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Chapter 489 Production is not that easy

Just when Wang Weidong and Song Yu were about to return to Wulin City, Vice Minister Lu called Wang Weidong, hoping that he would come to the ministry to discuss something with him.

Not knowing why, Wang Weidong hurried to the gate of the ministry compound to meet the secretary of Vice Minister Lu who was waiting there, and the secretary led Wang Weidong into the office of Vice Minister Lu.

As for the purpose of Vice Minister Lu's meeting with him this time, Wang Weidong guessed that it was probably because the last time he reacted with Shi Ke, the Yuanzheng Machinery Factory was in the Dashangou of Guizhou Province. The conditions were too poor and the workers were too hard. Thousands of retired old workers and their families changed to a better place to retire, and Xiangyang Electronics paid for these old workers to build houses.

This time Vice Minister Lu came to see him, he must have found a suitable place to inform Wang Weidong to make preparations to relocate those old workers from Dashangou.

After seeing Wang Weidong, Vice Minister Lu stood up and shook hands with Wang Weidong enthusiastically, then motioned him to sit down.

"Weidong, I'm looking for you this time because the country has a batch of production tasks to hand over to you Xiangyang Electronics." Vice Minister Lu said.

"With our current technical capabilities, we can't do anything other than produce electron tubes for the country," Wang Weidong said.

"It is for you to produce electronic tubes for the country, and we are going to hand over some of the production tasks of electronic tubes to you!" Vice Minister Lu replied.

Hearing this request from Vice Minister Lu, Wang Weidong felt very surprised, because Xiangyang Electronics had handed over all the production technology of high-end electronic tubes to the state, why now let them produce high-end electronic tubes?

State-owned factories can use their technical materials to produce directly.

"We have handed over the production technology. It is better for state-owned enterprises to produce electronic tubes. Now our electronic tube factory is not only producing electronic tubes for audio, but also working overtime to produce electronic tubes used in heat sealing machines for medical blood bags and urine bags. , I’m really too busy.” Wang Weidong said.

Hearing Wang Weidong's resignation, Vice Minister Lu showed a wry smile on his face.

Xiangyang Electronics has indeed handed over all the production technology of those high-end electronic tubes, and a state-owned enterprise has been conducting trial production for the past few months.However, due to production technology and the lack of skilled workers, the yield rate of electronic tubes is very low. Even if those batches of finished electronic tubes are used in radar equipment, the life of the electronic tubes is also very short.If the specified service life cannot be reached at all, it will be scrapped soon.

Due to the low rate of good products produced, the price quoted by the state-owned electronic tube factory was very high, which was much higher than that produced by the original Xiangyang electronic tube factory.

But the price is not the key to the problem. The state can provide subsidies in order to support state-owned enterprises, which is completely acceptable.

The terrible thing is that the service life of the electronic tube is low, and it may be damaged quickly and inexplicably during use.

Radar equipment and military communications must be turned on 24 hours a day to protect the entire airspace of the country without dead ends or empty windows.

However, during the use of the radar, the electronic tube on the equipment is suddenly damaged, and it takes time to repair and replace the electronic tube. This will artificially cause a window period in which the radar is responsible for monitoring the area, which is absolutely unacceptable.

However, according to the existing technical conditions of this electronic tube factory, it is impossible to quickly improve the production quality of electronic tubes and ensure the service life of electronic tubes.

There is no way, now the Ministry can only turn back and let Xiangyang Electronics continue to produce these dozens of models of high-end electronic tubes.

Of course, Vice Minister Lu could not tell Wang Weidong the real reason, he just smiled and said: "We did hand over the batch of electronic tube technical materials you gave us to our subordinate electronic tube factory, but because the military product task is very tight now, then The electronic tube factory is really too busy, so I can only let you continue to produce electronic tubes for the Ministry. Weidong, the country's air defense and military communications must not be sloppy at all. You Xiangyang Electronics must not postpone it. You must pick up this burden !"

"Since it is needed by the country, Xiangyang Electronics is obliged! However, we have adjusted the production line to stop the production of those electronic tubes and produce new electronic tubes. Now to accept the production task of these electronic tubes, we need to re-lay the production line, which requires a lot of money. Expenses. This fee can only be calculated into the unit price of electronic tubes, which means that we will increase the price of a certain single product. Also, we hope that the production contract for these electronic tubes will be long-term. Can the Ministry sign a contract with Xiangyang Electronics? A three-year or five-year procurement guarantee contract, so that Xiangyang Electronics can produce with peace of mind?" Wang Weidong asked.

When the Ministry discussed and decided to re-purchase electron tubes from Xiangyang Electronics, they already thought that Xiangyang Electronics would definitely increase the quotation.As long as the increase is not too much, the Ministry is ready to agree to Xiangyang Electronics' request. After all, the state-owned enterprise that originally produced electronic tubes had a high quotation due to its low yield.

Even if Xiangyang Electronics raises the price a little bit, it is acceptable.

The price is not the key, the key is the production quality of the tube.There must be no accidents during the use of radar and military communications, and 24-hour normal work must be guaranteed.

However, Vice Minister Lu did not expect that Wang Weidong directly proposed to sign a long-term procurement contract with the Ministry.

"I hope the Ministry can understand our difficulties. It will take a lot of energy and money to rebuild a production line. The Ministry must ensure that this production line will not change production within a few years!" Wang Weidong said.

"I will report this matter to the minister, and then we will sit down and discuss it together. You wait for my news." Vice Minister Lu said.

After leaving the ministry, Wang Weidong returned to the hotel.He called and told Sung-woo about it.

"We have given them all the technical information, but they still can't produce it!" Song Yu said.

"Production is not that simple, otherwise so many foreign cars and even airplanes are imported to China, we would directly disassemble them and produce them a long time ago. Although Xiangyang Electronics has handed over all the technical materials, we still have a batch Skilled and experienced production workers, the production of cathode materials and the vacuum degree of electron tubes cannot be mastered in a short while. In order to train this group of workers, our electron tube yield rate was very low at the beginning of production, and it was scrapped We bought so many electronic tubes and lost so much money. We used the money to pile up those skilled workers! Now the salaries of those skilled workers in key positions are at least three or four times the wages of workers in the same positions in state-owned enterprises. times!" Wang Weidong said.

(End of this chapter)