Tianshu Machinery Company has been one of the most prosperous enterprises in the past two years. Due to the large-scale infrastructure construction in China in the past two years, the demand for construction machinery has exploded.
As the largest and most technologically advanced machinery R&D and production enterprise in the country, Tianshu Machinery Company naturally gets the richest piece of cake, with a market share of about 90% in the domestic construction machinery market.
Due to the surge in domestic demand in a short period of time, in addition to investing in research and development in the past two years, they have also expanded production, and the scale of the company has been greatly improved.
Now the total number of employees of Tianshu Machinery Company has exceeded the 1 million mark, and the number of R&D personnel has reached 20,000, making it the world's largest engineering machinery R&D and production enterprise.
Because our country's strength in this area was very weak before, Tianshu Machinery Company was destined to cover everything from low to high from the day it was established. As a result, the company's product line types were very large, and the number of employees was naturally very large. huge.
Originally, they wanted to make a difference in overseas markets, and even regarded overseas markets as an important supplement to their profits. As a result, they had spent all their energy on meeting domestic market demand.
It was originally expected that total annual sales last year would reach 500 billion yuan. Facts have proved that their construction machinery and equipment business alone exceeded 700 billion yuan in the past year.
Coupled with the agricultural machinery and equipment required for modern agricultural construction and the supporting industrial machinery and equipment required in the industrial field, Tianshu Machinery Company's annual turnover has exceeded the one trillion yuan mark.
At present, in addition to its headquarters in Shenyang, Tianshu Machinery Company also has a southern branch in Changsha, which has been under construction for a long time, and a branch in Jinan, Shandong Province, which was built at the end of last year and early this year.
Their various machinery production factories are distributed in these three provinces. In order to balance the economic development of the province, they do not just focus on these three cities. There are also many supporting industries distributed in the surrounding cities of these cities.
To be honest, Zhao Yi admired the rapid expansion of Tianshu Machinery Company in the past two years. At that time, the company's annual turnover was only tens of billions of yuan, and it was his companies that provided most of the market demand.
Being able to suddenly expand a company with a turnover of less than 100 billion yuan to a scale of 1 trillion yuan in two or three years without any serious problems and the management is still in order, this is Tan Delin's ability manifestation.
Every time I held an annual meeting before, I saw that other companies either had sales exceeding one trillion yuan or had frighteningly high profit margins. However, as the boss of the heavy industry, my performance in all aspects was mediocre.
This even made Tan Delin, who came from a heavy industry background, wonder if times had changed. It would be okay if heavy industry could not compete with light industry. After all, the market demand was indeed huge, but it still could not compete with the software industry, which he had not paid much attention to before.
For example, Hualong Apparel Company has exceeded one trillion yuan in output value early on, and its world share is astonishingly high. It has absolute dominance in the apparel field. Although he envies it, at least it belongs to the industrial field.
The rise of the domestic software industry represented by Fanxing Software Company has indeed dampened his self-confidence. Who would have known that programmers can easily create software by just sitting in the office, blowing on the air conditioner, and drinking coffee and tea? Excess operating income.
Although he does not vent his personal emotions at every gathering, only he knows his inner thoughts. It is important to know that the field of heavy industry is not only labor-intensive, but also a direct reflection of domestic industrial strength.
As a leading domestic company, it is unexpectedly unable to engage in a new industry, and it is also an industry that people did not care about before. When you think about it, it is indeed a bit shocking, and it even makes people wonder whether the heavy industry has sunk and become a sunset industry.
When Zhao Yi retained Tan Delin, it was not because of how far-sighted he was, but because of his ability to execute, because what he lacked most at that time was subordinates with strong execution capabilities. As for corporate strategic layout and technological innovation, he could do it himself Done.
Therefore, Tan Delin, who had just graduated from a state-owned enterprise at that time, said it was impossible to say that he had no ideas, but it was not necessarily true that he had outstanding abilities. It was understandable that he could not see some situations clearly.
Normal people can still judge by seeing the level of domestic infrastructure construction at that time that there will still be a huge market in the field of heavy industry machinery in the future. After all, if you want to carry out infrastructure construction, you will definitely need heavy industry machinery.
But as for when the expected scene will arrive, not only Tan Delin cannot predict it, but also most people in the country cannot make accurate predictions, because the person who controls the overall domestic economy is either the central government or Zhao Yi.
If it weren't for Zhao Yi's ultra-large-scale urbanization and the government's infrastructure construction in the past two years, the development of the heavy machinery industry would never have been so fast.
However, although Tianshu Machinery Company was not very big under Zhao Yi at that time, compared with its domestic counterparts and even compared with its international counterparts, it was not small and was already one of the giants.
According to Zhao Yi's instructions, no matter what the market size is, research and development must be the first priority, and product research and development must be forward-looking and able to consider areas that may be needed in the future, so as to carry out exploratory research and development work in advance. .
Over the years, although Tianshu Machinery Company's turnover is not small, at least tens of billions of yuan, the profits turned over are not actually very large, and most of them have been invested in research and development.
First, the size of Zhao Yi's enterprise system at that time was not outstanding. The revenue of tens of billions of yuan had not yet reached the standard of large-scale profit handover. It is a bit hurtful to say that, but in fact it is true.
Second, Zhao Yi understands how big the scale of my country's heavy industry machinery market will be in the future. If you want to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you must make adequate preparations in advance. Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared and enterprises.
Therefore, Tianshu Machinery Company's income in recent years has mainly been invested in the construction of production bases and R&D investment. It also strengthened the training and learning of internal employees and improved the overall quality of the company's employees.
These preparations have laid a solid foundation for the rapid expansion in the past two years, allowing their industrial scale to expand nearly 10 times, while still remaining stable and without any rush.
Because they are confident in their hearts, they have already made sufficient preparations on the product line. They only need to follow the steps and increase the construction of the production base, so that they can continuously supply various mechanical equipment to the country.
According to Zhao Yi's requirements, mechanical equipment must not only be available, but also be easy to use. It must be able to truly reduce the user's workload, improve the user's safety, and lower the requirements for the user.
Focusing on this goal and the envisioned application scenarios, Tianshu Machinery Company has developed thousands of product types, involving mechanical equipment required in almost all aspects that can be imagined.
Of course, the research and development of these mechanical equipment is not all based on the imagination of the application scenarios. It also refers to the product status of enterprises in the field of mechanical equipment around the world. After summary and optimization, a thick list of R&D equipment was obtained.
Therefore, their product lines range from small ones such as electric hammers and electric drills to large building machines, track laying machines, shield machines, etc., and even various flying machinery and equipment that need to fly in the sky, etc.
In the past two years, due to the rapid development of domestic engineering, the demand for engineering machinery and equipment has also increased. However, the product line of Tianshu Machinery Company is too large, and it is difficult for customers to understand them one by one.
In order to solve this contradiction, they can not only let customers know what products they have, but also help customers discover their unexpected mechanical equipment needs, so they developed their own Internet sales system.
Through the use of artificial intelligence technology, customers only need to enter the usage scenario, and the system can directly list all the mechanical equipment required for the usage scenario, and explain in detail the instructions for use of each equipment and the problems that can be solved.
You know, in this era, many people don’t have a strong sense of mechanization. They only think of mechanical equipment when it comes to things that can’t be done by manpower. But if manpower can do it, many people go directly to manpower and rarely think about whether there is such a thing. of mechanical equipment.
This system of Tianshu Machinery Company is of great significance in guiding customers' thinking. It also reduces dependence on the traditional sales system, allowing its products to be quickly sold all over the country and even the world.
In addition to expanding production, in order to provide customers with a better experience, Tianshu Machinery Company has also established an offline sales and maintenance system across the country to solve customers' worries.
Seeing Tan Delin's excited expression, Zhao Yi was not so impressed, because for him, such results had been expected for a long time, and he also had certain decision-making power on the development direction of the national economy.
However, Tan Delin himself spoke highly of Tan Delin's ability to meet domestic demand for mechanical equipment in a timely manner at the meeting. After all, completing this task is not an easy task.
You must know that the expansion of production involves all aspects, and it is not just a matter of having money and technology, such as the recruitment and training of employees, dealing with local governments, product promotion and sales, etc. It involves all aspects and is actually a very complicated matter.
Tan Delin not only completed this task, but also received an excellent evaluation from the enterprise management system, which shows that the enterprise management and operation are also done quite beautifully.
At present, the production scale of Tianshu Machinery Company has been sufficient to meet the market demand for a long period of time, and there is no need for large-scale production expansion for the time being.
Next, in addition to continuing to increase the optimization design of existing products, Tianshu Machinery Company will cooperate with Zhao Yi's plan to carry out new energy substitution work, transforming the current mainly petrochemical energy into mainly driven by electric energy.
Regardless of just replacing the energy system, there are actually a lot of technologies that need to be redesigned and developed, and it is not as simple as simply replacing the energy system.
Their work in this area has actually produced some results. These results have been highly recognized by customers, saving costs for customers, and the demand is even greater than traditional fossil energy products.
In addition to the energy system replacement plan, another important task is the research and development of unmanned operations. This unmanned operation does not mean that manual operation is not needed, but that it allows staff to operate remotely and improves the operator's work. environment.
In fact, if artificial intelligence is used, it can be truly unmanned to a certain extent. However, judging from the current domestic situation, it is better not to launch it.
Although the domestic labor market is relatively full after the national construction and economic acceleration plans, and there are even serious labor shortages in some industries, the overall situation is still relatively balanced.
When there is a shortage of jobs in the service industry, it is not necessary to massively reduce the number of workers in the industrial field. Otherwise, it will easily cause unnecessary trouble and bring hidden dangers to social stability.
At present, Tianshu Machinery Company's unmanned projects are basically concentrated in the agricultural field, and they have a certain degree of intelligence to reduce the difficulty of operating unmanned machinery.
This requirement is a practical need. People with a little knowledge in our country basically go to the industrial field. However, the overall labor quality in the agricultural field is low and agricultural machinery is complicated, which brings great restrictions to modern agriculture.
This requires the addition of artificial intelligence to reduce the difficulty of operating agricultural machinery. Even farmers can basically operate it with simple training.
Now this kind of agricultural machinery and equipment with certain intelligence has gradually entered the field of agricultural production and begun to replace traditional agricultural farming methods and traditional agricultural machinery.
With these agricultural machinery, agricultural production practitioners only need to sit in the office to complete various agricultural production activities without going to the fields at all.
However, the current scale of agricultural production carried out in this way is not large, and it is basically experimental in nature, because if you want to truly build such an agricultural production system, it is not just a mechanical problem, there are many problems that need to be solved.
For example, communication issues are a difficult problem. At least the current 2G+ mobile network does not meet the requirements of building such a system. This is a problem that must be solved if it is to be promoted on a large scale.
The reason why we had to wait until 5G to develop the Internet of Things on a large scale in the previous life is because many devices have high requirements for delay and signal stability. Previous mobile communications were slightly insufficient in this regard.
However, this problem will be basically solved after the global satellite communication network built by Zhao Yi takes shape. Only "pot lids" that receive satellite signals are installed in the fields to achieve low-latency and highly stable network signals.
Zhao Yi previously built a global satellite communication network with the main purpose of providing funds for the upcoming northwest climate transformation plan. The main service target was individual users, and he did not think too much about it.
After communicating with his subsidiaries, he found that many problems were actually related to network communications. Anyway, as long as it was in the field of high-end machinery, it was inseparable from this relationship, so he had to pay attention to it.
The current remote mechanical control system is a ready-made example, and in the modern agricultural production system, other equipment has the same needs for the network.
The previous solution was basically to pull optical fiber, because at that time Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company's production base was relatively concentrated, and the cost of laying a dedicated optical fiber network was still affordable.
But now Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company’s agricultural production bases are spread all over the country, and their distribution is relatively scattered. The cost and difficulty of laying optical fiber networks are really too high.
If we want to take the existing agricultural production model to the next level, a new wireless communication system is an indispensable element. This pain point must be solved, otherwise a lot of subsequent work will be seriously delayed.
Due to a lack of thinking in this regard, the global satellite communication system he built did not take these situations into account. Although it can be used, the effect may not be particularly good.
Thinking of this, he felt that it was necessary to change the relevant information previously handed over to Future Space Technology Company to incorporate new requirements and strengthen the technical configuration to adapt to the needs of the global satellite communication network in the new era.
In fact, this kind of change is not too difficult for him. He can make some modifications based on the original technology to meet the needs, and no major changes are needed.
Now that we have reached this point, the relevant infrastructure of the Internet of Things should also be included in the scope of thinking. We cannot wait until it is urgently needed before we start thinking about it.
The first is the issue of network addresses. The current network address is IPv4. Although our country has also allocated a lot of network addresses, it should be enough for current electronic equipment.
But for the Internet of Things, it is just a drop in the bucket, because at that time, the number of devices that require network addresses will show explosive growth, and it will simply be impossible to provide a network address for each device.
Therefore, it is imperative to promote IPv6 in the Internet of Things first. The current Internet can continue to use the current IPv4, while the Internet of Things enables the new IPv6. It only needs to open up the communication link between the two.
This technical difficulty is not very difficult, and it is also very simple to promote, because currently the network communication equipment giant is his company, and these companies only need to reach a consensus among themselves, which is basically the de facto standard.
Secondly, the existing network protocol may need to be modified. Currently, sending a command uses broadcasting to search for the information receiving end, which requires a relatively high network occupation and resource consumption.
There is really no big problem when used in the existing Internet field, because it is easier to build the entire Internet, but it is not a good solution for the Internet of Things.
Because the Internet of Things has very high requirements for delay, this method of broadcasting to spread the network actually has a very large impact on delay, and is not particularly friendly to the development of the Internet of Things.
However, if you want to change this disadvantage, you do not have to build a new network. You only need to add new network communication protocols and related equipment to the existing Internet to achieve the goal. The cost of transformation is much lower than re-establishing it.
Previously, Zhao Yi felt that the Internet of Things era might take some time to emerge, so he did not make much preparation and just let the following companies develop on their own.
However, due to the emergence of artificial intelligence and the expanded use of unmanned equipment, the demand for the Internet of Things appeared in advance, which caught him off guard.
Since there is already a certain demand for the Internet of Things, it is impossible to stop it. We can only adapt to the development needs of the times, actively solve practical problems, and provide a solid foundation for the development of the Internet of Things.
However, the top priority is to let Tianshu Machinery Company conduct research and development of relevant equipment for land transformation in the Tarim Basin. Because the climate conditions are very harsh, existing equipment needs to be modified in a targeted manner.
According to Zhao Yi's plan, unmanned machinery and equipment must be put online for desert transformation in the Tarim Basin, especially the Taklimakan Desert, to reduce the hardship of workers during the transformation process.
If it is a normal environment, even manual operation does not matter much, but doing it in the Taklimakan Desert is a test of human endurance, and later guarantees are also a big problem.
If it is gradually promoted from the marginal areas, it is still possible to use manual operation of machines, but in order to complete these basic transformation works as soon as possible, it must be carried out in a multi-faceted way.
Therefore, the area located in the middle of the Taklimakan Desert will face particularly harsh environmental tests. Whether it is for cost considerations or for the physical and mental health of employees, unmanned machinery and equipment must be installed.
Tianshu Machinery Company did not know about this plan before, so it did not make a lot of preparations. Although there are unmanned machinery and equipment, there are not many unmanned equipment for this kind of construction machinery, or even none.
Because engineering machinery and equipment are unmanned, they must have extremely high precision control capabilities. With the current communication technology, it simply does not meet the standards. An accident will be an irreparable loss.
Unlike agricultural machinery and equipment, even if there is an occasional mistake, it will only result in a small loss of economic benefits. Even so, it will not be carried out on a large scale, and it will only be experimental.
When Tan Delin heard about the entire northwest climate transformation plan, everyone took a breath of cold air. He was really stunned by this huge plan. At the same time, he admired his boss even more for having such a bold idea and putting it into practice. .
Of course, in addition to shock and admiration, there is also excitement, because if you want to carry out such a large-scale project, you will naturally need huge construction machinery. A conservative estimate is that hundreds of thousands of units will be needed.
Moreover, these construction machinery and equipment are all large-scale equipment, and the price of each unit is not cheap. The minimum is hundreds of thousands, and the maximum is even millions. Even taking an intermediate value of 500,000 per unit, at least 300,000 are needed.
This is the order quantity of 150 billion yuan. Although it is not necessarily the order volume in one year, even the total order volume is a quantity that cannot be ignored.
Of course, in addition to Zhao Yi's unmanned requirements for these mechanical equipment, he also needs them to design these equipment separately to separate the functional part from the locomotive part.
The purpose of this is that when other projects are carried out in the future, these mechanical equipment only need to replace the functional parts, and they can play other roles, especially when conducting crop management.
Although it is your own company that makes money here, you still have to save money. At least in this way, you can use this huge batch of mechanical equipment until it is retired and scrapped.
Later, he also told Tan Delin about the upcoming global satellite communication network, and then gave him relevant parameter standards and other technical information so that he could develop unmanned mechanical equipment using the global satellite communication system as soon as possible. (End of chapter)