Rebirth to 90s: Start from Scratch

After Li Kuanda left, Zhang Qianxiu looked at Cao Yaowen and Xu Lejia: "Cao Gong, what level is your electrician?"

"Boss, I am a second-level electrician." Cao Yaowen said.

Zhang Qianxiu was a little surprised. He probably knows that there are five levels of electricians, namely elementary (five), intermediate (four), advanced (three), technician (two), and senior technician (one).

If it is put into the 21st century, the electrician certificate may not have such a high gold content, and it is still more difficult to rank it now.

It stands to reason that a second-level electrician would not stay here.

"Cao Gong, why have you been here for so long?" Zhang Qianxiu asked.

Cao Yaowen said embarrassingly: "Boss, it's pretty good for me to have this job. I've been in jail."

Zhang Qianxiu was even more surprised. He saw that Cao Yaowen, who was harmless to humans and animals, actually went to jail, and asked, "Cao Gong, do you mind telling me?"

Cao Yaowen was silent for a while and smiled sadly: "When my daughter was thirteen years old, she was bullied by two bastards. I was so angry that I stabbed someone with a knife and went squatting in for seven years."

"I, an electrician, still studied in jail because I behaved well inside, and the leaders inside took care of me, and sometimes helped me fix something."

"When I came out, the leader inside wrote me a letter of recommendation to get this job."

Zhang Qianxiu nodded in understanding: "I'm sorry."

Cao Yaowen glanced at Zhang Qianxiu in surprise, and quickly lowered his head: "It's okay, almost ten years have passed."

Zhang Qianxiu didn't ask much about Cao Yaowen's private affairs. Just asked, just because he was afraid that Cao Yaowen had any bad habits.

"Cao Gong, I'm thinking these days. I want to optimize some of the equipment and procedures in the factory. If we can use machines instead, we will use machines. Can you make some machines or equipment that replace humans?" Zhang Qianxiu asked Tao.

Cao Yaowen said embarrassingly: "Boss, I...I don't know how to make pie, but in some places, I think I can try something out."

Zhang Qianxiu pondered for a while and said, "It's okay if you don't know how to make cakes. I will say hello to Chen Fei. Then you will go to the small R&D room of our factory and ask them to tell you how cakes are made and why they do it. Let them try out what you make, and if it can be used, we will put it on the production line."

"This Xu Lejia has learned a little bit of electricity before, and he doesn't understand it very well, but he has some foundation."

"Gong Cao, you have to supply the factory's electricity and machinery, and you have to study the machinery and equipment. If you are too busy, let him help."

Xu Lejia, who had been sitting beside him without saying a word, was overjoyed, but Zhang Qianxiu did not expect Zhang Qianxiu to arrange such a good job for himself.

Cao Yaowen nodded: "Okay, boss, I will think of a solution."

Zhang Qianxiu said, "In the future, you will bring Xu Lejia with you, Mr. Cao. If you have time, you can find a way to study some more practical things. One station can be replaced by a machine. The factory will give at least five hundred rewards.

"If you can't reduce the number of employees and can accelerate the speed by more than 10%, there will be more than 100 rewards."

If you can save a workstation, as long as it is not very power-consuming, you can save a lot of employees' wages in the future. Five hundred yuan is not much.

Hearing that it was approaching, Cao Yaowen couldn't help but shine. Perhaps it was because he had been in jail for a long time. After all, Cao Yaowen's words were a little dull: "Thank you, boss, I will try my best to find a way."

After arranging these, Zhang Qianxiu asked them to go out first, and went to the workshop to find Su Yuwei himself.

Zhang Qianxiu found Su Yuwei in the packaging workshop.

Su Yuwei stood by and watched the employees' work, taking it very seriously.

"Daughter-in-law, what are you looking at?" Zhang Qianxiu walked behind Su Yuwei and asked.

Su Yuwei glanced back and continued to look at the workers who were working, and said: "You said, why is a small family-style workshop, why can't it be better than a factory?"

Zhang Qianxiu was taken aback. He hadn't really thought about this problem before. He didn't start a business in his previous life. In this life, entrepreneurship has been a bit fierce: "Why?"

"Efficiency!" Su Yuwei said: "I told you just now that your factory needs a lot of people, and I didn't feel anything wrong when I said it. There are indeed more people in the factory than in the small family workshop."

"But when I got to the workshop, I thought about reading the two books "The Wealth of Nations" and "Economics" a few days ago."

"Remember that there is a paragraph in "The Wealth of Nations", which seems to say that in a normal and healthy economy, prices should be lower and lower, that is to say, efficiency is getting higher and higher."

"Because of the cooperation and division of labor between people."

"When the assembly line was invented, the traditional production speed was accelerated, and the price of goods would be lowered."

"For the same price and the same product, your profit should be higher than that of a small family workshop. But after you settle your account, it is lower than that of a small family workshop. There must be something wrong."

Zhang Qianxiu asked: "Do you mean that there is a problem with the work arrangement of the production department?"

Zhang Qianxiu actually doesn't care much about the production department. He has been busy with the problems of the two factories in Dongtai and Wanhui a few days ago, as long as the production department can produce things.

He has been busy with business these days, thinking about promotion. He has always felt that there should be no problems with the production department.

Su Yuwei nodded: "There is a problem. The division of labor in the workshop is too complicated. Some people have to do two or three processes, and even more than four or five processes."

"You seem to have read "The Wealth of Nations", right? My book is still in your possession."

Zhang Qianxiu looked at the workers at work and nodded: "I see, both "The Wealth of Nations" and "Capital" say that the finer the division of labor, the higher the efficiency."

Zhang Qianxiu turned his head and waved to Gu Qinian who was busy not far away.

Gu Qinian put aside his work and ran over: "Boss!"

Zhang Qianxiu asked, "Leader Gu, why does everyone have to do two or three processes, or even four or five processes?"

Gu Qinian explained: "It has always been this way, so that it is easy to adjust. Sometimes when the factory has no orders or there are few orders, it is necessary to reduce temporary workers, so that it can be done even if there are fewer people."

Zhang Qianxiu said: "Starting today, let's try it out. We will disassemble all the workstations, one worker for each process."

Gu Qinian was taken aback: "Boss, some are simpler, and some processes are more complicated."

Zhang Qianxiu said: "A simple arrangement of one person, a complicated arrangement of two or even three. Each employee is only responsible for one process."

Gu Qinian hesitated: "Do you want to change it now?"

"There is nothing wrong now, let them try it." Zhang Qianxiu said.

Originally, there were more than 20 employees in seven or eight groups. After the integration, they became one group.

Weighing for weighing, bagging for bagging, sealing for sealing.

Going down one line, the speed is really much faster.

Because it was filled with shortbread, it was tossed back and forth, and it was broken a lot, and the last one who was in charge of the inspection picked out a lot of them.

Gu Qinian felt a little embarrassed, this was brought up by the boss, and he was not good to say anything.

Zhang Qianxiu shook his head: "No, one less assembly line."

After that, Zhang Qianxiu said, "Leader Gu, try to do it for an hour, and count it. Don't worry about how fast it is and how much it is broken."

The factory does not have that kind of tape-like conveyor belt, so you can only change hands on the table, and the employees have to push the cakes up and down, and the number of times will inevitably break.

Su Yuwei said: "The bakery workshop can also be subdivided, but the baking workshop can't do anything about it."

Zhang Qianxiu said: "As long as the speed of these two workshops is increased, the efficiency can be improved a lot."

For an hour, neither Zhang Qianxiu nor Su Yuwei left.

Finally, Gu Qinian made some statistics, and he was a little surprised: "Boss, sixty-five boxes, usually there are more than 30 boxes in an hour."

Zhang Qianxiu took a breath and said, "The speed can still be fast. I will go to Mr. Cao and ask him to find a way to make a conveyor belt for you. With the conveyor belt, there won't be so many bad things."

Gu Qinian asked doubtfully: "What is a conveyor belt?"

"It's the assembly line." Zhang Qianxiu said hello to Su Yuwei, and went to find Cao Yaowen.

If Cao Yaowen couldn't make it, he would buy it. The thing is just a motor. It should not be difficult to make. Moreover, this is for making biscuits, not something heavy, and the pressure on the conveyor belt is not high.

At this time, Cao Yaowen was studying how to make cakes with Niutian.

Zhang Qianxiu greeted, "Cao Gong, come out."

Cao Yaowen walked out: "Boss, what's the matter?"

"Can you make an assembly line?" Zhang Qianxiu asked.

Cao Yaowen thought for a while and said, "The problem is not big."

"How long will it take to make it?" Zhang Qianxiu asked again.

"Look at how long, two or three days!" Cao Yaowen said: "Then I have to do racking and welding. I know a little bit of electric welding. I'm not very familiar with it, so it will be slower."

"Okay, in three days, make one out." Zhang Qianxiu said.

"Should you start doing it now?" Cao Yaowen asked.

Zhang Qianxiu said: "Now do it, and tell Xue Gaoyi what materials you want, and let him buy it right away."

"Okay!" Cao Yaowen didn't waste time, turned around and called Xu Lejia, and the two left together.

Zhang Qianxiu didn't leave either, staying in the workshop, and studying with Su Yuwei what could be improved.

Because I was talking about the packaging workshop, the two of them went to the packaging workshop to watch the workers work, and sometimes they even figured it out by themselves.

After pondering for more than half an hour, Zhang Qianxiu said, "Daughter-in-law, I am pondering that it can be an automatic load-bearing device."

"It doesn’t matter if the speed is slower. The weight of the biscuits is not large, and the motor does not need to be large. Naturally, the power consumption will not be large. When the time comes, the biscuits will flow down, and the bottom will be divided into multiple slots. , Open the gate automatically, or just like a seesaw, let him flow into the assembly line by himself, and the workers can pack them by themselves."

Su Yuwei pondered for a while and nodded: "Yes, it shouldn't be very difficult."

Zhang Qianxiu added: “You can also make an automatic counting. A pack of biscuits is so thick and the thickness is about the same. As long as you specify a length, the quantity will definitely not be bad.”

"Make a tube with an oblique mouth below. The tube is about the same size as the packaged biscuits. The entrance is made into a V shape. The biscuits automatically flow down. The V shape has a large opening and it can definitely flow in. The next section does not need to Electric drive, anyway, the biscuits are slanted, and the biscuits will flow down on their own. Just think of a way to ensure that the biscuits are in one direction."

Su Yuwei said: "This guarantees that the biscuits will have some difficulty in one direction."

Zhang Qianxiu didn't think: "There are several people in the box now, and we will have a big deal at that time to arrange a worker to adjust all the positions of the biscuits on the assembly line to a unified position."

Su Yuwei pondered for a while, and said, "That should be okay, and you can let Cao Gong make a try at that time."

Su Yuwei jokingly said: "You are very good at thinking about this."

Zhang Qianxiu was really excited at this time: "He figured out one thing, which is to save himself money."

As long as production efficiency comes up, it is equivalent to doubling the money earned.

Not to mention anything else, just change to assembly line production just now, Zhang Qianxiu's profit will increase a lot.