The Workshop City has been under construction for many years.

Many workshops have been built one after another, but there is still a lot of barren land around.

Although concrete roads have been built in advance in some places, they still feel desolate.

The eldest grandson's family, who bought 30,000 acres of land here, is now repentant.

I heard that he was already thinking about selling all the land.

"Lang Jun, His Royal Highness the King of Chu asked us to visit the four-wheeled carriage workshop, it shouldn't be as simple as a simple visit."

Lang Qing took a few students from the watch research institute and walked around the four-wheeled carriage workshop.

As the largest four-wheeled carriage workshop in Datang, two or three hundred carriages are rolled off the assembly line here every day.

Some of these carriages were sold to Chang'an City through Mercedes-Benz carriage dealers, and some were sold to other places in Guanzhong and Luoyang through some merchants.

Anyway, north of the Yangtze River, more than half of the four-wheeled carriages are "Mercedes-Benz" brand carriages produced by the workshop of the Chu Wangfu.

"The increase in the production of the watch workshop has been relatively slow, far from meeting the requirements of His Royal Highness the King of Chu. The production of a four-wheeled carriage will involve no fewer parts than our table clock, but they can achieve a daily output of two or three hundred, which should be the reason why His Royal Highness the King of Chu asked us to come and learn. ”

Langqing's comprehension is still relatively high, although Li Kuan did not say it explicitly, but he basically guessed the purpose.

The demand for table clocks is very strong these days, and although it is impossible to sell them all at auction for a sky-high price, it is definitely a huge profit.

Seeing that such a good opportunity to collect the wool of the nobles came, how could Li Kuan be willing to let it pass?

Therefore, higher requirements are put forward for the output of watch workshops.

Smaller, more accurate, faster! (There is no driving here!) ）

The first two are not rushed, but faster is completely achievable.

Of course, Li Kuan can also design a workshop for the production of table clocks on the assembly line, but on the one hand, he doesn't want to make himself so tired and do everything himself, and on the other hand, he also hopes to cultivate his own assembly line design talents.

So just let Lang Qing take a group of people to visit and learn in the four-wheeled carriage workshop.

"Liu Yongze, can you tell us about some changes in the four-wheeled carriage workshop from the very beginning of construction to the present? Did you still have such a high yield in the first place? ”

Lang Qing looked at Liu Yongze, who was accompanying him, and humbly asked for advice.

As the latest fourth-level worker of the four-wheeled carriage workshop, Liu Yongze is a person who is responsible for the design of the production line.

"Director Lang, of course it's no problem. The construction time of our workshop, as well as some of the conditions of the carriage industry in Chang'an City at that time, have been briefly introduced to you before coming to the production site. Now I will tell you about the changes in the production of this carriage. ”

Liu Yongze has heard of Langqing's name.

In fact, there are almost no people in the workshops under the Chu Wangfu who have not heard of Langqing.

Even Liu Yongze, who read the article published by Langqing in Science.

Of course, when I first read this article, it was only because the craftsman level exam required the assessment of the content published in "Science", and Liu Yongze was also forced to be helpless.

However, the situation is different now.

Every aspiring craftsman will carefully study every article in Science, even if some of the content is completely incomprehensible to him.

Who knows if there's another grandfather clock opportunity brewing here?

Everyone wants to be another Langqing.

At a young age, he became famous and wealthy, and he was simply a winner in life.

"When the carriage workshop was first built, the number of carriages produced every day was not very large, only about twenty or thirty. And because the craftsmanship of each craftsman is different, the parts on different carriages are often not interchangeable. After His Royal Highness the King of Chu inspected it once, he was very dissatisfied, and specially convened the shopkeeper and the main craftsmen in the workshop to put forward the manufacturing idea of the assembly line. ”

Liu Yongze was one of the first craftsmen to come in from the beginning of the construction of the four-wheeled carriage workshop.

From the beginning of the apprenticeship to the current fourth-level worker, his progress reflects the development of the four-wheeled carriage workshop.

"Assemblies? What do you mean? ”

Lang Qing immediately grasped the point.

"To put it simply, it is to split the process and parts of the production of a carriage, and each person is only responsible for one of the processes, and after completing their own processes, they will be handed over to the next person to complete the next process.

For example, the carriage of a horse-drawn carriage was originally completed by one or several craftsmen, but now we have a special carriage production line in our workshop, in which there are more than 100 craftsmen, and each craftsman is only responsible for a small process. For example, the driller is always responsible for drilling, the sawing is always responsible for sawing, and the planer is always responsible for planing wood. ”

What's the point of such a division of labor? Isn't all the work to produce a carriage less? ”

Although Lang Qing felt that his question might be stupid, he still asked it.

"Director Lang, this is of great significance. In fact, at the beginning, including me, the craftsmen of the carriage workshop actually had the same idea as you, thinking that this so-called assembly line method was useless, but after trying it, I found that it was completely different, and it could even be described as earth-shattering. ”

"Is that an exaggeration?"

Lang Qing felt that this Liu Yongze didn't seem to be so reliable, and a craftsman was so exaggerated when he spoke.

"Absolutely. Do you know? With the same number of craftsmen, the number of carriages we made in a day increased from twenty or thirty to more than a hundred, and after many improvements, it became what we see now. ”

Liu Yongze naturally also felt the suspicion in Lang Qing's eyes.

However, this is really the time to show the advantages of the carriage workshop.

If other workshop personnel come to visit, Liu Yongze may not have the opportunity to play.

Because of a lot of experience, he was reluctant to pass it on to workshops outside the Chu Palace.

But when they came, he was instructed to communicate without reservation, which allowed him to make full use of what he had learned in the past.

"Just doing this so-called assembly line transformation, the output has increased so much?"

Lang Qing looked at Liu Yongze suspiciously.

He still felt a little incredible.

If Liu Yongze said that the output had increased by a few percent, he would still believe it.

But this is an increase of several times, or even dozens of times, which is too scary.

"That's right. This assembly line operation, because each craftsman only needs to focus on one or several processes, which can make perfect, the speed of processing is much faster. Because the process is very finely divided, many former apprentices or first-level workers can be competent for most of the work, which greatly improves the efficiency of personnel. The combination of these factors greatly reduces the time it takes to build a carriage. ”

Liu Yongze then told Lang Qing some details of the design of the production line of the carriage workshop.

Walking in the workshop, while listening to Liu Yongze talking about these design theories, he watched the craftsmen next to him processing parts one by one as Liu Yongze said.

The processing speed, the exact appearance of each part, still gave Langqing a lot of inspiration.

As soon as theory and practice are combined, the effect of teaching will come out.

"Liu Langjun, according to what you said, if I split all the parts of the table clock, each part is divided into several processes, and each craftsman only needs to complete one process, then the production efficiency of the table clock can also be greatly improved?"

Langqing naturally no longer thinks that Liu Yongze is blowing water there, and even his title has changed.

No way, don't blame other people's forces.

This is the law of survival of society.

Otherwise, how could there be a sit, please, please, please sit-down story?

"It is inevitable to improve production efficiency, but to what extent it depends on your specific process layout. And the parts processing of your grandfather clock is different from our four-wheeled carriage, and the specific situation still has to be tried to know. ”

"Director Lang, Liu Langjun, according to the production method of this assembly line, will this happen. Because each craftsman only makes one process, if one day the craftsman is sick or something else happens and can't come to the workshop, won't the whole workshop be unable to run? ”

Beside Langqing, a staff member of the Watch Research Institute raised his own questions.

"yes, if that happens, wouldn't it be less productive?"

After thinking about it, Lang Qing felt that the probability of this possibility was still very high.

"Have you ever heard that one day our carriage workshop will cease production because a craftsman didn't come?"

Liu Yongzhe asked with a smile.

"A craftsman is responsible for one process, not that a craftsman is only one process. Because each process itself is relatively simple, basically each craftsman will have several or even a dozen processes. It's just that in order to improve production efficiency, we only arrange personnel to produce one of them. Once there is a need, he can go to other processes at any time, so the situation you mentioned is not possible. ”

Without waiting for them to speak, Liu Yongzhe explained the reason again.

"That's right, I was shocked just now."

Lang Qing laughed and laughed at himself.

"In fact, His Royal Highness the King of Chu has also introduced a production method combined with the assembly line, and our workshop is still discussing; I can also take this opportunity to communicate with Director Lang to see if there is any reference significance for your watch workshop. ”

Liu Yongze knew that Li Kuan attached great importance to the construction of the watch workshop, but he spared no effort to show everything he knew.

"Oh, how?"

Lang Qing thought that when he heard this, his study today would be considered a successful completion, but he didn't expect that when it was over, Liu Yongzhe actually had dry goods to introduce to himself.

"Whether it's a horse-drawn carriage or a table clock, it takes a lot of parts to produce a complete product. As it stands, most of the parts are produced in-house. His Royal Highness the King of Chu once said that a proper division of labor and cooperation will be more efficient. In fact, this is another extension of the idea of assembly line production line. ”

"Proper division of labor and cooperation?"

Lang Qing didn't react for a while, and he didn't know what Liu Yongze meant.

"Yes, it's about assigning some parts to other more specialized workshops to produce and then transporting them to our workshops for assembly. Just like our carriage, the wheels can be produced by a special wheel workshop, the bearings are produced by a special bearing workshop, the springs are produced by a special spring workshop, and the gears are produced by a special gear workshop. ”

Liu Yongze's words, in a sense, can be regarded as a secret of the carriage workshop.

However, for the watch workshop, there is naturally no need to keep it secret.

"If you follow your line of thinking, our watch workshop can entrust some parts of the table clock to other workshops for production, and we are only responsible for the overall installation and design, and make some of the parts we are good at?"

This time, Lang Qingqing understood what Liu Yongze meant.

"Yes, that's it. If you want to quickly increase the production of your watch workshop, this is probably the most suitable method. After all, your watch workshop has been established for a relatively short period of time, and skilled craftsmen may not be very sufficient, and if you entrust some parts to other workshops, the sales may be higher, and the cost of the parts may be higher. This is a less costly and more efficient method, why not consider using it? ”

Liu Yongze looked at Lang Qing with a smile.

"Liu Langjun, would you like to come to our watch workshop and help us design a new production line according to the method you just mentioned? You can rest assured, I will negotiate with the workshop manager, after you go to the watch workshop, everything will only get better, and your position will be promoted. ”

As soon as Lang Qing's words came out, Liu Yongze was stunned.

How else can there be such a good thing?

If it was someone else outside the Chu King's Mansion who was talking, of course he refused without thinking about it.

But the clock workshop and the carriage workshop are brothers, they are both the property of the Chu Palace, and now Lang Qing is willing to help him solve all his worries in person, what else do he have to hesitate about.

"Director Lang, this is ...... Wouldn't that be a good thing? ”

Although he was very moved, Liu Yongze was still embarrassed to agree directly.

This seems to be a little unloyal.

"It's nothing too bad, this matter is settled, and I'll arrange it later. If nothing else, you'll be able to work in the watch workshop starting tomorrow. ”

When Lang Qing saw Liu Yongze's expression, he knew that this was done.