strictlysupreme Chapter 7: A 42 Billion Yuan Order, All-Out Production!
Chapter 7: A 42 Billion Yuan Order, All-Out Production!
The following day, Mr. Chen, the general manager of ZPMC, personally arrived at the entrance of the industrial park early in the morning.
Soon, a military vehicle slowly drove up, and Old Chen quickly went to meet it, saying:
"Greetings, officers. General Manager Shen from Donghe has already told me that our factory will be taking on an important national mission."
Please come with me to the conference room to discuss this in detail.
However, the solemn-looking soldier at the head of the group shook his head in response to Old Chen's invitation.
"Manager Chen, our mission is urgent. We need to rush to the next factory to deliver the assignment. Let's hand over the documents here. If you have any questions, please ask as soon as possible."
As he spoke, the soldier handed over a large bag of documents.
Old Chen took the document, wondering just how big this order the country wanted was.
It wasn't enough for their own ZPMC industrial park to take over; they even wanted to unite with other industrial parks.
Well, since it's a joint production effort across multiple industrial parks, the workload for each park shouldn't be too heavy, right? The head of Donghe Group personally contacted me; I thought it was some huge order...
Just as Lao Chen opened the file with some disappointment and glanced at it briefly...
His eyes widened suddenly, and he was instantly drenched in sweat.
"Within one month...deliver 350 sets of Class I nuclear power main pipeline flanges, and 12,000 sets of matching metal self-tightening sealing rings?"
"Sir, this...you must be joking!"
"This isn't the flange you need for the boiler! This is the main system flange that connects to the reactor pressure vessel!"
"A single flange blank weighs twelve to fifteen tons and must be forged as a whole using SA-508 special steel. There are only a handful of hydraulic presses in the country capable of handling 10,000 tons, and their production schedule is already booked until next year!"
After forging, at least three rounds of heat treatment are needed to relieve stress, each time measured in weeks.
This doesn't even include precision milling, drilling, flaw detection... The complete production cycle for a qualified product takes at least four months!
"Three hundred and fifty sets? Even if we squeeze our existing production lines dry... we can only complete the rough processing and initial heat treatment of forty sets at most!"
The remaining 310 sets can only be delivered as forged blanks!
The leading soldier calmly observed the nearly frantic Old Chen, and only after he had caught his breath did he speak steadily:
"Mr. Chen, the headquarters technical team has already done the calculations."
"We don't want a full four-month cycle; the process must be streamlined."
Heat treatment can also be performed using our accelerated process, which will reduce performance by 5% but reduce time by 60%.
In the precision machining process, the drawings have been simplified to wartime emergency standards, and the tolerance requirements for non-pressure-bearing surfaces have been relaxed by three levels.
"You only need to complete the finishing and final inspection of the most critical sealing surfaces."
Some rough machining and non-core components are handled collaboratively by three heavy machinery plants designated by us.
We adopted an "extreme three-shift system, machines never stop running even when people stop" approach, and utilized all your spare parts and backup machine tools.
"Based on the calculations, the yield rate can be conservatively estimated to be around 58%, which means the task can be completed within a month."
"It can basically be completed..."
Old Chen was speechless for a moment. You can't take our limits as the bottom line!
Also, do you just consider national standards as worthless paper?
However, the soldier's next words left Old Chen speechless, unable to refute any of his arguments.
"After this mission is completed, the price of each complete flange that passes final acceptance is 12 million yuan."
"The target of 350 sets corresponds to a total contract price of 4.2 billion yuan."
A 50% prepayment, amounting to 2.1 billion yuan, will be credited to the account within two hours of signing the contract.
After final acceptance, the full payment will be settled.
"All special alloy billets are directly supplied by the national strategic reserve. The first batch of SA-508 steel ingots will arrive in five minutes."
"One...twelve million per set? Four billion?"
Old Chen's breathing suddenly stopped, then became extremely heavy.
This, this...
Then again.
So what if it's the limit?
The shock of this number even temporarily overshadowed his fear of the insane construction schedule.
The total annual output value of his group is only this much, and this is just a single contract for one month...
The profits are so high that they could drive businesses crazy!
Damn, 4.2 billion!
Screw production limits! Screw national standards!
Even if it's the absolute limit, we have to break it!
Old Chen suddenly punched his leg and shouted:
"Fuck! Let's do it!"
"Don't worry, sir! Even if ZPMC burns down the factory and breaks down all the machines, we will definitely produce it!"
The soldier nodded and then left with his men.
Their task is indeed very heavy. In the past few days, they have to visit all kinds of factories, from the military nuclear energy field to civilian thermal insulation facilities, thermal clothing, and food processing.
They, too, are racing against time.
After the soldiers left, Old Chen immediately took out his phone and started dialing numbers for the junior leaders in various units:
"Hey, Lao Liu, come to the factory right now! And get all the key technical staff, experienced workers, quality control experts, and all the workers in the industrial park back within an hour!"
"Days off? Absolutely no overtime?"
"Take a break my ass! Just tell me, for every single person who comes, I'll give them five fingers' worth of overtime pay!"
"Give each person 500, or else they won't come?"
Who do you think you are? I'm going to give out 50,000 each!
Even if all the thousands of workers in the factory came, I'd still give each of them 50,000 yuan, pay upfront!
The person on the other end of the phone was clearly stunned by the numbers Old Chen had given them.
Without waiting for a response, Old Chen quickly lit a cigarette and excitedly said:
"I'm not dreaming! The country has a crucial mission right now; money isn't the issue, production is!"
"And I only have one requirement, which is that I am not afraid of hardship or fatigue."
One month, I'll work like crazy for a whole month! In the end, each worker will get a bonus of 500,000!
The number of technical backbone staff will double, and the management team will get the last share. I will definitely not let everyone's hard-earned money go wrong!
But if anyone is afraid of hardship or fatigue and has objections, they can leave now; we won't stop them.
Oh, and also, immediately contact all the units that can be outsourced, and send out all the rough machining work; we'll only focus on the core forging and finishing.
Money is not an issue; I want speed and quality!
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Thousands of miles away, similar dialogues are unfolding simultaneously in several industrial parks, including the Northern Special Metallurgical Equipment Manufacturing Plant and Yuanshan Heavy Industry.
At this moment, with the nation’s industrial mobilization capabilities, many parts of the country are engaged in a vigorous production effort.
Inside the command center of Donghe Group.
Shen Jinian looked at the real-time progress of orders signed by more than a dozen factories in the upstream and downstream of the small nuclear reactor supply chain on the computer screen.
His brows remained furrowed.
The secretary standing nearby asked, "President Shen, we've already mobilized nineteen large domestic factories, isn't that enough?"
Shen Jinian said in a deep voice:
Do you know what the country requires? In terms of production, there is no concept of "enough".
In addition to quantity, organizations also require absolute security, so what we need is redundancy upon redundancy!
If one part malfunctions, there must be three backups to take over immediately.
According to the above statement... this is building a nuclear power Great Wall to protect the people of Dongda University.
The secretary fell silent upon hearing this.
"President Shen, what exactly is the crisis that has forced us to push production to such an extreme level?"
Shen Jinian pursed her lips, not answering immediately.
Although his boss told him last night that this was a war.
But according to his understanding, there is currently no opponent on Earth worthy of Tokyo University's all-out effort.
So... is the enemy outside the Earth?
Is the enemy on the other side of the Milky Way?
Shen Jinian was unaware that this was beyond his imagination.
But there was one thing he was very clear about.
"That is why we should feel fortunate that this unknown disaster is about to strike."
"At the very least, in this era, only our motherland has the most complete industrial system and the strongest organizational mobilization capabilities on Earth, and is capable of doing everything in its power to fight for a future for future generations."
"If it were those people from overseas, they probably wouldn't even have the hope of making such an effort..."