As soon as the morning meeting ended this Monday, the workshop director Lao Liu walked towards the bulletin board holding a big red list, followed by a group of workers. No need to guess, it must be the result of the quarterly quality model selection! As the team leader of the factory's quality inspection team, I know the weight of this list too well-every three months, our factory has to select those craftsmen who treat packaging machines as their own children from hundreds of front-line employees.
Who is guarding the "zero error" standard of packaging machines?
Last quarter, the factory received a batch of urgent orders. The customer required that the error of key components of the fully automatic packaging machine must be controlled within 0.1 mm. Xiao Zhao from the assembly workshop worked non-stop for three days and nights with his apprentices, replacing conventional processing with manual grinding to adjust the engagement of the transmission gears to "thread-level precision". On the day of acceptance, the customer could not find any faults with a vernier caliper, and placed an additional order for 20 more devices before leaving.
Xiao Zhao won the Technical Innovation Award without any suspense in this model selection. When I flipped through his workstation record book, I found that it was filled with various packaging machine debugging experiences. One page was still stuck with a half-scrapped sealing strip, and it was marked next to it that "the temperature was 2°C higher, causing deformation". This kind of enthusiasm for details is the confidence of our factory's quality control.
"General practitioner" from screws to the whole machine shipped out of the factory
The most convincing one is Master Wang from the general assembly workshop. Having worked in packaging machine assembly for most of his life, he can judge where adjustments are needed just by listening to the sound of the equipment running. Last month, when an export model was tested, the monitoring screen showed that the vacuum pump pressure value occasionally fluctuated. The technician checked for three hours but could not find the crux. Master Wang walked around the packaging machine for half a circle and reached out to touch the motor housing: "The speed of the third group of cooling fans is 50 revolutions lower than the standard. The bearings should be oiled." This kind of "touch quality inspection" by the old master has now become a compulsory course for new employee training in our factory. Master Wang has a rule for his apprentices - all the packaging machines he handles must be able to disassemble and assemble the core module with his eyes closed. At this selection meeting, when he demonstrated with his homemade "fault stethoscope", even the factory director took the lead in applauding: "This is the living standard of our factory!" There is no "almost" quality control Compared with the bustle of the production line, Xiaolin in the quality inspection department seems a little "out of place". When this girl checks the sealing of the packaging machine, she always scans the sealing line inch by inch with a strong flashlight, just like appraising treasures. Once when she was rushing to work in the workshop, a batch of models that were about to be shipped were stopped by her because there was a 0.3 mm scratch on the sealing mold. The production team leader was so anxious that he jumped up and down: "This little flaw does not affect the use at all!" Xiao Lin directly brought out the customer contract: "The clause says 'no visible damage on the appearance', and a trace as thin as a hair is a breach of contract." This incident was later written into the quality control case collection, and Xiao Lin became the only quality inspector selected for the model list this quarter. Now there is a saying circulating in the workshop: "Xiao Lin nods, the customer is assured", which is more important than any award certificate. Welding the spirit of craftsmanship into every screw Looking at the newly released model list, I remembered the scene of visiting the customer factory last month. In the workshop of a food factory in Zhejiang, 32 packaging machines from our factory were lined up in two long lines. The person in charge, Lao Zhou, patted the equipment and said: "Other machines need to be overhauled every six months, and yours have been used for three years. The gears inside are still shiny when they are disassembled." This made me feel particularly emotional-isn't every packaging machine that leaves the factory the "signature work" of these model workers? Before leaving get off work, I passed by the honor wall and found a new gold-plated slogan under the new model photo: "Let lean production take root in every process." This is true. After all, in our factory, quality is never stamped with a quality inspection stamp, but is engraved into the threads of each screw from the first part.
