When will I have a long tassel?

Since they were going to talk about work, Tang Zifeng simply called Wang Zijie, Bao Nana, Liang Zile and others. These people had a friendship with Ning Mo by having barbecue together at Linyiji Night Market, and now they are together. It’s up to Ningmo.

Li Kejia brought Liu Xiaohan, the technical director of New Jingwei Software Company, and Deng Lei, the manager of the industrial control division, to listen to Ningmo's introduction to the machine tool needs from Africa.

After a bloody battle with Tuo, New Jingwei Company became famous in the global industrial software market. Coupled with the opportunities brought by the rapid development of China's industry, New Jingwei Company has now become one of the international industrial software giants, and even more so domestically. A well-deserved top spot.

Extending from the simplest drawing software in the early days, New Jingwei's business has covered many fields including CAD, CAM, CAE and so on. Many of the control software for machine tools developed by Linji Group are outsourced to New Jingwei Company. Ning Mo claimed that Chinese machine tools were not suitable for African people's habits. To change the machine tool design, a large part involved was the machine tool software, so Tang Zifeng asked Li Kejia to bring over the technical personnel of New Jingwei Company.

"Africans are not as careful as us Chinese. They operate machine tools very casually. There are some mistakes that no Chinese would make, but Africans make them often and cannot be corrected no matter how hard they teach them."

At the dinner table, Ning Mo opened her cheeks and ate until she was 70% full. Then she started to get down to business and told everyone about her experiences in Africa.

"Can't this be considered a habit?" Bao Nana said with some disdain, "I am also careless in doing things, but I will not complain about things that are wrong. Being careless means that I am wrong. I have never heard that it is reasonable to like to make mistakes."

"This has nothing to do with race." Liang Zile said, "It is mainly a matter of education level. Africans generally have relatively low education levels and low economic development levels, and some places are still in the state of slash-and-burn farming. When the time comes, there is no need for too fine operations, so people have formed the habit of doing things more extensively."

Bao Nana said: "Even if this is the case, it is still a bad habit and needs to be corrected. From what Senior Brother Tang and Brother Fatty said, it seems that they want to design a machine tool that is not afraid of making mistakes to adapt to them. This is too habitual. Is there something wrong with them?"

Li Kejia smiled and said: "It's not wrong to say that we are used to their mistakes. When we are engaged in software design, we often have to consider the user's usage habits. There are some places where users often make mistakes. When we design, we will make mistakes. , turning the user’s incorrect operation into a correct result.”

"I know, I know." Bao Nana said with a smile, "The Pinyin input method I use is like this. I can't distinguish between the flat tongue sound and the raised tongue sound. As a result, no matter whether I input su or shu, I can type shu. .”

"There's nothing we can do about it. Users' habits are too stubborn." Liu Xiaohan muttered.

As a programmer, he is actually the most unwilling to accommodate users. Things like Li Kejia said, making mistakes every time, made Liu Xiaohan miserable every time, because he felt that incorporating such errors into the program would make the entire program unclean. Over this kind of thing, he had many quarrels with Li Kejia and other executives responsible for developing markets.

"Fault-tolerant design is still necessary." Xiao Wenjun said, "Users are also an integral part of the entire working system. When designing the system, the characteristics of the users should also be taken into consideration. For example, when we design machine tools , we must consider the height of the workers. European and American workers are tall, so their machine tools are also tall, which is very inconvenient for our workers to use.

"Also, machine tools like those from the former Soviet Union are adapted to the rough operating style of Russians. Asians will find it very difficult to use machine tools from the former Soviet Union, which are not as lightweight as Japanese machine tools."

"Yes, that's what I meant by Professor Xiao." Ning Mo said, "What Mr. Liang said is also very reasonable. Africans have less education, and they cannot learn some operations on machine tools that are too complex. Some of them are very complicated. They buy high-end machine tools and use them as ordinary machine tools. They can't even use 1/10 of the functions on those machine tools, which is very wasteful."

Tang Zifeng asked: "What do you mean, let us develop a batch of low-end machine tools and sell them to Africa? In fact, there is no need to develop them. Just renovate and sell the old machine tools that have been eliminated from various factories. Is that what you want? Did you ask for it?"

Ning Mo shook his head seriously and said: "No. The old machine tools in our country are actually more difficult to use and require a lot of skills. My feeling is that it doesn't matter if it's a little troublesome when using it, but it shouldn't be too complicated. This is the most suitable of."

"What does it mean to be troublesome but not too complicated? Aren't you contradicting yourself?" Bao Nana commented with a smile.

Wang Zijie said: "I understand. Does the fat man mean that it doesn't matter if there are a few more steps when operating the machine tool? The important thing is that these steps should be very simple and easy to learn. For example, when playing football, a long distance The banana ball is the most efficient and the most beautiful to hit the net with your feet. But if you don’t have this skill, then take the ball step by step to the front of the gate and kick the ball in.”

"What Fatty means is to hold the ball and rush into the goal." Tang Zifeng corrected with a smile.

"Yeah, yeah, that's right, it's easier this way." Wang Zijie changed his mind very quickly.

"Fat man, is that what you mean?" Xiao Wenjun asked.

"That's pretty much what Old Tang meant." Ning Mo said, "Actually, for the students we teach, if they are asked to do particularly complicated operations, they may not be able to figure it out on their fingers for a long time. It’s better to design the operation to be simpler, and it won’t take much time to do a few more actions.”

Liang Zile said: "I think what Brother Ning said makes sense. For mature industrial countries, the production process is very efficient, and things that can be completed in one action will not be broken down into several actions. But Africa's industrial level is relatively high. In backward areas, labor costs are low and the requirements for efficiency are not so high. On the contrary, the requirements for accuracy are more important.

"It is much better for their workers to spend two hours processing a qualified part than to have them spend only ten minutes but the part is not qualified. Our traditional equipment is all about pursuing efficiency, so Ning Ge would say These devices are not suitable for Africa."

Xiao Wenjun frowned and said: "I always feel that the situation the fat man mentioned is mainly about the situation in his machine tool school? He must not be very skilled when he was an apprentice, but after actually participating in production, is it Becoming more and more skilled.

"If our machine tools are designed with unskilled operators in mind, it will be very inefficient to use such machine tools after these people become skilled."

Li Kejia turned his head to Liu Xiaohan and Deng Lei, and said with a smile: "You two, do you have any way to automatically upgrade the machine tool? When you are not proficient, use one set of programs, and when you are proficient, use another set of programs. "

Deng Lei said with a bitter face: "Mr. Li, you are really embarrassing me. It is not impossible to develop such a program, but it is too troublesome. How do we know what they are like when they are not proficient? When they are proficient, What does it look like?"

"It's very simple. When Fatty returns to Africa, Gong Deng will go with him. Fatty, do you still need a Chinese cook there? Gong Deng's cooking skills are very good." Tang Zifeng said with a smile.

"Absolutely." Li Kejia took over Tang Zifeng's words, "Deng Lei, are you interested in going to Africa for a while? If you are willing to go, the company can let you lead a team and organize a team to inspect the environment there. .”

"Mr. Li, are you serious?" Deng Lei asked.

Li Kejia said: "Of course it is true. However, if you are not willing to go, I will arrange for someone else to go. You are also an old man in the company, and the company will definitely not force you to do things."

"I'll go! Why don't I go!" Deng Lei said quickly, "Actually, I have long wanted to visit Africa. If there is such an opportunity for free travel, can I not go?"

"Haha, if Mr. Deng is willing to go, there is nothing to say. I can arrange it for you wherever you want to travel on the African continent. By the way, Professor Wang, would you like to go to Africa too? I remember Professor Wang You should be single, I will introduce you to an African girl, the kind with black pearls, very beautiful..." Ning Mo said happily.

Enjoying the treatment of C position for the first time, Ning Mo was a little carried away and even dared to make jokes about Wang Zijie.

"No, no, if I bring back a white one, my parents will already be picky. If I bring back a black one, my dad won't be able to dip me in a pig cage." Wang Zijie apologized.

"I'm afraid Milia wants to dip you into the pig cage." Bao Nana revealed.

Everyone laughed together. Among this group of people, Ning Mo had been away in Africa and was not very familiar with Wang Zijie, so he didn't know that Wang Zijie had married a visiting scholar from France whom he mentored. It is said that this young girl named Milia is not only as beautiful as a flower, but also quite proficient in controlling her husband. She has trained Wang Zijie, who has always been a playboy, into a love saint.

"African girls aside, I really plan to go to Africa." Wang Zijie changed the embarrassing topic and said: "The country has proposed the Belt and Road Initiative and requires our universities to actively cooperate. I plan to set up a A Belt and Road Research Institute specializes in introducing China’s development experience to Belt and Road countries, especially to the vast number of African countries.

"I heard that Fatty is doing very well in Africa, and I have long planned to go and see him. What Fatty does is of great significance. In the past, Western countries and we all only focused on supporting the development of Africa economically. , very few people support the development of Africa intellectually, and Fatty can be considered a positive exploration."