On March 1, the Zhenhua Heavy Industries Lean Production/Management Kick-off Meetings were held at Changxing Branch and Shanghai Port Machinery Heavy Industries respectively.

 At the Lean Production Kick-off Meeting held at Changxing Branch, Huang Qingfeng, President and Deputy Party Secretary of Zhenhua Heavy Industries, Li Ruixiang, Chief Economist, and the leadership team of Changxing Branch attended the meeting. The meeting was chaired by Zhang Huajun, Chief Process Engineer of Changxing Branch.

 At the meeting, You Haiyu, Leader of the Lean Team, introduced the lean project background, promotion strategy and objectives, organizational structure, management, incentive plan, and overall plan. Subsequently, the leaders of the Planning and Logistics Group, Assembly Improvement Group, Steel Structure Improvement Group, Logistics Tooling Group, 5S Improvement Group, and Personnel and Culture Group explained their project initiation reports in a clear and concise manner, and together they took an oath to the company, demonstrating their determination and belief to carry lean production through to the end.

 Lean consultant Guo Yufeng provided a professional interpretation of the concepts, significance, and connotations of lean production management, and described in detail from five aspects: group lean deployment, team building, performance, process, and site.

 Xiang Xudong, Temporary Party Secretary and Executive Deputy General Manager of Changxing Branch, pointed out that carrying out lean production is an important way to move towards the company's strategies of lean, intelligent, and integrated development. He required all employees, especially leading cadres, to change their concepts and raise awareness, to drive full participation, to learn and support the development of lean production with an "empty cup" mentality, and to form a habit. At the same time, he required learning from the successful experience of lean production in brother units, learning from each other and improving together.

 Li Hongming, General Manager of Changxing Branch, put forward three requirements: first, to make "lean production" a work of full participation, to prioritize and proceed step by step; second, to require all leading cadres and employees to actively participate in the promotion process, to complete work with a high sense of responsibility and ownership attitude; third, to require leaders at all levels of the branch to take the lead and set an example, with a sense of "unshirkable" responsibility, to coordinate and arrange the work areas they are responsible for.

 Li Ruixiang stated that carrying out lean production work has grasped the key to solving problems. At the same time, he put forward several requirements: first, the company's project management and control center should arrange personnel to participate together; second, Changxing Branch should have full participation in lean production work; third, lean production is not a one-time activity, but requires more perseverance and stamina, and long-term continuous improvement.   

 Huang Qingfeng made a concluding speech, putting forward four requirements for lean production work: first, unify thinking, effectively implement lean production into the actual production process, and use lean thinking to guide work; second, improve execution, strengthen process control during project promotion, do a good job in project risk assessment, follow-up, implementation, feedback, and improvement, and ensure that the project can be executed as planned; third, increase talent cultivation, cultivate own lean talents and lean teams, and strengthen talent management; fourth, strengthen lean publicity, comprehensively, from multiple angles, and in depth publicize and report lean transformation, and create a good reform atmosphere.

 At the meeting, it was announced that the Lean Management Office was officially established to further strengthen the management and promotion of lean work, and the main development direction of the second phase of lean management work was clarified.

 The meeting reviewed the achievements made during the first phase of lean management projects in 2016, pointed out areas that need improvement and deficiencies, made an overall plan for the second phase of lean projects, established 7 promotion groups, and comprehensively promoted comprehensive culture, benchmark workshops, plant-wide "5S", planning and logistics, efficiency improvement, quality improvement, and design and research and development. The newly established project teams respectively made project planning reports, read out and signed project commitment letters.

 Wang Zhaorong, General Manager of the Process Technology Department of Zhenhua Heavy Industries, affirmed the achievements made since the implementation of the first phase of lean management projects at Shanghai Port Machinery Heavy Industries, hoped that Shanghai Port Machinery Heavy Industries would continue to work hard and persevere to the end under this good momentum, and put forward four suggestions: first, vigorously promote lean culture, with the company from top to bottom, pooling wisdom and efforts to jointly promote; second, strengthen training, learn and practice the principles, methods, and implementation paths of lean production, achieve cost reduction and efficiency increase, reduce waste, and steadily improve product quality; third, continue to do a good job in lean promotion, elevate lean management to a higher level, seek safety from lean management, seek quality from lean management, and seek benefits from lean management; fourth, strengthen education, focus on cultivating lean backbone talents, firm up confidence, and pragmatically promote the sustainable development of lean.

 Zheng Yaoguo, General Manager of Shanghai Port Machinery Heavy Industries, explained the purpose and significance of implementing lean management at Shanghai Port Machinery Heavy Industries through 12 "whys": the enterprise is closely related to employees. In order to build Shanghai Port Machinery Heavy Industries into a garden-style factory and a happy and harmonious big family, the enterprise must actively seek development, and employees should contribute their strength to the company's development; in order to meet customers' continuously improving demands for high quality, excellent service, and low price products, and enhance the company's market competitiveness, we must continuously improve product quality, eliminate waste, and reduce manufacturing costs. The current management model does not match market demand and restricts the company's long-term and healthy development. We must seek innovation, and through reform and innovation, seek a scientific, efficient, and long-lasting management mechanism. Introducing and comprehensively implementing lean projects is the need for enterprise development, the need for market competition, and even more the need for employee happiness. Zheng Yaoguo emphasized that lean projects are imperative. All employees of the branch should be united, actively participate, overcome difficulties, forge ahead, and actively explore a lean path suitable for Shanghai Port Machinery Heavy Industries, to develop the enterprise and achieve personal success.