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The construction period of the lithium battery factory is 8 months, which is time-sensitive.

Before the New Year, Hao Qiang commissioned a headhunting company to recruit talents familiar with the design and manufacturing of automated equipment to independently develop a lithium battery production line.

The research and development focuses on two parts:

The first is battery manufacturing automation equipment, including positive and negative electrode stacking, electrolyte injection, packaging and other process equipment;

The second is battery module and packaging automation equipment, including battery module, shell installation, insulation material attachment and other process equipment.

The requirements for other process equipment are relatively simple.

The team already has 30 people, mainly composed of automation engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, software engineers, and tooling process engineers. Each member is an industry elite and was recruited by the company at a high salary.

More than half of the members are graduates from prestigious universities, half are graduate students, and all of them have more than three years of work experience. The total salary of these people is more than the total salary of a 100-person technical team in an average company.

In order to develop an advanced lithium battery production line, Hao Qiang formed this team and selected scientific research members without any unqualified candidates, and personally interviewed each person.

If there are unsuitable personnel during the probation period, they will have no choice but to be dismissed.

After the new year, these personnel have reported for duty and started working.

To this end, the company established a lithium battery production line R&D project team.

Hao Qiang himself is the temporary team leader, and two doctors and a master who has worked for seven years serve as deputy team leaders. Each of them is responsible for a major area, namely battery manufacturing, battery modules and battery packaging.

The deputy team leader here is actually equivalent to the level of deputy technical manager.

Although independent research and development involves high risks and initial investment costs, Hao Qiang has no choice as he cannot buy suitable ones and they are expensive.

In addition, if you purchase the entire production line directly, the subsequent maintenance costs will be high, and when the technical conditions are backward, the transformation will be difficult and costly, and the efficiency will be low.

For example, in the later stages of BYD's development, its lithium battery production line was independently developed.

Similarly, Hao Qiang is confident that he can develop it independently, mainly because he has mastered the lithium battery manufacturing technology and processes and knows what kind of equipment is most suitable and matching.

At present, his main job is to oversee the research and development of the production line and approve procurement.

Especially in equipment procurement, if the wrong choice is made, a lot of money will be wasted.

For example, when choosing a robot, different brands are suitable for different occasions. If you buy it but cannot use it, you will suffer a loss if you resell it.

At a recent meeting, Hao Qiang reviewed the team's equipment list and was the first to point out the team's problems:

"For PLC, choose Siemens or Schneider. They have a unified brand and are easy to maintain, unless it's really not suitable."

"When choosing a handling robot, you should choose between ABB, KUKA, or Japanese brands like Fanuc or Yaskawa. These brands have different programming languages ​​and teach pendants, so it's best to stick to the same brand to avoid compatibility issues."

"I've taken a quick look at the design specifications for each of your groups and discovered a major problem. I suspect you haven't realized it yet."

"That is, you like to fight independently too much!"

Hao Qiang had a cold expression and a serious tone, and he knocked on the conference table in anger.

No one at the scene dared to refute, what the boss said was the current problem.

After taking a sip of tea, he continued:

"Everyone, you are a team. Each of you is an elite talent in your field. The company commissioned a headhunter to work hard to invite you here. I admire your professional knowledge very much.

However, the more capable people are, the more arrogant they tend to be, and there will definitely be people who are dissatisfied with each other, especially when the team has just been established and the people are not familiar with each other yet.

Half of them graduated from prestigious universities, 15 of them hold master's degrees, and four of them hold doctoral degrees.

I don't know if you have a discrimination chain based on academic qualifications or universities, but I don't. When I recruited you, I hired you entirely based on your abilities. There are two people in your team who graduated from junior college.

I also ask everyone to completely abandon these external halos in their work and communicate sincerely and humbly."

Some employees are still unclear about the team members. They didn't expect that all the team members are so awesome. They thought that only a few of them are awesomer than themselves.

After all, I was hired by the company with a high salary, the highest salary in the industry.

But I didn’t expect that everyone has the same high salary and is a group of talented people.

Many members were at least core members in their original units, and many were at the management level, but when they came to the Future Group, they could only be small soldiers.

Of course, the boss emphasized this point when interviewing them. The positions are all ordinary scientific researchers, and if they cannot let go of the halo of their previous positions, they are not suitable.

They are not fools. They look for jobs for salary. If they are offered a vice president position with low salary, it will be useless.

Hao Qiang paused for a moment, then continued:

“If you can’t coordinate and cooperate and form a united front, the final production line will be neither fish nor fowl.

If the same equipment comes from different brands, it will require several people to maintain it, which will invisibly increase the maintenance cost.

I would like to ask you, where can I find someone who is familiar with several brands of equipment to operate it?

You are researchers, and you can’t always be on-site to operate the equipment; eventually the equipment will have to be handed over to the workers.”

"Now, you need to sort out and discuss the company's design standards. We are not just manufacturing a few production lines, but many, and we want to reach domestic first-class standards or above.

The first phase only invested 50 million yuan, and at least 500 million yuan will be invested in the lithium battery industry within five years. The scale of future investment is difficult to estimate.

If there is even a slight problem in the production line you designed, resulting in low production efficiency, it will greatly increase production costs.

The production line is not directly characterized, but needs to be continuously optimized. Your team needs to continue to add personnel.

If it’s just for one or two factories’ production lines, the company doesn’t need to make a large investment to set up a lithium battery production line R&D project team; it can just outsource the design.”

"Going it alone won't work; we need teamwork!"

Hao Qiang paused again, looked around at everyone in the conference room, and continued, "Today's meeting is over. Everyone should go back and sort out their respective responsibilities. Tomorrow we will hold another coordination meeting to discuss unified standards and specific implementation plans."

“Remember, we are a team and only by working together can we overcome all difficulties and achieve our goals.

When I judge a person's contribution, I don't look at how outstanding his personal abilities are or whether he goes to work normally, but whether he can collaborate with the team and contribute to the team.

In Future Group, there are not so many rules and regulations.

After get off work this afternoon, go to the team building. The company will pay for it, once a month, and the cost per person is 100 yuan. No absences are allowed without reason. The purpose is to allow you to communicate more and get to know your colleagues' strengths, not to make you become skilled bartenders. That's all for today's meeting."

After the meeting, team members nodded in understanding and agreement.

The boss is so young, only twenty years old, but his knowledge and experience in some areas are no worse than theirs, but he is still very humble. Why should they be so arrogant?

Hao Qiang's seriousness and criticism also made some members wake up and let go of their arrogance.

We are all adults, and the boss is so shrewd. If you don't understand teamwork and try to show off your personal cleverness, you may get the opposite of what you want and may even get fired.

After Hao Qiang left, they stayed to continue communicating.

Especially when the boss first scolded them and then gave them some sweet treats, such a boss is pretty good.

Their salaries are already high, and a hundred yuan for team building is not a lot, but it is different if it is paid for by the company, and it is mandatory.