Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 65 Spring Factory Trial Production and New Base Planning (Additional Updates Requesting Votes)

After shutting down the experimental reactor, Wang Jiankun returned to his bedroom on the ground floor and took out his text machine to check the information.

My father sent a letter asking him when he could return to the commune to provide guidance on the use of spring production equipment. Today, the commune secretary and the factory director came to see him, hoping that Wang Jiankun would come to see whether the equipment installation met the standards, and then hope that Wang Jiankun could come to provide guidance.

After all, it was the first time to use it. Although the factory manager had read the detailed SOP and schematic diagrams provided by Wang Jiankun, he was still a little worried about damaging the equipment.

Before, when Wang Jiankun transported the equipment to the recycling station and asked his father to transport it to the team's factory, he considered that he had to go to Yangzhou and go to the East China Sea to extract the fire, so the original plan to train the factory director and key employees first could not be carried out.

So a detailed SOP was made, and Tomoko was asked to help make many schematic diagrams, so that the factory manager could guide the employees to conduct trial production according to these materials.

Unexpectedly, the commune secretary and the factory director were worried about breaking down such advanced equipment, because it was obviously imported from abroad (in order to cover it up, many places used English labels, and Chinese stickers were pasted on the sides.)
The team spent 8 yuan to get this set of equipment, which must have cost a lot of favors, not to mention foreign exchange. If it breaks down and cannot be used, the development of the commune will be interrupted.

That was why they urged Wang Jiankun to go back to guide production, and also so that if the equipment broke down, they could ask Wang Jiankun to save face and ask overseas relatives for help.

Wang Jiankun immediately understood the concerns of the commune secretary and the factory director, and after some thought, he wrote back to his father.

Ask him to convey to the commune secretary and the factory director that he will arrive at the commune at 8 o'clock tomorrow night and start debugging that evening. Ask the factory director to complete all the preparations before debugging according to the instructions in the materials, otherwise he will have to go back next week for guidance.

My father must have been waiting for Wang Jiankun's reply, so as soon as he sent the message, he replied to indicate that he had received it and would go to Fengshan early the next morning to inform the commune secretary and the factory director and ask them to make preparations.

He then checked the message from his mother, who told him that the safe was very useful and she felt more at ease now.

She also told him that someone named Xue Wenqing had sent her a telegram ordering 4.8 lighters, including 4 green-shelled ones, 4 galvanized ones and 4 brass ones, and agreed to deliver them to Dexing next Thursday, packaged for overseas export. She asked Wang Jiankun how to respond.

Wang Jiankun then recalled that he had told Xue Wenqing before that he only needed to send the order telegram to his mother in the future, and that he would deliver the goods on time after confirming that the payment had been received, but he forgot to tell his mother in advance.

So I told my mother to prepare the goods as required, and wait for my uncle's telegram to reply that the payment had arrived next Wednesday before shipping the goods. If the payment had not arrived, then don't ship the goods yet and wait for Wang Jiankun to come back to deal with it.

The mother was also awake. She replied to say that she had received the message and asked Wang Jiankun to go to bed early.

Seeing that it was getting late, I turned on the radio and sent a message to my uncle, asking him to help contact Peter to find out the time the payment for the goods would arrive, and then call Hong Kong to verify whether it had arrived on time. Regardless of whether it had arrived on time, I had to send a telegram to my mother before Wednesday.

Then I sent a message to my uncle asking him if he needed US dollars. I had another batch of payments for goods deposited into my account. If he needed it, I could reply to him and I could transfer some of it to him.

Wang Jiankun went to rest without waiting for the two men to reply. The radio station was not turned off, and if there was a reply, it would automatically record the information.

Wang Jiankun integrated a text machine into the radio, which can record the received radio information and convert it into text information. In this way, there is no need to guard the radio all the time, just let the radio terminal stay on standby.

This integrated accessory has been sent to my elder and younger uncles, so they can also communicate conveniently using the radio without having to make particularly difficult phone calls.

On Saturday morning, Wang Jiankun saw the letters from his elder uncle and younger uncle. His elder uncle said he had received them and told him the good news that the agent of the Hong Kong company selected by his younger uncle would go to Guangzhou to meet with him today to discuss the establishment of an electronic watch factory.

Wang Jiankun was very happy to see this. After waiting for so long, the cooperative factory was finally started. Next, he would put the manufacturing of some precision equipment for the factory on the agenda.

Because the other drawings and general equipment requirements were sent to my uncle and he was asked to find manufacturers to purchase them, and he chose a resistor manufacturing factory in the district as his partner, which has a ready-made factory building. If the negotiations go smoothly, the precision equipment provided by Wang Jiankun must be shipped to Guangzhou in December.

Looking at the packed schedule, Wang Jiankun felt that there was not enough time, but his apprentices had not grown up yet, and his abilities could not be exposed now. So he might as well endure this hardship. After all, there is an old saying that only those who endure hardships can become the best. As a pioneer, he might as well take up the heavy burden first.

After expressing his feelings, Wang Jiankun went to school and checked the test questions of his seven major disciples in the morning.

Because they are all talented and hardworking, they did not make many mistakes on the test. Those who could not answer the questions did not cheat, but wrote down what they did not understand so that Wang Jiankun would know.

Let Zhizi give each person a new study guide and test questions based on each person's answers and the results of the previous tests.

I went back to the base at noon to prepare all the materials and brought them to school, asking Fang Guihua to distribute them. Then I told him that I had to go home and let them make their own arrangements on Sunday. Anyone who wanted to go to the recycling station could go, but they had to pay attention to safety when using experimental tools and equipment.

Fang Guihua said he knew and told him not to worry, they would use it according to the specifications, and several people were preparing to manufacture equipment for making cotton cores, which would be driven by electric motors and would be more than 10 times more efficient than manual labor.

Wang Jiankun encouraged him and said that if the experiment was successful, he would give a reward, and if someone purchased it, he would also pay for the manufacturing costs and intellectual property fees.

When the bell rang for the end of get out of class in the afternoon, Wang Jiankun ran to the school gate to buy some fried noodles.

After eating the fried noodles, I rode my motorcycle to Fengshan Commune. This time I was in a hurry to get back, so I didn’t buy any delicious food to bring home. I’ll go to Yangzhou next week to buy some local specialties.

It was already dark when they set out, and Wang Jiankun didn't dare to ride too fast at night, so he didn't arrive at the commune's spring factory until 8 o'clock.

Secretary Cheng of the commune and the factory director Cha Jianliang had been waiting in the factory, and the workers at several workstations were also on standby.

Hearing the sound of the motorcycle, everyone in the factory came to the door. When they saw Wang Jiankun get off the motorcycle and park it, the commune secretary and director Cha hurried forward and said with concern: "Comrade Jiankun, you have worked hard. Why don't you go to the cafeteria to eat something first?"

"No, I just came back from dinner in the county town. Where is the pool? I'll just wash up. I'm covered in dust and dirt all the way."

"Come with me. There's no rush. Let's go to the canteen to wash up and drink some hot tea. We'll need you to guide the production later. It's not good to be in low spirits." The commune secretary and factory director Cha said as they led Wang Jiankun to the canteen.

The cafeteria is a separate room that can accommodate about 30 people eating together.

Wang Jiankun went to the sink to wash and dust himself off. The commune secretary told the canteen staff to make tea and bring a plate of white cake.

After washing up, Wang Jiankun sat at the table and chatted with Secretary Cheng and Director Cha while drinking tea.

Secretary Cheng praised him again and thanked him for helping to get such advanced equipment.

Director Cha was more pragmatic. He talked about the equipment installation status and the current material preparation situation, and told Wang Jiankun that the electric furnace had been turned on for preheating.

Wang Jiankun felt relieved when he heard this. If the electric furnace had not been preheated in advance, he would have had to wait in vain for more than four hours until midnight.

After eating two pieces of white cake and drinking the tea, he got up and went to the production workshop.

While drinking tea just now, Wang Jiankun had used his superpowers to check the equipment installation status and found that Director Cha was doing his job quite properly and had done everything according to the information provided by Wang Jiankun.

So Wang Jiankun, Director Cha, and Secretary Cheng took a quick look along the production line.

Then he asked Director Cha to call the workers from each workstation over and explained the precautions for debugging the production line later. He emphasized safety issues and reminded them to protect themselves first when encountering danger.

The commune secretary frowned a little after hearing the last words, but he couldn't say anything to him in public. In his opinion, these equipments were very important, and the equipments should be protected first, and personal safety should be considered later. After speaking, he asked the people at each workstation to return to their posts. Wang Jiankun first came to the raw material storage area. These raw materials were all handled by him, so they could be used directly.

Ask the workers in the feeding process to weigh and feed the materials according to the steps previously trained by the factory manager.

It was obvious that the workers were still very unskilled, and with Secretary Cheng and Director Cha standing next to him, he seemed a little nervous.

Wang Jiankun didn't say anything, just watched him slowly operate the equipment according to the steps, putting the materials into the electric furnace one by one.

After the electric furnace is put into use, this process is basically completed, and the workers only need to look at the indicator panel and warning lights.

About half an hour before the molten steel is ready, Wang Jiankun came to the rolling process.

Ask the three workers in this process to open the equipment according to the SOP steps, let the equipment idle first, turn on the cooling water, and check the equipment operation status and whether the water volume in the water outlet is up to standard.

Then we come to the winding process and ask the workers to turn on the equipment to see whether the winding machine is running stably.

Then stop the equipment and wait until the steel wire comes out of the rolling process before operating again.

After testing the equipment, the three returned to the electric furnace. After a few minutes, the warning light turned green and beeped, which was a signal that the molten steel had been successfully melted.

The worker looked at the warning light and then turned to look at Wang Jiankun and the other two. Wang Jiankun asked the workers to operate according to the methods they had received during the training.

After hearing what he said, the worker came to his senses and went to the electric furnace to push the equipment for transferring molten steel over.

After opening the electric furnace door, extend the equipment into the electric furnace, take out the crucible and then close the electric furnace, then push the equipment to push the crucible filled with molten steel to the feeding port of the rolling equipment.

Workers in the rolling process open the feed port according to the procedure, let the workers pour the molten steel in the crucible, and then close the feed port.

The rolling equipment starts the rolling process, the molten steel is squeezed out into a cylindrical shape and then rolled into steel bars with a diameter of two millimeters by the roughing mill and the finishing mill.

At this time, the workers in the drawing process introduce the steel rod into the mouth of the drawing equipment, and the steel rod is drawn into steel wire.

The steel wire is still several hundred degrees hot when it comes out, and the workers use pliers to guide it into the cooling water tank, and steam instantly rises from the tank.

After the steel wire was cooled to room temperature, it was taken out from the other end of the water tank by workers. The diameter of the steel wire was quickly tested with a caliper. The first few meters were too thick and failed. It was not until the 18th meter that it passed.
The worker cuts it from the qualified part and hands the cut part to the worker of the winding equipment.

The worker on the winding equipment fixes the wire head to the wooden shaft and then starts the equipment to wind it up.

The drawing process in the rolling process is the most important. You must always pay attention to the thickness of the steel wire and adjust the drawing speed.

During this period, Wang Jiankun only gave the order twice to ask the workers to make corrections; the rest of the time the workers were the ones doing the operations.

The quality of workers was taken into consideration when this equipment was designed, and the operating steps and the degree of manual intervention were simplified as much as possible.

Moreover, the factory manager had provided adequate training, so even though the workers were not very skilled yet, all the steps were carried out in accordance with the SOP, so the steel wire production process was debugged and completed.

After waiting for an hour and a half, the first roll of steel wire was completed.

After the workers replaced the shaft, Wang Jiankun asked the operator of the spring winding equipment to come and take the freshly-made steel wire to the winding equipment, and let him wind the semi-finished spring according to the procedure.

The worker fixes the wire shaft, finds the wire head, feeds it into the equipment feed port, and presses the switch. The wire is pulled forward, and several winding heads wind the wire into a spring shape according to the steps. The wound spring is cut off and falls into the receiving box below.

The worker picked up the spring and checked it with the equipment. All indicators were within the acceptable range, so the equipment continued to operate.

During this period, a newly produced spring must be tested every 5 minutes to prevent batch defects caused by equipment failure.

In order to complete the debugging quickly, after 2 semi-finished springs are produced, the workers in the carburizing and annealing process will take them away for the next step.

This process is also very simple. Put the spring into the container, add a certain amount of carbon powder into the container to cover it, put the container into the annealing furnace, close the furnace door, and let the annealing furnace heat up and cool down according to the program.

At this point, the debugging work is completed. As long as the semi-finished products are qualified, it is unlikely that there will be problems with the finished products.

Wang Jiankun looked at the time and saw that it was already midnight. He told Director Cha and Secretary Chen about the debugging situation.

In fact, they had been watching from the side and knew that the equipment's first trial production had been mostly successful, so they were just waiting four hours to check whether the finished springs were qualified.

Secretary Cheng asked Wang Jiankun to go with him to the commune dormitory to rest, and asked Director Cha to watch the production line at night and they would come back to check it out early the next morning.

The next day, Wang Jiankun got up at around 5 o'clock, washed up, and went to the factory canteen with Secretary Cheng to eat a bowl of shredded pork noodles.

Director Cha had not slept all night and his eyes were red, but he was very happy at the moment. After inspection, the annealed and cleaned springs met the standards given by Wang Jiankun.

Secretary Cheng was also very happy to hear Director Cha say this, and said he would report the good news to the county party committee and invite them to visit the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Wang Jiankun told Secretary Cheng about what he knew about the conservative faction in the county committee, and said that these equipments were purchased from Europe and the United States, and it might be bad if they were seen by those leaders.

When Secretary Cheng heard him say this, he realized that he had not considered this situation and had to ask Wang Jiankun to remind him.

He took back his words and said that this time he would not invite any leaders to visit and inspect, but would just hold a celebration party in the team, and leaders of all communes and production teams would come to visit and learn.

By the way, they also wanted to promote Wang Jiankun, but Wang Jiankun declined, saying that he was still a student and wanted to study hard in school and did not want to be a role model.

Seeing that Wang really didn't want to be in the spotlight, Secretary Cheng said that he would take care of the Wang family production team and add more responsibilities to his father.

Wang Jiankun agreed and thought that it would be a good idea for his father to come to the commune and be a small leader.

The fleet is now relatively mature, and he only needs to run around occasionally to collect payments for goods.

After bidding farewell to Secretary Cheng and Director Cha who tried to keep him, Wang Jiankun returned to the Wangjia Production Team.

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