Chapter 2431
If you can't save the older one, save the younger one.
He Yuzhu's decision to invite the high-ranking leader over this time wasn't entirely without a plan; he was simply there to complain.
He knows his strengths and weaknesses.
He simply doesn't have the ability to rely on his memories from his past life to guide a large factory with tens of thousands of employees on how to develop.
If he had that ability, he would have used it on the steel rolling mill long ago.
It's simple for a steel rolling mill to rectify its operations and turn a profit.
We invested hundreds of millions to import the most advanced steel rolling equipment and production line from outside.
We'll spend another few hundred million to develop some special steel production technology.
They can turn a profit immediately.
It's easy to say, but where does the money come from?
The same goes for electron tube factories; they spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and manufacture chips.
Give him hundreds of millions of dollars and ten years, and he'll definitely be able to make it happen.
The question remains: where does the money come from?
Even if you dismember the top leader, you still won't get that money.
Therefore, some ideas are wonderful, but they are simply not feasible in reality.
Of course, if He Yuzhu only wants to save this factory, as long as the top leaders are willing to take drastic measures and provide a small amount of financial assistance, it is still possible to save it.
This is not a solution that someone like He Yuzhu could come up with.
This is He Yuzhu's strength; he knows what kind of person he is.
So after the top leader recommended this factory to him, he used his social connections to invite many real scholars and experts to conduct a consultation on the factory.
"...Now, including retired employees, the factory has a total of more than 12,000 people."
Half of the workforce needs to be reassigned, that's only 6,000 people.
Divest some non-core production and processing workshops, ...
At least three of the most outdated vacuum tube assembly lines should be shut down.
All subordinate units were completely dismantled...
"Schools, hospitals, kindergartens..." With each name He Yuzhu mentioned, the leader's hand, which was supporting him with a cane, would involuntarily tremble for a moment.
It's easy to imagine how impactful He Yuzhu's words were.
"…Eimac's industrial high-frequency tube design and manufacturing technology is for civilian use, and we can import it."
Western Europe has vacuum brazing furnaces, high-precision wire winding machines, and automatic exhaust systems, which can be imported for about two to three million US dollars.
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Based on this calculation, it would cost approximately 35 million.
In the future, we can leverage the existing advantages of the electron tube factory to shift our high-power transmitting tube technology to industrial high-frequency dielectric heating tubes, medical X-ray tubes, and other fields.
"Then after a year, there's a 50% chance this factory will turn a profit." He Yuzhu held a small notebook and read the contents expressionlessly.
Even when he reads some of the content aloud, he doesn't actually understand its meaning.
However, several experts have made this analysis.
This is currently the only way for the electron tube factory to survive.
Furthermore, even after rectification, this factory will never regain the glory of being a large factory with tens of thousands of employees.
Based on the current market size, it's at most a small, high-precision factory with a thousand employees.
Of course, money is also the biggest problem.
Thirty-five million doesn't seem like much.
But if converted to the amount in later generations, it would probably be close to two billion.
He Yuzhu never approached these matters with the intention of achieving success.
He knew that the top leader wouldn't agree to such a condition.
He laid out the difficulties to make it clear to the top leaders that it wasn't that he was unwilling to help the other factory, but that the problem was too big.
The School of CNC Machining is too small to support this operation.
In seven or eight years, with the development of the domestic television industry...
The electron tube factory partnered with Panasonic and switched to producing color picture tubes, earning its first pot of gold.
The electron tube factory has the technological reserves in this area.
After all, when He Yuzhu was running the television factory, he had supported this factory in developing color picture tubes.
However, the defect rate was too high, and production costs could not be reduced.
That path was never successfully established.
Currently, most of the color picture tubes used by television factories in Beijing are still sourced from outside.
Only a small portion was produced by a few factories in China. The former Beijing Electron Tube Factory no longer exists.
In this matter, He Yuzhu can't really blame anyone.
Just like a steel rolling mill, no matter how familiar he is with it or how well he understands the problems within the mill.
Putting him in Lao Lei's position wouldn't work either.
"Hehehe..." The big leader was neither sad nor angry; instead, he laughed.
He stretched out his hand to He Yuzhu and said in a hoarse voice, "Give me your research data."
I understand what you mean; I was indeed being a bit delusional.
Money is not the real issue.
The problem is, how should we arrange for these more than 10,000 people?
At present, this is something you wouldn't dare to touch.
There's nothing I can do about it.
I'll go back and study it, and discuss it with the other comrades.
"Zhu Zi, are you saying that the electron tube factory has no better way out than the method you mentioned?"
Yes, we'll wait for time, for society to develop.
Once the television market has developed, we can focus on developing cathode ray tubes.
However, that still requires investment in scientific research.
It must be at least tens of millions.
Or simply import the technology.
But that depends on the outside world further easing restrictions on us.
He Yuzhu didn't mention the possibility of a joint venture, because the electron tube factory was different from other factories.
Their products have applications in the military industry.
Currently, it is simply impossible for this type of factory to form a joint venture with foreign companies.
The subsequent joint venture with Panasonic occurred roughly in line with the social development trends that He Yuzhu mentioned.
"Zhu Zi, I'm sorry! My ideas might be outdated."
I can't help you anymore.
"I don't understand how a factory that was doing so well back then has come to this." There was a hint of sadness in the senior leader's words.
After all, these factories were all brought in from them.
At the time, it was indeed the most advanced technology in China.
But that's just how technology develops.
It will never be subject to individual will.
"I'm fine here."
I have already invited some experts to help investigate the technology of some companies.
There are a few factories that, with a little renovation, can still meet our production needs.
A plastic factory in Tongxian County can produce plastic watch cases; we can help them solve the precision issues with their molds.
The small LCD screen factory in Jiuxianqiao was spun off from the electron tube factory.
The high defect rate is something we can also address.
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He Yuzhu invited a group of experts to disassemble and analyze the entire electronic watch.
They have also found suitable small manufacturing plants for all of them.
The companies mentioned above are all small factories with hundreds of employees.
In a factory like this, you just have to follow orders, nothing else matters.
As long as He Yuzhu can give them business and a way to make a living.
They were willing to make the necessary changes as instructed by the School of CNC Machining.
He can solve the mold problem through the chubby Xu Shengli.
The defect rate can also be improved by strengthening management.
The vacuum tube factory was different; those factories were too big, and they had their own way of doing things. (End of Chapter)