Huiya Raised Access Floor Visits Dynax: Delving into the Core of Manufacturing Management, Exploring the Path to Corporate “Upgrading”
On April 21, 2024, Gu Xuxiang, General Manager of Huiya Raised Access Floor, and his team, organized and led by Chu Jianming, went to Himeji City, Japan, to conduct a field study of the local automotive parts manufacturer Dynax Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha – Dynax Industrial Co., Ltd.. The two core focuses of this trip: deeply researching automotive parts manufacturing processes and the 5S management philosophy, striving to find a path for upgrading the Huiya raised access floor management system.
1，Benchmark Company: Dynax’s Manufacturing Heritage and Management Philosophy
Dynax’s core business is automotive parts manufacturing, with years of in-depth research into process development and production. Judging from its management philosophy, since its founding, this company has prioritized “building deep trust relationships with customers“. It not only insists on delivering the highest quality products but also practices the long-term pursuit of “enabling employee happiness and contributing to the local community” through its daily production activities.
At the level of quality management, its “Quality Policy” forms a set of interlocking operational logic: always centering on customer satisfaction to ensure the stable supply of high-end products; continuously investing in talent development to greatly enhance production technical capabilities and development innovation capacity; using a sense of crisis as a warning and a desire for challenge as motivation to continuously deepen “improvement” and “reform”; promoting company-wide consensus and translation into action by establishing a clear system of “purpose” and “goals”; and dynamically responding to changes in customer demand to maintain organizational flexibility and adaptability. The study group focused on Dynax’s refinement of quality, with the intention of drawing experience for the Huiya raised access floor management system, learning how to drive raised access floor quality improvement based on customer needs, and making Huiya’s raised access floor more mature in terms of quality and service adaptability.
Centering around 5S management, Dynax has built a mature management system. Starting from the basic steps of sort (seiri), set in order (seiton), shine (seiso), standardize (seiketsu), and sustain (shitsuke), and through specific measures like “Red Tag Campaigns” (marking items for disposal) and “Kanban Campaigns” (visual management standards), it pursues management goals of “zero waste in inventory, zero defects in quality, and zero accidents in safety“. The standardization of its 5S implementation process and the detailed nature of its promotion mechanism are precisely the content that the study group needs to focus on applying to the Huiya raised access floor management system. The expectation is to leverage Dynax’s 5S management experience to optimize the standardization level of all links in the raised access floor process, from production to operation and maintenance, making Huiya raised access floor management more efficient and better aligned with actual scenarios.
2，On-Site Exchange: Deep Exploration from Systems to Practice
During the inspection, General Manager Gu Xuxiang exchanged business cards with Dynax’s second-generation management, engaging in an in-depth discussion lasting over two hours on “how to truly implement the 5S management system into the production process.” Both parties held profound discussions around three key practical issues: how to promote continuous participation of all employees in environmental management optimization, how to achieve efficient operation of Huiya raised access floor quality management and daily production, and how to transform systems into the actual actions of frontline employees and integrate an improvement mindset into daily operations. During the exchange, they shared specific cases and deep thoughts from their respective management practices.
The “16 Major Losses in Production Activities” analysis model presented by Dynax on-site, along with the seven major effects brought about by 5S management, allowed the study group to intuitively perceive the underlying logic of “eliminating waste and enhancing efficiency” – optimizing processes by quantifying loss data at each production stage; while the evolution path of 5S management from “formal execution” to “employee habit” provided Huiya with a practical reference implementation model.
3，Huiya Insights: Management Advancement Directions in the Field of Raised Access Floors
As an excellent enterprise in the field of raised access floors, Huiya focused throughout this inspection on “the essence of manufacturing and the granularity of management.” During the exchange, Gu Xuxiang mentioned that Dynax’s practices in the 5S management system – particularly its mechanisms for “company-wide participation and continuous improvement” and the “deep integration of its Quality Policy with its management philosophy” – yielded two profound insights:
First, management must extend down to the production frontline: 5S is absolutely not merely “cleaning”; rather, it involves specific actions such as using red tags to mark waste and kanban to clarify standards, refining management requirements down to every process and every workstation. Second, cultural permeation requires tool support: The transmission of values, from “customer trust” to “employee happiness,” cannot remain at the conceptual level; it must rely on clear policy systems and actionable implementation tools to truly transform abstract ideas into the conscious behaviors of employees.
After the study tour, Huiya has begun compiling summaries and plans to explore a 5S adaptation solution tailored to the process characteristics of its own raised access floor production, aiming to drive a dual upgrade in management efficiency and product quality.
Against the backdrop of intensifying global competition in manufacturing, actively benchmarking against advanced practices and distilling mature experience is a crucial path for enterprises to break through development bottlenecks. Changzhou Huiya’s inspection tour to Japan not only embodied its philosophy of “pursuing extreme optimization in the manufacturing process” but also provided a reference case of practical experience for other enterprises within the raised access floor industry to learn advanced management methods.
