Fall in love with Nanhua West, and grow together with the company.

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I've completely forgotten where I heard this information that Bai Shanglun is from Guangxi. But I just can't believe it. When I first met him, my instinct told me that he should be from Sichuan province. 

Today, I took the opportunity of the interview to verify with Bai Shilun and finally cleared up my doubts. The answer I received was that his wife is from Guangxi and he is from Chongqing. It seems that my intuition is still reliable. The difference between Sichuan and Chongqing is not too significant. 

As the production director, Bai Shilun's job is very busy. During the several minutes of the interview, he was interrupted by phone calls five times. 

Bai Shilun's anti-entropy selection 

Bai Shilun joined *** in 2004. This may seem like an ordinary event, but for Bai Shilun, it was actually quite extraordinary. 

As the saying goes, 'People tend to move upwards, while water flows downwards. This is a natural ecological phenomenon. From the perspective of thermodynamics, this is also known as the entropy increase phenomenon. However, there are always some people who do the opposite. They insist that people should move downwards and water should flow upwards. This is a kind of anti-entropy behavior. It can be said that when Whiteilson joined Southwestern University, it was actually an anti-entropy behavior.' 

Before joining Nanhuaxi, Bai Shilun had worked for several companies such as Ren Da, Guang Hui, and Edward. These companies were much larger and more well-known than Nanhuaxi at that time. However, eventually, Bai Shilun, introduced by a friend, chose to move from Shenzhen to Guangzhou and joined Guangzhou Pengqian Electrical Co., Ltd. Guangzhou Pengqian was a company established by Nanhuaxi in 2002 after it acquired Guangzhou Nanhua Switch Factory and moved the production from Shenzhen to Guangzhou. The company was actually very small, with only about 20 to 30 employees. Of course, Bai Shilun's anti-entropy behavior was not only reflected in his reverse movement from a large company to a small one, but also in his personal income. At his previous company, Bai Shilun's salary was already around 3,000 yuan. But at Guangzhou Pengqian, Bai Shilun's salary was only about 1,600 yuan, which was nearly half of the original amount. 

However, Bai Shilun chose to stay. In his past work experience, there was no instance where he had held a position in any company for more than two years. But at Nanhuaxi, Bai Shilun stayed for fifteen years, and he will continue to work and contribute there. This indicates that there must be something that Bai Shilun values or is reluctant to part with at Nanhuaxi. 

Of course, Bai Shilun himself wouldn't bother to think about this issue. Being in that situation, if he felt it was right, he would naturally stay. This is just like in a relationship - if you like someone, you naturally end up together. Nobody would bother to come up with so many reasons. It was only when I asked him that Bai Shilun began to think and eventually summed up two reasons: 

First, there was the company's recognition and appreciation. Although Bai Shilun was just an ordinary new employee on the production line at that time, the boss, Mr. Wen, as well as the then general manager, Mr. Guan, and the production department manager, Mr. Zhu, all had conversations with him to learn about his work and life situation. Moreover, in the first year of joining the company, Bai Shilun was exceptionally selected as an outstanding employee. Originally, Bai Shilun was not eligible to participate in the selection because he had been with the company for less than a year. In the following years, Bai Shilun was honored as an outstanding employee every year. 

The second aspect is the company's culture. Bai Shilun said that Nanhuaxi has a very strong sense of family affection. Colleagues help each other and love each other. The interpersonal relationships are very simple and warm. Although the income is relatively low, everyone is in a very pleasant mood. Of course, with the company's growth and expansion, now everyone's income has increased and they are already at the leading level in the industry. 

Grow together with the company 

Bai Shilun joined Nanhuaxi as a production line worker. Due to his demonstrated technical skills and leadership abilities during his work, one year later, Bai Shilun began to serve as the team leader. 

In 2008, Bai Shilun was appointed as the deputy manager of the Assembly Production Department. It was also in this year that the Nanhuaxi Industrial Park in Hongmei, Dongguan was established. Pengqian Electrical Corporation moved its entire operation from Guangzhou to the Nanhuaxi Industrial Park, and Guangdong Nanhuaxi Electrical Co., Ltd. was established. 

2008 was also a transformative year for Nanhuaxi. Originating from a small workshop, Nanhuaxi lacked high-end production resources and had loose management. Taking advantage of the opportunity of factory relocation, Nanhuaxi began its modernization transformation and recruited a batch of senior management talents from outside. However, due to not adapting to the local environment, most of them left soon. Eventually, the company decided to enhance itself through internal efforts. As a result, the managers of each department took on the responsibility of the transformation. 

Bai Shilun focused the emphasis of the reform on five aspects: 

I. Team Building 

Nan Huaxi has a strong tradition of family affection, but it has also developed a laissez-faire work style, lacking efficiency. Therefore, Bai Shilun, while continuing to deepen the construction of family affection culture, also focused on cultivating the teamwork spirit and dedication of everyone, and took the lead and set an example everywhere, establishing a production team with high centripetal force, cohesion and a sense of overall responsibility. 

II. Institutional Construction 

When Nanhuaxi was first established, it adopted a management model centered on humanization. As the company grew, the shortcomings of this humanized management became increasingly evident. Bai Shilun started from the details and began to focus on strengthening various system constructions, including employee behavior and quality control, leading the production department to transform from a management model centered on humanization to one that is mainly based on institutionalization with humanization as a secondary element. 

III. Process Transformation 

Nanhuaxi originated from a small manufacturing enterprise. In terms of production operations, it still retains a strong workshop-like atmosphere and lacks overall coordination and cooperation. To meet the requirements of modern production, Bai Shilun continuously reflected on and learned from his experiences, continuously optimized and transformed the production process, and collaborated with the technical department to compile a complete production operation process manual, enabling the company's production to move towards standardization and normalization. 

IV. Tool Upgrade 

One must prepare well before undertaking a task; likewise, for an enterprise to achieve modernization, the modernization of production tools is the most fundamental aspect. *** originated from a small workshop and lagged behind in the application of advanced production tools. In order to enhance the company's modernization level, Bai Shilun replaced the old tools with new ones, widely adopting pneumatic tools, which significantly improved the company's productivity and efficiency. At the same time, he also took the initiative to design a batch of auxiliary production tools that met the company's needs, such as tool carts. 

V. Process Improvement 

Process technology is the guarantee of product quality. Bai Shilun started from the details and re-examined every production process, looking for all areas that could be improved. With the support and assistance of the technical department, he made a series of improvements and innovations to the product process. 

It was precisely because of the efforts and achievements made in production management and during the company's development and transformation that Bai Shilun was quickly promoted from the deputy manager of the assembly production department to the manager. In 2018, Bai Shilun was officially appointed as the production director of Guangdong ***cheng Electric Co., Ltd. 

A strict teacher produces outstanding students

For the past 15 years in Nanhuaixi, from an ordinary employee to the production director, Bai Shilun said that what he is most proud of is having trained a large number of apprentices. Some of them still remain on the production front line and have become the backbone of the grassroots staff; some have moved to management positions and achieved greater personal value, such as Zhang Tao, who is now the manager of the Complete Production Department of Guangdong Nanhuaixi. 

Zhang Tao entered Nanhuaxi at about the same time as Bai Shilun. However, Zhang Tao joined the company when he was still a teenager, and was much younger than Bai Shilun. Bai Shilun always imparted knowledge to his apprentices without reservation, but he also had very high expectations for them, even being somewhat strict. Sometimes, this could be unbearable. Once, Zhang Tao worked overtime to make a cabinet, but made a mistake. Bai Shilun was somewhat harsh on him. Zhang Tao felt aggrieved and wondered if he should cross this hurdle. So, he wrote a resignation letter and asked Bai Shilun to sign it. After much persuasion, he was finally able to stay. Bai Shilun and Zhang Tao were both teachers and friends for over a decade. Throughout this time, Zhang Tao has been Bai Shilun's most reliable assistant.