Sail across the sea

Chapter 288 is clearly confusing right and wrong
"This is exactly what we need to be clear about." Xu Ying said, "Because our workers have not been exposed to CNC machine tools, after the establishment of the joint venture, the Odin factory needs to send experienced technical workers to China Help train our workers. When necessary, we can also arrange for some workers to go to the United States to directly participate in the production of the Odin factory.

"This content needs to be written in the cooperation agreement, and the proportion and time points of our workers' participation in production must be clearly stipulated. Our engineers must also participate in the product design of the Odin factory, and the Odin factory must provide us with unreserved information. Fang’s engineers impart design experience.”

Dampier asked coldly: "What is the specific time point that Ms. Xu mentioned?"

"We hope that within half a year, our skilled workers will be able to take on more than 70% of the precision processing work in the joint venture factory." Xu Ying noticed Dampier's tone, but she had no choice but to take action.

"This is also our hope." Dampier showed a sinister smile, "However, with all due respect, this is not realistic. I don't think your workers can master the operation of those precision processing equipment within half a year."

"The operation of CNC machine tools is not too difficult." Liang Guodong, director of the Mechanical Division of the Department of Chemical Industry, said, "We do not have CNC machine tools in Maolin Province, but I have visited brother companies in other provinces and visited CNC machine tools they imported from abroad. Actual operation.

“In my experience, an experienced machine tool worker can master the basic operations of CNC machine tools in just half a month of study, and the rest is just the accumulation of experience.

"Actually, if you have experience in operating traditional machine tools, it is not difficult to operate CNC machine tools. The difficulty in operating CNC machine tools is to write processing programs. Many programs have fixed routines, and you only need to change a few parameters. American workers are on hand to check , it is completely achievable if our workers actually operate it.”

Liang Guodong was born as a worker in his early years. He was promoted to a cadre because of his outstanding skills, and was later transferred from the factory to the provincial department.He has a high level of understanding in the operation of machine tools. At least in the Department of Chemical Industry system, he is the expert who knows the most about CNC machine tools.

His words were spoken not only to Dampier, but also to other people present, and were used to prove the feasibility of Xu Ying's request.

Zhu Nian heard the clues. He looked at Dampier and asked, "Mr. Dampier, what do you think of the request made by Director Xu and Director Liang just now?"

Dampier said: "Personally, I very much understand and agree with Ms. Xu's request. However, we cannot write this request into the cooperation agreement between the two parties.

"As for the method Mr. Liang mentioned, it may be a Chinese-style training method. In the United States, the operation of machine tools requires systematic training. A young person needs at least two years of formal training. Only then can you be qualified to operate machine tools.”

"You are clearly confusing right and wrong!" Liang Guodong was anxious. "The two-year formal training you mentioned is for students who have just come out of school and have no experience. Our workers all have more than ten or even decades of experience. Yes, for Level [-] or Level [-] lathes, do they need to start from the basics when learning CNC machine tools?”

"Maybe that's the difference between us," Dampier said.

"What difference do you mean?" Liang Guodong pressed.

Dampier simply remained silent and only turned his attention to New Year's greetings.

Over the past few days, he has clearly seen the relationship between these people in China and their respective styles.He knew that there were only two people in this room who could speak effectively, and that was Xu Ying and Zhu Nian.As the leader of the Chemical Industry Department, Xu Ying has a greater say in the joint venture. At the same time, she is also a very pragmatic official, so she is obsessed with issues of training and technology.

In contrast, Zhu Nian is only interested in introducing foreign investment and promoting cooperation. As for how to produce after cooperation, he does not care.

Dampier was a distant nephew of Valance.In the early years, when the business of Odin Factory was still very prosperous, Dampier worked as an administrative supervisor in the factory, actually running errands for Valance.

He has a very flexible mind. Compared with Valance, who only knows production, he has some skills in handling all aspects of relationships, and he has played some role in the management of the factory.

Later, the business of the Odin factory became increasingly sluggish, and there were not so many chores in the factory. Dampier left the factory and went elsewhere.

A few days ago, Valance called Dampier back, told him about his plans to build a joint venture factory in China, and asked him if he was interested in participating.Valance felt that he himself was not good at dealing with interpersonal relationships, so he might run into trouble if he went to a foreign country. This all-around nephew might be able to come in handy.

When Dampier heard about this, he was very interested and expressed his willingness to accompany Valance to China to negotiate with the Chinese side. He could also serve as the American manager of the joint venture factory in the future.

Valance had promised Gao Fan that he would personally go to China to guide the production of the joint venture factory, but after all, he was old and could not stay abroad for a long time.Of course he is happy that his nephew is willing to be the manager of the joint venture factory for him. There is also a mentality of supporting the younger generation.

This time, the original arrangement was for Valance to take Dampier to China for inspection. Unexpectedly, before leaving, Valance suffered from an old illness.Although it is not a serious problem, in the eyes of Americans, China is a backward country and it is inevitable that there is a lack of medical treatment and medicine. Going to China with an illness will undoubtedly be troublesome if there is any change in the condition.

So, Valance just gave up the trip and let Dampier come to China alone.

According to Valance's idea, Dampier didn't have much to do. The main thing was to go to the site and see. At the very least, he wanted to confirm that the Maolin Chemical Machinery Factory existed and that Gao Fan was not a liar.

As for the conditions for cooperation between the two parties, Valance and Gao Fan had an agreement, and the subsequent communication with the Department of Chemical Industry basically followed this agreement. There was no disagreement between the two parties and they both had sincerity to cooperate, so it was not a big problem.

Gao Fan once told Valance that the purpose of establishing this cooperative enterprise was to undertake the production of vitamin C equipment of Canghua Science and Technology Trade. This was an urgent job and could not afford to waste time.

Vallance therefore told Dampier that as long as the results of the inspection met expectations, he could sign a contract with the Chinese side on his behalf.Dampier is experienced in this regard.

In front of Valance, Dampier repeatedly said that he would do everything according to his uncle's intentions.But in fact, Dampier had his own ideas.He felt that Valance was too naive and too kind. Since China was asking for help from the United States in this cooperation, why didn't he seek more benefits?

(End of this chapter)