Chapter 322 Insufficient transportation capacity? Direct, simple and crude solution
Chinese people are very familiar with various activities such as groundbreaking ceremonies and offline ceremonies.
Whether they are in various ministries or in various factories below, they all have rich operational experience in these activities.
Naturally, there will be no problems in the process of the BMW Light's offline ceremony this time.
After almost an hour and a half, leaders at all levels finished speaking. Jiang Hui, the factory director, finally went up to express his gratitude. The BMW Light, covered in bright red silk, slowly came down from the production line, successfully completing the off-line ceremony.
However, with so many people coming all the way to participate in the event, it was naturally impossible to send them all away in an hour and a half.
After the event ceremony, Jiang Hui naturally wanted to take everyone to visit the BMW production line in person.
"Lao Yang, the first impression of the BMW production site is that it is very neat and clean. We must learn from this."
Chen Qi followed the visiting team and carefully looked at the layout and equipment of BMW's various factories.
Not to mention, at this glance, you can really see the gap.
Yang Qingshan, standing next to him, is the deputy director in charge of production at the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant, so naturally he will be promoted.
"Their production lines are purchased from Suzuki Motors, and they probably learned the on-site management skills of Japanese car companies."
“I visited Toyota before and they did a better job on site management than BMW.”
“But I think the neatness and cleanliness of the site may not have much to do with whether a car is produced well or not.”
“Instead of spending so much time doing superficial work, it is better to improve the level of production technology.”
Yang Qingshan's view should represent the attitude of many factory leaders in China in this era.
In everyone’s opinion, it’s almost enough to arrange workers on the production line to do sanitation once a week.
Because everyone does not pay enough attention to this aspect, there will be bathrooms in various factories, and almost few of them are very clean.
Even if it smells bad when you walk in, the floor is also dirty.
This situation was still common in many factories until the beginning of the 21st century.
If Jiang Hui listened to Yang Qingshan's words, he would definitely not agree with them.
In Jiang Hui's view, if a worker doesn't care about the hygiene of his workstation, how can anyone believe that he is very attentive to his work?
"The level of craftsmanship naturally needs to be improved, but on-site hygiene must also be paid attention to."
Chen Qi was not aware of the relationship between on-site 5S management and improving production efficiency. He simply felt that Jiang Hui's request for BMW to do this must be reasonable.
As long as it was not difficult for the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant to follow up on anything Jiang Hui requested, Chen Qi felt it was necessary to follow up.
From the time Jiang Hui graduated from college to now, no matter what he does, whether he is understood at first or not, it will eventually prove that Jiang Hui is right.
Chen Qi, who already had this awareness, naturally had a certain tendency to follow Jiang Hui's style of doing things.
"Well, I took a look at the equipment. It looks a bit old, but there are many structures and arrangements that are quite different from ours."
"I think the next step is to consider applying for some foreign exchange quotas from the First Machinery Department and import some advanced equipment from Japan or other countries."
Compared with paying attention to on-site hygiene conditions, Yang Qingshan is more interested in introducing new equipment.
This new equipment can be taken out and continuously introduced to visitors, and it can also be mentioned frequently in the introduction materials.
During the equipment procurement process, you will also have the opportunity to go abroad for on-site inspections and even receive some gifts from the other party.
Yang Qingshan felt that this was the time when he could best demonstrate his authority as deputy factory director.
"Equipment procurement is naturally necessary. After all, some of our processes do require new equipment to be improved."
“But the focus during this period is to build Shouqi Jeep’s new factory, and then the relevant foreign exchange quota will be freed up for us to use.”
Although Shouqi Jeep is a company established by Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant with a lot of manpower and material resources and AMC, in the process, Capital Automobile Industry Company, which originally had no sense of existence, also began to change.
In order to better manage the capital's automobile industry, the Capital City referred to some overseas practices and incorporated various automobile factories and parts factories under the Capital City into the management of the Capital Automobile Industry Company.
It is equivalent to Capital Automotive Industry Company being a group company, and all the following factories are branches.
Although the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant and the Capital Automobile Industry Company are both at the same level, Chen Qi, the factory director, is also the general manager of the Capital Automobile Industry Company.
But the trend may slowly change in the future.
In the future, Capital Automobile Industry Company will be the leader of subsidiary companies such as Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant and Capital Jeep. Chen Qi will gradually focus on the industrial company in the future.
Otherwise, if the city arranges people to work in industrial companies, Chen Qi will be depressed.
In this case, Chen Qi must also give priority to the construction needs of Shouqi Jeep based on the situation in the city.
The Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant only needs a little relief.
"I'm still a little worried about whether the AMC Jeep model will have an impact on BJ212 sales after we introduce it."
"Don't spend a lot of manpower, material resources and foreign exchange to build Shouqi Jeep, only to end up fighting with our own products. It's not worth it."
Yang Qingshan's worry is obviously not unfounded.
After all, Shouqi Jeep's first product is a Jeep off-road vehicle, and its positioning has many similarities with the BJ212.
"Even if Shouqi Jeep does not produce off-road vehicles, other car manufacturers will definitely consider producing similar products after seeing the hot sales of BJ212."
"Rather than giving the opportunity to compete to others, it is better to take it into our own hands."
"Whatever happens in the future, it will be easy to deal with it."
"Besides, Jeep is a world-famous car brand after all. The sales price will definitely be higher than that of BJ212. I think it is not so much competition between them, but rather cooperation to expand the off-road vehicle market."< br>
Chen Qi's ideas are obviously different from Yang Qingshan's.
The domestic automobile market has changed, with various models constantly emerging, and it is inevitable that the competition will intensify.
If the Capital Automobile Industry Company doesn't take action as soon as possible, there may not be any good days left in a few years.
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Chen Qi and Yang Qingshan would constantly communicate when visiting the BMW production line. Naturally, other visitors also had their own feelings.
"Xiaojiang, your production line layout, especially the layout in the assembly workshop, seems a little different from other car factories." As a car that assembles various parts together to finally form what consumers see as a car. The importance of workshops and assembly workshops has not been fully valued by everyone.
Many factories feel that the final assembly workshop is just for assembling parts and components and does not have any special technical content.
In fact, the installation sequence of each component and the setting of each workstation are actually very particular.
Especially in the automobile industry, which is an assembly line production company, if the settings of different workstations are unreasonable, production efficiency will be greatly affected.
With the same people and time, others can produce 100 cars, but you may only be able to produce 80, which will lead to a difference in production costs.
In the end, if you add up, your factory's profitability will be significantly different from others.
For example, Toyota and General Motors, in terms of scale, the gap between them is actually not very big.
But Toyota's profitability is much higher than that of General Motors.
One of the important reasons is that Toyota has done a very good job in cost control of parts and components, and has done a very good job in management and cost reduction of the production site.
Many on-site management methods in the automotive industry in later generations actually have some shadow of Toyota Motor in them.
"When we set up each process, we fully considered various issues such as the installation time required for each process and which of the various auto parts need to be sub-assembled and which can be directly put on the assembly line."
“So it looks different from the layout of the assembly workshops of other car manufacturers.”
Jiang Hui briefly explained why Zheng Haiming felt that the workshop in front of him was inconsistent with other car factories.
He is not afraid that others will copy this trick.
It is impossible to understand the essence of the production line layout through a simple visit.
"After visiting your production line, I am even more looking forward to the next performance of BMW Light."
"If you can really break through various records in a short period of time and become the largest sales car company in China, it will be of great significance to the development of the entire Chinese automobile industry."
Zheng Haiming now needs more star companies below to bring him political achievements, so that he can have the opportunity to go further.
Although the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Factory performed well, he had been promoted based on the performance here before. If he wanted to use the same routine in the future, it would obviously not work.
After much deliberation, BMW cars should be the most anticipated.
“We fully considered the domestic market environment in the design of BMW Light, and simplified various parts to the greatest extent, so that its failure rate can be reduced to the greatest extent.”
"Even if there is a malfunction, it makes repairs easier."
"Ultimately, we can significantly reduce production costs and provide everyone with a multi-functional car."
Vans were very popular throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and even after entering the 21st century, their performance was not bad at all.
BMW launched the BMW Light at the end of 1983 in advance, and the effect is definitely worth looking forward to.
Sure enough, after the BMW Light officially rolled off the production line, many units began to try to place orders for BMW cars.
Especially in the capital area, many leaders from ministries and commissions came during the offline ceremony, which led to the first wave of sales of BMW Light.
"Director, we now have a backlog of more than 1,000 orders that have not been delivered. The Spring Festival is coming soon, and the coordination of transportation capacity on the railway side will become more difficult."
“I think it’s time to ask the Special Administrative Region to help?”
Chen Chenxing is responsible for the marketing of BMW cars. He must be very anxious because the vehicles cannot be shipped out on time.
After all, Shenzhen is a very young city. Even with various preferential policies of the special zone, the railway transportation capacity cannot be improved in a short period of time.
Large-ticket commodities such as cars were mainly transported by railways in this era. Otherwise, if they relied on trucks, there would be no trucks specializing in transporting cars like those in later generations.
"The shortage of railway transportation capacity is not a new situation today. It has always existed in the past few years. One train is very important, let alone others."
"In this case, if our BMW Lights are to be shipped out, they will occupy a relatively large amount of railway transportation capacity, and we need to consider other methods to solve the problem."
Railway transportation is very important to the automobile industry, especially before road transportation has developed.
However, railway transportation capacity is tight and train speeds are slow. Even if BMW cars are highly valued by the SAR, it is very difficult to easily obtain a large amount of transportation capacity support.
Because the level of the railway department is higher than that of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.
If you can't control others, why should they listen to you?
Jiang Hui knew the secrets involved, so he had no intention of causing trouble to the special zone.
"Transportation is nothing more than railways, roads, waterways and aviation. Railways are not good, roads are unreliable, and waterways lack suitable transport ships, not to mention aviation."
"Are we just watching the produced BMW Lights pile up in the parking lot, with no way to deliver them to customers in time?"
Chen Chenxing felt a little frustrated.
This situation is a little different from what he thought.
"The transportation capacity is insufficient. Can't we just ask each unit to arrange drivers to come and drive the car back?"
"Isn't the demand for BMW Lights exceeding supply now? We will give priority to selling cars to any company that is willing to arrange for a driver to pick up the car himself."
"I think there must be many units willing to send drivers here."
Jiang Hui directly proposed a simple and crude plan.
This kind of plan will definitely be scolded in future generations, and it has no feasibility.
But in 1983, it was completely different.
The current automobile market is still a seller's market, especially for models that are in short supply.
If BMW is willing to appropriately subsidize the transportation costs of drivers, it is estimated that more people will be willing to come.
"Just ask someone to come over and drive the car away?"
Chen Chenxing was stunned for a moment and immediately realized the feasibility of it. "I will immediately arrange for someone to contact you to see which units are interested."
(End of chapter)