Smart Industrial Empire

"Okay, the dishes are here. Let's eat first, and then we'll set off. Today's lunch is a work meal, so don't drink." Yun Fei's words made Wang Qingfeng, who was just about to let the waiter serve wine, depressed. endlessly.

Without drinking, a meal is naturally eaten very fast. In less than half an hour, everyone left the hotel.

Everyone knew Yun Fei's style of handling affairs, and no one asked him to take a break after dinner.He got directly into the commercial vehicle arranged by Wang Qingfeng, and in the vehicle, Wang Qingfeng began to briefly introduce the situation of the plastic products factory.

"Xinkaixing Plastic Products Factory mainly produces various large-scale plastic products. Only large-scale products can effectively reduce the cost of molds. Because there are many small parts, the production speed is only tens of seconds, or even less to ten seconds. This makes it impossible for one worker to take care of too many devices. If we can automate these most basic actions like the blanking workshop of the heat sink factory, our cost will be reduced a lot.” This is Wang Qingfeng is currently most troubled by the matter.

In the plastic product factory, many products cannot be left to the mold just formed, and the parts that have not been completely cooled will fall off automatically. The slightly larger products must be picked up by workers, just to ensure the quality of these parts.For example, the fan used for the heat sink on the computer needs to be divided into several molds to produce many parts, and then assembled, especially those blades. The production time of each piece is only 26 seconds, which is plus the operating time of the workers. of.Skilled workers can make this time within 22 seconds, but there is no way to maintain this speed for a long time. Workers with slower hands and feet can even make this production time higher than 34 seconds. This is based on statistics.

Once it can be transformed into automated production, the production time can be reduced to within 20 seconds, and the production can be continued 24 hours a year.In this way, Xinkaixing can free up at least one-third of the injection molding machines to produce other products, and the labor cost will be greatly reduced.

After all, when workers are working, it is impossible to maintain the best condition for twelve hours a day. 26 seconds is just an average time. This is the average production time without the time for workers to eat, go to the toilet and rest.

Anyway, Xinkaixing is currently using a wage system with a guaranteed minimum plus piecework. In order to minimize labor costs and stimulate workers' enthusiasm for production, piecework wages are also graded.The more overproduction.The piecework wage must be more.The workload stipulated by the factory basically does not make money.

This kind of system is not only practiced by Xinkaixing Company, but almost all the factories along the coast are like this.Anyway, these ordinary workers are regarded as robots, and their labor force is severely squeezed.

"The factory has a total of four production workshops, all of which work in different areas according to different products and different equipment. The division of labor is very detailed, handling, adding materials. Operators, quality inspection, molds, etc. are all strictly divided... "

The hotel is less than an hour away from the industrial area where the factory is located.Wang Qingfeng basically introduced the situation of the factory.

The plastic product factory does not require strong technology like other factories. The most complicated molds are handed over to Xinkaixing’s mold factory. Equipment maintenance is relatively technical, but most of these equipments are from abroad. Bought new equipment.A small one costs tens of thousands of dollars, and it is not easy to cause problems.Mold installation and debugging are easier, after all, many products are produced on a large scale for a long time.After the mold is replaced, it is very likely that the mold will not move for several months, unless it is broken and needs to be repaired...

In the past few years, in the Pearl River Delta, especially Huadu, the earliest developed cities such as the Special Economic Zone, almost all the places that can be seen around the city are industrial areas.Fortunately, here is only light industry, otherwise, if there are chemical factories and so on around Jiangsu and Zhejiang, then there may not even be fish and shrimp in the river here.

Xinkaixing's plastic products factory is not far from Xinkaixing Precision Machinery Processing Factory, which is the headquarters.At present, the Huacheng government is considering building a special industrial park for Xinkaixing, so that Xinkaixing can keep more industries here. Wang Qingfeng has been entangled in this matter.

Because the land in the industrial zone where Xinkaixing is located cannot support the expansion of Xinkaixing, mechanical processing is not like an electronics factory, and many heavy machinery and equipment cannot be placed upstairs. After all, there is no way to prevent equipment from vibrating upstairs. Impossible to carry too much weight.This makes the expansion of Xinkaixing requires large-scale land to support.During this period of time, there was a lot of rumors about Wang Qingfeng's land speculation, and the Huadu city government did not dare to give Xin Kaixing too much land.

Without land, many factories in Xinkaixing had to be relocated...

The Huacheng government is currently preparing for the government to fund the construction of a Xinkaixing Industrial Park, which will be used to house all of Xinkaixing's industries. Xinkaixing does not need to build a factory building, and only needs to pay the rent every year. According to their other In this way, he will not be accused of taking advantage of Wang Qingfeng, granting him land without principle, and asking him to stir up the land price in Huadu.

"The injection molding machines in this workshop are all small injection molding machines with an injection volume of 30-80 cubic centimeters. There are 233 injection molding machines in the whole workshop, including Taiwan, Japan, and domestic ones. The production efficiency is not the same. The mold warehouse next to it It is also the largest, with a total of thousands of small molds for different products..."Injection molding machines are different from mechanical processing equipment. Many small equipment here are placed upstairs, and only those large injection molding machines are placed on the first floor. .After all, a plastic product factory not only needs operators, but also warehouses and others.

"Chen Gong, why don't I have someone take you around the whole workshop first?" Wang Qingfeng saw that Chen Mingli started to walk around a lot after entering the workshop, holding a notebook and a pen in his hand and writing all the time.He didn't know much about the situation of these factories, and he couldn't introduce them in detail.

Yun Fei also kept frowning on the side, as if he had discovered many problems as soon as he came in.

"Mr. Wang, don't bother, we can just look at it ourselves." Chen Mingli rejected Wang Qingfeng's suggestion. There are many things that can only be found by looking at them yourself. It is more convenient to see which places can be automated and which places must be manually operated. To save costs, all of these have to be evaluated through the operation of workers.

The design concept of Jiuyi Research Institute is to use the lowest cost to achieve the highest benefit.

Even looking at it now, it is only the most preliminary idea. After they have a rough plan, they will conduct more statistical investigations.

The main purpose of automation is to replace the simple and repetitive actions of workers with mechanical automatic devices.All the actions used by these automated machines simulate the actions of workers and are optimized to the greatest extent. Only in this way can the goal of minimizing costs be achieved.Without a detailed understanding, who can design it?

"Okay, old Chen, you take them there by yourself. If we are not in the workshop after a while, we can go to the factory director's office." Yun Fei naturally knows this, Xin Kaixing may have another comprehensive round rectified.

Wang Qingfeng did not inform the factory that they were going to inspect the factory, nor did they seek out the factory manager in advance. After all, the car belonged to the company's headquarters, so naturally there was no obstacle to entering.As soon as he arrived at the factory, Yunfei found many problems.

"Old Wang, who is in charge of this factory? Are the people recruited from outside or promoted from the old Xinkaixing factory?" After Chen Mingli and the others left, Yun Fei asked Wang Qingfeng.

Wang Qingfeng heard something wrong with Yunfei's words, and asked suspiciously: "Except for the technicians in our Xinkaixing, most of the management is promoted from within the company. The director of this factory is Tang Jing. It turns out that Xinkai A girl from Xing's production department. What's wrong?"

"From the production department?" Yun Fei frowned, "People from the production department shouldn't be in such a situation. Old Wang, didn't you notice that the situation here is a bit abnormal?"

"It's normal. What's abnormal?" Wang Qingfeng looked around, but didn't find anything abnormal.

"There is already a lot of equipment here, so many people are needed for one class? Don't you think this workshop is very messy?" Yun Fei was a little speechless. The injection molding factory is not like a mechanical processing factory, and it could have been very neat here.In terms of tidiness, there is nothing wrong with it, but Yun Fei still feels that the inside is too messy, mainly because there are too many people inside.

There are many people, crowded, and constantly moving, which naturally gives people a sense of chaos.

"Why don't you ask Tang Jing about the situation? I don't know about these things. Don't tell me that I haven't noticed yet. What you said, it seems that there are quite a few people working together..." Wang Qingfeng still couldn't bear to hear what Yun Fei said. I really found that many people are not on the job.Logically speaking, apart from the inspection QC, the on-duty shift monitor, technicians, and workers who fill the material bin of the injection molding machine, operators should not be on duty.

The reason why it can be seen at once is because different jobs in Xinkaixing have work clothes of different colors.

"Ask." Yun Fei nodded.

At this moment, he is no longer what he used to be. If he had discovered such a situation before, he would naturally stop production in the entire workshop and lecture the workers.

Wang Qingfeng was familiar with all the factory directors. If Tang Jing had no ability, she would not have been brought here to be the factory director. (To be continued..)

ps: Thanks to bwkyu, Hui Xiao & 1 for their monthly tickets.