

Lv Xiangyang is now the deputy head of the parts procurement department, although the supply problem is not theoretically his responsibility, but all the supplier designation is the responsibility of their section.

So in the end, something went wrong, and they definitely needed to be involved together.

How to solve this problem from the source has become a topic of discussion in the past few days.

"Today's workers are getting harder and harder to manage, and they have more and more ideas."

"Training and prevention alone is not going to solve this problem completely."

"It's best to reduce this risk at the root."

As soon as Li Huarong said this, Lu Xiangyang immediately realized a hint of something else.

The two of them were also very familiar, so he asked directly, "Minister, do you have any suggestions?" ”

When you don't know what to do, do what your leader tells you to do.

When you're not sure if your leader has other ideas, it's best to make sure you know what to do.

So as not to make too many mistakes.

"People are difficult to manage, so use as few people as possible."

"Where you can use robots, don't use people."

"Especially in the stamping factories where you were in charge before, many of the stamping and welding processes can be done using robots."

"Although some manufacturers have been expanding the proportion of robots before, it is not enough."

"In the past, the price of robots was relatively high, and the cost of manual labor was advantageous, and we were not good at forcing people to engage in automation transformation."

"But now the cost of labor is rising, and there is a risk of labor disputes, and the price of robots is constantly decreasing."

"Replacing manual labor with robots is already a thing that can reduce costs, and it is even in line with the development strategy of Yangcheng Automobile Group."

"Nanshan Robot is going to cooperate with various OEMs to carry out a robot cost reduction technology exhibition and program recommendation meeting, you arrange people to dock, and then invite the procurement, sales, and production related personnel of major suppliers to attend together."

"Regardless of whether the manufacturers eventually expand the proportion of robots used, at least they will report the results of the review to us."

Li Huarong has not been dealing with Nanshan Group for a day or two.

Although the business intersection of Yangcheng Honda and Nanshan Group is not so much, there is a lot of cooperation between Yangcheng Automobile Group and Nanshan Group.

Therefore, for this contact of Nanshan Group, he must fully support it.

Fortunately, this matter is indeed a good thing for Yangcheng Honda, so Li Huarong has no pressure.

Even he plans to take this project as a key project of the procurement department this year, and he should be able to make a lot of achievements by then.

"No problem, I'll communicate with Nanshan Robotics now, see their specific exhibition plan, and then determine the time for the exhibition in our company."

"When the time comes, we will invite all the suppliers around Yangcheng to come over, so that everyone can fully learn the automation transformation plan."

"Especially in terms of automation of welding and stamping, there should still be a lot of work that can be done."

At this time, Lu Xiangyang naturally wanted to implement Li Huarong's instructions to the letter.

Fortunately, Li Huarong is relatively familiar with the batch of manufacturers he was responsible for, and knows that this project will definitely be able to produce some results, but he doesn't have to worry that he will not be able to pay the difference when the time comes.

The key projects that the leaders require to be carried out must be carried out well, and some achievements can be made.

There is movement on Yangcheng Honda's side, and other car companies such as Yangcheng Trumpchi are naturally also taking action.

Even the feedback from all sides is a little better than Cao Yang thought.

After all, replacing labor with robots can not only reduce the risk of labor disputes, reduce costs, but also improve production efficiency.

In the current situation where the products of various OEMs are in short supply, it is definitely a very popular thing.

However, the Nanshan robot moves so fast that its competitors are depressed.

"Minister Kawashima, Nanshan Robotics is working with various OEMs in Huaxia to promote their robots, and I don't think Fanuc can lag behind in such a work."

"Otherwise, the entire Huaxia market will really have no chance with us at that time."

Yoshida Yongzheng was the head of the sales department of Fanuc Huaxia at the same time, but because of his poor performance, he became an ordinary employee after being transferred back to the headquarters.

However, his attention to the Huaxia robot market has never stopped.

Nanshan Robot made such a big move, he naturally noticed it.

So I immediately found Yutaka Kawashima, the head of the sales department of Fanuc headquarters, to report.

Today's Fanuc still has branches and factories in China.

However, the business has been growing slowly, and most of the orders are dependent on Dongying manufacturers.

Even some Dongying manufacturers' factories in Huaxia have begun to use Nanshan Robot's products.

This made Yoshida Nagamasa very anxious.

The greater the difference in production volume, the greater the difference in cost.

When the time comes, it will be even more difficult to catch up.

"The cooperative relationship between Nanshan Group and various OEMs in China is very close, not only in robots, but also in auto parts."

"We want to go to the main engine factory in China to hold a technology exhibition, maybe there is an opportunity."

"But if the purchasing department of the OEM cooperates with inviting their suppliers to participate, I am afraid that it may not be able to get everyone's support."

"Instead of spending so much manpower and material resources to engage in this kind of illusory publicity, it is better to visit customers one by one to reflect our sincerity."

"For manufacturers who are willing to cooperate with us, we can also consider inviting them to visit Dongying headquarters."

There are not many cards that can be played in Yutaka Kawashima's hand.

It's not that he can't engage in that kind of large-scale propaganda action.

But he was worried that there would be no way to end it if he did it.

When the time comes, a lot of money is spent, but a few orders are not returned, it will be ugly.

Anyway, the company is not his, but it is better not to make a big move.

Do more things that you can be sure of.

After all, if you do less, you will naturally make fewer mistakes.

Something unconventional may be a big credit, but it can also be a big hole.

Yutaka Kawashima is thinking about retiring peacefully now, and he doesn't want to toss.

Yoshida Nagamasa was also very helpless when he saw the attitude of his minister.

The Huaxia market seems to have nothing to do with Fanuc at all.

Nanshan Robot is now going to catch it all and not give everyone a way to live.

I want revenge, and it seems that there is no hope.

It's uncomfortable!

(End of chapter)