Sowing initiatives, reaping success

In the industrial revolution 4.0, the creativity of workers was a great driving force for the overall development of the enterprise. Although workers are different from one industry or field, they share a passion for initiative, creativity, and make their best efforts to benefit billions of VND for enterprises.

Innovative to keep up with revolution 4.0

Creativity in the process of working and producing, improving tools and machines to create higher labor productivity and saving costs has become a cultural feature in units and enterprises, especially workers labor. Not only manual labor, but they also work hard with their minds and unceasing creativity.

From production, there have been many innovations that have brought high applicability. Many workers have invested brainpower to be able to master advanced machines, improving it to bring flexible connection efficiency, less manpower.

Coming to Meiko Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd, besides the production, emulation atmosphere, the “Innovation” movement has become an exciting activity that goes deep into the workers’ life for many years. Agility, agility and friendliness are our first impressions when contacting Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Nga (worker of Meiko Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd.).

Working at the company for nearly 3 years, Ms. Nga is known as an energetic, highly skilled, eager to learn and energetic female worker. Being attached to the company, passionate about her work, in her spare time, Ms. Nga often spends her time searching for unique initiatives, contributing to the benefits of the business.

Sharing about her own initiative, Ms. Nga said that from her practical work, realizing that the materials being used have a wasteful, effective process that does not meet the requirements has prompted her to find a replacement change. “In the course of my work I realized besides the ingredients to be disposed of, cowhide paper also has recyclable ingredients like plastic and paper. Meticulously researching the stages, I found that instead of wasting on the separator and the decomposition machine as before, we can take advantage of selling recycled materials at a relatively high unit price. Although there are not many complications, but before, no one paid attention to this method”, said Ms. Nga.

With the initiative “Improving cowhide paper handling methods” come into practice, Ms. Nga has benefited the company $1000/ month. “I am delighted to bring all the initiatives that are accepted by the Board of Directors and put into practice. Starting at a modest number, but this number will increase in the future when expanding the scale and output “, Ms. Nga happily said.

Mr. Phan Thanh Hai, Trade Union Chairman of Meiko Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd., said that in order for workers to develop autonomy in the industrialization – modernization period, the company established the “Innovation Board, creation” monthly together with the Board of Directors of the company mobilizes workers to participate in creative movements in all fields.

The company organizes the emulation campaigns monthly, quarterly and annually. Especially, the timely rewarding activity, if the worker has the initiative, will be rewarded workers will be allowed to participate in presenting their ideas, the company will choose 3 innovative and creative ideas to the award. After each month’s operation, at the end of the year, the Board of Directors will synthesize to select the initiatives with the highest value and most meaning to submit to the Group.

“The company appreciates and encourages workers to make efforts to improve machines, lines, etc, to improve working productivity. Therefore, policies to promote workers to create are extremely necessary. Currently, each month the company has more than 3,000 initiatives submitted, there are typically individuals with nearly 20 initiatives a month. Many initiatives have won awards in the group and were praised. Through these activities, employees will feel the practical values ​​they bring, their jobs can be done more smoothly”, said Trade Union Chairman of Meiko Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd.

Motivation to promote business development

With practical effects brought about, the movement “Initiatives and Creation of the Capital” launched by the Hanoi Confederation of Labor has attracted a large number of workers in all fields and industries. Over the time of launching, the movement has had a strong change in quality, making positive contributions in all fields of production and business, scientific research, education and training, health care, and the environment and state management. Contributing significantly to solving bottlenecks in production and business, curbing inflation, preventing economic decline, ensuring social security in the capital area.

Over the past 5 years, 163,973 initiatives have been recognized at the grassroots level, and 8,704 initiatives have been recognized at the grassroots level. Notably, there are 290 initiatives calculating the value of profit in money, with the benefit amount of more than 2,000 billion VND. Typically the initiative: “Improving the quality of molds and reducing costs by improving product drawings before making molds” by Mr. Hoang Van Thanh (worker of Canon Vietnam Co., Ltd.), the initiative has reduced expenses mold repair fee, benefit the company 61.8 billion / year.

Initiative “Improving defective products 88 on porcelain products” of Mr. Dao Ngoc Tien (workers of Lixil Vietnam Co., Ltd.), the initiative applied has reduced defective products by 75% – 0%, benefiting the company 2.8 billion / year. The initiative “Fixing the problem of K35 cracking in the lake WI-CW 889” by Mr. Vu Xuan Tung, (worker of TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd.), benefits 2.9 billion VND / year.

It can be seen that the employees’ initiatives have proven effective when applying scientific knowledge in creative labor into practice. Most technical innovations come from practice in everyday work. Therefore, when applied at work as well as in production activities, many existing problems have been overcome, increasing labor productivity, improving designs, saving production costs, lowering product costs, help businesses overcome difficulties.

As a unit that has always maintained the emulation movement “Initiative, innovative” for many years, TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd. is also known for many innovative examples with valuable technical innovation initiatives. The benefits are high, contributing to improving productivity, product quality and socioeconomic efficiency.

“A company with many innovations, creativity, the company will have more colors, only a little change can make the company more sustainable. Because when we are better without the daily change, we will also lag behind other companies. Therefore, the effective initiatives and creations of the workers have contributed to the company continuously developing, solving difficulties in production – business, so that the company has very good benefits every year bigger. At the same time, when workers learn, every day, there are new and innovative ideas in the 4.0 era that will help us become closer to the world”, Ms. Pham Thi Bich Hai, Trade Union President, Head of Security Department TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd. shares.

Productivity and Quality Office