A Glance at the Employees of Production Foton Auman
Date：2009-08-28 09:26
Born in 1981, Mr. Yue Peng studied the senior colleague courses of North China University of Technology on his own upon his graduation from a junior college. Since he was brought onboard to Foton, he has been carrying on his studies to enrich his knowledge to be a professional technician. He plays table tennis and goes swimming during his spare time. During the interview, the reporter gets a sense that Mr. Yue Peng is a kind of silent, timid but honesty person. He is the last to speak during the interview and he says that during the peak production season, production cycle is more rapidly timed than usual. He is working at the hoisting station, where safety accidents are apt to happen. Therefore, safety production should be addressed and safety hats should always be kept on. People other than operators can not linger along within the operation line. No matter how busy and how tired you are, work environment should be kept clean and tidy. Even if you work overtime and no matter how late it is, you will have to make the work area clean before you leave. Work should be done in respect of the 5S procedures and people need to have good habits to safeguard production of premium quality products.
When the reporter arrives at his work station, he is working sedulously under a lifted Auman cab and the pneumatic spanner is waving in his hands. In two or three minutes, dozens of bolts were assembled in place. The initially timid impression is gone and in front the reporter is a confident, skillful and enthusiastic operator.Yue Peng is responsible for assembling the frame welding assembly at his station. It looks like a simple process, but if you want to do a good job, you need to practice more. Yue says skilled operation is a kind of technology itself. In order to manipulate good skills during assembly, he has always been diligent, practicing hard and meticulously investigating assembly tips. Now, his assembly speed and quality are among the best of his shift. Yue Peng goes on saying that in order to meet differentiated customer requirements, hundreds of variants are produced under Auman brand. Even for the same model, configurations may differ; for different models and different configurations, parts to be assembled are different. So, to be an excellent operator, you need to remember the part lists for different models apart from acquiring skillful assembly techniques. He requires himself to be able to tell the needed parts once he sees the work order so that he will make no mistakes or miss any parts at all in the process of safeguarding accuracy and quality assembly work. Born during the 1980s, the young generation specially represents a gen- Shen was born in 1981 and joined Auman Plant upon his graduation from university in 2002. He’s the one who grew up with the plant where he worked all the way through from process technician, production schedule coordinator, Manager of Procurement Section, Vice Manager of General Assembly to the Manager of General Assembly. In the past 7 years, he has been promoted step by step from the grass roots to management.
The reporter arrives at the General Assembly as scheduled and the workshop is noisily busy with machines running on and in-plant logistics carts shuttling in order. The online operators are busy with their work and the assembled heavy-duty trucks are brought off line. Shen Yanli is there to direct the offline vehicles to the depot. After handing over his work to his colleagues, Shen leads the reporter to his office, which is located on the 2nd floor of the General Assembly Shop. Though the office door is closed, noises from machines can still be heard. Mr. Shen tells the reporter smilingly that he is used to the noise and may feel upset if he doesn’t get it. He tells the reporter that this March witnessed the peak production in Auman and in order to guarantee market demand, three workshops of the Auman General Assembly gave up rest and worked overtime to bring out 7161 units of vehicles in March.
As its name may tell, the General Assembly Shop is an integration of various processes and procedures, where Auman heavy-duty truck is brought offline from production. Therefore, quality is crucially important in process controls. Mr. Shen says that during the peak production time, they take quality and safety as the first things first. It is under the premises of quality and safety assurance that they commit to fulfill production plans. A series of activities have been rendered under the themes of “Safety Production Month”, “Diversified Operation Contest”, “Civilized Assembly Operator” and so on to enhance the employee awareness on safety, quality and civilized behaviors so that scheduled production tasks are brought on the track of safety and orderliness. eration of vitality in China’s modern history when physical materials are in great sufficiency. As “the only child of the family” after the implementation of China’s family plan policy, this younger generation has been doted on in the family and they used to be crowned as Born in 1981, Hou Xujie joined Auman Plant upon her graduation from Shenyang University of Technology in 2003. Hou has been working for the Process Section, Quality Inspection Section and Comprehensive Management Section of the Pressing Production Department, and Auman Comprehensive Management Department. No matter which position she is holding, she would try her best to do a good job. This is her principle of work devotion.
Duan Xiuying from the Logistics Group of Interior Line 2 tells the reporter that she and her husband are both working in Auman Plant. When her son fell ill and needed injection, she could not excuse herself from work during the tightened production arrangement for the peak season; when Hou Xujie who is supporting the front line heard about it, Hou asked to work in replacement of her so that she could spare some time to take her son for the injection and she was really moved by Hou’s help.
During the interview, Hou’s name is frequently mentioned to the reporter, who comes up with the idea of meeting“him”. Seeing Hou, the reporter is greatly astonished because in front of the reporter here stands a beautiful young lady.
Hou Xujie says that during the peakproduction, management employees under the age of 35 take turns to support the front line production and as one of them, she joins the Logistics Group of the General Assembly. She has a downto- earth understanding of the plainness, selflessness and actively progressing working enthusiasm of the factory floor workers, which always inspire her to actively devote herself in her work. In order to guarantee the smooth progress of peak production arrangement, management employees like Hou support the factory floor production based on the plant plans while they fulfill their routine obligations so that production is tuned in with the support of HR,industrial worker training programs, incentive policies, remuneration policies, production services and many other initiatives. the “Little Emperor” or “Little Princess” during their childhood. Where there was no brotherhood or sisterhood,some think that they tend to act on their wills more and often times they are unacknowledged for courtesy, sharing and caring; they are more selfesteemed or egoistic and often times in medias, they are compared to “the Beat Generation” of the United States or reviled by the general public as the “Least Responsible Generation”, “Most Asocial Generation”, “Most Treasonous Generation” and so forth. Such social responses have puzzled many people, not knowing whether it will go from bad to worse when they come up Born in 1982, Mr. Zhang Guanghui joined Foton Motor upon his graduation from Luoyang Technology School in 2004, the time when Auman was in hot sales in market. He plunged himself to the peak production after boarding to the company. After consecutive night shifts for half a year, he said smilingly that he had a good start. He has been working for Foton Motor for 5 years and has made himself a real Foton employee in a sense that he can quickly adapt himself to the rhythm of peak production.
There are 802 league members and young workers under the Communist Youth League Branch of the General Assembly. In order to make the league members play a leading role in the peak production, Mr. Zhang Guanghui led the Communist Youth League Branch of the General Assembly to enhance ideological education among league members through active communication, broadly collecting opinions of the league members, learning the dynamic changes of their thoughts and reporting their difficulties in life or work to the leaders in a timely manner so that vast majority of employees can feel the warmth and care of the organization and this has helped in fulfilling the production tasks during the peak production season. The existing environment, equipment and other factors are challenging and testing the workers during the peak production. With heavy work loadand limited conditions, youth league members, under the leadership of the Communist Party and Youth Branches, are playing leading roles as they are not afraid of hardship and tiredness and they work really hard. to shoulder crucial social responsibilities
in their work.
People born during the 1980s are at the age range of 20-30, the time when most of them are involved in social activities and grow up to be the mainstream of the society. They have proved themselves to be creative, enthusiastic, progressive and easy to accept new things and their unique forces as a new generation have been well recognized subsequent to their rich knowledge and broad visions acquired under the predominantly superior living conditions.
In Foton Motor, people born during the 1980s are also gradually becoming the new force for corporate development with their efforts made in many crucial working posts like research, management, production, sales, etc. During the peak production season, the reporter visited Auman Plant, witnessing that 49% of the factory floor workers were young people with the social identifier of “1980s”; some of them were picked for interviews, through which we can see what the “1980s” are like in Auman Plant. Born in 1980, Mr. Sun Baolai is already a party member and he joined Foton Motor in 2004.
The crane hoisting heavy axles is running down to the aligned position of the leaf spring at the work station slowly from the height of 4 or 5 meters with the guidance of the crane operator. The axle accurately seats itself to the leaf spring hole which is slight thicker than the thumb. Such a height and such an accurate placement make the reporter surprisingly admire the operator who can finish operation of such difficult levels skillfully. Such a heavy part of tens of kilograms can be so accurately placed like putting thread through the needle. Sun Baolai introduces to the reporter proudly about superb techniques of his colleagues. Their work is safeguarded with techniques and rigid quality inspection, self-checking, mutual checking as well as inspection performed by inspectors so that chain effect is achieved in quality assurance while possible defects are dealt with in the production lines.