Chapter 155 Entering the Blind Spot
It was difficult to be a factory director in the era of planned economy.
It’s not difficult, but it’s not difficult either.
If you have products, you don't have to worry about sales, so there is no sales department. When you are a factory director, you don't need to consider sales, you only need to consider production volume. Whether it can be produced and how much can be produced.
There is no need for management experience. Which departments there are and how many employees each department has are not matters that the factory director considers. Many departments are not organized into one system. There are some things that the factory director can intervene in, and some things that he cannot.
Even the factory director in this era is more of a service worker. If the workers have enough food and good benefits, he is actually a good factory director.
Many people in the repair shop didn't mention it, but they all guessed that Luo Cheng would definitely be the factory director in the future, but no one thought that he would be their factory director.
Luo Cheng is also avoiding this issue. In fact, he also wants to be the factory director, but his thoughts are not on serving the workers. His ideological consciousness is not that high. More simply, I think it might be fun to be a factory director, but I don’t know how to do it.
Factory Director Zhang, a sixth-level repairman can directly become the factory director, just because of his high skills, others obey him.
Other companies may directly serve as factory directors due to a placement issue for professional cadres. There are even downgrades from higher-level departments, and people who used to be middle-level cadres in large factories will go directly to the lower-level factories as factory directors.
No experience is required at all, and you don’t need to know how to manage.
So when Director Zhang answered the phone and found Luo Cheng to tell the superior department what he meant, it took Luo Cheng a long time to recover.
If this is the case, it is very likely that the production of cube cars will really be set up in automobile repair shops from the beginning, because matters in repair shops will definitely be reported to local units. The essence of the repair shop has not changed, and it will still repair vehicles for local units. However, due to the affiliation, it will affect the location of the cube car production and construction factory.
When the local government chose to open a car repair shop in this place, it was a comprehensive consideration, and it should not be too remote. It should be convenient for vehicle repairs in the city department, but it should not be too central, where dense crowds would make it difficult for vehicles to enter and exit.
Tomorrow the Cube Car Road Inspection will be carried out. If the Cube Car Factory really builds a factory next to the repair shop, and the repair shop becomes a repair shop of the automobile factory. In this initial stage of production, it is entirely possible to start manual production directly without waiting. And there is another point that is the most critical.
The proportion of regular workers in repair shops is not high. The main limitation is that there are not enough positions, and every carrot is a pit. If the cube car factory replaces the repair shop, it will provide many jobs. The assembly department alone can make all apprentices regular.
For regular car repair workers in the factory, if they familiarize themselves with the manual production of square cars in advance, they might even be able to become a workshop leader.
Luo Cheng didn't chat much with Director Zhang about this topic. It was a bit awkward for them to talk about this topic at the moment, so it was better to let things take their own course.
Now Wang Cheng and the others have installed the base sprocket of the screw rod according to Luo Cheng's request. They only need to use a runner to drive it. By rotating the base sprocket, they can drive the rotation of the screw rod, and the screw mouth is sleeved on the screw rod. Above, if it turns forward, it will rise, and if it turns reverse, it will fall.
When the screw is welded to the pipe, it will drive the pipe up and down together. But if there is currently no engine installed and it relies on power to operate. What has been done so far is nothing more than an extended jack. You can use an ordinary jack to set up a board, and if someone steps on it, it can manually lift you up.
Luo Cheng thought for a while. At present, he was just making a model, and it seemed that he didn't need the booster pump at all. When it is officially launched, if you use a low-horsepower engine to operate it, you will need a booster pump. Moreover, what we are currently doing is in the form of forklift lifting, and this thing has drawbacks. If it is just for maintenance, it is okay, that is, when the car can be driven, it can be lifted directly on the pipe rack.
But when repairing a broken car, it is convenient to do a column-type lift, or a split-type hydraulic lift. If there are no uprights and the repair shop installs a lift, it will have to dig about ten centimeters into the ground so that the lifting bracket can be level with the ground.
Wait~~~, Luo Cheng looked at the lifting frame that had not yet been equipped with the engine, and then looked at the current workshop. Damn~~, Luo Cheng found that he had entered a blind spot again. Logically speaking, the principle of a car repair lift is simple. Even if there is no hydraulic lift in this era, a spiral one will do.
Even if you really want to install a lift, why not make two large jacks and bury them underground. When the car is driven up, it can be lifted manually. And why is there no lift in the factory?
Luo Cheng realized that he was stupid. The repair shops that installed lifts in later generations all built houses with ground structures paved with cement or floor tiles. In later generations, a lift was not expensive, with an average price ranging from 5,000 to 10,000. Having such a machine also seemed classy.
But now we really need a lift to repair cars. If you bother to build a lift, you might as well ask two people to dig a small hole in the ground, just like the toilet pit in later generations. If a car is driven on it, people will have to go to the pit to repair it.
For repair shops in later cities, digging holes would destroy the ground structure. The shop might have been rented, and they would have to be taken back if they stopped working. This labor cost was not low. Installing a lift saves trouble and is impressive. What's the point of having to be up to date when installing lifts at this time? There's no need to attract business. No matter how high the repair price is, it will be the same.
Looking at the dismantled gearbox and jack parts on the ground, I felt that there was no need to build a lift model. Let’s just build a forklift model. The forklift has a frame, so let’s just build a fixed frame first.
After instructing Wang Cheng and the others to make a square frame according to the requirements, it should still be made of the leftover materials from last time. The size must be able to accommodate the engine. In addition, just like a car, the engine must have a water tank, a fuel tank, and a fixed frame. Definitely put these in.
After giving some instructions, Luo Cheng slipped away. Fortunately, he didn't tell Wang Cheng and the others that he originally wanted to build an elevator. If it's the engine or the gearbox, all kinds of things have to be disassembled and assembled, and in the end it's just to replace something that can be done with just one pit. That would be a shame.
However, this does not mean that elevators are useless, but they are currently not suitable for use in repairing cars. In later generations, factories with several floors will actually use either elevators or elevators to move things upstairs and downstairs. Lifts are cheaper to install than elevators. It's just that the movie can automatically stop on the first floor with one click. For lifts, the switch must be pressed all the time.
Luo Cheng didn't plan to come to the factory in the afternoon. He wanted to go to the rolling mill first and then to the machinery factory with the drawings. Let Wang Cheng and the others fix the fixed frame, so they don't have to wait for him in the afternoon and can just go about their own business if they have anything to do.
As for tomorrow's road inspection, Luo Cheng has to participate. As a designer, he must go. I will also take photos and shake hands with many local leaders. The photos of shaking hands with provincial leaders can also be hung in the factory.