Chapter 1503 We are like-minded
"Tsk, I've heard that the management model of the first branch has drawn on advanced overseas experience. Today is really an eye-opener. I've benefited a lot!"
After visiting the first branch, Director Tan and others highly praised the working environment and system of the first branch. Then Director Tan changed the subject and put forward new requirements with a smile.
"Mr. Li, Mr. Lu, while it's still early, can we go visit your new factory in Xishan?"
Lu Zhizhang immediately became alert because Li Ye had just told him that Director Tan had the "appearance of a hero" and might have come to poach employees from a branch factory.
In order to enhance its technical strength, the first branch has tried many ways to do so in recent years, so it knows the dangers of poaching. The loss of a core technical personnel may lead to serious consequences.
So Lu Zhizhang smiled and said, "That's not easy! The new factory in Xishan is still under construction, and there are foreign experts on site. If we want to visit, we need to apply in advance."
“Do I need to apply in advance?”
Director Tan was slightly taken aback, then smiled and said, "That's right, foreign investment has many restrictions and restrictions. The engines we imported were designed by the Austrian company AVL. When we first took over, we encountered many restrictions and difficulties, but we eventually overcame them one by one."
Lu Zhizhang was a little surprised and said, "AVL? Lister, one of the world's four largest internal combustion engine companies? I really don't know."
If the Steyr heavy-duty trucks introduced by Sinotruk Group were of average quality in the 1980s, then the engines they came with were quite distinctive. After all, they came from a prestigious family and were particularly sturdy and durable in line with mainland requirements.
A few years ago, one of the branches tried to seek cooperation with Lister Company, but it ended up in vain because a few "experts" wanted to make a profit from the price difference as a middleman.
Director Tan chuckled, then sighed and said, "Regardless of whether it's Lister or Luster, they all struggled to adapt to the local climate in our mainland! We've taken on a hot potato, but if we hold it in our hands, it's going to burn the skin, and if we throw it on the ground, we'll make a mistake."
Lu Zhizhang looked at Li Ye, and both of them were unsure of what Director Tan meant.
In this situation, Director Tan suddenly sighed and said "I have difficulties", how do you expect others to respond?
However, Lu Zhizhang was a smooth talker after all, so he immediately said with a smile: "It's getting late, let's go to the cafeteria! The cafeteria of our first branch is also very famous."
This was a bit awkward, because just now Director Tan said "while it's still early", but now Lu Zhizhang said "it's getting late."
But Director Tan agreed and said, "Okay, okay, I also heard that the cafeteria of the first branch is open 24 hours a day, I must learn from it."
In fact, not all canteens in the first branch provide hot food 24 hours a day. After all, not all the people in the factory work overtime all night like the group of super-sluggish people in the technical department.
However, the level of the chefs in the canteen of the first branch factory is definitely good enough, because Li Ye never only recruits technical personnel from outside, but also spends several times more salary to recruit chefs from restaurants.
A world-renowned economist once asserted that the mood of workers at work will affect the quality of the products. If the food in the factory cafeteria is as bad as the food fed to pigs, it will inevitably affect the workers' work mood.
You spend one dollar for a meal ticket and eat food of the same quality as food that costs three dollars outside. With this kind of happiness, how can workers not work hard?
After tasting the food in the canteen of a branch factory, Director Tan first praised it highly and then talked about his "difficulties".
"When we first came into contact with AVL's engine, we were very shocked and full of hope for the future, because there was no such high-horsepower automobile engine in the mainland. If we could make it, we would be the best in the country.
We spent six years thoroughly studying imported drawings, mastering the complete set of engine manufacturing technology, and making hundreds of targeted adaptive improvements. However, since passing the national acceptance four years ago, we have only known the ups and downs."
Director Tan drank a sip of wine, then sighed and said, "Because our mainland's consciousness is different from that of Europe and the United States, transportation companies don't like heavy trucks.
They say heavy trucks have high fuel consumption and are expensive, and bulk cargo is not as good as trucks. The entire transportation market only likes medium-sized trucks under ten tons, or even light trucks under five or three tons.
Mr. Li and Mr. Lu are experts, and they know that medium-sized trucks will not be equipped with engines with a displacement of more than ten liters. Therefore, in recent years, we have only had one supplier, Sinotruk Group, with an annual production of less than 10,000 units.
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Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang were both silent. They both felt the frustration and unwillingness of "heroes having no place to use their talents" from Director Tan's words.
Li Ye had been to Dengta in 1985, so he knew that eighteen-wheeled trailers were the most common type of truck in Europe and America. He also knew that a few decades later, twenty-two-wheeled trucks would be the most common type of truck on mainland roads.
Because this type of trailer has the highest transportation efficiency, the freight for transporting fruits from the southern border of the motherland to the northern border is only 40 to 50 cents per kilogram, which is almost squeezing out the small-load business of Tie Lao Da.
However, in the 1980s and 1990s, the mainland's awareness and demand for heavy trucks were extremely limited, otherwise Jiqi and Second Automobile Works would not have ignored heavy trucks.
Because the market demand for heavy trucks has been stagnant for a long time, Weixian Diesel Engine has had production capacity but has always been hungry. It was not until the late 1990s that its annual output exceeded 10,000 units.
Therefore, people of this era simply did not believe that two thousand years later, Weixian Diesel Engine, a long-starved state-owned enterprise, would soar and become a benchmark enterprise in domestic heavy industry.
However, Director Tan has a long-term vision.
"Director Li, when I met the two factory directors, Laidong and Zhucheng, they spoke highly of you. To be honest, I was a little unconvinced at first, but after you introduced the KAMAZ project, I became convinced."
"It only took the first factory five years to become the number one in the domestic light truck industry, and it will be unshakable in the next five years. However, you still introduced the heavy truck project that is not popular in China.
That’s why we are like-minded fellow travelers. We are both optimistic about the future of the domestic heavy truck market. However.”
Director Tan paused, then said, "Mr. Li, Mr. Lu, please forgive me for saying something unpleasant. It only took Laidong Diesel Engine one year to develop a light diesel engine, so you may think that the development of a heavy diesel engine is not difficult.
But I can responsibly tell you that light trucks and heavy trucks are completely different. The difference between light-duty diesel engines and heavy-duty diesel engines is even greater. Even though we have successfully developed them for four years, there are still bottlenecks in production."
"But this bottleneck will be solved soon."
"Just two years ago, we learned that Steyr, Austria, was going to auction off an entire foundry due to industrial restructuring.
Among this batch of equipment is the one we need most: a hot air water-cooled cupola, jointly developed by West Germany and Lighthouse. There are only three such cupolas on Earth, representing the most advanced level internationally."
Director Tan smiled, his face flushed with joy: "We were very lucky to have bought these machines, and it took us nearly a year to dismantle all 1,218 machines and all their accessories and tooling.
Just a few days ago, these devices were shipped from Austria. Maybe when I return to Weixian from the capital this time, I will be able to see those good things, so."
Director Tan spread his hands and said confidently: "So we want to cooperate with you with sincerity and strength. Before you successfully develop your own engine, we are willing to provide you with engines at cost price.
In addition, we can also send our most experienced engine technicians to help you overcome the technical difficulties of the KAMAZ engine. Once your engines are self-sufficient, we will part ways amicably."
(End of this chapter)
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