The past five days was the most exciting days of all my days in Valeo, for twice, I had chance to visit our supplier, and we had our
salary for the first six weeks paid. On Tuesday morning, Qiu Le's chief technician with his driver picked Viviane and Nestor at their
apartment and me at the gate of our office building, after an hour's driving, we arrived Qiule in Nanhui District. Nestor discussed some
dimensional problems was Roger, chief technician in Qiule, he is the only person speaks English in Qiule. The measurement system of VES Brazil
and Qiule are different, Nestor detected about 10 percent defectives in his production line in Brazil using electronic equipment. Qiu Le
believe their defective rate is absolutely not that high cause they narrowed the tolerance range of specification, though their measuring
equipment may not so precise as Nestor's in Brazil. Nestor tried to push Qiule buy the same measurement system as VES Brazil, but it's too
expensive for Qiule. Currently Qiule is using air measure equipment, the precision resolution is one micron. After discussed for a morning and
afternoon, no resolution agreement was reached; Nestor and Viviane had to check with their boss in Brazil. Qiule has special dinning room for
guests, they have cooks and kitchen there, and we had a wonderful lunch in that room. Evening dinner was taken in a restaurant in the middle
of that town, also very delicious. Qiule supplies alternator shafts and starter pinions, most of their machines are manually operated, only
finish machining are processed on CNC machines. Because it's hard for them to control the process quality, so they have their finished parts
100 percent inspection to guarantee the quality of their supply to Valeo. That's the original stage of quality management: inspection
afterwards.
On Thursday, Viviane, Nestor and I visited Huabiao, a supplier produces standard mounting parts like blots, nuts, screws, keys in Pudong
District. Like Qiule, they have only one person can speak English fluently. This time we don't have much problems there, just some documents
should be hand to Brazil, Nestor asked them to give the date that they can finished those docs. In Huabiao, inspection department seems have
most of the workers. They got several machines with each machine a operator, but they have nine or ten inspectors in that inspection room, that
's because their products are all little or tiny parts, a large amount is always demanded by their customers, but they don't have the
capability to control the process, so they use 100% inspection to control the quality. People there are very kind; they booked a room in a
wonderful restaurant in Nanjing road, the dinner was really wonderful. Huabiao is building a new site near their current one, but they may
have potential problems because 70 percent of their business is done with SVES.
