The next day, Liu Lang went to class as usual, and also participated in a mathematics training session. After class, he had lunch and came to the laboratory as usual.
However, there was no work in the laboratory today. Xiong Huaizhi, Chen Chunsheng and a group of others were drawing something in front of a table. Beside them stood a strange man in his forties.
"What's going on?"
Liu Lang came closer.
"This Coca-Cola can is composed of three parts, the can body, the can lid and the can bottom. Let's not talk about the can body, but just the can lid. There are several steps to stamp the material, and then the original edge, injection
Glue, foam, score and rivet, and finally press the arch. It is a very simple process, but in our country
Home, there are several difficulties in this series of processes. The first is the mold. We do not have the relevant mold and need to make it again. The second is the stamping machine. Almost all the stamping machines in our country are aimed at industrial parts, and the accuracy is much worse.
This thin aluminum plate is a bit difficult to make."
Xiong Huaizhi said holding an opened Coke can in his hand.
"The professor is right. Another point is the sealing of the tank body and the lid. You see, they use an interlocking method, which is very perfect. It is not easy to do this. It should have been used
Got on a CNC machine tool.”
Chen Chunsheng also nodded and said.
"What's going on? Did Lin Guodong come here to discuss the can issue again?"
Liu Lang was a little puzzled.
"Professors! I don't understand your discussion at all. I just want to know if there is a way to make this can, not how to make it!"
The strange man said loudly from the side.
"This... it can still be done with a few steps, but it won't work with a production line!"
Chen Chunsheng shook his head.
"Well, I've been looking for it for more than a month. I went to several machine tool factories in the country. They said they couldn't make it. I heard that our Huaxia University has the highest level, so I came to you, but the result was that it still couldn't be made. So
Is it so difficult to make a simple can?”
The strange man shouted anxiously.
A can is very common more than 20 years later. Any soda factory has one or several production lines. However, in 1984, Liu Lang felt that the country's level was still far behind.
It’s the mold problem that Professor Xiong mentioned, especially the pressure of can lids.
Printing technology is not available in China. Another issue is sealing. Interlocking technology is used between the tank lid and the tank body. This technology is not uncommon, but it requires high precision to do it mechanically, and ordinary machine tools cannot complete it at all.
, can only be controlled by CNC machine tools.
The people present are all top mechanical masters. They can make a can by hand, but it is only a handicraft. If you want to mass-produce it, you must use the production line method, which is impossible.
"Professor Xiong, Professor Chen, what are you doing? Why are you making cans?"
Liu Lang came over from behind and asked.
"Liu Lang, it's okay. This is Manager Li from Sanshui City, Guangdong Province. He came to us and wanted to customize a can production line. What a pity! We don't have that ability now!"
Xiong Huaizhi shook his head and said.
"Who is this kid?"
The stranger looked at Liu Lang with some surprise: Why did a child pop out? Could it be a dwarf?
"This is Liu Lang, the chief designer of our Huaxia Industrial Technology Company, the nationally famous child prodigy Liu Lang!"
A graduate student on the side quickly told the other party that it meant: You don’t even know Liu Lang? Out.
It can be said that Liu Lang is just a designer on the surface at Huaxia Industrial Technology Co., Ltd., but he has great personnel and financial power, especially after he found the talent Chen Chunsheng and spent 100,000 yuan "out of his own pocket"
Money, other people can see these things.
Liu Lang is no longer a child in the eyes of many people. Perhaps in the eyes of Xiong Huaizhi, he is a genius, but in the eyes of those graduate students, he is still a leader who exudes the power of example all the time.
Now there is a saying secretly circulating among those students: learn technology from Lao Xiong, and follow Xiao Liu on the road.
Even national-level talents like Chen Chunsheng believe that Liu Lang plays a greater role in the company and plays an irreplaceable role.
If Liu Lang hadn't been too young, those students would probably call him Manager Liu or Mr. Liu.
"What? Are you Liu Lang?"
The other person's eyes widened, which was the same expression everyone had when they saw Liu Lang for the first time.
"Yes, yes, who else would come to Hua Xia University besides you? Hello, hello. My surname is Li, Li Jingtian. This is my business card!"
The other party shook hands first, then took out a business card and handed it to Liu Lang.
"Li Jingtian? This name seems to have some impression...!"
Liu Lang thought as he took the business card.
"Li Jingtian, General Manager of Sijiang Brewery, Sanshui City, Ganxi Province"
There are dense words written on the business card.
"Sanshui City, Ganxi Province? Li Jingtian?"
Liu Lang suddenly remembered this name, and at the same time he raised his head and glanced at the other person.
"It turns out to be you!"
Who is Li Jingtian? Not many people may know it, but the brand of Jianlibao he founded was the pride of the Chinese people in the 1990s. It was the emergence of Jianlibao that broke Coca-Cola’s domestic monopoly, even for a long time.
Occupying a dominant position in the domestic beverage market, it is the well-deserved number one brand of domestic beverages.
If the Jianlibao brand continues to develop steadily, perhaps it will truly become the overlord of the domestic beverage industry in thirty years. Not to mention challenging the status of the two major cola brands, at least it can compete with them domestically, but
In fact, by the late 1990s,
The Jianlibao brand declined instantly, and was eventually acquired by a foreign company. Even if it was bought back by a domestic company ten years later, in the fiercely competitive domestic market, the Jianlibao brand no longer has an advantage and can only rely on its past success.
A little bit of national memory is "living on".
The decline of the Jianlibao brand was not due to product quality, but to the infighting between managers represented by Li Jingtian and property owners represented by the government.
After all, the Jianlibao brand is still a state-owned asset. It was Li Jingtian, the contractor, who turned a company on the verge of bankruptcy into the nation's number one brand after more than ten years. He himself was also extremely confident and wanted to privatize the company and become a national brand.
The private property of your own team.
If the company was privatized in its early stages, perhaps the local government would not have much objection, because at this time the Jianlibao brand did not have much value and the factory was still in a dilapidated state. But ten years later, the brand has become a gold-lettered signboard.
The factory also built a new factory in Guangdong Province
A building with more than 30 floors has an annual output value of hundreds of millions. In this case, the government will not give up easily. In the final analysis, it is still a matter of interests. For the sake of interests, no one cares about the number one brand. No one cares about this brand.
future development, at that moment, they want money.
The two sides fought fiercely for interests, and as a result, Li Jingtian was sentenced to jail, and Jianlibao was forcibly sold to a group of capital speculation groups. From then on, it began to decline, and the number one national beverage brand became history.
More than thirty years later, many people are devastated by the decline of Jianlibao, especially the short-sightedness of the local government. They believe that these bureaucrats destroyed a promising brand for a little personal gain.
It is a traitorous act that only makes the enemy happy.