Operational Excellence Seminar Journey - Tailor-made by Lean management expert Jianhong Fei for the middle and senior management of enterprises and core operational teams, integrating expert lectures, benchmarking visits and practical seminars, focusing on the main line of “from concept to practice”, in-depth deconstruction of Lean and Operational Excellence Benchmarking Cases, and assisting in the transformation and upgrading of the organization.

Midea Group Lean Six Sigma Benchmarking Practice Exchange Workshop was successfully held in Foshan, Guangdong. From the Commission, Midea kitchen appliances, Yanfeng headquarters, Parade, Xuzhou Tianbao and more than a dozen automotive manufacturing industry Lean Six Sigma leaders, team backbone to attend and share exchanges.

Study tour from the headquarters of the United States of America product experience center to open, face to face feel is the United States in product design and technology innovation, but also in the global innovation center in the United States fully feel the United States of America in the Chinese “smart” on the innovation and efforts. We got a preliminary understanding of “one Midea, one system, one standard” and 632 strategy (building 6 operation systems, 3 management platforms, 2 portals and integrated technology platform), and learned how Midea optimizes and improves the whole from the customer experience, management standardization, operation transparency and internal and external synergies in multiple dimensions.

In the benchmark workshop of Midea's microwave oven factory, under the guidance of quality management manager Wang, we felt its intention on the ground in the layout of production lines and workshop management, observed how it implements lean management and improves in the factory, and appreciated how modernized intelligent tools can efficiently and exquisitely assist in production. Industrial robots and automated production are applied to improve the company's production efficiency and promote manufacturing upgrading. Under the general trend of technological innovation leading the development of the industry, both the connotation and extension of operational excellence are undergoing profound changes.

Mr. Jia, Quality Director of Midea's Kitchen Appliances Division, explained how Midea balances steady transformation and rapid development in a competitive industry environment, and how to stimulate innovation and implement it at all levels.

At the seminar, Midea's kitchen appliance team, Plant Director Ling, demonstrated Midea's lean operating system, MBS (Midea Business System), to help the Group achieve the true meaning of strategy to execution, giving full play to the hands-on ability of leaders at all levels and the brains of grassroots employees.MBS achieves flexibility, standardization, de-stocking, and pulling production through the lean conversion of the production line, excellent and stable daily management, and ultimately achieve waste reduction, drive growth, achieve performance (quality, delivery, efficiency), and realize comprehensive innovation and upgrading of technology, talent, organization and system.

Due to the changes in the market environment and the continuous updating of modern production management concepts, as a home furnishing fashion front of the United States, the key to its manufacturing is to make the “plan” and “production” closely match. Midea MES responsible person Su manager for the United States to show the United States of America Manufacturing Execution Management System MES (Manufacturing ExecutionSystem), how the information flow to maintain a smooth, transparent, to achieve a detailed breakdown of the plan, the arrangement and implementation of the feedback, business analysis, process analysis, quality analysis, abnormality control, electronic kanban display, messaging, and so on a series of superb functions. Functions. After that, both parties started more communication around the issues of project, implementation, assessment and promotion of Operational Excellence Improvement.

With the United States as the representative of the Chinese industry to rise, extraordinary achievements, to promote China's manufacturing has become increasingly with Germany, the United States and the United States of America's major manufacturing power. The CPC Central Committee and State Council on the development of quality improvement action of the guiding opinions, repeatedly referred to the development of quality improvement action is our unswerving road to a strong country. Behind the United States forward-looking, innovative, intelligent, is its user-oriented, reform and innovation as the fundamental way to adhere to.

We have seen many stories of operational excellence across industries, functions and ranks, and its philosophy of innovation and improvement has brought fruitful achievements and an irreplaceable sense of fulfillment in participation.

I would like to thank all the colleagues for their recognition of operational excellence management, their research and practice of Lean Six Sigma, and their outstanding achievements in their respective positions. We hope that you will experience different gains from your own professional perspectives!