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Chapter 462: The assembly line operation of the Ordnance Supervision Department (Second update)

Chapter 461

The first thing Wang Yang did when he came to the Jiafang Department to take charge of the work was to carefully sort out the workflow of the entire Jiafang Department.

I silently recorded in my heart what I felt needed to be improved, and spent two full days thinking about how to improve the work efficiency of the entire Jiafang Department.

The site location of the Military Weapons Supervision is very excellent. It is located on a branch of the Bianhe River outside Bianliang City. There is plenty of water. The important thing is that it happens to be surrounded by two mounds.

Just on the river bank alone, there are more than fifty waterwheels standing up to help smelting and forging.But these waterwheels are all pure wood like in the past, and there is almost no metal waterwheel structure.

Therefore, wear and tear will easily cause these pure wooden waterwheels to go on strike. As for those smelting furnaces, in the past, they could only smelt pig iron, and then use pig iron to fry iron to obtain wrought iron.

On the third day, under Wang Yang's instruction, one-third of the craftsmen in Jiafang Office stopped their work, extinguished the stove around them, and turned off the hair dryer.

Because Wang Dacai wants to carry out a comprehensive innovation and transformation of the entire Jiafang Department.The reason why only one-third of the craftsmen stopped their work was mainly because the previous armor-making had not yet been completed and needed to be finished.

And this third of the craftsmen also has more than 500 people, and a group of more than 500 experienced and strong learners was selected from them.
More than a hundred craftsmen were also appointed to Wu's smelting workshop to learn the Yuanyou steelmaking technique, Yuanyou coking technique and the production process of the Great Song Yuanyoujia invented and pioneered by Wang Yang.It is to improve or transform waterwheels, smelting furnaces, and smelting tools.
More than 3000 craftsmen who had become idle for a moment started the construction work in full swing.

Although many of the craftsmen didn't quite understand Wang Yang's approach, the problem was that their objections had no effect at all in front of this majestic seventh-rank official appointed by the imperial court.

The original more than ten iron smelting furnaces have not been moved, but nearly twenty more smelting furnaces have been erected beside them. Yang also carefully divided the work of these more than 3000 craftsmen.

In the past, almost all the craftsmen in the Jiafang Department were forging iron armor. Now, Wang Yang asked Zhang Shu to divide the craftsmen in the Jiafang Department. One-fifth will be responsible for the future coal preparation and coking work, and five will be responsible for the future coal preparation and coking work. One of them is responsible for crushing iron ore and beneficiating ore.

One-fifth is responsible for the smelting of pig iron and pincers, mainly producing suitable forged nails and drawing products.

One-fifth is responsible for the forging and post-heat treatment process of steel armor pieces, and the other fifth is responsible for the chain armor process of steel wire and the assembly of iron armor.

In addition, Wang Yang specifically went to inquire about the Imperial Army, and then found several old generals who are now squatting on the court hall for retirement. After careful inquiry, he found a few very representative The soldiers measured their figures, and then modified the armor to a certain extent for its universality and flexibility.

In this way, the Da Song Yuan Youjia will be divided into two sizes, the large size and the medium size, and each type can be worn by soldiers with a height difference of [-] centimeters.

That is to say, the large armor can meet the needs of soldiers from 1.7 to 1.8 meters, while the medium armor can fully meet the needs of 1.6 to 1.6 meters.Because the Song Dynasty required soldiers to have a minimum height of more than [-] meters.

And even if there are soldiers who are really taller than two meters, they can still obtain satisfactory and sturdy armor through the increase or decrease of chain armor rings.

The power of the country is obviously not comparable to that of individuals and collective enterprises. It only took less than five days to build twenty blast furnaces required for steelmaking in clamp pots.

The coking room has also been completed. After the trial production, it is estimated that the [-] large coking rooms will be able to provide more than [-] catties of coking coal per day when coking in three batches.

The waterwheel on the iron ore mining side has been rebuilt, and if you work overtime every day, it can provide more than [-] catties of iron powder.

The size and shape of the newly built blast furnace is almost the same as that of Wu's smelting workshop. It is estimated that a blast furnace can produce [-] jin of pincer steel per day without any problem at all.

However, compared to the time it took fifteen to twenty craftsmen to produce two pairs of Song and Yuan Youjia, Wang Yang was not satisfied.

Because at that time, I just thought of something, and then started to prepare, and then do it. But now, what Wang Yang needs is to be able to produce the highest quality and cheapest Song Yuan Youjia as quickly as possible.

Therefore, Wang Yang decided to adopt the most common and classic method in later generations: assembly line production.

For example, the craftsmen who are responsible for producing forged nails will be divided into several groups. One group is responsible for forging and pressing nails, another group is responsible for cutting nails, and the next group is responsible for quenching nails. There is a group responsible for polishing the nails, and another group is responsible for drilling the polished nails.

The forging group is assisted by a water hammer forging press, and the cutting group is assisted by a hydraulic cutting machine. The carburizing time of each nail piece in the quenching group is clearly regulated. The grinding team also uses a hydraulic grinder to polish the nails.

The nail drilling machine is a manual machine tool similar to a sewing machine created by Wang Yang before.With the help of these various machines, it took no more than one and a half hours from the time the first team got the nails until the last team finished drilling the polished nails.

Then it was handed over to the next workshop, that is, the assembly workshop. There were not many processes in the assembly workshop, that is, the chain armor brought from another chain armor workshop was assembled with this iron armor piece.It takes two craftsmen about three and a half hours to assemble a whole armor. That is to say, two craftsmen can assemble a pair of Great Song and Yuanyou armors every day.

"Starting from the production of tongguo steel, once the process of armor plate and chain armor is divided into operations, until the assembly of Dasong Yuanyoujia is completed.

In fact, it only takes eleven hours, and in this kind of large-scale assembly line operation, only [-] people are needed to produce tong pan steel, and it can produce [-] jin of tong pan steel per day..."

Listening to Wang Yang talking there, Lu Jianqing, the military inspector, looked at the account book in his hand, or the report, a little confused.

The labor, materials, and time required for each process in it are so detailed that it is outrageous.

"This report is really detailed, um..." Although it was very detailed, but the knowledgeable Jianqing Lu felt dizzy, and after resignedly putting down the thick report, Jianqing Lu's His eyes fell on Wang Yang again.

"However, what makes me even more curious is, how long did you say it took to get a pair of Song Yuan You Jia?"

(End of this chapter)