Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 49 Industry 4.0
After the machine tool factory began to expand its production capacity last year, it changed the past manual assembly method and adopted a more advanced assembly line operation.

But the way of production organization remains the same.

From the job plan, warehousing list, picking list, production report, quality report, batch management, employee completion list, etc., all are paper documents.

Although a large number of computers are equipped, most of them are only used as printers, calculators, and notepads.

Production management, quality management, and logistics management are all done manually. There is no error-proof mechanism, and problems will only be discovered when there are problems.

Take this discontinuation issue as an example. The sensor is only the size of a fingernail, and the model number on it is very small, and only the end digits of the code composed of a long series of numbers and letters are different.

Even with Zhong Cheng's strengthened eyes, he had to be careful to distinguish.

The warehouse keeper of the mechanical and electrical warehouse has to send and receive thousands of components a day, and mistakes may occur in the blink of an eye.

The staff in the workshop are often not very clear about the specific model, and it is normal to get the wrong one.

If it is on the assembly line, due to habitual reasons, employees often unconsciously think that they will not get the wrong things, and accidentally install the wrong components on the machine tool.

This time it was a big problem, so I found it right away.

If it is a small problem or a problem that is not easy to detect, it may flow to the customer all the time, causing problems in use, and then the trouble will be big.

Think carefully!

And this kind of problem cannot be completely prevented by the skills and self-consciousness of employees. It is a problem that the entire production system cannot keep up with mass production.

In the past, the machine tool factory produced dozens of machine tools a year, and everyone worked slowly and meticulously, so of course there was no problem.

Now that the production capacity has increased by tens or hundreds of times, the problem is coming.

Zhong Chengcheng is the kind of person who likes everything under control, randomness and probabilistic things make him feel insecure.

(PS: Don’t understand it as a desire for power, people who study science and engineering will feel the same.)
This problem must be solved!

With a heavy heart, he left without saying goodbye and returned to the research and development institute.

After the Spring Festival, he carried out physical strengthening again.

He has already received 3000 points reward for the Kuafu power battery development task, and with the promotion rewards of Nuwa Shenshi series machine tools in the past few months, his technology points have reached more than 1 points.

He thought that the follow-up technology point income would increase significantly, so he didn't save money, and spent 6400 technology points to increase the body strength index by 10 points.

[Great Power Heavy Industry System (planetary level): 3845 technology points. 】

[Effective utilization rate of the brain: 30%] (5% for normal people)

[Skin Muscle and Bone Strength Index: 120] (average index of normal adults is 20)

[Visceral system strength index: 120] (average index of normal adults is 20)

[Nervous system strength index: 120] (average index of normal adults is 20)

【Current task: None】

All the indexes became integers, and he once again felt that his physical functions had improved significantly, especially the ability of his brain, and his reading, comprehension, and memory abilities had improved significantly.

He went farther and farther away from the road of normal people.

He plunged into the Daguo Heavy Industry system again, but he couldn't find any relevant information. Isn't this a technology?

"Of course, do you want to find a copy of "Jin Pingmei" in the system?"

9527 dismissed Zhong Cheng's question.

"However, I can remind you that everything related to control can be handed over to the computer."

Zhong Cheng suddenly realized that he was also in a dead end, always thinking about relying on people to manage, computer programs would not be affected by emotional and physical factors.

He can establish an information management system based on the local area network to manage the entire production and logistics process of the machine tool factory, and even connect the machine tool equipment to the network to realize intelligent production.

In fact, now Red Star Company also has a company-wide financial system based on LAN. Although it is limited to financial management, it has laid the foundation for comprehensive information management in terms of hardware facilities.

It only took him five days to compile a draft of the information management system based on the information collected on the Internet, and named it Gonggong Manufacturing System.

Gonggong is the god of water in Chinese legends, water conserving all things, and smoothing all parties. He hopes that Gonggong's manufacturing system can organically combine people, things, equipment, and information on the production site, as if it is fingertips, foolproof.

But on this matter, he was a little uncertain, so he found Manager Li and asked for his opinion.

After all, Manager Li has many years of management experience, and the problem is solved with one click.

He was overwhelmed and even said that he solved a big problem for him.

In fact, he had already discovered the problem Zhong Cheng mentioned, and realized the seriousness of the problem, but he couldn't think of a good solution for a while.

He excitedly added: "This system has everything from production planning to quality management, so what do we need TS16949 and ISO9000 series, which can be fully integrated into this management system. In the future, we will be the boss in the machine tool industry, and we will decide by ourselves." standard."

"Hey, you're thinking too much, but you can take your time."

Zhong Cheng sweated profusely, and Manager Li dared to think about it too much. The system standard is something that can be changed at any time. It is an international problem. If you don't have the strength to completely crush all parties, don't even think about it.

Not now, but maybe in the future.

Manager Li didn't care, and then said: "Internationally, different stages of industrial development have been divided. According to the current consensus, Industry 1.0 is the era of steam engines, Industry 2.0 is the era of electrification, and Industry 3.0 is the era of information technology."

He paused, "If your system is really realized, it will use information technology to promote industrial transformation, which is the era of intelligence."

"It can be called Industry 4.0!"

Zhong Cheng: "..."

(PS: The concept of Industry 4.0 first appeared in Germany and was officially launched at the Hannover Messe in 2013.)
The company was already working normally at this time, and Manager Li took Zhong Cheng to find Mr. Deng the next day.

Mr. Zhong Cheng's plan attracted Mr. Deng's attention. The problem of backward management exists not only in the machine tool factory, but also in all production units of the company.

In fact, most domestic enterprises have the problem of extensive management, which is a sequela of rapid industrial development.

But everyone put more attention on the improvement of the hardware of machine tools and equipment, ignoring this problem.

Mr. Deng immediately convened a meeting of the general manager's department, and it was unanimously approved at the meeting to ask Zhong Cheng to set up a special team to use the machine tool factory as a pilot to carry out the implementation and construction of Industry 4.0, that is, the Gonggong manufacturing system.

Mr. Wan said with emotion: "Young people can really think, Zhong Cheng's head is so extraordinary!"

Unexpectedly, Mr. Wan's joke spread, "Zhong Cheng's head" became synonymous with intelligence in Red Star Company, which made Zhong Cheng laugh and cry.

After the meeting, Mr. Deng told Zhong Cheng that this project must be paid close attention to. If the company's electric car project is approved, he will be the main force. Maybe this project will be shelved or handed over to other people.

After all, the electric car project is too important to Red Star.

(PS: The next two chapters involve professional things about the implementation of Industry 4.0, but they have to be written. This is too important for a country’s industrial development, and it is the basis for real modernization. Readers who are not interested can skip to see .)
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