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Fighting Epidemic, Reinforcing Production, Kaifa in Action

Release Time:2020-02-12

In order to fully support customers and fulfill the responsibilities of Kaifa with practical actions during the epidemic, subordinates of Kaifa, Payton Technology(Shenzhen) Co., Ltd, Suzhou Kaifa Technology Co., Ltd (KFSU) and Shenzhen Kaifa Precision Technology Co., Ltd continued to produce during the Spring Festival, which have made great efforts to take all-round epidemic prevention measures to ensure employee safety. On the premise of ensuring that epidemic prevention and control is in place, to maintain uninterrupted production and operation to the maximum extent, to meet the needs of the international market, and to make every effort to ensure the safety and stability of the industrial chain. Stop rest instead of stop production, stick to the position to ensure continuous production Kaifa, as an important supplier to industry giants such as Kingston, Seagate, and Western Digital, will have a significant impact on the global industry market once production ceases. As early as the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, Payton started to prevent the impact of the epidemic on the company's production work with a high degree of market acuity to ensure normal production and supply during the epidemic. On January 20th, Payton Company held a high-level meeting to analyse the current epidemic situation and the future impact on the company's production and operation. Then, a Payton Technology Leading Group for the Prevention and Control of New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Situation was established to be responsible for the deployment and implementation of superior epidemics Prevention and control requirements. The unified command and coordination of the company's epidemic prevention control and emergency work have achieved good results. For instance, affected by the epidemic, Payton's raw material suppliers could not resume work and deliver in time, resulting in shortages of materials such as cardboard boxes, printed circuit boards and molding compound for packaging. Once the supply of materials is insufficient, the production line will directly face production suspension. To solve this problem, guarantee the normal supply of materials, Payton company get in contact with suppliers and sent a car to pick up the supplier warehouse directly address the lack of material conditions. In addition, the more problematic is the shortage of personnel. Due to the Spring Festival holiday, most employees return for vacation. Also affected by the epidemic, employees cannot return to work, and there is a shortage of front-line personnel. To this end, Payton's employees have taken the initiative to abandon their vacations, adhere to their positions with the spirit of non-stop production, work hard to protect production overtime, and ensure more than half of the usual production capacity. At KFSU, in terms of material storage and security, in addition to making adequate preparations for the original inventory of key materials, a general person is also set up for tracking in advance. When there is a shortage of materials, follow-up and tracking of materials are required to ensure timely supply of materials. In terms of spare parts, the original inventory products are rectified, modified, and processed for reuse. In ensuring the normal operation of the equipment, the company immediately mobilized manpower at the beginning of the epidemic situation, bringing the technicians in the equipment department to the position in advance to do a great job of emergency response. Furthermore, the company's logistics department actively responded to the national call for epidemic prevention requirements, implemented remote offices to support production, and took various measures to ensure that the order business was completed as scheduled.   System enforcement, execution in place On Jan, 27th, under the deployment of Kaifa prevention and control of pneumonia epidemics of new coronavirus infection working group headed by chairman of the board, Zhou Jian, executive vice president, Chen Zhujiang and vice president Mo Shangyun as deputy heads and other  leadership team's members, major functional department principals and branches’ general managers serve as group members, Kaifa decided to adopt measures such as unblocking information communication channels, strengthening leadership of epidemic prevention work, implementing joint prevention and control, clarifying measures for prevention and control, and strengthening publicity for epidemic prevention and control, and coordinated domestic and overseas branches and subsidiaries to carry out epidemic prevention and control and emergency work. For days, under the guidance of epidemics working group, Human Resource Department launches a series of the Spring Festival rework arrangement and contingency plans, guidance on resumption of work after the Festival, staff itinerary and health declaration documents during the epidemics. Safety Management Office performs regularly strict sterilization, isolation and body temperature measurement every day. Purchasing Department ensures supplies of epidemic prevention materials and production materials through domestic and abroad resources. In the overseas, with the impact of epidemics, logistics and customs clearance have been hindered, when Kaifa Malaysia and Kaifa Philippines learned that the headquarters’ face masks are in short supply, they quick respond to deliver local face masks to the headquarters plant so as to support for the plant resumption of work and normal production.    During the particularly critical period, Kaifa has been taking actions all the time for ensuring safe and normal operation and staff health.