The main production body of Nandu Factory is naturally the production building. The production building is diagonally opposite the factory office building, not far away. There are seven floors in total. The first floor is the raw material warehouse and the finished product transit warehouse. There are five workshops from the second floor to the sixth floor, and the seventh floor is the employee locker room.

After walking around the first floor, I first looked at the inlet and out of raw materials and the operation of the finished product transit warehouse, and listened to Wang Feng's explanation in my ears.

After watching for a while, Song Yuanchao nodded without comment, then walked up the stairs and went straight to a workshop on the second floor.

As soon as I reached the second floor, deafening mechanical sounds filled the surroundings, and at the same time I felt a heat coming to my face.

"The workshop is a milk candy workshop, and it is also the earliest workshop in our factory. This workshop was first established in the 1950s. Now it is the six workshops in the entire factory, including the workshop with the largest output value and the largest personnel."

Wang Feng raised his voice and introduced to Song Yuanchao. Song Yuanchao nodded, turned left from the stairs with Wang Feng and went to the workshop office first. When he arrived at the workshop office, Yang Yongjian, the workshop director who was drinking tea, was stunned when he saw Wang Feng accompanying Song Yuanchao in, and then stood up.

"Director Song, why are you here?"

"Hello, Director Yang, haven't I just arrived today? Just take a walk and get to know our factory." Song Yuanchao stepped forward with a smile and shook hands with Director Yang, and at the same time noticed the sweat on his face that had not had time to wipe it.

"Haha, I just got into the workshop and worked around. If you come a while ago, you have to go to the assembly line to find me." Yang Yongjian said happily.

"You, the chief director of the workshop, still have to go out of the workshop to work?" Song Yuanchao asked slightly surprised.

"Of course." Yang Yongjian nodded with a smile, picked up a cigarette from the table, handed it to Song Yuanchao, and threw another one to Wang Feng behind him.

Song Yuanchao took the cigarette and glanced around. Before he could ask anything, Yang Yongjian explained with a smile: "Smoking is prohibited in the workshop, but it is still possible to smoke in the workshop office and the employee lounge. You also know that there are not many people who don't smoke. There are about a hundred people in my workshop, and half of them smoke. It is not practical to make everyone ban smoking, so there is a regulation that smoking is absolutely prohibited at work, but smoking is possible in the office and lounge."

"This regulation is good. It not only takes into account the actual situation, but also ensures safety and hygiene in production. How about it now?"

"It's better, there are not many people who don't follow the rules. Some people secretly draw in other places still exist. However, we usually arrest them strictly. It would be fine if we didn't see them. If we find out, we will deduct the bonus for half a month." Yang Yongjian said.

Song Yuanchao nodded, and saw Yang Yongjian catching fire and handing him over, he quickly tilted his head slightly to light the cigarette, and at the same time said thank you.

"I came from the front line of the workshop and entered the factory at the age of 16. This year, I have been working in the factory for 19 years in a blink of an eye." Smoking a cigarette, Yang Yongjian smiled and said, "From the initial apprentice to the later formal staff, to the team leader, the duty director, the workshop deputy director... we have been working until now."

"Although I became a cadre, this is my personality. People from the grassroots level can't stay idle at all while sitting in the office. They always like to run to the workshop. When they run, they think about going to the assembly line to do some work. Haha, I'm not afraid of you making jokes. My wife often says that I'm a hard worker, not an official."

Yang Yongjian said self-deprecatingly, a lesbian in his thirties secretly covered his mouth and was having fun in the office. Song Yuanchao also smiled, and at the same time looked at the lesbian.

"I forgot to introduce you, blame me, blame me." Yang Yongjian hurriedly said: "This lesbian is Xiao Yu, the statistician of our workshop. She is responsible for the workshop material collection, production statistics and product data summary work, and the monthly salary list of workshop employees is also her job, this old Wang knows."

"Yes, Xiao Yu is responsible for the production and salary payment of workshop wages. He will send the table to the labor and capital department every month. On the day of salary payment, she will go to the finance department to collect the wages of the workshop owners here. The same is true for other workshop statisticians." Lao Wang quickly echoed.

"Hello, Director Song." Xiao Yu greeted Song Yuanchao generously. Song Yuanchao said hello to her very politely, but because the other party was a lesbian, Song Yuanchao did not shake hands with her.

"Our workshop is the largest and most popular workshop in the factory. In addition to Xiao Yu and I, there are also branch secretary Lao Kang and deputy director Lao Cao. You saw Lao Kang during the meeting this morning. Now in the mechanics room, Lao Kang is in the middle class today, and you have to pass the meeting before you can get there."

"There are two on duty monitors. Their work follows the working hours of the workshop section. The technicians work in the mechanics. I will take you over and take a look later..."

Yang Yongjian is a veteran in the workshop. He worked in the factory for 19 years. In these nineteen years, except for a few years, he worked as the deputy director of the workshop in the third workshop for a period of time, he was in the workshop for the rest of the time and knew the situation of the workshop well.

Listening to Yang Yongjian's introduction to the situation in the workshop, Song Yuanchao gradually had an overall image. After chatting for a while, after smoking a cigarette, Yang Yongjian stood up and said to take Song Yuanchao to the workshop to take a look. Song Yuanchao happily agreed and followed Yang Yongjian straight into the workshop.

The workshop is a workshop for producing milk candy. Nandu Food Factory is a comprehensive food factory. The main products it produces are three categories: one is candy, the other is pastries, and the other is beverages.

Speaking of candy, especially milk candy, the most famous one in the country is naturally the Big White Rabbit in Shanghai. The Big White Rabbit is particularly famous and can be said to be well-known to everyone.

Nandu Factory also produces milk candy. Nandu’s milk candy learns the big white rabbit from Shanghai, and the brand used is called Nandu. Although it is limited to the formula and craftsmanship, its taste is not as good as that of the big white rabbit from Shanghai, it is quite famous in the local area, especially near Huizhou.

In addition to a few milk candies, there are other specialty kraft candies, fruit candies, nougat, etc. Among these candies, nougat is usually only a four to five-month production arrangement a year due to the limited seasonal supply of raw materials, product shelf life and weather impacts, and other candies form the main candy product structure of Nandu Factory.

As for pastries, in addition to some traditional pastries, Nandu Factory also produces seasonal pastries, such as mooncakes, Chongyang cakes, and rice cakes.

In addition to the general factory, there is also a branch factory that produces beverages. This branch was originally a small beverage factory. It was classified as the Nandu General Factory more than ten years ago. Now it mainly produces two types of beverages: orange soda and salt soda. However, salt soda is usually produced only in summer, while orange soda is produced year-round, but sales can only be considered as sloppy.

As soon as you walk into the real workshop, heat waves swept over.

The candy workshop is divided into two sections, one is the front section and the other is the rear section.

The previous work section was full of gay men, and the lesbians could not be seen at all. The main reason was that the production environment in the previous work section was harsh and the need for great physical work was required, so these tasks could only be done by gay men.

The first part of the previous section is the steam boiling process. The boiler outputs high-temperature steam and then boils the prepared syrup through the pipeline at a high temperature. The moisture and heat in this section are very high, and the boiled syrup usually reaches more than 135 degrees. The temperature will vary depending on the process of producing candy. If you are making nougat, the temperature will reach about 155 degrees, which is much higher than boiling water.

The cooked syrup will be poured into the iron bucket by the worker, and then poured it into a special mixer for about 40 minutes to stir quickly. This stirring principle is somewhat similar to the bubble of egg white, so that it slowly turns the water-like brown syrup into semi-solid white milk candy.

Although this large mixer is similar to the home mixer in later generations, it is much larger in size. The weight of each mixer reaches more than 2 tons. The body is made of thick cast iron and is directly fixed on the cement floor.

In the second program, there are nearly thirty such mixers, divided into four rows, with special guide rails laid on the middle ground of the two rows, and a steel cart is placed on the guide rails, operated by two masters with large shoulders and thick waists.

There is a huge stainless steel container on the mixer. This container is similar to a large pot. It has a diameter of more than one meter and can hold about 150 kilograms of syrup. The syrup is poured into it. After starting the machine, the mixing blades inserted into the container begin to rotate quickly. The thick steel blades collide with the stainless steel container. In addition, the weight and weight speed are fast. Although the container is fixed on the machine, it still cannot avoid loosening and collision at the fixed point, thus making a violent clanging sound.

After the mixer is stirred at a high speed for about 40 minutes, the syrup inside begins to turn into a semi-coagulated milk candy in the initial form. At this time, the speed is reduced when the mixer is added, and a certain amount of additives and milk powder can be released.

When the oven is released, even if the master is extremely powerful, it cannot resist such a heavy thing. The temperature inside is very high and it is easy to burn. Therefore, the guide rails on the middle ground are useful. The master will first turn off the machine, then remove the container directly from the machine, then firmly grasp one ear (handle) of the container with both hands, press the bottom of the side of the container with the instep, and then twist the waist hard in one direction like a shot put player, borrowing the power of the waist and shoulders to directly throw the entire container out in one direction.

When the container is thrown out, the hand holding the handle must be taken off half-taken. With rich experience, the container is controlled to pass through a beautiful arc in the air, so as to accurately land on a small car with hollow steel ring placed on the ground rails.

After the container falls steadily and parks in the hollow steel rim car, the master will push the car forward. When he reaches the stainless steel cooling table in front, he holds two stainless steel plates in his hand, soaks his whole hands, including his arms bare outside in the starch tank on the side, and starts to dig out the semi-solid milk candy in the container with both hands.

It takes very high skills when digging, which are usually developed through long-term practice. You should know that although the temperature of semi-finished milk candies is lower than that of syrup, it still exceeds 100 degrees of high temperature. Starch is used to prevent scalding when you dip your hands. However, once the movement is not in place or the movement is not completed within a safe time, scalding is inevitable.

Song Yuanchao saw a master digging out a pot of milk candy from the container with two steel plates in just three strokes, and it was completely dug.

In fact, to be honest, three strokes are considered too much. According to Yang Yongjian, the last one is already cleaning the residue in the container. The skilled master calls this kind of two strokes, which means that two strokes must be basically dug, and the last half stroke is cleaning. This is the real veteran.

After the semi-finished milk candy is dug out, a master wraps his hands with a hot milk candy ball and moves it from the back of the cooling table to the front, and another master performs manual sugar pulling and cooling operations.

This operation reminded Song Yuanchao of the ramen making skills, which looked a bit similar. After the master operated on the cooling table for more than ten minutes, he felt that the cooling was similar to the sugar pulling situation based on his experience, he moved the whole piece of milk candy that had become solid but still soft to the strip pulling machine.

As the name suggests, a strip puller machine is to gradually pull large pieces of milk candy that have not yet been completely solidified and cooled into a long strip under the action of the machine. The diameter of the strip finally pulled is the diameter of the ordinary milk candy.

After pulling the strips, the cutting machine passes through the blade of the machine to cut the length of long strips of milk candy about 1.2 meters into the length of the real milk candy, and then enter the back section through the conveyor belt to work.

Compared with the previous section, the latter section is all lesbians. These lesbians sit in front of the packaging machine, and the packaging machine is connected to the conveyor belt that runs back and forth. The unpacked milk candy delivered by the conveyor belt can fall into the container of the packaging machine through the baffle operation. Then the packaging machine continues to run, "swallowing" the rolled candy paper and unpacked naked candy, and "spout" the finished product from the other end.

The finished product came out. The female worker operating the packaging machine used a stainless steel shovel of a specified length to shovel the milk candy from the finished product outlet of the machine and placed neatly in the paper box that had been prepared long ago.

When a carton is filled, the female worker will put the full carton aside, then take a new carton and continue repeating the work just now.

There are at least 30 packaging machines in the packaging process section after the rear work section, and they are divided into four rows, just like the mixing process in the previous work section.

During this period, several workers pushed the cart back and forth in front of each packaging machine and transported the finished packaging cart to the rear position by cart.

As for the rear position, the final weighing and packaging process, the carton delivered from the packaging machine will be weighed. Take a few pieces from the carton or add a few finished milk candies as required to ensure that the weight of each box of packaging is fully in line with the weight.

After completing these, the paper box will undergo a wax sealing process. The so-called wax sealing process is to wrap the paper box with wax paper, and finally dip it with a pen to apply and seal it like glue.

Complete the wax seal and finally pack it.

A large carton is filled with six cartons of milk candy, each carton is 2 kilograms and the whole box is 12 kilograms. After the box is filled with sealed, it is placed on the wooden warehouse board next to it. After the carton is filled with a wooden warehouse board, that is, 40 boxes, there are naturally special transportation people who use hydraulic trucks to pull out the finished products and temporarily stack them in a small warehouse behind the workshop. After a period of time, they will be transported to the cost transfer warehouse on the first floor for registration and storage, and finally sent to the factory's finished product warehouse for storage.
Chapter completed!