Weichai's connotative development adds new vitality: the 615 plant doubles its annual output

The equipment manufacturing industry is a strategic industry that provides technical equipment for various industries in the national economy. It has high industrial correlation, strong ability to absorb employment, and intensive technology funds. It is an important guarantee for industrial upgrading and technological advancement in various industries and a concentrated expression of national comprehensive strength.

How to revitalize the equipment manufacturing industry and upgrade the core competitiveness of the equipment manufacturing industry? The Weichai 615 plant is based on the connotative development. It is a good revelation to achieve double the annual output without substantial increase in the site and personnel.

During the Spring Festival, the Weichai 615 Plant had a one-day vacation except for the first day of the first month. The rest was almost the same as usual - full production, busy and orderly.

After the reform and opening up, Weichai introduced foreign equipment and technology to produce high-speed engines for heavy trucks, starting from here. The reporter interviewed Weichai Group and came here first.

Not the same holiday

The spacious workshop 2 has a depth of about several hundred meters. A piece of equipment, a shelf, makes the workshop like a steel jungle. Workers are nervously busy before the production line. Cylinder cover class two weeks Weifang, young and capable, he is the duty shift here, this year 27 years old. After graduating from Weichai Technical School in 2002, he became a Weichai employee. Speaking of the workshop's production situation, he was very happy: "There are many orders and we can't finish it all year round."

Zhou Weifang has been in the factory for nine years, and New Year's Day is basically spent on work. The first vacation, in his memory seems to be the second time. He said, “Work is stressful and fatigue is not bad, but the company’s benefits are good, and the employee’s treatment is the highest in the same industry in Weifang, so I feel very satisfied and very practical.”

Speaking of why the business is so effective? Orders are so much? Song Lei believes that it is because of its strong core competitiveness. Song Lei is director of the 615 factory cost management office. He said, “I don’t know about the whole group. But we can see from these 615 plants that Weichai’s core competitiveness has increased rapidly over the years.” The 615 plant turned out to be a workshop in Weichai and now it became a branch. It is basically the same as the original site, and the number of employees is similar to the original. However, the output of diesel engines is quite different. “When I first entered the factory, there were less than 20,000 diesel engines per year. It was a miracle to produce 20,000 units a year at the time because the production line was a device imported from abroad, and the designed capacity was only 10,000 units per year. But now, too, Or those people and that site, the monthly production reached 26,000 units." Song Lei said with insolence, you count how many times the productivity of labor increased?! Calculating accounts from the perspective of cost, the more competitive they become. No one can compare such a product to the market.

In the assembly shop, it was installed two classes. The handsome monitor Tian Kai chatted with the reporter. Tian Kai and Zhou Weifang were classmates when they were studying at Weichai Technical School. They were the same age and the same year they joined the factory as workers.

Speaking of Weichai, Tian Kai's prideful expression was revealed. He said that his grandfather, his father, and him, all three generations are Weichai people. From kindergarten to elementary school, secondary school, technical school, and until employment, he never left Weichai.

Tian Kai believes that the explosive growth in production capacity of the 615 plant is a good example of Weichai's deep implementation of the scientific concept of development and the path of connotative development. In the nine years since he entered the factory, it has been full production. Tian Kai told reporters that the factory had carried out technological transformation of the production line, engaged in informatization, and invited university experts to optimize the production process; it introduced advanced management concepts such as comprehensive budget management, Six Sigma, excellent performance management, and lean production. Management, 5S site management, etc.; in the tool tooling, the original manual all changed to pneumatic, the original single assembly line as much as possible to simultaneously assembly. All in all, companies have devoted themselves to the development of connotative development, which has greatly increased labor productivity.

Tian Kai said: "This large output has been at full capacity for many years. It is false to say that it is not tired. However, the employees have the expectation and are proud of the company." He had been arranged by enterprises to visit a number of specialized factories in other places. Wages, only half of them. Regardless of the development of the enterprise or personal income, Tian Kai thinks that “more effort, more sweat, and more are worth it”.

Different growth

On the production line, the young workers, one by one, are like little tigers. They have a good spirit and are full of energy.

What Tian Kai feels most deeply is the improvement of the quality of his staff. “Now, the new employees entering the factory will be able to work independently for one month. When we first entered the factory, we were basically apprentices and only after six months did we get top positions.” Why do the workers have high quality? Tian Kai believes that the key lies in training. It is the establishment of a learning enterprise. “Now corporate teams and employees have monthly training plans and topics every month. Regardless of the position of the production line, the employees' business development strategy, corporate management, the role of components on the engine, performance and its consequences Such as, all clear. Employees have many knowledge, wide vision, the efficiency is naturally high." Tian Kai said that as the team leader, he received large training at least 2 times a year, small training is even more. Not long ago, it had just been released to the Shouguang Party School for a week. Although Tian Kai is only 27 years old, but here even the old workers. He led the second class in the middle class, the average age of employees is only 21 years old.

The reporter had a problem that he did not understand. Where are the employees so young and where did the old workers go? Wu Qichao, an employee of the 615 factory who accompanied the interview, said that this is like a training base. Some new factories that Weichai has successively built are all from here. Formation. Employees who are drawn from here can all pick up their talents.

Talking about the reason why the Weichai engine market was booming, Wu Chaohui, the front-loaded second shift squad leader, first analyzed Weichai's past. He told reporters that after importing products from abroad, the company had not improved its development for many years, and its products were of a single product type and could only be used in trucks. Therefore, the market has become narrower and narrower. In the end, the enterprise has fallen into an almost collapsed situation. Later, Tan Xuguang served as the director of Weichai Factory. The company vigorously develops new products. At present, the number of engines produced by the 615 plant is close to 2,000, and it can be used in trucks, buses, construction machinery, ship engines, and generator sets. Many varieties, a wide range of supporting, the market is more broad, the output will be pulled up. The economies of scale are getting better and better, the investment in technology development is even more, the after-sales service is better, and the company has formed a virtuous circle.

When Tan Xuguang took office as director of Weichai in that year, the annual sales revenue of the company was only 500 million yuan, and the company suffered serious losses. After only a dozen years of development, by 2010, the Weichai Group achieved operating revenue of 91.1 billion yuan, profits and taxes of 12.5 billion yuan, and profits of 9.44 billion yuan, becoming one of the strongest equipment manufacturing groups in China. In the future, Weichai Group will develop the three business segments of powertrains, commercial vehicles, and parts and components in a balanced manner. Among them, the engine business segment should be built into a global leading, full-range, full-field power provider, and build a million-dollar, one-billion-level green power R&D and manufacturing base.

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Weichai 615 Plant is a major production plant for Weichai high-speed engines. In the 1980s, Weichai imported high-speed engines for heavy-duty trucks. The designed production capacity was 10,000 units a year and the products were mainly used for heavy trucks. Over the years, through continuous technological transformation, the 615 plant has achieved a qualitative leap in its production capacity and technological level. At present, the 615 plant mainly produces nearly 2,000 varieties of engines in the WD615, WP10 and WD10 series. The products can be widely used in trucks, passenger cars, construction machinery, ship engines, generator sets and other fields.

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