The car giant started by marrying the daughter of the king

Chapter 231: Grab the cake, everyone shows their skills

Winter in the capital is not very friendly.

The sky is gray and the PM2.5 is probably going to be off the charts.

The blue sky and white clouds that people in later generations imagine are not so easy to see in winter.

However, the atmosphere inside the Chaoyang Motorcycle Factory was bustling with activity.

Some on-site workers, even those who do not have specific production tasks, are organized by the production management department to participate in various trainings.

In view of the future production layout and process requirements of the BMW 70, every worker is adapting to the installation of various parts in advance.

In order to give the workers an intuitive understanding of the objects to be installed, Jiang Hui even asked the R&D center to produce wooden parts and BMW 70 models based on the drawings.

In this way, Chen Chenxing can organize the production management department to continuously simulate the assembly status of various parts.

Although the task of the final assembly workshop is simply to assemble various parts into a motorcycle, the importance of this process is unquestionable.

If the assembly precision of an identical set of parts does not meet the standards, the life and quality of the final motorcycle will be very different.

If this gap is placed on the engine, it will be even more obvious.

The fuel consumption may be less than 1L per kilometers, but it is normal for the fuel consumption to increase by dozens of points due to your poor quality and the processing precision not meeting the requirements.

This is obviously not the situation that Jiang Hui wants to see.

"Director, the first batch of samples have arrived one after another. We can officially assemble the first batch of prototypes next week."

"At that time, we can fully verify whether there are any problems with the various design requirements on the drawings, and then notify suppliers as soon as possible to prepare for large-scale mass production."

As the Spring Festival is approaching, Liao Chengwen, who has been working for half a month, wants to assemble the BMW 70 prototype as soon as possible.

Now that we have finished products, everyone is more confident about this year's prospects.

"I'm not particularly worried about the other things. The key is that the installation accuracy of the engine workshop must meet the requirements."

"The design of our engine is a little different from that of other manufacturers, and the processing requirements of the supporting factory may not be able to fully meet our requirements."

Whether it is a motorcycle or an engine, in Jiang Hui's opinion, the most important thing now is the engine.

As long as the quality of the engine is good enough, everything will be fine.

On the contrary, everything else is false.

It just so happens that the quality of an engine is closely related to the design of parts, the selection of materials, the processing technology of parts and the final assembly method.

As long as one aspect is not done well, the final product will not be able to reach the design value.

"Our workers have been working hard to practice how to install various parts during this period."

"We even organized several competitions for tightening a single bolt to encourage workers to practice diligently and use similar tightening force each time to ensure consistent quality."

Although Liao Chengwen has not been working at the Chaoyang Motorcycle Manufacturing Factory for a long time, he has basically lived and eaten in the factory during this period and has a relatively good understanding of the overall situation.

He now urgently wants to prove that it was the right choice for him to leave the Capital Automobile Factory and come here.

So sometimes, even Jiang Hui himself feels ashamed of his serious attitude and hard work.

Many people in the factory are full of energy and want to accomplish something big so that people around them will look at them with admiration.

"As long as everyone is skilled, our first phase is to train a group of skilled workers, and then after mass production, use these skilled workers to quickly lead new workers to master assembly skills, so that our production capacity can be quickly increased."

"The domestic demand for motorcycles is still relatively strong. If the performance of our BMW 70 is better than that of its peers and the price is cheaper, the sales volume will definitely be worth looking forward to."

Jiang Hui knew that the first motorcycle produced by the Jialing Honda joint venture became a hit.

Even though a motorcycle costs more than 3,000 yuan, there is still a shortage of supply.

Of course, this is also because the motorcycles they produced in the early stages of their cooperation were assembled and produced using parts directly imported from abroad, so production capacity was limited.

Later, localization was gradually achieved and production capacity was increased.

However, what is more speechless is that after localization, the fuel consumption has also increased, which makes people speechless.

"That's true. There are more and more people doing business on their own, and many of them have some money on hand."

"People can't afford or buy cars that cost tens of thousands of yuan, but many people still want to buy motorcycles that cost thousands of yuan."

Liao Chengwen himself really wanted to own a motorcycle, but unfortunately, even with his salary, the pressure to buy one was too great.

Think about it, today's workers only earn 30 or 40 yuan a month, but a motorcycle costs about 3,000 yuan.

In later generations, a worker would earn at least three to four thousand yuan a month, or even five to six thousand yuan, but the price of an ordinary motorcycle was still three to four thousand yuan.

Income has increased a hundredfold, but the price of motorcycles has not changed much.

You can imagine how difficult it was to buy a motorcycle in 1981.

To be frank, riding a motorcycle now is definitely more impressive than driving an entry-level Mercedes-Benz or BMW sedan in the future.

It can even be compared to driving a Ferrari. …

While the Chaoyang Motorcycle Manufacturing Plant was working hard to promote the mass production of the BMW 70, the Jialing Plant far in the southwest was also working hard for its own motorcycle business.

After the conference in 1978, all of China’s military industrial enterprises faced the major issue of “military-to-civilian conversion”.

Jialing Factory boldly proposed the idea of ​​producing motorcycles.

Motorcycles were a technologically complex, high-end product at the time, with national production of less than 5 units, and almost all of them were military products.

In April 1979, Jialing began to set up a motorcycle research institute, vowing to build the first prototype in five months as a tribute to the 4 National Day.

There are no drawings or special equipment, and 80% of the materials are not compatible. The only way to do this is by the most primitive “copycat” style of surveying and imitation.

Some precision parts, such as engine pistons, can only be polished out bit by bit by craftsmen by hand.

Since plastic and rubber were not in stock, the workers used their old sandals as raw materials.

Four months later, China's first civilian motorcycle was born. Named CJ4, the Jialing motorcycle weighed 50 kilograms and had a speed of 100 to kilometers per hour.

However, the production cost of this motorcycle is as high as more than 3,000 yuan, and the quality is unstable. We can only sell a few at a low price and make no profit at all.

Faced with this situation, they combined the results of their previous overseas inspections and began to discuss the introduction of technology.

"Old Yuan, how's the talk with Honda going?"

After visiting motorcycle factories in several countries, factory manager Yin Zhiguo finally chose to cooperate with Honda Motor.

Of course, the two parties are still communicating on some details and have not yet officially signed the contract.

"It's almost done. Last week I visited Taro Shimahara, the general manager of Honda Motor's two-wheel division, and we have basically reached a clear agreement on some of the previous disagreements between the two sides."

"In the early stage, we will import parts directly from Japan to assemble their Honda 70 motorcycles, and then gradually realize localization."

"At the same time, Honda R&D will arrange technical experts to carry out technical transformation of the CJ50 car developed by Jialing, find out the various problems of the CJ50 model, and improve them as soon as possible."

"This year we plan to produce the first batch of 2500 motorcycles to completely open up the market."

As the deputy director of the Jialing plant, Yuan Zhiwei is now fully responsible for the cooperation negotiations with Honda Motor.

During the communication process, he also fully realized the gap between the technical level of the domestic motorcycle industry and the international advanced level.

These gaps need to be reversed quickly, and cooperating with each other is a relatively quick way.

At least that's the case for Jialing Factory.

"The pace needs to be accelerated, and some compromises can be made appropriately on some of the conditions that can be ceded."

"I heard that there is a motorcycle manufacturer in the capital that is also developing a new generation of motorcycle products, which will be put into mass production and put on the market in the first half of this year."

"By then, the other party will start production earlier than us, which is likely to have a huge impact on our development."

A lot of domestic news may be difficult for people outside to find out.

However, people in the industry can hear a lot of information through various meetings and exchanges.

In particular, the movements of factories in the capital and major cities such as Shanghai are likely to attract everyone's attention.

Obviously, Yin Zhiguo also heard some rumors.

"Director, you are talking about the Chaoyang Motorcycle Factory, right?"

"I have also inquired about this matter. The other party is a small factory under the First Ministry of Machinery Industry that is on the verge of bankruptcy and has only a few hundred employees."

"Not to mention the whole country, even in the capital region, there is no way to compare with the production scale of the Capital Motorcycle Factory."

“So even if they form a joint venture with Hong Kong City’s enterprises, I don’t think it will necessarily pose any threat to us.”

Yuan Zhiwei obviously knows more industry information than the factory director Yin Zhiguo.

"Many people in China still approve of imported goods. When they cooperate with enterprises in Hong Kong and produce motorcycles that are considered foreign brands, it will be difficult for us to show the advantages of cooperating with Honda Motor."

"If someone were to compare sales prices with ours, it would be disgusting, so I think we have to be on guard."

After Yin Zhiguo said this, Yuan Zhiwei immediately added, "We have never heard of the Gangcheng company that the other party cooperated with. Gangcheng actually doesn't have any outstanding motorcycle companies. I think the other party just provided some funds and equipment, as well as technical information that I don't know where they got from."

"I think it's difficult to build a motorcycle under these circumstances."

Seeing that Yuan Zhiwei was so determined that the Chaoyang Motorcycle Manufacturing Plant would not affect the development of the Jialing Plant, Yin Zhiguo breathed a sigh of relief.

He was quite convinced of Yuan Zhiwei's ability. Since the other party had such a judgment, Yin Zhiguo chose to believe it.

But he is still anxious because he has seen other factories coming in to grab a piece of the pie.

The Jialing plant still needs to speed up its cooperation with Honda R&D.

Everyone showed off their skills and tried to eat the cake as quickly as possible.

(End of this chapter)