Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 767 - 717: New Regulations Issued_2

Plus, due to age, the learning speed for new technologies isn't fast enough, leaving many old workers feeling uneasy with them.

Although they can still rely on years of experience and accumulation to handle their jobs, the growing number of new technologies is making many old workers feel overwhelmed.

After all, the application of new technologies often means the elimination of old ones.

Spending a lifetime learning and using a set of skills and now facing their obsolescence, is a substantial blow to many old workers.

Only a few can adapt to this change, leading to more young people in the shipyard becoming the new technical backbone, while old workers, though not necessarily eliminated, clearly occupy a decreasing proportion.

Wislo is one of the old workers who can relatively learn new technologies, since he's not actually that old and can still manage to learn some new stuff.

But he does feel overwhelmed, as he learns not so quickly.

This reality makes him somewhat anxious.

Regarding the new regulations this time, although he talks about how unified standards can offer more convenient construction, he equally understands that new standards mean he needs to relearn new work content.

"Hey, Wislo, the supervisor is looking for you!" Just when Wislo was worrying about this, a worker stopped him.

Upon hearing that the supervisor wanted him, Wislo didn't dare delay and promptly sought out the supervisor.

"Supervisor, are you looking for me?" Wislo greeted the supervisor, also noticing a peculiar small wooden box beside him.

"Ah, Wislo, you're here! I indeed need to talk to you." The supervisor nodded at Wislo, then pointed to the small wooden box and said, "Regarding the new production standards recently promoted by the government, I'm sure you are aware of them.

According to the latest regulations, bolt sizes need to adopt new unified standards. These here are bolts of the new size, take them and organize the workers to get familiar with them. Once the new rules are formally implemented, the factory's bolts will all need replacement."

"Got it, supervisor, I understand." Wislo nodded affirmatively, then curiously asked: "Supervisor, is it only the bolts adopting new standards, or does everything have to change? Do the factory's old drills need to change to new sizes too?"

"Yes, everything needs changing, but no urgent rush right now." The supervisor nodded his head, satisfied with Wislo's awareness of this: "After all, higher-ups understand that implementing new regulations isn't done with just one statement, the massive amounts of old parts accumulated in each factory need to be used up first.

Many supporting items also require replacement, this is a massive engineering task! Without enough time as a buffer, serious problems would arise!"

Wislo deeply agreed with this, as he had experienced something similar when the shipyard transitioned from producing sail warships to Ironclad Warships. Many new applications left old workers unaccustomed, causing issues during shipbuilding, leading a new ship to be dragged back to the dock for rework to solve the problem.

The supervisor, though he hadn't experienced that era, read about it from preserved records in the shipyard, thus giving extra reminders to Wislo.

Despite believing Wislo should have experienced it, actually needing no extra reminder.

However, Wislo didn't actually go through that event; he only knew and heard about it.

Nonetheless, Wislo's good trait is that he can maintain composure, even if ignorant, he can pretend to understand based on the parts he is familiar with.

Having a seasoned face here is, after all, quite convincing in many situations.

"I got it, supervisor, I'll ensure the youngsters get familiar with the new regulations." Wislo assured the supervisor, then carried the small wooden box back to his workstation.

Currently, a not-so-new model of Flying Airship was being built in the shipyard, after all, they were just a small shipyard, lacking the scale to join the Flying Warship plan.

They didn't even get the latest Flying Airship orders, let alone securing Flying Warship orders.

"Hey Wislo, what's that?" Seeing Wislo carrying a box back, several workers curiously gathered around.

This group of workers was under Wislo's management, with no work started today, they naturally had time to appease their curiosity.

Wislo didn't say much and simply used a wrench to open the box, revealing pieces inside wrapped in wax-paper.

Looking at those parts, Wislo finally spoke: "These are parts produced under the new standards, the supervisor mentioned henceforth all our parts and compatible tools must be replaced, I brought them here to let you familiarize yourselves with the new parts' size."

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at the parts in the box, showing expressions of understanding.

Though among them, some complained "Such nonsense, why use new standards for perfectly good parts," to most, they merely worried about whether they could adapt to these new rules.

"Wislo, which things exactly are changing due to new rule? Did the supervisor give you any hints?" A worker also asked, picking up one wrapped part and looking at Wislo.

"According to the supervisor, anything involving sizes must be replaced, these bolts are made under the new standards, bring over a box of previous parts, let's make some comparisons for better impression." Wislo replied to the group about the information he heard, meanwhile unwrapping one of the wax-paper packs and uncovering a pitch-dark part.

"Why is this new part rusty right off the bat!" Someone unclear of it pointed at Wislo's part.

However, Wislo merely brushed the part's surface with a finger and said to everyone: "It's not rust, probably due to added materials during production, so it seems burned or rusty."

Upon hearing Wislo's explanation, many picked up a part, unwrapped the wax paper, casually measuring the sizes.

Soon, a box of old parts was brought over, similarly displayed on the table before Wislo.

Wislo took out a batch of relatively precise old parts from the box and placed them together with new ones, thereby manifesting a very intuitive comparison.

Though old parts were also unevenly thick and thin, Wislo could obviously see that new parts had a unified dimensional change, visibly processed carefully for such uniform and orderly size.

While old parts were also carefully processed and usually appeared fine, placing both side by side, one could immediately notice the difference.

Old parts varied in thickness and length, although seemingly arranged in order, it was clear that their variety had no apparent pattern.

"Is there such a huge gap between old and new parts?" Looking at the parts on the table, Wislo held one of each bolt in hand, feeling the difference may be even clearer than what the eyes can perceive.

"These new parts look truly beautiful!" Someone expressed praise but also curiously asked: "Is there any specific reason for the new parts' dimensions? Isn't it just made to look good?"

"Oh, I know! I've heard the new rules require bolts like these to be designed strictly following standard dimensions and numbered according to size, with a standard value for minimization between two specifications!" The young man Wislo tapped earlier stood out loudly explaining: "With such unified standard application, all bolts have standard sizes, so there's no need to worry about using different parts in different places."

The youngster felt proud after speaking and took a glance at Wislo.

Wislo didn't mind this, he simply told others: "Everyone, come take a close look and remember the details!"