Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

The branch factory leaders attached great importance to today's trial run. They went to the branch factory's workshop after lunch.

Next

Secretary Zhu and Factory Director Wu were both closely monitoring the trial operation of the branch factory.

Li Feng is currently one of the project leaders, and he is directing the technicians and employees in the production of ceramic vases.

The mold for this ceramic vase was designed by Li Feng based on the most basic current design.

There are many types of them, after all, they are designed to handle complex and varied vessel shapes.

So no matter what, there will be more and more different shapes and sizes in the future.

In the following period, the workers carried out production in an orderly manner. They were all trained and were working on an assembly line, so in fact, there was not much difficulty involved.

The purpose of the current trial production is to record the problems that occur during the production process, and then make improvements after the records are completed.

Since this was a trial run, quite a few problems still occurred during the production process.

However, these were all minor issues for Li Feng.

After Li Feng had Wang Hong and others record these issues, he then had them continue production.

quickly

The first batch of vases was produced quickly.

At this moment, both Factory Director Wu and Secretary Zhu were very surprised by the production speed of the assembly line.

Logically speaking, a vase like this would take about an hour and a half to make if it were made by a potter and a craftsman.

On this assembly line, they can produce about a hundred pieces per hour, a speed that greatly surprised them.

If Director Zheng and Secretary Chen saw this scene, they would also be surprised.

However, the two of them went to the ministry again today.

Based on the timing, they shouldn't be back until around evening.

After the production line produced the first batch of samples, Li Feng led the technicians to debug the machine again to address the problems that arose.

Machines like this certainly can't be made overnight, so more debugging is also a solution.

After Li Feng and his technicians resolved the problems, he had the production line produce another bottle of porcelain, during which some minor issues naturally arose.

this is normal phenomenon.

After Li Feng had them record the details, he instructed the laborers to take the two batches of porcelain to be fired and then check the results.

Because no matter what, porcelain is all about the finished product.

As long as the finished product is fine, then everything is negotiable.

The production line now produces low-temperature porcelain, so the firing process is faster than for regular porcelain.

Moreover, this time, a kiln was specially set aside to fire the porcelain produced by the branch factory, so the porcelain was fired in eight or nine hours.

This speed made Li Feng feel that it was very fast.

But that's also a good thing.

However, when Li Feng saw the finished product, he couldn't help but frown.

He noticed that the glaze of the porcelain showed signs of cracking, but otherwise there were no problems.

After discovering the problem, Li Feng immediately reported it to the two factory leaders.

After listening to Li Feng's report, the two factory leaders began to think about how to solve the problem.

Just then, Secretary Chen and Factory Director Zheng returned from the ministry.

Factory Director Wu then began to report the events of the day to Factory Director Zheng and Secretary Chen.

After Director Zheng listened to Director Wu's report...

His expression also became serious, after all, this concerned his future, so he walked directly towards the finished products that had been fired.

He then picked up a piece of porcelain and began to examine it.

Sure enough, he saw the cracked area. He then put down the porcelain piece he was holding and picked up another one to examine. Both had almost the same problem.

He then called Li Feng to his side and asked him a question.

"Do you have any ideas on how to solve this problem?"

At this moment, Director Zheng's voice was very calm, as if he believed that this matter could definitely be resolved.

After hearing what Director Zheng said, Li Feng, who was standing next to him, pondered for a moment before offering his suggestion to Director Zheng.

"Director Zheng".

"I think we should first find out the cause of the cracking."

"Only by finding the cause of the cracking can I solve the problem."

After listening to Li Feng's suggestion, Director Zheng nodded slightly.

Factory Director Zheng then turned his gaze to Assistant Han, who was not far away, and immediately asked Assistant Han a question.

"Xiao Han."

"Has the glaze maker finished get off work yet?"

Assistant Han immediately glanced at his watch and then replied to Director Zheng.

"not yet".

Upon hearing Assistant Han's reply, Director Zheng immediately instructed Assistant Han to summon all the glaze-making masters in the factory.

After hearing Director Zheng's instructions, Assistant Han immediately went to the old factory to call the glaze-making master.

About ten minutes later.

The factory's six glaze-making masters arrived quickly.

The six glaze makers greeted the factory leaders, and then quickly went to Director Zheng.

At this moment, Director Zheng immediately addressed the six glaze-making masters in front of him.

“Masters, you are all experienced glaze makers. Please take a look and tell me what caused the cracks in the glaze of these porcelain pieces.”

Upon hearing what Director Zheng said, the glaze makers immediately nodded and replied.

"Okay, Director Zheng."

"We will definitely find out the reason."

Next

Several glaze masters picked up the porcelain pieces produced on the assembly line one by one and began to examine them.

After about ten minutes, they put down the porcelain they were holding and then began to exchange their opinions.

Finally, they came to a conclusion.

That means the glaze wasn't soaked long enough.

When Director Zheng, Secretary Chen, and several other factory leaders learned the reason, they were stunned. They hadn't expected the reason to be so simple: the glaze hadn't been soaked in the clay body long enough.

Li Feng was also somewhat taken aback when he heard the result.

However, he quickly recovered.

After Li Feng and the other glaze masters finished speaking, he immediately spoke to Director Zheng.

"Director Zheng!"

"I know what to do."

After hearing Li Feng's answer, Director Zheng immediately gave Li Feng instructions.

"Now that you know what to do, just do it."

"Work hard."

Li Feng nodded, then led the technicians to debug part of the glaze dipping production line. (End of Chapter)