Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

Kobe still needs to grow to become a legend, and the investment in Kobe is also a long-term investment.

In the first season after Kobe entered the NBA, he mainly appeared on the court as a rotation player, averaging about 15 minutes of playing time per game.

Don't think that 15 minutes is very little. As a high school student directly promoted to the NBA, entering the official rotation in the first year is already quite remarkable.

In contrast, O'Neal, who is also a high school student, has been sitting on the bench in the first season after joining the NBA, and only has the opportunity to appear in garbage time.

In the 1997 slam dunk contest, Kobe won the championship, which made him a little fire, and the real let the United States know Kobe was in the 1997-1998 season.

That year, Bryant was still on the bench, but his playing time and various stats had greatly improved. It was also that year that Bryant was selected for the NBA All-Star Game for the first time.

At that time, the rules of the All-Star Game had not been changed. Players who did not enter the All-Star Game depended on the votes of the fans. In the same position, whoever has more votes will be the All-Star starter.

Los Angeles fans really like Kobe Bryant, Kobe's aggressive style of play is very entertaining. Even if he was just a substitute, the fans forced him into the starting lineup of the Western All-Star, and the Eastern All-Star opposite him was Jordan.

Since then, the title of "Jordan's successor" began to appear on Kobe's head, and was gradually recognized by fans.

After the 1998-1999 season, the NBA was suspended due to labor disputes, and Jordan retired for the second time. This gave four shooting guards with different styles a chance to grow. its own era.

So let Kobe Bryant play advertising value, at least until 1998.

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After successfully intercepting Kobe, Li Weidong did not need to stay in the United States. He returned to China to handle the business of the big domestic stall.

On the side of Fukang Engineering, the prototype of the road roller has been successfully rolled off the assembly line.

Zhang Tao stood at the prototype of the road roller and introduced: "The technology of domestic road rollers, XCMG, XAG and Liugong is relatively mature, so we also refer to the products of these three companies when designing.

Our road roller uses a single wheel and single shaft design,

The total length is 6 meters 22, the total width is 3 meters 2, the total height is 2 meters 43, the working weight is 22 tons, and the diameter of the drum is 1 meter 6..."

Zhang Tao began to introduce the data of the road roller.

According to its working principle, road rollers are mainly divided into two types, one is static rollers and the other is vibratory rollers.

The static-action road roller, as you can tell from the name, relies on the weight of the road roller to flatten the road, which is also the most primitive form of the road roller.

This type of roller is basically a tire roller, that is, a roller with a large row of tires on the front and rear of the roller. The tire roller runs fast and has good maneuverability, and is mainly used for the base layer of the road surface.

The vibratory roller is the one that we most commonly see on weekdays, with a large cylindrical drum in front of it.

Many people would think that the big cylindrical drum in front of the roller is solid, but it is not. If it is really solid, with the weight of the big drum, the roller can't be pushed at all.

The big drum is actually hollow with a whole set of eccentric structures inside. During the working process of the roller, the eccentric structure inside the big drum will rotate, which will change the centrifugal force inside the drum.

When the centrifugal force is downward, a downward pressure will naturally be generated, and this pressure is several tons, so as to achieve the effect of compacting the road.

This principle is like half a bottle of water is sloshing, the water moves in that direction, and the bottle will roll in that direction.

There is also a type of road roller without an eccentric structure, just a hollow big steel wheel. That kind of equipment can only be regarded as a soil compactor, not a road roller in the true sense.

For road engineering, road rollers are obviously the most essential construction machinery. After any road is paved with asphalt, road rollers must be used to flatten and compact the road surface. In this regard, vibratory rollers have absolute advantages.

Market demand determines the direction of manufacturers' production. Because the demand for vibratory rollers is large, domestic construction machinery companies mainly produce vibratory rollers.

The technical core of the vibratory roller is the eccentric structure inside the big drum. For production engineering machinery enterprises, as long as this eccentric structure can be solved, other parts are ready-made technologies.

The road roller developed by Fukang Engineering actually solves the problem of eccentric structure.

In terms of construction machinery, Li Weidong is a little insider. Of course, he knows that the eccentric structure is the core of the entire road roller, so he directly asked: "How is the performance of our eccentric structure?"

"It can be used normally." Zhang Tao replied.

Hearing these words, Li Weidong suddenly had a bad feeling.

Based on Li Weidong's understanding of Zhang Tao, if the eccentric structure can reach the domestic average level, Zhang Tao will brag.

Now Zhang Tao has given a "normal use" evaluation, the performance of this eccentric structure can only meet the minimum requirements.

"Bring the test data." Li Weidong said.

The technician immediately handed in the test data. Li Weidong took a closer look. The eccentric structure has just reached the level of "usable", and there is still some gap between the domestic average level.

"Based on this data, the road rollers produced will not have a market in China at all. Needless to say, compared with XCMG and Xiamen Engineering, the road rollers of the heavy machinery factory are also better than ours!" Li Weidong sighed helplessly.

Zhang Tao explained: "After all, we haven't made a road roller before, and everything has to start from scratch. Our factory's technical reserves are also limited, and the technical department has also worked hard to tackle key problems, and finally made a road roller.

The heavy machinery factory has been making road rollers since the 1980s, and their technical reserves are much richer than ours. As for Xugong and Xiamen Engineering, they are both old-fashioned construction machinery companies, and we can't compare them. "

Li Weidong frowned in dissatisfaction. When he was developing excavators, Zhang Tao used a similar set of rhetoric. Now it is still the same excuse. It is still the lack of technical level and the lack of technical reserves, and the technical department has done its best. .

In terms of technology research and development, Li Weidong has always been willing to spend money and invests huge amounts of money every year, but now it seems that the investment and return are not proportional. Whenever new products need to be developed, the technical department will always make Li Weidong disappointment.

"It's still caused by the idea of ​​​​a big pot of rice!" Li Weidong couldn't help sighing in his heart.

During the restructuring of the loader factory that year, Li Weidong did not change the organizational structure of the loader factory, nor did the original leadership team make large-scale adjustments, and the employees basically performed their own duties.

Li Weidong did this to maintain the stability of the loader factory. After all, in the situation at that time, the joint-stock reform of state-owned enterprises was still in the early stage of exploration, and the steps were too large, which might cause some unnecessary troubles.

Therefore, the management of the loader factory is similar to that of the state-owned enterprises in the past. Although a small degree of reform has been carried out, it is still basically the routine of eating a big pot of rice, and has not completely introduced a modern enterprise management model.

Even after reforming into a joint stock limited company, Fukang Engineering still adopts the management method of the original state-owned enterprise.

In this regard, the situation of Fukang Agricultural Machinery is much better. The predecessor of Fukang Agricultural Machinery was only a county-level collective enterprise. If the entire management structure is reformed, it will not have any impact.

Therefore, after Li Weidong took over, he has carried out many drastic reforms and successfully introduced a modern management system.

As for Puppy Electric, it was originally built by Li Weidong from scratch, more like a blank piece of paper, allowing Li Weidong to write. At the beginning of the establishment of Puppy Electric, a modern management model was adopted.

Only in the Fukang project, Li Weidong has always maintained the original management structure and did not dare to carry out major reforms.

Fortunately, the investment in national infrastructure is relatively large, and construction machinery is also very popular. As long as the products are not backward, Fukang Engineering can make money, and the profits are not bad.

Considerable profits also cover up the problems that Fukang Engineering has in enterprise management.

At least the original leadership team of the loader factory headed by Zhang Tao did not realize the problem. They were even a little leisurely and thought that the Fukang project was in a state of prosperity.

This is also the ills accumulated by the old management model. As long as it is still profitable, the enterprise will be prosperous.

For the managers of the enterprise, when the enterprise is no longer profitable, they start to consider what is wrong with the enterprise. And often by that time, it is already too late, and the company has missed the best time for transformation and can only wait for death.

Li Weidong clearly felt that the Gukang factory had problems in enterprise management.

Take product research and development as an example. Under the mode of eating a big pot of rice, there is no enthusiasm and initiative in research and development. If the research and development tasks are arranged, when the deadline comes, if you come up with something similar, it will be a successful delivery.

However, the most taboo thing about technology research and development is to deal with it.

What R\u0026D needs is a spirit of excellence, pioneering spirit and work attitude. If the goal is to complete basic tasks just like copying homework, then R\u0026D is destined to fail.

The problem of research and development is only the tip of the iceberg of Fukang's project management. This kind of management that eats a lot of rice exists in every corner of the Fukang project.

"If we continue to manage with such a big pot of rice, the Fukang project will not last a few years, and it will be eliminated by the market economy. There must be a complete reform!" Li Weidong secretly thought.

When Li Weidong first accepted the loader factory, he also attracted the attention of the state-owned assets department. At that time, Li Weidong did not dare to carry out drastic reforms, so he could only retain the original organizational structure and continue to use the original management model.

But in 1996, the situation was completely different. There were countless domestic enterprises going bankrupt, going bankrupt, and restructuring. There were waves of laid-off workers, and Fukang Engineering had already become a joint stock company.

At this time, Li Weidong, the chairman of the board, wants to overthrow the old management system and carry out drastic reforms. Probably only the staff inside the Fukang project will pay attention, and it will not cause any social impact at all.

"After I go back, I will formulate a complete reform plan." Li Weidong made up his mind silently.

Reform is reform, and the problem of road rollers has to be solved.

So Li Weidong asked, "This kind of performance can't be used for production, even if we can't compare to XCMG and Xiamen Engineering, at least we have to reach the domestic average level, and we have to compete with heavy machinery factories, or even The local market can't win. Do you have any good solutions for your technical department?"

The technical director immediately said: "The method is not without it. We can use imported equipment to replace the vibration shaft, vibration bearing, eccentric shaft, and shock absorber with imported ones, and the performance of the entire eccentric structure will be greatly improved. ."

"The vibration shaft, vibration bearing, eccentric shaft, and shock absorber are all imported? Then what else did we make? You might as well directly import the entire forehead eccentric structure!" Li Weidong said dissatisfied.

"We made the connecting plate, bracket and base by ourselves," said the technical director.

After hearing this, Li Weidong wanted to fire the technical director directly!

Let you develop an eccentric structure, and finally develop a shelf! Does this still need your technical department? Just find a few welders to weld the frame out.

Li Weidong suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "These are the core equipment of the eccentric structure. If all of them are imported, the performance can be improved, but the cost is too high, which is unacceptable for us.

I can accept the use of imported vibration bearings at most, and all other components must be made by ourselves. In this regard, your technical department needs to speed up the pace of research and development. "

Compared with domestic bearings, foreign bearing technology is indeed advanced, and the leading range is very large. The use of imported bearings can greatly improve the performance of the eccentric structure.

But other parts, there is no need to use imported.

Although the quality of imported products is indeed higher than that of domestic products, the imported parts are expensive, and the performance improvement brought by them is not much, and there is no cost-effectiveness at all.

The technical director had an embarrassed expression on his face, but he still said, "Our technical department will definitely work overtime and strive to complete the technical breakthrough earlier!"

Li Weidong is very clear. While making an embarrassing appearance, he patted his chest to make a guarantee. This technical director deliberately acted for himself, so just listen to his guarantee. Really waiting for the technical department to complete technical research, I don't know if it will wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse!

"Do I have to buy technology from abroad again?" Li Weidong frowned.

When the loader was originally produced, it was technology bought from Russia; later, the excavator was produced with technology bought from Japan.

Today, we need to buy technology to produce road rollers! Although I am backward in technology, and the advanced technology I bought is really delicious, but I have been buying and buying like this, when will it be a head!

Relying on money to buy will always be controlled by others, which cannot become a first-class enterprise, and must take the route of independent research and development.

But as far as the technical department is concerned, can they still be expected to engage in independent research and development?

Thinking of this, Li Weidong glanced at the technical director who was good at acting from the corner of his eye.

"The Fukang project needs a major surgery for rebirth, so let's start from the technical department!"