Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

If Director Jiang had attended the Ministry of Light Industry's symposium, then it would be normal for him to know this.

Then Li Feng looked at Director Jiang and nodded slightly.

"Although I did not design computer control devices on several production lines at the Five Star Ceramics factory, I reserved the possibility of upgrades."

"Because my idea is that in the future, production lines will be almost entirely automated with computer control, I left room for upgrades so that when the technology is ready, we can upgrade directly."

"This way, we won't have to redesign the production line."

"My goal is to achieve fully automated computer production in the future at the lowest possible cost."

After Li Feng finished speaking, his words made everyone in the room look at him with newfound respect, especially the experts who had attended the seminar. They hadn't expected that the production lines Li Feng designed would have such profound significance.

Although at first they thought Li Feng was a young man and that his assembly line design would be full of flaws, after observing and questioning him, they completely dispelled this idea. Li Feng's expression, whether in terms of design or mechanical knowledge, was just like that of professors like themselves.

Therefore, after attending the seminar hosted by the Ministry of Light Industry, they completely abandoned their previous views on Li Feng and began to treat him as an equal to themselves.

Among the attendees, the most surprised were Li Feng's classmates. They never expected Li Feng to be so amazing; he looked to be only about twenty years old.

We can design production lines now!

Is he really that good?

Although they knew Li Feng worked in a ceramics factory, they assumed he was doing administrative work. But to their surprise, Li Feng was able to design an assembly line. You just got into university like us! Even though we're in mechanical engineering, we've only been studying mechanical engineering for a month or two at most.

You're so amazing, how are we supposed to handle you?
At this moment, the students in the Mechanical Engineering Department were all looking at Li Feng as if he were a monster.

Li Feng's teachers, on the other hand, showed their appreciation for him. Although they had felt that Li Feng was very outstanding in mechanical engineering when they taught him before, they were impressed by his abilities.

They were very happy to learn that Li Feng could design a production line for finished products.

The finished production line must be reviewed by an expert group, and after construction is completed, it will be inspected and accepted.

The fact that Li Feng's assembly line design passed the review and questioning of a large number of experts is enough to demonstrate Li Feng's skill level.

After listening to Li Feng's explanation, Director Jiang found Li Feng's idea and the layout of the Five Star Ceramics Factory to be very innovative. After all, in terms of current design concepts, it is rare to see an upgrade that anticipates the future.

This requires a very long-term perspective.

Regarding what Li Feng just mentioned, the concept of using electronic computers to control the full automation of the production line is still achievable.

However, the purpose of doing this is indeed to save on labor costs, which allows for uninterrupted production. As long as production continues, this can indeed improve efficiency, and it is a very high efficiency.

After hearing Li Feng's idea, Director Jiang thought it was excellent.

At that moment, he felt that the concept Li Feng was talking about was the answer he was looking for.

Then Director Jiang nodded to Li Feng.

"Your idea is indeed very novel, and it is definitely a direction worth trying."

"Now that you have this idea, how do you plan to realize it?"

Director Jiang's words startled Li Feng. He hadn't expected Director Jiang to ask him this question. Li Feng's idea stemmed from the existence of a mature automation system in later generations.

China, in particular, is a country with a highly developed industrial system, having formed a complete industrial chain for both low-end and high-end products. As a result, it hardly needs to manufacture any parts, except for parts that are subject to special quality control by other countries. However, as long as there are design blueprints, it can manufacture almost anything.

Moreover, the Chinese have a tradition of making knock-offs.

That means buying other people's products, disassembling them, and then extracting design drawings to drive down their prices.

However, this can only be replicated if there is a complete industrial chain and supply chain.

Automated production lines are the future trend, because in the future, it will be almost impossible to operate them manually when making high-precision products.

Because if it's done manually, the precision is definitely not enough.

Therefore, computer control provides a very reliable solution to the problem of improving accuracy.

Because in later generations, whether it is chips, circuit boards or high-precision equipment, they are basically produced by full automation, and people are basically involved in the design.

The two graphics card manufacturers in the United States in later generations did not participate in production, but only in design.

All assembly line operations are outsourced.

However, only a handful of countries have the capability to outsource such work.

Even so, it has provided a large number of jobs for the local area.

Therefore, in later generations, fully automated assembly lines are basically the future direction.

Then Li Feng looked at Director Jiang and answered him.

"Our country's CNC machine tool systems are basically all from Western countries."

"The programming and input of CNC machining are all done by their lathe system."

"Because our country lacks this technology, we can only purchase their systems to perform relatively high-precision machining processes."

"With their CNC system, machine tools can basically process any part."

"I believe that in the future, whether it is an assembly line or some high-precision industrial products, they will definitely be inseparable from these."

"Therefore, I think that at present, we can only rely on the CNC systems of Western countries to carry out automated assembly line operations."

"Of course! Assembly line operations relying on CNC systems cannot compare with computers."

"It's just that the technology is currently limited, so we can only develop this first."

"When computer technology matures in the future, computers can replace this numerical control system for assembly line operations."

Li Feng knew that computers in this era were still relatively bloated.

Moreover, there is no dedicated software for doing these things.

In the future, when computers have become more advanced, I will be able to use programming to design software to control the production line.

Currently, it's practically impossible to control an assembly line with a computer. (End of Chapter)