In April, when the spring breeze blows, the running sounds of dozens of packaging machinery equipment in the workshop are more compact than usual. As the Qingming Festival is approaching, the workers count down while tacitly speeding up the process at hand - this batch of automated packaging production line orders shipped to Lyon, France, is entering the final assembly and debugging stage.
"This batch of equipment is the second order from our French partner this year. The customer specifically requested that the inspection be completed before the holiday." Xiao Li from the Foreign Trade Department was checking the details with the workshop director with the production schedule, "The new factory building of the customer will be put into production on May 1st, and the production progress of our packaging machinery is directly related to their project nodes." Through the glass window of the office, you can see Zhang from the technical team and three young men squatting next to the equipment to repeatedly test the sealing accuracy. The drawings marked in French were neatly posted in a conspicuous place on the operating table.
Considering the need for employees to return home during the Qingming Festival, the factory started the flexible scheduling mechanism a week ago. Master Wang, who is responsible for the welding process, wiped his sweat and smiled: "It's really tight these days, but the supervisor said that as long as the French customer orders are completed with quality and quantity, we will be given two days off after the holiday, and the ancestor worship in our hometown will not be delayed." This well-balanced arrangement not only ensures the stability of the workshop's production progress, but also makes the workers feel the company's respect for traditional customs.
Walking into the core production area of packaging machinery, Chen, a merchandiser in the foreign trade department, was holding up his mobile phone to broadcast the trial operation of the equipment to French customers: "You see, the film feeding accuracy of this vertical packaging machine has been adjusted to ±0.3mm, which fully meets the technical standards agreed in the contract." The customer representative gave a thumbs up on the other end of the video, and a burst of light laughter sounded in the workshop. This "cloud supervision" mode has become a daily collaboration for our foreign trade team, which not only allows overseas customers to grasp the progress in real time, but also reduces the time cost of cross-border travel.
The administrative department just posted a notice on the Qingming Festival holiday arrangement on the bulletin board yesterday, and specially marked the duty schedule of each department in Chinese and French. Considering that some non-local employees need to return home early, the factory will open a shuttle bus to the railway station tomorrow. Local backbones like Lao Zhou from the Quality Inspection Department have taken the initiative to sign up for the equipment maintenance duty during the holiday: "Our packaging machinery has to travel across the ocean, so we can tighten every screw again during the holiday to feel at ease."
As dusk deepened, workshop director Lao Yang confirmed the daily completion volume at each workstation, and the French translator from the Foreign Trade Department was still checking the product manual. When the protective cover of the last equipment slowly closed, someone hummed the tune of "Spring" - this is the Qingming Festival for Chinese manufacturers, with both the warm adherence to tradition and the sonorous steps of delivering promises to the world.
