Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

"Deputy Director Fan, just like you couldn't have imagined that you would become the director six years ago, we don't know how far our factory can develop in the future. Although our factory is expected to have no development bottleneck in the next few years, there will always be a day when it will reach a development bottleneck. Our country is vast, and no matter how our factory develops, it is destined to be unable to meet the country's demand for automobiles. By then, the country will definitely plan to build other automobile manufacturing plants. By that time, our factory will have competitors. The purpose of setting up farms in the Western Regions is to wait until our factory reaches a bottleneck, so that we can use the farms to help our factory break through the bottleneck."

He Yuzhu took a sip of water from the teacup and continued, "Once the farm in Xiyu Province is built up, we can test the agricultural machinery produced by our factory on the farm. Because the farm belongs to the same steel plant as our factory, we can take advantage of the opportunity to maintain the agricultural machinery after the harvest every year to dismantle the agricultural machinery. In this way, we can intuitively grasp the shortcomings and deficiencies of the agricultural machinery produced by our factory. After knowing the shortcomings and deficiencies, we can make targeted improvements. As long as we stick to this idea, our factory can become the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in our country in addition to being the largest automobile manufacturer in our country."

"With our country's cultivated land area, if we want to fully realize mechanization, we need at least 200 million tractors. If the average life of a tractor is 10 years, it means that we need to produce 20 tractors every year to meet the demand. The market for 20 tractors is not small, but it does not include the agricultural machinery and combine harvesters that come with tractors. When we really develop agricultural machinery, we will have a new factory that is not inferior to our current factory in scale."

"Alas... I didn't consider the problem comprehensively enough. I only saw the immediate benefits and didn't think as far-reaching as you!" After listening to He Yuzhu's words, Fan Youxiang showed a look of shame on his face and nodded repeatedly.

"Actually, I have been thinking about this idea for a long time. The reason why we want to open a farm is that the diesel engines and gearboxes used in large tractors have a certain degree of commonality with the diesel engines and gearboxes used in trucks. In this way, the large-scale production of tractors can not only meet agricultural needs, but also to a certain extent share the cost pressure of our factory's future research and development of a large number of diesel engines." He Yuzhu patiently explained his ideas to Fan Youxiang.

At this time, Fan Youxiang seemed to have suddenly thought of something and asked, "Director He, you just mentioned that the country may build a new automobile factory in the future, so why not invest directly in our factory and let us build a new production base in other regions? Wouldn't that be more convenient?"

He Yuzhu smiled slightly and said slowly: "If we are the only automobile manufacturer in the entire country, there will be a lack of competition mechanism. Only when there is fierce competition among automobile manufacturers can we truly promote the vigorous development of the entire automobile industry!" His eyes revealed a firm and wise light, as if he had already seen the vibrant automobile market of the future.

"But isn't the production of our country's factories in accordance with the production tasks assigned by superiors? These are all produced according to the assigned task plan. How can we compete?" Fan Youxiang said with a puzzled look on his face.

"Then how did our factory surpass the First Automobile Works in Northeast China?" He Yuzhu asked in return.

Hearing He Yuzhu's question, Fan Youxiang suddenly realized. He finally understood that although the production tasks were assigned by superiors, customers would compare vehicles from different manufacturers in daily use. This means that if the vehicles produced by a certain car factory better meet the needs of drivers, they will recommend this car factory to their leaders and ask to buy its products. In this way, the task volume of the car factory that is well received will naturally increase.

Thinking of this, Fan Youxiang couldn't help but sighed: "I finally understand why you asked me to regularly visit the drivers who drive our factory's cars! Only by maintaining good communication with them can we understand the shortcomings of the cars we produce. Through these feedback information, we can make targeted improvements in subsequent production. As time goes by, the quality of our cars will be greatly improved, and over time, it will attract more drivers to choose our cars. Director He, you have a far-sighted vision!" Fan Youxiang looked at He Yuzhu with admiration, his tone full of praise.

"Haha, Deputy Director Fan, you actually forgot to mention one thing, that is the car repair and maintenance station our factory opened in Sijiucheng! This is an important measure of our factory! It is the maintenance personnel in these car repair and maintenance stations who carefully record the actual usage of each car when repairing and maintaining the car. These detailed records enable the factory's technicians to clearly understand the problems in the car design and provide strong support for subsequent improvements. Moreover, this not only helps to improve the quality of our products, but also improves user satisfaction."

"Our factory has been producing cars for many years, and we have produced nearly 20 cars in total. Next, I plan to add more car repair and maintenance stations in cities where our cars are more numerous, and further investigate the shortcomings of our cars in daily use. Ultimately, my grand goal is to set up special car repair and maintenance stations in cities across the country where there are more than 1000 of our cars. In this way, we can better serve our customers, and at the same time, we can continuously optimize our products and make our cars more and more popular."

As the country is currently in the initial stage of industrial development, the number of talents in various fields is scarce, especially in terms of experience accumulation in related industries. Faced with this situation, He Yuzhu is well aware of the great responsibility he shoulders. After deep thinking, he decided to learn from the big data collection methods of later generations to solve this problem.

According to He Yuzhu's plan: In the future, Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant will arrange professional maintenance personnel to go to large cities with a relatively concentrated number of cars to closely monitor and record the actual use of cars produced by Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant. These maintenance personnel must not only record the failures and problems of each car in detail, but also carefully analyze the causes and promptly feedback to the technical department of Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant. In this way, Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant can obtain a large amount of valuable data on car design, so as to better understand the performance and needs of the vehicle in actual operation. As long as enough data is mastered, the more perfect the Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant will be when designing cars in the future.