Rebirth of Northland Technology

August 1992

The settlement of the triangular debt was basically over, China and South Korea established diplomatic relations, and the Long March 2 rocket successfully launched the Australasian.

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Japan, Fuji

Personal computer division, meeting room.

"Whether to enter the portable PC market. Let's discuss it together!"

"The notebook market must be entered. This is an emerging market. We must not be left behind in any case."

The people below have spoken.The notebook market is highly compelling, even for product image considerations, the company’s flagship products must be launched.

A consensus was reached on this issue quickly, and the rest was the product selection work.

"According to our intelligence personnel, in the second half of this year, the main manufacturers that will launch notebooks on the market are IBM, Toshiba..."

Notebook computers, as a new blue ocean market, have attracted the attention of many computer manufacturers.In 1992, more than 10 brands appeared one after another.

"If we launch new products, what should we focus on? What are the selling points of our products?"

"We have strong mold capabilities, and our products can be lighter!"

"Our products can be made more sophisticated and of better quality!"

"We can put some effort on the appearance of the product, such as launching a color notebook?"

Soon, a group of reliable and unreliable suggestions were put on the table.

"We can make the notebook bigger!"

A strange suggestion caused everyone to laugh.

Portable notebook, the most important thing is portability.Everyone is desperately trying to make the notebook smaller.The first time I heard of reverse operation.

Computer parts, everything that everybody gets in their hands is half a catty.There is not much room left to play.

"When I said big, I mean the screen is bigger! I found a source of 12-inch AMLCD panels!"

"12 inches? How is this possible? Who supplies this? Why haven't I heard of it?"

Upon hearing this suggestion, a group of people immediately got excited.If this is true, it is really a blockbuster opportunity.

"The sample is provided by Yueya."

A sample specification was delivered to the table.

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Ice city

Optoelectronics research headquarters, meeting room.

No one in the room speaks.

"Is there really no one from the school?"

"I really can't send it out."

Bai Xuecheng repeated the answer again.

After entering July, Quan Cai also gradually shifted to a normal corporate model.Its landmark event was Line 1, which officially entered mass production.

At the same time, Line 2 will soon be transferred to formal production, contributing new production capacity to the company.

The debugging speed of Line 2 is much faster than the painful Line 1.After solving the biggest obstacle to funding, the equipment installation and commissioning were all completed within a few months.

xBM notebooks will be available soon, and stocking is a must.

There is no online sales now. The order determines the output.For any new product release, the first thing to do is to distribute the goods.The stock of tens of thousands of units is the most basic need.

When the demand is transmitted to the upstream supplier, it needs to be produced in advance.

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The yield rate of Line 1 did not rise but fell after it was transferred to production. Now it is only hovering around 50%.

From the equipment point of view, there is not much room for continued optimization.Some problems come from birth defects of the equipment itself.But the decline in the yield rate comes from the proficiency of the workers.

When the equipment is debugged, it is one piece of equipment and one piece of equipment is debugged.The technicians of various manufacturers, and all the technicians of Quancai, took strict precautions to achieve the best results, with a yield rate of about 70%.

This situation changes once it reaches the operators.

As the equipment on the pilot line has a relatively low degree of automation, the requirements for the quality of the operators are quite high.

The Optoelectronics Department has also expected this issue. All the core employees on the production line are selected from the LED company and are the most experienced operators.

But there are two problems here. The first is the number of people.

For LCD production lines, a normal single-shift production requires close to thousands of direct operators.

The functions that can be accomplished by one automated device are now performed by multiple intermittent devices.And each batch type equipment, although its output is low, but the work intensity is greater than the automation equipment.The number of operators it needs will be ten or twenty times that of assembly line personnel.

Together with the relevant auxiliary staff, 1,500 people are a standard configuration.The LED company, the total number of employees in Bingcheng, does not have this number.

Second, difficulty.The LED and LCD production lines are not at the same level at all.

The base size of the LED is only 2 inches.The LCD is 10.4 inches.The area is 25 times worse and 625 times more difficult!

So there is a problem that the yield rate will drop after the production line is officially put into production.

Fortunately, the core employees on this production line have at least half a year of LED production experience.With the gradual formulation of some operating procedures and the gradual improvement of staff proficiency, the yield rate of the production line is also gradually improving.

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But when it came to the second line, the problem became serious.

The LED company has contributed the best people for a round.It will take time to train a new round of personnel.Besides, LED production requires skilled workers.If you pick a good one, the LED company can close its doors.

Therefore, when the second line is preparing for mass production, the workers are a little hungry when they start their jobs.

In addition to the mass production of Line 2, as the production of Line 1 becomes stable, double-shift production is also on the schedule.It is not enough to talk about skilled workers, even ordinary workers.

Since the LCD production line was put into production, "Full Color Technology" has a huge appetite for manpower, far beyond the imagination of all parties.

Most of the companies that Optoelectronics previously merged were two to three hundred people.

A factory with thousands of people is an influential factory in this era.This kind of enterprise, even if there is a problem in the operation, it is now the scope of the rescue.

If the two production lines are equipped with double shifts, the total number of personnel will be at least 5,000.The shortage of workers faced by Optoelectronics exceeds two thousand.This is the result of all the employees who were merged in for the acquisition of land.

In addition to the company's line 1 and line 2, the company's lines 3 and 4 are also under negotiation.

The launch of these two production lines requires at least more than 5,000 workers.Adding to the current shortage of workers and the number of employees that the LED company needs to supplement, this number is almost 10,000 smaller.

Need tens of thousands of skilled workers!

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In order to fill the heads, Optoelectronics has opened its doors and recruited workers from the society, but the effect is not good.

After all, Optoelectronics is engaged in a high-tech industry, and has certain requirements for the technical literacy of employees.

The acquired employees may not have a high level of education, but they are no strangers to industrial production, adapt to the organization and discipline of the factory, and get started training faster, which is a compensation.

The new graduates in the society have lost this advantage.

In this era, there is a concept that cannot be understood in later generations, the establishment of cadres!

In slightly larger enterprises, there are two sets of personnel systems, the management of cadres is called the organization department or the organization section, and the management of workers is called the personnel.

Transition and work on behalf of others are all unique terms of this era.This is why the cadre-group relationship is derived.

Formally, therefore, it is impossible for college students to work as workers on the production line.

Even if it is a technical secondary school graduate, he or she will not find a job and will not be a worker.Once you enter this pit, your life is over.

Therefore, the Department of Optoelectronics can only start with some vocational schools and technical schools.However, these schools are all self-run enterprises, and there is no good source of students.

There is another option for Optoelectronics, which is to change the profession.Compared to junior high school dropouts or high school students who are 17 or 8 years old in society, they are relatively good, at least they are prohibited, and the age is also appropriate.

Due to the downturn in traditional industries, job placement for demobilized soldiers has become increasingly difficult.As soon as the mouth on the photoelectric side was opened, the other side began to move and sent a group of personnel over.

However, optoelectronics did not dare to recruit more such personnel. The first batch only recruited a few hundred people to try the water.

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In addition to the production line requiring skilled technical workers, the management personnel of the new production line are also needed.

Industrial workers have no experience, so it’s good to cultivate experience together.But the management team cannot be cultivated in a few months.

This situation has been encountered by the Optoelectronics Department once.

Optoelectronics was just established last year, and the entire company was actually braved by Zhang Yan alone.With the joining of Qian Dezhi and Bai Xuecheng successively and the regularization of optoelectronics, the problem will be alleviated.

However, this problem came back a year later, and it came on a larger scale.

The main reason is the unconventional development of the optoelectronic system.

The construction and acceptance of the second production line is one of the incentives.

Although the full-color LCD production line uses the concept of a pilot line, it is just like this. The total value of the equipment and civil engineering plants involved in a production line is also close to 200 million.

The total value of an LCD production line exceeds the total assets of "Huge Tech".It even exceeds the asset size of most companies in Bingcheng.

Under this circumstance, the number of personnel serving this line and the system architecture can be imagined.

This problem was not obvious on Line 1.This is because the Quancai Company was the production line at the time, but when the second line came, the problem became apparent.

First of all, the same management team needs to be copied.

Secondly, there is also a need for structural adjustments within Full Color.

In the past, Baixuecheng was both the general manager of Quancai and the person in charge of the production line, but now, the responsibilities of the two are separated.

In addition, due to the presence of other investors, this new production line is actually equivalent to a subsidiary company. All kinds of financial affairs, inventory, etc., must be accounted independently.

The same is true for number three and number four.