Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 193 Trial Operation! (First Update!)

After sending the message, Lin Yi waited a while but didn't receive a reply from Smith, so he simply tossed his phone aside.

I grabbed the A4 paper that I had just put aside and continued writing on it.

The establishment of a new production line should at least bring joy to the surrounding communities, if not become a national news story.

The pen glides across the A4 paper, and soon a business plan for the opening is ready.

After finishing writing the main content, Lin Yi picked up the phone and called Ye Hua over from the next office.

He tossed over an A4 sheet of paper and tapped it with his fingers: "Your job for the next two days is to coordinate with the construction supervisors and civil engineers at the factory, arrange the schedule, and invite all the guests we need to invite so we can have a big opening ceremony."

Ye Hua listened to Lin Yi's words and slowly opened the A4 paper in her hand.

He was terrified when he finally looked at it.

As Lin Yi said, the first A4 sheet was indeed a business plan for opening a store, with a clear and concise process. Below the flowchart, there was also a list of relevant personnel to be invited.

However, starting from the second sheet, it's all about personnel recruitment and material supplier confirmation.

There are over 200 positions that require interviews, and each position has specific requirements.

Behind the recruitment of personnel are more than sixty material suppliers. For each material, there are three backup suppliers, and each supplier has a price listed, and these prices are not the same.

Some suppliers include a few extra words besides the price.

Technical support can be provided.

Behind this series of requirements is a menu.

A menu for Huaiyang cuisine.

For a grand opening, a meal is naturally in order.

If we're going to cook, we should cook a good meal.

After reading all of this, Ye Hua took a deep breath and asked Lin Yi:
"Would you like to schedule a time?"

Now, Lin Yi was in a dilemma.

He took out the almanac his father used from the drawer, looked at it for a while, but found he couldn't understand it. So he simply took out his phone, found the calendar on the phone, and started flipping through the pages from this day forward.

After flipping through the pages, Lin Yi found three dates.

March 6, 2010, Saturday, the 3st day of the first lunar month, is an auspicious day for starting a business, conducting transactions, signing contracts, and making money.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010, the first day of the second lunar month, is an auspicious day for opening a business and offering sacrifices and prayers.

March 26, 2010, Friday, the eleventh day of the second month in the lunar calendar, is an auspicious day for opening a business or moving to a new residence.

After staring at the three dates for a while, Lin Yi chose March 6th.

It's not because this day is better, but because this day is Saturday.

On weekdays, many people are quite busy, but if it's a Saturday, and they receive an invitation, they will usually cancel their plans to attend the opening ceremony unless it's something particularly important.

Lin Yi took the documents back from Ye Hua, rewrote the dates on them, and then pushed the documents back into Ye Hua's hands.

Go for it! I believe in you!

Ye Hua nodded, turned around, and slowly walked out of the office.

He closed the office door, gasped sharply, and then strode towards the personnel department, knocking on the door.

"Liao Xiangjun, Wang Bo, you've made it!"

He slammed the job posting list on the table: "The production line for the special metal processing plant has been installed and will be put into use after debugging."

"We don't have enough workers or managers right now, so the boss wants you to hire more people."

"Finally, we will be holding the opening ceremony of our special metal processing plant on March 6th."

"come on!"

With a clenched fist, Ye Hua gave Liao Xiangjun and Wang Bo a thumbs-up before turning and leaving with a flourish.

He went back to the finance office, asked Ji Shuangshuang for some money, and went out to make the invitations.

Lin Yi, who remained in the office, picked up the phone he used to contact Smith and sent him another message.

The opening ceremony will be held on March 6, 2010 (China time).

After sending the message, he tossed the contact phone onto the table, took out his everyday phone, found Zhou Tianming's number, edited a text message, and sent it.

Specialty metal factory is hiring security guards, 20 positions available! Monthly salary 5000 RMB, five social insurances and one housing fund, meals and accommodation provided...

Lin Yi was sending a message to Zhou Tianming, while in the distant East, in America's Los Angeles, Smith also received a message from Lin Yi.

Looking at that short sentence, Smith, who had just woken up and was still a little sleepy, became fully awake. He held his phone in both hands and kept kissing the screen.

They were kissing each other while making strange noises.

The noise startled his wife. She came out of the bedroom, stared at her husband for a moment, then went to the phone, picked it up, and quickly dialed a number.
As soon as the call connected, she immediately screamed into the other end of the line:

“Father Pavlov, my husband is having some trouble. Could you please come over?”

The next moment, Father Pavlov's excited voice came through the phone:
"Bring me my revolver, and load it full!"

"hurry up!"

"How can you possibly get business if you run so slowly?"

The noise from the phone woke Smith up. He turned around, saw his wife, greeted her with a smile, and then grabbed the phone and hugged her.

He held his wife in his arms, gently patted the top of her head with his chin, and whispered:
"Liz, we're about to become rich!"

"We will soon be among the top billionaires in the country."

Liz gave her husband a thumbs-up at his boastful words, then rolled her eyes and said:

“I remember when you were 18 and I was 15, you said you had a way to make money, and since we were neighbors, you were going to take me to try it out.”

"He also said he would give me the money he had saved for 18 years."

“Take me home, and I didn’t receive any money that night.”

“From that time on, I will not believe a single word you say.”

"If you really want to get rich, go talk to your old bosses and ask them to buy more supplies!"

Before Liz could finish speaking, Smith hugged her from behind, resting his chin on her shoulder and murmuring softly:
"I lied to you when I was 18, but I won't lie to you when I'm 38."

"I've really found a great opportunity to make money!"

"We can make a lot of money."

Liz pushed Smith away, rolled her eyes, and continued:

"Alright, I'm going to the company now. The batch of electronics I ordered from Japan is a week late. I'm going to the company now to get an explanation from those damn Japanese."

Leaving behind a single sentence, Liz left swiftly, leaving Smith with only her back view.

After watching his wife leave from the window, Smith returned to his study, turned on his computer, and searched through his emails for a while.

I finally found an email address, quickly composed an email, and sent it there.

[General Baroque, latest news: the manufacturer I found in China has produced the product according to our requirements. Please reply if you see this message!] After sending the email, Smith took out his phone and stared at the message on the screen. As he looked at it, he smiled.

"The opening ceremony of China Xia is on March 6th, which is a good time. I must go and take some photos."

"Ten or twenty years from now, when Lin Yi is old, I'll tell him where these cables were used, and while I'm at it, I can also report him."

After expressing his feelings, Smith sat back down at his computer, anxiously checking his email and waiting for Baroque's reply.

Time flies when you get busy.

In the blink of an eye, it was March 4th.

Under the relentless urging of the dog supervisor, the cable production line of the special metal processing plant was finally debugged and completed.

The complete set of brand-new, semi-automatic equipment allows even newly recruited workers to easily get started and quickly become skilled workers.

in the crowd.

Lin Yi crossed his arms and watched quietly as the workers operated the equipment.

The tall electroslag furnace releases molten steel, which slowly moves forward along the guide channel, first entering the steel bar mold, where it is rapidly cooled down.

But it wasn't completely cooled down.

Once the molten steel solidifies in the steel bar mold, the robotic arm manipulates the mold to flip and pour out the solidified steel bar, which then continues forward along the production line into the hot press.

The hot press's huge mold is lifted and then slowly closed, compressing the originally somewhat misshapen but still slightly soft steel strips into round steel strips.

The steel bar continues forward, reaching the wire drawing stage.

One steel bar after another was shoved into the mold and forcibly pulled out from the other side. With each pull, the steel bar became thinner and its temperature dropped.

Finally, when the steel bar temperature completely dropped to room temperature, the steel bar, which was not yet fully formed, was repeatedly cold-drawn and drawn into steel wire for making cables.

As soon as the steel wire was tied up, it was transported to the next process by forklift.

This refers to the twisting of the cable strands.

In this process, the steel wires used to make the cables are twisted together with some special composite materials into thin ropes.

The purpose of this is to make the steel wire and these special composite materials complementary.

With the help of the equipment, the freshly baked steel wire and special hemp fiber were twisted together and made into a rope.

A rope in this form doesn't deserve to be called a cable; it can only be called a line.

The final step in manufacturing cables is twisting.

This means taking wires of different thicknesses and under different stresses, arranging them in a certain way, and mixing them together to form cables.

Although the newly recruited workers all passed the assessment, they lacked experience because it was their first time manufacturing cables.

The rope that was made was ugly. Because it was so ugly, Lin Yi didn't even try it out and immediately had the materials recycled.

If something is too ugly, it means the quality is poor. If the quality is poor, then it needs to be reworked.

Before the start of the second round of testing.

Lin Yi walked up to the workers, spread his hands, clapped them vigorously, and then said loudly:

"Don't panic, everyone. Everyone has a first time. This is the first time we've produced anything. We should be grateful that we were able to make the rope."

"In the next round, please pay attention and do not get distracted."

"Let's take a 30-minute break now, and then we'll start producing the second batch again."

After speaking, Lin Yi summoned the construction team and had the relevant personnel enter the factory to inspect and repair the equipment.

Thirty minutes passed in the blink of an eye during the busy inspection and maintenance process. Before Lin Yi could even pay attention, the time was up.

The second round of production has begun.

Because I have already prepared enough steel bars, this time, production starts with drawing the steel bars into wires. The steel bars of uniform thickness pass through the equipment and are then stretched and thinned little by little.

It eventually turned into steel wire.

Meanwhile, the corresponding production process has reached the twisting stage.

This time, the workers operating the equipment became extra careful. The steel wire and the special composite material were rotated, stretched, and twisted together little by little by the equipment.

After the wire was pulled out, the equipment stopped, and Lin Ying slowly leaned over to take a look at the wire that had been pulled out this time.

Compared to the last time, the strands look much tighter and more pleasing to the eye this time.

The complete rope felt heavy and cumbersome in my hand.

Lin Yi, through the system's perspective, could clearly see the information about the rope.

[Cable (Minor defect: Due to improper handling during stranding, uneven stress resulted in a flaw)]

After reading the information, Lin Yi went to the joint venture equipment and stared at it in a daze.

Although the equipment was brand new, it was not yet in a state where it could be controlled by people like in later generations.

Someone still needs to keep an eye on it.

Therefore, when assigning positions, Lin Yi assigned a position to this device.

The person in charge was responsible for monitoring the equipment operation and controlling the timing of cable stranding. However, it seems that the responsibilities of this position need to be reduced, and the timing of stranding should be completely handed over to the equipment.

He summoned the civil engineer, and also called Cao Bin and others, instructing both sides to monitor the equipment and adjust the parameters according to his requirements.

An hour later, the equipment was repaired and found to be working properly.

At the same time, the corresponding operating parameters were also adjusted, changing from human control to equipment control. The job responsibilities of the controller of this equipment also changed from mastering the operation of the equipment and managing production to simply monitoring the operation of the equipment.

The job responsibilities were adjusted, and the person who was originally in charge of the equipment was transferred and replaced by a new person.

Adjustments complete, production begins for the third time.

The equipment started operating, and the raw materials climbed onto the production line. As the conveyor belt moved slowly forward, they eventually transformed into various shapes and finally came to Lin Yi's eyes.

This time, the joint-venture equipment operated autonomously, controlling the products on the production line.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the cable produced for the third time was completely cut by the equipment, and the long cable was finally placed in front of Lin Yi.

This time, through the system, Lin Yi only saw two words.

【Cable】

Upon seeing those two words, his heart finally settled down. He turned around and said to Cao Bin behind him:

"Bring the forklift over, haul this cable up, and then take it to the testing workshop next door. Once it's in the testing workshop, test it using the most rigorous methods possible."

"Remember, this is the most stringent method!"

Upon hearing this, Cao Bin looked down at the cable on the ground.

This cable is about the thickness of a five- or six-year-old child's arm. It's neither here nor there. It's too thin for a bridge; it needs to be twisted together to make it thicker.

This thing is too bulky for use on ordinary cranes. It might be suitable for large cranes, but there is no experience in producing such cranes in China.

I have no idea what this thing is used for.

(End of this chapter)