Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 1284 Set up automobile factories in both China and the United States
It stands to reason that the Asian Machinery Factory has already been able to put into production cars, so why wait until now to put this matter on the agenda?

There are two biggest reasons for this, the first is the financial problem.

Putting into production cars requires a lot of money to build a production line. Many of the equipment used by the Asian Machinery Factory to produce trucks are no longer available and have to be repurchased.

The financial department once made an estimate. According to their estimate, the minimum investment required to build a production line capable of producing cars will not be less than 3000 million RMB.

A few months ago, the entire group company could not afford so much money, because at that time other companies under the group had already started the construction of the second or third phase of the project.

These additional investments spent most of the cash reserves of the group company, and because of this, there are only more than 30 yuan left in the company's accounts, so that Vice President Xue, who wanted to make trouble, failed to achieve much success .

As for now, Niu Xiaoqiang has deposited a huge amount of more than [-] million U.S. dollars in his bank account in the United States, and this money was paid to him by Rocky.

The remuneration was originally a total of 1000 million U.S. dollars. Niu Xiaoqiang lent 2000 million U.S. dollars to Lausanne, spent 200 million U.S. dollars to purchase the glass bulb production line, and invested nearly [-] million U.S. dollars in the research and development of laser welding technology.

In addition, he invested $5000 million to purchase spare parts for the automated car production line, which added up to more than $8000 million.

Including other minor expenses, the remaining funds in Niu Xiaoqiang's hands are about 500 million US dollars.

Of course, Niu Xiaoqiang is not without income, the batch of gold and silver brought him more than 1 million US dollars in mortgage loans.The money has not yet arrived, mainly because Niu Xiaoqiang has not submitted the legal source certificate of gold to Citibank.

Niu Xiaoqiang is going to ask Smith to issue this certificate. He has already contacted Smith and invited him to come to Aoshan as a guest, so as to implement this matter by the way.

Smith happened to have something to discuss with Niu Xiaoqiang, so he readily agreed.According to the itinerary, Smith will reach the concave mountain within three days.

As long as he gets the legal source certificate of gold issued by Smith, Niu Xiaoqiang can immediately get a mortgage loan of more than 1 million US dollars from Citibank.After the money arrives in the account, Niu Xiaoqiang can further expand his investment in the property under his name.

For example, according to his plan, he also plans to build an automobile factory in Boston.

The labor cost in the United States is so high, why did Niu Xiaoqiang set up a car factory in the United States?There are two main reasons.

One was because this was something he had promised Packard and Sam a long time ago.

The reason why the two of them support Niu Xiaoqiang's work is because Niu Xiaoqiang has the ability to restore the former glory of Packard Motors.If Packard Motor Company doesn't even have a car factory in the United States, how can it restore its former glory?
Out of this consideration, Sam and Packard have always asked Niu Xiaoqiang to set up a factory in the United States, even if he only opened a car factory, if he has sufficient funds.

This is the long-cherished wish of the two of them. If Niu Xiaoqiang deceives them, his execution ability in the company will be compromised in the future.Don't look at him as the boss, sometimes you need to establish a good relationship with important people in the company, otherwise he can't do it alone.

Secondly, Niu Xiaoqiang also has his own considerations.He has already divided the brands of cars. In the future, domestic production will mainly be low-end products, and American factories will be responsible for producing mid-to-high-end products.

The advantage of this is that it can save costs as much as possible. The production capacity of low-end products will undoubtedly be very high, and more people will buy them. The low domestic manufacturing cost can make low-end products more price-competitive. In the future, whether it is sold domestically or exported to foreign countries, it will be able to occupy an advantage in terms of price.

High-end products are different from low-end products. First of all, they are more expensive, so there will be a big difference in sales volume, and mass production is not required.

In addition, when Niu Xiaoqiang manages high-end brands, he must also consider the place of origin. China gives people the impression that it is very poor and backward.If high-end brands are put into production in China, it will have a great negative impact on the brand image.

If high-end brands are put into production in the United States, this negative impact will no longer exist.Because the United States itself is synonymous with high-end, its influence spreads all over the world, and it is the undisputed number one power in the world.

For this reason, it is also necessary for Niu Xiaoqiang to set up a car factory specializing in the production of high-end brands in the United States.

This is Niu Xiaoqiang's strategic plan for cars. The reason why he delayed the production of cars was not only because of the shortage of funds a few months ago, but also because he had not completed the research and development of the automated car production line.

Judging from the overall R&D progress, Niu Xiaoqiang has only completed 80.00% of the five design work, and the remaining 15.00% will take about one month to complete.

The production of trucks is different from the production of cars. Trucks are large in size, so the size of spare parts is relatively large. Although the requirements for precision are high during assembly, it is relatively easy for workers to operate.

Cars are different. The size of cars is much smaller than that of trucks, so the size of spare parts is also much smaller. In this way, the requirements for precision will only be higher. As long as there is a problem in a certain part, it will cause the whole The car also broke down.

Given the domestic industrial level, even the other two powerful automobile factories cannot ensure precision in the field of small automobile manufacturing.Although the Asian Machinery Factory has a better quality control system and the workers' skills are very good, but due to the shortcomings of industrial equipment, no matter how hard the workers work, they cannot ensure that the cars they produce can meet the design accuracy.

Niu Xiaoqiang has long been aware of this problem. When he wanted to design an automated automobile production line, he had the idea of ​​improving product quality through automated automobile production lines.

There are many benefits to an automated car production line, and Niu Xiaoqiang values ​​three of them the most.

The first is that it can greatly increase production.

The production capacity provided by an automated automobile production line is higher than the current five manual production lines of the Asian Machinery Factory, which is caused by the essential difference between manual labor and mechanical equipment.

The second is that the automated automobile production line can save a lot of labor. Even if the automation rate of the automobile production line designed by Niu Xiaoqiang is only 50.00%500, the number of workers that can be reduced has reached a terrifying [-] people. This shows the advantages of automated production. huge.

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