At four quarters of noon, Qin Ming brought Li Yuan and Li Tai to a workshop on Zhuangzi.
The workshop here was originally a new workshop built by Qin Ming to produce soap. Considering the demand for soap in Chang'an City at that time, it might be relatively large.
Therefore, the workshop was built to be extra spacious and huge.
After the workshop was built, since soap has not been put into large-scale production, the workshop has been used as a temporary warehouse or a temporary workshop for other industries.
It was not until a few days ago that Qin Ming came up with the idea of manufacturing engineering vehicles that the workshop was officially put into operation.
Li Yuan looked up at the plaque hanging on the door of the workshop and murmured:
"The first vehicle manufacturing workshop in Qinjiazhuang."
Then he stepped into the door of the workshop. Not long after a few people entered the workshop, a man with a big beard came up to him, bowed and said:
"The No. 1 vehicle manufacturing workshop in Qinjiazhuang, the owner of the workshop is Zhaoyang. I have met Li Gong and met the young master."
Li Yuan looked at the bearded man carefully, then pointed at the big man and asked:
"Are you Zhang Liulang who was in charge of making fireworks?"
Zhang Zhaoyang straightened up, rubbed the back of his head and said with a smile:
"Mr. Li, you have a keen eye. The villain is Zhang Liulang."
Li Yuan nodded slightly.
"Rokuro, where are the engineering vehicles produced by our house? Take me over quickly to take a look."
Zhang Liulang glanced at Qin Ming when he heard this, and when he saw him nodding, he led everyone towards the inside of the workshop with a smile.
Li Yuan turned to look at Qin Ming and asked:
"Why is this Zhang Liulang here? He also knows how to make engineering vehicles?"
Qin Ming heard this and explained with a smile:
"Master Zhang, it is true that he does not know how to build cars, but he is currently the person in the house who knows the assembly line manufacturing method best, so he must be the master of the workshop."
Zhang Liulang, who was walking in front, heard a smile on his face.
Li Yuan was a little confused when he heard this and continued to ask:
"What does car manufacturing have to do with the assembly line?"
Li Tai, who was listening to the conversation between his grandfather and Qin Ming, looked confused.
【assembly line? Flowable string? What is that? 】
While the few people were talking, they had already arrived at the first production "workshop" of the workshop, the wheel assembly "workshop".
Qin Ming pointed to the craftsmen who were making various wheel parts in the courtyard and explained to Li Yuan:
"Grandpa, you see, the craftsmen in this courtyard are all making the various parts of the wheel. After they make the parts, they will send them to the nearby courtyard for wheel assembly."
After speaking, Qin Ming raised his hand, gestured around the courtyard, and said:
"In this workshop, different courtyards are responsible for producing different components of engineering vehicles. Finally, all these components will be sent to the largest courtyards in the workshop for final assembly."
"In this way, not only can the production efficiency be improved, but in the future, even if a certain part of the engineering vehicle is damaged, it can be quickly replaced to ensure the continued use of the engineering vehicle."
"So Boss Zhang doesn't need to know much about the production of engineering vehicles. As the boss, he only needs to be able to coordinate and arrange for the craftsmen here to produce parts, and then arrange for the craftsmen to assemble the vehicles according to the assembly line production model."
Li Yuan stroked his long beard when he heard this and nodded.
"I see."
While Qin Ming was talking, Li Tai had been curiously looking at the work in the hands of the craftsmen around him.
After listening to Qin Ming's words, Li Tai frowned and asked:
"Brother Ming, your method is indeed good, but if the parts made by these craftsmen are of different sizes or slightly deviated, won't the car not be able to be assembled in the end?"
Qin Ming glanced at Li Tai approvingly, put his arm around Li Tai's shoulders and said:
"Artai, you asked this question very well. You immediately discovered the key point of assembly line production."
Hearing this, Li Tai immediately put on a smile on his lips, raised his head, and said proudly:
"I am not boasting. I have read many books since I was a child. My father said that I am the royal unicorn! So I still have this vision."
Li Yuan became angry when he saw Li Tai's arrogant look. He ignored Li Tai and snorted coldly and said:
"Then you, please tell me, how to solve the problem you just raised?"
Li Tai was a little frightened by Li Yuan's look. ,
He frowned, shrank his neck, and thought hard for a while.
I am puzzled!
Li Yuan sarcastically said:
"What? Aren't you a well-read kid? Why does this little question stump you, the royal unicorn?"
When Li Tai heard this, he looked at Qin Ming pitifully with a sad face, like a deflated rubber ball.
Qin Ming sighed and thought to himself, Grandpa, you always dislike the King of Yue!
Before dinner, you made things difficult for someone by calling him a name, so you calmed down for a while. You kept choking him with your words. Do you really think you are a general who has made great achievements for the Tang Dynasty?
Forget it, although my grandfather had a higher seniority in the Li family in Longxi, he was just a side branch after all. It would not be good to really offend the prince Li Tai.
You might as well come to the rescue yourself.
Thinking of this, Qin Ming looked around, then put his hand on Li Tai's shoulder, pointed at a middle-aged craftsman in the distance who was marking parts with a ruler, and said:
"Artai, have you seen the ruler that the craftsman is holding?"
When Li Tai heard Qin Ming's words, he felt like he was being pardoned and nodded quickly.
"I saw it, I saw it."
"The rulers in their hands are all graduated, and the size of each component has strict standards, so as long as they use the ruler to measure the size when making components."
"And not only that, the craftsmen who are responsible for collecting vehicle parts to the assembly yard will also measure the parts before shipping them."
"They will remove all parts with substandard dimensions and let the craftsmen rework them. In the workshop, we take care of this step, which is called quality inspection, or quality inspection for short."
After Qin Ming finished speaking, Li Yuan glanced at Li Tai with disdain.
"Boy, you are still young! Remember to bring your brains with you when you go out in the future! Don't embarrass the royal family!"
Li Tai seemed not to have heard Li Yuan's words, lowering his head and murmuring.
"Ruler? Quality inspection?"
After repeating it several times, Li Tai suddenly raised his head, looked at Qin Ming with hot eyes and said:
"Brother Ming, can you give me a ruler?"
Qin Ming smiled and nodded.
"of course."
After finishing speaking, Zhang Fangzhu in front of Qin Mingchao said:
"Rokuro, bring me a ruler from the workshop later."
"promise."
The few people walked for a while and finally arrived at the yard where engineering vehicles were assembled in the workshop.
Most of the craftsmen in the courtyard gathered together in twos and threes, forming a winding assembly line.
Some of them are assembling the wheels, some are assembling the body, and some are assembling the wheels and axles...
Everyone was busy at the scene, and at the end of the assembly line, a dozen strong men were harnessing a newly assembled four-wheel transport vehicle to two tall horses.
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