Chapter 295 The arrival of the car production line, the speed of Shenzhen is coming
Jiang Hui stayed in the capital during this period, but it did not affect the rapid development of BMW cars in Shenzhen.
Part of the factory building has been built and is ready for the installation of equipment at any time.
This speed can only be achieved by Shencheng in all cities across the country.
In other places, if you find a construction unit of a state-owned enterprise, you may not see any workers when you arrive.
If you want to get things done in such a short period of time, unless your relationship is strong enough, there is no point in talking about anything else.
"Director Jiang, Suzuki Motor's production line has arrived in the port city, and we are now preparing the customs declaration procedures for import to Shenzhen."
"It is expected that it will be officially shipped to the factory next week Over there.”
At this moment, Fang Huihui reported good news to Jiang Hui.
Although the purchase of a second-hand car production line from Suzuki Motor has long been decided, it is still full of uncertainties before the equipment arrives.
Especially in this equipment procurement process, Austin did a lot of activities, so the possibility of thunderstorms is not completely impossible.
Well now, the equipment has arrived and the biggest problem has been solved.
“Can the retirees recruited from Japan, as well as the installation instructors assisted by Austin in coordinating arrangements, arrive as planned?”
After the equipment is ready, we need to make it work. To achieve its due power, it is naturally inseparable from the people who install the equipment and guide the use of the equipment.
Otherwise, that pile of equipment will really become a pile of scrap metal.
Even during this process, BMW Technology had to install the equipment to determine whether Suzuki had done anything during the disassembly of the equipment.
For example, a core part of a key piece of equipment is broken or missing.
At that time, your device will be unable to be used, or you will need to purchase accessories at a high price before you can continue to use it.
That would be very depressing.
Similar losses have not been suffered by domestic manufacturers in later generations.
Don't think that companies in developed countries really abide by contracts and there won't be any problems after signing a procurement contract.
That's just conjecture.
“The recruited retirees have all been settled in Gangcheng, and these people have gone to Shenzhen for several trainings. Some of our Shenzhen staff have also gone to the Gangcheng headquarters for several trainings. . ”
“As for the technicians arranged by Suzuki Motor to assist in installing the equipment, they will all arrive in half a month and the equipment will be assembled within this year.”
“ The next step depends on when the design work of BMW Light is completed.”
Fang Huihui is still very reliable in her work.
Things that were arranged before are now being implemented as planned.
She herself cherishes such an opportunity.
Although she was originally considered a middle-level manager in her company in Hong Kong City, it was simply impossible to take charge of a large company.
Now BMW Technology is much larger than many companies in port cities, and its future prospects are even more worth looking forward to.
Over time, it is entirely possible for BMW Technology to become the largest industrial enterprise in Hong Kong.
And her status in the Hong Kong City business district will naturally increase.
Not to mention anything else, the relevant departments in Shenzhen City are meeting now. She is already a presence that cannot be ignored among the entrepreneurs in Hong Kong City.
Some bosses who were originally superior took the initiative to get close to her.
These are all because she became the general manager of BMW Technology.
The two biggest actions of BMW Technology at present are becoming a shareholder of Chaoyang Motorcycle Manufacturing Factory and investing in BMW cars.
The previous project has been considered a success, and now it has become the largest motorcycle company in China.
The latter project is progressing smoothly and its prospects are worth looking forward to.
“The design work of BMW Light is being carried out in an orderly manner. Except for the engine, which will be finalized a little later, the design of other parts can be completed this year, and then the supporting factories will start to produce prototypes. ”
“At that time, we can first test the production line with hand-made samples, and also start to recruit production line workers to become familiar with each process, which is also more time-consuming. ”
Jiang Hui's words made Fang Huihui breathe a sigh of relief.
Whether BMW Light can be successfully designed is related to the future of BMW and its future.
As for the training of workers, she is not particularly worried.
Although China's automobile industry is underdeveloped, it has done quite well in training workers.
Whether she is poaching some workers who have retired early from various automobile factories or training them from scratch, she is not very worried.
On the contrary, Jiang Hui himself had some concerns in this regard.
The automobile industry is not only a technology-intensive and capital-intensive industry, but also a labor-intensive industry.
This second-hand production line of Suzuki Motor has a relatively low degree of automation, and many processes are completed manually by workers.
Not to mention other things, in the welding workshops alone, many automobile factory welding workshops in later generations have two to three hundred welding robots, and more than 89% of the welding work is completed by robots.
Not only is the production efficiency very high, but the quality stability is not comparable to that of manual welding.
However, the production line purchased by BMW Technology from Suzuki Motor has less than ten welding robots in total in the welding workshop. Except for the use of some welding robots to assist welding when the main components such as the floor and side panels are closed, other welding robots are used. All welding work is done manually.
You must know that the number of welding spots on a car's body-in-white is very large. The welding workshop alone requires hundreds of workers.
Recruiting welders who are proficient in using welding guns, or training welders who are proficient in welding technology, cannot be completed in a day or two.
Fortunately, BMW still has time, and Chinese workers are particularly hard-working.
Especially when BMW’s salary is well provided, everyone’s enthusiasm for learning is definitely very high.
In the following period, Jiang Hui also took a group of technicians such as Hou Guoming directly to Shencheng to personally follow up on the installation of the production line.
Those Suzuki Motor technicians were a little arrogant at first, but after finishing their work, they immediately left work.
But after Jiang Hui skillfully used Japanese to point out that several of their installations were not so standardized, or that the equipment could be improved, showing his extremely high professional level, the attitudes of those people immediately changed. Much better.
"Director, although these equipment are second-hand, they are still much more advanced than many of the existing equipment at Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant."
Hou Guoming's thoughts on Capital Automobile Manufacturing The situation in the factory is very familiar. Now that he is watching the equipment on BMW's side being assembled, he has a more direct understanding of the differences between the two production lines.
"The equipment at the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant are all products that were pieced together more than ten years ago."
"Although Suzuki Motor's production line has a history of more than ten years, the investment at that time The equipment purchased at that time was still at the mainstream international level, so it is only normal that it is more advanced than domestic equipment." Jiang Hui was not surprised at all by Hou Guoming's discovery.
In the past twenty years in China, the equipment in various factories has been updated slowly, or even not at all.
In addition, the equipment level back then was far behind the international advanced level, which has resulted in a big gap between the current domestic engineering equipment level and the international advanced level.
This gap will not be slowly caught up until the 21st century.
After 2020, the advanced equipment of various factories in China will begin to lead the international mainstream manufacturers. It can be said that the saying "thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi" is very well interpreted.
But for current BMW cars, this second-hand production line is enough.
With good utilization, there will be no problem for BMW to have an annual domestic production capacity of 120,000 or even 240,000 vehicles.
Anyway, most of the equipment does not stop for rest and is in operation 24 hours a day.
Except for equipment maintenance time, I work all year round.
As long as the money is paid, the workers have absolutely no objections.
The average worker can only earn 20 to 30 yuan a month now. Since there are many foreign-owned factories in Shenzhen, any worker can earn 50, 60, or even 80 or 90 yuan a month.
This is also an important reason why many people take the risk to work in Shenzhen.
BMW also specifically discussed the issue of worker wage setting internally.
Considering that most of the other factories are various garment factories, toy factories and other factories with relatively low technical content.
In this case, BMW’s requirements for workers are naturally higher.
If you don’t have a junior high school diploma, you don’t need a BMW car.
It’s just that the requirements are high, and the wages must keep up, otherwise we won’t be able to recruit good workers.
Starting from 100 yuan, you can get a salary of up to 1,000 yuan.
This is already more than three times the salary in the Capital Region.
For skilled workers such as third-level and fourth-level workers, the original factory only paid about 40 yuan a month.
But when you get to BMW, you can get a monthly salary of about two hundred yuan, which is definitely attractive.
As for the impact of this increase in wages on automobile production costs, it is almost negligible.
As long as a car of this era is produced, it will definitely be hugely profitable.
When Shanghai Volkswagen's Santana was mass-produced in the 1980s, the price directly reached hundreds of thousands, and the final landing price exceeded 200,000.
You must know that in an era when households with 10,000 yuan are all super rich, the price of more than 200,000 yuan is definitely a sky-high price.
The key is that Santana, which is so expensive, is hard to find.
Sometimes you can’t buy it with money.
It is conceivable that as long as BMW develops as soon as possible, it can definitely get a share of the pie.
"These equipments are just the beginning. In the future, we at BMW will have a second factory, a third factory, and a fourth factory."
"Various production lines will become more and more advanced, and we will even build global technology in the future. The most advanced automobile factory. "
When Jiang Hui said these words, he didn't feel any moisture in his heart.
But Hou Guoming and others may not think so.
It’s just that Jiang Hui is the director of the factory, so even if they have questions, they won’t speak out every time.
Because all kinds of equipment are very carefully marked when dismantling, and some equipment is only partially disassembled, and not every small part is disassembled.
This greatly reduces the time spent on reassembly.
By the end of December 1982, most of the equipment had been assembled.
Of course, the speed is so fast because the automobile factories of this era do not have so many advanced equipment.
Otherwise, for some large-scale equipment, the installation time for one unit is only one or two months.
"Director, the drawings of various parts of the engine have been designed according to your previous arrangements."
"However, the tolerances and surface roughness of some parts need to be adjusted based on the first sample trial. Waiting for some adjustments to the data.”
After Hu Shuiwen left the Capital Internal Combustion Engine Factory, he joined BMW and received a super high salary of 1,000 yuan a month.
This is just the beginning.
Jiang Hui promised that after the family building is completed, he will be assigned a 120-square-meter unit with three bedrooms and one living room.
Otherwise, he has done a good job as the director of the design department of the Capital Internal Combustion Engine Plant and would not be willing to leave his job easily.
Of course, Hu Shuiwen came to BMW not just because of the good benefits, but also because of his yearning for internal combustion engine technology.
The engines previously produced by the Capital Internal Combustion Engine Plant all obtained drawing data from Polar Bear. The subsequent engine production for the new BJ212 and Hummer military vehicles was completed under the guidance of Capital Institute of Technology and Jiang Hui. technology upgrade.
Hu Shuiwen knew that it was unrealistic to develop a brand new engine relying on their own strength.
And the factory does not support such large-scale investment in research and development.
But it's different when it comes to BMW.
Jiang Hui has made it clear that BMW will first develop a 1.5L engine, followed by 2.5L and 3.5L V6 engines.
Even larger displacement engines will be considered.
This is very attractive to Hu Shuiwen.
In China, he knew that only BMW, under the leadership of Jiang Hui, could realize such an exaggerated new engine development plan. He knew that it was impossible for other factories, even FAW and Second Automobile Works.
So he finally chose to join BMW.
“The die-casting workshop of the engine factory has reserved space for the installation of some new equipment. If the supporting factories outside of the engine factory cannot do well, we will produce them ourselves in the future.”
< br>"Mr. Fang has arranged for people to go to Japan to communicate with equipment manufacturers about purchasing advanced die-casting equipment."
Jiang Hui knows that for engine research and development, how to design is a problem, so how to put the parts together From drawings to real objects is another problem.
Various material selections, heat treatment processes, machining accuracy, etc. will all affect the performance of the parts.
(End of this chapter)