Text] Section 108 National Inventory Code
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"My plan is to standardize the parts of the Harmony Wheel first, and then implement this standardization system through ordering. [Read the latest chapter]" Shi Jiantao said, "The indigenous people in Guangdong will definitely not be able to meet our requirements at the beginning, but they There is a requirement to pursue profits, so as long as we put forward a quantifiable standard and help them achieve this standard, after a period of time they will be able to produce according to our requirements."
Chinese companies also did relatively poorly in controlling tolerances before the 1980s. In the relatively sophisticated aviation industry, it is still not possible to completely interchange parts of the same model of aircraft. China in the 20th century, which had been industrialized for thirty years, was still unable to do this, let alone the Ming Dynasty shipbuilding industry, which was completely in a handicraft production state.
Wu De expressed great doubts about this. From their experience, if the handicraft workshops in this time and space are not directly under the management and operation of the elders, both product quality and production efficiency will be far from the requirements of industrialization.
"To be honest, I'm not very optimistic about your idea. This process is too long, and I'm afraid it won't happen overnight." Wu De said, "You have to improve the craftsmanship level of the indigenous shipyards, and you have to do too much training and modification work. .”
Most shipbuilders are illiterate and rely on memory for the size and shape of components. The skills are passed down by word of mouth, and it is necessary to set parts standards for such a group of craftsmen and let them produce according to certain specifications. Wu De believes that the investment is too great.
Instead of cultivating them so laboriously, it would be better to simply annex the indigenous shipbuilding workshops, merge all their manpower, and retrain the craftsmen according to the new model.
"To be honest, I'm not very optimistic about your idea." Wu De said, "I have seen a lot of indigenous craftsmen. They have very skillful hands and smart minds, but you have to make them understand weights and measures and the meaning of modern weights and measures. , instead of using their own hands or home-made measuring tools, it is difficult for them. This retraining alone will consume a lot of manpower and time. Do you think we can wait? Naturalized civilian craftsmen are directly under our Under management, we can urge corrections at all times. Now you have to give orders to independent workshops and ask them to follow a system that they don’t understand at all - I am very worried about the effect of actual operation."
"You are right." Shi Jiantao knew that what Wu De said was very reasonable, and it was difficult for him to refute, "but I think we can give it a try. Even if there is a 1% success rate, it will greatly reduce our Production pressure. Give them some small parts packages to try, and even if they fail, there won’t be a big impact.”
Wu De considered and agreed to his plan again and again - but restricted him to try it only on a smaller scale.
Thanks to Shi Jiantao's efforts, the Planning Institute finally issued an order to the Hong Kong Shipyard to build 24 h-800s, all of which are standard types. According to the requirements, Shi Jiantao must complete at least two-thirds of the orders before the end of 1631.
Wu De issued an approval copy of the material transfer list and a permission for the use of shipbuilding funds.
In the 1631 fiscal year budget at the beginning of the year, the Planning Institute received a fund for ship purchase or shipbuilding, which was specifically used to purchase a transport fleet. Part of this money was gradually allocated to Lingao Shipyard to build the 901 tugboat and several offshore barges. The remaining funds have not been used yet due to the limited production capacity of the shipyard.
Originally, Wu De planned to convert part of the money into foreign currency and purchase ready-made large-tonnage Guangzhou ships or Fuzhou ships from Guangdong. However, due to the Senate's current "foreign exchange"-silver reserves were tight, this was not done for a while.
The money is counted in negotiable coupons, but Shi Jiantao is located in Hong Kong. According to his idea, many raw materials must be purchased from Guangdong - the circulation range of negotiable coupons in Guangdong is very small, and basically does not go beyond Guangzhou. The circulation of negotiable coupons in a small area in Guangzhou is largely due to the prestige and financial resources of Zizihao.
&én, circulation coupons have no purchasing power. Therefore, Wu De reminded Shi Jiantao to apply for a certain amount of "foreign exchange" from Delong Bank to pay for raw materials imported from Guangdong.
"Now that there are more foreign trade exchanges, it is really inconvenient to use grain circulation coupons." Wu De said, "I don't know how the people in the financial department plan to do it. They are just thinking of ways to save money, but there are many things that must be done. You can’t spend money.”
"I will save the revolution."
"I handed over the order to you, and you must complete it on time." Wu De said, "You know, I originally planned to purchase some large-scale Guangzhou ships and Fuzhou ships directly from Guangdong to participate in the Dengzhou and Zhejiang operations. If you If you screw this up, things will be hard to end, okay?"
"Yes, I understand. I promise to complete the task." Shi Jiantao said loudly.
"Promise means nothing to me. Ship the ship on time." Wu De waved his hand, "If you can't do it, I can only ask the Executive Committee to mobilize all our ships in wartime. This will It has seriously affected imports and exports and the supplies of various overseas stations.”
Shi Jiantao wants to engage in outsourcing production, so the establishment and management of industrial standardization, which has been repeatedly emphasized countless times by executive committee members and elders since the beginning of Lingao's industrialization construction, has become an urgent problem to be solved.
Industrial standardization preparation and management are not only needed by the shipbuilding industry or industrial enterprises. When the Planning Institute and the General Staff prepared the plans for the Dengzhou and Zhejiang operations, they had already encountered difficulties in the mobilization, transportation, storage and distribution of a large number of materials.
During the operation to develop Sanya, the Planning Institute and the army had already encountered various inconveniences in transporting supplies. Although the types and specifications of products that Lingao's industrial and agricultural system can produce are not as good as a hypermarket according to the standards of the old time and space. But the complexity of organizational supply far exceeded the expectations of the elders.
If they hadn't had Hong Huangnan, who had at least a considerable theoretical foundation in logistics work, to be responsible for preparing supply lists and formulating supply procedures, the development of Sanya's supply work would have turned into a disaster.
Even if there are professionals in charge, various mistakes will occur from time to time during the supply process: urgently needed materials are not shipped, but materials with a large inventory in Sanya are shipped batch after batch; goods that should be shipped to Sanya are shipped instead. Leizhou, while the goods shipped to Hong Kong were sent to Sanya. There have even been mismatches between the waybill and the unpacked goods. During this period, there were also incidents of cargo "floating and sinking". During the inventory of the Planning Institute, it was discovered that several goods were “unaccounted for”. And a few months later, these goods that were declared "not at the planned location" mysteriously appeared in the inventory at a location that no one had expected.
In the operations in Dengzhou and Zhejiang, the logistics supply was even more arduous. Not only did we have to provide rations to more than 100,000 refugees, we also had to provide them with clothes, medical supplies, shelter materials, cups for drinking, and bowls and chopsticks for eating; Long-distance round-trip transportation of ships also requires the establishment of rest stops and supply points along the way. These stations require construction materials, supplies for staff and garrison teams; ships need to be renovated and replenished with ship materials during shipping...
Not only are the supplies supplied in large quantities and varieties, they also need to be supplied to multiple nodes: According to the plan, multiple rest stops will be opened along the route from Dengzhou to Lingao for turnover. These rest stops are required to provide various supplies based on the daily number of refugees detained, arriving and shipped.
In order to ensure an orderly and accurate supply of materials, a joint meeting of various departments was held in the conference room of the Executive Committee Courtyard. The topic of the meeting was to formulate a standardized coding system.
The meeting was led by the Planning Institute, but the suggestion to use standardized codes was put forward by Si Kaide and Hong Huangnan.
Hong Huangnan's idea is very simple. He wants to supply materials to the ever-expanding army and overseas stations. He urgently needs to establish a standard code system to support logistics. Otherwise, he and his pitiful dozen or so logistics personnel Personnel cannot cope with large-scale logistical work. One thing Hong Huangnan often said is: Among the various military departments in Lingao, the Logistics Command is an organization with no sense of existence. Not only does it have no commander, it doesn't even have a guard.
But Skade's idea is much more complicated. He suggested that this system be fully implemented in all fields. This is an important part of the "standardization construction" promoted by the Senate.
The boss of the meeting, Cade, took out a lot of information and distributed it to everyone: This is a military code system standard that seems to be incapable of hitting the US military.
"This is our important reference object. The U.S. military standardized code: nsn - which is the national inventory code. When the U.S. military decides to adopt any thing, it will give an inventory code. In the future, the U.S. military and NATO will use it anywhere in the world. The warehouse and the army will use this code as the ID number for this kind of thing..." Skade said.
"A kind of thing refers to something like -" Facing the skeptical elders, Skade continued, "For example...my khaki cloth m65, size L, this is a kind of thing, no matter it is Whether it's made in Taiwan or Mexico, as long as it's certified, it's the same thing. But if it's size M or desert color, it's a different thing, because the Americans don't want to send desert color military uniforms to Alaska. in the hands of the troops.
"Now we can give every part in the shipyard a code. This code is followed by a set of files, which include all drawings, performance, data and quality standards, fault and supply records, qualified supplier list and unqualified ones. Supplier blacklist. Whether it’s a screw or a mast, if someone wants to use the same thing in the future, they can search the archives to find it.
