Arriving at the laser R&D area, Mu Yang saw the engineers of the laser project team and Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen saw the boss and took him to take a look at the assembled handheld laser welding equipment.

On a cement floor, there are two assembled handheld laser welding equipment, which look exactly the same as the products they sold before.

Mu Yang opened the case. There were two layers in the case. The laser was placed on the upper layer and the cooling water tank was placed on the lower layer.

Now the laser model is no longer IPG, but XH-W1000, and the LOGO has also changed.

This is a laser independently developed by Xinghai Company!

The prototype is finally out!

Mu Yang was very happy. He turned on the water tank switch, the light switch, and adjusted the parameters. Zhou Chen saw that his boss wanted to test the machine operation, so he helped him turn on the wire feeder and gas cylinder switches.

Mu Yang took the welding gun, clamped the ground wire to the iron block on the workbench, took a stainless steel plate, pressed the switch, and with a "sizzling" sound, the laser focus quickly burned the solid wire at the front of the welding gun, and pulled it back.

There is a golden weld about 2.5 mm wide on the board.

Muyang continued to test the machine, frequently intermittent spot welding, turning the machine off and on again, and debugging various parameters.

The company's engineers knew that the boss was testing the machine. They knew that the boss was a laser expert, and they hoped to get a word of approval from the boss.

During the test run by the boss, they were a little uneasy and hoped to pass the test run.

After trying for about twenty minutes, Mu Yang turned off the phone and asked Zhou Chen next to him: "Has your testing department tried turning on the machine continuously? It must be guaranteed to be turned on 24 hours a day without any faults."

Zhou Chen observed the words and expressions, and saw that the boss's expression was still light and slightly uneasy: "I tried it, and they tested it many times and there was no problem, so they dared to let you come for acceptance.

Mu Yang nodded: "Then we will start small batch production. Once there are no major problems, we will start mass production. It is normal for small problems to occur during the production process. We will improve and optimize while producing.

Just use up IPG's laser inventory and there is no need to purchase any more.

Mr. Yang just told me that other brands of handheld laser welding equipment have appeared on the market. Of course, their lasers still use foreign brands.

If we can mass-produce lasers, we can truly get rid of our dependence on foreigners."

The engineers on the project team were recognized by their boss, and they finally showed joy.

Mu Yang glanced at the people in these project teams. There were twenty or thirty people in charge of engineers and technicians. The youngest was twenty-three or four years old and the oldest was in his forties. When he heard his approval, the faces of these people became much more relaxed. He

Couldn't help but smile lightly and said:

"I see that everyone has been working very hard to produce prototypes recently. You can go to a dinner party tonight to relax, and the company will reimburse you, but I would like to remind you that you are only half successful before mass production.

I will give you three days off, including New Year's Day, a total of 6 days off from New Year's Day to January 6th. Employees from other provinces can go home and spend more time with their families, and the company will reimburse the round-trip fares.

There are still a few days until New Year's Day. Everyone should work hard to improve the tooling, fixtures and processes so that mass production can be started as soon as possible. We have already planned to no longer purchase IPG lasers. We have less than 100 units in stock. If we run out, will you still

If we cannot mass produce, it will affect the overall layout, and we will be very passive at that time.

After Mu Yang finished speaking, he explained some details before leaving.

When the project team members saw their boss and Mr. Zhou leaving, they applauded and cheered.

"I was shocked. I saw the expressionless look on the boss's face. I thought the acceptance had not been passed.'

"But the boss is right. Before mass production, there will be no profit, and you won't even be able to earn back your investment." "Well, the boss is right to be more cautious."

"The boss is so nice. He gives everyone six days of paid leave. New Year's Day is just a few days away. Let's all take a breath and work hard. We should work overtime, improve the tooling, fixtures and processes, strive for mass production, and live up to the boss's promise.

Trust." Wang Hai, the team leader in charge of the laser, clapped his hands and encouraged everyone.

"Okay, okay, the boss is right, you can't live up to your boss's trust."

Xinghai Company has successfully developed a laser prototype, and there is an undercurrent in the laser industry.

Xiaozu Laser Co., Ltd.

This is a listed laser company in Shenzhen and a leading company in the laser industry. It mainly produces laser information marking equipment, laser welding machines, laser cutting machines and related software.

In 2008, the company's annual operating income was 1,715,010,973.03 yuan, approximately 1.715 billion yuan; its total profit was 176,424,765.53 yuan, approximately 176 million yuan.

This performance ranks first among all domestic laser companies in terms of revenue and profit.

However, its revenue throne is likely to be seized by an emerging company in the next year or two, which is,

H City Xinghai Machinery Co., Ltd.!

No, it should be said that in terms of profit, it may be defeated by Xinghai Machinery Company this year.

Xinghai Machinery Company has independently developed handheld laser welding and put it on the market in early October. As of December now, it has monopolized the domestic market. The profit margin of a single device is astonishingly high. Even Xiaozu Laser has quickly entered the handheld laser welding market to grab the cake.

share.

With its strong technology research and development capabilities, Xiaozu Laser finally developed its own handheld laser welding prototype two weeks ago. It started small batch production a week ago. In recent days, it has sold a total of 8 handheld laser welding equipment, with a single unit selling for only

It sells for 180,000 yuan, which is 20,000 yuan cheaper than the one from Xinghai Machinery Company.

The manufacturing cost of small batches is only about 70,000 yuan, while the selling price is 180,000 yuan, and the profit margin of a single unit reaches 110,000 yuan.

After cost accounting, Xiaozu Laser's senior executives were also stunned by the profit margin.

Of course, they have a large R&D team, high R&D costs, high management costs, and high sales costs, etc. The overall cost is much higher. The final net profit of each device is only tens of thousands of yuan, but the profit margin is also very high.

, much higher than the company's old products. After all, the market competition for old products is fierce, and peers are selling at lower prices.

It's just that today is not a good day.

Hua Yingqiang, the company's vice president of sales, received two phone calls that troubled him. The handheld laser welding equipment his company had just developed was sold to old customers. There were no problems after using it for the first few days.

But after a few days of use, various problems appeared: the water tank kept alarming, and welding could not be done normally. Every time the machine was turned on, the laser offset had to be calibrated, which was very troublesome. Without calibration, it was impossible to weld; it was already winter, and the machine had to be turned on.

It took twenty minutes for the light to come out. The workers were impatient to wait. They thought it was a normal situation. However, when they inquired about the equipment of Xinghai Company, they found that there was no such abnormality at all. There were some problems with the design of the welding gun. The adjusting nut was easy to loosen and the focus often had to be corrected.

and the alignment of the welding wire.

There are so many problems that the handheld laser welding equipment sold by the company can no longer be used normally.

A customer boss called him directly: "Mr. Hua, your company's handheld laser welding equipment is really not good. To put it harshly, it is not even close to Xinghai Company's handheld laser welding equipment. You should take it back."

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This customer was very polite to tell him this, but a customer called him directly and scolded him: "Mr. Hua, what kind of garbage equipment did you send? I can't weld a few pieces in one morning. Now I don't even need it! It's a delay."

Production! Have someone come and take the equipment away, we don’t have space to put it there.

This customer's tone was unacceptable and he felt that placing their company's equipment in a factory would be too much of a hindrance.

In just one morning, Huawei received two customer complaints.

Since the company's handheld laser welding equipment was put on the market, they have only sold 8 units.

When he was scolded by a customer, he couldn't refute it, so he had to explain it in a friendly manner. But the customer didn't listen to the explanation and asked their company to take away the equipment and not occupy their space. If there was an advance payment, let Xiaozu Laser Company refund it.

But some customers scolded them so harshly that Huawei didn't dare to lose its temper in front of customers, so it took it out on the R&D department and went directly to He Xuehai, the director of the R&D department, to scold him: "Mr. He, what kind of rubbish did your R&D department design?"

All the equipment was complained by customers! It was put on the market before it was tested, what the hell!”

Hua Yingqiang left directly after scolding him, without giving He Xuehai a chance to refute.

He Xuehai was also stunned by the scolding. He didn't rush to ask him what the problem was. A wave of anger followed him. He slammed the table angrily and gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice, "Fuck you, is that reasonable? Take your anger out on me."

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The chairman praised them for their good progress in research and development some time ago, and even held a celebration party for them when they finally developed a sample. After He Xuehai finished scolding Hua Yingqiang, he also felt a headache about this matter.

If there are really so many problems with the equipment, and it is a design problem, their department will definitely not be able to escape responsibility. However, even if it is their department's responsibility, they cannot admit it, and the blame must be thrown away.

After Hua Yingqiang finished scolding the R&D department, he went directly to the chairman's office and reported the situation to Chairman Xu Bo, saying that there were too many problems with the equipment, customers wanted to return the goods, and sales might need to be suspended.

so serious?!

And sales will be suspended.

Xu Bo, who is in his sixties, frowned. He probably felt that the situation was serious after listening to Hua Yingqiang's account of the customer complaint process. The company invested a lot of money in the research and development of handheld laser welding, and spent 200,000 yuan on Xinghai's equipment.

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"Let's have an emergency meeting for everyone, set for half an hour!'

Xu Bo directly called the Human Resources Department to arrange an emergency meeting, requiring leaders and core personnel from the Quality Department, Production Department and R&D Department to attend the meeting.

Half an hour later.

After all the participants arrived in the conference room, Xu Bo slapped his notebook on the conference table and said seriously:

"Dear colleagues, there is very bad news. Our handheld laser welding has been put on the market, and the feedback from customers has been very bad. There were no major problems in the past few days, but now there are many problems, and the problems are very serious.

Serious, so serious that I had to return it.

Mr. Hua, please tell me about the feedback from customers.’

Hua Yingqiang sighed and complained: "Today, I was scolded by two customers in the morning. You know what people say about our equipment. It's bullshit equipment. I don't even need it!"

Thinking of being scolded by the customer, Hua Yingqiang glanced at the director of the R&D department and said rudely: "If it was really the equipment problem they said, let alone the customer, I wouldn't use it."

He Xuehai, director of the R&D Department, was very unhappy with the criticism and retorted forcefully: "Mr. Hua, you just came to my office and started scolding me. What was the problem? Then you left without explaining the problem clearly.

Moreover, it is normal for a new product to have some problems, and it can be maintained by technicians.

If you ask other large companies, when a new product comes out, it must be trial-produced and constantly improved at the same time.”

Hua Yingqiang avoided the last sentence and said rudely: "There are just some problems with our handheld laser welding equipment. It's a big problem, and there are so many that I'm embarrassed to say it.

He Xuehai became angry and responded tit for tat: "The research and development cycle was originally scheduled to be at least two months, but before the product was produced, you signed the order and then pushed to launch the immature product.

Your sales department is like this every time. It just takes orders and never asks whether our department can do it. Otherwise, our department doesn’t have to be so anxious and passive. If something goes wrong now, it’s all our department’s fault.’

Hua Yingqiang said coldly: "Before launching it, your R&D department said that there was no problem in testing. How about the sales department dare to sell it."

Colleagues in the conference room saw He Xuehai and Hua Yingqiang talking eloquently and refusing to give in to each other. They were not in a higher position than them and did not dare to interrupt. Some people felt that it was none of their business and were happy to see the two quarreling.

Seeing that the two people were getting more and more angry as they talked, Xu Bo slammed the conference table in front of him. With a "pop" sound, He Xuehai and Hua Yingqiang immediately fell silent, and other participants were also frightened.

The chairman is angry!

Don't put the fire on yourself.
Chapter completed!