04,01,2026 16 views
Improving 'experts'
I am a machine operator from the rubber and plastic machining workshop. Years of deep cultivation in my position have made me deeply realize that ordinary positions never lack growth opportunities, and improvement is the golden key to lighting up value. After being exposed to lean management, this transformation completely rewrote my way of working and reshaped my thinking.
In the past three years of lean transformation, I have adhered to the concept of "striving for excellence and seeking truth from facts", focused on job improvement, and accumulated some improvement experience: I have focused on optimizing the technical process of typical parts, optimizing the workflow, merging redundant processes, and making the processing flow smoother and more efficient; Reasonably selecting tool parameters, adjusting tool types, and actively promoting the multiple utilization of regrowable tools have achieved a two-way effort of "improving quality and reducing costs"; Actively activate the waste and material heads generated during the processing, process them into practical fixtures, and achieve the goal of "turning waste into treasure"; At the same time, I insist on learning from excellent programming methods through video learning, summarizing experiences in learning, and improving skills in practice; Through skill training, research and development teams, and the "mentorship" model, we can gather improvement efforts and work together to solve difficult problems in our work.
In 2025, there will be a sharp increase in orders for a domestic petrochemical product project of the company. Faced with a tight schedule and heavy workload of bulk parts, the milling machine tool team is facing the problem of overcapacity. There are 72 pieces of left/right screws with four job numbers, and the process requires precision machining of the spiral part on the Okuma machine tool. However, the Okuma machine tool still needs to complete the precision machining of these four job number machine barrels, which cannot meet the production demand. Capacity expansion is urgent. My team members and I found through analysis that the production capacity of Haas machine tools is not saturated, but the X-axis stroke of Haas machine tools cannot meet the machining needs. So we made fixtures to extend the indexing head and tailstock of the Haas machine tool beyond the worktable, artificially increasing the clamping distance of the workpiece, and successfully completing the screw machining task. This improvement resulted in a total savings of 195000 yuan in processing costs through increased production capacity and efficiency. Improvement is not divided by position, as long as one dares to break through and is willing to try, the optimal solution can be found. Since 2023, I have submitted a total of 108 implementation proposals, achieving a total of 2.165 million yuan in benefits. Lean improvement not only enhances individual abilities, but also provides a platform for frontline employees to showcase their value.
Improvement knows no bounds, practice yields true knowledge. The past improvement work has made me deeply realize that although the position is small, the stage is big. In the future, I will continue to adhere to my original intention, work hard and meticulously, focus on the shortcomings in my work, explore better improvement methods, and work hand in hand with my colleagues to strive for excellence, jointly writing a new chapter of high-quality development for the enterprise.
Liu Dongsheng's motto for improvement: Ordinary positions never lack opportunities for growth, and improvement is the golden key to unlocking value.
Source: Party Mass Work Department
