My Confucian Father

Chapter 86 Production Standardization!The difference between industry and small workshop!
After walking out of the downtown area, Zhuge Bin was still complaining about Tao An's embarrassing behavior just now.

"If you don't have good driving skills, you have to pretend. Next time you ride away from me, don't drag me along to embarrass you."

Zhuge Bin said with a look of disgust, it might be a beautiful thing to ride a bicycle, but it turned out to be so embarrassing just now.

Tao An knew that he was wronged and couldn't refute it, so he could only sneer and say with a dark face: "30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, don't bully young people to be poor!

In the future, when I have finished my driving skills, I will meet Yashan to compare my driving skills and see who is the master of driving in Yashan! "

"Okay! Then we will have a good comparison!"

"Whoever persuades his grandson!"

"Laughing, you are the grandson."

The two quarreled with each other, and went all the way to the old smelter in the southern suburbs, now the Lingqi Technology Company.

"The place is so big?"

When Su Mu saw the old smelter, he couldn't help but feel a little tongue-tied, because the area it occupies is quite large.

The old smelter is adjacent to the Weihe River that runs through Shengjing, covering about [-] mu of land, surrounded by high walls.

The plaque on the gate of "General Administration of Smelters" has now been removed, and replaced with a plaque with six gold-plated characters of "Lingqi Technology Company".

Moreover, the outside decorations have been redone, and there are two stone lions at the door, which are quite impressive.

"How about Brother Mu, this is the job I asked those craftsmen to catch up with in the past few days. First, let's get the facade done."

Zhuge Bin was very satisfied with his handwriting, and he had put a lot of thought into it.

Su Mu didn't care much about this, but asked, "You got it from the smelter... no, how many craftsmen did you invite? Not counting the ten Momen disciples."

Those ten Momen disciples are only R&D personnel, and they are not needed at present. If you really want to manufacture, you still need those craftsmen.

"Let me do the math... probably there are hundreds of skilled craftsmen, and more than 300 apprentices."

Zhuge Bin made a rough calculation.

Those who can enter the smelter as craftsmen are masters in the field of forging. After all, the smelter manufactures weapons for the army.

Then get the forging technique, mechanism technique, and fire control technique taught by Momen, so hundreds of skilled craftsmen are a valuable asset wherever they are placed.

As for apprentices, they are said to be apprentices, but they are not bad in fact. As long as their abilities meet the standards, they can transform into skilled craftsmen at any time.

Momen's position in the field of forging is the same as Lan Xiang's position in the field of excavators.

The three of them entered the factory while chatting.

The factory has started to produce bicycles now, and the craftsmen are working on their respective forging tables in full swing. The produced bicycles are neatly stacked aside, and there are already more than 30 bicycles by visual inspection.

Su Mu watched for a while, and soon discovered the drawbacks, shaking his head and said: "The efficiency is too slow."

"Huh? It's still slow."

Zhuge Bin felt a little unbelievable when he heard the words.

The work just started yesterday, and making a bicycle is a delicate job, and it takes a lot of time to make a lot of parts.

More than 30 vehicles have been produced since yesterday, and he feels that this speed is not too slow.

"It's too slow. You didn't understand what I meant by modular manufacturing and standardization, and you didn't grasp the essence of mass production."

Su Mu shook his head and said, got up and walked to the built bicycles next to him, disassembled two of them in front of Zhuge Bin, and messed up all the parts.

Then he said to Zhuge Bin: "Come on, you put them back together, this will not trouble you, will it?"

"Of course, small meaning."

Although Zhuge Bin didn't understand the significance of Su Mu's doing so, this kind of thing couldn't bother him at all.

He was able to disassemble the complex crossbow box a long time ago and reassemble it with his eyes closed. There are many parts in the bicycle, but the structure is not complicated.

Putting the folding fan in his arms, Zhuge Bin rolled up his sleeves, squatted down and began to reassemble the bicycle.

The movement here attracted the attention of many craftsmen, even Wei Liangcai and others came over.

"Master Su!"

Wei Liangcai trotted over with a group of Momen disciples, and greeted Su Mu enthusiastically.

After getting closer, he saw Zhuge Bin who was squatting on the ground assembling a bicycle, and he was taken aback: "Mr. Zhuge, this is..."

"Just watch it."

Su Mu smiled, and then continued watching the play.

Zhuge Bin assembled it smoothly at first, but later he found something was wrong, some parts couldn't be installed at all, and the size didn't match at all!
Tao An looked at Zhuge Bin's sweaty face, and said sarcastically, "Can you do it, Abin."

"Don't be noisy!"

Zhuge Bin glared at him angrily, then gritted his teeth and continued to assemble, but it couldn't be assembled anyway.

Seeing this, Su Mu stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Don't struggle, you won't be able to assemble it back."

"It's not that your technology is not good, but the parts standards of these two bicycles are not uniform at all."

"In a sense, they're both bikes, but they're completely different because they don't have a standard, they have different parts."

Zhuge Bin was holding a handlebar in his hand and was silent.

Su Mu cast his eyes on the many craftsmen gathered around, and said, "Everyone, come to the smelter of my Reiki Technology Company, the rules are different from other places."

"From now on, no matter what is produced, the factory will set a set of strict standards. The size of every part, even a screw, must be the same."

"I want you to make a bike broken, take the parts of another bike apart and put it back together, and you can fix it, instead of taking it apart like this and not putting it back together at all."

"This is the meaning of standardization, and it is also the production code of our Reiki Technology Company. I hope everyone must abide by it."

Standardization of production is what Su Mu values ​​very much.

Whether it is the Momen or the Ministry of Industry, there is no uniform standard for making utensils. This is a fatal shortcoming. This cannot be called industrial production, but can only be called a small workshop.

And he doesn't want his Reiki technology company to be just a small workshop, if he wants to do it, he must do his best!
"Standardization of production... seems to make sense."

"But the difficulty of forging in this way will also increase a lot. It is too difficult to make every part exactly the same."

"It's enough that the manufactured things can be used and the quality is good. Why do you have to require any standardization?"

"I also feel that I have never heard of such a rule."

Many craftsmen talked a lot, and they didn't quite understand the meaning of what Su Mu said, because they didn't have a standardized concept.

In their view, it is only necessary to produce products that meet the quality standards. It is like a knife, requiring each knife to be made exactly the same, with the same shape and quality. This is of no use at all, and it will waste time.

(End of this chapter)