Rebirth 2008: I Can Make Money Reading

Chapter 98 The Shocked Academy Leader

Everyone walked on the sidewalk, and Mu Yang walked in front, giving an overview of the situation in the workshop.

Each equipment room has a welding room, and the leaders of the institute stand in front of a welding room and watch the workers operate the welding.

At this time, No. 8 welding room is welding 3-size ram surfacing welding STL6. Manually move the workpiece, place it on the workbench, align the position of the welding torch and fine-tune the workpiece position. After checking, return to the control box and press "Start ", the welding started, and the welding torch emitted a dazzling arc. Everyone hurriedly looked away, not daring to look directly.

The size of the gate is small, the amount of welding is not large, and the welding is completed quickly.

After a while, the worker took the workpiece with tongs and placed it on the concrete floor.

The temperature of the workpiece that has just been welded is very high, even if it is one minute after the end of welding, there are still about 300 degrees. If the workpiece size is large, the heat dissipation rate is much slower.

There are scale-like welding lines on the gate, and the surface is slightly blue.

"Xiaoyang, this is the device you applied for a patent for, right?"

"Yes, Dean."

After being confirmed by Mu Yang, Dean Hou praised in surprise: "It's amazing. The content of the thesis you said before has not had as much impact as the real thing. I didn't expect that you have studied automation equipment so deeply. It is no worse than an engineer who has worked for ten years."

"Dean, you are too proud. I designed the gun head part, and I moved it from place to place. Other parts and systems were paid for by others. I learned a lot while asking for advice." Mu Yang lied, a It’s fine for a first-year student to understand mechanical structure design, but also understand mechanical automation and manufacturing systems. This is impossible.

Dean Hou praised: "You know how to use other people's strengths is your own ability, and then assemble it into the first domestic plasma spray welding equipment for surfacing cobalt-based alloys, and apply it to the market. talent in this area.

Our colleges and universities often say that scientific research results are transformed into the market, but the execution efficiency is very poor, far inferior to yours. "

"Yes, Mu Yang is too powerful." The leaders of other institutes praised in unanimous agreement.

Mu Yang smiled a little embarrassedly: I'm hanging up, it's different.

Seeing the busy and orderly workshop, Dean Hou asked: "Xiaoyang, how many employees does your company have now?"

"Uh, 135 people, 7 teams, and each team is responsible for 10 pieces of equipment."

"Oh, what about the specific personnel structure?"

"80 welders, 10 machining, 8 salesmen, 5 quality inspectors, 5 financial accountants, 7 grassroots managers, 3 personnel, 3 technicians, 2 security guards, chefs and kitchen assistants...

At present, the number of employees is roughly like this. The business is still on the rise, and the number of personnel is still expanding. "

Mu Yang counted them in detail. This is the data reported to him by the personnel a few days ago.

"There are a lot of employees, but in terms of per capita output value, it's not too many.

I thought there were hundreds of employees. It's hard to imagine that your company's per capita output value is so high. "

Dean Hou was shocked. Before he came, he had guessed that the number of employees should be between 250 and 400 based on the monthly output value of the machinery industry at 20 million.

But in fact, unexpectedly, he was only in his early 100s!

This shows that the benefit of Xinghai Machinery Company is very good.

This benefit is not generally good, but better than most traditional machinery companies.

Even Dean Hou couldn't think of any machinery company with such a high per capita output value.

Perhaps most people are concerned about the revenue and profit of a company.

However, senior managers are very concerned about the value of per capita output value, which is used to compare the production efficiency and personnel structure in the same period.

The calculation formula of per capita annual output value = total annual output value / average number of employees.

In the machinery industry, by calculating the per capita annual output value, the company's profitability can be guessed.

For interviewers who are looking for a job, if the benefits are too low, they have to be cautious when entering the job, and consider whether the company can pay wages normally.

In 2008, in the traditional machinery industry, the per capita annual output value of 300,000 should be a break-even point.

If the per capita annual output value exceeds 650,000, it can be regarded as a very profitable enterprise.

If the time passes to more than ten years later, as labor costs and materials rise, around 400,000 should be a break-even point.

If the per capita annual output value exceeds 900,000, it can be regarded as a very profitable enterprise.

The situation of each industry is different, but the reason is the same when using the per capita annual output value to calculate the company's benefits.

If the total output value is high, but the per capita annual output value is very low despite the large number of employees, it means that the efficiency is not good, or the company's personnel structure is bloated, and there are too many people who do not work.

Mu Yang said proudly: "The equipment is running well, the degree of automation is relatively high, coupled with the high added value of the product, the per capita output value can reach this level."

"Your starting point is very good. Even if it is an OEM, you must choose a high added value. The raw material of this cobalt-based alloy is very expensive, right? Now the price of cobalt seems to be 300,000 to 400,000 yuan per ton."

"A few days ago, it was 300,000 yuan per ton. In March and April, the price rose to the highest price in history, 870,000 yuan, which is crazy." Mu Yang replied.

Although the cobalt price in my country is generally similar to the international cobalt price, there may be some differences in the cobalt price due to factors such as supply and demand in a certain period of time.

The high in 2008 was 870,000 yuan per ton!

By October 2008, it had dropped to 300,000 yuan per ton.

This fluctuates too much, I can't afford it!

Since October last year, it has tended to balance.

Cobalt is a small metal, and many factors such as the global economy, supply and demand, market expectations, and speculation will have an impact on the price of cobalt.

Mu Yang does not remember the historical trend of cobalt price, but only remembers that 15 years later, cobalt-based welding consumables have tended to balance.

The high price of cobalt will naturally increase the cobalt-based alloy welding consumables, and the processing fee will also increase accordingly.

As the price of cobalt falls, the OEM fee will naturally be lowered accordingly.

In short, the money Mu Yang earns is not much different. When the price of cobalt falls, he will be unhappy if the welding consumables factory does not lower the price.

He suddenly remembered a joke about the price of three barrels of oil.

If the international price rises, I will also rise, and crude oil will affect me;

I will not drop the international price, I am different from crude oil.

back to topic.

The starting point that Dean Cai Hou said just now gave Mu Yang an idea.

He chose to do cobalt-based alloy surfacing before because he had experience in his previous life and knew that doing this line of work could make money.

So if there is no foresight, how to find the industry without knowing the market situation.

You can look for expensive spare parts or raw materials, and then deduce which industry uses more spare parts or raw materials. After in-depth investigation, you will always find some ways to make money.

Dean Hou and his colleagues inspected several pieces of equipment and found many problems. They sighed: "Automation has too high requirements for the standardization of workpieces. Our domestic casting technology is still at the level of 20 or 30 years ago. The technology has not been able to be reformed and promoted.”

"Yes, the dimensional error of these rams is still relatively large, and my equipment can't reach the level of full automation. Before welding, manual fine-tuning is required, and then press welding to start."

Mu Yang agreed with Dean Hou's comments, he was indeed an expert.

The welding time is long. According to the size of the workpiece, the welding time of the small-sized ram can be as short as a few minutes, and the large-sized ram can be as long as one or two hours. The fine-tuning can be processed by manual adjustment in only ten seconds.

If you want automatic recognition, you have to install a camera and related supporting equipment (similar to robot vision, that is, recognize the two-dimensional image of the workpiece, analyze and interpret it through the visual processor, and then convert it into a symbol, so that the robot can recognize the object and determine its position. ).

Buying and installing the equipment by yourself, each plasma spray welding equipment costs tens of thousands of dollars, Mu Yang doesn't want to spend this money, it's not worth it.

Another reason, as the dean said, is that it is very difficult to achieve complete automation and standardization of workpieces.

Due to the complex structure of the gate plate, it needs to be manufactured by casting process.

At present, there are two kinds of ram casting processes, one is precision casting, and the other is sand casting.

Sand casting is rough casting, which is used for the manufacture of larger-sized workpieces, and precision casting cannot meet the requirements.

If you want to achieve a standardized size, it must be machined and used as a benchmark for process positioning.

But in doing so, it is unnecessary to increase the processing cost just for the sake of full automation.