Chapter 381: Self-developed production line

After leaving the idyllic farming factory, Han Songlin went to Yanghe to have a look at Fuxing Industry.

It has been less than two years since Fuxing Industry was acquired by Han Songlin, and the speed of development is truly amazing.

In Yanghe, Fuxing Industry specializes in the production of trucks, buses and various types of construction machinery and equipment.

Han Songlin asked Liu Yuyan and the others to wait in the office. After all, it was really not suitable to bring children along when wandering around the factory.

Zhang Leping's face was full of pride as he showed Han Songlin around the Fuxing Industry factory: 'Boss, we have now completely shifted our production capacity to the manufacture of trucks, construction vehicles and buses. This year, we will strive to increase the production capacity of trucks to 30,000 units per year.'

30,000 units?

Trucks?

That's a bit of an exaggeration.

'Including mini trucks?'

Zhang Leping laughed dryly: 'Including!'

Trucks are much more difficult to produce, and require high technical standards. Naturally, Fuxing Industrial's production speed cannot be said to be too fast.

Han Songlin didn't really care about this either, as long as he could make money, everything was fine.

'Engineering vehicles, are excavators and bulldozers the only ones available?'

Zhang Leping: 'We've recently built a road roller.'

Demand for engineering vehicles is currently quite high. After Fuxing Industry built it, they received a lot of orders, and Zhang Leping is talking about expanding production capacity.

Yes, they are a bit short of workers at the moment.

Without workers, it's impossible to expand production capacity.

'What about buses?'

'At the moment, sales of our buses are not very good, and we plan to continue with the current production schedule.'

'Are there any difficulties at Fuxing Industry at the moment?'

Zhang Leping: 'Not really. We have recruited a lot of good R&D personnel, and even senior technicians. We don't really lack R&D and senior technicians at the moment. We are just a little short of middle and lower-level skilled workers.'

Short of middle and lower-level skilled workers?

This situation is largely related to the previous recruitment policy.

When recruiting in the past, the focus was on R&D personnel and senior workers; middle and lower-level workers were really not taken seriously.

However, in a factory, this group of people is the backbone of the workforce.

Han Songlin ran his hand along his chin. This is a situation.

'So that's it!'

The tide of layoffs has gradually begun, hasn't it?

Since the 1990s, the profitability of state-owned enterprises has been declining, and many companies have even been unable to pay wages.

For ordinary workers, this is undoubtedly a very difficult situation.

Without wages, how can they support their families?

Those with initiative have long since found their own way out and become the first to get rich; honest people are continuing to persevere.

On the Jiangzhong side, there are no more suitable workers to recruit.

Therefore, if you want workers, you have to recruit them from other places.

The only way to get good workers to join Fuxing Industry is to recruit them through personal connections.

At this time, the personnel in Fuxing Industry were not just local people from Shuchuan, but also from other provinces.

Before these people came to Fuxing Industrial, they were basically all in a certain factory, and they were also key personnel.

'Nowadays, does Fuxing Industrial have many migrant workers?'

'It seems like there are quite a lot.' Zhang Leping really hasn't done any statistics in this regard, but as far as he knows, there are really quite a lot of migrant workers.

The dormitory buildings built by Fuxing Industrial before, due to the excessive number of migrant workers, mobilised a lot of local workers to go home and live, and give up their dormitories.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient dormitories, Fuxing Industry urgently built a batch of dormitories to solve the problem.

In addition, when migrant workers come to Fuxing Industry, they basically bring their families with them, so the factory naturally has to solve the problem of their children's education.

'Nowadays, other state-owned enterprises are having a hard time, so at this time, we can introduce a group of workers through these people. Our wages and benefits are among the best in the country, and I believe many people are willing to come.'

Zhang Leping slapped his head when he heard what Han Songlin said: 'Oops, I never thought of that before! You're still the boss.'

Han Songlin looked deeply into Zhang Leping's eyes. He really hadn't thought of this?

Previously, Fuxing Industrial had already begun the model of getting people to come by word of mouth.

Do you remember Lai Youshan?

a Grade 9 worker at Fuxing Industrial.

Han Songlin asked Lai Youshan to write to his friends who were Grade 9 and Grade 8 workers and invite them to work at Fuxing Industrial. Even if they didn't come to work at Fuxing Industrial, it didn't matter, it was just an invitation to come and visit, a kind of tourist trip.

Surprisingly, Lai Youshan did invite several people.

Forget it, Zhang Leping is good at saying nice things when he is facing himself.

'Forget all that. Apart from recruiting people externally, we also need to strengthen our internal training. Recruit more interns, and if they are suitable and perform well, then convert them to full-time employees.'

Zhang Leping: 'Don't worry, boss, we have always insisted on recruiting and training interns.'

Han Songlin doesn't say much about this either. He stands next to a production line and watches a Fuxing Hercules come off the line.

'Boss, this production line is the first one we designed ourselves. About 60% of the parts are either manufactured by us or sourced domestically.'

Han Songlin: 'How long does it take to produce a car on this production line?'

'One hour.'

One hour a day is not enough to produce 24 hours a day, and time must also be allowed for maintenance of the entire production line.

It sounds as if the production efficiency is not very high.

But the significance of this production line does not lie in its high production efficiency, but in the fact that Fuxing has mastered the technology of automobile production lines.

In the future, they can build on this foundation to develop production lines with even higher production efficiency and a wider range of products.

'What about the failure rate?'

'At the beginning, there were frequent failures, but now we can keep up with the production for a whole day. Even during maintenance, some parts have to be replaced and repaired.'

Han Songlin is already very satisfied with this.

Before Fuxing Industry, a production line from the 1970s was purchased from abroad. After it was bought back, Fuxing Industry did not simply use it, but instead conducted continuous research and then came up with its own.

The automobile production line is something that, after being used for 20 or 30 years, will still not be outdated.

Of course, this was true in the 20th century.

In the 21st century, with the development of electronic technology and the extensive use of industrial robots on production lines, the demand for workers on the entire production line is also constantly decreasing.

As for the present, what Han Songlin sees before his eyes is a production line full of workers, and the technology is not that difficult.

Some tasks such as carrying things require specialised personnel.

Fortunately, there are also many means of transport on the production line.

For Han Songlin, having seen the future, which is full of industrial robots and production lines with various electronic components and computers, it does not look advanced at all when compared to the present.

The management of the production line has also actively studied foreign factories and assembly lines, not to mention other things.

For example, in the 1950s, the island nation proposed a kind of just-in-time production, which means that parts and components are delivered to the production line on time.

While learning from others, Fuxing Industry is also constantly improving itself and enhancing production efficiency.

As long as the suggestions are appropriate, Fuxing Industry will adopt them.

After adoption, if production is indeed improved, the person who made the suggestion will be rewarded.

The standard of the reward is determined according to the effect of the suggestion.

Fuxing Industry has always honoured its rewards on time, so people's enthusiasm for making suggestions is quite high.

If you want the horse to run fast, you have to feed it well!