"The most valuable place?" Xu Huafeng pinched his beard and thought.

Yang Rui continued: "If an American knows what quality is and what quality management is, can he replace us?" ”

"Or is it a question of labor costs?" Xu Huafeng introduced other factors in the discussion, which was originally to discuss the production model.

"The factor of labor cost is and is one of the main factors that form competitiveness, but it is not the fundamental reason for quality advantage, it is only one of the main reasons for price advantage. Compared with the United States, our products are cheaper, better quality and durable. It is impossible for an American to do the former unless his workers are paid the same wages as ours; The latter is also difficult to do, even if he understands what quality is and what quality management is. Yang Rui said. So much management jargon seems to have brought him back to his Tongji student days. "The difference between Ford's production model and ours is rooted in the culture itself."

"Culture?" Xu Huafeng understands that Yang Rui is a master of culture, but what does culture have to do with production?

"Yes. This essence is the essential difference between Eastern culture and Western culture. Yang Rui said. Our managers often refer to the system and the team, while the Americans often refer to the profession and technology. They always think that with the gun of technology, they can conquer the world single-handedly, but we pay great attention to maintaining the ecosystem on which we depend.

The essence of quality management is not data or methods, but to create an external environment that is conducive to improving and stabilizing quality. This is the meaning of 5S, and it is also the fundamental reason why we must ask five whys when something goes wrong. Americans don't care about relationships with everything around them, they go their own way. After all, they are God's chosen people. qualified to defy everything;

We don't do that, we pay attention to 'harmony'. If you benefit from harming a certain factor in the system, then in the end it will bring a painful retribution that is double the gain. This is like the common people cutting down trees, cutting trees with firewood, but the trees cut down floods will come, and the gains will outweigh the losses in the end, which is the essential difference between the two business ideas.

In order to create an environment conducive to improving and stabilizing quality, the real core of it is people. People are the only variable and driver in the entire system. But under the Ford system. People have become machines, and their only task is to install parts for the car according to the SOP documents. Why load? Why do you want to pretend like this? Why can't you pretend like that? This kind of problem is not possible in a Ford plant. It's good for the workers to do what they do like machines, God has arranged everything, and the people do it, and if you find something wrong, it's because you're born sinful. ”

"Hehe......" Xu Huafeng was amused by Yang Rui's cold humor, he felt that Yang Rui was really an encyclopedic genius, and Cai Yuanpei wanted to oust such a genius from power, it was simply a violent thing. Xu Huafeng smiled. Li Zilong, who recorded their answers next to him, and his attendant, a new confidential female secretary, wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh - I don't know when. Every sentence that Yang Rui said when he met with his subordinates and discussed official business was required to be recorded. It is said that this was Zhang Taiyan's idea, and he probably imitated the "Analects" to publish a "Yang Yu".

Yang Rui didn't care about others, he had fallen into a state of self-thinking and self-blooming. He added: "Assuming that the Americans learn quality management, he will just go to a few experts to sample statistics. Mathematical methods are then used to correct quality problems, but this is simply not enough. Since the worker is part of the production system. So quality problems workers have the right and need to participate, is this a material problem? Or is it a design issue? Or is it a processing problem? Or is it something else? The whole system is involved in order to get an accurate answer and arrive at an optimal solution – perhaps a process improvement procedure can avoid this problem, so there is no need to increase the strength of the material. Etcetera.

The exclusion of workers from quality control is actually the same as Christianity. God, the experts, determined that the workers are God's people and that they should do what God wills. We are not like this, there are no special experts in the factory, some are just team leaders for on-site management, they are the real core of quality management.

If the Americans want to do this, then their corporate organizational structure will become a lifelong employment system like ours, and the employee development system will become a rotation system instead of a recruitment system, which is unacceptable and unattainable for the Americans. They only know how to 'carrot and stick', and they are not willing to integrate lowly workers with themselves as a team. This is also determined by the Protestant nature of the habit of collecting money and treating money as their life, and the worker is only a tool they need temporarily, and when the work is done, everything is my property except for the wages paid to you.

We're not like that, so I think the discussion of the judges in the Tingwei Mansion actually makes sense, since ancient times, we only have the concept of home, but no one. That is to say, since ancient times we have recognized the private ownership of family property, but not the private ownership of personal property, unless the family member, including the servants, is dead, and there is only one left.

If this is the idea of industry, i.e., the whole company is the common property of all the workers, there is no difference between them and how little they have in the distribution of shares. The worker's business is the general business, although the difference in wages between them is tenfold or even hundredfold. The enterprise is like a ship sailing in the sea, although the captain is pampered, but any lowly sailor who falls into the water will do everything to rescue him.

Can the Americans do this? As far as I know, when Ford was in a recession, it not only laid off a large number of workers, but also laid off all its managers. Why? Because managers are paid the highest, and Ford's job is the same for anyone, retaining these old managers will only put a burden on the company's finances, and firing them and then hiring them from the new ones can save a lot of labor costs. A thousand words are still one sentence - we treat machines as people, and Ford treats people as machines. ”

"That'...... Is there any other way? Yang Rui said the truth very thoroughly, but Xu Huafeng still wanted to avoid the Sino-US war as much as possible, he took advantage of Yang Rui's cigarette lighting, thought about it and said: "Our production model is better than the Ford system, so will there be any model better than us in the future?" ”

"That's a good question." Yang Rui said with a smile. "There is only one way, that is, Ford sends his order to Tonghua or Dalian, and we will help him produce cars, and then put Ford's brand."

"Ahh How is this possible? Xu Huafeng was shocked. Now that Americans are worried about immigrants taking jobs, Congress has drastically reduced the number of immigrants from other countries, including Asian Americans. If Ford cars are produced in China, then American workers are afraid that they will rebel.

"After the first industrial revolution, it took about 200 years for the Ford production system to appear, and its production efficiency increased by at least six times; If we go further, we will have this production model, let's call it Tonghua production system. Yang Rui inadvertently named it, not paying the slightest attention to the historical significance of this word.

"If nothing else, this type of production would have been around for decades, and now it is happening at the same time as Ford's production system, which I deliberately did. In a few decades, the model of large-scale industrial production will change again, and the smile mode will be produced. ”

"Smile mode?" Xu Huafeng was puzzled, "Is it a laugh?" ”

"Yes, when a person laughs, it is an arc that opens upwards. Specifically, for any product, as long as you master the standard, technology, and brand, you have mastered both ends of this arc, and it doesn't matter who hands over the production in the middle, and the two ends are the key elements that constitute its value, and they are also the bulk of profits.

If the Ford model is called standard manufacturing, and the Tonghua model is called lean manufacturing, then this is called agile manufacturing. Not only does it respond quickly to the market – you can ask manufacturers to build what kind of car you want, but it is also very responsive to production. It does not only produce inside its own factory like the Tonghua model, but focuses on the outside, as long as it can meet the requirements of quality and delivery, it will be produced where the cost is optimal. ”

What Yang Rui described was incomprehensible to Xu Huafeng, and he asked: "Why don't those factories with the best cost build them themselves, but build them for him?" ”

"Because standards, brands, sales channels, and services are not in the hands of these factories. He can make it himself, but will the customer buy it? For example......" Yang Rui thought about it sideways and said, "The voltage in the United States is 110 volts, and all our products are designed with this. If a manufacturer wants to make his own household appliances, then his goods can be sold at 110 volts, but if the rated voltage is adjusted to 150 volts in the next round, who will want what he produces? It's simply outdated.

Another example is Wanglaoji herbal tea, which now does not produce its own herbal tea, but gives it to others to produce, and then sells it under his Wanglaoji brand. If this producer also wants to sell his own herbal tea, then his Liu Laoji and Zhao Laoji can sell it? Obviously, it can't be sold, because everyone has no special feelings for it, and the General Logistics Department will not replace Wang Laoji with Liu Laoji, why? Because in the campaign after the founding of the People's Republic of China, where there is the revival army, there is Wang Laoji, the ancestors drank Wang Laoji, how could the younger generations drink Liu Laoji? Herbal tea is more than just herbal tea, it contains a lot of things.

So, it's because of that. Agile manufacturing doesn't matter if you are large-scale manufacturing or lean manufacturing, he doesn't care how much your production cost has been reduced, because as long as he has standards and brands in hand, you are just his cheap servant, and the role of the servant is not fixed, he can find it all over the world, he can replace it at any time, and he doesn't even have to pay a pension. ”

Yang Rui was talking, not wanting Cheng Ying to run in, she said anxiously: "It's not good!" The people called, and he had a car accident! ”

"Ahh Yang Rui and Xu Huafeng were both shocked, and he couldn't help but scold, "This teasing! (To be continued......)