Even when he returned to the hotel, Othello had not recovered from the shock in the 91 Research Institute.
Yun Fei finally asked him what it meant, which echoed in his ears all the time.
What does this production model mean? He knows best. Production efficiency is the most critical thing for mass-produced products. As long as the efficiency is improved, the quality can be guaranteed, and the production cost can be reduced to a negligible level by uninterrupted production all day.
The price of a robot will not exceed US $100000, and one of their ordinary operators will earn more than US $20000 or US $30000 a year, plus insurance. In order to ensure 7 times 24-hour uninterrupted processing, they must work in three shifts, that is, three ordinary workers must work continuously for one equipment or several equipment. In this way, their labor cost will be about $100000 a year.
The robots of the 91 Research Institute can be used for many years without even the one-year cost of their operators in the same position! Even if it takes only one year, it is OK.
For products such as auto parts, which are completely based on large-scale uninterrupted production as the main production mode, how can he not know how powerful this mode will play in cost control? Jiang Muge told him that he could reduce their production costs by more than 10%. Only now did he realize that this was definitely not bragging.
If it works well, it can reduce more costs.
With fewer people, the management cost will be reduced accordingly
"Sam, did you send the contents of the micro camera to the company headquarters?" I really can't sleep. Even Othello, a political dignitary who has a good relationship in the future, doesn't remember what the welcome dinner of Chengdu city government was and what they need to pay attention to.
What he cares about is how to use these technologies of the 91 Research Institute to carry out a new round of technology upgrading for his company. It is best to get these technologies in the hands of cloud non users. Anyway, the Chinese people's awareness of technical confidentiality in this regard is not very strong.
"Sir, it has been sent back by e-mail. But the company hasn't given feedback yet... "Sam is very young, at least much younger than Othello.
He followed Othello as soon as he entered Rockwell. He could do these things very well without Othello's boss saying anything. The technology of cloud holdings also shocked him. Even in technologically advanced countries such as Japan and Germany, the research on such large-scale intelligent production is not as crazy as the Chinese.
Moreover, China's demographic dividend has just begun.
In China, an ordinary operator now costs no more than $1000 a year!
The purpose of Yunfei's research on these robots in such a low labor cost environment must be to replace these cheap labor with better efficiency.
China can use it. If they use this model in production in the United States, how much cost will they have to save? How much more efficiency?
"Sam, do you think if we introduce this production mode and technology from China, how much will it improve the current situation of our company?" Othello seldom asked Sam for advice before. After all, the young man was far from what he expected.
"Boss, if we introduce it in time, we can't save much cost in this regard. Their control technology is not enough. The production of these parts needs final finishing... "Sam is not as shocked as Othello.
For those who do not know these technologies very well, many functions and effects of these technologies are invisible.
"What about their CNC equipment? I remember when I left, the other party gave you their technical information. Do you think if we use their numerical control equipment and then introduce their production lines, will it be cheaper than those cheap equipment in Japan and Taiwan? " Othello did not correct Sam's views and perceptions.
Cloud holding's technology in this area is indeed not mature enough, but since they have reached such a point, it is certainly impossible to give up.
In fact, their company can complement the technology between Yunshi holdings, which is a great opportunity. But it seems that it is not a simple thing to persuade the Chinese who are very vigilant against them to cooperate.
"The technical performance of Chinese CNC equipment can fully meet our use requirements, but in terms of price, it is still almost 5% more expensive than Taiwan machine tools. We need to pay millions of dollars more. However, compared with the Japanese five axis machining center, the price of the Chinese is more than 20% lower. If all the equipment they provide us are the equipment we see, I think, It is absolutely necessary for us to purchase four axis machining centers and five axis machining centers from the Chinese for rough machining and semi finishing of our company... "Sam doesn't have any opinions on the Chinese, but his opinions are taken into account the interests of their company.
Othello agrees with this point.
Chinese people can buy CNC machine tools.
As for Sam's proposal to purchase the most common three-axis machining center from the Taiwanese, and then buy four-axis and five axis machining centers and even their operating robots from the Chinese, Othello really wants to, but the Chinese will never be so stupid.
The quotation given to them by Jiang Muge is the overall package price.
If you only buy Chinese four axes and five axes, it will never be so cheap.
The shrewdness of the Chinese people is a fact that the whole world has to admit. However, what the Chinese like most is internal strife. Their tragic internal strife and selfish character hide their excellent quality. Only a few people will be aware of this problem.
Just as Napoleon said, China is a sleeping lion. Once you wake up, the whole world will tremble.
"Boss, the price is not high. Although our three-axis machining center is higher than that of Taiwanese, it is also within their tolerance. At present, Taiwan does not have the production capacity of the five axis machining center because of our obstruction, and the five axis machining center in Japan is at least 20% more expensive than ours. Therefore, when it is packaged as a whole, they will recognize our price... "Jiang Muge completely didn't think that Yun Fei would feel a little high about the offer he gave.
Cloud non-commercial products have always not reduced prices. In the Chinese market, in addition to imported CNC machine tools, they are the most expensive, even more expensive than many imported CNC machine tools.
At present, the cloud is not idle. They are 15% cheaper than the market price, and the price is cheaper for Americans!
Of course, it's 15% cheaper. It's all fob price excluding tax.
"We do have some advantages over Taiwan's manufacturers, but the current situation in Japan is not clear. The United States has not come up with a charter to sanction Japan. It is obviously engaged in some shady activities with Japan. We must take into account the situation here. If we make such a great sacrifice, we can't win the business... "Yun Fei said with a frown.
For him, it was a great loss to open their robot laboratory and unmanned chemical plant project to Americans.
Rockwell international also has very advanced technology in this field.
"There is no need to worry about this. As far as I know, we are the only one in the world to do such an industrial integrated system. It is very difficult for robots to replace humans. What's more, not many enterprises will be crazy like our company to invest in R & D regardless of cost and benefit... "Jiang Muge flattered Yun Fei a little.
The investment of foreign companies in R & D is indeed very high, but they rarely invest in projects that have little to do with their products and development. It is often some scientific research institutions that study these projects.
Even those scientific research institutions, not many people will be as crazy as cloud to invest in research in the direction of intelligent robots replacing humans!
This is a bottomless hole in this world.
"You can do it anyway. It's up to you. In addition, we can now talk about the establishment of a North American company. I don't know what relationship you have with my uncle, but your current performance ability, I think you can fully achieve your wishes... "Yunfei doesn't have a clear idea about whether to establish a new company there or what.
As long as Rockwell wins this business, it will have to be established. But also with Rockwell's procurement business into those markets they didn't plan at first.
Even if only one or two employees are sent to stay there, they must do so.
The current market is not a one hammer deal.
After sales service is completely related to the follow-up development of the whole company and the impact on market expansion.
Surprise, it came so suddenly. For today's non cloud.
At the same time, it also reflects the old saying that the East is not bright and the west is bright. He had just been robbed of hundreds of millions of dollars of huge orders by domestic quietly rising competitors. He thought that they had to take back their steps to enter the international market, but he didn't expect that Rockwell gave them a greater opportunity, and they could follow Rockwell's steps to the world.
"Boss, I think so. With regard to the North American branch, we can just establish sales companies and market services instead of production. There is no need to learn from the factories in Taiwan and Japan and establish assembly factories in the United States..." Jiang Muge doesn't think it is more appropriate to establish production factories abroad.