Age of Dreams

After getting a satisfactory answer from Fairy Company, the fans celebrated on the Internet, and the emotions that had been squeezed for a few days finally broke out. Everyone felt a sense of comfort.

They were happy, but they didn't know that Fairy Company was in a mess now.

It's not that Xiao Qi went from his firm production plan before to suddenly announcing an additional Spring Festival gift sale plan, which made them lose their sense of proportion.

It doesn't matter if you increase the production once, but the supply of hundreds of large and small parts has to be re-planned.

After the component suppliers received the call, although they were also very happy to sell more components, but with so many components suddenly added, they had to renegotiate contracts with their downstream suppliers of components and raw materials.

Moreover, this data cannot be determined now at all, and the quantity needs to be waited until February to finally determine the quantity—Xiao Qi’s order is that by that time, as much as can be produced will be produced as much as possible, so it can only be finalized after the Spring Festival gifts are sold. Determine how much to replenish.

However, according to the information provided by Fairy Company, it should be at least 20 million sets, plus 10% of various losses, 22 million sets is the most basic.

Fortunately, the quantity will be known in February, and it is easier to prepare. If it is prepared in October or November, it is considered that they have great skills, and it is impossible for everyone to get it together.

Among these component suppliers, the most difficult one is naturally the sapphire glass screen.

Xiao Qi specially purchased technical patents in the United States, and spent a lot of money to buy a company in the United States and merge it into the North American Laboratory of Mingxiang Holdings. The sapphire glass screen used was developed.

Since the technology was his own, Xiao Qi directly imported equipment from abroad, and set up a sapphire glass screen factory in Rongcheng——Sapphire Optical Factory. Half of the technicians came from the United States, half from his own laboratory, and the workers They come from glass factories in Rongcheng and the surrounding areas, all of whom are skilled elites.

Originally thought that the cost of the sapphire glass screen was about 10 US dollars, but when it was mass-produced, it was discovered that a sapphire glass screen could not be manufactured for less than 15 US dollars.

The cost of a piece of Corning Oriental glass used by DreamStars in the past was only 2.5 US dollars, but now it has increased by 5 times, which can be said to have greatly increased the cost.

But even so, it is still much less than the cost of adding 50 dollars a piece that is speculated by the outside world.

If the cost really increased so much, it would be impossible for Xiao Qi to agree to enter the substantive production stage of the sapphire glass screen.

Now the price is tolerable.

If the production quantity is larger, the technology improves, and the yield rate is further improved, I believe that the cost can be reduced to 12 dollars.

The price is still a secondary thing, the key is that the output of this sapphire glass is not high at all.

Now the factory has only 8 production lines in total. Since a lot of work is controlled by automated computer programs, the number of labor required is not much. There are only more than 300 workers and engineers in the factory, but the output can reach about 15 million yuan per month.

As usual, all parts will have 10% in stock. In addition to the guarantee of yield rate, there is also the need for customized versions, so the quantity of 15 million sapphire glasses is also a bit tight and definitely not rich.

There is no doubt that such a production quantity was calculated by Xiannv Company early on. They believe that the monthly output of 13 million is enough with so many production lines and so many workers. If it is too much, it will be a great waste .

Even after two or three years, DreamPad and DreamSnow will use sapphire glass, so it will be a matter of the future, and it is a waste to prepare in advance now.

From the successful research and development of sapphire glass at the end of July to the successful trial production of the factory in August, it is only two months from now. During this period, it is impossible for the sapphire optical factory to store much inventory.

According to the information obtained by Xiao Qi, in October, they officially started large-scale application production, and it was not at full capacity.

The bad thing is that the good product rate at that time was only 70%, and the loss in this area reached hundreds of millions. If it were replaced by an ordinary factory, it would probably not be able to survive.

It was only in November that their good product rate increased significantly, but even so, it is estimated that by the end of November, the inventory will be no more than 18 million yuan at most, which is basically the same as that of Star Electronics and Red Sea Factory. The normal production schedule coincides with that.

Want to stock up?

difficult!

Their factory has all the equipment and personnel, and it has been in the factory business for many years. It is amazing to work overtime in three shifts, and the extra parts can definitely be made.

But the sapphire optical factory has just been established, the employees have just started, and they have just adapted to the two-shift shift, not to mention that there is no way to add equipment in a short time. After sea transportation, equipment installation and commissioning, etc., it will be at least two months later... What's the point of increasing production after two months?

So they can only work with the current machine, so the most practical way is to recruit more employees again, replace the old with the new, and turn the two shifts into three shifts. Only when the loss and yield rate are ignored, can there be a little success. possible.

As long as we can survive the three months of November, December, and January, it will be very easy to maintain the output of 15 million yuan in the future, and we can even borrow a little time in February to supplement.

The general manager of the sapphire optical factory is Zheng Pingfei, a high-level technical talent hired by Fairy Company from German Zeiss optics. He is also the director of the sapphire glass screen project team. He also has some experience in production. He is responsible for the preparation of the entire factory. .

When Xiao Qi came to the sapphire optical factory located 5 kilometers south of the Red Sea factory, he was busy in the factory workshop.

Zheng Pingfei was one of the people who knew about Fairy Company’s increase of production by 20 million units of DreamStars 3. As a talent who came back from Germany with a strong obedience ability, his first thought was not “this problem is so difficult”, but It's "how can I do it".

So for the past two days, he stayed in the workshop with a group of technicians, checking every detail that could be improved, and calculating how to increase production while ensuring quality.

Three shifts are the most basic, as well as some equipment adjustments, and the arrangements for workers to take turns... etc., all of these must be considered.

"If we want to achieve the goal, at least 120 more workers need to be added." Standing outside the workshop, Zheng Pingfei reported to Xiao Qihui, "There is no problem for them to enter the job, and they don't need to do the main work, they only need to be assistants. The important things are controlled by our skilled workers and engineers. But there is a problem, after the increase in production, these workers are redundant, and it is not difficult to feed them, but it is also a waste of waste.”

The orders for the sapphire optical factory now only come from DreamStars3, but the monthly booking volume of 15 million units, plus the selling price of $15 per piece and 20% of the net profit, is 315 million per month.

With such a high profit, even if the average salary of factory workers reaches 18,000 per month, and the salary of engineers exceeds 50,000, the monthly salary expenditure is only more than 10 million.

Add 120 workers, there is no pressure at all.

But Zheng Pingfei felt that this was not good. If the factory was too idle and the workers were not actively working, then the work efficiency would be greatly reduced.

Xiao Qi nodded when he heard the words, "Well, anyway, most of our engineers will return to the laboratory. You should seriously train the potential workers among the existing workers. If they can take over the job, then increase 120 There's nothing wrong with people, right?"

"That's a way. Most of them are college students, and there are also master students." Zheng Pingfei nodded, "But these controls are very delicate, and I don't know how many of them can pass the test."

"Skilled technical workers are all cultivated and trained. How can they be good at the beginning?" Xiao Qi laughed, "In addition, these workers can still adopt the last elimination system. Decentralized to the second line to do those warehouse packing, transportation and other work."

"Compared with outsourcing, it costs more money, but it's also good, at least you don't have to go across the river and tear down the bridge when you run out." Zheng Pingfei also agrees with Xiao Qi's point of view.

"Speaking of which, will it be difficult to recruit these workers?" Xiao Qi asked.

"It's not difficult at all." Zheng Pingfei chuckled, "Didn't we poach a lot of people from the glass factories in Rongcheng and surrounding areas before? Their friends and colleagues are very envious! The direct salary here is 18,000. Those of them don’t even have 8,000, such a big contrast, plus the factory is owned by Fairy Company, who wouldn’t want to come? As long as we let the wind out, many senior skilled workers will surely come.”

"Then poach people! It's a waste to put these talents in state-owned enterprises." Xiao Qi nodded.

Regarding the overstaffed and sluggish situation in state-owned enterprises, Xiao Qi also knows that these good workers can only live up to their abilities if they are on a better platform.

"I'll do it right away, and I'll guarantee that all the staff will be in place within a week!" Zheng Pingfei said with a smile, "These skilled workers are good, basically they don't need much training, and they can get started quickly!"

"So much the better."

Xiao Qi nodded slightly, "In terms of quality, don't slack off either. The sapphire glass is one of the most important parts of DreamStars3, and the speed is definitely second. The quality cannot be compromised just because of the speed."

"Don't worry, Qi Shao, there are six checkpoints in the quality inspection here, and there may be fish that slipped through the production line, but it's not easy to go out through the six checkpoints." Zheng Pingfei said, "We have specialized The advanced instruments and personnel are watching this matter, and there must be nothing wrong."

"Well, do it well, including the laboratory. In the future, sapphire glass can be used in mid-range mobile phones. By then, your project team's funds and bonuses will be even more sufficient!" Xiao Qi said with a smile.

Zheng Pingfei was all smiles when he heard that.

Who doesn't want to have more funds for research and development?

And as someone who works to support their family, who wouldn't want to be paid more?

Under the combination of the two, it is really hard not to work hard! ! (~^~)