Chapter 56： R&D progress and follow-up development

Listening to the roar of the factory machines, watching the parts are processed, assembled, packaged, and inspected in the assembly workshop, and finally become a commodity. Bao Zixuan was very emotional, this is the power of industry.

Most of the arcade production used to be externally purchased materials. Now many steps have been changed to CNC machine tool production. Looking at the production products that workers work overtime every day, the arcade can produce 1,800 units per day, and the parts produced by itself have exceeded 50%. The Walkman can produce 10,800 units per day. Although the workers of this era are not very smart, their execution is particularly strong. And as the European market has opened up, the arcades are not worrying about selling at all.

After taking Yokoi Junpei and Miyamoto hat to the CNC machine tool workshop for a turn, Miyamoto hat is better. After all, he is a software developer and does not understand what these machines mean, but Yokoi Junpei knows that there are dark clouds. The CNC workshop is constantly producing small machine tools, and as soon as he develops a game machine, he can release the production capacity as soon as possible.

After the three sat down in Bao Zixuan's old office, a female employee poured three cups of tea for the three and left. Looking at the current office, there are a lot more people than when I left, and it looks like a company.

Bao Zixuan: "Miyamoto-kun, how is your game development going? When can you predict the market?"

Miyamoto Hat hasn't rested much these days. After all, this is the first game he organized and developed. It is impossible to make mistakes, otherwise it will become a joke in the industry. Bao Zixuan allowed him to return to RB twice a month, but now it has been 3 months, and he has not returned once, and all his subordinates have not returned. But now that the boss has asked, he will return seriously. After all, he knows that this little boss does not like watching the process very much, and pays more attention to the results.

Miyamoto Hat: "Thank you, President, for your concern. Donkey Kong can be designed in January next year, and the legend of Senna will be completed in May."

Bao Zixuan: "You have done a good job. You can follow the schedule. We will participate in the Los Angeles Electronics Industry Exhibition next year. Donkey Kong is one of our exhibiting products. You have to prepare it with the staff."

Looking at Yokoi Junpei, he said, "Yokoi-kun, how are the two game consoles designed?"

Yokoi Yunhei: "After receiving the strong support from the US branch, the research and development progress has accelerated a lot, but all our technologies are started from scratch, and now it will take 10-12 months for gameboy to reach the technical indicators given to me by the president. It takes about 16 months for the game console to meet the requirements, which disappoints the president."

Bao Zixuan: "It's already very good. After all, we don't have any technical reserves, and it all depends on Yokoi-kun's own ability. I'm already very satisfied. You can see how many game consoles we can produce every day with these equipment, so I'm going to you The requirement is to keep improving, and our Heiyun is to make the best products."

Yokoi Junpei nodded thoughtfully. It was also the first time he really understood the strength of these small CNC machine tools. processing level. How the boss produced these things, it seems that he will talk to Gu Gujirou more in the future.

"If we use these machines to fully produce gameboy game consoles, we can produce more than 30,000 units a day, which is indeed enough production capacity." Yokoi said.

Bao Zixuan: "Yes, at present, we have all the patents for these machine tools, which are completely the company's own intellectual property rights. You don't have to worry that others can imitate them. The most important thing is that our workshop is constantly assembling the machine tools we need every day. When Yokoi-kun develops your game console, I guarantee you will get what you want in that open space."

Martin Griff and Romansky saw that there was so much open space for them to play freely, so after discussing with Bao Zixuan, they began to follow the planned design drawings. And when designing the R&D building, we must listen to the opinions of Miyamoto Hat and Yokoi Junpei, so that the two of them can let designers design according to their own preferences in the R&D building. This is also the reason why Miyamoto Hat and Yokoi Junpei came to the factory. There will be a meeting in the afternoon to discuss the follow-up development.

At 2:30 pm on December 10, 1977, in the conference room of the Kowloon Black Cloud Factory, Bao Zixuan sat on the main seat and looked at the company executives below. This time was mainly for the company's follow-up construction meeting. In addition to Bao Zixuan, Zhao Tingting, Director Ma, Li Jun, Yokoi Junpei, Miyamoto Hat, Gucheng Jiro and his two classmates Martin Griff and Romansky were also present at the meeting.

Yokoi Junhei was also emotional when he saw Jiro Gujojiro also attended the meeting. The young man he brought over from RB is now an executive of Heiyun Company, and he is someone who can talk to him on an equal footing. This little boss really dares to use newcomers! In fact, it wasn't that Bao Zixuan wanted to use new recruits, because there was no one under him to use, but since John Chambers took the initiative to come to Heiyun, he felt that he was qualified to go to other companies to dig some corners.

Bao Zixuan: "I take all the hard work in my heart during this period of time. It's really hard work, but now we still have a long way to go. I hope everyone can work together to build Heiyun better."

"You are all familiar with each other, so I won't introduce it. The content of our meeting today is about the expansion of the factory. At this stage, the problem of our factory has been solved, but there are no entertainment and leisure facilities for the R&D department, company headquarters, and workers. Solution, and our land area looks very large, but it is actually too small. Mr. Zhao, you are responsible for negotiating with the two nearby villages. We can recruit more workers nearby, and even repair all nearby roads for them, but Each village must be sold to us at least 500 acres of land, and there is no ceiling. If conditions permit, I will build this place into the best factory in the world. If there is no space, we can only go to the New Territories for development. And tell them that they must rely on Give us the land by the sea, and we will build our own pier."

"About the game R&D building, we will modify it according to the requirements of Yokoi-kun and Miyamoto-kun. We will build a gym that can accommodate 500 people in the factory; an indoor basketball court with 5,000 seats can be built, which can be used as an auditorium during activities; Build a 200-meter runway and build a football field inside; in short, we must have all the leisure and entertainment facilities on the market here.”

"Tear down the old old houses and build the Heiyun Library. UU Reading We not only want all the workers to make money here, but also learn knowledge, which they may not have at home before. conditions, but here we are creating conditions for them."

"And all the wires and sewer pipes are still buried underground. I don't want to see a line on the ground. All the office phone lines must have enough space for the interface. Bao Zixuan doesn't dare to say at this time It's really nothing to find trouble if the network leaves the interface!"

Hearing this, no one reacted. How much will this cost! What Zhao Tingting wanted to say, Bao Zixuan did not let her say, but continued: "We can earn money, but will the workers work hard for us when they are in a bad mood!"

"I just want to turn this place into a garden-like factory, and you have to work hard according to this goal."

Everyone just dismissed the meeting. The others basically didn't say anything. It was Bao Zixuan who was talking alone. He just wants this effect. Maybe many executives don't understand it, so execute it. He doesn't have time to explain so much to them.

Early the next morning, Bao Zixuan met with the landlords of two nearby villages. In the end, the people in Panjia Village knew that following Mr. Bao would be beneficial, so they happily sold the 1,230 mu of land from the Heiyun Factory to the sea for HK$246 million. Black Cloud Factory. They also relocated 3 families for this purpose. Paid in one year. Another village immediately became anxious after seeing that there was no following, and finally took the initiative to reduce the price to 100,000 Hong Kong dollars per mu before Heiyun Company agreed to buy the land. 880 acres of land, 88 million Hong Kong dollars to be paid in 2 years. In this way, the Heiyun Company in Heung Kong Jiulong has 2,500 mu of land available for development, and can also build its own small wharf. Seeing this, Bao Zixuan knew that the expansion of the factory in the next three years was enough.

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