Chapter 129: One after another
After returning to his alma mater, Baichuan Feng not only found a backer for himself, but also planned the future industrial development in advance.
He knew very well that in an environment like Neon, if he relied on himself to fight alone, his future prospects would be very limited.
As Professor Yamada said, the development process of a company first affects its employees, then the region where it is located, and then society.
In such a gradual process, the enterprise will inevitably integrate itself more thoroughly, and the threads of ties between it will become more and more dense.
In this case, it is impossible to influence all aspects of society without the help of group interests.
Ultimately, it all comes down to "people" and "interests".
However, neither Shirakawa Feng nor Shirakawa Electric have reached this step yet. The first thing they need to do now is to strengthen themselves.
As for the future, let’s wait for the future.
Patents and industry-university-research, these matters have been settled one by one, and Shirakawa Kaede has returned to Shirakawa Electric.
Although he is still a student at Meiji University, the time he has spent on Shirakawa Electric far exceeds that of Meiji.
Especially after this meeting with Professor Yamada, other teachers in the school now almost always avoid his name when calling the roll in class.
Shirakawa Kaede didn't know whether this was Professor Yamada's intention or the school's intention.
But now that the door of convenience has been opened, he will not be so foolish as to pretend to be reserved.
After all, for him now, knowledge is secondary, and connections come first.
The context of interpersonal relationships has become increasingly clear, so it doesn’t matter if you put the business management courses on hold for a while.
The production workshop of Shirakawa Electric is busier than before with people coming and going.
At this time, the second production line of the Walkman has been completed, and the third production line is also being arranged in full swing.
Due to the increase in manpower, the total number of employees at Shirakawa Electric has now exceeded 300, which is three times the number before the New Year.
New employees are still being recruited continuously, and as long as Flashman's production capacity cannot keep up with the demand, the pace of expansion will not stop.
The first 100 million yen loan from the Bank of Japan has been almost spent, and the sales proceeds of Flashman will not .
If funds become tight again, Baichuan Feng will have no choice but to urge the review of the second loan.
So sometimes if you do the math, the initial investment in real estate is really a money-eating beast.
It is not certain whether tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars will pay off. Even if there is a payoff, the cycle will be very long.
Perhaps many companies fall in the darkness before dawn before that day comes.
Fortunately, the future of Shirakawa Electric is bright. Not only Shirakawa Feng thinks so, but everyone at Shirakawa Electric thinks so.
"President Shirakawa, the pass rate of circuit boards provided by Kimura Manufacturing seems to have dropped significantly recently."
Just as Shirakawa Kaede was looking at his crops, Yamaguchi Kazuo came over with a circuit board.
"Hmm?" Bai Chuanfeng stopped and said, "Tell me in detail."
“If you look at the printed circuit of the circuit board, the green paint layer is obviously thinner in some places.
During the assembly process, if employees use a brush to clean the paint, they can even directly brush out the copper circuits under the paint surface.”
Kazuo Yamaguchi held the circuit board and pointed to a piece of exposed yellow metal to show it to Shirakawa Kaede.
Sure enough, Baichuan Feng scratched it with his fingers, leaving clear scratches on the exposed area of the circuit board.
His face turned serious, “Notify Kimura Productions immediately and ask them to give an explanation.
In addition, the quality inspection of circuit boards will no longer be carried out by random inspections, but by inspection of each piece in the entire batch.
We must not allow any defective product to enter the market.”
"Huh!" Yamaguchi Kazuo also knew the seriousness of the matter, once Flashman had quality problems.
Then the future of Shirakawa Electric might be over, because Flashman was its only flagship product at that time.
It can be said that when one prospers, all prosper; when one suffers, all suffer.
"How long has this situation lasted?" Baichuan Feng continued to understand the situation as he walked towards the meeting room.
"Employees have reported similar issues since yesterday, and two more employees have discovered the same problem today."
As a person with decades of experience as a manufacturing manager, Kazuo Yamaguchi is conservative and old-fashioned.
But his meticulousness is also an indispensable quality in the product production process.
He will not let go of any bad thing easily.
Hearing that the problem first occurred yesterday, Baichuan Feng felt relieved.
"All the finished products from yesterday have been re-checked, and I will let Hasegawa-san explain the sales channels.
The inspection must be done carefully, but there is only one day, is there a problem? "
Yamaguchi Kazuo gritted his teeth and said, "Please rest assured, President, there will be no problem!"
Kazuo Yamaguchi made up his mind that if things didn't work out, he would pull in the headphone maker to take over temporarily.
After all, the production of headphones is high, and the current inventory can still cope with it.
In addition, compared to Flashman, the value of the headphones is much lower. It is obvious which one is more important.
"Okay," Baichuan Feng nodded, "In thirty minutes, let's have a meeting to discuss this together."
"I understand," Yamaguchi Kazuo nodded in agreement.
"President, President! Here I come, here I come!"
Just then, Hasegawa suddenly came jogging over with a document in his hand.
"What's the matter?" Baichuan Feng, who had just encountered a product quality problem, had a serious face and was in no mood to joke with him.
"Uh." Hasegawa put away the excitement on his face and handed the document in his hand to Shirakawa Feng with a nervous look, "It's a note from Sony."
Sure enough, Baichuan Feng was stunned.
He took the document and looked at it in detail. Basically, Sony asked Shirakawa Electric to hold a consultation regarding the infringement.
"Got it. We'll arrive on time according to the other party's schedule." Shirakawa Feng calmly returned the document to Hasegawa .
"Hai" Hasegawa took the document, a look of renewed excitement on his face. He had long wanted to meet the legendary Sony.
Looking at Hasegawa's hurriedly departing back, Shirakawa Feng sighed in his heart.
As if it weren't always bad enough, Shirakawa Electric had just gotten on the right track when things started to happen one after another.
However, Sony's official note was also within his expectations. After all, considering the time, both parties were almost ready.
The fact that Sony did not file a direct lawsuit at the first opportunity was also in line with Professor Muto Kiyoshi and others' predictions.
After all, Sony is a multinational company and it is impossible for it to ignore the overseas market.
If the identities were swapped, there would be no doubt that lawsuits would have been flying around by now.
Since negotiation is the initial attempt, Shirakawa Kaede already has a rough idea of Sony's attitude towards this matter.
In this case, he can start planning his next step.
Of course, Shirakawa Electric also responded enthusiastically to Sony's invitation for negotiations. Although Shirakawa Feng was not afraid of Sony's attack, he was not so reckless as to take the initiative to confront Sony.
He still had the necessary tacit understanding. Since he wanted to limit the issue to the negotiation table, that was more in line with his wishes.
After careful consideration, Shirakawa Feng felt that it might be time to notify Professor Muto Kiyoshi.
The battle flag is raised and we are ready to set off.
