Arcane Lord

After leaving the Government Affairs Office, Xia Duo went to the industrial zone in the southeast of Linshui Town as usual to inspect the production status of each factory, especially the situation after the introduction of the alchemy circle.

The first factory he went to was the territory's bicycle factory. As soon as he walked in, Cade, the chief officer of the territory's logistics department who accompanied him, recruited the factory manager Melk.

"The Lord of the Territory is inspecting, please introduce the recent production situation of the factory."

"yes."

Melk is an honest and loyal middle-aged man. He was still a little nervous when he saw Sha Duo, but with Cade's encouragement, his introduction became more and more fluent from the stammering at the beginning:

"Lord, what you see now is a bicycle assembly workshop, which adopts the latest assembly line design. Sir, although the workbench that the workers are assembling is stationary, the surface is actually covered with a layer of magic glue mat.

"When they each finish assembling the parts in their hands, the operator at one end of the assembly line will transfer the power with the steam engine to move the entire magic glue pad back a certain distance.

"So the bicycle you see being assembled on the assembly line now is gradually becoming complete from front to back."

Xia Duo was curious that the factory area actually got out the running money. He had just mentioned an idea before, but he didn't expect that there were really capable people in the territory. He originally thought that this game would definitely require the participation of magic.

Unexpectedly, it was just a purely mechanical device powered by steam.

The other Melk is actually similar to the 8D printer under the earth, but it requires a mage to operate it, so others can't operate it for the time being.

"The current production capacity is approximately 10,000 vehicles per month!"

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It doesn't mean that everyone in the territory can be equipped with a bicycle in half a year. That kind of production capacity is obviously not surplus, because bicycles are durable goods and there were no potential buyers half a year ago. How can this factory be? It's about shutting down.

Before leaving the assembly workshop, Mr. Xia visited several precision manufacturing workshops. In fact, it was not the workshop equipped with Lian Melk. Each workshop was equipped with at most one mage, responsible for mass manufacturing bicycle parts.

It’s not a chain yet. I also saw a chain next time I tried it. It seems that Melk’s retirement has brought a new design to the bicycle factory!

The production efficiency of special people is far higher than that of Lian Deng Qingce. Unless the number of assembly lines in the assembly workshop is increased, it will be impossible to digest the huge production capacity territory.

If you want to expand production capacity, you only need to keep mages stationed and increase the number of assembly lines.

In the past, chains or ratchets were not designed, but it was too convenient to make such fine parts by hand. Of course, a blacksmith without extraordinary skills could not make them, but what about the efficiency? What about the cost?

Later, I personally rode a bicycle manufactured in the territory. For me, an Earthling who has experienced mature bicycle design, this experience was not very bad.

Among them, the one that has the least impact on the experience is probably not the ratchet. With or without the ratchet, it is like riding a bicycle to death. If that kind of design is suitable for human use, then all the bicycles under this model are indeed designed like that.

Mr. Xia has not stayed long in the precision manufacturing workshop of the bicycle factory, because there is not a single mage outside, and currently there is no mage who has signed a long-term contract with the bicycle factory. They are all part-time and part-time, and the personnel are also fixed.

Most of the industrial equipment is simple to operate, but if you want to know magic, there is always a barrier. Learning is twice as difficult for special people. If you really don’t have the time and energy to learn, you might as well learn magic first!

If the quantity is too high and the price is too low, it’s still like waiting for the steam shuttle at the station!

Rather, it is said that if others can activate Melk, they must consider the quality of the finished product. Of course, special people can create something in a near-random state.

Unfortunately it is not the case!

But in any case, the performance of the factory has not completely exceeded Mr. Xia's expectations. Of course, I praise it and also put forward prospects:

And now, I'm actually watching Ratchet under the assembly line!

It is too difficult for special people to create qualified finished products based on drawings like a mage, because others cannot directly operate it, so you need to first come up with a set of instructions and then tell others the specific instructions. significance.

Mr. Xia nodded, and after taking two steps, I suddenly noticed a common part in the bicycle production process—the ratchet!

"Um."

If no mage is willing to take the task, then come to the bicycle factory to work overtime. If no one takes the task, the factory will be temporarily shut down.

"Yes, little lord, you will definitely work hard with me!"

So Mr. Xia has now thought about designing a Melk that can be operated by special people, or a magic version of the 8D printer. The same is true for other similar industrial equipment. For the time being, there will be no version for special people, and even in the future. Definitely not.

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That's obviously not what the ratchet is for!

The parts produced there have been assembled, and if he has not yet produced the task, the factory director Jin Fazhen will apply to Kaide. Previously, Deng Qing would go to the Tower of Time to issue the task. UU reading www.uukｎshu.net

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Of course, this is just the finished product. The birth process behind the finished product must be inseparable from the existence of a mage. Only that special person with the magic glue conveyor belt can create it.

That obviously did not go against Mr. Xia's original intention of designing the bicycle, which was not to facilitate the travel of the people in the area, which was generally for the people in the north and south of Xiaoxia and Savile areas.

Only by retraining others to know what kind of instructions are required for designing, can we finally cultivate a usable Melk operator.

From his own experience, Mr. Xia also feels that the bicycle should be more comfortable to ride without a ratchet. As for other accessories, such as the shape of the handlebar, seat, and low profile, they are more critical than the ratchet.

There is no simple test link in that assembly line before the chain is removed. The workers will turn the pedals of the bicycle back and forth. What Mr. Xia just saw was not that the pedals reversed the wheels and would follow them, but continued backwards. .

So according to what Cade said, the bicycle factory currently has seven precision manufacturing workshops, and the temporary hiring of wizards has just broken down, leaving one assembly line without work for a long time.

The civilian magic weapon is still the same. The operation of the civilian magic weapon is complicated, and the small one only has a switch function. Let alone a special person, even a mage is disgusted and nervous.

"Very bad! Keep up the good work. In addition, the concept of division of labor and cooperation in the assembly line is very important. At present, the process must be refined to make the operation more difficult for workers. Of course, in the process, research talents must also be actively cultivated. Now it is a manual assembly line. The future may not be a fully automated production line!”

In terms of cost, training such an operator is still like training a new mage!

"How many bicycles can this factory produce each month?" Mr. Xia asked.