Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 911 Japanese workshop
After Duan Yun and his party rested in the hotel for one night, a Toyota van parked downstairs of the hotel in the early morning of the second day.

After Duan Yun, Zhao Xuewu and Wang Liang got into the car, the car started slowly and lost direction towards the suburbs of Tokyo.

Japan in 85 can be said to be in the most prosperous golden age of the country. Looking at the city skyline like a forest of high-rise buildings and reinforced concrete, Zhao Xuewu never looked back from the window. In his opinion, the city in front of him The scene is almost sci-fi.

Honjo Co., Ltd. is an electronics factory located 70 kilometers north of the center of Tokyo. From a distance, it doesn’t look that big. There are only two rows of factory buildings, but it is very clean. Enter the factory area.

There is a 2-story office building in front of the factory area. Immediately after the car stopped, two staff members greeted them immediately. After opening the car door, they bowed to Duan Yun and his party, and led them into the office area.

After entering the office area, it was a manager of Honjo Co., Ltd. who received Duan Yun and the three. Through introduction, he was named Asada Jiro, and he was a section manager of Honjo Co., Ltd.

Under the leadership of this Asada Section Chief, the three of Duan Yun entered the factory area for a tour.

Asada Jiro is a middle-aged man who looks about 30 years old. He wears a blue work cap and a sign on his chest. When facing Duan Yun and others, he always has a smile on his face and looks very enthusiastic.

Through Wang Liang's translation, Duan Yun and Zhao Xuewu soon had a certain understanding of this company.

Honjo Co., Ltd. belongs to a medium-sized electronics company in Japan. It was established in 1958. At present, the tape recorders and camera parts produced by their factory have been exported to the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain and other countries. The annual export volume is about 1400 million US dollars.

And when Zhao Xuewu learned that this company with an annual output value of more than 1400 million US dollars had only more than 80 employees, he was immediately stunned.

You know, like some large state-owned enterprises in Taiyuan, there are tens of thousands of employees at every turn, and the annual output value is only a few million or tens of millions, and the price is still in RMB. The big gap is conceivable of.

In addition, this company does not look like a factory. The cleanliness of the factory area and the factory building is unbelievable, and after entering the factory area, there is hardly any noise. The roaring scene was completely different.

Duan Yun also brought a camera for this visit, but when he was about to take pictures, Asada stopped him. Asada politely told Duan Yun that photography is not allowed in the workshop, only in the exhibition area.

The moment he stepped into the workshop gate, Zhao Xuewu beside Duan Yun was immediately stunned. Whether he had visited the workshops in Taiyuan or Shenzhen before, his inherent impression of the factory workshop was the noise of various machines running, and the workers silently Worked on the assembly line, but here his impression was completely subverted.

First of all, what Duan Yun and Zhao Xuewu heard was music. All kinds of music played one after another in the workshop. When they entered the core area of ​​the workshop, they heard the sound of some machines running.

The workshop scale of this factory is still very large. After entering the workshop, Duan Yun and Zhao Xuewu saw that there were wide aisles between various work areas, and some even formed intersections. Traffic lights, but different from the road, there is a painted white or red line on the ground of the aisle.

Duan Yun's former factory area.There are also red and yellow lines drawn on the internal floor, which are generally used to regulate the workers' travel routes. In addition, they are used to divide areas, restrict their behavior of shifting posts during working hours, and prevent raw materials from being lost and wasted.

However, after Asada's introduction, Duan Yun and Zhao Xuewu learned that these lines are marked for the robot to indicate the movement route when it moves.

Japan is quite developed in the robot industry. It experienced the cradle period in the 60s and the practical period in the 70s. Promote the use of robots.

The Japanese government and enterprises fully trust robots and boldly use robots. Robots are playing an increasingly obvious role in solving labor shortages, increasing productivity, improving product quality and reducing production costs. It has also become Japan's net growth rate and product competition. One of the core technologies of the capability.

The robot in the workshop of Honjo Co., Ltd. is not humanoid, but more like a small unmanned transport vehicle. It will automatically recognize the indicator lines on the ground, move back and forth to carry various materials, and arrive at the intersection. They will automatically stop when encountering red lights, and will give way when encountering workers. After Duan Yun and Zhao Xuewu entered the workshop, the music they heard was also made by these robots. Different types of robots have different music melodies, so when they When the robot is approaching, the workers will notice it. What surprised Zhao Xuewu is that these robots are all driven by electricity. When the robot realizes that it is running out of power, it will automatically drive to the power source to charge.

There are also a large number of machines and robotic arms on the production line. Basically all the electronic components on the circuit board are welded by machines, and the efficiency is very high. In a huge production line, only four or five workers go back and forth to inspect and maintain.

The high degree of automation here shocked Zhao Xuewu, and also surprised Duan Yun. Although he knew that Japanese companies had a very high degree of automation in his later generations, he did not expect that it would be in the mid-80s. to such an extent.

In addition, the quality of the workers here is also very high. Both the porters and the assemblers are working with all their strength. The production line will not stop, but move forward slowly. According to Asada’s introduction, any one in the factory If there is a problem in the link, they will pull the rope, and then the program will call the police, and soon someone will come to solve the problem. The efficiency is very amazing.

Duan Yun and Zhao Xuewu visited the factory very slowly, and Zhao Xuewu talked more and more. Through the translator, he also asked Asada a lot about the technology of the production line.

Duan Yun and Zhao Xuewu visited the latest and most advanced workshop production line of Honjo Co., Ltd., and after leaving this workshop, Qiantian led Duan Yun and others to another factory next to it, where they wanted to sell Eliminate production line equipment.

(End of this chapter)