Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 137: Output value surges, research and development succeeds (subscription required)
"letter of introduction?"

Zhou Weitian took it and took a look. It asked him to bring his identity card to get his cook grade certificate.

There is no exam required, and you can directly obtain the eighth-level cook certificate if you have an acquaintance to help you.

After Zhou Weitian finished reading it, he immediately smiled and said, "Thank you, sister-in-law. With this, I can directly upgrade my level."

"It was made in Fengnian, but it was delivered when he was away on business."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Then brother and sister-in-law, I will go back first."

"Okay, when will Fengnian be back?"

"He didn't say, but he said at the time that he would be gone for about a week, so I guess it should be soon."

Zhou Yan talked to her sister-in-law for a while, and then went home to see her children.

Now she loves her son so much that she is reluctant to let him go when she gets home. If she didn't have to go to other places often during work, Zhou Yan would like to take her child with her to work.

After Zhou Yan left, Qu Ying came over and asked, "Boss, what is this?"

"Letter of introduction. Didn't I just tell you that I can go to the labor management department with this to upgrade my cook rank?"

Zhou Weitian laughed and said, "Before, I was still waiting for the exam, but I waited for a long time and still nothing happened. Now the third brother got me this, which will allow me to directly become an eighth-level cook, and I can get a salary increase next month."

After hearing this, Qu Ying asked happily, "Really? How much can you raise?"

"Level 8 cook, thirty-five dollars, about that. Ten dollars more all of a sudden."

After Zhou Weitian finished speaking, Qu Ying patted him twice in joy, and then said, "Boss, I'll go get you a glass of water."

With ten yuan more at once, their family income will be more than sixty yuan from now on, and their lives will become more and more promising.

"The third brother has taken such good care of us. Can I go pick up the sheets and quilts for him and his sister-in-law some other day?"

"Just do whatever you want. They really aren't good at work. The third one likes to be clean, but he's not good at work."

Zhou Weitian sighed and said: "The only right thing my father did was to send my third child to school. He supported him for several years and earned five jobs in return.
Now he has become a village cadre and has no shortage of retirement funds.”

"Go home and say this in front of your father and see if he will beat you up."

Zhou Weitian asked back: "I didn't say anything wrong. Is it wrong for him to support the third child? That's right."

"You. The third brother is right. You really deserve a beating."

Qu Ying's joy just now also disappeared. When she was with her husband, she was always angered invisibly. Sometimes when her father beat her husband, she thought it was right.

"What's wrong with me?"

Zhou Weitian snorted in dissatisfaction. He had nothing to be afraid of if he hadn't said anything wrong. He even dared to say that in front of his father.

However, when he was about to make a few explanations, Qu Ying sent him to fetch water. He didn't want to say any more to this brainless person.

Two days later, Zhou Weitian went to get the eighth-level cook grade certificate, but he did not tell the factory. He would be able to change his cook grade after going to the new factory in a few days.

By Friday, Zhou Fengnian also returned from Yanhe.

However, he went home to see his son first, and after making his son cry loudly, he handed him over to his second sister-in-law and then rushed to the factory.

I had just arrived at the factory and had not been sitting down for two minutes when Gao Zhiyuan came to me.

"Fengnian, the factory's production report for last month is out. You happened to be gone at that time, so I'll show it to you now."

After Gao Zhiyuan finished speaking, he compiled a report and handed it to Zhou Fengnian, who took it and looked at it for a while, then frowned slightly.

"There are only 130 units. I feel the production efficiency is still too slow."

Zhou Fengnian shook his head and said that he felt a lot of people were wasting time, especially the hundreds of apprentices.

"Is this still too slow? Fengnian, if we can maintain this production speed every month, our factory's output value this year will be able to double."

Gao Zhiyuan said in surprise that he was already very satisfied with the production capacity. The total number of machine tools of various models was 2.6 million.

By the end of the year, the output value of the Second Machine Tool Plant will have doubled or more than doubled last year.

"Even if we double the amount, we will still just barely pass. If that happens, we will be letting down the leadership who has given us so much support."

Zhou Fengnian thought for a moment and continued to say to Gao Zhiyuan: "Brother Gao, I want to adjust the production efficiency. Now the senior workers are busy with production and have no time to train apprentices.
But it is too wasteful for apprentices to do porter work all day long. Many of them just follow senior workers and serve tea and water. It is better to assign a group of people to learn how to operate CNC machine tools and let them switch from day shift to night shift. "

"Night shift. Is this okay?"

Zhou Fengnian said: "The working hours have not changed, but have been changed from day to night. The operation of CNC machine tools is not difficult, even apprentices can learn it."

"Now the CNC machine tools and fully automatic CNC production lines in the factory are idle at night, so we just use them."

This does not make you a capitalist, it just means adjusting the daytime work to the night and making rational use of production time.

In the past, when there was less work to do, senior masters would teach apprentices techniques, but now the senior masters themselves are so busy that they naturally have no time to take care of the apprentices.

Zhou Fengnian went to the workshop several times and found that many apprentices were wasting their time and the most work they did was moving parts.

"That sounds fine, I'll go make the arrangements."

"Okay, you arrange for the workshop director to come to me, and I'll also arrange for a few technicians to be on duty at night."

Gao Zhiyuan also wanted to develop the factory, so he would naturally not object to anything that was beneficial to the factory's development.

"By the way, Fengnian, how are things going over there?"

"Well, I've barely corrected the progress. After our first five-axis linkage heavy machine tool is built, I will immediately apply to the higher authorities to build an integrated circuit CNC workshop!"

Zhou Fengnian sighed and said that he had suffered a lot of grievances in Yanhe.

"They have poor skills, are extremely arrogant, and don't listen to orders. I was so angry that I had to call my superiors to get them to do what I wanted."

To put it simply, he was just clueless and was jealous when he saw Zhou Fengnian become a level 7 engineer at such a young age.

And the person who came to give instructions on how to build a computer system was a mechanical major, which made everyone very unhappy and indignant.

Finally, he was taught a lesson by Zhou Fengnian and went to find the local leaders.

He also said that if we didn't follow his ideas, it would be a disruption to production, and he would definitely report it to the ministry or even the central government.

This frightened them.

"To be honest, that group of people is not as good as the Sixth Institute, if it weren't for the fact that the Sixth Institute couldn't spare any manpower."

Zhou Fengnian shook his head and said, at least Huang Weijiang and the others knew that he was capable and they had cooperated happily at the beginning; however, the Sixth Institute wanted to build computers, which was even more important than the five-axis CNC machine tool project, so they had to step back and look for other people.

Gao Zhiyuan comforted him, "Don't be angry, Fengnian. When we get up, we will have everything. The leaders will definitely support us strongly."

Zhou Fengnian sighed, then said, "Okay, Brother Gao, let's not talk about it for now. I have to go to the workshop and the technical department to take a look."

"Are you busy already? You just came back, take a break."

"I've just taken a break. I just went home." "Then I'll ask Xiao Zhao to bring you a box of tea later. Don't you like drinking tea?"

Zhou Fengnian smiled as soon as he heard it: "Okay, thank you, Brother Gao."

He didn't like drinking tea, it's just that plain water didn't taste good; even soaking a hawthorn in the water would be fine, just not plain water.

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After Gao Zhiyuan returned, he called all the workshop directors and asked them to go back and count the apprentices who had just joined the factory but had not yet learned the skills.

After the statistics are completed, shift production begins.

Let them go back to rest during the day, and then operate the CNC machine tools for production at night.

People rest but machines do not. CNC machine tools and fully automatic CNC production lines run at least twenty hours a day, greatly improving production efficiency.

The effect was not very noticeable throughout April because it had just been implemented and the output was only six more machine tools than in March.

But after May, the production efficiency of machines running while people rested was revealed.

One hundred and thirty-six machine tools of all models were produced in April, and a total of one hundred and fifty-seven machine tools of all models were produced in May.

That’s eleven more than in April and seventeen more than in March.

This still does not involve adding any additional manpower. It simply shifts the apprentices who have no work to do during the day to work at night, where the technical department will guide them in operating the CNC machine tools.

Just input the parameters step by step, and then place and take the parts. As long as you have a little education, follow the instructions a few times, and you can do it.

What's more, the technical department is on duty at night.

When Gao Zhiyuan saw the output value report, he burst into laughter.

The output value in May has exceeded three million, and the total output of Huaxia Machine Tool Factory in the first four months of this year has exceeded nine million.

There are still seven or eight months to go. If the output can be maintained at the level of May every month, then this year the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory can submit a satisfactory answer to its superiors.

After reading it, Gao Zhiyuan asked Xiao Zhao to hand over the May production report to Zhou Fengnian. However, Zhou Fengnian was busy with a five-axis heavy machine tool at that time. After reading it, he just nodded and said "okay", and sent Xiao Zhao away.

Just before sending him away, I added a sentence at the end of the production report for the leader to see.

More than 80 percent, or even 90 percent, of the production are small and medium-sized machine tools. There are no more than 20 heavy-duty machine tools, and their performance is relatively backward.

Their Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory is still a little lacking in this regard, and they can only make up for this shortcoming after at least the five-axis heavy-duty machine tools are produced.

However, when Zhou Fengnian handed the production report that he was barely satisfied with to the leaders of the First Ministry of Machine Building, although they did not laugh out loud like Gao Zhiyuan, they still smiled.

"Minister Zhang, take a look at this."

Li Hetong came to Minister Zhang's office and handed over the May production report of the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory.

The latter took it and looked at it, his eyes suddenly widened.

"Three million, two hundred and forty thousand? This is for one month?"

Minister Zhang said in disbelief: "This progress is too fast. I remember that not many people were approved to work with them. How can they triple their production capacity?"

The total output value of the Second Machine Tool Plant last year was only over 11 million yuan, which is not high, but still acceptable.

But after the merger, the growth doubled, which is really surprising.

"Oh, shift production, where people rest but the machines continue to work, this is a good idea, but it is only suitable for CNC machine tool workshops."

After reading the detailed report, Minister Zhang finally understood what was going on: "Xiao Zhou is smart, I said professional matters should be left to professionals.

Look, it directly promoted a second-tier factory to a first-tier factory, and it may even be the best in the country."

The output value in May was over 3 million, so what about the future? Will it be 4 million or even 5 million?
If we submit a report on an annual GDP of 40 million to them at the end of the year, we will definitely be number one.

Li Hetong smiled and said, "Don't look at the first part, look at the last sentence."

"The last sentence"

After reading it, Minister Zhang gritted his teeth and came to them to ask for things, people and equipment. He wanted to set up a CNC system workshop in the machine tool factory and produce CNC systems himself.

The reasons are very sufficient. CNC machine tools are the future and can create greater output value. With the current production scale, it is imperative to establish a CNC system workshop by the end of the year.

"Okay, we have to approve this. If they can really keep this workshop, the leader has to agree."

Although Minister Zhang had agreed to it before, talent and equipment had to be competed for, and there was not just one Ministry of Machine Building in the country.

"Li Hetong, the ministry has now given this task to you. Try to get the people and equipment down before the end of the year or before National Day."

Li Hetong was stunned and said immediately, "Hey, Lao Zhang, you are a rogue. You promised to do something, but now you let me run it."

"What are you talking about? This is the task assigned to you by the ministry."

'This irritates me'

"I have to go on a business trip soon, so I can only entrust this task to you."

After Minister Zhang finished speaking, seeing that Li Hetong was still arguing, he stood up and said, "I'm going to the bathroom. If you leave, remember to close the door for me."

Just run away and pee.

Li Hetong shook his head helplessly, but he could only try his best to help the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory get the CNC workshop running.

"Mr. Zhou, it's installed. Would you like to test it?"

After completing the last step of assembly, Liu Hanfei reported to Zhou Fengnian with such excitement that he almost shouted out loud.

The people around were also very excited, and they wanted to start the heavy machine tool in front of them immediately. Many people couldn't help but discuss it.
"It's already been manufactured? It's only June."

"We are efficient and have rushed through the project. But Mr. Zhou probably didn't expect this. He said it would be completed by the end of the year."

"Don't worry about us. If you don't know something, just ask Engineer Zhou. Engineer Zhou is efficient and will help you along."

"You're talking nonsense"

Zhou Fengnian didn't care about other people's comments and said directly to Liu Hanfei: "Go get a part with a complex curved surface and give it a try first."

"Okay, I'll be here soon."

After Liu Hanfei finished speaking, he left. He came back in less than ten minutes and handed all the blanks and drawings to Zhou Fengnian.

This part is so complicated that it is difficult for even an eighth-level worker to process it. Now Zhou Fengnian places it on the machine tool, then starts it and inputs the parameters.

hum!
After the power was turned on, the machine tool started up, and everyone soon saw that the parts inside kept changing with the movement of the fixture plate, and were processed very smoothly with the help of the tool.

The fragments fell off one by one, and soon it took on the appearance of a finished part.

Complex parts that even level 8 workers find difficult are processed just like that!

(End of this chapter)