Video Game Empire

"This is the information collected by our legal department. There are three small factories in Hong Kong that are imitating our company's two arcade games. Two of them have been restrained after receiving our lawyer's letter and stopped piracy. .

The rest of the family still go their own way! We will seek police assistance in the near future to destroy this pirate factory! "

At the regular meeting of the company's management, Chang Feng, manager of the Legal Department, reported the results of his department's recent crackdown on piracy.

Li Xuan picked up a stack of photos that Chang Feng had placed on the table. These were direct evidence that the company hired a special detective agency to secretly photographed the other party's illegal infringement of the interests of Dongfang Electronics. Among them is a relatively clear photo, which is the moment when the factory owner signed for a batch of game motherboards.

According to the analysis by the technicians of Dongfang Electronics Company, the motherboards of this batch of game consoles should not be new boards from the original factory, but second-hand arcade boards that have been repaired. Li Xuan himself started as a pirate, and is extremely strict with the outflow control of the game console motherboard.

After the arcade is sold, the game motherboard has a half-year warranty period. If a damaged game motherboard occurs during the warranty period, a new motherboard can be replaced for free, but the premise is that the damaged old motherboard must be recycled.

As an ambitious enterprise, Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. will naturally not recycle the damaged game boards, refill them with old ones after repairing them, and reload them on the game consoles for sale, but directly destroy them.

However, Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. has just been established, and the management system is not perfect, which gives some people the opportunity to collude internally and externally and secretly manipulate. Instead of destroying the motherboards in accordance with the company's regulations, they secretly replaced the damaged parts and sold them to an outside copycat factory at a high price.

"The two moles in the company have been caught and reported to the Shatin Police Station. After the police have collected evidence, they have applied to the court for the arrest of the two, and the trial will be held on another day. Relevant colleagues in our department , will follow the whole process of the case, and will file corresponding civil claims at the same time!" Chang Feng said.

As soon as Chang Feng finished speaking, Du Wenqiang, who was in charge of the research and development business, immediately took over the words with great indignation: "I just checked the relevant records, and in the past month, the number of Hutchison's motherboard warranty applications under various names has increased significantly. I really thought that there was a flaw in the design of our motherboard, and we specially analyzed the reasons for the damage of this batch of motherboards.

After testing, our people found various problems. Some of them were damaged due to untimely heat dissipation, and some were due to soldering leaks, which caused some working circuits to open, but they were all just minor problems. Before we developed the first-generation arcade board, in order to rush work, some circuit designs were indeed not perfect.

The hardware development department has already started to improve and upgrade. The enhanced second-generation game motherboard will be officially finalized and produced at the end of the month, so I am not too concerned about these problems with the old motherboard. Now it seems. In fact, it's not that the damage rate of our motherboard is really that high, but that someone deliberately cheated by taking advantage of the company's after-sales warranty policy! "

Li Xuan frowned. The culprit couldn't be more clear. These motherboards that were sent back for new ones all came from Hutchison Company.

"I think the deeper reason for the problem is that our production capacity is insufficient! In the past March, the company's arcade production reached 15,000 units, including 10,000 tanks and 5,000 Hong Kong cubes. Under the condition that we do not continue to expand recruitment , this is almost the limit of production capacity!"

Han Peng, the company's chief executive, glanced at Li Xuan and continued: "However, the company has received orders from the North American market to 113,000 units. Last month, European agents also began to contact us. So far, It has signed contracts for 16,000 units with agents in several countries such as the United Kingdom, France, and Italy, and will continue to climb in the next few months.

The arcade machines we produce will give priority to the European and American markets. So although Hutchison has repeatedly asked us to increase their shipments to them, we still only supply them with 500 arcade machines per month.

According to our company's policy, the after-sales maintenance of the sold products has the highest priority. Since Hutchison can't get the supply of the complete machine from us, and is unwilling to make money in vain, it can only take a risk and put its idea on the main board of the game console. "

Li Xuan nodded in agreement. Han Peng pinpointed the deepest root cause of the company's problems this time, the lack of production capacity.

"After the last expansion of the arcade factory, it just got on the right track. I don't recommend expanding it again immediately. It will take at least a month or two of buffer time!" He Guoyuan, the vice president in charge of operations, shook his head and said without waiting for everyone. Opening his mouth, he directly rejected the recruitment plan.

"Then we can only outsource and find an OEM factory!" Han Peng said firmly.

"Actually, arcade assembly is a process that does not have much technical content. It is not difficult to find a qualified foundry in Hong Kong!" He Guoyuan continued, "So I do not suggest that the company continue to expand the scale of the arcade production department. This part of the business is completely You can choose to outsource processing.

The focus of our expansion at this stage should be on the construction of a motherboard factory~www.readwn.com~ The motherboard is the core component of an arcade machine. Although we can choose to cooperate with manufacturers like Epson, we keep a motherboard factory for ourselves. It is still necessary! "

"Brother Peng, please invite Shao Yongqiang, the boss of Heji Company, to talk about it in the past two days. We can let go of the past, but there is only one chance to make mistakes. I hope he will not regard our friendship with old friends as weakness. Bullying!"

Li Xuan nodded to Han Peng and said, "Hutchison has its own arcade factory. From now on, we will only provide them with arcade boards, and they can assemble and produce arcade machines by themselves.

Originally, out of the consideration of squeezing the profit margin of the cottage factory, I gave Hutchison a lower price than Europe and the United States. Sorry, this offer is no longer available! In the future, the quotation of Hutchison's main board will be treated equally with the quotation of Cousins! "

The game console of the Dongfang Electronics Company is now like the daughter of the emperor. She doesn't have to worry about getting married. Do you like it or not?

"Finally, there is the supplier bidding meeting at the end of this month. So far, our administration department has received bids from dozens of companies in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan!" The deputy in charge of administrative affairs President Wang Ying said, "Japan's Hitachi and NEC companies also sent a special letter to ask why CRT monitors did not participate in this tender!"

The supply of CRT monitors has been determined in advance, and the choice of a local company in Hong Kong, Lu's Electronics Company. Lu Qintian knew that the strength of Lu's company was not enough to compete with Japanese companies. In order to win this large order, he directly offered to let Dongfang Electronics take a stake in Lu's company.