Chapter 809: R&D Bottleneck

On his last day in Guangzhou, Duan Yun bought some local souvenirs and then set out on his way back to Shanxi.

According to the construction period given by the previous engineering team, Duan Yun's two factories will be completed in October this year, and at that time, Duan Yun will come to Guangzhou again to hold an opening ceremony.

In addition, when he left this time, Duan Yun also went to the Guangzhou bookstore to buy some books on business management, mainly books translated from foreign countries, and Duan Yun gave these books to the army of apprentices, hoping that he could study hard.

In fact, it is not enough for a manager to have theory, more or need practice, when Dajun was an assistant to Duan Yun in the labor service company, he actually already had good management experience, and there should be no problem in managing the electronics factory in Shenzhen in the future.

After taking the train for a few days and nights, Duan Yu finally returned to Daxing, and came to work in the factory on the second day and resumed normal work.

During the period when Duan Yun left, the production order of the labor service company and the electronics factory was in order, and the employees on both sides worked overtime very enthusiastically in order to get the quota and bonus of the sub-room, and the labor service company even maintained a record of working overtime until 10 o'clock for more than a week.

In addition to ordinary workers, several college students from the labor service company also work very hard, according to the information and design ideas provided to them by Duan Yun, these five college students go to the workshop during the day, work overtime at night to draw drawings, and are often busy until one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, and their enthusiasm for work is very high.

The matter is also obvious, Duan Yun's bonus to the technical department is very high, especially after the successful development of new products, the bonus is as high as 2,000 yuan, and the staff building on the edge of the factory has begun to take shape, and they also want to be able to get a good house and start a family here in the future.

"Manager Duan, this is a sample of the improved version of the Longteng gearbox that we have designed so far, compared with the Longteng gearbox currently produced by our factory, all indicators have been significantly improved, and it is very durable......" In the scheduling room of the workshop, seeing Duan Yun coming to inspect, Jia Zhiqiang immediately took a drawing, walked to Duan Yun and said.

"Hmm......" Duan Yun nodded lightly when he heard this, but after reading the drawings carefully, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said to Jia Zhiqiang: "All the special steel you use for these parts, and they all need carburizing?"

"Although the gears of these two parts are not key parts, the temperature of these two parts is relatively high under long-term operation, so they must also be specially produced and treated...... Jia Zhiqiang pointed to the drawings and explained.

"If most of the gears of our gearbox need to be treated with special steel and carburizing, have you considered the cost of the product?" Duan Yun turned his head to look at Jia Zhiqiang and said with a slight smile.

"It's a bit more expensive, but the overall performance of the product has also been improved, and it's more durable than before......," Jia said.

"Your technology is very good, and you are also very researching, but when we engage in product innovation in the enterprise, we can not only focus on the product itself, but also consider the current market situation and production costs. Duan Yun paused, and then said: "If these parts are also treated with special steel carburization, the product performance has indeed improved, but the corresponding cost of this new product has to be more than doubled, do you think anyone will buy such an expensive car gearbox?"

"But ......" Hearing this, Jia Zhiqiang and several other technicians around him also flashed a touch of frustration on their faces.

"Product research and development is a comprehensive project, in order to improve performance regardless of the cost, which only military enterprises can do, but we are a private enterprise, good things are on the one hand, and the price must be acceptable to users. Duan Yun pondered for a moment, and then said: " Before our Longteng gearbox can be exported to earn foreign exchange, the main reason is that we are aimed at the low-end market, the price is cheap and can be used, so foreign businessmen will buy, low-end products originally took the route of small profits and quick turnover, want to earn high profits, can only take the high-end route, but our company currently has no ability to compete with the high-end products of those foreign enterprises, so when you upgrade the Longteng gearbox, the most basic idea should be to improve product performance at the same time, but also to reduce the cost of products, to be honest, this is difficult to do, but because of the difficulty, in order to reflect the value of your technical workers!”

"Manager Duan is right, we have indeed taken some crooked paths. Kong Jing on the side heard this, nodded and said.

"I'm really sorry Manager Duan, we really didn't consider the cost aspect before...... Jia Zhiqiang also said.

"You don't have to say sorry to me, you are all college students who have just left school, and it is normal to lack relevant experience in product research and development, so don't have any psychological burden. Duan Yun smiled slightly, and then said: "In fact, the design of your new product still has a lot of commendability, as long as you can reasonably consider the cost issue, this new product is still very promising to get foreign trade orders." ”

"Manager Duan, I feel that this matter is too difficult......" Jia Zhiqiang said with some emotion.

It took Jia Zhiqiang, the five college students, a long time to make this new product improvement plan that satisfied them, but they didn't expect it to be directly denied by Duan Yun, which was undoubtedly a blow to them.

"You should expand some ideas, don't imprison your thinking on the basis of the design of old products, but should have your own originality, and you can completely overturn and start over. Duan Yun obviously also saw that Jia Zhiqiang and the others were a little frustrated, so he continued: " In fact, you are still in a period of accumulating technical experience, more mistakes are allowed, in addition to the recent period I want you to focus on copying the Santana car transmission, this time I went to the south when passing through Shanghai, and a Shanghai leader talked, as long as our products can meet the standards of German manufacturers, then our factory has the opportunity to become the designated supplier of Santana car, if your research and development products can meet the requirements, then you can also get the bonus and house I promised before. ”

Duan Yun knew that only rich material rewards could mobilize the enthusiasm of these people to the greatest extent, and at the current stage when the research and development process was not going well, Duan Yun needed to constantly encourage these college students, only in this way could they maintain enough motivation.

"Manager Duan, do you actually know the officials in Shanghai?" Jia Zhiqiang couldn't help but say in surprise when he heard this.