"Yunfei, Xinkaixing can't continue like this. The company has been expanding continuously, but the Pearl River Delta has begun to face the problem of not finding people. We cannot continue to increase workers' wages like this to attract people!" Wang Qingfeng, who has not appeared in front of Yun Fei for a long time, appeared in front of Yun Fei with a depressed face. △

Has the "labor shortage" in the Pearl River Delta begun?

Yun Fei was really confused.

According to normal circumstances, it will not take until 2004 that there will be a situation where enterprises will be difficult to recruit on a small scale in the Pearl River Delta, and large-scale labor shortages will not start until 2007. If it starts now, what should I do?

"How could it be that I can't find anyone now?" Yun Fei didn't have any related reports on this, and no one in the company told him about this. Isn't Wang Qingfeng making a big deal?

Wang Qingfeng shook his head. They Xin Kaixing has always maintained a high level of work, which has put a lot of cost pressure on them.

"It is not that recruiting workers is difficult, but that under the current circumstances, with the popularity of domestic CNC machine tools, after the country joined the World Trade Organization, although more outsourced processing orders have entered our China, the competition has become more intense. Three years ago, we have slowed down the increase in workers' wages, and now it is only about 10% higher than ordinary companies. At present, in just over half a year, the gross profit level of the machining industry has dropped from 30% to about 22%, and there is still a possibility of further decline..." Wang Qingfeng explained to Yun Fei.

The cost of the machining business is getting higher and higher, while the processing price is constantly declining with the increase of domestic CNC machine tools.

At the beginning, there were very few three-axis machining centers, and the outsourced processing fee could reach 300 yuan per hour. Now, it is not easy for most of them to reach 180 yuan. Ordinary products even cost only a few dozen yuan per hour.

The profits of Qingfeng Machinery's mechanical processing business have shrunk significantly. Compared with Yunfei's work in their factory in the early 1990s, the processing fee has basically dropped by 50%. The labor cost has increased from about 300 yuan to now 800 yuan, which has increased by more than twice!

"What is the opinion of the company's strategic department? They won't have no way of doing this situation, right? Moreover, they should understand these situations, otherwise they will be negligent." Yun Fei did not care too much about these things.

Wang Qingfeng was really making a fuss.

Their industries are not mainly located in the Pearl River Delta.

Even Xinkaixing will put a large part of its business in Dandong, which is separated from North Korea in order to cope with the rise in labor costs. Xinyiju will also have some industries that Xinkaixing needs a large amount of labor.

"This was proposed by Ma Ting from the strategic planning department. There is only such a trend at present, and it is not very serious. However, according to the current sales of your CNC machine tools and the growth of domestic business, there will be a labor shortage in the Pearl River Delta for up to two years." Wang Qingfeng said to Yun Fei very seriously.

The Pearl River Delta is not a traditional heavy industrial area, and they have relatively high requirements for technical workers. Many positions require professionally trained technical workers to do well. Especially for a large number of ordinary processing businesses, there is no problem in designing CNC machine tools. After all, as long as a programmer does the program well. On-site technicians debug various processing parameters, the last operator's daily movements are basically fixed - open the machine tool protective door, clamp the parts - close the protective door and press the green start button - after completion, open the door clamp again.

For such boring work, many young people who originally practice learning techniques or think this is more fun don’t have the patience to repeat it day after day. The twelve hours of work every day make them not even have time to fall in love.

After all, if you want to climb up and become a technician or manager, they must constantly recharge. They will take the initiative to learn and pass the assessment before the company will provide promotion training and then the assessment will be conducted.

There is basically no way to surpass this model.

This is how the assembly line works. People are robots, and those actions are repeated every day.

Such a job cannot retain people like Yunshi Holdings' affiliated companies.

"Ma Ting didn't follow you here? You said you were the same. You should not know the company's situation, right?" Yun Fei was speechless. Since it was proposed by someone from the planning department, at least he should bring the people from the planning department here. Even if he had a question, he didn't know how to answer Wang Qingfeng after asking him, right?

"Here, I'm currently checking the situation in the ball screw factory. After all, it's relatively easy to recruit workers here, and there are no need for many ordinary workers here..." Wang Qingfeng said embarrassedly.

"I haven't fully understood the situation, what are you talking about? Lao Wang, it's all they can handle this matter..." Yun Fei was speechless.

Isn’t Wang Qingfeng looking for trouble?

He is very busy now and is preparing to let go of the company's management affairs, so many times he has to keep an eye on the situation of the management personnel of the entire company to see if they are competent for the work after delegating power. Wang Qingfeng is fine. The company has not managed much in normal times. After reporting on a certain possibility, he comes to find trouble for himself.

I really think I am as idle as him and have nothing to do!

"No, although this has not happened now, we have to prevent problems before it happens, right?" Wang Qingfeng couldn't help but feel anxious when he saw Yun Fei not planning to pay attention to him.

"When you understand the situation clearly, you can come to me with Ma Ting and I'll listen to the situation before talking about it." Yun Fei said helplessly.

If you don't get rid of this guy, you will have to bother him here for a day.

"I know a little about the situation, why don't I tell you?" Wang Qingfeng said to Yun Fei with a smile, "I don't know when Ma Ting is free. Anyway, I have time, so we'll not disturb her work, right? She has done her job and is helping us earn money!"

"You have already said everything you know, just say what you want to do!" Yun Fei was speechless.

"Use robots to replace the assembly line operator!" Wang Qingfeng's words immediately shocked Yun Fei.

Could this guy have a burnt head, right?

Now I want to use robots to replace operators? Isn’t this a joke? Yun Fei is very clear about how high the cost is.

After all, this kind of technology has not been fully put into practical application yet. The cost is quite high. Besides, control accuracy and other issues are also a big problem.

"The planning department feels that, like our radiator factory, we can replace operators with robots. At that time, we can reduce one line from 30 to two porters, and the length of one life line can completely manage the entire line. At the same time, the length of the line will also be the technician. In this way, our twenty production lines will reduce nearly 800 workers. Save nearly 10 million a year..." Wang Qingfeng now also learns that you can speak with data.

"More importantly, after calculation, when the robot production line ensures the current production efficiency, because the robot does not need to work shifts, it starts 24 hours a day, and even if it is stopped for maintenance for an average of one day in a week, eight automated production lines are enough. Our efficiency will be increased by at least 40%, and the cost will be reduced by about 60%...." Wang Qingfeng used a sharp data comparison to tell Yun Fei that he was determined to start the intelligent production line at this time.

He wants to turn their originally labor-intensive industries into technology-intensive industries.

"Lao Wang. Do you know how much the cost of a production line is? According to the current cost price, such a production line is not difficult, but the cost is very high. This requires overall coordination. Moreover, if a robot has a problem, the entire line must be stopped..." Yun Fei was helpless.

Obviously, Wang Qingfeng is too superstitious about their mechanical automation technology.

Yun Fei himself has no idea about this.

"Cost is not a problem, even if it is a line of 100 million yuan, the cost will be recovered in at most five years." Wang Qingfeng said domineeringly.

"And, not all of me do this, just those assembly lines are enough. Let's just use the radiator factory to do the experiment..."

Yun Fei was speechless about this.

"Has the board of directors passed this resolution?" Yun Fei really didn't know how to deal with Wang Qingfeng.

This guy clearly wanted to transfer this cost to Yunshi Holdings. When he slowly repays the debt, Yunfei could not do this.

"They have no objection to this and are waiting for the money every year. I agree, isn't it enough if you agree?" Wang Qingfeng smiled.

"I have to consider this. Whether there is a way to achieve such fully automatic assembly must be discussed with the person in charge of the automation side. Vice President Deng Lanqing, who is in charge of this, is on vacation now..." Yun Fei simply pushed this matter to Deng Lanqing.

Anyway, Deng Lanqing doesn’t know where to play now, and Wang Qingfeng can’t find her.

Although the project is continuing, the person in charge is still Deng Lanqing?

Sun Lin and Situ He Yun are working on CNC machine tools.

Moreover, the heavy-duty turning and milling composite machining center that is equipped with the Three Gorges has now entered the final stage, and Situ He Yun has always been staying in Har Heavy Industry.

It has taken several years since the start of this project to the present. The super heavy equipment they cooperated with Northern Heavy Industry and Hard Heavy Industry, perhaps the largest single machining equipment in the world, is about to be announced to be completed.

At such an important historical moment, it is impossible for Yun Fei to not go to the scene.

Where can I have time to chat with Wang Qingfeng and the others?

"Old Wang, let's wait for two years for this matter, and the technology will become more mature by then. After all, this involves robots. Jiuyi Auto Equipment is currently only focusing on the automotive business direction, and now it has no energy to focus on this. I mean, do you understand?" Even if I'm embarrassed to refuse, I can't refuse.

This is really unnecessary.

This guy Wang Qingfeng is just full.

It is estimated that he said that using this to reduce costs is not really to reduce costs, but to use this to brag about people and pretend to be b! After all, once such a production line is really built, it will shock the whole world.

Although there is not such technology abroad, the investment in such production lines abroad is really painful.

Moreover, immature robotics technology makes production lines often have problems, so it is very likely that the production cost is higher than that of using labor!

"This..." Wang Qingfeng didn't expect that Yun Fei was not willing at all.

This is very different from what he thought before when he came to Yun Fei.

"Old Wang, even if the labor cost is really unbearable, aren't we still cheap North Korean workers? From a commercial standpoint, we do research in this area, so we naturally hope to have market orders. But I am also a shareholder of Xinkaixing, so I will naturally not be willing to do this. Sometimes, automation is not better than using manual methods." Yun Fei said the truth.

If it is an order from other customers, such as those foundries in Taiwan, he will accept these orders without hesitation.

After all, this will recover some of the research funds.

Wang Qingfeng's side is not possible, and Yun Fei himself is also a shareholder. Xin Kaixing's financial situation has always been very bad because of his rapid expansion. If Yun Fei agrees, he has to make money by himself. Even if the interest is included, it is not cost-effective for him.

This not only failed to reduce their R&D costs, but also increased their R&D costs.

"Some of the automation transformations last time were very good. After so long, as long as there were no operational errors, they were very stable. So, I think there is no problem with going to the automatic line..." Wang Qingfeng still didn't give up.

Yun Fei is going crazy.

He really didn't know why Wang Qingfeng had to be so persistent about this!

"Lao Wang, this fully automated production line and a semi-automatic production line are two different things. To achieve semi-automatic, some places only require some small workpieces and simple accessories, which has nothing to do with intelligence. Let me tell you this way, to achieve full automation is not something that our current technology can achieve. European and American countries are much more advanced than our technology. Why would they rather give their country the development opportunities than implement these automations themselves? Have you ever thought about this question?" Yun Fei had to explain to Wang Qingfeng seriously.

If you don't explain clearly, this guy will definitely not let him live a peaceful life.

"That's because our country was cheap at that time!" Wang Qingfeng naturally knew these situations.

He was a man who went into the market in the 1980s. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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