The factory progress was even smoother than Evan thought.

In early May, the factory was completed, and water, electricity, safety facilities, etc. were all available. At the same time, Magic's scheduled injection molding machines and assembly lines began to enter the factory, and ordinary assembly workers were also recruiting simultaneously.

The components of the Rubik's Cube are divided into three categories: top, edge and center surface, so the injection molding machine is also divided into three groups. According to the determined plan, the entire production line can produce about 10,000 Rubik's Cubes per day when running at full speed. This output is enough to meet the US market according to Evan's estimate.

The installation and commissioning of the injection molding machine lasted about ten days, and then it took another five days to straighten the assembly line. With the workers in progress and the completion of on-the-job training, on May 25, the factory director Jason Davidson decided to conduct trial production. Before that, Ronald had just set the plastic production process and the final specifications of the mold, and in order to make the cube feel the best, Ronald and Miguel Estell of the mold group almost were driven crazy by Evan.

On the day Evan nodded and said "Okay", Ronald hugged Miguel excitedly on the spot, and then left the production workshop while scolding.

"FXXK, this damn thing has finally been done. I want to take a leave, I want to rest, I will go back to the headquarters."

When Evan said behind him, "Rona, are you going to join Magic7? You have a high salary for a high vocational college!" Ronala turned his head and said, "Evan, I will not work under your hands even if I sell myself to the demon. Because the demons will not have perfect obsessive-compulsive disorder."

Evan shrugged and said, "This is not necessarily the case."

The trial production day was a weekend. Evan arrived at the factory early, and he was also with his sisters, brothers and Audrey. The governor and his wife were also interested in going to visit him, but unfortunately, because the date of the party primary election for the 1946 governor election was approaching, Earl needed to run for the election battle to mobilize, so he could only leave regrets.

There was no ceremony for trial production. At 10 o'clock, the factory manager Davidson gave the order and the entire production line started.

All production lines, management positions, and visitors, including Evan, were fully armed and took sufficient protection measures.

Evan took Audrey and others to start from the injection molding workshop. He watched a pile of granular plastic raw materials enter through a hole in the machine, and when they come out for a while, they become the desired shape. Dora and Dorothy looked at it and shouted "Amazing!"

After watching the production process of parts, the group came to the assembly and packaging workshop.

There are actually many processes required to assemble Rubik's Cube. There are five types of plastic parts produced in the injection molding workshop, and there are six parts in total. These parts can only be assembled through six processes to create a plain Rubik's Cube. Then a sticker of different colors is pasted on each side. After inspection, packaging, and storage, a brand new Rubik's Cube will be released.

Such an assembly line requires about 100 people in all stations, and after proficiency, it can produce about 200 Rubik's Cubes per hour. There are 8 production lines in the entire assembly workshop, and based on the eight-hour working hours per day, the daily output is up to 12,800 Rubik's Cubes. Of course, these numbers are still on paper now, because the factory currently only recruits more than 200 workers.

The assembly line that repeats the same thing may be interesting at first glance, but as long as the time goes by, the freshness will quickly fade away. Dora is like this. When she first came in, she was curious about everything. Before half of the time, she was clamoring to go out.

Evan was a little annoyed by Dora. After asking Audrey, she said she didn't want to see it anymore, so Evan attracted someone to take them out first, who was not interested.

Evan and several management teams have been waiting for the final statistics at the warehouse. At 11 o'clock, the assembly line was suspended, at 11:50, after two rounds of inspections, the statistician reported the results.

176 Rubik's Cubes were produced in one hour, 6 of which were unqualified.

This number obviously did not meet the predetermined goal. Evan frowned and was a little dissatisfied. But considering that it was the first production, as workers' proficiency increased in the future, this number will definitely be further improved.

So Evan said to Director Davidson, who was gloomy because the production did not meet the standards, "I think this result is good. The failure rate is a little high, and this needs to be improved."

"Capacity climbing requires a process, I know this. Davidson, how to improve production efficiency in the future, please pay more attention to it."

Seeing that Evan was not too angry, but affirmed his work, Davidson felt relieved. Hearing Evan reminded him to pay attention to improving productivity, he immediately nodded and responded: "Evan, this is my job, I will pay attention to it."

Afterwards, Evan asked the executives on the scene to tell them what they thought about to see if they could make some suggestions for production. Unfortunately, among the other executives, Gillard and Carl knew nothing about production, so naturally they didn't say anything. Ted Weber, the manager of the Magic7 quality department, knew about production, but Davidson was already embarrassed enough just now, so he didn't speak anymore.

The trial production ended quickly, and several people returned to the office building in the factory and held a small meeting.

The meeting decided on the next few arrangements: First, the marketing department manager, that is, Gillard, needs to determine the marketing plan and the time for the product to officially go on the market within two weeks; Second, based on the launch time and the market surveys in the previous period, Gillard needs to give a stocking quantity to the factory; Third, the factory manager Davidson arranges production capacity based on the figures given by Gillard; Fourth, Evan set a goal for Davidson, that within twenty days, the hourly output of a single production line needs to reach 185, 200 within forty days, and the failure rate will drop below 1%.

At the end of the meeting, it was already twelve o'clock. Evan quickly took everyone away from the factory and found a restaurant to solve his stomach problems.

The factory canteen has not been renovated yet, and now workers’ lunches are customized boxed lunches from the factory.

Before leaving, Evan gave everyone a Rubik's Cube that had just been taken from the production line, which was considered a souvenir.

In the afternoon, Virginia took her younger siblings home and took Audrey back together. Evan did not return to Sacramento because he had to see someone else.

What Evan wants to meet is a manager of 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing). The stickers used in Rubik's Cube are now products of 3M. Originally, Evan wanted to produce Rubik's Cube with colored plastic parts, but after adjusting them for several months, the color could not meet his requirements. There was no way, so he could only use 3M stickers. Unfortunately, the color of stickers met the requirements, but it also brought one disadvantage, that is, the production process had to add the sticker process.
Chapter completed!