Rebirth 08: Equipment God

Chapter 446 Genius and Worker, All-Out Preparation!

In Dongyang County, the county government building is bustling with people coming and going.

The half-floor belonging to the Market Supervision Bureau had a large electric fan whirring, and a faint smell of sweat permeated the old office.

The dark-skinned young man fanned his collar as he walked inside: "Director, I've completed the price verification for the area around Sunmazhuang. I'll write a report for you later."

The section chief, who was in his fifties, glanced at the other person's chapped lips: "The report can be kept simple; spend more time on follow-up visits."

When there's not much serious work to do, the system values ​​feedback like "reports," but when everyone has endless tasks, there's really no energy left to focus on "reports."

No matter how well-written the report is, what's the point if there are endless reports and complaints?

Big places have plenty of scapegoats, but small places don't. He'll be dragged into this by the county head tomorrow.

“Sigh~ Yesterday a tourist reported to the police that a small hotel in Wutong Township doubled its price after the guest checked in, so it has to be rectified again.”

The dark-skinned young man's mind raced: "Wutong Township? It's in the opposite direction from Sunma Village."

The old director shook his head: "We're not just in charge of Sunmazhuang, but it still has some impact. Zerong Chemical and the research institute's joint venture new plant is also under construction. Sigh, they're really a headache, so short-sighted!"

The saying "There are still more good people than bad people" also means that there will always be bad people, and some vendors don't think that far ahead as "Dongyang's great development".

Let's take advantage of this one first and secure our profits!
Judging from the accent of the person who quoted the price at the small hotel, it seemed that they had slept there for one night but regretted quoting too low a price. When they tried to check out, the hotel wouldn't let them leave and demanded an additional 100 yuan. The hotel staff immediately called the police.

The old director was getting a little irritated, but the dark-skinned young man was calm: "Isn't this the meaning of our work? If everyone understood these grand principles, we wouldn't be needed."

The section chief suddenly laughed and said, "You'll be transferred to the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau next week. I'm really going to miss you, Xiao Meng. Don't forget to come back and visit often when you get there."

The dark-skinned young man, called Xiao Meng, scratched his head: "Director, it's right across the street."

"That's the gist of it. When you have some free time, please replace the water dispenser for us. The office is full of old people; even going down to get a water bucket could result in a sick day."

His deputy director just died like that, his lumbar disc snapped, and he hasn't been back to his post for half a month.

Meng Tao readily agreed: "No problem. By the way, Director, do you have any instructions for the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau? What should I be careful about?"

The old director pretended to be profound and said, "Let's not talk about the whole thing now. Half of the county revolves around the research institute. When you go there, you'll probably be dealing with employment services, which will also mainly involve interacting with the research institute."

"The institute's prenatal training is a typical 'high-end employment training,' and all the people it recruits are 'high-tech talents.' If you pay more attention to it, you'll easily achieve results."

This retired official, still holding the position of section chief in the county, leisurely sipped his tea: "Those who can get into the semiconductor factory are all genuine senior industrial workers. Dongyang used to only have a few, but now they directly train hundreds. Whether they get in or not is not up to us, but it's important to help them out and prevent them from falling behind. For those probationary employees, visit them if they have difficulties, and reassure those who are uneasy."

Meng Tao nodded, agreeing that the old master was indeed the most insightful.

"You mentioned that the research institute is still hiring. If there are suitable candidates from impoverished families, wouldn't arranging for them directly solve their poverty problem? The salaries there aren't low, and I see that even the most basic positions don't have high requirements."

The old director shook his head: "Don't mess around. Impoverished households all have their own troubles. These days, it's hard for anyone with a brain or hands that can function properly to become a nationally designated impoverished household. Why would they choose the less desirable over the better? It's not like they can't find anyone."

Meng Tao argued, "That's not entirely true. Some families fall into poverty due to illness. As long as one able-bodied member of the family can earn a living..."

The old section chief interrupted him directly, saying sternly:
"We need to make the distinction between primary and secondary issues. It is the research institute that brought us the opportunity, not us who asked the research institute to solve our problems. If we delay the production and implementation there, the whole county will be devastated."

Knowing Meng Tao's personality, the old director gave him a few more words of advice, and finally said, "Go and rest, get some water, your lips are all cracked."

After speaking, he glanced at the empty water dispenser.

Before the hint was clear enough, Meng Tao turned and ran: "I'm not resting anymore, I'm going to check out Wutong Township!"

The old director looked at the young man's back; his neck was tanned like an African's, and his cheap white shirt was soaked with sweat and stuck to his back, which looked very uncomfortable.

He sighed inwardly.
He's a young man who gets things done, and he's also very enthusiastic. He's only been here for a year, a college graduate. I wonder how long he can maintain this enthusiasm.
It's not enough to just have a passion for the system; if you keep doing that, it's not easy to get promoted, and you might end up stuck at the grassroots level your whole life.

Just like myself.
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After arriving in Dongyang, the members of "π" immediately devoted themselves to training, explaining the ins and outs of the semiconductor industry to hundreds of young people from the county.

Zhai Da's own work is slightly different. In addition to going to the new factory area every day to check on the construction progress, he also selected a team of 20 people from among the employees. Most of them were mid-level technical positions, namely engineers and graduate students with semiconductor work experience.

These people work as teachers in the morning and as students in Zhai Da's class in the afternoon.

The team will be specifically responsible for "equipment assembly and debugging".

Over the past four months, Zhai Da led the team in successfully completing the independent research and development of four major pieces of equipment.

What is most commendable is that I fully absorbed the holistic thinking of the teacher in "On Systems Engineering", never getting bogged down in specific indicators and components, but learning to achieve the optimal solution with existing conditions, and forging a different path that is most suitable for me.

He spent nearly three months on the "ultra-large cavity CVD", but each subsequent step was completed in about a month.

Besides his own hard work and talent, the system, equipment, and telekinesis also provided some minor support. This is the source of his frequent appearances in the news and boosting his reputation; although it's not yet in mass production, everyone believes it will be soon.

However, these devices are not simply assembled, transported over, wired, and turned on to start production. They are mostly transported as key components, assembled and debugged on-site. Considering the demand for the first phase of mass production, the quantity is not small.

He could choose to cheat his way through, possessing the [Slow Time Cube (Pseudo)] and increasingly sophisticated telekinetic abilities, making him equivalent to dozens of engineers, but this is ultimately an evil path.

Silicon carbide plants need their own engineers, and they need long-term support, maintenance, and debugging, not a "superman," so he also needs to teach others.

Some items have already been delivered as training equipment.

Zhai Da patted the huge machine in front of him: "This is our independently developed 'ultra-large cavity five-unit CVD system'. You should have seen it many times in your training materials. I'll take you to disassemble the actual machine and then assemble and debug it. Don't worry, it's not expensive. The cost of a single machine is around 800 million."

The engineers below were on high alert.

Mr. Zhai! Do you want to hear what you're saying?!

"This is the earliest R&D prototype. It's been disassembled and reassembled, and it will never be used in the factory. It's just here for training."

Make full use of any remaining value. Once it's completely unusable, collect it and put it in the research institute's museum later.
Yes, he will have a museum at some point.

Isn't the purpose of development to build wonders?
The same thing happens throughout the precision instrument factory, where knowledge and skills constantly flow.

From geniuses to reserve workers.

Inside the classroom, Ge Qiaoqiao stood on her special apple box, barely able to reach the blackboard, her voice crisp and clear:
"Below 350°C, lattice damage becomes irreversible, and above 900°C, the surface is prone to decomposition. Our equipment has a warning setting that will alarm outside the 500°-800°C range, but of course, it won't happen under normal circumstances!"

"If an alarm is detected, first determine whether it's due to high or low temperature, then choose the appropriate measures, such as stopping heating or using strong infrared heat compensation. The system will also automatically report to the technical supervisor. However, frontline personnel are always the first to handle situations, so be prepared to respond quickly!"

Ge Qiaoqiao wrote on the blackboard, her handwriting neat and her thoughts clear.

The only problem is that you can only write one region at a time.

Once it's full, you have to get off the box, move to a different spot, and stand on it again.
Occasionally, a sleepy student would suddenly look up:
It's gotten so fast. How come I'm in elementary school?
Holy crap! Did I get reborn?!

Where's the bell? Why isn't it ringing?

In the next classroom, Cheng Mo, dressed in a smart suit, left the young people from the county town below completely bewildered.

I've lived in most small county towns for over ten or twenty years and I've never even seen a "sleeve stud".

How can someone be so classy? So cool!
This brilliant programmer will be giving a presentation on the user interface today:
"In indicating abnormal temperatures, the UI uses blue and red colors for immediate visual feedback. We've designed separate icons for different responses, and these icons are universal across all our self-developed devices, like this one."

A young man raised his hand, and Cheng Mo said coldly, "After I finish speaking, you will have the opportunity to ask questions."

The man put his hand back down.

The instructor pointed to the "two straight lines, one real and one virtual" on the projection screen: "This represents the position calibration deviation. If there are two sets of numbers below, it is the planar deviation, and if there are three sets, it is the spatial deviation."

He then pointed to the “uneven-looking squares”: “This represents uniformity deviation. The percentage below means that it depends on the different processes. The uniformity requirements for each process are different, but all data exceeding the limit will be displayed in bold and black.”

After talking about a series of "general" UI concepts, Cheng Mo finally stopped to take a sip of water.

He brought the perspective of "mobile phone system" into "industrial software", striving for "intuitive", "simple" and "efficient" visual information.

Don't think that mobile phone systems are low-end. As the culmination of electronic products, they have summarized the most "human-computer interaction feedback" in the world, far surpassing industrial software in terms of information transmission and classification.

The color, position, structure, and effects of an icon can speed up or simplify the transmission of information, or attract the user's attention.

In his view, the user interface of traditional industrial software, which resembles an "Excel spreadsheet," is simply a failure.

The fact that the "EXCEL spreadsheet" is fast is tolerable; let's just consider it a special industrial requirement.

It's slow to respond, the optimization is terrible, and it's code from decades ago.

When I was doing reverse engineering with the chairman, we found that many of the "devices" worth millions of dollars had processors comparable to those in the Little Tyrant (a popular Chinese game console).

Sometimes, progress in a field comes from a completely new perspective.

"The student who raised their hand earlier, you can ask your question now."

"Teacher, there's a tuft of grass crawling on your back."

Cheng Mo twisted the lid of his water glass and said calmly, "What is a tumor?"

It's a cicada.

Cheng Mo:
Cicadas chirping
(End of this chapter)