Chapter 208: Continuous events

The first factory of Quantum Company in Iowa uses high-level equipment from alien planets, and it is the first manufacturing base in the history of the earth to have alliance-level production levels.

There are three factories of the same size in Europe and Asia. If all of them are put into production, they can produce 1,200 sets of energy shield enhancing devices every 24 hours.

In order to maximize the factory efficiency, all equipment use the Alliance's general-purpose intelligent machine tools. These machine tools can not only be used for the production of energy shield energizers, but once the company launches new mechanical or electronic products, the factory can also be converted to production immediately, which has good flexibility.

The four factories spent more than 80% of the capital reserves in the quantum company's accounts. It can be said that Xia Fei has invested enough money in the construction of these factories.

All the workers are from skilled technical workers on the front line of production. The alien engineers hired from high salaries have specially conducted a month-long training for them. Now everything is ready. With just one order, the assembly line will continuously produce the energy shield enhancing device.

The Vampire slowly landed on the open space outside the factory. Xia Fei, Porter and Charlie walked off the battleship. Andre usually stopped walking around because he was old, so Charlie accompanied Xia Fei to the factory to take a look.

The factory covers an area of ​​thousands of hectares and is quite large in scale. All the newly built factories are arranged in an orderly manner.

Since the work has not officially started, the workers are training in the workshop and seize the last time to learn machine tool operation and prepare for production.

After wandering around the factory, Old Porter praised the advanced equipment introduced by Xia Fei. Although he spent a little more money, these equipment had good potential and good performance. In addition, the benefits of this advanced investment will gradually emerge.

In the laboratory, Porter finally saw a finished product of an energy shield enhancing device. Charlie handed him the test parameters. After reading it in detail, Porter said: "The shield repair bonus of 31.27% is very good from the data, and it should still have potential."

Xia Fei smiled slightly, "If it is produced completely according to the drawings, this kind of equipment should be able to achieve a repair rate of more than 35%. However, the factory has not yet been put into production and the workers have no production experience, so some parameters have been modified to reduce the difficulty of production. As the factory run-in becomes more and more smooth, one day it will reach a repair rate of more than 35%.

Bowei nodded, "It makes sense to do this. If the yield rate is reduced due to the high production difficulty, it will increase the cost. Besides, 30% of the repair rate is enough to open up the market."

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

Porter laughed, "Xia Fei, I found that you have the talent to be a profiteer. The product design was originally thirty-five, but you insist on selling defective products as ordinary versions and good products as enhanced versions. In this way, I am afraid that your profit will not be as simple as doubled."

"In order to pursue the highest performance, some high-end customers will definitely choose expensive enhanced versions. After all, the spacecraft they can do is very valuable and don't care about spending more money. Ordinary customers can choose the standard version because the price is more affordable."

"Suppose you set the standard at 35% from the beginning, then those below this value will become defective products. Once any product is labeled as a defective product, the price will drop sharply. You should treat defective products as standard products."

Xia Fei scratched his scalp embarrassedly. In fact, in Xia Fei's product planning, in addition to the standard version and the enhanced version, there will be a super strong version and cheap version, with the standards being twenty-five, thirty-five, and thirty-eight respectively.

Even the most advanced machine tools cannot guarantee consistent quality, because each batch of raw materials will have slight differences, and even the temperature of the factory and the proficiency of workers will have an impact on the final performance of the product.

Xia Fei divided the products into four levels, which not only solved the problem of product quality gaps, but also finely divided the market. Even defective products will be sold at the price of standard products. As for the super strong version of 38%, it is even more expensive.

"Have you received the order yet?" Potter asked.

Orders are the life of a company. Assuming that no one is willing to buy the things produced, no matter how good the quality is, it cannot be maintained.

Charlie said with a little concern: "We have practiced several large channel suppliers. They are very interested in this energy shield energizer. However, due to the size and reputation of our company, these channel suppliers are still somewhat skeptical. They said they need to send a batch of samples first and only if the test is passed will they place an order to purchase."

Porter frowned, "Although cooperating with channel suppliers can spread the product, these guys will definitely keep the price to extremely low, so that the company's profits will be reduced, and they will also control the two major life gates of channel and retail prices. If possible, it is best to bypass these vampires and cooperate directly with distributors."

Old Porter now completely regards himself as a member of Quantum and begins to put himself in his shoes, which makes Xia Fei secretly happy.

"Uncle Porter, our biggest problem at the moment is how to promote the energy shield energizer to the entire universe. If you have any good suggestions, you might as well say it directly." Xia Fei asked.

In the complex and changeable pan-human alliance, businessmen have already done their business to the extreme. As the saying goes, good wine is not afraid of deep alleys, but contemporary marketing experience tells us that the better wine is, the more afraid of deep alleys. No matter how good the thing is, it is difficult to achieve its due value without excellent marketing methods.

Bo's nodded, "Every time the league holds a variety of competitions and procurement bids, some of which are very influential, such as the annual battleship equipment procurement meeting of the Admiralty, the Mechanics Association's Goldfinger Cup, and the Single Ship Super Confrontation Competition of the Supreme Command."

"A competition like this not only covers the entire universe, but also involves the most powerful departments and groups in the league. I believe that with the powerful ability of the energy shield enhancing device, we can definitely make a name for ourselves in these competitions. If even the Admiralty uses this kind of equipment, will it still be used for advertising?" Old Porter said with a smile.

Does Xia Fei know that Uncle Porter himself is the champion of the Goldfinger Competition of the Mechanics Association for three consecutive times, so he is naturally familiar with these competitions.

"Uncle Porter, I have considered your ideas, but these high-level competitions require extremely high qualifications for contestants. The company does not have the qualifications to participate in the competition yet. We can participate in those small competitions, but the advertising effect will undoubtedly be much worse and the best publicity effect cannot be achieved. We are all very troublesome for this." Charlie said immediately.

Porter smiled, "Charlie, you forgot that these competitions can not only be played in the name of the company, but also individuals. Isn't there a person right now?"

"Uncle Porter, are you willing to represent the company to participate in the competition? That's great!" Charlie said excitedly.

Porter shook his head and pointed at Xia Fei with one hand, "I'm not very convenient for me to show up in public. Xia Fei has this condition. He has a good foundation in both warship driving, mechanical maintenance, and even product design. He is also a member of the Judgment Union, so it's most appropriate for him to participate in the competition."

Old Porter's idea actually coincides with Xia Fei. He doesn't have many choices to gain league-level publicity in a short period of time. It is currently the most suitable method to increase his popularity by participating in various competitions and bidding conferences.

After all, the cost of participating in a few games or bidding is relatively low, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the overwhelming advertising offensive. Moreover, it is many times better to convince others through real-life competitions than touting advertising.

However, Xia Fei has not decided which competitions to participate in. The Pan-Human League is difficult to describe in words. There are many organizations of various forces and they cannot participate in any competition. That is unrealistic.

Xia Fei thought for a while and asked, "Uncle, you are more experienced. According to your opinion, which events we are currently participating in can achieve the best publicity effect?"

Porter laughed, "You're right. When I was young, I was very obsessed with these interstellar competitions. Unfortunately, I couldn't participate in all the competitions."

After finding a quiet office, Xia Fei turned on the ultramicro computer, Old Porter pointed at the light curtain, and quickly retrieved several high-end competition information that had begun in recent months.

"I think it is most appropriate to participate in these competitions and bidding," said Porter. "In more than three months, the single ship super competition of the Supreme Command will begin. This event requires participants to use fixed types of warships to eliminate them. There is no requirement for ship modification, and any new equipment is allowed."

"This article is very beneficial to us. Usually the event organizers will require the contestants to modify them using fixed accessories. As a brand new product, it is impossible to enter the supplier list in a short time, so they can only participate in this kind of event without the specified accessories."

"Of course, this competition also has its drawbacks. Many contestants will spend a lot of money to buy the league's top accessories installed on the battleships in order to maximize performance. We may not have the extra money to buy expensive top accessories at the moment, right?"

Xia Fei nodded. It would undoubtedly be unfair if an ordinary warship and a warship equipped with many top-level accessories engage in one-on-one combat. After all, the performance of top-level accessories is far better than that of ordinary products.

Xia Fei still has some deposits in his account, but this money has its own uses. Besides, even if you invest all the funds, you may not be able to gain the upper hand in performance, because assembly investment is like a bottomless pit, and no matter how much money you have, it is impossible to fill it up.

Porter smiled slightly, "We can try this game. You are still very good at fighting the battleship. Although your equipment is not as good as the opponent, you also have the strength to compete with each other."
Chapter completed!