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Chapter 382 The Password of Rise (First update, please subscribe)

The king also has tidbits.

This is not too normal. There are even some newspapers in the UK that like to report royal tidbits.

Although there is no such newspaper in Nanyang, it is inevitable that some gossip will spread.

After all, there is no airtight wall in this world.

And some secrets are open secrets. Just because it's not written in the newspaper doesn't mean everyone doesn't know about it.

However, as the person involved, Li Yian didn't care about the gossip at all.

Isn’t it a waste of youth to be romantic?

If you occasionally have a romantic relationship, you will probably have to block other people's mouths. That's just deceiving others.

In fact, Li Yian has always been very tolerant of public opinion. He has only established a review agency, but the review is also controlled within a reasonable range. After all, external supervision to a certain extent is beneficial to the government, but it must be under control and not out of control. After all, losing control is the most dangerous thing.

Of course, what is more important is work.

As the end of the year approaches, Li Yi'an's work has become even busier. In just one week, he has inspected more than 326 companies. Among these companies, there are "BMW" projects under construction. The company - although it has not yet been completed, the first batch of cars has already rolled off the production line - the BMW designed before the war has begun to be put into the market and has become a car for Nanyang officials.

When Li Yian entered BMW, the company's management did not come out to greet him. After asking for a moment, he found out that they were attending a lecture.

"Deming's class?"

Li Yian said as soon as he heard it.

"That's good, let's go and listen too."

Soon they arrived at the conference room on the sixth floor of BMW. When he entered the conference room, dozens of company managers were taking notes seriously. And Deming on the stage was giving a lecture.

"...Stop selecting suppliers based solely on quotations and focus on reducing overall costs...Price and quality are inseparable. Blindly trying to lower procurement prices while ignoring quality will only make excellent suppliers unprofitable. Quit because of profit..."

When Deming lectured, Li Yi'an also became a student. Although he hired this guy by name, this was the first time he listened to his lecture.

William Edwards Deming was a statistical expert who served as a consultant to the U.S. Census Bureau during the war. It was during the war that he introduced statistical quality control principles into industrial management and applied statistical theory to wartime production. .

However, production during the war only sought more, not better. Although Deming continued to call for attention to quality in the United States, it rarely attracted attention from the outside world. In the past few years, he continued to conduct quality management training. He tried to apply statistics to industrial production, but not many people were interested in his suggestions and courses. After the war, the American economy was prosperous and orders were overwhelmed. No one had time to talk about the quality of this sampling survey expert.

But it was at this time that he received an invitation from MacArthur to engage in statistical work in Japan. It was also in Japan that his quality management theory was welcomed by all walks of life in Japan. It was precisely this management expert who was regarded as an "abandoned son" by the United States, who became the "Godfather of Japanese Quality Management" in a foreign country. The Japanese business community was extremely grateful to Deming, and not only established the "Deming Prize" to reward those who excel in quality management There are innovative people in the field. In the Toyota headquarters, there are three larger-than-life photos. One is the founder of Toyota, the other is the current president, and the third one is larger than the first two, which is Deming.

It is Deming's quality management theory that has made Made in Japan possible. By the time the United States discovered it again, Japanese manufacturing, which relied on quality to win, had already wiped out American manufacturing.

For such a quality management master, Li Yian certainly would not leave it to the Japanese. After all, in this era, Japanese manufacturing is synonymous with inferiority. It was the quality management mechanism spread by Deming that changed everything.

Such talents should be reserved for one's own use. Now Deming is the company's special consultant. After coming to Nanyang last year, he has been engaged in corporate quality management research.

"Most quality problems are the responsibility of managers, not workers, because the whole stupid production procedure is set up by managers and workers are excluded..."

Deming on the stage spoke very seriously, and the people in the audience also listened very seriously. Just like his past lectures, not only the management of BMW, but also the managers of other companies, everyone was eager to learn. Quality management knowledge.

"...If we can strive to do things right the first time without causing waste, we can reduce costs without increasing investment...Quality is a way to use the most economical means to create the most useful products on the market. Once improved Product quality and productivity will automatically increase.”

Li Yi'an, who was in the last row, also listened carefully to his lecture. Although he is not directly involved in the company's management now, quality is the foundation for the survival of all industrial enterprises. When the lecture was about to end, he interacted with everyone in Deming , Li Yian thought for a while, then wrote a note and had it sent over.

After taking the note handed by others, Dai Ming took a look at it and said.

"This is a very good question. How long will it take to transform Nanyang from a country that manufactures ordinary products to a country that produces high-quality products and has a competitive advantage in the international market? I think you should also be very concerned about this issue. .”

As Deming said, they really cared about this issue.

"In my opinion, as long as statistical analysis is used and a quality management mechanism is established, the quality of Nanyang's products will surpass that of the United States in five years!"

Although his prediction made everyone in the conference room whisper and not believe it, after all, everyone knows that it is not easy to train a machining worker, although in the past few years, Nanyang has been making progress towards the United States. Learning quality control methods and management methods during large-scale production has brought the company's production management to a new level. However, it has encountered some problems in worker training. Those machine tools require workers to operate them personally. An apprentice, from learning to It takes at least two years to operate independently. There are countless apprentices in Nanyang who do not return to their dormitories for several months and sleep on the floor of the factory every day in order to get out of the job as soon as possible and be able to truly operate machine tools independently.

Sometimes, they obviously underestimated themselves. Just as Deming predicted, the overall quality level of Nanyang's products surpassed that of the United States in five years, and began to pose a huge challenge to the American industry in terms of quality.

It was from this beginning that Deming became the godfather of quality management in Nanyang. In the following decades, Deming held quality management training lectures across Southeast Asia to impart his management ideas. Four out of every five business executives in Nanyang have attended his lectures.

To a certain extent, the most important thing about Li Yi'an's Jiu Hu in Japan was not the machine that was dismantled from Japan, but the brain of Jiu Hu. Although this brain was not Japanese, it profoundly changed Japan.

Now, Deming's quality management theory will also fundamentally change Nanyang.

(End of this chapter)