Spending Money to Buy a Lesson

Zhang Yi knew that the precision of this machine tool was limited. The current conditions at Zhang Yi's factory simply didn't allow for large-scale modifications to this batch of machine tools. Besides the insufficient precision of many parts of the machine tools themselves, the most important issue was the design of this batch of machine tools, coupled with problems in the quality and precision of bearings and other components. The parts processed by these machines could only be considered acceptable for now. After some time, when the factory had more funds, they would purchase high-performance machine tools.

Fortunately, Zhang Yi had only purchased three CNC machines this time. If it had been a large batch, Zhang Yi would have nowhere to cry. This time, he could only consider it a lesson learned with money. At the same time, he would also need to learn more about machine tools in the future so that similar incidents wouldn't happen again.

Even so, these few CNC machines still couldn't process some of the precision parts for the Aerodynamic Bicycle. These parts had to be completed by Xiao Hua and the others using ordinary lathes. Zhang Yi didn't have the money to buy more CNC machines now, so he could only make do for the time being. After all, without funds, everything was out of the question.

Seeing that the machine tool could produce this part normally, Zhang Yi felt relieved. He then took out his phone and checked the time. He found that it was already eleven o'clock in the morning, which was time to get off work. This made Zhang Yi a little relieved. Fortunately, because Huang Jie had gone back and the Office Director of the Development Zone and other government officials were busy, the lunch meeting was canceled. Otherwise, he would have been late now.

A few days later, a medium-sized truck slowly drove into the gate of Zhang Yi's Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory. In the cab of the truck, besides a driver, sat Zhu Gang, the boss of Xian County Auto Parts Factory. That's right, the purpose of this truck's arrival was to deliver the parts that Zhang Yi had entrusted to Zhu Gang for production.

Although Zhu Gang's factory was less than a kilometer away from Zhang Yi's Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory, separated by only one road, Zhu Gang still personally delivered this batch of parts. After all, this was his first order from Zhang Yi's factory.

Although there were only about a thousand pieces of each model of these parts, the advantage was that there were many models, so the total quantity added up was quite significant.

Even so, for long-term cooperation orders, such as those from Geely Group, this small quantity wouldn't require him to personally deliver them. However, this time, Zhu Gang still came in person.

The first reason was the short distance; even if he came in person, it wouldn't take much time. Moreover, coming in person also showed his great sincerity in cooperating with Zhang Yi's Seven Color Stone Mechanical Factory.

"Boss Zhang! Have someone take a look. I have completed all the parts you gave me. However, I don't know if you still have any orders, Boss Zhang. Our factory has ordered some more machine tools in the past few days, and our production capacity has greatly increased. So, Boss Zhang, I hope your factory can give me more orders in the future." When Zhang Yi arrived next to Zhu Gang's truck, Zhu Gang, who had been waiting by the truck for a long time, spoke.

"Boss Zhu, I didn't expect you to complete this batch of orders so quickly. You know, although the quantity of each model in this order is not large, the models are too complex. Even if we processed them ourselves, I wouldn't be able to complete them in such a short time." After saying this, he turned his head to Xiao Xia, who had just come out of the workshop, and said, "Xiao Xia! Go and check if this batch of parts is qualified."

Product quality is crucial for the survival of an enterprise, and Zhang Yi naturally attached great importance to it. Zhang Yi was not at ease entrusting this aspect to others, so he temporarily appointed Xiao Xia as the Product Quality Department Head. Although Xiao Xia was at the bottom among the Dwarves, with her ability, temporarily managing the quality of the factory's products was more than sufficient.

When Xiao Xia started inspecting these parts, Zhang Yi and Zhu Gang chatted idly. In reality, both of them had their minds on this batch of goods at this time.

Although Xiao Xia was at the bottom among the Dwarf scholars, in this world, she was worthy of the title of scholar. Therefore, her speed in inspecting parts was very fast. Basically, she could tell whether a part was qualified just by picking it up and looking at it a few times.

The inspection of the parts was completed very quickly. Xiao Xia still found a few unqualified parts in this batch of accessories. However, Zhang Yi didn't say anything about this. With so many parts, it was impossible for every single one to be perfect. Zhang Yi could still accept one or two unqualified parts.

"Boss Zhu! The quality of this batch of parts processed by your factory is basically good. The scrap rate is about five parts per thousand, so there are still some issues that need more attention. Strive to achieve a 100% yield rate in the future." After Xiao Xia finished inspecting, Zhang Yi now had a preliminary impression of Zhu Gang's factory. It seemed that he could confidently entrust orders to him for processing in the future.

Subsequently, Zhang Yi gave Zhu Gang some more parts. Of course, these parts were still non-core components, but compared to before, the precision requirements for these parts were much higher.

In Zhang Yi's opinion, Zhu Gang's factory should be able to produce them. In fact, except for the most core precision parts that Zhu Gang's factory might not be able to process, there should be no major problems with the others for Zhu Gang.

After all, Zhu Gang's factory had previously been producing parts for Geely Group, so Zhang Yi could imagine that the machine tools in Zhu Gang's factory must be good, at least better than the machine tools in Zhang Yi's factory. Zhang Yi even believed that Zhu Gang's factory had more high-end machine tools.

After Zhang Yi received this batch of accessories, he began to arrange personnel to assemble the Aerodynamic Bicycles.

It took Zhang Yi's factory nearly fifteen days in total to produce and assemble this batch of one thousand bicycles, which was much slower than Zhang Yi's estimated time. However, there was nothing that could be done about it. After all, there were only a few people in the factory now, and the production efficiency simply couldn't be improved. Moreover, his factory didn't have a production line for assembling Aerodynamic Bicycles. This speed was already very fast.

Actually, this couldn't be blamed on Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi naturally wanted a production line, but due to funding issues, he could only rely on manual assembly for the time being. Furthermore, in the eyes of Zhang Yi and Xiao Hua, the bicycle and electric vehicle production lines on the market were simply not suitable for them.

These production lines assembled ordinary mass-produced products, which were fundamentally different from the Aerodynamic Bicycles they produced. Even if he purchased these production lines, the improvement in the factory's production efficiency would be very limited.

Both Zhang Yi and Xiao Hua were very clear about this point and unanimously agreed that they could only find a way to build the production line themselves.