{"id":3816,"date":"2013-07-10T18:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T18:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2013-07-10T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T18:29:21","slug":"day-15-slowly-southwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/sml-international\/day-15-slowly-southwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 15 &#8211; Slowly southwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we travelled several hours by bus to get from Guangzhou (Canton) to Shenzhen on the road we made stops in both, Heshan (Green Mountain) and Dongguan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/day-15-slowly-southwards\/00000routing\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3829\" title=\"00000routing\" src=\"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/00000routing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Approx. Routing &#8211; calculated from maps.google.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We met at 7.20 am to get on the bus at 7.45, and then we proceeded to Heshan, where we visited a Swiss Company called FRANKE.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/day-15-slowly-southwards\/franke\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3878\" title=\"Franke\" src=\"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Franke.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"42\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>produces kitchen supplies, industrial coffee machines, bathroom utilities and fast-food kitchen, mainly for McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Our visit focused on the ladder products, after a brief introduction from mr. Gao, senior regional operations director, we saw the production line. It was built as every manufacturing process textbook would suggest (see our figure). The Japanese 5-S (seiri,\u00a0seiton,\u00a0seiso,\u00a0seiketsu,\u00a0and\u00a0shitsuke in English sorting, set in order, systematic cleaning, standardising, and sustaining) was present; every team had a board where the actual state of accomplishment was shown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/day-15-slowly-southwards\/20130710_102951\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3819\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3819\" title=\"20130710_102951\" src=\"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130710_102951-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Production site &#8211; lean-management<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/day-15-slowly-southwards\/0000production\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3818\" title=\"0000production\" src=\"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/0000production.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Graphic Display of the Production &#8211; no detours<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, two other members of the board, Ms. Wong \u2013 Regional Sales Director Asia &#8211; and Mr. White \u2013 Regional Project Execution Director joined for an exercise, in which the student-groups answered certain business case questions. These answers were checked by the three directors. During lunchtime we could continue the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After visiting FRANKE we left Dongguan to visit the South China Mall, the largest shopping centre in the World, total constructing cost reached about CHF 500 million. \u00a0However, as the shopping centre was a) too big b) badly accessible (no highway, subway or train station) and c) built in a rather poor area no one rented out shops. This impressingly showed that building without prior market research can have disastrous consequences. 99% of the shopping space is vacant since its opening or using other words: 43 Shops out of 2.300 possible ones are busy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/day-15-slowly-southwards\/20130710_164653\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3821\" title=\"20130710_164653\" src=\"http:\/\/ianus.zhaw.ch\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130710_164653-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;New South China Mall&#8221; &#8211; cover for a construction site demolishing parts of the Mall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Subsequently we boarded the bus again and after a convenient two-hour bus ride we arrived in Shenzhen. Prior to this we were given some facts about Shenzhen, like \u00a0its policy of being a modern and sustainable city that had an amazing growth from a small town to one of the major cities in the World due to the opening reform of chairman Deng. However, our hotel could somehow withstand this governmental policy of being modern and sustainable, it has that charming ten-years-ago &#8220;made in China&#8221;-atmosphere and is well suitable for field trip students with a major in zoology.<\/p>\n<p>Written by the following members of group 4:<\/p>\n<p>Florian Maier &amp; Lukas B\u00fchler<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we travelled several hours by bus to get from Guangzhou (Canton) to Shenzhen on the road we made stops in both, Heshan (Green Mountain) and Dongguan. Approx. 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