Chapter 135 Parallel Engineering

Su Cheng, holding two bottles of Maotai and two Chinese, stood in front of the family building of Huazhong University of Technology and asked the reception room at the door, "Uncle, I want to find Zhong Zhigen."

"Zhong Zhigen?" The old man thought for a moment and said, "Did you come back from studying abroad?"

"Yes, I graduated from the University of Wisconsin in the United States and returned home."

"The 4th floor of Building 3, the one on the right." The old man remembered it very clearly. After standing on the road and pointing out to Su Cheng, he said, "Don't you want to do something to him, do it? He is a young child. What can he do? Su Cheng smiled and said, "Our relatives."

"Oh." The old man delayed a long voice and put him in.

Su Cheng slowly found Building 3. Seeing that it was a small building with only four floors, he couldn't help smiling gently. Huazhong University of Technology is the later Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Zhong Zhigen obtained a master's degree from here as early as 1981 and went to the United States to study. It took 6 years to get a doctorate and return to China. This year is the second year of his return to China. According to the title rules of [China], he can only be a lecturer.

However, 20 years later, Zhong Zhigen became an academician of the National Academy of Engineering, including several key areas of manufacturing, among which the field of "Parallel Engineering" is what Sucheng needs most now.

"Parallel engineering" is a management method that can be used in both large-scale manufacturing and academic fields. In the specific implementation, it requires designers to organize multiple project teams in the early stage of product development to carry out R&D and production in parallel, so that relevant personnel can understand a large number of relevant requirements and information, so as to solve many problems in the early stage of development, ensure the quality of the design, and avoid a large amount of waste of rework.

In terms of the development of shallow sea oil technology, parallel engineering is adopted to be able to carry out various projects synchronously and allocate key projects with maximum efficiency.

In fact, for a few years at most, Zhong Zhigen will become a member of the expert committee of 86T, specializing in the allocation of resources and project teams. In contrast, the project allocation of offshore petroleum technology is only for pediatrics.

Su Cheng took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

There was an immediate response: "It's coming."

Zhong Zhigen, wearing a coat, holding a roll of book in his hand, opened the door, then looked at Su Cheng and asked strangely, "Who are you looking for?"

"Mr. Zhong, I'm Su Cheng, the director of Dahua Industrial Factory. I came from the east of the mountain to see you specially."

Zhong Zhigen is wearing a turtleneck sweater with short cuffs. His hairstyle is more Western, like the short hair of foreigners in common magazines in the 1980s. In addition, there are not many foreign signs.

He was also specting at Su Cheng. Although he doubted his identity as a "factory director", Zhong Zhigen still said without warning, "Then come in."

Zhong Zhigen's room is very simple. In the middle is a coffee table, and diagonally opposite the door is a 14-inch TV. There is no sofa, but a rattan chair.

The TV cabinet is the latest thing in the room. It is painted light yellow, which is quite elegant.

Su Cheng sat down on the rattan chair on the left and put the tobacco and wine on the side. After thinking about it, he decided to start with technology and said, "Mr. Zhong, do you know the ocean drilling platform?"

"I've heard of it, but I don't understand it."

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand it. In a word, it is an advanced machinery used in the ocean to drill crude oil. Its research investment is huge, and its construction is very complicated. Now it seems that to make an ocean drilling platform, more than 200 key technologies and more than one ordinary technology need to be solved. If you use the conventional method, it is estimated that it will take more than KO years. We, Dahua Industry, are ready to overcome this difficulty, but we hope to save time.

Zhong Zhigen nodded and said, "I can understand."

Sucheng "We want to adopt more advanced management methods, such as 'Parallel Project', to manage a large number of project teams.

"Oh? What parallel project do you need to use? Zhong Zhigen glanced at Su Cheng strangely. Since returning to China, he has not heard much about this term, especially professors outside his department. Although many people are chasing time, many people can only learn ancient Chinese.

Su Cheng responded positively: "We have set up 50 project teams, which may increase to 20 in the future. We really need an advanced management approach. After comprehensive consideration, I think the parallel project can effectively complete this work, so after many incurs, I came to Wuhan.

Eight schools and more than a dozen research institutes under the Ministry of Petroleum have been "sucated" by people, most of which are schools. The research institute is relatively more restricted, and many oilfields would rather have their own people idle than work for free for Shengli Oilfield.

However, the documents of the head office always have to be dealt with, so each family sends one or two people to make up dozens of people. Cai Shun only got the command of one project. Although he wanted to shake his face and not do it, he was reluctant to give up the huge experimental body of Chengdao Oilfield, so he gave Suchengzhi to pull people from one oil field to one oil field.

Su Cheng didn't let him do it for nothing. He went to an oil field to give him a block of subsidy. If he found an extra free researcher, he would give him an extra 10 yuan, but he would never give him power and so on.

In this way, there are not many 50 project teams. Even if he has abundant funds, he can constantly expand the project team. The only thing he can worry about is the efficiency of the project team.

Zhong Zhigen now understood the purpose of Su Cheng and hesitated, "I am only at the beginning of research for parallel projects."

"I remember, it seems to have been fruitful."

"It's really a little bit." Zhong Zhigen still maintains the national modesty.

Sucheng knows that it is great. The concept of parallel engineering was put forward with the complete concept given by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1988. At the end of the 1980s, it was a hot spot in advanced manufacturing management, and any achievement was not easy.

Of course, parallel engineering itself is not a new thing. In fact, the two bombs and one star of the country's major national defense technologies have the shadow of parallel projects. It's just that in terms of theoretical improvement, the country is relatively slow.

It will take about four or five years for Zhong Zhigen to have the opportunity to play this specialty.

But that's because of the limitation of seniority, not the level.

In the memory of Sucheng, Zhong Zhigen has been a national strategic scholar for more than 20 years.

At that time, like Shengli Oilfield, don't want to invite him.

With the idea of taking advantage of it, Su Cheng said slowly, "Mr. Zhong, on behalf of Dahua Industry, I officially invite you to participate in the design and management of the ocean drilling platform."

"This..."

"If there is a problem with the school, I can help coordinate.

"Can I ask the school to send a letter?" Zhong Zhigen does not really need the school's letter, but believes that the unit that can ask the school to send the letter is more credible.

Parallel projects need to be carried out by absolutely large companies. In the United States, it is a super consortium of the U.S. Department of Defense, General Motors and Mobil, while in [China] countries, there are usually only ministries and ministerial state-owned enterprises.

Of course, Zhong Zhigen does not expect ministerial state-owned enterprises now. He just expects to have a good unit that can barely carry out parallel projects.

Regardless of his goal, Su Cheng immediately nodded and said, "Yes, I'll telegraph back to the unit immediately."

Su Cheng left tobacco and alcohol and left.

He doesn't feel like recruiting celebrities. There are enough celebrities under him. The only thing he cares about is whether Zhong Zhigen has a legendary level.

After waiting for two days, Shengli Oilfield sent an official letter.

Zhong Zhigen was very relieved. He took two students and went to the east camp.

Su Cheng did not delay. He had already prepared the relevant materials and sent Li Weixiang to assist him.

Although Zhong Zhigen does not know oil drilling machinery, he has been engaged in manufacturing for a long time and is very familiar with this aspect. After looking at it for a while, he said strangely, "Why is there a pile of things about drilling here?"

"That's a priority project, called a large displacement well. We need to complete the large displacement well before we can design the marine drilling platform."

"This is not in line with the principle of parallel engineering. Parallel engineering is to carry out linear, that is, sequential work at the same time... If the drilling work is completed first, the delay will be long."

"Only by completing the large displacement well first can we get the full support of the oil company, including the tilt of funds and personnel. Therefore, I think it is such a situation that the project team that is not related to drilling work, do theirs, related to drilling work, first make a large displacement well..."

"Is this also called parallel engineering?"

"This is politics." Su Cheng spread out his hand and said, "I think it's the same in the United States. Moreover, we also want you to prove your strength first. The oil drilling platform involves several years of hard work of tens of thousands of people and hundreds of millions of yuan of investment. I hope you can understand.

Zhong Zhigen looked at Su Cheng helplessly.

Su Cheng looked at Zhong Zhigen innocently. Although he knows Zhong Zhigen's resume very well, it is quite interesting to examine the level of a future academician of the Academy of Engineering.

As an unknown young man, Zhong Zhigen faced such a large project, with weak resistance like a baby. He quickly gave in and began to devote himself to long reading work.

He doesn't need to know the specific technical details of drilling, but he always needs to have a certain amount of understanding, coupled with his familiarity with the participants, it is estimated that it will not be finished in a week.

Su Chengzhong was lazy and walked out of the office. Fortunately, he broke away from the heavy management work. If he was asked to manage the project teams of those schools, even if he was exhausted, it might not be effective.

Shu Hao had already seen Su Cheng from the corridor. Seeing that there was no one around him, he immediately followed him and said, "Su Cheng, I want to talk to you about the water heater."

"Huh?"

"I want to buy a factory specializing in water heaters, so... would you like to participate in the stock?"