Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

It is difficult for technicians and engineers who have never been exposed to large-scale industrial production to accept some profound truths, especially the management system that took decades to develop by the Western industrial powers.

After all, in China, knowledge is passed down through word of mouth from master to apprentice. Some technicians go directly to arsenals after graduating from university, and what they know is only the result of their personal exploration and summary, which makes it impossible to implement on a large scale. This is also a major bottleneck restricting the future development of the arsenal.

It was timely for Kong Hao to bring this up. First of all, the newly established factory should be formalized and standardized so that there would be no chaos when expanding production capacity in the future.

I saw him clearing his throat and saying with a smile:

"I have specially prepared a small experiment today to explain to you the benefits of standardization."

"By the way, Engineer Zhang and Engineer Wang, you two will go up on stage and demonstrate to everyone."

After Engineer Zhang and Engineer Wang were called, they hurriedly walked up to the podium in high spirits, wanting to see what the chief consultant was up to.

Kong Hao continued, "I have three cups here, all of different sizes. Now I ask you two to pour the water from the two small cups into the big cup, and make sure the water doesn't spill out."

Zhang Gong saw that the request was so simple, so he volunteered:

"I'll go first. This isn't difficult."

After saying that, he picked up a smaller cup and poured water directly into the large cup.

However, due to the problem of technique, some water still spilled out. The shape of the second cup was even more strange. Even if Mr. Zhang was very careful, a lot of water still spilled out.

After doing all this, Zhang Gong didn't know where to put his face when faced with the result and thinking about the big words he had said before.

Kong Hao asked someone to pour out the water, and then asked someone to fetch two glasses of water, and asked Engineer Wang to try it based on his own experience.

Engineer Wang had learned from Engineer Zhang's experience and lessons, and was very careful with the first glass of water, making sure not a drop was spilled. However, it took him much longer than Engineer Zhang.

When pouring the second glass of water, he was even more careful. It took him at least three minutes to finish pouring it, and only a little water spilled.

At this time, Director Ren on the side suddenly realized and said:

"Xiao Kong, do you want to tell us the truth that slow work produces fine work through two comparative experiments?"

After hearing this, Kong Hao just shook his head and asked someone to bring two glasses of water. Then he took out a flat bamboo stick from his pocket and placed one end of it at the bottom of the glass.

He picked up a glass of water on the table and directly touched the mouth of the cup to the top of the bamboo piece, allowing the water to flow quickly into the cup without spilling a drop, and the time was only one-third of that of Mr. Wang.

Then he picked up the second irregular cup and did the same thing, successfully pouring the water into the cup below without spilling it.

After all this was done, there was applause from the audience, and everyone seemed to understand the purpose of Kong Hao's comparative experiment.

Political Commissar Qin also specifically asked: "Xiao Kong, you want to tell us that we should know how to use tools when doing things in the future, so that we can achieve twice the result with half the effort."

After hearing this, Kong Hao nodded first, then shook his head and said in a serious tone:

"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's continue the experiment. This time we'll use soldiers from the two arsenal guard companies."

After he finished speaking, he asked the two soldiers on duty at the door to come in. At the same time, he introduced the next experiment in detail.

"Xiao Ma and Xiao Zhou were randomly selected from the guard company. I didn't know the situation in the meeting room beforehand. Besides, they didn't go to school when they were young because their families were very poor. They only knew a few words in the army."

"Now you two listen to my orders. I will demonstrate it first. Watch carefully. When I am done, you follow me and do it again."

"Commander, make sure the mission is accomplished."

In fact, the experiment designed by Kong Hao is very simple and you can remember it just by watching it once.

Next, the two warriors did it easily without spilling any water.

"You two, thank you for your hard work. You can go down first."

After finishing all this, Kong Hao introduced with a smile:

"Through the comparative experiment just now, we can draw two conclusions. One is what Political Commissar Qin just said, that if we can use relevant tools when working, we can get twice the result with half the effort."

"However, this is not the focus of our training today. What we want to focus on today is standardization."

"What is standardization? Actually, it is very simple. When we design a process, we need to specify all actions and it is best to form a standard."

"For example, when we do experiments, we often pour two liquids together. Everyone has their own methods and habits, and the results obtained may be biased."

"We need someone to develop standard actions, get rid of bad personal habits that affect the final results, and ultimately form a complete set of standards."

"As I just did, we can standardize the action of pouring water. In the future, no matter who does it, they can achieve the same result after a brief training."

"Even if it's an uneducated person or a college student, both can do this kind of basic work with the same effect, and they are highly interchangeable."

As soon as he finished speaking, thunderous applause broke out at the scene. This new theoretical knowledge was something no one had ever heard of before.

At this moment, it seemed as if a door was opened in everyone's hearts, allowing everyone to see a different world outside.

Director Ren was also extremely excited, especially because this method of imparting knowledge was very novel and made it easy for people to accept the principles.

"The general counsel gave us a very special lesson today. After returning home, you should combine your actual work situation and summarize more. We will continue to hold summary meetings in a week."

"Just now, I thought of many problems in the arsenal before, that is, there was no standardization. For example, the parts we produced were always of different sizes, and different people operated the machines, and the sizes of the same parts were very different. Assembly was also a big hassle."

"We used to think this was a small matter that could be fixed with a little work, but now we think it was because we didn't do it well in the beginning, which led to a lot of wasted work later."

"We need to think more about this aspect in the future and strive to produce the most qualified products with the least amount of raw materials."

After hearing this, others readily agreed, saying that this was what the department heads should do most.

Taking advantage of this good opportunity, Kong Hao distributed several standardized documents written last night to everyone, and also introduced them specifically:

"This is the process operation instruction book I wrote. There are instructions for grinders, lathes, and drill presses. Share them and look at them with each other."

"If the arsenal wants to achieve standardization, it must first standardize its documents."

"For example, the format of this work instruction includes title, purpose, related equipment, operating steps and precautions."

"These items should be clearly written in a document, and everyone should read it carefully before going on the computer and remember all of them in their mind."

"Only in this way can the operators understand what they should and should not do, and ensure their own safety and avoid work-related injuries while ensuring the qualified rate of the products produced."