Chapter 282 Wearable Air Conditioner
Chapter 282 Wearable Air Conditioner
late April.
Aiming at the problem that employees are prone to heatstroke in hot summer, Mu Yang asked Zhang Xiaofeng and Lai Chunqin to discuss it together.
Mu Yang and the other two came to the office, and after the two sat down, they said: "We often say that we need to enrich the benefits of employees. I think it is not only material aspects, but also the working environment, especially in summer, when the weather is hot. Workers sweat profusely at work and are prone to heatstroke, do you have any good suggestions?"
"There are also work clothes. Some types of work wear short sleeves, but some types of work need to wear long sleeves."
"Normally, we cook mung bean soup for employees to drink, or ice cream and popsicles. Others may have to be remodeled from the factory building. Chairman, isn't our steel structure factory building equipped with a cooling system."
Next, the two said a lot of suggestions.
After listening to the two people's suggestions, Mu Yang said: "Well, I think it is still necessary to install a layer of heat insulation on the roof of the steel structure factory building, the effect will be better, otherwise, the temperature in the factory building will exceed 40 degrees."
There are certain reasons why Muyang chose the steel structure factory building at the beginning.
The construction period of the steel structure building is short, the investment cost is correspondingly reduced, and the span is large. If one day you feel that it is not suitable, you can disassemble it, sell it or build it elsewhere, and there is no pollution in recycling.
Of course, there are many problems. For example, in summer, the factory building is relatively hot. This is the most troublesome problem for Mu Yang, and nothing else is a problem.
Generally speaking, most companies don't consider the issue of summer when building factories, and the boss is not willing to spend too much money to improve the working environment of employees. If you want to add heat insulation to the steel structure workshop, most companies will not be willing to do so.
When Xinghai Group first built steel structure workshops, it did not consider the issue of money, but mainly the construction period.
Today, the steel structure factory building has been built. In addition to adding a cooling system, a layer of heat insulation must be added to the roof of the factory building.
Multi-layer measures can reduce the temperature in the steel structure factory building from 50 degrees Celsius to about 30 degrees Celsius in the hot summer, ensuring the safety of employees in production.
Other than that, there is no better way.
No company will install air conditioners in empty factory buildings, the space is too large and there is no cooling effect.
After the meeting, Mu Yang was still thinking about this question.
Suddenly, he remembered that in the summer of 2022, a certain domestic company launched a wearable air conditioner, which was also featured in hot news.
At that time, after looking at it, he couldn't help complaining that the wearable air conditioner was too big, weighed more than three kilograms, and the price was not cheap.
12888 yuan!
It is said that the customers are workers with hot working environments such as sampling personnel, environmental protection workers, welders, and field plasterers.
Uh, what a joke.
Is this something they can afford?
Even if you can afford it, who would spend the money!
The company or unit will definitely not purchase for them, and people will complain about their brains if they spend this money.
On the contrary, those local tyrants who like to fish during the day may buy them. Such people don’t have to go to work, and when they have more money, they are bored and looking for something leisurely and elegant to do.
Moreover, from Mu Yang's point of view, this wearable device is crudely made.
It consists of four parts: liquid-cooled clothing, a micro-DC compressor, a battery, and a purse. The refrigeration principle is actually the same as a small air conditioner. The main cost is the micro-DC compressor and the battery. The actual cost is estimated to be less than 1,000 yuan.
In the final analysis, this company developed this type of equipment mainly to collect money from a certain sampler, that is, the country.
Of course, it is undeniable that the cooling effect is really good. The temperature drops to 16°C within 3 minutes of starting up, and it can be used continuously for 3-6 hours.
In fact, in 2017, a domestic research institute developed an "air-conditioning vest", which did not cause much splash at the time, mainly because it was not practical.
In 2019, Suoni will also launch the "wearable air conditioner" Reon Pocket. The cooling principle is different from that of the 12,888 yuan. After a circuit composed of different conductors, the Peltier Effect (Peltier Effect) will be generated to achieve the effect of heating on one side and cooling on the other side.
price?
289USD!
It is equivalent to two thousand yuan.
It's not cheap, and it's not sold in China yet.
W fuck, I look down on the local tyrants of China.
They can afford luxury brand clothes that cost tens of thousands of dollars, and spending two thousand dollars on a new and trendy dress is not a problem at all.
The complaints are back to the complaints. From Mu Yang's current perspective, this device is still somewhat useful. The cooling effect is indeed not as good as the one with a price of 12,888 yuan. It is a partial cooling.
At the same time, its customer positioning is not workers, most workers are reluctant to spend thousands of dollars to buy this device, but young people who like fashion.
Sony's wearable air conditioner has a simple structure, the actual cost is not high, and the brand premium is large. If it is manufactured by Huaguo and the batch is large, the molds, tooling, etc. can be shared, and the cost is estimated to be reduced to less than 100 yuan.
The clothes are custom-made, in fact, there is only an extra pocket for the wearable air conditioner, and there is no cost.
However, the refrigeration effect of this equipment is too poor to meet the needs of front-line workers.
A few years later, a wearable air conditioner is also sold on a certain treasure. It is actually a miniature electric fan. The wind blows upwards from the belt. The price depends on the battery life. It is 100-300 yuan. The refrigeration principle of the latter product is two different things, such as a blower fan and an air conditioner.
Mu Yang is not interested in making this wearable fan, it is useless.
He analyzed Suoni's wearable air conditioner, and he felt that he could do it too, and he could also apply for an invention patent first, so that Suoni Company could not play this. This is Mu Yang's favorite thing to do: Monopoly!
And it is still grabbing other people's future invention patents.
Muyang wants to develop a wearable air conditioner, mainly for the company's on-site workers, especially the employees of the titanium alloy and aluminum alloy factories, as well as the welders. Their working environment temperature is very high, and they hope to have a comfortable air conditioner in summer. It is also beneficial for the company to have a comfortable working environment and no longer be afraid of heatstroke. Employees improve work efficiency and create more benefits for the company.
If the production cost of wearable air conditioners can be reduced, and the selling price is within 1,000 yuan, or 500 yuan, or even lower, there will definitely be a broad market.
If the cost is less than two or three hundred yuan, then there is no point in researching it. Rich people don’t need this thing to blow air conditioners in their houses.
Therefore, to improve the working environment of outdoor workers, Muyang intends to make some contributions to these low-level people.
As for him, it is good to guarantee a small profit.
High version products are aimed at people who like outdoors and rich people, and guarantee the company's profits.
After careful consideration, Mu Yang felt that it was necessary to develop such equipment.
If he doesn't do it, it is estimated that wearable air conditioners will be applied to the people, which may not be realized within ten years.
It is far away from being widely applied to ordinary workers.
Produce and sell earlier, these front-line workers will be less tired.
Mu Yang did whatever he wanted. Twenty minutes later, he drove to the supercomputing center of the headquarters base, connected to the human brain signal converter, and put on the helmet.
Instead of using achievement points, he intends to design it himself.
This kind of product, the principle is not difficult, mainly rely on creativity.
For the next two days, Mu Yang has been researching this wearable air conditioner. He has designed more than ten technical solutions, but he is not very satisfied.
The main problems are in four aspects: cooling effect, weight, volume, and working duration.
The first is the cooling effect. If the effect is not good, it is tasteless.
The second is the weight, including the clothes, the weight cannot exceed 500 grams; the clothes are going to be made of quick-drying materials, so just get a vest.
In terms of volume, too large will affect the work of workers, while too small equipment means insufficient power and poor durability.
The duration of the work can be maintained for about three hours. In a day, the hottest time is only those three or four working hours. To have a charging function, or a replaceable power supply, the price should not be too expensive.
If it is a micro DC compressor, the general battery cannot meet the energy consumption, so Mu Yang directly ruled it out.
In the end, semiconductor cooling elements are used. Of course, it would be better if there is a cooling material. There is no need for a wearable air conditioner at all. Even a piece of clothing can have a cooling effect, but this is too black technology.
Mu Yang thought of this, and directly searched for cooling materials in the achievement point store.
Sure enough, there is really no such material.
Then search for "wearable air conditioner".
Instead, they found semiconductor refrigeration elements and other forms of wearable air conditioners.
No matter how powerful Mu Yang is, if he has some creativity, he never thought of it, and it has little to do with IQ and subject level.
It's not that he is a useless talent. He has designed multiple technical solutions in the past two days, which can be used, but he is not satisfied.
And the technology in the Achievement Store has matured, in other words, it is equivalent to Mu Yang's design achievements for many years.
Can Mu Yang wait for a few years?
No, cheating is his advantage, if he can use it or not, he is a fool.
This is like the two enemies on the battlefield, one with a gun and the other with a knife. The one with the knife said that you are not capable of killing me with the gun. For a moment, scold the enemy for having brain problems.
Just like Mu Yang, even if his subject is promoted to level 8 and level 9, he can design more complex and profound products, but he still cannot get rid of the problem of creativity.
This time, Mu Yang did not get a satisfactory product from his own design.
I had to spend 10 achievement points to buy a suitable "wearable air conditioner".
The core of this wearable air conditioner is the semiconductor refrigeration element, which has low energy consumption, good cooling effect, and is rechargeable. If most of it is made of plastic materials, the weight is relatively light, and it is not a problem to control a refrigerator within 100 grams.
A set of equipment can be equipped with two coolers, one on the nape of the neck and one on the ribs, and the clothes are specially made with air-conditioning patterns on the inside.
A set of wearable air-conditioning vest is about 280 grams.
Of course, if special lightweight materials are used, the weight will decrease, but the price is certainly not affordable by ordinary people.
The continuous cooling is only about 3 hours, which is already very good; the cooling effect takes about five minutes, which can reduce the local surface temperature of the human body to 18 degrees Celsius, and 10 centimeters away from the equipment, it can also guarantee about 22 degrees Celsius, which can be felt completely to cool.
It is a semiconductor refrigerator, the lowest temperature can be controlled, and it will not hurt people's skin due to partial freezing, which is completely different from conventional semiconductor refrigeration components.
Mu Yang analyzed this wearable air conditioner, it is not considered black technology, the ingenious design is the semiconductor cooling element, which is really unexpected, but after Mu Yang saw the structure, he suddenly felt enlightened, the structure is not complicated.
"I see."
Next, Mu Yang attracted the knowledge points of this technique.
Then, use the supercomputing center to output the data.
In the afternoon of the second day, he got all the materials ready.
The wearable air conditioner technology is not complicated and has few parts.
In the case of mass production, R&D costs, molds, and equipment costs are evenly allocated to each product, which is extremely low.
For example, the most common version of the wearable air conditioner, including clothes, can reduce the production cost to about 130 yuan, and the overall cost is about 160 yuan (including research and development costs). If good materials are used, the production cost may reach more than 200 yuan.
Of course, there are many styles of wearable air conditioners, with prices ranging from low to high.
If it's just the affordable price of ordinary models within 300 yuan, Mu Yang feels that the market is very large.
If it is too expensive, those front-line workers will not buy it, and Mu Yang has never thought of making money from these people. There are too many ways for him to make money, so there is no need to grab the wool of ordinary people.
Muyang plans to set up a subsidiary called "H City Xinghai Wearable Equipment Co., Ltd.", excluding the factory building, with a planned investment of 500 million yuan. The core components will be manufactured at the headquarters base, and the clothes will be outsourced.
If you follow the ordinary model, the comprehensive cost is 160 yuan to the pre-sale price of 250 yuan. It seems that the gross profit is 90 yuan, but the investment is large, and the research and development expenses of several hundred million yuan are counted (even if Muyang didn’t spend a penny, but the research and development expenses will be higher. Calculated value), it is not too much to say that it is one billion yuan.
It would have to sell 10 million pieces to earn back the cost.
Moreover, the gross profit of 90 yuan refers to retailing by opening a store, not including store operation and sales costs.
Take a look at Adidas's clothes, which cost fifty or sixty yuan, and retail for several hundred yuan, which is considered a huge profit, and their research and development costs are very low.
After Mu Yang’s calculations, he felt that the price of 250 yuan was too low. The product just came out. Although he didn’t intend to earn the money of ordinary front-line workers, he couldn’t let himself suffer too much. He had to sell it for 300+ anyway. It is a high-tech wearable Equipment, and then gradually reduce the price.
Forget it, first produce the product, then put it on the shelves, and then look at the market feedback, the final price is still too far away.
When Mu Yang went back to eat at night, he saw his father happily taking out a bottle of Moutai from the wine cellar, and poured himself a glass.
He took a sip and felt very tasty, which made Mu Yang feel a little strange. His father didn't drink like this before, and it felt like he hadn't touched alcohol for many years.
He usually does not limit him to drinking, and there are hundreds of cases of Moutai in the wine cellar, as well as red wine that will be scarce in the future.
Seeing his son looking at him strangely, Mu Lin said with a little complacency:
"Son, I heard that Moutai can kill Helicobacter pylori? Would you like to have a drink?"
Hearing this, Mu Yang frowned and asked, "Dad, who said that, he saw it?"
"I heard from some experts that it should be fine."
"Some people are out of their wits, and dare to say anything, just to fool the common people." Mu Yang smiled, and then turned to his father, "Dad, do you know what Helicobacter pylori is?"
"Uh, I don't know, I heard it's a kind of bacteria." Mu Lin was speechless for a moment.
Mu Yang smiled and joked: "Dad, Moutai can also cure all kinds of difficult and miscellaneous diseases, all kinds of diseases, do you believe it or not?"
"I don't believe this, how can there be such a powerful baijiu."
"That's it. Why is Moutai okay, but other liquors can't? This is nonsense. In the future, don't listen to what experts say, and have your own judgment ability. Some people are not experts at all." Mu Yang probably told his father what Helicobacter pylori is. It is a bacterium that causes stomach problems, mainly causing chronic gastritis and gastric ulcers.
Song Xuelu, Ma Lan, and her younger sister ate their own meals and didn't interrupt the topic of men.
While sleeping at night, Mu Yang talked with Song Xuelu about where she was going to go on vacation.
Mu Yang suggested: "When you are on vacation, why don't we drive to Xinjiang by ourselves, and see the blue sky and the prairie during the day?"
"Will it delay your work?"
"In July, I just went out to escape the summer heat, swimming, sunbathing, eating grilled fish, etc. in Fuhai Ulungu Lake."
Mu Yang has never been to Xinjiang, so he is quite curious about it. It just so happened that his younger sister's college entrance examination was over, and he also wanted to take his family on a trip. Usually, his parents were free, but in order to take care of them, he didn't go on a trip.
"Will it be hot?"
"The temperature difference between day and night is relatively large over there. I heard that some places are hotter, and some places are much cooler than City H. The higher the altitude, the lower the temperature. I don't know if it's true or not. Just look at the weather forecast when the time comes. If it doesn't fit, we'll go play somewhere else."
Mu Yang can’t remember which year, 2011 or 2022. In the downturn of national tourism, Xinjiang is overwhelmed by tourists from all over the country. The highest price of a homestay is 17,000 yuan a night. This price is too scary! It is more expensive than the presidential suite. The owners of the homestay probably sleep with a smile at night.
The two chatted for a while, April is a suitable season for planting, neither hot nor cold, without gorgeous clothes, simple and unpretentious, close to nature, and the love is deep and naturally strong.
the next day.
Mu Yang went to work.
Luo Xiang came back from a business trip and wanted to report to the boss on work. When he saw Mu Yang, he smiled wickedly: "Hello, chairman."
When Mu Yang saw his expression, there must be nothing good.
It should be said that some people must have nothing good.
Mu Yang signaled him to sit down, smiled and asked:
"How about this business trip."
"It's done, it's a trivial matter."
"What crime?"
"There are quite a few, including seven crimes of fraud, extortion, dissemination of false information, and financial credential fraud. They were sentenced to life imprisonment."
"..."
Mu Yang thought it was just one crime of fraud, but when the case fell into this guy's hands, it became seven.
Maybe it wouldn't be a problem for this guy to make up ten of them.
"Lawyer Luo, I don't know how to praise you."
Mu Yang really wanted to say: W fuck!
If this guy really becomes a scumbag, he will definitely be a super scumbag. Even if the police catch him, they won't be able to convict him.
"Thank you for the compliment, Chairman, I will be on a business trip again in two days."
"Well, okay, you go back and rest for a day or two before you go."
Luo Xiang nodded, and then exited the chairman's office.
He is very happy in Xinghai Group. The chairman doesn't care about him. He goes back to school when he has something to do, and comes to the company when he is free. The more legal affairs the Xinghai Group has, the more he plans to work full-time in the Xinghai Group in two years.
After Luo Xiang left, Mu Yang asked his secretary to call Zhang Xiaofeng to talk to him about the company's talent training system.
There are only more than two months until July, and the graduates recruited last year are about to register. There are a total of 1,510 people, all of whom are top talents from various schools. Doctoral students account for 150, and master students account for about 600 people. graduate.
Zhang Xiaofeng came to the chairman's office, and Mu Yang chatted with him while drinking tea.
"Mr. Zhang, what do you think of DeG's college student training system?"
I remembered that a few years later, after graduation, college students would go to the civil service exam, deliver food, and would not want to work in a company.
Of course, this salary package is the biggest reason.
"I don't know much about it. I heard that their country attaches great importance to students' hands-on ability." Zhang Xiaofeng said truthfully.
"Yes, I've recently been analyzing the cultivation of talents in our country and some developed countries. Where are our advantages and disadvantages? After much deliberation, I think students in our country have relatively poor hands-on ability. I'm not talking about working. , but the basic quality and hands-on ability to engage in scientific experiments.
And this ability is actually based on the length of operation time. If you do a lot, you will naturally become proficient. This does not distinguish between countries.
As far as mechanical majors are concerned, our domestic universities only start metalworking internships in the junior year. The cycle is relatively short, about four weeks, and in the senior year, they may arrange visits to companies. After all, during the four years of university, there are very few opportunities for students to do it. This is related to our national conditions. After all, to cultivate students' hands-on ability, they have to spend money on equipment, and various materials are wasted more.
But when we come to our company, we have this condition and hope that the hands-on ability of graduates will be improved quickly. "
DeG students have been training their hands-on ability since high school. For example, the dean of a university department must have worked as a senior executive in an enterprise.
Mu Yang used to be a welding engineer. He knows that most welding engineers don't know how to weld, but they understand it theoretically.
But in fact, because they don't know how to operate, they don't understand many details very well, so they can't really deal with problems like welding technicians.
There will be many problems in the front-line production. If designers or engineers do not go to the workshop, they will not know the front-line situation, and actually learn very little knowledge.
Solving on-site problems is the fastest way to improve personal knowledge and ability, and working behind closed doors is definitely not enough.
"The chairman is right. I will focus on the front-line operation for graduate training."
Mu Yang nodded: "I attach great importance to talents, but I hope that these outstanding graduates we recruit have the ability to work within their own scope of work and know how to operate equipment. I hope that you will pay attention to this when training, instead of coming to Once you join the Xinghai Group, you can always sit in the office.
Even after becoming a full-time employee, they are required to go to the laboratory frequently and visit the production workshop. "
Mu Yang chatted with Zhang Xiaofeng for a long time about the cultivation of college graduates, especially emphasizing that students should not be treated differently because of their school or education background.
Every graduate is the future pillar of the company.
After chatting with the graduates, let him recruit a research and development team of about 20 people, that is, the research and development personnel of the wearable air conditioner project team, and give him a list of talent requirements, requiring him to complete the recruitment task within two months.
When encountering an urgent project that requires urgent talents, Mu Yang can't do anything about it. He couldn't predict that this project will be carried out, and it is completely a temporary decision. In the final analysis, such an unplanned project is very bad, but there is no way, sometimes it is so sudden.
If we wait for the analysis of the strategy department, the time will be delayed until two or three months later, and we will miss this summer's promotion period. He plans to launch the wearable air conditioner in July this summer.
After Zhang Xiaofeng left, Mu Yang continued to plan for the wearable air conditioner.
Mu Yang's current focus is to supervise the mass production and sales of aluminum alloys, and organize the launch of this wearable air conditioner project.