Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1773 Competitors
After Duan Yun and his party arrived in Shanghai, they were greeted by Zhang Weiguo, the general manager of Longteng Co., Ltd.

Zhang Weiguo was recruited through public recruitment several years ago, and finally hired with a high salary. He used to be the deputy chief engineer of the Dandong Automobile Factory. He has been engaged in the automobile industry for more than 20 years. Later, due to institutional reasons, he had no hope of being promoted to the chief engineer of the factory. Immediately, he chose to stay without pay and came to Shenzhen to start a business.

However, at that time, Zhang Weiguo had no funds and no contacts, so he could not succeed in Shenzhen relying on automobile technology alone. After seeing the recruitment notice of Tianyin Group, he immediately signed up for being penniless, and finally won more than 100 people. He stood out from the candidates and became the director of Longteng Machine Processing Factory.

Duan Yun has his own set of standards for the selection of the executives of the companies under his group, the most important of which is that the counterparty must have a technical background and be as young as possible. Zhang Weiguo, who had served as the deputy chief engineer of a large state-owned enterprise, best met Duan Yun's selection criteria. After a two-month internship and investigation proved that this person was indeed outstanding in technology and management, Duan Yun immediately signed a five-year formal employment agreement with Zhang Weiguo. The contract, in addition to the 40-digit monthly salary, also enjoys the benefits of housing allocation, and finally left this general.

After the Longteng Machinery Processing Factory was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and changed its name to Longteng Co., Ltd., and opened a branch in Shanghai, Zhang Weiguo was assigned to Shanghai by Duan Yun. He was responsible for the construction of the new factory and participated in the task of Santana's localization project.

In order to realize the localization of Shanghai Volkswagen, in the past few years, led by the SH municipal government, more than 20 parts factories in 200 provinces and cities have been organized to participate in the localization community of Santana cars and the strength of the national automobile industry. Make technical breakthroughs on it.

Because of the relationship with Ruiyang, Duan Yun's Longteng Co., Ltd. was also invited to join the community for the localization of Santana cars, and gave him the land and policy support needed to build a branch factory.

Although Duan Yun has been relying on the electronics industry to make money over the years, he has always had a car dream in his heart. Because of this, Shenzhen Longteng Machine Processing Factory has always had a group of related companies in addition to the production and processing of precision parts from the electronics factory. Keeping up with the trend of the times, our professional technicians have analyzed and reverse-developed the gearbox products of many current international mainstream models, and have accumulated a certain amount of technology.

In fact, by the early 90s, the domestic auto industry had made great progress. However, it still faced considerable difficulties to fully realize the localization of Professor Santana.

The main project of Duan Yun's Longteng Co., Ltd. this time is the Santana car's gearbox, which has always been the biggest bottleneck and difficulty in the localization of Santana cars. So far, there is still no domestic manufacturer that can produce this kind of gearbox.

In the technical research on the localization of Santana car gearbox, Duan Yun's biggest competitor is Shanghai Automotive Gear Factory.

Founded in 1925, Shanghai Automobile Gear Factory has written a glorious page in the history of China's automobile development. It produced the first truck gearbox in China, and it can be regarded as the least automobile gearbox manufacturer in China.

In 1985, Shanghai Automotive Gear Factory began to produce gearboxes for Shanghai brand cars. By the mid-80s, its products were still selling well. Among state-owned enterprises, the per capita profit and tax were among the best.

It can be said that the Shanghai Automotive Gear Factory basically represents China's current leading position in the production scale and technology of automotive gearboxes, but even such a company has not yet completed the goal of localization of Santana car gearboxes.

As early as 1984, when Shanghai Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd. was established, the Shanghai Automobile General Factory, which specializes in producing gearboxes for Shanghai cars, immediately had a strong sense of crisis. , has been officially launched in Shanghai, and Shanghai brand cars will be severely impacted by the lack of variety and aging.

At that time, the Shanghai Automobile Gear Factory had few product varieties, low technical content, poor process equipment, high resource consumption, and small production capacity. a very wide distance.

The Shanghai Automotive Gear Factory, which just participated in the localization of Santana cars, was hundreds of times lower than the economic scale in terms of production capacity. In 1987, the leading product of the Shanghai Automotive Gear Factory was only the gearbox assembly for Shanghai brand cars, with an annual output of only 7000 units. It is 2.3% of the annual output of the Volkswagen Kassel Plant, a German professional manufacturer of automobile transmissions, which is nearly 500 times lower than the economic scale. The per capita annual output is only 3.3 units, and the production capacity per shift is only 20 units.

In addition, the product is 30 years behind. The gearbox used by the Shanghai car at that time was a copy of the Mercedes-Benz 50s B-type gearbox in the 220s, which was nearly 30 to 40 years behind the current Santana car gearbox. In terms of noise synchronization performance, etc. Obviously lagging behind, there are structural defects such as poor clarity of the operating system and easy to drag files. The first-time assembly pass rate of products is only 39.2%, and the zero-hundred-kilometer curve is as high as 4.7%.

The second is that the resource consumption is 10 times higher. The factory has long adopted a single product with the workshop as the unit, and a closed-loop management model. The equipment is not shared with each other, and the average utilization rate is only 36.36%. The workshop is organized by a push-type operation plan. Production, relying on a large number of inventories of products in progress, semi-finished products and finished products to maintain the production and operation activities of the enterprise. In 1987, the product sales revenue was only 3 million yuan, while the inventory funds at the end of the year reached 553 million yuan, a million yuan. The inventory capital occupied by the sales revenue is 1330.8 yuan, and the capital turnover days are as high as 37 days. Compared with similar large international companies, the resource consumption is as high as 134 times.

Finally, the technical equipment of the factory is decades behind. In the middle and late 80s, the processing equipment of the factory mainly used domestic machine tools and self-made special machine tools. The sum of the two accounted for about 95% of the total number of machine tools. The degree of automation of the production line is very low, and the production technology lags behind foreign countries for decades, so it cannot adapt and meet the requirements of mass production.

Shanghai's local automobile gearbox manufacturers are so backward, which gives Tianyin Group an opportunity.

Speaking of which, except for the five-axis CNC machine tools smuggled from Taiwan a few years ago, Tianyin Group's other equipment is also domestically produced. However, through the introduction of Volvo's entire production line equipment and technology this time, Duan Yun's enterprise Overnight, it has mastered the production capacity of automobile gearboxes that is almost synchronized with the world.

And Duan Yun came to Shanghai this time to check the assembly work of the newly introduced Volvo gearbox-related production equipment.

(End of this chapter)