Intelligent Industrial Empire

"Peng, you are welcome to come and inspect the work!" Seeing the middle and high-level people who brought more than one hundred Wanyou CNC equipment companies to the Capital One Machine for inspection, Liu Cheng smiled at Peng who had just come out of the airport exit. Said.

"President Liu is polite, how dare you to meet them personally!" Peng Zhi did not expect that Liu Cheng, the general manager of Capital One Airport, would actually come to the airport to meet them in person.

"Yes, if it weren't for Wanyou, our company would have to make major layoffs!" Liu Cheng said seriously to Peng Zhi.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, with the rise of small factories in various places, Capital One Machinery has gradually shrunk the market for general milling and bullhead planers due to many factors such as bloated institutions, aging products, and high production costs.

In recent years, although there have been some profits, it is still sluggish.

Especially after the establishment of Jiuyi Heavy Industry, China's domestic CNC milling began to completely replace the equipment of general milling and bullhead planer, especially bullhead planer, the function is not powerful enough, the cost is high, and the rough machining efficiency of products is far inferior to that of normal milling , Not to mention the accuracy.

If it weren’t for the large-scale and heavy-duty gantry milling equipment of Capital One, there were few competitors in the domestic market, especially the CNC milling that was developed under the pressure of Jiuyi Heavy Industry. Although the precision was not good, it was There is no shortage of consumers.

Perhaps they, like other large state-owned equipment factories, have long been unable to persist.

Now, Jiuyi Heavy Industry has expanded the production scale of CNC milling and machining centers in all aspects, and Northern Heavy Industry and other companies have invested heavily in cutting processing equipment, making the life of Capital One Machine very difficult.

Originally, there was a great opportunity for cooperation with Jiuyi Heavy Industry, but this opportunity was taken away by the secretary who dictated the company's operations based on his family background, which worsened the relationship between Capital One Machine and Jiuyi Heavy Industry.

The market is sluggish, the profit of the product drops, Capital One has to enter the layoff procedure.

At this time, Taiwan’s Wanyou CNC Group extended an olive branch to the Capital One Machine. It produces 200 sets of CNC machining centers for mechanical parts every month, and has an operating income of more than 40 million. This makes the North Machine Tool Factory have enough Profit to feed those skilled workers who should have been laid off.

In the past few years, many domestic state-owned enterprises have begun large-scale layoffs or went bankrupt. The skilled workers with the best skills and most experience have been sent to Chengdu by Jiuyi Heavy Industries.

This is something that the industry leader like Capital One has been reluctant to see.

When Jiuyi Heavy Industry does not have enough production capacity, it is aggressive. If they have enough production capacity, and they are all masters with rich technical experience, with their current inefficient research capabilities, they simply cannot compete with it. .

The failure of competition under the market mechanism is very likely, and the destiny faced is bankruptcy.

Such a result is not only unwilling to see the top officials of the Capital One Aircraft Corporation, but also unwilling to see the leaders of the country.

"Mr. Liu, do you mean we enter into deeper and more extensive cooperation?" After visiting the production workshop of Capital No.1 Machinery, Peng Zhi took two board members of Universal CNC and had a small talk with Liu Cheng and Zhu Feng. The scale of consultation.

"Yes, both of us will jointly fund to establish a new CNC equipment manufacturing company. Of course, this company only needs a brand." Peng Zhi frowned when he saw Liu Cheng and said lightly.

Although the machining center produced by Wanyou CNC is slightly better than the newly-entered Jiuyi Heavy Industry in terms of accuracy, its price is less than 100,000 yuan higher than the same equipment of Jiuyi Heavy Industry. Large-scale purchases will cost hundreds of millions more!

Wanyou CNC is not willing to give up so much profit for the largest purchase in mainland China.

"Isn't our cooperation like this very good?" Liu Cheng is unwilling to invest in the establishment of a new production plant with the Taiwanese. With these funds to build a joint venture with the Taiwanese, it is better to invest in equipment upgrades in the capital. And the research on the machining center.

Liu Cheng now wants to understand that the reason why Jiuyi Heavy Industry is able to achieve the current results is due to their annual research funding of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.

According to Zhu Feng's knowledge from Sun Lin and Situ Heyun, from the very beginning of Jiuyi Heavy Industry, all the profits of CNC lathes and CNC milling were invested in the research of new products.Otherwise, their processing center will not be able to make such a big progress in a short time.

The Taiwanese proposed a joint venture to build a factory, but there is no good intention at all.

"The current cooperation model is indeed very good, but it did not give full play to the advantages of our two companies. Our Wanyou CNC has strong processing center technology research and development capabilities and funds, and you have huge production capabilities. We will jointly fund a joint venture company. , Independent accounting, and developing new products to enrich our product brand and enhance our competitiveness..." Peng Zhi said to this seemingly ordinary but very clever general manager of Capital One Machine.

"Peng, what do you mean is that after the establishment of the joint venture, our common technical personnel will jointly develop new products?" Hearing Peng Zhi's words, Zhu Feng's eyes suddenly brightened.

What Capital One Machine lacks most is technical development experience. If you can engage in this with Taiwanese, it won’t be long before you can kick the Taiwanese away and do it yourself.

"Zhu Gong, what we mean is that we will provide the technology and most of the capital, and you will provide the production workers and production equipment to form a new company and create a new brand of CNC machining center..." Wanyou Group Bai Meng, the second largest shareholder of China, said to Zhu Feng, whose eyes were shining.

The mainlanders are dreaming of obtaining technology from Wanyou CNC!

Is the director of Wanyou Group so dumb?

In order to obtain hundreds of millions of official orders from the mainland, it is simply impossible to hand over the key technology of the processing center to the mainland's largest production capacity competitor.

"Peng, we have to have a meeting to discuss this matter..." Liu Cheng sneered in his heart, and went back to Peng Zhi directly with a meeting to study.

Do these Taiwanese guys regard Capital One as fools?

Helping them produce all kinds of mechanical parts, this does not need to pay anything at all, on the contrary, it has a considerable profit, and I am not worried that there will be no market for the production. This kind of business is very popular with the capital.

But if you want to use Capital One to get state orders through its relationship with major state-owned machinery factories in China, the people of Capital One are not so stupid.

Otherwise, they will not invest a lot in the technical research of CNC equipment after being stimulated by the nine-one heavy industry, and in the recession, they will retain the skilled workers in the factory with high salaries, and start to follow the nine-one heavy industry in the country. Compete for senior skilled workers within the scope.

As long as it is said that the relatively large state-owned machinery factory goes bankrupt or restructured, the personnel of Jiuyi Heavy Industry and the labor and capital department of Capital First Machinery will appear there. Both parties rely on their ability to seduce those experienced and skilled. Young but not very high-skilled workers.

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"The cooperation with Wanyou Equipment is an opportunity for our Capital One Machine. As long as we obtain the technology of their three-axis machining center, with our research and development capabilities, we should soon be able to catch up with Jiuyi Heavy Industries and surpass the Taiwanese... "

"I agree with Director Li, the new brand should be able to bring us a lot of profits, which should be a great help to our research investment."

"Agree what? The typical Taiwanese want to use us. They don’t have enough production capacity to compete with Jiuyi Heavy Industries, so they use us. What if the profit is high, but they don’t get the bulk? By cooperating with them, we are paying food again. , Again sent troops, how much can you get?"

"That is, what they mean is that we have to remove experienced assemblers and go to West Lake. When that happens, we will develop advanced equipment by ourselves. Where can we find senior assemblers?"

After Liu Cheng and Zhu Feng had just notified Wanyou Group's cooperation intention to the senior executives of the entire company, there was a quarrel in the conference room.

Supporting and opposing, the two sides held different opinions, and the quarrel was fierce.

Jiuyi Heavy Industry is also a CNC milling center, and it is also a machining center. Now it is said that there are already large-scale gantry machining centers and high-end CNC machining centers with four-axis linkage and even five-axis linkage.

This pressure is too great for the Capital One.

After the Long CNC system of Huadu CNC was launched on the market, in order to compete with them, Capital One also developed its own Capital CNC system that imitated foreign systems, but this performance could not be compared with that of Huadu CNC system.

There are very few users who use their system. Most customers would rather spend more than 100,000 to use foreign-imported systems or tens of thousands more to use Huashou systems, rather than using Capital CNC, which has not too powerful control capabilities.

Without a four-axis linkage control system, it is impossible for Capital One to study four-axis or even more-axis linkage machining centers while studying three-axis linkage machining centers.

Of course, they can also use Huadu's Long CNC system.

Is this possible?

"Cooperating with Taiwanese is undoubtedly looking for the skin of tigers. We are now using idle production capacity to help them produce various large parts and spare parts for processing centers. The profits of these businesses are enough to support our research investment on processing centers!" If people from Capital One could participate in research and development, such cooperation would be a good thing.

If you are only involved in assembly, this is of no use at all.

Taiwanese machining centers, such as spindles, servo motors, roller screws, and guide rails, these key high-precision components are all sourced from the headquarters in Taiwan or even imported from Japan, which will not do any good to the improvement of the capital's technology.

"I and Zhu both disagree on this matter. I wondered that Wanyou Group mainly wanted to use our relationship to obtain the purchase order for the processing center of the country. According to the SASAC, this time The scale of procurement is very large. The Ministry of Industry plans to purchase more than 3,000 machining centers and more CNC cars for major state-owned enterprises within five years to replace the equipment upgrades of major state-owned machinery plants and military system production plants..."

"Then we should help Taiwanese get this order. We help Taiwanese produce various parts and components, one for one hundred thousand, three thousand for 400 million, and our profit is more than 80 million..."

"Huh! Taiwanese earn more, right? Most of these profits are made by them, don't you know? If it weren't for the pressure of September 1st Heavy Industries, they would reduce production costs and increase profit margins. Let us produce the least profitable mechanical parts and spare parts in the machining center?"

"Okay, don’t make any noise. Let’s have a meeting today, not to discuss this! Let’s ask the Technical Development Department to tell us how long it will take for our machining center to reach the technical indicators of Jiuyi Heavy Industries and Taiwan’s machine tools. Well! As long as it can be produced, we may not be able to divide the national order for these three thousand units!" When the following quarrels, Liu Cheng's head is big.

In every meeting, he understood that it was not luck or accident that Jiuyi Heavy Industry was able to move so fast.

In private enterprises, the boss has the final say!

Wherever they are like them, if you want to do anything, you must first meet and discuss, and finally report to the higher-level leader, waiting for the leader's approval.

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"Wanyou Group is going to build a joint venture with you? Is this a good thing!" Hearing Liu Cheng's report, the head of the Machinery Department smiled.

Stones from other hills, can learn.

The establishment of a joint venture factory will enable Capital One to improve its technology in the research of its processing center, learn from the experience of others, and turn these technologies into its own.

This is the main purpose of the country's establishment of joint venture factories over the years.

"Leader, this is not a good thing!" Liu Cheng was full of black lines.

I don't know what's going on, none of these leaders have discovered the tricks of foreigners in so many joint ventures in China.

Foreigners and Chinese joint ventures often only provide technology and capital, but occupy most of the shares. Basically, Chinese companies rarely intervene in technical and management matters. Who can tell people who have not many shares from the beginning? At that time, they continued to inject capital into the joint venture factory, but the Chinese company did not have the strength of the foreign company. In the end, they could only watch the foreign party continuously inject capital and increase the shares, and eventually became the absolute controlling party!

When the joint venture factory was first established, the Chinese side drew the most outstanding skilled workers and management personnel from the same type of factory and put them into the joint venture factory in order to be able to master the skills of foreigners. However, foreigners are not so stupid, and the key technologies are all It is in the hands of their own people.

Often, in the end, because domestic companies of the same type are unable to compete with joint ventures, a large number of outstanding personnel are drawn out and fall into crisis.

"Why is it not a good thing? You have not been able to make breakthrough progress on this. After joining a joint venture with Taiwanese, learn their technology carefully, and then, develop our own technology based on these technologies..." The leader looks Dissatisfaction.

I don't even understand this question. How did Liu Cheng become the general manager of a large state-owned enterprise with tens of thousands of people?

"Taiwanese provide technology and funds. Their requirement is that we only need workers and equipment. The key equipment is imported from Taiwan or Japan, and they also have absolute controlling rights..." This leader did not have this before. moron!

"What? We only produce workers and equipment? We still need to have absolute controlling rights? Damn, he can't be regarded as a fool for us?" The leader finally woke up.

"Yes, they just regarded us as fools. Because in the 1980s, those foreign-funded companies seized the weaknesses of our country's eagerness to introduce capital and technology. They all cooperated in this way, and finally through continuous capital injection, In the end, most of the profits were taken away by them, and our Chinese side did not learn any skills, and we have to compensate a lot of skilled workers..." The reason for this is largely caused by the local government, because many The leaders of the local government do not understand the tricks in the middle.

The foreign-funded companies that entered China in the 1980s all made a lot of money, and the Chinese companies were just making wedding dresses for them!

However, the main problem is still the problem of superior leaders.

If it were not for the local economy as the only basis for assessing cadres, and the superior leaders were equally eager to develop the domestic economy quickly, or studied more cooperation models such as foreign countries, there would be no such situation.

In order to maintain the dominant position of the collective economy, the state has to keep state-owned enterprises that should have been on the verge of bankruptcy a long time ago.

"That's a fart with them!" He was a leading soldier, and although he occupied a high position, it was normal to explode in anger.

"By the way, didn't you talk to the little boss of Jiuyi Heavy Industry? Maybe they got the technology from their hands, but that's not necessarily!" The domestic CNC equipment industry actually relies on a newly established private enterprise that has been established for several years. Resistance to the flag, this made the leaders of the Machinery Department feel dull.

"If you want to engage in technology from Jiuyi Heavy Industry, it will be the life of that kid! He can't do this thing!" Liu Cheng sighed.

If they get the technology from September 1st Heavy Industry, why would they work for the Taiwanese? They can only watch the huge profits being made by the Taiwanese, and in the end they only have a sip of soup...

"I can't say that either. Or, let's find the link between the Military Commission and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission to talk to the kid. Isn't he eager for the country's purchase orders?" The leader awakened the dreamer.

The big order of more than one billion, but the stingy kid of Jiuyi Heavy Industry could not agree with it!