Chapter 729 - Dyeon Korea’s Production Machines are Being Built (1) – Part 2
At the moment, President Song’s smartphone started ringing.
“Oh, I have to take this one. It’s from H Group.”
President Song answered the phone, and he said yes and yes several times. After getting off the phone, President Song said to Gun-Ho, “They want me to come to their office this afternoon.”
“Is something wrong? Is it about a defective product claim or something like that?”
“I don’t think it’s about defective product claims, but they just said that they want to discuss something with me.”
“Really? Well, you’d better go then.”
“I’m not sure why they want to see me. If it is about a product order, they can communicate with us through the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system. They want to talk with an executive officer who is in charge of purchasing. Well, I will let you know right after I find out what it is about.”
“Are you going to go there by yourself?”
“No. They want to talk with our chief research officer as well. Maybe it’s about some changes in the specification of their products that we are manufacturing.”
Gun-Ho went to Dyeon Korea that afternoon. When he arrived there, a large forklift truck was taking one of the machines in the production site to the front yard. Manager Hee-Yeol Yoo, and Manager Ahn from the maintenance team were there to supervise the work. When they saw Gun-Ho, they greeted him. Gun-Ho asked them, “Is that the machine that will be shipped to GH Mobile?”
“Yes, sir. I actually asked Director Park to come to help us with repairing the machine because Manager Ahn is having a hectic day, and Director Park told me to send the machine to him instead. It seems that Mr. President Song made a request for it to Mr. Director Kim directly.”
“Hmm, I see.”
“I think that Director Park wants to totally dismantle this machine and then reassemble them, so he understands the machines inside and out before starting building one.”
“Hmm.”
When Gun-Ho walked up to his office, Director Kim came into the office.
“As you probably saw it on the way here, one of our machines is being shipped to GH Mobile. That machine is out of work anyway. They will fix it before sending it back to us. Because our machines here are all second-hand, they break down sometimes which is not surprising.”
“Even though he doesn’t have direct experience with Dyeon Korea’s machines, he has been working with GH Mobile’s extruding machines, so it should be okay. Moreover, he’s going to work with Director Park in dismantling one of our machines and reassemble it, right? They purchased the twin screws from the U.S. in order to build the machine themselves. He will learn to handle the machine very quickly then. He has been in the maintenance field for more than 20 years.”
“Hmm, I see.”
“I think it was the right decision to build Dyeon Korea’s machine ourselves by bringing twin screws from America. It will greatly benefit us in the long term. Once we succeed in building the machine, we won’t have to worry about the cost and stuff in getting those machines in order to expand our business overseas. We can add more locations in China such as Beijing or Guangdong Province later.”
“You are right.”
“Not just China, but we can expand to Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, etc. as well. It will be good if we have one factory in each country like those listed above.”
“Hmm.”
“Moreover, once we go public, we will be loaded with funds. We can certainly have more factories abroad.”
“That’s very true.”
“We will have to think about what we are going to do with our compound technology. Once the factories in China and India start running, we will have to train the local workers with some of our compound technology. We should figure out how much we would teach them.”
“At first, we will have to produce the compounds that require a high level of difficulty in our factory here, and let the local factories produce the rest for their local markets.”
“That should be the direction that we need to take. We have several decent workers at the research center with a management position. They are very knowledgeable and competent workers. I think it is a good idea to send them to our China and India locations, so they can manage each location’s compound room.”
“Hmm.”
“We can give them a promotion in position, and give them a job title such as chief research center or compound room manager, and also raise their salary by 1.5 times of what they are getting paid here.”
“That sounds like a good plan.”