Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 123: Leaders come again, news of factory merger (please subscribe)

[Fengnian, I'm Gao Zhiyuan. Li Hetong will be here in half an hour. I'll ask my assistant to notify you then. Do you want to go pick up the deputy leader together? ]

"Pick someone up? That's fine too."

Zhou Fengnian felt that Li Hetong was not the kind of leader who liked formalism, but since Gao Zhiyuan said so, then let it be.

Theoretically, Zhou Fengnian has no tasks from now until the end of the year.

Large-scale, high-precision machine tools will have to wait until the new factory or new workshop is built.

[Then I'll let Xiao Zhao find you later. ]

However, it is not a good idea to drink tea and sleep in the factory, so Zhou Fengnian still has to work when it is time to work, and slowly draws the design drawings of large and high-precision machine tools.

Anyway, there is still plenty of time and there is no new factory yet, so he is not in a hurry.

After a while, Deputy Director Gao's assistant came to the technical department and knocked on the door to notify them. After Zhou Fengnian packed up, he also came to the factory office building.

Not long after he arrived, a car drove in. It was the ministry's car.

"Mr. Zhou, how could you possibly do this? I thought I could only see you in the workshop."

After Li Hetong got off the car, he saw Zhou Fengnian was there too, so he asked with a smile.

Zhou Fengnian said, "The workshop is testing the CNC production line. I asked someone to keep an eye on it and then went back to the office to draw the blueprints. Just when I was about to go to the workshop, I heard that you were coming, so I waited for a while."

"Haha, that's a coincidence. Let's go to the machine tool workshop first. You don't have to come together, Comrade Zhengyang. Don't do this again next time."

Li Hetong smiled at Zhou Fengnian, but turned to Li Zhengyang and criticized him with a frown.

He really didn't like people standing at the door to greet him. What a shame it was, just like welcoming the imperial envoy in the past.

"I won't do that next time, Boss. We were planning to go to the workshop to take a look too. Isn't this a coincidence?"

"You can't even find an excuse, you just stare at Zhou Gongxue."

Li Hetong shook his head and didn't say anything more about it.

The group walked directly to the machine tool workshop. Li Hetong walked side by side with Zhou Fengnian, while the others lagged behind by half a step.

"Mr. Zhou, you've given me a lot of surprises. You clearly told me that it would be completed by the end of the year, but look, it's still two or three months before the Chinese New Year. The director and I couldn't believe it when we heard it."

Li Hetong said with a smile, his face full of smiles; the First Ministry of Machine Building has made too many contributions this year, and now it has a tendency to become a leader in the industry.

If large-scale high-precision machine tools are developed and manufactured, they may really be given this title.

And all this was brought by Zhou Fengnian.

"I heard that you were so anxious that you had to develop the control system for the machine tool production line yourself because the progress at the Sixth Institute was too slow?"

"Hey, some of the people there are too arrogant. They don't know how to do it and don't ask. They just figure it out on their own, which delays the progress. I asked several times but was stuck there. Finally, I couldn't wait any longer and went over."

Zhou Fengnian said this a little embarrassedly, he felt like he was stepping on the wrong path.

"Mr. Zhou, do you know anything about computers?"

"I was interested in it before, and read some books for a while. Then I learned it after studying for a while, and it didn't seem that difficult."

Zhou Fengnian made an excuse and said that many people probably knew that he liked reading and buying books. Now there were three large cabinets in his study, and two of them were almost full.

They are all professional books, not a single miscellaneous book.

Although the reason of self-study is quite lame and many people certainly don’t believe it, but for Zhou Fengnian, it is the fact.

His proficiency simulation system allows him to quickly master a skill through self-study.

Li Hetong was surprised and asked, "Mr. Zhou, your learning ability is really amazing. Why didn't you go to college?"

"There was no subsidy for high school, but there was subsidy for technical secondary school. At that time, it was already difficult for my family to send me to technical secondary school. Basically, six people were starving to support my schooling."

Zhou Fengnian said that although there are subsidies for technical secondary schools, sometimes it is not enough, and his family will give some subsidy.

If it was high school, we really couldn't afford it. At that time, the family could only save a dozen yuan a year, sometimes only seven or eight yuan.

After hearing this, Li Hetong sighed: "Alas, the country still has a long way to go in many aspects."

"It's all in the past, leader. Things will slowly get better in the future. At least my village has slowly become richer."

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said that life was indeed very poor and hard in the past few years, but things have slowly recovered recently.

No one else could get a word in. Only Zhou Fengnian and Li Hetong were chatting.

After a few words, they came to the machine tool workshop.

The workers at work have become accustomed to seeing several leaders coming in. They have seen leaders who they rarely see in a year many times in the machine tool workshop.

Zhou Fengnian brought Li Hetong to the fully automatic CNC production line. After moving the iron fence away, he asked Zhao Yucheng, "Yucheng, is there any problem?"

"Mr. Zhou, it's been two hours and forty minutes. There are no problems at the moment."

When Zhao Yucheng saw Zhou Fengnian and a group of leaders coming over, he quickly stepped forward to report: "There is no problem with the accuracy of the processed workpieces. The error between the first one and the one just measured is no more than 0.2%."

"0.2%? That's not bad. It looks like the tool isn't wearing out very quickly. It should last a whole day at least."

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian thought for a moment and said that this part does not require very high precision and is generally a task for level three or four workers, but the quantity required is relatively large.

He specifically picked a workpiece with the largest workload, wanting to see how long it would take for the fully automatic CNC production line to complete all of it.

Based on the amount completed now, it will take about two days and sixty hours.

If it is handed over to a third-level worker, it will take about fifteen to twenty people and about seven to nine days to complete the task.

By this calculation, a fully automatic CNC production line is roughly equivalent to fifty or sixty third-level workers working at the same time.

After Zhou Fengnian and others finished looking at it, they also told Li Hetong about the production efficiency of the fully automatic CNC production line.

After hearing this, the latter was immediately shocked. This production line is equivalent to so many workers?

If we build a few more CNC production lines like this, wouldn't it be possible to replace all the workers? No, this idea won't work because workers and peasants are the masters of the country.

Li Hetong quickly threw away the idea, but he still couldn't help being surprised by the fully automatic CNC production line.

After visiting for a while and watching the entire process of processing the blank into the finished bearing parts several times, Li Hetong said to Zhou Fengnian

"Mr. Zhou, let's go to the conference room and talk. Director Li, Director Gao, go and do your work. You don't have to accompany me all day."

Li Hetong had two expressions. When he spoke to Zhou Fengnian, he was as kind as a spring breeze; when he spoke to other people, he had no expression on his face, and he even felt that it was a bit crowded to have them around him.

"Yes, ok leader, we will go back first then."

"Leader, let Xiao Zhao take you to the conference room." Director Li and Deputy Director Gao said helplessly, but Li Hetong waved his hand and said, "No, no, we can go to the technical department. Engineer Zhou, let's go to your office to talk."

"Okay, that's fine by me too, then leader, please follow me."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he turned around and reminded Zhao Yucheng, asking him to continue keeping an eye on the processed parts.

Once the error exceeds 0.5%, stop immediately and replace the tool. However, I haven't taught Zhao Yucheng this yet, so you can wait for him to do it.

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"Fengnian, you must have heard about the merger of the Second Machine Tool Factory."

In the office of the head of the technical department, Li Hetong took the cup of water handed to him by Zhou Fengnian and then asked.

In private, he addressed him a little more casually and no longer called him Mr. Zhou.

Zhou Fengnian said: "I heard some news, but it seems that all parties know about it."

"These guys are as talkative as leaking air, but there is nothing to hide because the matter has been confirmed."

Li Hetong smiled and said, “At first, I thought about merging the personnel and equipment you needed into the Second Machinery Factory, but this proposal was rejected by the deputy leader after he knew about it.

If that happens, the Second Machine Tool Factory will be half dead, and the Second Machinery Factory will be too bloated, which is not worth it. "

"So the plan was stopped halfway through. Lao Zhang and I discussed it again and decided to reverse the plan and merge you and the machine tool workshop into the Second Machine Tool Factory to form a new factory."

"This new factory combines the professionals and equipment of the previous Second Machine Tool Factory, plus you, the leader of the machine tool industry, and senior engineers from various factories.
The deputy leader said that we should clench our five fingers together and fight a tough battle in the machine tool industry. "

Zhou Fengnian immediately said, "Leader, I will definitely follow the organization's arrangements. I will do whatever you and the deputy leader say. The deputy leader is still my idol."

"Haha, then you'll be able to meet him when the new factory is established."

Li Hetong said with a smile: "He is a university graduate and much more refined than us rough guys. You and the deputy leader will definitely have a lot to talk about.

And the leader knows you too. You are such an outstanding kid, so there are many people watching you."

Zhou Fengnian was surprised when he heard this and asked, "Really? Then I can really look forward to that day!"

"Of course he will come. Actually, he has known you for a long time and has always wanted to see you. He helped a lot with the machine tool last time, but he is in charge of the whole country and has much more things to do than us, so he has never had time."

Li Hetong laughed and joked: "But Fengnian, I didn't know your idol was the deputy leader."

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile: "Those who made the people stand up are all my idols, including the leader himself."

The two then talked about the new factory. Zhou Fengnian should have been informed, but the exact plan of the factory merger was not fully confirmed until the day before.

It's just that some people were too careless and spread the news in advance. Zhou Fengnian had no backing in the Ministry of Machine Building.
Or perhaps his backers are Li Hetong and Minister Zhang, both of whom are busy, and there are other reasons that cannot be disclosed.

The Second Machine Tool Factory is already vacating space to build a new workshop building.

The move began on January 1st.

The number of employees in the new factory will expand from the previous 3,000 to 4,500.

Although there are not many people, most of them are senior workers, and all of them are dedicated to the research, development and manufacture of higher precision machine tools.

As long as it is manufactured, the strength of the domestic military industry, aerospace industry, shipbuilding and submarine industry will be taken to a higher level.

Li Hetong also revealed a piece of news to Zhou Fengnian that the leadership team of the new factory would probably also be adjusted.

Some time ago, when the news of the factory merger came out, the leadership team of the Second Machine Tool Factory caused some trouble.

Li Hetong didn't say what the specific situation was, but it might be an embarrassing thing.

Anyway, it will be a big move, but it won’t affect him.

If Zhou Fengnian went, he would be the chief engineer of the factory, and the factory director would only be responsible for supervising production, safety and other matters.

Zhou Fengnian is responsible for deciding what to produce and how to produce it.

There is no way. Zhou Fengnian has made too many achievements. The CNC machine tools are already very dazzling, and he also made some contributions to the second-generation computers.

There is also an automated CNC production line that has just been manufactured.

As well as several electrical appliances that earned foreign exchange at the Canton Fair, and the latest one, a portable music player.

Moreover, Zhou Fengnian is only 24 years old, but he has achieved so much. He still has several decades in the future. If he maintains his previous efficiency, how many more achievements can he create?

One of the reasons why the news of the new factory was not revealed to Zhou Fengnian was because of his salary level.

dong dong!

There was a knock on the door. After Li Hetong said "Come in", Assistant Liu who came with him opened the door and walked in and asked
"Leader, it's almost one o'clock. Do you want to eat?"

This was the second time he asked. When he asked the previous question, Li Hetong was discussing the production arrangements of the new factory with Zhou Fengnian, so he postponed it.

When I asked again this time, they had almost finished their conversation.

"Fengnian, you must be hungry too, let's go eat first."

"Okay, leader."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he also stood up. He didn’t feel anything just now, but now he was really hungry.

The others had probably finished eating. If Zhou Yan hadn't waited for him, he would have asked the people in the workshop and they should have eaten early as well.

Afterwards, Zhou Fengnian and Li He went to the cafeteria. At this time, the big pot dishes had been finished early, but Deputy Director Gao must have prepared a small meal.

After arriving at the kitchen, Li Hetong said, "Don't make it too sumptuous. Let's just make some home-cooked dishes."

"Don't worry, leader, this is definitely a normal home-cooked meal."

Deputy Director Gao quickly said that he had been told something in front of the factory office building that morning, so how could he still do those fancy things now?

There were three of us, so there were only four dishes in total, two meat dishes and two vegetarian dishes, none of which were home-cooked.

After coming up, Zhou Fengnian was polite for a few times and then stopped being polite. Although he ate quickly, he was neither impatient nor rude.

Zhou Yan has said more than once that watching him eat can whet other people's appetites.

After finishing the four dishes, Li Hetong felt like he was about 60% full; but he also told him not to eat too much, so after touching his stomach, he decided to wait until nightfall to eat.

After coming out of the cafeteria, Li Hetong planned to go back. He had already recorded various data and production efficiency of the automated CNC production line.

The next step is to see where it is needed, how much to produce, make a production plan and then send it to the machinery factory.

There is still more than a month before the factory merger, and the machinery plant can still produce many machine tools during this period.

(End of this chapter)