The "foreign model" of the American Liugong
In the Guangxi Liugong machinery Limited by Share Ltd, there is a "President of the ocean" from the United States and with a small beard. His Chinese name is Pao Tong Bao. Over the past 8 years, he has worked from Liugong advanced technology consultant to Liugong vice president. He is committed to Liugong product technology upgrading, R & D system construction and R & D efficiency improvement, helping Liugong products win the international market with technology lead. The Liuzhou municipal government has awarded him a "labor model".
In the fierce competition in the market of construction machinery, Liugong from 10 years ago called "world Liu Gongyuan since Chinese" slogan, efforts to create an international liugong. However, in the face of complicated international market, amidst the winds of change Liugong, go out of the country to see the world, and feel confused and at a loss. But Liu workers believe that the market but there is a fixed pattern, the myriads of changes, that is to lead.
Mr. Ceng Guangan, the chairman of the company and President of the company, decided to throw out the olive branch to American experts. After repeatedly invited, in 2007, had been closed with Paula Guangan sincerity, as assistant Liugong senior technical advisor and president. At the beginning of Liugong's work in Jiangsu, he had led the team to solve more than 100 problems of products at once, so that the technical quality and performance of the company's sliding loaders and loaders were rapidly reaching the international level.
Close with demonstrated ability to solve technical problems remains enviable out. In 2008, he closed with Liu Gong, vice president of Liu Gong, to work as Liu Gong's headquarters, and was responsible for research and development. At that time, Liugong's new product research and development followed the technology leading mode. R & D personnel indulged in their R & D fields. The products developed were very convincing in theory, but they were often vulnerable in the market.
"Liugong needs to change!" After deliberating, Bao Tong decided to develop the LDP process with Liugong characteristics (Liugong product development process). The process pays more attention to previous planning and review, focusing on risk prevention and control, giving full play to team role, emphasizing test and verification.
This innovation has brought them to the market for the science and engineering talents that have been researched and developed by the "one tendon". "At the beginning, everyone said that the LDP process was good and agreed to change it. But when the LDP process as a new thing in the eyes of everyone, the effect is not immediate, everyone begins to question. " Closed Tong Bao said, after implementation, R & D personnel are hard to abandon many years of R & D habits. Some people complain that the process slows down R & D progress, and some people are not accustomed to new processes, which is difficult to push forward.
Change is in the insistence of closing the same care. When the Liugong D series excavator went public, the R & D staff began to face the benefits of the new process. When the H series loaders got a sensational effect in the industry and market, many complaints about the LDP process disappeared.
Zhu Binqiang, deputy director of the Liu Gong Research Institute, said: "LDP is a major change in the concept of R & D work and the way of work. LDP encourages R & D personnel to think and solve problems and avoid a lot of useless work and waste of resources.
With the process of speeding up the internationalization of Liugong, Liu Gong began to divide the Poland subsidiary of Liu Gong and the European industrial design center. He spent 3 years helping Liugong Poland subsidiary go on the right track, and built Liugong R & D team in the UK and North America, and introduced a large number of international talents for Liugong. Since 2010, Tong Tong Bao has been preparing to build the "National Earth Machinery Engineering Technology Research Center" as the head of the preparatory team. It has launched more than 370 technology research projects, and has applied for nearly 500 patents, including more than 200 invention patents.
Last year, Liugong built a global R & D center with an area of 110 thousand square meters, which can hold 1200 people. The office building is designed by American Architectural Inc, while the interior is designed as a mechanical expert. "I like reading, I come across unfamiliar things and ask for help. I hope to do my best to make the Liugong global R & D center a convenient and communication environment with a relaxed atmosphere and a humanized environment. Say the same as Bao. In his office and home, stacked with piles of building materials and interior design related books, from design to material, hands-on.
The construction of "global R & D center, closed with Bao often wearing reflective clothing, shoes, and hats, every two or three days to run the site. As a foreigner in China, such a serious attitude is really moving. " Chen Qianfeng, who worked with Pao, said.
He likes to call him "David" or "old closed", and he says it sounds more cordial. He love to cook and a good cook, a guest invited many of my colleagues at home, he cooked salmon had colleagues praise. He also love gardening and carpentry, specifically opened a plantation in the global R & D center building in Liu Gongxin, each employee can be divided into a square meters of land plants love.
Due to the leading technology and excellent quality products, Liugong's internationalization has been accelerating in recent years. Liugong overseas accounts for over 30% of the company's total revenue in 2015. At present, Liugong products sell well in Southeast Asia and Latin American countries, and some products have also won the European and American markets. Due to the outstanding contribution of Bao Tong Bao, the Liuzhou municipal government granted him a "model of labor", and last year he won the "Friendship Prize" of the Chinese government.
"I like the challenge, which is one of the reasons I came to Liugong. I am very grateful to Liugong to provide me with a full range of support, so that many of my ideas can be realized. In the future, I will continue to dream for the Liugong. " Liu Gong was the most important stage in his career.
