After sending Jiang Guoxin and Xu Hui away, Fang Hanmin took out a compilation of laboratory construction plans from the drawer and handed it to Guo Peng and Wan Cheng, "There are many plans here. Each of you choose the one you think is the most reasonable, and put it in Write down the reasons for your choice, let’s sit down and discuss it, and then determine the best plan.”
Fang Hanmin had sent the technical department's work plan for the new year to Factory Director Yuan half a month ago. Now he has to submit the plan to build a laboratory quickly and wait for Lao Yuan's approval so that he can apply for construction funds in time.
After Guo Peng and Wan Cheng left, the first thing Fang Hanmin had to do was write a plan and send it to Director Yuan. Because this work had been in his mind for a long time, before leaving get off work in the morning, a plan for setting up a standard laboratory was written.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Fang Hanmin appeared at the door of Factory Director Yuan's office. He reached out and knocked on the door a few times. After receiving permission, he pushed the door open and went in.
"Hanmin, today is the first day of work after the holiday. What can I do for you?" Lao Yuan looked at Fang Hanmin with a strange look, because he knew very well that after the Spring Festival in previous years and before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, almost all staff in the government departments He doesn't do anything serious. This is a problem he has developed over the years. As the director of the factory, it is difficult for him to change this situation. But when Fang Hanmin came to see him on the first day of work, Lao Yuan felt a little surprised.
Fang Hanmin handed the application report for the establishment of a laboratory to Lao Yuan, "Director Yuan, there is such a thing in the technical department, please consider it."
The application report only has three pages, and Lao Yuan read it in a few minutes. "We are planning to build a standard laboratory. Can't the current laboratory be used?"
"The current laboratory is used for the preparation of palladium carbon catalysts and is already quite crowded. In addition, this laboratory is currently renovated on the basis of an old building. Many places do not meet the requirements. In order to facilitate more scientific experiments in the future, I think there should be a new standards laboratory.”
Director Yuan slapped his forehead, "Yes, I forgot about catalyst preparation. Catalyst preparation also requires space. Most of this laboratory was originally used to prepare catalysts." Old Yuan read the application report again, and then Concernedly asked: "Are you in a hurry to use this standard laboratory?"
"Director Yuan, maybe you already know that one of the main tasks of the two work plans of the Technology Department this year is the recovery test of the failed palladium carbon catalyst. Judging from the current situation, this can only be carried out after the standard laboratory is completed. experiment."
"Ouch! It seems that the laboratory construction should be carried out as soon as possible. However, the funds you budgeted..." Lao Yuan seemed to hesitate.
"Director Yuan, what happened to my budgeted funds? Is there any problem?" Fang Hanmin asked anxiously.
"If your budgeted funds are less than 200,000 yuan, I can give you a direct approval now. However, the amount of funds in the application report is beyond my scope of authority. It needs to be discussed and approved by the factory-level leadership team before I can give it to you. reply."
Fang Hanmin knew that no matter what matter, once it was discussed by the factory-level leadership team, even if it was passed, there would be endless debates and long delays. He asked cautiously: "Director Yuan, when do you estimate that the factory-level leadership team will be able to discuss it?" this matter?"
"Since the matter is very urgent, I will now ask the office director to inform all members of the leadership team that a meeting will be held tomorrow morning to discuss this matter. It is expected that there will be different opinions during the discussion, and you will be required to explain the issues they raised. You will also have to Attend the meeting as a non-voting delegate." Lao Yuan always strongly supported Fang Hanmin's work.
A few minutes later, the office director reported to Lao Yuan that on the fifth day of the first lunar month, that is, tomorrow, Deputy Director Wang of the leadership team had family matters and asked for a day off; on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Deputy Director Liang asked for a day off due to something else.
Not only the general staff of departments and departments have been reluctant to give up after the Spring Festival, but even the members of the factory-level leadership team have developed such bad habits. Director Yuan is well aware of this, which is why he has been unable to eradicate this habit for a long time. The main cause of the disease.
After listening to the report from the office director, Factory Director Yuan spread his hands and said, "Hanmin, no matter how anxious you are, we have to wait until the seventh day of the Lunar New Year to hold a meeting to discuss this matter."
What can Fang Hanmin say? He smiled nonchalantly and said, "It doesn't matter. No matter how anxious we are, we don't care about three or two days."
At 8:30 a.m. on the seventh day of the first lunar month, in the small conference room on the second floor of the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory, all members of the factory leadership team and Fang Hanmin, a non-voting guest, sat around the conference table. Director Yuan first spoke: "Because of a work plan proposed by the Technical Department , today we are convening a meeting to discuss one matter. Before the formal meeting, please circulate this application report."
Lao Yuan handed the report to Deputy Director Wang on the left, passed it down from him, and finally returned to Director Yuan. In order to facilitate everyone to check the contents of the report at any time during the discussion, Lao Yuan threw the report to In the middle of the conference table, he then cleared his throat and said: "Everyone has read the report. To put it simply, the Technology Department is going to build a new standard laboratory. The investment amount must have been seen in the report. The purpose of this meeting today is to let Let’s discuss it and pass it, and it can be regarded as a procedure.”
As soon as he finished speaking, chief engineer Lao Xia asked: "I remember, doesn't the technology department have a laboratory? Why do we need to build a new laboratory?"
Director Yuan explained: "Are you talking about the laboratory that was renovated from the previous central laboratory? That place is now the preparation section of the palladium carbon catalyst, and there is no place for testing anymore."
"Why prepare the catalyst in the laboratory when there is no other place to use it? In any case, the preparation of the catalyst belongs to the scope of production, how can it occupy the laboratory?" Deputy Director Wang did not understand this.
Fang Hanmin took over the conversation, "Perhaps the leaders don't know that the preparation process of palladium carbon catalyst is a very delicate operation process with high requirements on the production environment. The catalyst currently being used in the second workshop was prepared in the laboratory, where We already have a catalyst preparation device, and the environment there is relatively good, so we believe that the original laboratory is the most suitable place to prepare the catalyst."
Lao Wang was not convinced by Fang Hanmin's explanation, "Comrade Hanmin, you haven't tried it in other places, how do you know that other places are not suitable?"
This made Fang Hanmin speechless for a moment, but he thought about it and said, "Director Wang, I wonder which other place you are referring to?"
"In the second workshop, I think that in the corner of the second workshop, several cabins can be separated by partitions, which can fully meet the conditions for catalyst preparation."
"A few cabins between the two cars may be enough space, but the environment of the workshop, including air quality and current and voltage stability, etc., may not necessarily meet the requirements for preparing palladium carbon catalysts."
After stabilizing his mood, Fang Hanmin continued: "Director Wang asked us to give it a try just now. What I want to say is that palladium is a rare metal more expensive than gold. If we separate the house in the second workshop, and then If the catalyst preparation device is moved over, once the prepared catalyst fails, the precious metal raw materials will be wasted, and the use of the second workshop will be delayed. The losses caused by these three aspects are probably more than the cost of building a new standard laboratory. Our technical department cannot afford this risk!"
After hearing these words, the atmosphere in the venue instantly became serious, because Lao Wang didn't consider the risks mentioned by Fang Hanmin at all. He just said it happily, regardless of the consequences. To put it bluntly, he still does not fully understand the new process of the second workshop, and does not understand the properties of the palladium-carbon catalyst at all. Otherwise, he would not say such layman's words.
As the deputy director in charge of production, Lao Wang should feel ashamed, but he was not modest at all. He always acted aloof and never took the initiative to ask Fang Hanmin for advice.
Even the chief engineer, Lao Xia, never considered the risk issue. Like Lao Wang, he only questioned Fang Hanmin's actions and had little understanding of the technical details. Whenever he encountered something that required him to express his position, he always pretended to be self-righteous.
Although Lao Wang and Lao Xia are the technical gatekeepers of Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory, the series of technologies provided by Fang Hanmin are beyond their cognitive scope. In addition, they regard themselves as leaders and do not ask their subordinates for advice. I don’t understand the craftsmanship, but it makes sense. Still, when they exercised their power, they were anything but vague.
Having been dealing with these people for three or four years, Fang Hanmin knows that it is these high-sounding people who lack responsibility at critical times. Once they hear there is a risk, they will immediately pull their necks back.
The venue suddenly became quiet. In order to avoid an embarrassing situation, Director Yuan took over the words in time, "Comrade Hanmin has made the reasons very clear. I think everyone should not get entangled in the details. The facts so far It has been proven that the development of enterprises is closely related to technological progress. In order to turn the development plan of Hongxing Pharmaceutical Factory into reality, from now on, we should attach great importance to the development of new technologies and new products. To achieve this goal, we really need high-standard laboratories .”
"It needs to be explained that I am not opposed to the development of new products and new technologies. What I mean is that we should make full use of existing equipment and space, save what we can, and develop new technologies and new products without wasting resources!" Lao Wang insisted. the opinion of.
"The problem is that the current laboratory has become a catalyst preparation section. It can be said that everything is used to its best advantage and resources are wasted. Where to start?" Director Yuan is tired of Lao Wang's stubborn behavior.
"Comrade Hanmin, even if we need to build a new laboratory, why do we have to emphasize high standards? Aren't general standards enough? You have to know that there is a big difference in cost between general laboratories and high-standard laboratories!" Chief Engineer Lao Xia An objection was raised to the laboratory grade.
"Yes, if it is really necessary to build a new laboratory due to work needs, I would not object, but why should the laboratory standards be built so high? Is there any waste problem here?" Lao Wang agreed.
The doubts of the two supervisors are not unreasonable in the eyes of ordinary people. Isn't the laboratory just a place for experiments? Why should the construction standards be set so high? All kinds of air purification and automatic sterilization are used. In the mid-1980s, these things were unheard of. Whether the relevant instruments and equipment can be matched domestically is unknown. Fang Hanmin can completely understand the doubts of Lao Wang and Lao Xia.
But in the 21st century that the time traveler experienced in his previous life, laboratories of this level were completely standard in scientific research institutions with some strength. Not to mention the Oxford University where he studied for his Ph.D. and the New Drug Discovery Center of RGP Company where he later worked, even the 985 universities he studied in China had much higher laboratory standards than this.
Nonetheless, in order to promote the scientific and technological progress plan of the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory, Fang Hanmin believes that it is imperative to build a standard laboratory. Otherwise, all plans will not be implemented, but he also has to face reality.
