Chapter 839 The reason why the island country's industry is strong
For example, there is a company called Xiaolin Yanye in the island country. It is located among a field in Yan City, Xin County. The company's factory building is an old house that is inconspicuous and even a little dilapidated.
In this old house with an area of less than 50 square meters, only five craftsmen of Kobayashi Kenye process millions of mirror back panels for Apple's iPod.
Apple's order requirements have always been very strict. Quality inspectors will check under designated fluorescent lights. If there is a crooked fluorescent light line reflected inside, it is considered a defective product. Moreover, if three out of ten products are unqualified, they will be deemed defective.
Return them all.
But even under such strict requirements, Kobayashi Yanye completed the order one week ahead of schedule within the two-month agreement. Even the returned products were all inspected and accepted after re-polishing. In four years, Kobayashi Yanye polished nearly three products in total.
One million iPod mirror back plates. At the fastest time, five people, including Kobayashi Kazuo, the president of Kobayashi Kenye, could produce 30,000 to 40,000 back plates per month.
There is also a company called Hadlock, which has a very Western name, but it is a company founded 100% by islanders. Their product is the famous "Never Loose Nut".
The never-loosening nuts used on the island nation's high-speed railway "Shinkansen" come from this company.
Delok Industries is a small factory with only 45 employees. President Katsuhiko Wakabayashi invented the non-rotating U-nut as early as the 1960s.
He once introduced the principle and structure of the nut in detail on his official website. Although it attracted many imitators, there were few successful ones.
Hardrock Industries stated that the unique technology and know-how the company has accumulated over the years has different corresponding eccentricities for different sizes and materials. This is the key to the fact that this nut cannot be imitated.
If these industries manufacture seemingly inconspicuous small parts, then there is another company called Kitajima Co., Ltd.
The main business of Kitajima Co., Ltd. is spinning, stamping, and special shape molding of various metal plates. The company has only twenty employees.
They are among the best in the island nation in the metal forming process of "spinning". They are good at special metal forming that cannot be manufactured without cutting-edge technology, such as parts for American aircraft, artificial satellites, and top components of Japanese H2 rockets.
And the manufacturing of these does not rely on mechanical equipment, but on the craftsmanship of craftsmen.
Kitajima Kaki Works has very strict requirements on craftsmen's craftsmanship. If you want to become a qualified craftsman at Kitajima Kaki Works, you must judge the molding state from the sound of the metal, which takes about ten years.
The person in charge of Kitajima Knife Manufacturing Co., Ltd. also said that if you become a skilled craftsman, you can feel even a 0.05 mm difference.
In a word, the technical principles of these small factories are not complicated, they are very simple, but the craftsmanship is extremely sophisticated, almost reaching the limit of human beings. They are all human beings, so why can they create unique craftsmanship but the Chinese cannot?
Are the Chinese stupid?
Of course not, but the workers in China are too affected and cannot devote themselves wholeheartedly to their work. It is unbalanced to see the sales staff earning more than themselves; it is unbalanced to see those people in society who make money through evil ways;
If you see others eating meat and drinking, but you can only be mediocre or unbalanced, if you are not balanced in your heart, you will definitely lose the motivation to work, and wanting to do well is naturally a fool's errand.
In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening in this life, the country has long established a professional title system. Through continuous promotion, you can get higher wages. In addition, the country has also done a lot of propaganda articles, but this is only a macro-level control, targeting a certain person.
Enterprises still have to find a way, Liu Lang
This unified sales method is an effective measure that can allow the employees in the factory to calm down and work steadily. Of course, this presupposes that they have good treatment. Liu Lang is never stingy in this regard.
, all his employees are the ones who got rich first.
Liu Lang's explanation of his industrial group aroused heated discussion among the senior management. They all felt that the idea was very clear and very feasible, especially the "unified sales" model which was refreshing and could even be extended to the whole country.
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"Liu Lang, I think the unified sales method is very good. Everyone talks about the separation of government and enterprises. I think we can also separate production and sales. The separation of government and enterprises can release the vitality of the enterprise. The separation of production and sales can allow workers to calm down and do their jobs well.
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One of the ministers spoke up.
"Yes, I think it can!"
Several other ministers nodded.
"Everyone, I actually think that this method of separating production and sales is only good for industrial enterprises. As for other enterprises, we can discuss it and do not necessarily have to use this model.
Moreover, this model also has weaknesses, that is, the sales company facing the market must have keen insight. If it cannot make accurate predictions about the market, it is likely to cause losses to the company.
The reason why industry can adopt this method is that industrial manufacturing is different from other products. The island country model mainly targets machine tools and parts. Strictly speaking, these are not commodities in the traditional sense and do not directly face the first-line market.
, pays more attention to the inheritance of technical craftsmanship, so it will not be too sensitive to market changes. If this method is put in the direct face of the market
There will be problems with the products on the market. For example, if you don't pay attention to the changes in the market, electric fans may lose their market overnight. The most typical example is the original Third Fan Factory in the Capital. At the beginning, it only focused on practicality.
It was enough to be able to blow the air, but then many electric fans that were both beautiful and multi-functional appeared on the market. As a result, the products of the third factory were no longer sold.
If it hadn’t closed down, there wouldn’t be the current Gemei Air Conditioning Factory!”
Any problem must be looked at in two. One method can solve one problem, but this method may not be suitable for another problem. If applied rigidly, it may be counterproductive.
"Liu Lang mentioned the key point, which is to look at the problem dialectically. Industrial manufacturing, especially machinery manufacturing, is suitable for the separation of production and sales model, but other industries may not be suitable. The example he gave is also very appropriate. Now Gemei Air Conditioning
The factory is the first air-conditioning company in our country that manufactures everything from research and development to production. As I understand it, you
They have a dedicated sales department and use the order manufacturing method. How many air conditioners are planned to be produced according to the number of orders. Production and sales cannot be separated, because air conditioners are consumables and must constantly adapt to the market. SMIC does not have a sales department.
, all chips produced must be matched with other computer hardware...Liu Lang, do you think this is the case?"
Bai Weiren explained further.
"Grandpa Bai, you are right, so the separation of production and sales model should be used with caution, but my Norinco Group is suitable. After all, what we are doing is machine tools for manufacturing equipment, not air conditioners and electric fans.