(The previous chapter was blocked again. After the revision, it was put into the free chapter. It’s really sad!)
Compared with developed countries, the country's industrial level is very "miserable". It took a huge amount of manpower and material resources to copy a foreign second- and third-rate AOD electric furnace. This shows that the technical level of both parties is at least three times lower.
More than ten years apart.
The country has communicated with developed countries before and tried to introduce some of the most advanced machine tools and equipment, but no country agreed. Think about it, how can this important weapon of the country be easily shown to others?
There are three conditions for making a good part, materials, technology and precision machine tools. In terms of materials, except for some very special military materials that cannot be purchased, most of them can be purchased in the market. Then there is the technology, which is the industrial workers.
For the same part, two companies are likely to use different techniques. Just like making buns, a skilled craftsman can make eighteen pleats. Although the taste is similar, the appearance is better.
They can provide parts for Mercedes-Benz entirely because the Andrew family's unique production process allows them to make parts cheaper.
Finally, there are precision machine tools. This is a competition to see who has stronger R&D capabilities. The competition is about money and the level of R&D personnel, which is also the core of a manufacturing company.
Andrews Company is not a well-known company. It has been at the second- or third-rate level for decades. Its annual sales revenue is only about five to six million marks at most. Basically, excluding labor and material costs, the remaining expenses are
Around one million, the cost spent on research and development is only over 300,000. More than 300,000 marks sounds like a lot, but when it comes to technological innovation, it is far from enough. Maybe we can do something based on the original machine tools.
Improvement, but if you want to make fundamental improvements, you can't do it without investing tens of millions of doors a year.
This situation is also very common in the industry. The core technology is in the hands of a few companies. Their products have the highest added value. Some products even require customers to place orders in advance. Such companies will naturally not go
By manufacturing those small parts, small factories like Andrews have room to survive.
Are there no opportunities for small businesses to turn around? Yes, but it is very difficult. It is basically impossible in China. First, there is the problem of funding. The R&D expenses of small companies are simply incomparable with those of large companies. Their research institutes spend thousands of dollars every year.
Wan, the researchers are all top experts, how can you compare?
Even if your small company achieves a technological breakthrough due to certain opportunities and produces products similar to the other party's, has the market entered the market?
Volkswagen's engine supplier and Volkswagen have already reached a "perfect match" after decades of cooperation. If you want to use your product, you have to re-run it from beginning to end. How much does this cost? Only fools will use it!
Therefore, once the market is monopolized by a certain product and other products want to compete with each other, they will have to pay a much higher price than the other party. For those small companies, this price is simply unaffordable.
But if both parties enter another new market at the same time, the situation will be different. At least the condition of monopolizing the market is gone. What is left is to compete with whose products are better and who can capture the hearts of consumers in this market.
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Little Andrew is a little different from his father and grandfather. His father and grandfather were both technical entrepreneurs. They established their own business by relying on hard-working hands and unique craftsmanship. Although it was not big, it was self-sufficient.
Little Andrew is different. Although he is also an engineering student, he prefers business management. In his eyes, the methods of his father and grandfather have long been outdated. Making a small fortune in industry is tantamount to dancing on the tip of a needle.
Lower will attract more competitors.
In the past ten years or so, as the economy has gotten better and better, people have more money in their hands. When they have money, they have to spend it. Various industries have risen rapidly. The electrical appliance industry has also developed by leaps and bounds, such as refrigerators and washing machines.
, television and other small home appliance companies are also recovering like spring after the rain, which has led to the emergence of many manufacturing factories in Germany. These factories are not large in scale and have low technical content, but the technology of small home appliance companies cannot match that of automobiles.
Compared with the industry, the cost advantage of small manufacturing plants has emerged.
These small businesses pose no threat to those companies that provide important parts for automobiles, but they pose a great threat to Andrew's company, because once these manufacturing plants achieve minor breakthroughs in technology, they are likely to enter the automotive industry and compete for the market themselves.
Well, in such a fiercely competitive environment, once their company makes a management mistake, it is likely that it will be replaced by another company the next day.
If you want your family's factory to gain a foothold in the market, you must possess technologies that are unmatched by others in the same industry. However, the invention and creation of these technologies must be supported by a large amount of money. Without money, everything is out of the question.
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Under tremendous pressure, little Andrew would "take the initiative" and constantly look for opportunities to cooperate with the Sao Paulo Cultural Federation. It was through his father's relationship with a scientist classmate that he obtained some small overseas contracts and earned some money in a few years.
In addition, they are sometimes invited by the Sao Paulo Cultural Federation to participate in scientific and technological seminars to understand the current development of mechanical technology.
It's just that these are just "little fights" and have no fundamental effect.
Little Andrew was invited to China to attend a conference and found that China's huge market was about to open up to the world. He thought it was a good opportunity, but he didn't think about how to enter this market.
Then Liu Lang appeared. In Liu Lang's words, China was a place full of business opportunities, where all diligent and friendly friends could realize their dreams. This made little Andrew very happy.
Now, the chief minister actually met him in person and said that he would support him on policy. This is not a happy thing, but he, Andrews, has won the jackpot.
If his family's business can seize this opportunity, then perhaps Andrews can really become a world-class company in the future.
Zhao Hongyang's super-standard meeting with Little Andrew was the idea of Liu Lang. Companies with advanced technologies will be restricted by Western countries, and second- and third-rate small businesses will be much more relaxed in this regard, and these small businesses themselves will also be restricted.
Attracted by China's huge market, and Western countries have not yet realized how powerful the Chinese people's "imitation" capabilities are, as long as he is given a year or two, Liu Lang believes that he can definitely consolidate the country's industrial foundation.
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Zhao Hongyang's statement made Andrew secretly determined to make a big impact by taking advantage of China's huge market. In fact, many companies have this idea, and they are now secretly making efforts.