Rebirth 1990: I have three golden fingers

On Sunday, Fang Bai stayed at home for a day, studying the new functions of the golden finger on the middle finger, and mainly accompanied Qin Shuyu.

On Monday morning, he went to the company to handle matters as usual.

On the way to the company, Fang Bai took his mobile phone and interestingly used the optimization function to see the structure of the next generation PHS.

The core technology of PHS comes from the island country operator NTT, and it does not cost much to buy the technology PHS.

It has nearly 100 million users in ten years. However, there are complicated backgrounds and mixed interests. It offended two major communication companies and was repeatedly stopped. Fang Bai didn't want to do it.

The main reason is that not many PHS units will be sold in the next few years. The user explosion will only occur after 2002. At that time, Fang Bai will not be short of money and spend too much energy.

It is impossible to engage in any industry!

It is very good to complete the current project first. This cannot be solved by recruiting a few more professional managers.

We can wait until PHS goes on the market and optimize it for smartphones, so that there will be more market for smartphones.

From the current point of view, there is no need to rush to the layout. The strategic direction in the next few years can be this. Whether it will be pursued in the end depends on the timing.

If it weren't for the golden finger that analyzes the favorability of his subordinates, Fang Bai would really be worried about the loyalty of his senior executives.

Favorability does not equal loyalty, but if loyalty is low, the favorability will definitely not be very high. On the surface, it will be all hypocrisy and flattery.

In the past three years, Fang Bai's management capabilities have improved a lot, but it is still lacking in some aspects, which is inevitable.

Fang Bai sat in the car, constantly sorting out his management situation.

At present, the technology company has Li Xiaoyu, the general manager, and Fang Bai serves as the general manager of the machinery company. There is also a technical vice president Liang Sen and a sales vice president Pei Bai.

Fang Bai's father is the general manager of both the real estate company and the construction company, but most of the management affairs of the construction company are handled by three shareholders and the technical vice president, while the real estate company is handled by vice president Li Yi.

Foreign investment companies are headed by fund manager Simons, and the company does not have many employees.

The store manager of Xinghai Shopping Mall is Jingtian, who graduated from Wencheng University. Fang Bai came here part-time when he was selling televisions at a street stall.

The Xinghai Group headquarters currently has about 3,000 employees, and the machinery company has nearly 2,000 employees. Fang Bai mainly manages the machinery company, and he has nothing to do with the technology company.

Therefore, Fang Bai does not need to add professional managers at present. There are many scientific research projects, so just appoint project leaders.

There are not many projects currently underway, and Fang Bai needs to spend more time studying.

When the group gets bigger and Fang Bai can no longer manage it, he will carefully organize the structure and divide the positions into president, vice president and the like.

However, Fang Bai currently needs a secretary.

More than ten minutes later,

Fang Bai came to the company.

After drinking a cup of tea and looking at the scenery in front of the office building for a while, I returned to my seat and made a call to the logistics department on the first floor to ask the big guy to come over.

At this time, Wang Dakai usually had nothing to do and was chatting with a few bodyguards. When he was really bored, he went to the company's gym to exercise or read newspapers and magazines.

Some time ago, I mainly helped Fang Bai purchase old villas in Shanghai that could be invested. Currently, I have invested in five villas in total, and then I went to the Imperial Capital to purchase two large courtyard houses.

The big guy already has two houses in Shanghai, which he earned from investing in the subscription certificate, and the other one was invested before the subscription certificate. His current salary is 1,000 yuan, with a year-end bonus of two months' salary, but during the Chinese New Year, Fang Bai will give him another red envelope, including 10,000 yuan during the Spring Festival last year.

For him, he was already satisfied, and he was willing to be an errand boy and help Fang Bai with some chores.

He knocked on the door and walked into the chairman's office. Seeing that there was no one else in the room, he smiled and sat opposite Fang Bai: "Boss, what's the matter?"

When there are many people, he still calls "Mr. Fang".

Fang Bai smiled and asked about the progress of his relationship with Zhang Xiaoai, and then got down to business: "Help me find some old trees, such as Hainan huanghuali, rosewood, flower palm, etc. They need to be alive and precious, and plant them in In the company, they are treated as collectibles.”

It should be easier to find now, but in another ten years it will be hard to find.

He did not talk about investment in this, but was a little curious about why these trees were so expensive, so he simply bought some back. It would be better if he could plant them and let his employees learn more.

"Okay, how much is the approximate investment?" Wang Dakai knew that he wanted to invest, and he was only looking for top collections.

"Thousands of dollars, please help me pay attention to the top-grade jadeite raw stones from Laokeng Glass. They only need to be polished, not processed. Regarding the jadeite, you can find an expert yourself. If you come across a good one, bring it to see you. I, I communicate transactions in person, and this thing is easy to be faked." Fang Bai explained one more thing, reminding him, "Don't go to Southeast Asian countries, it's not safe there."

"Okay, I'll write it down first." Wang Dakai took out a pen and paper from his pocket, wrote it down carefully, and then confirmed it with Fang Bai.

He doesn’t know much about this aspect and needs to spend time learning and even spend money to hire experts for guidance before he goes looking for goods to avoid being cheated.

All expenses will be reported to Fang Bai at the end.

After figuring it out, he left and started working without anything else. Fang Bai put on his work clothes and came to the DVD player project laboratory.

"Hello, Chairman!"

In the laboratory, thirty or forty engineers were busy. Suddenly they saw the chairman coming. They all said hello and continued to work.

After the success of the VCD project, everyone continued the optimization work for two or three months. Then the chairman issued a new scientific research project and proposed to use MPEG2 standard image compression technology to produce DVD, with a resolution of up to 720×480, far exceeding the 352 of VCD. ×240.

The chairman put forward many ideas. Everyone felt that the general direction was OK, but they also encountered many difficulties.

The main reason is that the playback equipment of DVD players and VCD players are different.

The movement, laser head and its servo circuit, and digital signal processing circuit of the VCD player are the same as those of the CD player, except that a set of MPEG decoding circuit and video D/A conversion and encoding circuit are added on the basis of the CD player.

In the final analysis, Xinghai Group's VCD players are optimized based on imitation of CD players.

The DVD player decrypts the CSS or Macrovision processed content, processes the Macrovision copy-protected signal waveform, decodes the MPEG-2 video stream, and encodes the sound format MP2, PCM or AC-3 via a stereo connector optical or electronic digital connection device output.

There is a big difference in equipment between the two. Fortunately, the company has the foundation to develop VCD machines and has made some progress at present.

After Fang Bai first communicated with the core technicians, he roughly understood the current scientific research problems.

He used the middle finger golden finger on a VCD machine to optimize and analyze it.

Sure enough, the optimization direction was the DVD player, which was the same as his guess last night.

With this analysis result, it will be much easier to solve the problem of DVD player.

Fang Bai communicated with the leaders of each small project team, discussed and analyzed them together, and helped them solve the core problems.

In the next two days, Fang Bai spent time in the DVD player project team and finally solved the core problem.

"The chairman knows so much about electronic circuits, decompression technology, and anti-copy signals... I feel like there is nothing he doesn't understand." A team leader admired him from the bottom of his heart.

"Not like a junior student, more like a doctoral supervisor who studies various aspects of machinery, microelectronics, etc." A team member nodded in agreement.

Another team member lamented: "The chairman himself is the top scorer in the college entrance examination. Perhaps his knowledge reserve in certain aspects has reached the level of a doctoral supervisor."

In their view, the chairman deserves to be the soul of the group's scientific research team, not just the founder.

Fang Bai did not tell all the details to the scientific research team, which would be a waste of time.

He just points out the direction to solve the core problem, and the details are solved by the team so that they can grow.

Fang Bai checked the VCD machine again and found that there were indeed areas that could be optimized. However, he found that the problem was not serious, so he did not plan to continue optimizing it.

At present, the VCD machine has been mass-produced and the tooling and fixtures have been fixed. If the changes are major, it will definitely affect production and is unnecessary.

Xinghai brand VCD machine won the honorary title of Huaguo's famous well-known trademark and brand trademark in 1993. The company is applying for the National Technology Invention Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Award and other science and technology awards.

Last year, Xinghai Group sold a total of about 2.25 million VCD machines, with an after-tax net profit of about 6 billion yuan.

Xinghai Group has a three-year corporate income tax exemption. Otherwise, it would have to pay about 1.5 billion yuan in corporate income tax.

You don’t have to pay corporate income tax, but you still have to pay value-added tax. However, there is a tax rebate on the export part, and the price is higher, so you can earn more.

What shocks all walks of life is that currently no company can counterfeit VCD players. After in-depth investigation, the media found that decoding chips were unavailable.

In other words, Xinghai Group has a monopoly on this industry.

But this is not the fault of Xinghai Group. It does not produce decoding chips and you cannot buy them. What does it have to do with Xinghai Group? Moreover, the technology patents are in the hands of Xinghai Group.

These days, domestic anti-monopoly regulations are not complete and will not be implemented until August 1, 2008.

Even if it is implemented, it will only be a formality for domestic enterprises, with fines of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan, which is not painful at all.

In 2021, the Market Supervision Bureau imposed fines of 500,000 yuan on 12 companies including Yintai Commercial, Tengxun, Duniang, and Didi.

But if it is a foreign-funded enterprise, it will be severely punished. There are two sets of standards.

VCD is considered a high-tech industry, and if it has the ability to monopolize it, it will be a blessing to the country.

You know, Xinghai Group created US$170 million in foreign exchange from VCD machines.

In addition to VCD machines, Xinghai Machinery Company also earned about US$80 million in foreign exchange.

Last year, the country earned about US$91.2 billion in foreign exchange from exports, but imported slightly more, resulting in a deficit.

In other words, the country is currently short of foreign exchange.

A large part of the foreign exchange earned from exports comes from mid- to low-end products and raw materials, while very little comes from high technology.

Therefore, Xinghai Group earned US$250 million in foreign exchange last year through high-tech products, which is extremely important and extraordinary.

Xinghai Group has won the title of "Advanced Unit for Foreign Trade Import and Export" for two consecutive years and is a key technology enterprise in Shanghai.

In terms of GDP contribution, it was about 160 billion yuan last year.

How much did Xinghai Group contribute?

VCD machines alone contributed 7 billion yuan!

The revenue of the machinery company is not low, reaching 3.5 billion yuan!

The turnover of Xinghai Group headquarters reached 10.5 billion yuan!

GDP in Shanghai accounts for 6.5%!

exaggerate!

The revenue of Xinghai Group headquarters is larger than the GDP of some cities.

That is to say, Xinghai Group is developing too fast. The leaders of the G family haven't had time to inspect it yet, but it has already been arranged in this year's itinerary.

Local government leaders in Shanghai occasionally visited the company for inspections. At the end of the year, Shanghai TV reported on Xinghai Group twice, but Fang Bai was unwilling to appear.

If it weren't for the city leaders coming to inspect, even if it was the district mayor, Fang Bai would not accompany him and let the vice president of the subsidiary company take charge.

Relevant department leaders also understand that Xinghai Group is now a popular enterprise in Shanghai.

At the government executive meeting, city leaders reminded leaders of various departments not to transfer to Xinghai Group if it was not a big deal, affecting their normal business.

In the next few days, Fang Bai used his golden finger to solve the technical problems of the diesel engine.

The core technologies of diesel engines mainly include turbocharging, combustion technology, electronic control technology, emission post-treatment technology, filtration systems, etc. The level of these technologies determines key indicators such as fuel consumption, emission performance, and reliability of the diesel engine.

At present, Xinghai Group's small and medium-sized diesel engines are at the world's first-class level in terms of combustion technology. High-strength wear-resistant cylinders, parent cylinder bore processing and other technologies that rely on mechanical and heat treatment are also Xinghai Group's strengths. Other technologies are better than those of Cummins and Carter. , Volvo, Mercedes-Benz MTU and other international diesel engine giants are much worse.

Especially electronic control technology has not been solved until now.

Electronic control technology is one of the core technologies of modern diesel engines. The electronic control unit (ECU) accurately controls key parameters such as fuel injection, ignition, and idle speed of the diesel engine. It is equivalent to the brain of the engine and realizes intelligent management of the diesel engine.

This not only improves diesel engine performance and fuel economy, but also reduces emission pollution.

Diesel engine electronic control technology is the bottleneck restricting the development of my country's diesel engine industry. Nowadays, whether it has its own ECU represents whether a company has long-term core competitiveness.

Not only does Xinghai Group not have it, but also several domestic diesel engine production units, which have always relied on imports.

Very helpless.

Yes, it is just a very simple control, far inferior to the skills of foreigners.

One afternoon, Fang Bai came to the diesel engine project laboratory.

When passing by a small conference room, I found that more than a dozen new scientific researchers were undergoing diesel engine-related knowledge training, with an engineer as a lecturer.

Suddenly he saw the chairman passing by and his voice became louder:

“Colleagues, our company’s small and medium-sized diesel engines have always been troubled by electronic control technology.

You may ask, how difficult is it to develop diesel engine electronic control technology? What is the difficulty?

Mainly include the formulation and optimization of control strategies, R\u0026D and optimization of ECU, design and manufacturing of actuators, calibration and matching, etc..."

Fang Bai just listened for a moment and then left.

For Fang Bai, the mechanical part "design and manufacturing of actuators" and the electronic part "R\u0026D and optimization of ECU" can still be solved by relying on golden fingers. Especially the mechanical part, as long as it can be designed, it depends on the powerful processing of Xinghai Group Ability can do it.

The difficulty lies in “formulation and optimization of control strategies”.

The operating conditions of diesel engines are complex and changeable, requiring precise control of injection time, injection volume, injection pressure and other parameters to ensure complete combustion of fuel while reducing emissions and fuel consumption.

Therefore, control strategies need to be developed and optimized to achieve optimal performance of the diesel engine.

These sensor signals need to be processed and transmitted so that the ECU can control the engine's operating status in real time.

In the final analysis, we must first solve its algorithmic logic problems and sort out the ideas. Even golden fingers cannot solve it.

This is not something that can be solved by working too much, but if you encounter a Mathematical Olympiad problem, you will not be able to do it.

As long as you sort out the ideas, sensors can be purchased.

At present, Fang Bai and the scientific researchers of the project team have been struggling for several days, but there is no good solution, so they have to continue to struggle.

Although this golden finger upgrade cannot solve the logic problems, it is enough to independently develop four-cylinder and six-cylinder diesel engines, but the electronic control is too weak.

Been busy for a few days,

On the morning of January 25, Fang Bai was reading information in the office.

Shen Jianjun, the deputy mayor in charge of attracting investment, called and said that Sen Nian, chairman of Sendersha Co., Ltd., and his party were inspecting investment projects in Shanghai and wanted to visit him and asked him if he was free in the afternoon. Fang Bai thought for a while and agreed. .

Although Fang Bai was too lazy to meet with government leaders, he still gave Shen Jianjun face.

Sendasha Co., Ltd. is a company in the island country that engages in a variety of businesses, mainly involving office building leasing, residential leasing, commercial facility operations, and the operation of nursing-style apartments for the elderly and commercial housing. It currently operates more than 50 buildings.

Founded in the 1950s, with abundant funds and wide connections, the Shanghai World Financial Center is a project invested and constructed by Sendersha Co., Ltd. in conjunction with more than 40 companies including Japan and China.

Fang Bai didn't know why the other party was visiting him. Could it be that they were also interested in the land of the future World Financial Center?

He has already acquired the land and has no intention of selling it.

According to historical time, Sen Nian also came to Shanghai this year to inspect the land in Lujiazui.

Or do you want to cooperate and invest with Xinghai Group?

In business, Fang Bai does not hate islanders.

Others who are successful in business naturally have something to learn from, such as Kazuo Inamori, a world-recognized master of business management.

In industries such as automobile manufacturing, CNC machine tools, robots, electronic components, and semiconductors, it is better than Hua Guo.

Of course, from the perspective of national sentiment, Fang Bai is still quite repulsive to the islanders, and will not cooperate if he can't. (End of chapter)