I recently attended the China International Pet Show, CIPS, in Guangzhou China. Guangzhou is the home of many aquarium manufacturers, including Waveline, maker of the first widely used DC water pumps. Eddie and Daniel greeted me with open arms and instantly made me feel welcomed in a place far from home.
The first full hour of my visit I was introduced to as many of the employees as possible. We talked about the company’s early days and some of the things my eyes and my camera may have seen were not ready for public awareness. From a glance you can see that the place was in high gear, as they were preparing for the China International Pet Show (CIPS) in Shanghai.
Eddie took some time to show me a few 3D illustrations of their booth for the CIPS show. They were all so busy preparing for the show that I was surprised how they found time for my intrusion and the interview. Daniel agreed to the interview and now to part one of a series.
Tony:嗨,丹尼尔,我非常感谢您允许我来参观您的设施。我知道大多数制造商都不喜欢人来看看他们在做什么。但是,我也要感谢您允许我们面试您并听到一些有关公司历史的了解。因此,如果您可以从一开始就开始,并让我们了解你们如何凝视。
Daniel:In 2010 we had a vision of what the aquarium industry needed and we approached a few OEM factories to design us a pump. And, at that point we had an idea of using a DC power pump. We’ve asked a company to work with us, come up with a design to manufacture the DC 5000. We had the first few batch a very large success, but as the orders were coming in the quality of the product was not up to our standard and we asked the factory to put some check marks for us and we could not come to an agreement with them. In terms of quality and standardizing the product. At that point we decided to cut our ties with that factory and bought our own machines and used our own manufacturing methods following North American standards. Manufacturing what we have now is the DC 6000.
在本访谈的系列中,我们将讨论工厂部门化的重要性及其如何影响质量控制。