On March 25, the TPM Promotion Office convened a summary and sharing session on last year’s QC group activities conducted by frontline team leaders. Representatives from relevant departments, including Engineering, Quality Assurance, the Foundry Workshop, and the Machining Workshop, attended the meeting.
Wang Peiquan, head of the TPM Promotion Office, summarized the performance of each team from three perspectives: team engagement, project completion rate, and report submission completeness. He commended the active participation and continuous improvements demonstrated throughout the team activities, while also identifying areas for improvement and highlighting specific shortcomings. He encouraged all participants to maintain their efforts in future improvement initiatives and to strive for ongoing excellence. During the session, representatives from the outstanding teams shared their respective QC improvement projects: Hou Sen’guo from the Quality Department presented on enhancing the first-pass yield of X12 genuine parts; Ma Yue from the Casting Workshop discussed ways to improve straightening efficiency; and Wang Laiyuan from the Machining Workshop shared strategies for reducing the proportion of 6D axial runout.
At the sharing session, Mr. Liu Zongchang from Headquarters’ Manufacturing Support Department was specially invited to deliver a concluding remarks. He provided feedback on each team across several dimensions—presentation skills, audience engagement, report design, and reflective insights—and encouraged everyone to continuously enhance their presentation techniques and capabilities through QC group sharing sessions. This led naturally to the theme: “What, after all, is learning?” He went on to explain the critical roles of deliberate practice, flow state, divergent thinking, and tacit knowledge in the learning process, helping participants recognize that QC group activities are, in fact, a journey of personal growth and collective learning. In addition, Mr. Liu presented relevant lean management books to the outstanding teams, urging them to deepen their theoretical understanding through reading and apply this knowledge to practical management.
Through this sharing session, participants have gained a deeper understanding of the importance of QC group activities. In 2021, the TPM Promotion Office will continue to promote the implementation of QC group activities, thereby fostering a company-wide culture of continuous improvement and steadily enhancing the problem-solving capabilities of frontline team leaders. At the same time, we are planning to establish a Lean Reading Club, leveraging fragmented time for reading and knowledge-sharing to cultivate frontline managers who possess both theoretical expertise and practical skills, thus consistently upholding the company’s operating philosophy that “quality is the bottom line for corporate survival.” (Contributed by Liu Yu, TPM Promotion Office)