The first batch of 10 plodders for disposable medical protective clothing were completed products identification and delivered to users in 8 days, at the speed of SINOMACH

     On February 19, Hi-tech Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (short for Hi-tech heavy industry”), a subsidiary of Hi-tech Group Corporation, affiliated to China National Machinery Industry Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “SINOMACH”), held a Product identification conference on intelligent hot air seam sealing machine (plodders for medical protective clothing). The related leaders of country, province, and city are attended the meeting.

     According to on-site appraisal and acceptance by experts from the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Henan Province and the Henan Industrial Textile Industry Association, and the users, it was agreed that the overall technical level of the equipment met the standards and could be put into mass production. In the afternoon, the first batch of 10 plodders successively were delivered to 3 user companies and 2 cooperative units designated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 2 days earlier than expected. According to the production plan, Hi-tech Heavy Industry will finish another 270 plodders by the end of February.

     At present, it is the critical period to combat against the novel coronavirus pneumonia. However, medical protective clothing is an important material to protect the life safety of medical staff. The shortage of plodders at present has become a bottleneck restricting the production capacity of medical protective clothing. Therefore, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission recently issued the "Proposal for Information Collection of Medical Protective Clothing Plodders", calling on the whole society to provide relevant technologies and support for enterprises that can produce protective garment to expand their capacity at the fastest speed, and unite as one to win the combat against the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak.

      As an important state-owned backbone enterprise directly managed by the central government, SINOMACH took the initiative to assume this important task and arranged Hi-tech Heavy Industry, the subsidiary of Hi-tech Group Corporation, to take charge of the R & D and manufacturing of the medical protective clothing plodder. “The epidemic is an order, and time is life!” On February 11, Hi-tech Heavy Industry did not resume work yet, but the task required to produce 10 plodders in 10 days. After receiving the task, the company's leaders quickly organized such departments as design, technology, manufacture, procurement, assembly and other relevant departments, holding a telephone meeting to assign work. On February 12, Hi-tech Heavy Industry officially resumed work. All departments moved quickly and invested nearly one hundred talents to the task. The goal was to produce 10 prototypes within 10 days and successfully complete the difficult tasks entrusted to them by their superiors.

Hi-tech Heavy Industry has established an elite team consisting of the chairman, general manager and chief engineer and so on for the R&D and production, giving full play of the manufacturing advantages of state-owned enterprise and the role of the vanguard. In order to finish the task earlier, a 24-hour shift working mechanism was set up, designers rotating, purchasers treating special issues specially, processing staff stopping work without machine stop. They went all out their efforts for the equipment R & D, manufacturing and final assembly. Hi-tech Heavy Industry, with the fortitude of a quick march in war, shouldered its responsibility undauntedly and won the key battle for the first victory at the speed of the SINOMACH.

                                                                                                                                                       CAI JUAN

                                                                                                                                                       2020-02-20