Intelligent Industrial Empire

"Yun Fei, Xin Kaixing is not allowed to continue like this. The company has been continuously expanding, but in the Pearl River Delta, it has begun to face the problem of not being able to find people. We cannot continue to increase the wages of workers to attract people. Come!" Wang Qingfeng, who hadn't appeared in front of Yun Fei for a long time, appeared in front of Yun Fei with a full face.

The "labor shortage" in the Pearl River Delta has begun?

Yun Fei was really puzzled.

According to normal circumstances, it will not be until 2004 that the Pearl River Delta has small-scale recruitment difficulties, and large-scale labor shortages will not begin until 2007.If you start now, how can this be good?

"How is it possible that no one can be found now?" Yun Fei read the news report and did not have relevant reports in this regard, and no one in the company told him about this. Isn't Wang Qingfeng making a fuss?

Wang Qingfeng shook his head. They Xin Kaixing has always maintained a high level of work, which has caused a lot of cost pressure on them.

"It's not the difficulty of recruiting workers, but the current situation. With the large-scale popularity of domestic CNC machine tools, after the country joined the World Trade Organization, although more outsourcing processing orders have entered our China, the competition has become more intense. Three years ago, we slowed down the increase in workers’ wages, and it is now only about 10% higher than that of ordinary enterprises. At present, in just over half a year, the gross profit level of the machining industry has increased from 100%. Thirty percent has dropped to about 22%, and there is still a possibility of further decline..." Wang Qingfeng explained to Yun Fei.

The cost of machining business is getting higher and higher, and the processing price is declining as the number of domestic CNC machine tools increases.

In the beginning, there were very few three-axis machining centers, and the fee for outsourcing processing could reach 300 yuan an hour. Now, it is not easy for most to reach 180 yuan.Ordinary products are only tens of dollars an hour.

The profit of Qingfeng Machinery’s mechanical processing business has shrunk significantly. Compared with the early 1990s when Yunfei worked in their factory, processing fees have basically dropped by 50%, while labor costs have dropped from 300 yuan. The money has increased to about eight hundred now, which has more than doubled!

"What's the opinion of the company's strategy department? They don't have the slightest solution to such a situation, do they? Moreover, they should understand these situations, or they would be negligent." Yun Fei didn't pay much attention to these things.

Wang Qingfeng really made a fuss.

Their industries are not mainly located in the Pearl River Delta.

Even Xinkaixing, in response to rising domestic labor costs, will put a large part of its business in Dandong, which is across the river from North Korea. Xinuiju will also have some industries that require a lot of labor for Xinkaixing. .

"This is proposed by Ma Ting from the strategic planning department. There is only such a trend at present, and it is not very serious, but according to the current sales of CNC machine tools and some data on domestic business growth, there are at most two more in the Pearl River Delta. Years later, there will be a labor shortage." Wang Qingfeng said to Yun Fei very seriously.

The Pearl River Delta is not a traditional heavy industry area. Their requirements for skilled workers are still relatively high. Many positions require professionally trained skilled workers to do well.Especially for a large number of ordinary processing operations, there is no problem in designing CNC machine tools. After all, as long as there are programmers to complete the program, there are on-site technicians to debug various processing parameters, and the final operator, the daily actions are basically Fixed-open the machine protective door, clamp the parts-close the protective door and press the green start button-after completion, open the door again to clamp.

For this kind of boring job, many young people who originally studied technology or thought it was more fun simply did not have the patience to repeat it day after day. Twelve hours of work a day gave them even time to fall in love. nothing.

After all, if they want to climb up and become technicians or managers, they must constantly recharge and learn on their own initiative. After passing the assessment, the company will provide promotion training and then assessment.

There is basically no way to surpass this model.

The work of the assembly line is like this. Humans are robots and repeat those actions every day.

This kind of work cannot retain people like a subsidiary of Yunshi Holdings.

"Ma Ting didn't follow you here? You said you too. You don't know the company's situation, right?" Yun Fei was a little speechless. Since it was brought up by someone from the planning department, he should at least bring someone from the planning department. Are you here?Even if he had questions, he asked Wang Qingfeng and didn't know how to answer no?

"Here, I am currently looking at the situation in the ball screw factory. After all, it is relatively easy to recruit workers here, and there are not many general workers here..." Wang Qingfeng said embarrassedly.

"The situation is not fully understood, why are you talking about it? Pharaoh, they can handle this matter..." Yun Fei was speechless.

Wang Qingfeng, isn't it all right?

He is too busy now and is preparing to let go of the company's management affairs, so in many cases, he has to keep an eye on the management of the entire company to see if they can do the job after decentralization.Wang Qingfeng is good. The company doesn't take care of it. After reporting a certain possibility, his subordinates rushed to find his own trouble.

I really think I am as idle as he is doing nothing!

"No, even though there is no such thing happening now, but we have to take precautions before it happens?" Wang Qingfeng couldn't help but feel a little anxious when he saw Yun Fei not going to care about him.

"When you understand the situation clearly, you will come to me with Ma Ting, and I will listen to the situation." Yun Fei said helplessly.

If you don't send this guy away, you have to bother him here for a day.

"I also know a little about the situation. How about I tell you?" Wang Qingfeng said to Yun Fei with a smile on his face, "Ma Ting doesn't know when I will be free, anyway, I am free. Let's not interrupt her work, don't we? She has done her job well and is helping us earn money!"

"You have already said what you know, just say what you want to do!" Yun Fei was really speechless.

"Use robots to replace the operators of the assembly line!" What Wang Qingfeng said shocked Yun Fei.

This guy’s head burned out, right?

Now want to use robots to replace operators?Is this a joke?Yun Fei knows how high this cost is.

After all, this kind of technology has not been put into practical use yet, and the cost is quite high. Besides, control accuracy is also a big problem.

"The planning department feels that, like our heat sink manufacturing plant, replacing the operators with robots, we can completely reduce the number of people from 30 to two porters on one line, and one lifeline can manage the entire line. At the same time, the line leader will also be a technician. In this way, our 20 production lines will reduce nearly 800 workers and save nearly 10 million a year..." Wang Qingfeng now also learns to speak with data .

"More importantly, after calculation, when the robot production line is ensuring the current production efficiency, because the robot does not need to shift work, it is turned on 24 hours a day, even if an average of one week is stopped for one day for maintenance, eight automated production lines are sufficient. Our efficiency will be It will increase by at least 40% and the cost will drop by about 60%..." Wang Qingfeng told Yunfei with a sharp data comparison that he was determined to start the intelligent production line at this time.

He wants to turn their already labor-intensive industries into technology-intensive industries.

"Pharaoh, this, do you know how much the cost of a production line is? According to the current cost price, such a production line is not difficult, but the cost is very high, which requires overall coordination. Moreover, a robot has a problem, the whole The line has to stop..." Yun Fei was helpless.

Obviously, Wang Qingfeng is too superstitious about their mechanical automation technology.

For this, Yun Fei has no bottom in his own heart.

"Cost is not a problem, even if it is a line of 100 million, the cost will be recovered in five years at most." Wang Qingfeng said domineeringly.

"Moreover, I don't do everything like this, just those assembly lines do it like this. Let's use the heat sink factory to do the experiment directly..."

For this, Yun Fei was speechless.

"The board of directors passed this resolution?" Yun Fei really didn't know how to deal with Wang Qingfeng.

This guy made it clear that he wanted to pass on this cost to Yun's Holdings, and wait until later to slowly repay the debt, Yun Fei could do this.

"They have no opinion on this, they just wait to divide the money every year. I agree, you agree, isn't it enough?" Wang Qingfeng smiled.

"I have to think about this. As to whether there is a way to realize this kind of fully automatic assembly, I have to discuss with the person in charge of the automation side. At this time, the deputy dean Deng Lanqing who is in charge of this is on vacation..." Yun Fei simply said This matter was pushed to Deng Lanqing's body.

Anyway, now Deng Lanqing doesn't know where he went to play, and it is impossible for Wang Qingfeng to find her.

Although the project is continuing, the person in charge is still Deng Lanqing?

Sun Lin and Situ Heyun are working on CNC machine tools.

Moreover, the heavy-duty turning-milling composite machining center for the Three Gorges Project has now entered the final stage, and Situ Heyun has been staying in Haer Heavy Industry.

It has taken several years from the beginning of this project to the present. The super-heavy equipment they cooperated with Northern Heavy Industry and Harbin Heavy Industry, or perhaps the largest single machining equipment in the world, will soon be announced.

At such an important historical moment, it is impossible for Yun Fei not to go to the scene.

Where do you have time to chat with Wang Qingfeng?

"Pharaoh, wait two more years for this matter, when the technology is more mature, after all, this involves robots, and Jiuyi Auto Equipment is currently only focusing on the automotive business direction, and now I don't have the energy to focus on it. I mean, do you understand?" Even if you are embarrassed to refuse, you cannot refuse.

This matter is really unnecessary.

Wang Qingfeng, this guy is full of food.

It is estimated that he said that using this to reduce costs is not really to reduce costs, but to use this to brag and pretend to be B!After all, once such a production line is really built, it will shock the whole world.

Although foreign countries do not have such technology, foreign investment in such production lines is a bit painful.

Moreover, the immature robot technology often causes problems in the production line. As a result, the production cost is likely to be higher than the use of labor!

"This..." Wang Qingfeng didn't expect that Yun Fei didn't want to.

This is quite different from what he thought before coming to Yunfei.

"Pharaoh, even if the labor cost is really unbearable, don't we still have cheap North Korean workers? From a commercial standpoint, when we conduct research in this area, we naturally hope that there will be market orders. . But I am also a shareholder of Xinkaixing. Naturally, I would not like this kind of thing. Sometimes, it is not that automation is better than manual methods." Yun Fei is telling the truth.

If it is ordered by other customers, such as those foundries in Taiwan, he will accept these orders without hesitation.

After all, this can recover part of the research funds.

But Wang Qingfeng can't do it, Yunfei himself is also a shareholder.Because Xin Kaixing expanded too quickly, his financial situation has always been very bad. If Yun Fei agreed, he would have to advance the money himself. Even if the interest is included, it is not worthwhile for him.

This not only failed to reduce their R&D costs, but also increased their R&D costs.

"The last automation transformation was very good. After such a long time, as long as there is no operational error, it is very stable. Therefore, I think there is no problem with the automatic line..." Wang Qingfeng still did not give up.

Yun must be crazy.

He really didn't know why Wang Qingfeng had to be so persistent with this!

"Pharaoh, this fully automated production line and a semi-automatic production line are two different things. To achieve semi-automatic, some places only need some small tooling and simple accessories to achieve it. It has nothing to do with intelligence at all. Let me tell you this. Well, to achieve complete automation is not what our current technology can achieve. European and American countries are much more advanced in technology than ours. Why do they prefer to give their countries development opportunities rather than realize these automations on their own? Have you thought about this question? Is it?" Yunfei had to explain to Wang Qingfeng seriously.

Without explaining clearly, this guy will definitely not let him live a peaceful life.

"That's because our domestic labor was cheap at the time!" Wang Qingfeng naturally knew these things.

He was a man who went to sea in the eighties.