Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 975 Technological Breakthrough

This discussion on the design of new tape recorders is very important. It can be said that it is related to the future life and death of Duanyun Electronics Factory. Therefore, design issues must be repeatedly deliberated without any mistakes.

After Duan Yun introduced this production line, he began to focus on the development of its international tape recorders and conducted in-depth analysis.

In fact, in Duan Yun's long-term plan, the production of tape recorders is only a transitional process. In the future, he still wants to produce portable digital electronic products such as Walkmans, CD players, and video recorders. Avoid idling the production line until the product is produced.

Because in Duan Yun’s view, the domestic tape recorder market is already very competitive, manufacturers are lowering prices, and profits are very meager, and the dividends of tape recorder products are at most one or two years away, and around 87 and 88, when the boom in home appliances ebbed , this kind of product will face market shrinkage and serious unsalable situation, so there is only a bonus period of 1 to 2 years.

However, although it is a product in the transitional stage, this stage is equally important. On the one hand, Duan Yun can use the research and development of the recorder product to train his own product research team, and he will also have a certain accumulation in technology. When it is time, it will be much easier to develop and produce Walkman products.

After hearing Duan Yun's technical requirements for the new product, everyone present suddenly became serious.

These five retired professors are not engaged in research and development work for the first time. They have all participated in product research and development in the military industry before. It is very difficult. After all, other recorder factories in China are not just for nothing. Some electronics factories have been immersed in recorder products for many years, with rich experience and strong technical accumulation. They want to surpass these domestic counterparts in a short period of time. , is not an easy task.

"...At present, most of our domestic four-speaker mid-to-high-end domestic tape recorders are priced at around 500-700 yuan, while Sharp tape recorders imported from Japan are around 1300-4 yuan. Take the most famous Yanwu tape recorder factory in China. For example, they can reduce the price of the dual-card 400-speaker recorder to about [-] yuan, almost reducing the cost to the extreme. Therefore, when we develop new products, we must strictly control the cost of the product. The price is competitive, and there is no price. Our products are not easy to sell." When Duan Yun said this, his expression was a little serious.

At present, the competition in the domestic tape recorder market is quite fierce. The old tape recorder electronics factories, such as Shanghai Electronics No. [-] Factory and Shanghai Electronics No. [-] Factory, can say that the red light recorders are of the best quality in China, while Yanwu tape recorders are the cheapest. of.

In order to reduce the price, the Yanwu Recorder Factory at that time had made rigid regulations on the technicians who developed the products. The lowest price of the Yanwu recorder products and similar products in the market was cost design. 300 yuan for the designer, otherwise, if it exceeds 300 yuan, the fine will be [-] yuan.

It is precisely because of this strong reward and punishment system that Yanwu Electronics Factory produced the recorder products with the lowest price in China. With the popularity of various advertisements, they became the strongest brand of domestic recorders in the mid-80s. In 1987 In 2.52, it achieved a total industrial output value of 3 million yuan and a profit and tax of 880 million yuan. It is one of the [-] key enterprises in the country.

"Mr. Duan, I think the design principle of the recorder is basically fixed now. It is not easy for us to make breakthroughs in technology to reduce costs. Unless there is a cheap raw material supply channel, otherwise we want to make a product that is comparable to other manufacturers. For the same product, the cost cannot be reduced too much..." Zhao Xuewu said at this time, also holding his glasses with his hand.

Zhao Xuewu has also been studying the development of the domestic tape recorder industry during this time, and asked for a sum of scientific research funds through Duan Yun. After getting the money, he first bought a batch of the latest domestic tape recorders. During the period when Duan Yun went to Shanxi Within a short period of time, he began to disassemble and analyze the tape recorders produced by other domestic manufacturers one by one, and already had a relatively complete understanding of the performance of the products of his peers.

"Yes, some time ago we have been dismantling and analyzing the products of other domestic manufacturers in the research institute. Basically, the products of all manufacturers are similar, with slightly different processes, but the electronic components used are basically the same. There are two Home use is imported magnetic head movement and other parts. The quality of this product is not bad, but the price is relatively high. Some factories simply replace it with cheap domestic parts. The price has dropped, but the quality is very low. , It sounds noisy, you really get what you pay for, if you want to make high-quality products, it is very difficult to reduce the cost..." Yang Xiuchun also said with a frown.

Like Zhao Xuewu, Yang Xiuchun is also a well-known electronics expert in China. She has been dismantling and analyzing other domestic tape recorders with several other professors for the past two days. A certain understanding.

"I know that it is difficult to reduce the cost of recorders, but this is the key problem for our electronics factory to break the situation, so we must balance the relationship between quality and cost, and lower the product price." Duan Yun pondered for a while, and then said : "Actually, I can give you an idea about reducing product costs..."

"What idea?" Several people present asked after hearing the words.

"When I went to Japan for inspection last time, I visited Japanese factories. The new product of dual-card movement recorders produced by their factory this year uses a structure in which one motor drives two driving mechanisms. At present, the motor cost of domestic recorders is about It can account for about 1/3 of the entire tape recorder, so if a single-motor-driven tape recorder can be made, the cost can be greatly reduced..." Duan Yun raised his eyebrows and said.

"Single-motor-driven tape recorder..." Hearing this, several people present suddenly showed disbelief.

For technicians who have a little understanding of the structure of tape recorders, the technology of single-motor-driven tape recorders has not appeared in China, and the technical difficulty is very large.

Generally speaking, the current household cassette tape recorders all adopt the structure of multiple heads and multiple motors. Three or even four or five. For example, a tape recorder produced by a Japanese company called Ak ai uses 40 magnetic heads and 4 motors. The mechanical transmission is extremely powerful, and the time speed of fast winding is only half of that of ordinary tape recorders. .

The single-motor drive puts forward higher requirements for the motor, because the copying of the whole machine, double-speed copying, automatic selection of fast forward and fast rewind, and automatic return functions all need to be driven by a motor, which is still very difficult technically. of.

(End of this chapter)