DAY 15 - INDUSTRY VISIT TO WUGANG

Day 15 in Wuhan

BPE chapter 6

We finished our lesson very early today, and Mr. Wong has gone through the lesson very quickly because we are all very tired after comming back from Wugang industry visits haha. Today we have our quiz 6 after the lecture like usual too and Mr. Wong said that 'we are getting smarter and smarter' and everybody scored a very high marks for our past few quizes. And he is going to make difficulties for us in on Friday test1, oh my!

Mr. Wong is chatting with us after lessons, xiang yu, pei jie, me, and vivian too are all having fun talking to him haha

When we were on the way back to hostel we saw there were promotions selling on yougart dronk, 10 fro 4 bottles plus a free cup! so cheap! the cup pei jie took it because she has no cup for drinking now. See that grey colour block behind of the yougart promotion stalls,that is our hostel

Vivian, me, pei jie, nadiah, hashanah, xinhui and wei guang we went to the the islamic restraunt in our WUST campus and this is the frist time i been to that place!

We have ordered corn chicken, fried vege, fungus (mu er), and a tomato egg soup. The food are all very less saltyless oil and talks idly food, this is what i preffered to and i really like to eat something plain and tasty, haha next time maybe i'll come back here agian

hahha! Xiang yu and Nadiah are acting blind infront of camera!ohhh!!! Xiang yu dont be shy!!I know you are not handsome enough but dont worry my splendid photo capturing skills will make you look nice dee!!

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Visit to Wugang the steel making industry

MDE! we have taken a group picture in front of the Wugang 武钢 (武汉钢铁企业) and there are only photo capturing allowed outside of that Wugang factory of the steel manufacturing

This probably is a very rough picture showing the inner part of Wugang steel making factory, and we are all very exited to go inside and see their steel manufacturing process

That chocalate uniform weared person is the leader going to lead us to the visit of Wugang steel manufacturing process. That place is actually forbbiden to strangers, not open to others and their steel manufacturing process is considered as business secret and cant be photo captured.

hehehehe........................................................... Mr wong dragged by me to go infront of the camera and quickly took a photo haha

This is the final product of steel manufacturing that ready to retail, it is coils of steel plate and there are many rolls of steel coils at there. The forklifting machine has been using to lift up the rolls and the process of making this coil of steel plate is all fully outomated, moving by conveyors, and human coordinated by appling computers control

(picture from wisco.com)

Inside the industry area they are trains and railways that use to move cargoes and the train will never leave that industry area. Our bus have to stop for this train traffic light and we have waited about 10-15 minutes to wait the train to move cargoes and passes far away from railtracks then only our busses can go though

The street view near the area of wugang industry area; heavy machine and lorries along the road and workers can be seen there performing their jobs

Those are the EE students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic too ( Electric Engineering of student) that combined with us and go together to the Wugang industry area

Today we have been going to Wugang, 武钢, a factory producing in metal steel which situated near to WUST campus and took us only about 30 minuts joyney. The weather in the morning is warmth and comfortable and we can actually go outside without layers of clothing on us. Mr.wong gave us a morning call and he knobed everybody's room door while playing his favourite song" Chan Mari Chan", arhhhhh. So noisy!haha! We went school gate gathered at about 8.15 and we have to wait for the EE (Electronic engeneering) students to come from Zhong Nan Road of another WUST campus. EE students are actually having their studying in the different campus with us and their place is almost 'countryside' and far more from Wuhan cities. They all looked very tired and sleepy, and i believe they woke up very early in the morning to catch up with us to go together to Wugang. We took the chatered bus to Wugang and there are no photographing allowed in the Wugang factory, so sad! I'm so lucky to witness the amazing process on making metal steel and the whole process on producing a roll of metal steel strip are extemely faster than i thought, only about 160 seconds!

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Wugang is the third largest of steel manufacturing in China, as according to Mr.Wong saying. The leader of it in china is first the Angang steel manufacturing, followed by Gaogang the second largest in enterprise modal and sizes, then to Wugang industry. The steel is first melted and and poured into the mould, a huge, thick, red and hot and flat matal plate out. It will then go rollers and roll forward to second machine and wash with cool water to remove unpurities, like dust or machine oil that might affect the appearance or quality of steel plate.That thick metal will then go further forward to third machine to be rolled and flatenned to thin, and skinny and long metal plate. This thickness and length can be controlled,the machine can be adjusted to produce metal plate with 1milimeter- 25 milimeters differences in width. Lazer is used to detect the thickness and quality of steel plate, and human planner is behind controlling adjusting mechine to produce the exact length/width as ordered by customer.

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The machine rolled come and back about 4-6 times and flatenned. The factory leader actually told me that they called this process like 煮面坤面团, which like they making noodles the chief need to rolled and flattened the doll. The thin and flat steel metal plate will then be rolled into rolls and coiled, labelled, and transported to customer. I joined teacher conversations with the factory leader and he later answered me that, when order arrive they will need 1 week of producing lead time to produce the steel strip, there is no warehousing and after producing rolls of rolls of metal strip it will be directly transported to all over to country and world. Wugang produce about 300 of rolls of metal strips in 1 day. The bigger the rolls of metal make the better profit, they will usually make a larger rolls of metal compared to we have seen today. Because it is better to produce in bigger volume in a time as is the same process the machine willl go through . Their procing process is very efficiency and it takes about 160 second to produce 1 rolls of coil steel metal strips. THeir technology is so advanced that the width of metal plate reach about 21 milimeters, compared to common width that at about 26-32 milimeters. Wugang customer are all over the world and they are actually the supplier to the pipeline construction in Shang hai to Shan Xi area in china, the constructions under government is eventually thier customers too!

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Their quality of steel is such qualified that customer range has even extended to supply steel and metal to Japan and others country. Besides, compared to traditional steel making industry that have thousands of workers to produce steel, Wugang has only about hundreds of wokers in factory, applied full outomate producing, with machines working and human planner controlling and coordinating machines, they are walking towards to modern factories and proud of their advanced technology on automated steel making. How fortunate i am that i've witness the whole proces on producing the metal steel today! ... I really wonders how they have managed their supply chain in steel industry adn asked many question related to logistic to the tuor leader, the steel producing is so time sensative and costing and their workers seems have to work under pressure and health risk. Workers health condition and factory maintainece cost have caused a lot to their enterprise and managing workers working environment and heath are the most costing factors in steel industry compared to operations cost or other transportation cost. Finally i would like to thank for this enterprise for giving us this oppurtunities to witness the whole process of making steel and the factory's guide leader who answered all my questions that patiently, thanks lot