Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 163: Come to the Ministry, Level Engineer (Subscription Request)

Gao Zhiyuan did not immediately agree to Director Liang's request, saying that he would discuss it with other people.

Director Liang also nodded with a smile. If it were other factories, they would have abandoned the task long ago. How to solve it is your business, but you cannot delay the order anyway.

But the Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory was the precious factory of the First Ministry of Machine Building. Even the First Ministry of Machine Building had implicitly asked them to come and discuss the matter with the Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory, and if it didn't work, to come back and discuss it with them.

Anyway, I don't mean to force you.

The output value has nearly quadrupled in one year. The second year is the time to make an effort to create greater glory. This year, they have to appease the China Machine Tool Factory, otherwise the whole team will be divided and upset. Who will bring them glory?

Gao Zhiyuan asked the people from the factory office to accompany Director Liang to rest, and immediately called the other two deputy factory directors.

Secretary Kang was not consulted on production matters; the factory directors and deputy directors could make the decisions.

".That's about it. According to the ideas of these two departments, our production volume this year must be more than 2,400 units."

After Gao Zhiyuan finished speaking, Hong Bowen on the side could not help but say: "Too much, are they using us as fat people to squeeze oil?"

"Old Hong, how can you describe yourself like that?"

"That's just what I said. The car manufacturing workshop still needs manpower, and there are so many people here. Now we will be very busy just focusing on production."

Hong Bowen shook his head and said that he was in charge of most of the production, and Zhou Fengnian went to the workshop to prevent mistakes.

To put it in an analogy, Zhou Fengnian is the driver who adjusts the front of the carriage to prevent it from taking detours; and Hong Bowen is the laborer who pushes the back of the carriage to make it go faster.

Zhou Fengnian said: "We can't relax on the five-axis machine tools. I am also thinking about improving the technology of the five-axis machine tools. This year, we may develop and manufacture a new nine-axis five-link machine tool."

Hong Bowen sighed and said, "Then I and several other workshop directors will have to take turns to monitor the night scene."

Gao Zhiyuan persuaded: "Old Hong, I will contact you for some supplements when the time comes. But it's not a good year. Can this guarantee the completion of the task?"

"That's tough, unless we increase the number of night shifts, but low-level workers will definitely not want to participate. But if we give them a meal at night with some meat, then it should be fine."

Zhou Fengnian said thoughtfully.

However, Deputy Factory Director Ma's face turned green after hearing this, and he quickly said, "Deputy Factory Director Zhou, I can't make meat every day even if I run myself to death. At most, I can make some vegetables other than carrots, cabbages, and potatoes.
It’s fine to feed the workers, but please don’t make it difficult for me to feed them well. I really can’t do that.”

Unless he was allowed to serve as the director of the meat processing plant, if he could achieve one meal of meat a day, Ma Sisheng would encourage the workers to work twelve hours a day.

Then several people took turns to give suggestions and discuss. Zhou Fengnian also gave Ma Sisheng an idea, which was to let the logistics personnel visit Sanshui Commune more often.

Sanshui Commune is where his family lives. Several villages grow mushrooms. If the machine tool factory and Sanshui Commune establish targeted procurement, they can also provide extra meals for the factory workers.

Although mushrooms are not meat, they are much better than cabbage and radishes.

Moreover, there must be many households in Sanshui Commune that have raised extra chickens and ducks, and maybe even a few pigs that were not planned.

If their family can kill two chickens for the New Year, then the entire Sanshui Commune might be able to gather dozens of chickens or eggs.

The night shifts were already stretched to the limit, with several extra shifts added to ensure the mission was completed.

Several people did not mention going to Director Liang to reduce the tasks. Although they could discuss it, saying this would make their factory leadership team seem a bit incompetent.

After discussing for a while, Gao Zhiyuan went to reveal his identity to Director Liang of the Foreign Trade Department and officially took over the task.

However, Zhou Fengnian reminded Director Liang that when signing an export order, he must keep the right of maintenance in his hands. If it breaks down, he can only ask them for help in repairs.

They are not responsible for any unauthorized disassembly and repair.

Director Liang nodded in agreement after hearing this. This was a lesson they had experienced before, when the Russian engineers came to repair the system, not only did they eat and drink well, they also didn't want them to see it.

After it breaks down a few times, the repair costs and travel expenses can be used to buy a new one.

It’s time to return it!
After everyone left, Zhou Fengnian started thinking in the office.

Huaxia Machine Tool Factory is now a key factory of the First Ministry of Machine Building. It has no shortage of supplies, except for staff.

But there are already more than 6,000 people, which is not a small number to be honest.

We need to replace more CNC machine tools to improve production efficiency; however, this year's task should be completed. Once all is completed, the annual output value of the machine tool factory should exceed 70 million.

It generally benefits from exports. If it were not sold to other countries to increase profits, the output value would be at most more than 50 million.

There has been some improvement compared to last year, but the improvement is all within the normal range.

However, being able to export so much is a sign of strength. The technology of CNC machine tools must be world-class to be favored by other countries and to be purchased at a high price.

The extra subsidies for night shifts and midnight snacks are a considerable expense, but compared with the profits brought by foreign sales, they are nothing.

".There are still a lot of things to get!"

Zhou Fengnian suddenly remembered that the semiconductor and integrated circuit industries were also very important, but their development in China seemed very slow. He might as well seek support and develop semiconductor and integrated circuit workshops in the China Machine Tool Factory.

We need to write a plan for this matter first, but it will not be submitted until the nine-axis machine tool is developed and manufactured.

The success rate of making requests at normal times is too low. However, if you use your achievements to ask for benefits from the leadership department, basically your request will be successful.

The machine tool factory's own CNC workshop was urged to build the five-axis machine tool after it was built. It was urged several times before it was built, but there was no result.

Zhou Fengnian stood up and walked towards the technical department. The machine tool R&D team was going to be set up again, which would save him a lot of energy.

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"Chief Liu, what tasks are the third and fourth teams who developed the five-axis machine tool last time doing now?"

After hearing this, Liu Hanfei immediately checked the shift schedule and said, "One group will be responsible for the technical guidance of the five-axis machine tools, and the other group will be responsible for the production guidance of other workshops."

"Free up these two groups of people and arrange for others to replace them. The people from these two groups will follow me to conquer the nine-axis machine tool."

Zhou Fengnian said that the technicians in these two groups were the best learners and had almost mastered the technology of five-axis machine tools.

With their help, Zhou Fengnian can save a lot of energy and time.

"Okay, Mr. Zhou, I'll arrange it right away."

Zhou Fengnian nodded and was about to turn around and leave to get something, but then he remembered something and turned around and said:

"By the way, the technical department has also been notified. Outsiders are not allowed to enter. Please discuss private matters outside."

Liu Hanfei responded and sighed: "Got it, I didn't expect that college students were bought by the enemy."

"Don't say that. That's a personal situation. We have several good college students in our department with a good technical foundation." Zhou Fengnian said casually and left the technical department.

At the start of the new year, the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory was like a precise machine, with all departments running together and everything focused on production.

A fat man exploded just last year, which greatly boosted people's morale, and this momentum has continued into this year.

Factory Director Gao Zhiyuan held several meetings with all workshop directors, all of which were to instruct them on production matters.

This year's task is almost doubled, and as the factory director, he will not be polite to anyone who delays production.

It is a bit troublesome for the factory director to fire a worker, but it is easy to deal with subordinate cadres; so there are workers in the factory who are not afraid of the factory director, but there are almost no small leaders who are not afraid of the factory director.

Zhou Fengnian also started to get busy. He came to the factory at eight o'clock and did not go back until nine or ten o'clock in the evening. He was almost the last one to leave.

When he returned, it was time for the night shift apprentices to start.

There are more than a dozen workshops in Huaxia Machine Tool Factory, and four of them are working at night.

With such hard work, the results are quite remarkable.

Two hundred and four CNC machine tools were produced in the first month, which was a big breakthrough; if this rate can be maintained every month, this year's task will definitely be completed.

Even though Deputy Factory Director Ma's hair had turned gray, in order to attract workers to stay and work overtime for his midnight snack, he not only traveled all over the city, but also contacted his acquaintances and friends in the Yanhe area.

Finally, he even went to the Northeast in person to contact people there.

A deputy factory director ran away and became a material purchaser, which was also a life-threatening thing.

However, workers who work overtime at night are given meat once every three days, which is subsidized by the factory, which has attracted many low-level workers to work overtime voluntarily.

Working from five o'clock to twelve o'clock in the morning is almost seven hours, and the overtime pay is 80 cents plus a midnight snack.

If you can hold on for a month, you can earn a lot of subsidies.

Zhou Fengnian's research and development progress of the nine-axis five-axis machine tool is also very fast. Last year, Zhou Fengnian alone made a lot of progress. This year, with the help of technicians from two teams, the progress has been accelerated a lot.

Within a month, 90 percent of the work had been completed, and their research and development process was absolutely correct. With Zhou Fengnian's trial and error corrections in the simulation space, no problems have arisen so far.

Zhou Fengnian has already ordered the workshop to start manufacturing, and the machine tool will be completed within a month. This will be another breakthrough in the domestic machine tool level, and it is well-deserved to be the world's number one.

They are still a little behind in other aspects, but in terms of top technology, Japan and Germany will not be able to catch up in a few years.

After lunch that day, Zhou Fengnian took his briefcase and asked the security guard to take him to the Ministry of Machine Building to report on his work.

He had already called in advance, and after getting off the car at the ministry, he went straight upstairs.

Secretary Liu was found. When he saw Zhou Fengnian, he immediately stood up and said, "Mr. Zhou, Deputy Leader Li just came back. I'll show you the way."

Leading the way is also a formality. Zhou Fengnian has come here several times, but such things always require Secretary Liu to inform him first.

Following Secretary Liu, I came to Deputy Leader Li’s office. After knocking on the door, Secretary Liu walked in and said, “Leader, Engineer Zhou is here.”

"Let him in, Xiao Liu. You don't need to pass him around next time. As long as I'm not in a meeting, there's no need to tell him in advance."

"Good leadership."

After Secretary Liu finished speaking, he walked out of the room, said something to Zhou Fengnian, and then went back to work.

When Zhou Fengnian pushed the door open and entered the room, he saw Deputy Leader Li frowning as he looked at the documents in his hand.

"Leader, I won't bother you now."

"Nothing, no need to bother you, I just came back from the Ministry of Metallurgy."

Deputy Leader Li put down the document, sighed and said: "Steel production can't keep up. The Ministry of Metallurgy is going to have a headache. If the production doesn't increase next year, I will have to allocate quotas from other places for you.
The First Machine Tool Factory and your Huaxia Machine Tool Factory both surprise and pressure me every year."

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian thought to himself, let alone the year after, it would be good if they can maintain it next year; this year is already 65 years old, and there are not many factories that can safely produce next year.
But this is indeed a problem. What can they produce if the raw materials are insufficient? They can't just create something out of thin air.

Deputy Leader Li suddenly had an idea and subconsciously asked, "Fengnian, do you have any ideas?"

"It's hard to say. I don't understand metallurgical technology. I need to understand it first and then study it. Leader, I definitely don't have an answer if you ask me now, but I should have an idea after studying it."

"Really? Then try it when you have time. It's okay if you don't have any ideas."

After hearing this, Deputy Leader Li smiled and said, "When I heard Zhou Fengnian say this 'conservatively', I translated it into 'I have a certain degree of confidence, but it needs to be verified'."

"But every time I hear you say that, I always feel like you're going to ask me for something."

Zhou Fengnian laughed and said to Deputy Leader Li, "Leader, you really predicted it, but I won't ask you for it now. I will come back to you after the machine tool is manufactured."

After saying that, Zhou Fengnian handed over the nine-axis five-axis machine tool manufacturing report in his hand.

“This further increases the number of motion axes on a five-axis machine tool, making it possible to process more complex parts, improve machining accuracy, and shorten production cycles.”

Zhou Fengnian briefly explained the difference between the nine-axis machine tool and the five-axis machine tool, so that Deputy Leader Li could understand the changes. Simply put, the performance is better.

Next, if we want to improve the performance and accuracy of machine tools, we need to improve our CNC computer technology.

"Good, good, well done. Fengnian, you really keep surprising me."

After Deputy Leader Li finished speaking, he found a reply and handed it to Zhou Fengnian, saying, "Take a look. This instruction from the leader is a compliment to your research and development achievements."

[This machine tool is of great significance to all parties. We hope to focus on production to meet the needs of all parties.]

After reading it, Zhou Fengnian smiled and said: "It's all the hard work of the whole factory. Next, we will gradually produce nine-axis machine tools."

The two then talked about the development of the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory, and Zhou Fengnian also revealed in advance that he wanted to build a CNC computer and integrated circuit workshop.

The Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory will be established as a super factory integrating scientific research and innovation, production and manufacturing, etc.

Deputy Leader Li was both excited and worried when he heard this. Although the results were gratifying, it would require a large investment.

As soon as they finished chatting, it was time to leave. When Zhou Fengnian was about to leave, Deputy Leader Li stopped him and said,

"Wait a minute, your level 6 engineer grade has been approved, and the department has already changed it for you. When you go back, change your certificate and register it with the factory.

This month's salary and allowances are all paid according to the level 6 engineer standard. I have already told your factory about this."

(End of this chapter)