Rebirth 99 to become a car giant

"Mr. Cao, our battery division has now started a double shift mode. Although the equipment delivery cycle is one or two months later than in previous years, it is still relatively fast in the entire industry."

"Especially compared with imported equipment, the cycle is at least three months faster, and some equipment is even faster than half a year."

Pan Jinxing knew that Cao Yang knew a lot about equipment and attached great importance to the development of the equipment industry.

The status of Nanshan Equipment in the country has been continuously improved in recent years, which is inseparable from Cao Yang's attention.

Nowadays, there are many orders for battery equipment, and Pan Jinxing naturally does not want anything to happen.

"The current battery technology is also advancing very fast, and both the battery cells and modules are changing very quickly."

"After investing in some battery production lines, they can only produce products of one specification."

"If the specifications are to be changed, the production line will need to be modified to meet the requirements."

"This situation should have become a headache for many battery manufacturers."

"Is it possible for us to improve the flexibility of the equipment so that a battery production line can produce several specifications of batteries without modification?"

"In this way, even if the investment amount in the production line increases, many battery manufacturers should be very interested."

Cao Yang had just communicated with Lin Cheng about the situation of the battery industry this year, and now he was talking to Pan Jinxing about the production of battery equipment, which was naturally targeted.

The equipment industry is inherently special, and various types of equipment have a certain degree of independence.

To engage in flexible production, the requirements for equipment are the highest.

But this is indeed the general trend and must be done.

If Nanshan Equipment doesn’t do it today, maybe other manufacturers will start doing it tomorrow.

When the horse stumbles and is overtaken in a curve, it will be more embarrassing.

Cao Yang does not expect that one production line can produce all types of batteries, but it can at least have a certain degree of flexibility, allowing it to produce several types of batteries when switching some parameters.

This can greatly reduce the risk of battery factory investment and reduce the risk of Nanshan Battery receiving some new orders.

After all, not every customer is willing to use the standard products recommended by Nanshan Battery.

"I will arrange for people to communicate with Nanshan Battery about this aspect of the work, and see what degree of flexibility can be achieved to maximize the comprehensive advantages."

Cao Yang has already said that, and Pan Jinxing will definitely implement it.

However, the battery production line is so long, how to make it a production line with flexible production is still very particular.

If one is not good, the money is spent too much, but it does not achieve the desired effect, which is a pity.

"The equipment we produce must be flexible, and similarly, the production lines of our production equipment must be as flexible as possible."

"The efficiency of manual work alone is too low, large-scale assembly line production requires large investments, and the production capacity utilization rate is low."

"How to find a compromise solution needs to be carefully considered."

One of the important reasons why the delivery cycle of equipment is often long is that the production efficiency of the parts used in the equipment is not that high.

Therefore, unless it is a general-purpose equipment produced in advance, the cycle of customized equipment is often relatively long.

For some special equipment, the delivery cycle can be as long as two years or even three years.

Of course, for Cao Yang, any equipment with a delivery cycle of more than one year is difficult to accept.

Especially in the face of the very fast-changing Chinese market, investment in new factories needs to be as fast as possible.

Otherwise, the market will change faster, and by the time your factory is put into production, the world will have changed.

"Mr. Cao, you got to the crux of the problem right away."

"Like other industrial products, there are certain standards for how to judge whether to invest in a large-scale automated production line, a small-scale production line, or a manual line, or it is easier to make a judgment."

"But the equipment we produce will basically not be in particularly high demand within a certain cycle."

"In addition to some general-purpose machine tools, many other equipment are customized."

"This means that many of our parts are not suitable for mass production."

"But some parts are certainly universal. We need to consider the overall demand when arranging production. We can also consider mass-producing a batch and then using them as inventory."

"How to grasp the degree of this is a relatively big problem."

"I plan to set up a special research group with the School of Management of Lingnan University of Technology to let everyone study some of the relationships here and find the best management methods."

With the development of Nanshan Equipment, in addition to constantly researching new technologies and new equipment, improvement in management obviously also needs to be put on the agenda.

Traditional management methods can no longer fully meet current needs.

Pan Jinxing is relatively clear about this, and Cao Yang can also understand this.

Although management methods are a relatively fictitious existence, no one can deny its importance.

The ultimate effect of a good management plan and good managers may not be smaller than that of a major technological breakthrough.

"This idea is okay. Let's study it carefully and determine some methods as soon as possible."

"It's okay to take this opportunity to sort out the organizational structure and management methods of the entire Nanshan Equipment and find some shortcomings."

Foreign monks can chant sutras.

Sometimes, problems within the company are not invisible to everyone, but it is very difficult to change them.

On the one hand, existence is reasonable. If you want to change an existing management plan, it will definitely touch some vested interests, so many people are not willing to be the bad guy.

On the other hand, you pointed out the old problem, so there must be no problem with the new method?

If the changes become more chaotic, wouldn't someone have to take the blame?

For various reasons, it is often difficult for enterprises to innovate themselves.

Why do many large companies like to hire outside consulting companies to handle matters? Of course, there are experienced factors involved, but outsiders are asked to boldly help provide opinions, point out problems, or use outsiders to implement some tasks. Managing change is also a very important reason.

Lingnan University of Technology has a close relationship with companies in the Nanshan Department, and many professors’ research projects are related to companies in the Nanshan Department.

Find them to cooperate with. On the one hand, their professional level is decent. On the other hand, graduate students and doctoral students in the school are more courageous and dare to speak out when they see problems.

Although the experience is not as good as that of people from consulting companies, Nanshan Equipment sometimes needs outsiders to point out problems.

As for specific solutions, they can actually be found through internal discussions.

Since Pan Jinxing was already dealing with this matter, Cao Yang didn't say anything more specific.

As the company gets bigger, it’s impossible for him to do everything by himself.

Of course, people in various companies will try their best to use their subjective initiative, and everyone still wants to perform well in front of Cao Yang.

For example, at Autohome, Yu Yu came here today to report a new change to Cao Yang's website.

"Mr. Cao, we plan to focus on channels and articles related to electric vehicles in the future."

"These articles have relatively high traffic, netizens are more interested in them, and they are more in line with future development trends."

As the largest professional automotive media in China, Autohome has a lot of information.

They also know very well what content netizens want to see.

Analyzing and sorting out relevant content and finally forming some professional reports has become a new business for Autohome.

Most domestic OEMs will purchase some professional reporting materials from Autohome.

Although it is just a simple piece of information, the price is not cheap.

"The development of electric vehicles is rapid and it is indeed worthy of attention."

"However, traditional fuel vehicles will not withdraw from the market so quickly."

"When Autohome is reforming, on the one hand, it can display more content related to electric vehicles."

"On the other hand, in the field of luxury cars, we still need to promote more traditional fuel vehicles, especially large-displacement engines."

When adults consider things, they don't distinguish between right and wrong, only looking at benefits.

Cao Yang is naturally similar.

The core interest of Nanshan Automobile Group is luxury cars, among which Xingchen Motors and Jaguar Land Rover are taking the route of traditional fuel vehicles.

Even if PHEV and FHEV models are being developed, they still have engines.

Therefore, the promotion of engines cannot fall behind. Even if these products of Nanshan Engine have not made any technological progress and are resting on their laurels, they still need to find some topics to promote.

This is the benefit of the existence of Autohome to Nanshan Automobile Group.

"Understood, we will continue to promote this aspect as always."

"At the same time, we will also promote and introduce more technologies on Sanden parts, so that professionals can also be interested in our website."

It is obviously difficult for a website to appeal to both refined and popular people.

If Autohome wants to win the favor of more consumers, it cannot write articles that are too profound or have too high a reading threshold.

But if they are all relatively superficial articles, professionals will feel that there is no practical information and will slowly lose interest.

A professional car media, but professional car people are not interested. This is obviously not a good phenomenon.

So Yu Yudu has been trying to find ways to balance these two somewhat contradictory things.

Overall, she did a good job in this regard.

“In addition to changes in content, changes in form are also important.”

"4G mobile phones have become completely popular, and the Internet speed is relatively fast. In the future, everyone will be much more enthusiastic about watching videos."

"Some articles introducing car models can be filmed simultaneously, so that everyone can understand the information they want by watching the video."

Although it is only 2014, the development speed of Internet video websites is very fast, and everyone's habit of watching videos has gradually developed.

This will obviously also affect the reading volume of various media.

It was in the past two years that traditional print media began to decline off a cliff.

"We have now established our own video shooting team. At the same time, we are also cooperating with Nanshan Film and Television to conduct in-depth exchanges on related video shooting technologies, and arrange for some photographers and other personnel to exchange with each other's companies. study."

Yu Yu naturally attaches great importance to matters that Cao Yang cares about.

At this moment, she was very glad that she had already made a lot of preparations in this regard.

Of course, this has a lot to do with some similar words Cao Yang said before.

"Mr. Cao, it's almost time to leave."

Seeing that more than ten minutes had passed since Yu Yu's appointment report time, and Cao Yang was still communicating with Yu Yu about various things about the car home, Mi Ying couldn't help but come in to remind him.

Later they will go to Baiyun Airport to take a flight to Magic City to participate in important activities of investment companies.

Seeing Mi Ying urging, Yu Yu naturally would not waste Cao Yang's time any more.

"Is everything normal at Guangwei's side?"

As an important supplement to Nanshan carbon fiber, Cao Yang initially paid more attention to Guangwei carbon fiber.

But once I got on the right track, I didn’t spend a lot of energy.

At most, when each business department makes quarterly reports every quarter, they will learn about the relevant situation.

Generally speaking, Guangwei Carbon Fiber focuses on the production of T300, T400 and T600 carbon fibers.

Nanshan Carbon Fiber mainly focuses on carbon fibers above T700 and its composite materials.

Of course, in addition to raw materials, Guangwei Carbon Fiber's main business is the production of fishing rods and other fishing gear, as well as the production of golf clubs, badminton rackets and other sporting goods.

Even though ordinary people have basically never heard of this company, Guangwei and Nanshan Carbon Fiber together basically monopolize the Chinese carbon fiber supply market.

Other manufacturers can now only produce some low-quality carbon fiber products for T300 and below.

From the perspective of turnover, 99% of carbon fiber turnover occurs in Guangwei and Nanshan Carbon Fiber.

Even because of the suppression by the United States, Nanshan's carbon fiber production continues to increase every year.

As for Guangwei, it goes without saying, because there are still a large number of fishing rods and other products produced, which is equivalent to producing part of the raw materials themselves and then consuming them themselves.

Of course, raw materials such as high-end fishing rods are purchased from Nanshan Carbon Fiber.

"Everything is unfolding according to plan. Tomorrow is the bell to go public. By then, the market value of Guangwei Carbon Fiber is likely to exceed 10 billion yuan."

Mi Ying is obviously still very optimistic about Guangwei's prospects.

Backed by Nanshan Carbon Fiber, Guangwei Carbon Fiber is almost invincible in China.

The once high-end carbon fiber products are no longer so far away from everyone.

New models such as Xingchen Motors and Jaguar Land Rover basically use some carbon fiber parts.

And sports car products use a lot of carbon fiber.

Even for aerospace products such as Scorpion drones, the overall production cost is constantly decreasing due to the continuous decline in carbon fiber prices.

This is definitely very beneficial to China's development of aerospace industry.

"Guangwei, a fisherman, is now listed on the market. I guess many companies are ready to make a move."

Until now, except for Weibo, none of the Nanshan Group companies have gone public.

This is mainly Cao Yang's idea.

After all, if the company is not short of money, going public does not make much sense.

Normally, financing in the stock market is to raise funds for better development.

Of course, this situation is slowly changing.

Some Chinese companies regard listing as a way to cash out at a high level.

There are also some companies that regard listing as a way to win over investors.

Cao Yang was obviously not interested in these.

"This is a fact. Not to mention early companies such as Xingchen Automobile and Nanshan Equipment, even within companies such as Venus Technology, Nanshan Semiconductor and Autohome, there is a relatively high demand for listing."

"After all, it is customary to allocate shares to executives and key employees before listing, or provide opportunities to purchase original shares."

“Once listed successfully, many people will completely achieve financial freedom.”

On the way to Baiyun Airport, Mi Ying and Cao Yang discussed the topic of going public.

She herself is actually quite interested in this topic.

After all, if all the companies in the Nanshan Group were listed, the total market value would definitely be very exaggerated.

By then, just thinking about that stunt makes people excited.

"You're right, but since everyone is financially free, there probably won't be many people who are willing to work down-to-earth."

As soon as Cao Yang said these words, Mi Ying was immediately silenced.

Just imagine, if everyone at the middle level and above earns a net worth of more than tens of millions through listing, then the work attitude of these people may really change dramatically.

It is even normal for some people to simply resign and not go to work.

This will certainly affect the development of the enterprise to a certain extent.

As an industrial enterprise, an impetuous atmosphere is very detrimental to the company's development.

Cao Yang did not want such a situation to occur.

Therefore, I would rather use relatively high wages and bonuses to attract everyone than easily arrange for a listing.

Even if it is to go public, not all companies will be listed.

At most, it is just a matter of selectively arranging a few companies to test the waters.

"Mr. Cao, most of the fields involved in our various business divisions are currently among the best in the industry."

"More and more companies will definitely come in to compete with us in the future. At that time, many companies will probably find various ways to poach people from our group in order to take shortcuts."

"Although the salary may not necessarily be higher by then, they can allocate a bunch of shares to attract talents."

I have to say that Mi Ying's worry is not unreasonable at all.

Even similar things will definitely happen in some fields later.

But Cao Yang was not very worried.

If other companies imitate and follow suit, and their own side falls into passivity, it means that the previous protective wall was too weak.

The so-called technical advantages are not real advantages.

I need to work harder.

"This matter really needs to be monitored by someone. If some opponents go too far, then kill them as a warning to the monkeys."

Cao Yang is not a soft-hearted person.

When it's time to take action, there's no need to be polite at all.

Otherwise, you will definitely be the one who suffers the biggest loss in the end.

…

"Mr. Cao, you personally attended the listing event of Guangwei Carbon Fiber. I feel that the stock price will rise ten points more after the market opens tomorrow."

Chen Liang, the founder of Guangwei, personally came to the Magic City Airport to pick him up.

After all, to a certain extent, Cao Yang was considered his boss.

Guangwei's ability to reach the current situation is related to his own efforts, but it is also inseparable from Cao Yang's support.

The original carbon fiber technology of T300 and T400 was transferred to Guangwei from Nanshan Carbon Fiber.

Guangwei's carbon fiber production lines are also purchased from Nanshan Equipment.

As long as Cao Yang wants to support a new opponent, Guangwei's good situation will immediately cease to exist.

"Given Guangwei's performance and prospects, it will inevitably experience daily price limits for several days after listing. By then, the market value will exceed 20 billion. It will not be a problem."

When Mi Ying told Cao Yang about Guangwei's stock price today, she felt that the other party's market value could exceed tens of billions tomorrow.

But Cao Yang's view is even bolder.

Based on Guangwei's position in the carbon fiber industry, its market value of tens of billions is just the beginning, and it is expected to reach 20 billion in the past month.

Later, with the continuous expansion of Guangwei's carbon fiber production capacity and the strengthening of its monopoly position in the industry, it is not a dream to have a market value exceeding 50 billion.

But Cao Yang didn't say these words.

As recently as 2014, there were not many companies with a market value exceeding 100 billion.

If any newly listed company says that its market value can exceed 50 billion, no one will believe it.

"The domestic demand for carbon fiber materials is indeed rising, and the growth rate of fishing rod-related products is also very gratifying."

"Especially, the number of people who love fishing in China is constantly increasing, and these people have very strong spending power."

Chen Liang didn't pretend to be modest on purpose.

He himself is indeed very optimistic about the company's development prospects and the prospects of the carbon fiber industry.

This is definitely a sunrise industry.

The next day, under the joint ringing of Cao Yang and Chen Liang, Guangwei Carbon Fiber reached the upper limit of 44% in less than ten minutes.

After that, there were almost no sell orders, but more and more buy orders.

Obviously, everyone is optimistic about Guangwei's reaction in the next few days.

Under normal circumstances, it is very possible to have a few more daily limits.

This made Chen Liang, who was still on the exchange, very excited.

After receiving generous travel fees, various media outlets were also very active in carrying out relevant reports.

[The "counterattack" of a fishing rod! 】

[From a small fishing rod workshop to a carbon fiber giant, how the angler’s obsession forced Guangwei to counterattack and rise to the top]

[Guangwei was successfully listed, hitting the daily limit on the first day, and its market value exceeded 10 billion! 】

[The pride of China’s carbon fiber industry, Guangwei is successfully listed! 】

[Guangwei, one of the carbon fiber duo, performed brilliantly on the first day of its launch! 】

…

Various reports have made Guangwei Carbon Fiber famous.

However, certainly not every company is happy to see this happen.