Simply put: the method of producing a product is called a process.

Take fried poached eggs as an example.

Poached eggs are products of enterprises. The concept of poached eggs is based on product design. How big should poached eggs be? Add salt or sugar, and fry until they are 70% or 90% cooked, all belong to the category of product design.

But it is far from enough to design a poached egg just by designing it. It also requires a set of correct cooking methods to perfectly achieve the design requirements. This set of methods belongs to the category of craftsmanship.

A good chef can choose the firepower right, control the oil temperature, master the time to fry each side, and determine the time to add salt, so that he can fry delicious poached eggs. A rookie chef will be fussy, either frying or frying to dissolve yellow, and the final product is unpasteful.

Traditional handicraft production places the hope of controlling product quality on the chef's skills, while modern large-scale industrial production emphasizes the importance of process specifications to ensure that any novices can fry qualified poached eggs after simple training.

To do this, you need to carefully analyze the process of fried eggs by an excellent chef and write a detailed recipe, explaining how many levels of the firepower should be, how many degrees Celsius the oil temperature should be, and how many milliseconds the time to fry each side should be, so as to ensure that the poached eggs fried by different chefs are of the same quality. This recipe that is refined to each step is industrially called a process file.

The process files alone are not enough. In order to improve the efficiency of fried eggs, some restaurants will make special fried eggs. The chef can fry a qualified poached egg by beating the eggs in the fried eggs and turning them over at a specified time, which greatly reduces the manpower and time cost of fried eggs. This fried egg is called craft equipment.

Linbei Heavy Machinery Factory develops a 12-mile excavator, which naturally involves a large number of production processes. Since it is a single piece production and is uncertain whether there will be orders in the future, Linbei Heavy Machinery has been simplifying the situation from the beginning. The processing of many parts only pursues the results, does not care about the process, let alone prepare complete process documents.

For example, the workers have never been exposed to some large parts and do not know how to do it. The factory organizes the best welders to take turns to test. Even if the welding is successful, if the welding is not good, another person will try again. Often after the welding is successful, the workers themselves cannot tell how it succeeds. If they try again, they may not be able to weld the result again.

The same is true for process equipment, because only one excavator is produced, and the factory believes that it is not worth developing special process equipment. Taking large-piece welding as an example, in order to ensure quality, a special bracket should be fixed to the parts, so that welding is more convenient. However, when only one piece is produced, it is impossible to make a special bracket, so the workers use native methods to find some substitutes as brackets and then remove them after welding. If another same component is needed in the future, the workers must rebuild the bracket. As for whether it is the same as the last time, it cannot be guaranteed. Once the structure of the bracket changes, the original stress relationships and so on will also change, which may lead to the successful experience of the last welding process, but this cannot be copied this time.

The same situation also occurs with the upstream supporting enterprises of the assembly plant, and it is more obvious. For example, the hydraulic parts used in the excavator only require two or three sets of hydraulic parts. Professional hydraulic parts manufacturing companies are not worth developing process documents and process equipment for such output value of hundreds of yuan. Basically, they just find ways to do a few things to do. Due to the irregular process, the quality of purchased accessories is difficult to ensure, and problems often arise during the sample test drive, which makes the engineers of the assembly plant so angry that they curse.

Luo Xiangfei and Meng Fanze both knew about this, but they both hoped to solve these problems in the production process. Higher-level leaders often do not understand what craft is. They only know that Chinese companies have once again created new things, "throwing the hat that China cannot make forks and forks to the Pacific Ocean." In those years, the list of products that China could manufacture was very dazzling, but insiders knew that a considerable number of products were high in cost, low in manufacturing efficiency, and unstable in quality. The front-line production departments tried every means to refuse to use domestic equipment, and finally formed an embarrassing pattern of many domestic equipment developed with great effort and imported large quantities of foreign equipment in front-line departments.

As a time traveler, Feng Xiaochen clearly knew the transformation process of China's equipment manufacturing industry from single-piece production to mass production, and understood the price and pain he had to pay in this process. The idea he proposed was to shift the work goals of the equipment department from blindly meeting the requirements of the front-line department to focusing on its own technological development. To put it bluntly, it is to reject those one-time transactions that deal with the task in order to make better equipment.

By adopting such an approach, it will lead to the difficult delivery of the new model for a period of time, so that the superiors will not see the new products that will make them happy for a long time. However, after practicing internal skills, there will be no bottlenecks in the development of new products, and then there will be a gratifying scene of new models emerging one after another.

In real history, China's equipment manufacturing industry was in a period of hard practice in the 1980s and 1990s. The development progress of the new model was slow, which made people feel that it had stagnated. In fact, various equipment companies have comprehensively improved their craftsmanship during this period. After entering the new century, large thermal power equipment, turbine units, metallurgical equipment, etc. burst out like a blowout, and as long as the first machine is put into production, they can have the ability to mass production. This is a later story, let it go and not mention it.

"No wonder Minister Meng repeatedly asked you to participate in the adjusted project. Your thinking is indeed a bit unique."

After some thought, Luo Xiangfei said slowly:

"There are many highlights and some unrealistic aspects of your ideas. As for what is unrealistic, I won't tell you in detail now. You can go to the practice department to test their rightness and wrong. I decided to organize a group to participate in the 25-cubic excavator project of the Ministry of Coal. I will propose it at the Party Group meeting tomorrow and ask the Party Group of the Bureau to review it. If the Party Group of the Bureau agrees with my opinion, Xiao Feng, you will be a member of the working group and accept the personal command of Minister Meng.

However, I have to say ugly words ahead. You can't be upset and you can't forget it just because Minister Meng attaches importance to your opinions. When talking to Minister Meng and other old comrades, you must be humble and not have conflicts with them. Do you understand?"

The following words can be understood as Luo Xiangfei's undecided result. The false news brought by Tian Wenjian before really scared Luo Xiangfei into a cold sweat, and he still felt a little cold on his back. After this time, he had a new understanding of Feng Xiaochen's lethality. This child is really a newborn calf and dares to set off fire in front of anyone. This is to meet him, Luo Xiangfei and Meng Fanze, who also puts work first. If he was replaced by another narrow-minded leader, he might have been sent to the eighteenth level of hell because of Feng Xiaochen's arrogance.

Of course, in that era, broad-minded leaders like Luo Xiangfei and Meng Fanze were still very common. These old people who had struggled through the war had a very high ideological awareness. As long as their subordinates really started from work, they would generally give greater tolerance. If this subordinate could show some talent, they could even gain their special favor.

"I understand, Director Luo, don't worry, I will pay attention to the methods." Feng Xiaochen responded sincerely.

Hearing Feng Xiaochen's answer, Luo Xiangfei rolled his eyes and almost wanted to grab Feng Xiaochen for education again. What does it mean to pay attention to? After all, you still want to continue firing firecrackers and use your shocking views to scare the old comrades to go to the hospital overnight. But then I thought, isn't the place where you like Feng Xiaochen the sharp thoughts? If you suppress his thoughts and let him speak three points, wouldn't it be a waste of such a talent?

"Okay, the method, this is a particularly important thing, you must remember it." Luo Xiangfei emphasized in a heavy tone. After saying that, before Feng Xiaochen could stand up, he changed the topic and said, "By the way, you just came back from the Coal Research Institute? Haven't you eaten yet?"

Feng Xiaochen's tears were almost flowing out, and the leader finally said something humanly. When he was still on the bus, he was already hungry. When he came back, he was about to go to Wang Weilong and the others to eat, he was summoned to Luo Xiangfei's office. After chatting like this, an hour passed. He felt so hungry that he was pressing his heart against his back.

Luo Xiangfei saw Feng Xiaochen's psychological activities. He patted his head and reviewed: "Sorry, I overlooked that young people of your age are prone to hunger. I thought of this a long time ago, so I asked you to have a meal before talking about the matter. Let's do this, the cafeteria is closed now, and I still have some biscuits here, so why don't we three just deal with it?"

The biscuits that Luo Xiangfei reserved in the office were just for his meals when he worked overtime and stayed up late. By the age of Luo Xiangfei, the appetite was not large, so the number of biscuits was very limited. Although Luo Xiangfei tried his best to encourage Feng Xiaochen to eat more, Tian Wenjian also pretended to endure his stomach and said that he could not eat too much, so he asked Feng Xiaochen to make more than 70% of the biscuits alone, but Feng Xiaochen still felt his stomach empty.

After eating the biscuits, Luo Xiangfei asked Feng Xiaochen a few more saliva words such as being accustomed to life in the north, and sent him away. Feng Xiaochen returned to the collective dormitory building with a trace of resentment from not having enough food, knocked on Wang Weilong's room door, and was about to ask him for some food, but found that there was another woman and a child in Wang Weilong's room, and Wang Weilong's face seemed to have a gloomy look.
Chapter completed!