Chapter 248 Imagination of Compressor

Where did the profits of the automobile factory go? On his first day in office, deputy director Du Yongkang spent time familiarizing himself with the automobile factory's industry and current situation.

After seeing the financial statements, even though he had been the deputy mayor for two years, he couldn't help but feel a chill down his back. In the old society, usury was used to make loans with interest compounded by interest, and Luo Cheng, the director of the factory, also used profits to compound profits in his development. In addition, the current settlement model is monthly settlement. Almost all the things in this car manufacturer have not been completed yet, and the expected income has begun to be spent lavishly.

Although this is the era of the working class, factories are all under the factory director responsibility system. If there is a problem in the factory, the first person to be held accountable is the factory director. Dedication is dedication, but everyone is paid. In Du Yongkang's view, there is no need to be so radical.

There was no money in the factory's account, so Du Yongkang took a look at the automobile factory's industry and found that almost every product currently had great room for growth. This also means that the factory has huge potential for expansion, but Du Yongkang feels that it is better to slow down for a while. As long as he slows down for a month, he will have at least hundreds of thousands on his books.

So on the first day of his arrival, Du Yongkang came to Luo Cheng at around four o'clock in the afternoon and asked about the production plan for next month.

"The Chinese New Year is coming next month, Lao Du, and I don't want to bother too much. The first one is the gearbox production line. It will be here in the next few days. The workshop will have to be moved. It is said that the new factory will be built for ten years. It will be delivered the next day. Even if the factory wants to develop, there will be no space for the time being."

Du Yongkang nodded. Luo Cheng's statement was exactly what he wanted. The factory should slow down. How can any company spend money so cleanly? But I have to remember the gearbox thing. The car factory has another industry. Because they were both factory directors, the difference was just that Du Yongkang was a few years older than Luo Cheng, so Luo Cheng directly called him Lao Du.

"Let's do this, we will simply add an engine production line next month. Then our factory's cube truck 2.0 will also be put into production, and the forklifts will be exported. Produce as much as possible, and you have to pay more attention to it. I will be responsible for it here. Research and Development of Air Compressors.”

"Director Luo, how much does this engine production line cost?"

"Not much. We still purchase parts such as screws from outside. The production of other parts would cost more than 800,000 yuan for the entire production line."

"More than 800,000 yuan."

At first, Luo Cheng said it lightly, just adding a production line. Du Yongkang thought it wouldn't cost much, but he didn't expect it would cost more than 800,000. Because he was going to be the deputy director of the automobile factory, he had been looking for some newspapers about the automobile field to read in the past few days.

It seems that a certain city made a replica of the first car in China, and it only cost 800,000 yuan to make it from scratch. Now an engine production line alone costs 800,000 yuan. How many engines do you need to sell to make money back?

Moreover, if we calculate the planned production tasks of the automobile factory, it is only less than 500,000 yuan excluding the cost. Of course, this less than half a million is the planned task for this month. The task will be re-declared next month, and both manual forklifts and three-wheel trucks will increase planned output.

The planned production of 40 three-wheel trucks was initially reported, mainly because the transmission was stuck in production. But now that I have purchased a single set of variables from Hongcheng, the output of three-wheeled trucks can at least be doubled several times.

However, due to space constraints, Luo Cheng plans to increase the production of three-wheeled trucks to 200 units next month. If two hundred vehicles are sold, it will cost one million. To produce two hundred vehicles, there are basically no restrictions on components. At most, the diesel engine must be ordered from more than two engine factories.

But even so, two hundred three-wheeled trucks can't earn 800,000 yuan. The wheels and engines alone cost thousands. Even if other things are not expensive, adding up all the miscellaneous goods will cost hundreds of thousands. Therefore, taking into account all the profits from block trucks and forklifts, it is enough to add an engine production line.

As for the engines, Director Zhao took them to other places for testing before, but he paid for three units this month and has no intention of paying them back. Three thousand yuan per unit. At this price, Luo Cheng only priced it for export and had no intention of selling it domestically.

With such an expensive price, whether they can be sold depends on whether anyone is interested in the batch of engines currently being assembled by the automobile factory.

There are so many parts of the engine that a production line requires dozens of machines, and these are all domestically produced machines. If it were imported, there would be no way to get 800,000 yuan. You must know that the transmission production line must buy imported equipment because of the accuracy requirements. The steel rolling mill contacted an old production line and asked for a forklift worth 700,000 yuan to offset the payment.

Therefore, it is really not expensive to build a production line for RMB 800, although most of the production line is just mechanized and requires a lot of lathe operators. But at least it can meet the minimum production requirements of the engine. Some parts may not be as good as later generations, but as long as they are not so prone to problems, it will be fine. In the future, the materials will be gradually upgraded.

Adding another production line will only increase the output by 200 units a month. The main reason is that many parts produced by machines can only produce semi-finished products. The equipment is not advanced, cannot be intelligent, and cannot be molded in one go. Some places that need to be drilled need to be machined for secondary processing.

But it's enough. The military factory's equipment has been equipped with some more equipment, and a production line is being built. More than 500 engines can be produced in a month. If it can be exported, it will cost more than 1 million. A production line can earn back in a month.

In fact, compared with the gasoline engine factory in Tianhu, Luo Cheng agreed to a production line, and the output was actually lower. This is mainly because the engine structure here is different and there are more parts.

According to Luo Cheng, it will be collected next month. If you want to expand, each workshop can actually add machines to increase production. Du Yongkang's calculation method is different from Luo Cheng's algorithm. Du Yongkang calculates the profit from the existing production, while Luo Cheng calculates the profit from sales after expansion and increased production.

Anyway, I'm not worried about selling it. At most, I haven't contacted the engine for sale. In Luo Cheng's view, even if it can't be exported, it can be used by himself at most. It's not that the car factory can't produce cars. At most, don't add any fancy styling, and first make a more boxy model, such as the old-fashioned Santana model.

This type of car is also popular in Hong Kong. In some old Hong Kong movies, you can often see taxis like this. If the iron sheet is made thinner, the stamping machine can stamp out the car shell. Of course, the whole body is still not enough. It can be stamped separately and divided into three parts: front, middle and rear.

Anyway, once the engine is built, there is no need to worry about it not being used. Selling engines alone is not as profitable as selling cars. And if it can't be exported, if it's sold domestically for 3,000 yuan, someone will talk about it. But if it can be exported, even if there are three thousand people in the country, there will be places rushing to get it. Maybe if it is exported, it will not be sold domestically, but exported first.

This is the case in this era. In China, the value of your product is not based on performance, but the cost of the materials you produce. And once you can export it, the noble people at your price will shut up. Just like a forklift, Luo Cheng said it would cost 50,000 yuan to sell domestically and 30,000 yuan to export. But if it cannot be exported, no matter how good the forklift is, the price may not be as high as you want.

Anyway, according to Luo Cheng's algorithm, next month's factory construction, staff building construction, his R&D investment, etc. will be deducted. The factory will definitely have a lot of money left. Mainly from forklifts and engines. If the engines cannot be exported, the first goal next year will be to produce cars.

When Du Yongkang heard Luo Cheng's algorithm, he couldn't say anything else. At least the forklift was not among the planned production tasks, which could indeed bring a lot of profits.

The next day, after the factory had a deputy director, Luo Cheng could at least be a half-hand shopkeeper. Unless someone is targeting the new deputy factory director, according to the rules, if someone below has something to report, it will usually be reported to the direct leader. Only if the direct leader cannot make up his mind will he continue to report.

In other words, if temporary workers and apprentices have something to do, they will report it to the master who leads them. If the master can't solve it, he will go to the team leader. If the team leader can't solve it, he will go up to the director. Anyway, it's step by step.

The deputy director is in charge of production. In the past, there was no deputy director, and all production-related matters would be reported directly to Luo Cheng. But now it is wrong to go to Luo Cheng. It is a leapfrog report. Maybe you did it unintentionally when reporting, but for some people, reporting beyond the level will be considered as looking down on them.

With the deputy director, unless it is something Du Yongkang is in charge of, there is no need to report to Luo Cheng in the future. Unless Du Yongkang is not in the factory and goes out to ask for leave or something. Otherwise, even if the people below do not understand the rules and find Luo Cheng, Luo Cheng will let them find Du Yongkang.

So although the meeting was still held in Luo Cheng's office the next day, Luo Cheng had already arranged for someone to get a temporary conference table for the deputy director's office. From now on, Luo Cheng no longer has to bother with daily meetings, they will be held by Du Yongkang, and he won't have to attend anything that doesn't involve him. And if he has something to do, he can just ask the people from the Publicity Department to notify the meeting.

Even if we move to a new office building in the future, there will be a separate conference room. When the scale grows, even various departments can hold meetings. At that time, power became more segmented.

With the deputy director, Luo Chengdu felt that he could take a vacation. It's just that staying at home is boring, it's cold outside, and taking a walk is no fun. It's a pity that there are no electronic products of any kind in this era. Even after the reform, it would be nice to have an electronic game room.

What gave Luo Cheng a little motivation was that he had obtained the structural diagram of the air compressor and also mastered the structural diagram of the air pressure brake. And he also mastered the principle of the compressor. In fact, Luo Cheng didn't notice it at first. He had already accumulated a certain foundation of the principle of the air compressor when he was working on the engine. Because there are some principles of cylinder compression inside the engine, but they are combined with the full combustion of gasoline and are very weak pneumatic principles.

But this time it is an independent air compression principle. If it is installed in a car, it can rely on the engine as power to drive the compressor to work. Then the power of the compressor is used to control the various power needs of the large truck.

In fact, the principle of compressors has been used in many places in this era, such as using steam to burn boilers, which all use the power of compression.

Therefore, the air compressor developed by Luo Cheng can be used not only on trucks, but also on various machines that require power. For example, in stamping machines and folding plate machines, maybe using an air compressor and applying it to the machinery can increase the strength of the stamping machine. In that case, some car shell shapes may be solved by machine stamping.

The more Luo Cheng thought about it, the more excited he became. He couldn't come up with intelligent electronic mechanical equipment, but he could come up with some hydraulic and pneumatic equipment. At least manufacturing can be more mechanized in the future, although mechanization will leave many workers idle. In terms of employment rates, worker costs are lower. But what Luo Cheng was doing was high-end mechanization in this era. Even without the equipment, ordinary workers couldn't do it. And senior workers are overwhelmed.

In fact, the military workshop brought by Director Zhao was originally more suitable for manufacturing machinery rather than cars. Even the engineers are mostly mechanical engineers, not automotive engineers.

This was not tied to production matters, so Luo Cheng let himself go. I found the fun of modifying the car in the technical school. There is nothing to modify the car now, but in fact, studying some machinery is just as interesting. Especially with the air compressor, Luo Cheng unknowingly thought of many things in later generations. Such as refrigerators and air conditioners, although they are no longer important to automobile factories. But the main component of the refrigerator air conditioner is the compressor.

Luo Cheng's original idea of ​​producing cars was not to contribute to the automotive field, but to experience the feeling of others using bills to buy their things. Then he sells the car he sells to get some welfare benefits and improve his life.

And refrigerators and air conditioners are great things when the weather is hot. Luo Cheng is now the factory director, with a high salary and spending power. There is a refrigerator and air conditioner, so you don't have to worry about high electricity consumption in the summer.

Therefore, Luo Cheng stopped holding morning meetings with various departments, but called several engineers from the military factory to the office every day to study the manufacturing of air compressors by a fire.

And Jiang Changyuan also came here with a dynamics expert and many automotive engineers on the third day after deputy director Du Yongkang took office.

As for the addition of a deputy director in the automobile factory, Jiang Yuanyuan and the others didn't care at all. They were engineers, not ordinary workers. If you don’t have great skills and are just a deputy factory director, no one will look down on you at all.

You must know that a senior technical worker dares to make a decision with the factory director when faced with unreasonable circumstances. However, senior technical workers do not easily make decisions about engineers. Most of the time, senior technical workers actually work with engineers. One is manual technology where practice makes perfect, and the other is cultural, scientific and intellectual technology. It's about mutual respect and cooperation, but the factory director and deputy director are just factory managers and workers' servers. Everyone can respect you, but they are not afraid of you.

Therefore, after Jiang Changyuan arrived with his people, there was no hierarchy between him and the deputy factory director. Even in terms of salary, their engineers got more.

Luo Cheng handed over the heavy truck drawings to Jiang Yuanyuan. As an automotive engineer, anyone who came could easily see the problem. It would be impossible to realize such a large vehicle with such a high load capacity. But that's why Luo Cheng asked a dynamics expert to come over. He took out the air brake drawings and structural distribution diagrams and showed them to Team Leader Jiang's teacher. He used the kinetic energy of the engine to convert the kinetic energy of the engine into the mechanical energy needed by the car through air compression. . Whether it can meet the requirements Luo Cheng needs.

After the teacher Jiang Changyuan brought looked at the air brake structure diagram, his eyes lit up. He continued to reason based on the data, and finally reached a theoretical conclusion that was feasible. But the main issue is strength, which depends on the power of the compressor. When he heard that the compressor was being built by himself, the teacher became interested.

The expert teacher who came here was not very interested in the reasonable construction of trucks. He was not studying automobiles in the first place. He studied at Harvard School abroad and studied dynamics. Dynamics involves a wide range of aspects, including various dynamic structures.

So when he heard that Luo Cheng planned to build his own air compressor, he was more excited than hearing about building a car. With the compressor drawings provided by Luo Cheng, this teacher with a questionable birth composition was actually a sweetheart. He didn't care about Jiang Yuanyuan and the others, and just went to Director Zhao's workshop every day to work on the compressor with the mechanical engineer.

For a long time, Jiang Changyuan still worked as a team to improve the structure of the truck. Since they don't need to consider power, they can just operate according to the drawings. The automobile factory now is much stronger than when he first came. There are a lot of machines and equipment. Because there are many types of production, the machines are already very large. Comprehensive.

Even if you can’t buy a machine with any functions you want, you can still make it yourself. There are mechanical engineers in the factory, and they build machines.

The several tricycles and jeeps brought by the military factory can be used by Team Leader Jiang and others. If you need any materials, go to the rolling mill. The design of the tires, what kind of bearings, how many, beams, etc., these are all the tasks of Team Leader Jiang.