20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3343 J-SH04 Assembly Line

In response to Nakata Yukihiko's rebuttal, Zhao Changan smiled and did not argue with him. Adults only care about interests and not about winning or losing. Even if he was crazy, he would not teach Sharp how to avoid risks and rise up tirelessly.

Although Zhao Changan also knew that even if he said it, or even if he persuaded Nakata Yukihiko, who looked down on him, it would be useless.

The founder of Sharp, Hayakawa Tokuji, was born in 1893. As an adopted son of a sojourner, he had a hard teenage life. In 12, he founded the brand 'Ever-Sharp Pencil', which means 'no need to sharpen, the lead can always be kept sharp', and produced mechanical pencils.

He lost his wife and children in the Guanzhong earthquake in 23, sold his business heavily in debt, and then entered the radio industry, producing the first radio in Japan in 25.

It marked the beginning of a glorious 76-year history and has become an important chess piece and industry benchmark in the current economic landscape of the East.

After Hayakawa Tokuji reorganized his family, he had a daughter, Hayakawa Akiko, and adopted an orphan, Saeki Asahi. In 70, Saeki Asahi became the second-generation president of Sharp.

In 86, Haruo Tsuji, the elder brother of Machida Katsuhiko, the son-in-law of Saeki Akira, became the third-generation president of Sharp.

Twelve years later, 55-year-old Machida Katsuhiko became the fourth-generation president and clearly stated the goal of "replacing all televisions from CRTs to LCDs by 2005," and called for the company to "not be No. 1, but only be the only one!" in the LCD TV field.

Sharp said it was a family-owned business, and the line of control of the company was 'Tokuji Hayakawa - adopted son Saeki Asahi - son-in-law's brother Tsuji Haruo - son-in-law Machida Katsuhiko', but Tokuji Hayakawa's daughter and son-in-law were completely absent.

Moreover, as an old company with a history of 70 or 80 years, it implements a system similar to lifetime employment for its employees. It has numerous internal problems, and various small groups and forces are intertwined.

Katsuhiko Machida built the Kameyama LCD TV factory almost from scratch. This move seemed to be a heavy investment in the LCD TV industry, but in fact it was also a reshuffle of those previously entrenched forces and groups.

It can be said that the development of LCD panels, LCD TVs and their related supporting industries has become a matter of principle and alignment within Sharp.

Deliberately emphasizing the prospects of other industries is tantamount to deliberately denying Machida Katsuhiko's strategic goals in disguise.

In fact, this reshuffle was relatively successful. Semiconductors, white goods, and cameras were all experiencing rapid business shrinkage and marginalization, and many of the original mutual management modules in these fields were also successfully broken up by Katsuhiko Machida.

Only the mobile phone industry is still somewhat decent. Relying on Japan's unique closed telecommunications market, he lives a relatively comfortable life and serves as a placement for his loyal subordinates who have no benefit from the LCD industry.

This situation was ridiculed by many people in the Japanese business community. The more famous saying was that Sharp was doing the "straw man hit" (a baseball term, also known as the one-leg hit).

That is to say, when things are going well, one can do the work of two, and it is a model of an enterprise concentrating its core competitiveness advantages. However, once it encounters a setback, it is all over.

Six years later, in 07, Sharp had already established the 80/ rule in the LCD panel and LCD TV industries (LCD panels and LCD TVs accounted for more than % of the group's sales and profits), and Katsuhiko Machida had completely eliminated the influence of successive presidents in the company and possessed absolute authority.

He took the opportunity to retreat to the second line and manipulated behind the scenes. The 49-year-old head of the Kameyama factory, Mikio Katayama, became the fifth-generation president of Sharp.

The following year, in 08, the global financial crisis hit, and Sharp, which had been playing on one foot, began its first corporate deficit in 25 years since it started producing radios in 83.

1亿3000万日元虽然不多，然而在07年的时候，Sharp的销售额超过3兆日元，纯利润超过1000亿日元。而且这1亿3000万日元才只是Sharp大厦崩塌的开始。

Zhao Changan's silence made Nakata Yukihiko and others look down on Zhao Changan even more, because in their opinion, as the president of a company, once he insisted on his decision, even if it was proven to be wrong, he should try hard to argue for it instead of being so weak.

Several people looked at each other and felt it was ridiculous that this young Chinese man who was just a little bit handsome was actually a billionaire with a net worth of 3.4 billion US dollars and controlled BlackBerry, an excellent global unicorn high-tech company.

How did he do it? Was he just lucky?

This thought made several people feel a little unbalanced. The youngest of the three, Nakata Yukihiko, is almost 40 years old this year, Okuda Takashi is 48 years old, and Takahashi Okizo is also over 40 this year. They all joined Sharp right after graduating from university and worked hard for more than ten or twenty years to get to their current positions.

But this young man before them had reached heights that they would never dare to imagine in their entire lives in just less than four years.

Why?
"This factory is the assembly line for the J-SH04 micro camera. Currently, Sharp has no intention of restarting this production line, let alone developing iterative technology. However, this production line is still the most advanced production line for micro mobile phone cameras in the world."

Takahashi Kozo raised his voice to show his absolute confidence in the company's technological advancement.

"This manufacturing line brought together the company's most elite R&D team two years ago. It took nearly a year and a half, and many of the technologies used are the most cutting-edge technologies in the world, including a large number of machine tools. To this day, these technologies and equipment are still at the forefront of the world, and they are maintained as good as new."

Okuda Takashi thought that Zhao Changan might be a smart and rich man, so he began to introduce him enthusiastically.

"Let's go and have a look."

Zhao Changan looked very interested and took the lead to walk towards the silent and huge steel structure factory building.

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Just as Okuda Takashi said, although Zhao Changan didn't understand technical things, the equipment in this factory was indeed well maintained, just like new.

Of course, after the assembly line was built, the J-SH04 mobile phone was not manufactured for too long before it was stopped and other models of mobile phones were manufactured.

Because other models of mobile phones do not use the mobile phone camera function, this factory and assembly line have been in operation for less than three months at most, so it can be said that they are indeed new.

Hesitation involves too much professional knowledge. Even Takahashi Kozo, as the head of the mobile phone business department, does not understand it at all. Even Okuda Takashi of the film business department knows much more than him.

When Okuda Takashi mentioned some specialized terminology, the female translator was stuck again, just like before when it came to idioms.

Fortunately, she had a sudden inspiration and translated it randomly, and it seemed to make sense but it was so stiff that Yin Nanmi actually didn't understand it at all, but she still nodded.