Chapter 205 (1/2)

Quantum's first factory in Iowa is fully equipped with high-grade equipment from other planets. It is also the first manufacturing base with alliance level production level in Earth's history.

There are three more plants of the same size in Europe and Asia. If all of them are put into operation, they can produce 1200 sets of energy shield synergists every 24 hours.

In order to maximize the efficiency of the factory, all the equipment use the general model intelligent machine tools of the alliance. These machine tools can not only be used for the production of energy shield synergists, but also can be immediately transferred to production once the company launches new mechanical or electronic products, with good flexibility.

The four factories have spent more than 80% of the capital reserve in the quantum company's account. It can be said that Xiafei has made enough capital in the construction of these factories.

All the workers are skilled technicians from the front line of production. The highly paid extraterrestrial engineers specially trained them for a month. Now everything is ready. As soon as an order is given, the energy shield synergist will be continuously produced on the assembly line.

The vampire slowly landed on the open space outside the factory. Xiafei, Porter and Charlie stepped off the warship. Andre did not walk around because he was old. So Charlie accompanied Xia Fei to the factory to have a look.

The factory covers an area of thousands of hectares, and the scale is not small. The newly-built factories are all in good order.

As it has not been officially started, the workers are in the workshop for training, seize the last time to learn machine tool operation, ready for production.

Around the factory at will, old porter was full of praise for the advanced equipment introduced by Xiafei. Although the money was spent a little more, these equipment have good potential and good performance. With time, the benefits of this advanced investment will gradually show.

In the laboratory, Porter finally saw the finished product of an energy shield synergist. Charlie gave him the test parameters. Porter read it in detail and said, ”the shield repair bonus of 31.27% is very good from the data, and it should have potential.”

Xia Fei said with a smile, ”if the equipment is manufactured completely according to the drawings, the repair rate of this kind of equipment should be more than 35%. However, the factory has not been put into operation, and the workers have no production experience. Therefore, some parameters have been modified to reduce the production difficulty. As the running in of the factory becomes more and more smooth, it will reach more than 35% one day Repair rate. ”

Porter nodded. ”This is very reasonable. If the production difficulty is too high and the yield rate is reduced, the cost will be increased. Besides, the repair rate of 30% is enough to open up the market.”

”That's what I think. After the run in period, I will pick out more than 35% of the products separately and sell them as enhanced versions. Of course, the price should be higher.” Xia Fei said.

Porter laughed, ”Xia Fei, I find you have the talent to be a profiteer. The product design was originally 35, but you just regard the inferior product as the ordinary version, and the good product as the enhanced version. In this way, I'm afraid that your profit will not be doubled.”

”In order to pursue the highest performance, some high-end customers will definitely choose the expensive enhanced version. After all, the value of the spaceship they can get is not low, and they don't care about spending more money. Ordinary customers can choose the standard version because the price is more affordable.”

”If you set the standard at 35% at the beginning, then the product below this value will become defective. Once any product is labeled as the last product, the price will drop sharply. You'd better take the defective product as the standard product.”

Xia Fei is embarrassed to scratch his scalp. In fact, in addition to the standard version and the enhanced version, there will be a super version and a cheap version in Xiafei's product planning. The standards are 25, 30, 35 and 38, respectively.

Even the most advanced machine tools and equipment can not guarantee consistent quality, because each batch of raw materials will have a small difference, even the temperature of the workshop and the proficiency of workers will have an impact on the final performance of the product.

Xiafei divides its products into four grades. In this way, it not only solves the problem of product quality gap, but also makes a fine division of the market. Even inferior products will sell the price of standard products. As for the 38% super version, it is more expensive.

”Have you received any orders yet?” Potter asked.

Order is the life of a company. If no one is willing to buy the product, even if it is of good quality, it cannot be maintained.

”At present, we have practiced several large channel suppliers, and they are very interested in this energy shield synergist. However, due to the scale and reputation of our company, these channel suppliers are still very worried. They said that they need to send a batch of samples first. If they pass the test, they will place an order.”

Porter frowned. ”Cooperation with channel suppliers can spread the products, but these guys will certainly keep the price down to a very low level. As a result, the company's profits will be reduced, and they will control the channel and retail prices. If possible, it is better to bypass these vampires and cooperate directly with distributors.”