Chapter 38 Manufacturing! Intelligent Manufacturing!
Yang Hai drove the car to the parking lot in front of the factory office building and parked it. He walked into the front desk of the office building and asked the front desk staff. Only then did he know that Shen Ruobing had gone to the factory to inspect the stamping workshop.

Yang Hai had no choice but to say to the front desk: "Can I go to the workshop for a while?"

"Hello, sir. In order to be responsible to our customers, our company needs to keep confidential the products being manufactured in the workshop. Therefore, you are not allowed to visit the production line in the workshop without the accompaniment or consent of the company's leaders." The girl at the front desk explained embarrassedly.

Yang Hai also knew that some factories manufactured products for clients that were not yet on the market, so they had to keep it confidential.

However, he did not expect that the products manufactured by Shen Ruobing's Lean Precision Technology Company would also involve confidentiality requirements.

At this moment, Shen Ruobing returned to the office building surrounded by a group of factory managers.

"What are you doing here? Come to my office with me." Shen Ruobing glanced at Yang Hai and said in a lukewarm tone.

Yang Hai smiled, followed Shen Ruobing into Bi's office and closed the door.

"I actually want to take a look at your factory. How about you take me to inspect the production line in the workshop? Maybe I can give you some suggestions for improvement."

"I'll give you a few suggestions. Maybe they can increase your production efficiency and reduce your production costs and labor costs."

"Do you understand this too? Didn't you say that you were a carpenter who made mahogany furniture?" Shen Ruobing glanced at Yang Hai and said.

"A precision manufacturing plant, after all, manufactures and assembles metal parts for computers, mobile phones, and cameras, doesn't it?" Yang Hai said without any panic.

"Because these metal parts have very precise requirements on dimensions and specifications, the production quality is strictly controlled."

"This is normal, because these things are mainly used in mobile phones, computers, cameras and other expensive items. If the products produced are not up to standard, then the quality of mobile phones, computers and other products assembled with these parts will also be substandard."

"A mobile phone, a computer, or a camera are all very valuable, at least thousands, or even tens of thousands."

"As for the production of these things, the most important part is the stamping department, as well as CNC, polishing, electroplating, and the production of the most core and precise components requires the use of a dust-free workshop."

"am I right!"

"What you said is all correct, but you can really come up with suggestions for improvement to save labor costs for our production and improve the quality of our products." Shen Ruobing said a little doubtfully.

"Why don't we just try it and we'll know if it works? It doesn't require much effort." Yang Hai said casually.

"Are you afraid that I might leak the secret? You wouldn't suspect that I'm your competitor and an undercover agent, would you?"

"When you give a gift to someone, you must ask for something in return. Just tell me what your purpose is in coming to see me?" Shen Ruobing said as if he was unmoved.

"I don't believe that you came to me specifically to find problems in my factory and give me suggestions for corrections."

Yang Hai said helplessly: "Well, what is our relationship? Given our relationship, shouldn't I help you?"

"If you don't say anything, don't blame me for deliberately not helping you!" Shen Ruobing said with a sneer.

"Well! I want to invite you to travel to Silicon Valley in the United States. All expenses will be paid by me, and you don't have to pay a penny."

Yang Hai didn't dare to say anything more and quickly stated his purpose.

"You know I'm not familiar with the United States, and my English is not good either, so just think of you as my bridesmaid and translator."

"Are you kidding? Don't you know I'm very busy? I left such a big company behind to accompany you to travel to the United States." Shen Ruobing said with a smile.

"I am now working hard to get the contract from Nokia. Do you know how important this is to my lean precision technology company?"

"We'll be gone for a few days and will be back soon. It shouldn't delay you much, right?" Yang Hai said. "It will delay you a lot. If you don't have anything to do, you should go back to your company and don't affect my work." Shen Ruobing began to order him to leave.

"Okay, okay, okay. You don't want to help me, but I still want to help you. Take me to the workshop and maybe I can give you some suggestions for improvement. That should be okay, right?" Yang Hai had no choice but to say.

After all, I am a reborn person. I really don't believe that after taking a tour of the workshop in her factory, I will not be able to come up with any suggestions for improvement.

I hope I can come up with good suggestions for improvement, help him save a lot of production costs and labor costs, and better improve the quality of products.

Maybe this will move her, and she might be willing to help me then.

Shen Ruobing thought about it and decided to take Yang Hai to the workshop to have a look. Maybe Yang Hai could really give him some good suggestions to improve the quality pass rate of products and reduce costs and increase efficiency!

The biggest costs in the manufacturing industry are labor costs and high product defect rates.

Why did China become the world's factory? Isn't it because of China's underdeveloped economy, large population, cheap prices and low wages?

Ten years later, China's economy developed, workers' wages increased, the demographic dividend was gone, and the factories of multinational companies withdrew one after another and moved to Southeast Asian countries that were more backward than China.

For example, countries like Vietnam, India, Myanmar, Laos, etc., where labor costs are lower and prices are cheaper.

Capital is profit-seeking. They will rush to wherever they can gain greater benefits, like sharks smelling blood.

Yang Hai followed Shen Ruobing, and behind them were several factory managers, and they walked into the workshop for inspection.

When he arrived at the workshop, Yang Hai looked at the production line and couldn't help shaking his head.

Compared with the production lines of precision manufacturing factories more than ten years later, the production lines of current precision manufacturing factories are really far behind.

The most notable feature is that there are a lot of workers on the assembly line, but there is no automated equipment and the work is basically done manually, giving people a feeling of bloated staff.

"What do you mean by shaking your head? Is there something wrong?"

Shen Ruobing had been walking side by side with Yang Hai, paying attention to his every move. Yang Hai just shook his head slightly, which was immediately noticed by Shen Ruobing.

"There are too many problems. First of all, the production equipment on the assembly line is too backward. There is no intelligent automated equipment at all. All workstations are operated manually, and the staff is too bloated." Yang Hai nodded and said.

"Intelligent automation equipment? Are you talking about industrial robots?" Shen Ruobing asked
"Industrial robots are still a bit too high-end for now, but in the future development, a large number of industrial robots will definitely be used to replace manual operations. But CNC equipment is possible! Using computers to design programs and command robotic arms to grab products can not only save manpower, but the advantage of using machine automation to replace manual labor is that it can avoid a large number of defective rates due to uneven force or improper operation during manual operation, which can greatly improve the product yield rate." Yang Hai said.

"Precision manufacturing and processing must be transformed into precision intelligent manufacturing and processing. The "intelligence" in precision intelligent manufacturing I mentioned here refers to intelligent intelligence."

"I don't think I need to explain this to you. You understand CNC, right?"

"All assembly lines can be solved with intelligent CNC."

Although Shen Ruobing was a little surprised that Yang Hailian knew all this, she still shook her head and said, "I also understand what you mean by intelligent and CNC assembly line equipment! In fact, it is what I told you about industrial robots."

"The problem is that the cost is too high. Electronic products are updated too quickly. The intelligent, CNC automated assembly line equipment here has only been in use for a year. It may have to be re-developed and replaced due to product changes. The production cost will only be higher than it is now."

"For example, if this workstation is to be operated with intelligent CNC equipment, that is, the industrial robot arm you mentioned. Of course, it can be done, but it may cost hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars."

"But two workers work in two shifts, and the annual salary cost for them may be only 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. Which one do you think is more cost-effective?"

(End of this chapter)