Chapter 234 Stunning Debut and Dana Merah Country Club
At the end of May, with the massive increase in the business of Singapore Yifan Company, Li Xiaofan felt embarrassed to bother Jenny too much. Later, Jenny simply introduced one of her night school classmates to Li Xiaofan.
In her spare time, Jenny studied for an undergraduate course in accounting and finance at SIM, a joint program between SIM and the University of London. There was a classmate in the class named Liu Yanping, a Sichuan girl from the mainland, whose hometown is Zigong, Sichuan.
Liu Yanping married a local Singaporean three years ago. When she was in China, she studied at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade in Shanghai, majoring in international trade. After marrying to Singapore three years ago, Liu Yanping has been working as an assistant in a small local trading company in Singapore. The salary is not high, about 1,000 Singapore dollars per month.
After Jenny introduced, Li Xiaofan interviewed Liu Yanping and found that this Sichuan girl was quite capable and had good English. In particular, she studied international trade in China and has been working in the trade industry since coming to Singapore. She has similar work experience in both places and is quite suitable to be his assistant.
Li Xiaofan directly offered Liu Yanping a monthly salary of 1,500 SGD, and Liu Yanping immediately agreed to come and work as Li Xiaofan's assistant.
In mid-June, after Liu Yanping completed the resignation procedures of her former employer, she officially started working at Li Xiaofan's Yifan Company to help him manage foreign trade business.
With Liu Yanping joining, Li Xiaofan felt much more relaxed and could free up his hands to start handling other business.
In late June, after the renovation of the R&D office in Singapore Science Park was completed, Li Xiaofan led A Long and Liu Yanping to officially move into the new office and start working. Li Xiaofan still kept the office reserved for Tang Xinyi and Li Xiaofan in the OUB Center of Raffles Place, and occasionally used it when important customers visited to support the scene.
In the R&D office in Singapore Science Park, Li Xiaofan also reserved positions for two part-time partners, Pan Zhanlong and Gu Qijun.
The new company had just opened and was short of manpower, so Li Xiaofan asked Liu Yanping to temporarily serve as the office director.
Liu Yanping agreed without saying anything, and then showed the bold and capable personality of a Sichuan girl, managing the office in an orderly, bright and clean manner.
Li Xiaofan bought and equipped a brand new 486 computer for everyone in the office, and applied for Internet dedicated line service from Singtel.
In this 500 square meters of space, Li Xiaofan separated about 150 square meters for office use, and the remaining 350 square meters of space was used as a research and development workshop.
By mid-June, the software for compiling the PCB circuit diagram file developed by Pan Zhanlong and Gu Qijun into a CNC drilling program had been completed.
Later, Liang Xiaojun, manager of the ICT testing division of HP Singapore, introduced a business of HP3070 test fixtures and supporting test software from Flextronics Singapore, trying to let Singapore Yifan Technology Company test the water.
Under the leadership of Li Xiaofan, Pan Zhanlong, Gu Qijun, A Long and three others used Peng Ge's CNC machining center to help them drill holes and process molds on the test fixtures, and then a large number of assembly processes were completed in the company's R&D workshop in Singapore Science Park.
Li Xiaofan rented a HP3070 test system from HP Singapore at a very cheap symbolic price and placed it in the company's R&D workshop. After the equipment arrived at Yifan's R&D workshop, Li Xiaofan immediately trained Pan Zhanlong and Gu Qijun on how to write the HP3070 ICT test program.
After the initial ICT test fixture was completed, Li Xiaofan took Pan Zhanlong and Gu Qijun to start debugging and troubleshooting on the HP3070 test system.
The three of them stayed up half a night, and the debugging and troubleshooting work was successfully completed.
On the morning of June 30, Singapore Yifan Technology Company completed the first order in the company's history and delivered the ICT test fixture and test software to Singapore Flextronics.
That afternoon, at the Singapore Flextronics factory in Kallang Industrial Zone, Liang Xiaojun, manager of the ICT test division of Singapore HP, and the test supervisor of the engineering department of Singapore Flextronics, and others accepted the product of Singapore Yifan Technology Company.
At Li Xiaofan's suggestion, Gu Qijun moved their test fixture to the HP3070 workbench on the production line. At the same time, Pan Zhanlong imported the written test program into the main control computer of HP3070.
Flextronics' test engineer took a piece of PCBA circuit board of this model and put it into the test fixture.
After pressing the button, there was a "puff" sound, and the air pressure valve locked the test fixture on the HP3070 machine, and then the machine began to vacuum extract the air in the test fixture.
After the air was extracted, the upper and lower parts of the test fixture began to bite tightly, and thousands of probes on the upper and lower parts were tightly inserted into thousands of test points on the PCBA circuit board with electronic components.
Then, after the current was turned on, the HP3070 test host began to test.
In less than a second, a big "PASS" popped up on the page of the HP3070 test host, which meant that the test passed.
Flextronics' test engineer then brought a box of 50 PCBA circuit boards of this model and put them in for testing, and all of them passed "PASS" at one time.
A test engineer from Flextronics said in surprise: "It's amazing. This is the first time I have encountered a new test fixture from a supplier like you. It is installed on the HP3070 test machine on our factory production line and does not require debugging!" You must know that there are nearly 2,000 devices on this PCBA circuit board, and the parameters of each device are different. It is not easy for your test fixtures and test procedures to be so accurate! "
Next to him, Liang Xiaojun, manager of the ICT testing division of HP Singapore, also secretly marveled that to achieve such a level of accuracy, even HP itself might not be able to do it.
The test engineer from Flextronics continued to praise: "Dr. Li, your test fixture is very comfortable to test. There is no noise caused by vacuum extraction of air. The sound is crisp and comfortable when pressed. If all our suppliers can The test fixtures that come out are like yours, so our factory can save a lot of effort during testing, and the performance will be improved a lot!”
If an outsider came in and saw this situation for the first time, they would definitely think that this test engineer from Flextronics was Li Xiaofan's "trustee".
Li Xiaofan secretly laughed inwardly: I have been working in the ICT testing industry for more than ten years in my previous life. Is this all in vain?
When leaving the Flextronics factory, Liang Xiaojun patted Li Xiaofan on the shoulder and said affectionately: "Director Li, your performance today amazes me! Next, I will recommend more HP3070 machine users to use the test fixtures and software services provided. . Thank you for your company’s support of our HP3070 machine!”
Early the next morning, Li Xiaofan went to the Tampines Course of Tanah Merah Country Club not far from the terraced house dormitory and started practicing golf.
Although Singapore is a small country, there are more than 20 golf courses across the island, including membership courses and public courses. In addition to Sentosa, the prestigious championship course is Tanah Merah Country Club located near Changi Airport.
Tanah Merah Country Club is an old course with a long history. It has been in business since 1984. The course has hosted international competitions such as the HSBC Women's Championship and is one of the best championship courses in Singapore.
After being invited to Sentosa Golf Club by Mr. Tang last time, Li Xiaofan made up his mind to start learning to play golf.
This sport is not only for fitness, but also for high-end social needs in the future. Especially in the United States, those big guys like to play golf. In the future, when your worth increases, if you still don’t know how to play golf, you will lack a way to communicate with the big guys.
Later, Mr. Tang introduced a golf coach to Li Xiaofan. This coach was called "Brother Hua", and his full name was He Zhihua. He once represented the Singapore Golf National Team in many important international events, but now he has retired due to his age.
Since late May, as long as Li Xiaofan is not on a business trip or has other important matters, he will go to Tanah Merah Country Club on time before 7 o'clock every morning to receive professional coaching from Brother Hua and practice golf.
Training starts at 7 a.m. and ends at around 12 noon every day, five hours of high-intensity training every day.
Because the Tanah Merah Country Club is close to the dormitory, Li Xiaofan sometimes goes to train in the evening.
Last Saturday evening, Li Xiaofan was invited to Ye Niya's house. When he was playing putting green with Mr. Tang, Ye Niya found that Li Xiaofan's level had greatly improved and his posture looked a bit like a professional athlete. She was very surprised. Knowing that Li Xiaofan She was also very interested after receiving guidance from a professional coach.
A few days ago, Yenia went to Sentosa Island to play golf with some wealthy ladies from Singapore. As a result, her golf skills were not as good as theirs, and she lost several thousand Singapore dollars in pocket money, which made her extremely distressed.
So from the past few days, Ye Niya and Li Xiaofan received professional golf coaching and training from Hua Ge at the Tanah Merah Country Club.
When he practiced until 9:30 in the morning, Li Xiaofan's cell phone rang, and it turned out to be an unfamiliar fixed number.
After getting through, Li Xiaofan asked: "Hello, who is this?"
"Hello, are you Director Li? I am Luo Zhiwei from the Singapore ICT Testing Division of Teradyne Technology Company in the United States. Do you still remember me? You visited me in our company's office before..."