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Chapter 1331 A Small Shock to Industry (First Update, Please Subscribe)
A skirt is worth 10000 kilograms of grain.

What about a car?
"Representative Xu, how much does your 'big BMW' cost?"

On the way to the factory, a representative from another trading company sitting next to Jin Liangming asked curiously:

The so-called "Big BMW" is the BMW 600, which made its stunning debut at the Chang'an International Auto Show in 600 and caused a sensation. This new top model, with its unique design and advanced technology, meets the highest standards of exclusive representative models. The BMW became a star model at the time with its excellent performance and exquisite design. It caused a sensation in the market as soon as it was unveiled. Foreign media commented that it was "the most beautiful car in the world."

In fact, it was natural that it caused a sensation at that time. Mercedes-Benz was still struggling in the ruins and Europe was still rebuilding. This luxury car, which looked almost identical to the Mercedes-Benz, represented the highest level of the automotive industry. It became a benchmark for luxury cars and established BMW's status as a luxury car.

Over the past decade or so, it has become popular all over the world, becoming the ceremonial car and special car for senior officials in many countries, and even replacing Rolls-Royce as the first choice of the rich.

However, in the whole Hong Kong Island, only a few big families can afford the "Big BMW". Those who run trading companies don't even dare to call themselves "bosses", so naturally they can't afford to ride in the "Big BMW". But when they come to this place, they can't help but ask.

After all, opportunities are rare!

This time, Zhonghe Company invited these companies to visit Nanyang for an inspection, and all the expenses were borne by them. It is not known when they will come to Nanyang next time.

"15 yuan! If it's a Pullman model, it would cost 18 yuan..."

Xu Li's answer made everyone in the car gasp in surprise. This is too expensive!
If a skirt is worth 10000 kilograms of grain.

Then a car is worth at least more than 100 million kilograms of grain!
For a moment, everyone was silent. They really couldn't understand why all these things were so expensive. In the end, they could only attribute everything to "excessive extravagance of the rich."

After all, people can never imagine what they have never seen, and these top luxuries are exactly what they have never understood.

Soon, they arrived at their destination - Xingye District.

"Please look, these are the earliest industrial zones in Chang'an. In the early days, most of these factories were made of bricks and tiles, and most of the factories were low-tech enterprises such as clothing factories and toy factories..."

Pointing at the factories outside the car window, Xu Li introduced these factories and talked about the history of industrial development in Nanyang. In fact, it is nothing more than an industrial upgrade, from the initial light textile industry to the current household appliances and mechanical products.

During the subsequent tour, they visited several factories producing household appliances such as rice cookers, washing machines, color TVs and refrigerators. In those factories, they watched the workers assembling and following the production process on the assembly lines. While visiting with great interest, they also asked about some production matters.

"Deputy Xu, I see they are so careful when they are working, not in a hurry at all. Aren't they afraid of having their salary deducted?"

The reason why he asked this was because he had long been accustomed to the rushed production in the factories on Hong Kong Island.

But here it seems "slow".

The others also became curious and turned their eyes to Xu Li.

Although Zhonghe Company is not a manufacturing enterprise, it has cooperated with related enterprises for a long time, and Xu Li is very familiar with production management matters.

“This is the correct way to produce!”

Xu Li's answer made them stunned and asked:

"How do you say this?"

"Nothing is more important than people. Even if the production speed is a little slower, we must ensure the safety of people. Between efficiency and people, we must ensure that people are not injured."

Fearing that they didn't understand, Xu Li continued to explain:
"It's like this. If we rush the work, it will definitely improve production efficiency, but it will also inevitably lead to an increase in accidents and physical injuries.

Although all companies will purchase additional work-related injury insurance for their employees, there will be compensation if physical disability is caused by work-related injuries.

However, the company attaches great importance to labor safety. There are safety engineers in the workshop who check at any time. As for production efficiency, this is nothing. In comparison, it is a big deal if an employee is injured. The accident report is filled out by the safety engineer. The injured worker is fine. The ambulance sends him to the hospital for treatment. Everyone from the workshop director to the foreman will be investigated. Finally, a corresponding investigation report will be issued to find the cause of the accident. If it is an equipment problem, then the equipment needs to be eliminated or improved..."

After thinking for a while, Xu Li emphasized:
"As long as someone is injured, it is a major incident. There will be official agencies investigating and eventually imposing corresponding penalties. Companies that provide work-related injury insurance will also increase their premiums.

For enterprises, this is the real burden. In terms of cost, the cost of work-related injuries and even the profits brought by rushing work are lost.

Therefore, when training workers, the first thing to emphasize is safe production. For example, some workstations require workers to wear protective goggles and masks. If a worker does not wear them, he or she will definitely be punished accordingly. After all, human safety and health are the most important.

Under the premise of ensuring this, a reasonable work intensity should be formulated. At the same time, rushing the work will also affect the quality of the goods. For enterprises, quality is the most important compared to quantity, because inferior products will affect the reputation of the enterprise and even Nanyang manufacturing.

So they will look for a balance between efficiency, quality and other aspects.”

When everyone heard this, they were all speechless, because usually for a factory, the way to make money is to work overtime and increase the intensity of work.

But here, they got completely different answers.

"How can we guarantee the profit of the product?" "Nanyang products are famous for their high quality and reasonable price. If we sell them at a higher price, we will make a profit."

“Because of the good quality, it is expensive!”

Yes, this is the fundamental reason. As for things like workers' safety, they know it very well - it's not because the boss is kind, but because there is punishment. If there is no punishment, how can those bosses care about the lives of workers?

Although sometimes they would raise some questions, more often they were surprised by the modern machines they saw. In a factory, they saw a worker standing in front of a large box, only occasionally looking inside through the glass window, so they asked:

"What are you doing?"

“We are using machining centers to produce auto parts.”

Xu Li explained:
"This CNC machining center is based on a CNC horizontal boring and milling machine with an automatic tool changer added, so that the workpiece can be clamped once and then subjected to multiple processes such as milling, drilling, boring, reaming and tapping. During the machining process, no human intervention is required."

After thinking about it, he deliberately changed the way he put it to make it easier to understand:
"Just press a button and the product will be produced automatically. The workers only need to install and place the workpieces!"

His explanation surprised all these people, and they all looked at the work in the box through the glass window - accompanied by the sound of metal cutting, the workpiece was processed into a certain shape, and the tool was changed and adjusted automatically during the process. All this completely subverted their imagination.

When the processing was completed and the workers took out the processed parts, a member of the accompanying group said in surprise:
“Is this the part that this machine produces? Is it accurate enough?”

"The scrap rate of workpieces produced by CNC machine tools is very low, and quality inspection is not even required."

As soon as Xu Li finished speaking, a worker next to him explained.

"Sir, it does need quality inspection. Every part must pass quality inspection before it can leave the factory. It's just that its yield rate is higher. The difference from ordinary machine tools is that it is not affected by the workers' experience."

This is the fundamental reason why Nanyang developed CNC machine tools. Although Nanyang introduced a group of skilled workers from Japan and Germany at that time, it still needed to train its own workers. Workers, especially those in the machinery manufacturing industry, needed a long period of training to become skilled technicians.

In contrast, CNC machine tools are operated through computer control systems, which are simpler than manual operation of traditional machine tools. Ordinary workers can also easily operate them, and product quality is minimally affected by workers' experience, making it easier to achieve high-precision processing.

For this reason, after the Yongding University laboratory invented the CNC machine tool more than ten years ago, various machinery companies began to conduct all-round research on CNC machine tools. After more than ten years of development, not only have CNC machine tools been put into practical use and CNC machining centers have been successfully developed, but the level of mechanical processing in Nanyang has also been raised to a new level.

In fact, this is also the biggest feature of Nanyang’s industrial production - because of the shortage of human resources, they always try every means to develop machinery in order to replace manpower to a certain extent. Because the level of technical workers is limited, they will try every means to promote CNC machine tools, automatic welding machines, and even achieve breakthroughs in the field of industrial robots - BMW Automobile Company installed the first industrial robot, marking the official application of robots in the industrial field.

All this is largely due to the rapid development of Nanyang's electronics industry. Advanced electronic computers, coupled with the scarcity of resources, have given Nanyang an unparalleled drive to research and promote new technologies.

But many people are not aware of all this, especially these people. During the subsequent visit, although they were somewhat surprised, it was more of a cursory visit.

However, even with a cursory visit, they still felt the difference between Nanyang's industrial production and theirs.

The factory environment here is much better, especially in the production workshops. All materials are neatly arranged, there is no debris on the ground, and even the workers are not seen covered in grease. In some factories, the workers even wear white coats similar to those of doctors and wear hats on their heads.

During the visit, they will not only visit the production workshop, but also visit the canteen and other places.

When entering the cafeteria of Deli Company, Gao Bingjie unexpectedly saw a photo of his younger brother hanging on the wall. In the photo, he was wearing a space suit.

“It’s Binghan!”

The sudden photo made Gao Bingjie open her eyes wide in surprise and she walked over involuntarily. Perhaps because her action was too obvious, Xu Li followed her and explained.

"This is astronaut Gao Binghan. He was the first astronaut to carry a space pen into space. Well, it was invented by Deli Company, so you can see his photo here."

Then Xu Li emphasized:

"Moreover, after returning to Earth from space, he visited Deli Company and thanked the engineers for inventing the space pen."

However, Gao Bingjie obviously did not pay attention to his introduction. He just looked at the photos on the wall, looking at his brother whom he had not seen for many years.

At this time, Xu Li also noticed his strangeness and looked at him, then looked at the photos on the wall. At this time, someone seemed to have discovered something and said:

"Sister Gao, this person on the wall looks exactly like you."

More than just resemblance, they look like they were carved from the same mold.

Gao Bingjie nodded silently, thinking:

"He, he is my younger brother..."

(End of this chapter)