Datang: My apprentice is Li Chengqian

Chapter 226 Pipeline

As the New Year approached, the Qin family's future carriage workshop was busy.

After several efforts by Qin Xiedao, Datang's first assembly line four-wheeled carriage production line was officially completed and put into production.

Although the degree of automation is almost zero, any small factory in later generations is better than it.

But in this era, it is definitely an epoch-making product.

"Lang Jun, so many people are only responsible for one or a few processes, and finally make a four-wheeled carriage together. Is it really good?"

Looking at a four-wheeled carriage slowly driving out of the production line, Xie Linmao was obviously very hopeless.

Due to the transformation of the assembly line, the output of the Future Carriage Workshop has been very low recently.

Obviously, many people in the market are buying four-wheeled carriages. Changsun's family's Chang'an carriage and Wei's Wei's Wei's carriage are all in a mess, but the inventor of the carriage industry in the future is lagging behind.

Seeing such a situation, how could Xie Linmao not be in a hurry.

"How can it be bad? Have you found a ruler to measure the size of these parts. No matter which batch of parts it is, the size is almost the same.

A refugee who has just been recruited from outside the city only needs simple training to get started immediately, and there is no need to worry about not being able to recruit qualified craftsmen.

According to the previous production method, a slightly more complicated part requires a very skilled craftsman to produce a qualified part.

Such production efficiency and production cost are very low.

Like those refugees, as long as you give him a bite to eat, they are willing to work hard, and the wages are completely negligible.

But for a skilled craftsman, if your wages are not paid in place, people will go to other workshops to beg for a living within a few days. "

Several carriage workshops popped up in Chang'an City, and the demand for craftsmen naturally rose to a higher level.

Carpenters, who were not valued by anyone before, suddenly became more popular now.

Xie Linmao was very impressed by this.

After all, he was responsible for recruiting many people in the future carriage workshop.

"In this regard, using the assembly line production method, the speed of getting started for novices has indeed been greatly accelerated.

But these people are not craftsmen at all, they are just simple helpers.

Relying on the efforts of these helpers, we can only make the same carriage. "

These days, the concept of mass production is relatively low.

Especially in the carriage industry, many carriages are custom-made.

But the future carriage is obviously not going to go this way.

"We can simply divide the future carriage into several styles, and produce a certain style at a certain period of time according to the needs of each style.

How much efficiency has been improved in this way, you can find out by counting the number of carriages that rolled off the assembly line today. "

As Qin Xiedao who came through time, he naturally knew the power of the assembly line better than anyone else.

But all products produced in large-scale industrialization are basically produced on assembly lines.

Among them, the automotive industry is the most typical.

Although today's four-wheeled carriages are far from being as complicated as later generations, with the advancement of technology, it is almost inevitable that they will become more and more complicated.

"Lang Jun, I just measured the speed. The interval between one carriage and another is actually very short. Three carriages can be produced in about a quarter of an hour."

After Qin Xiedao's death, Ying'er couldn't help expressing her opinion.

"Three for a quarter of an hour, that's 24 carriages for an hour. If you work five hours a day, that's 120 carriages. Sigh!"

Xie Linmao gasped.

It's not that I don't know, it's a shock.

In the past few days, although the sales of Chang'an carriages and Webster's carriages are very hot, he still has some ideas about how many carriages are sold every day.

To put it bluntly, the two companies add up to less than a hundred cars a day.

This is not to say that there is only so much demand in Chang'an City, but that the output of the two companies is only so much.

According to the traditional method, it takes a craftsman nearly a month to make a carriage.

This speed is completely incomparable with the future carriage workshop.

"That's right, there are 120 vehicles a day, and more than 3000 vehicles a month."

These days, there is no concept of working eight hours a day and five days a week.

Basically every workshop starts working after dawn and stops working after dark.

For example, it is better in winter, and the working time is only five hours a day, which is about ten hours.

If it is placed in summer, at least one or two hours will need to be added to this time.

If you encounter a busy time, there is also the possibility of working with whale oil candles.

It's just that the price of candles is still relatively high. If it is not a very important job, it is generally not arranged this way.

Those craftsmen should be grateful that there is no cheap and convenient lighting in this era, otherwise, it is estimated that their working hours will increase to more than ten hours immediately.

In later generations, workers in many garment factories worked from eight or nine o'clock in the morning to twelve o'clock in the evening.

There is a little break and meal time in the middle, and the rest of the time is working.

The capitalists started to exploit, but they will not be relentless at all.

"If this is the case, then the production cost of our future carriage will drop a lot immediately.

For these carriages, the cost of wood is one aspect, and the other is the craftsman's wages.

Other than that, the overhead is relatively small.

Nowadays, the price of wood does not have much room for reduction, and the wages of craftsmen are constantly rising. Originally, I was still a little worried about how to find a way to reduce costs.

But now if the power of the assembly line is really that great, then the cost reduction will drop sharply immediately, and we can not only have greater profit margins, but also have greater room for price reductions. "

Xie Linmao's mood immediately brightened.

It seems that my husband is still very powerful.

Originally, he was worried that after tossing for so long, it would not only delay the time, but also affect the production.

Now judging from the results, it is not the case at all.

"The model of this production line is firstly implemented in the future carriage, and then it will be promoted in other workshops later.

At that time, you can sum up well, maybe relying on this assembly line, you can still be famous forever. "

Qin Xiedao never thought that he would get everything under his family.

It is also necessary to give some opportunities to the people under him appropriately.

Otherwise, how can everyone be so passionate about doing things?
(End of this chapter)