Shanghai, From Bare Ground
Sent in his mid-twenties to build a new plant's plating station — layout, machines, documents, people.
2003PLANT IN PRODUCTION
1.25→1.6PLATING CPK
3SHIFT CREWS TRAINED
01 Background
In 2001 the group expanded to Shanghai. When Gavin arrived, the site was still under construction — the buildings weren't even up.
02 Challenge
Four jobs in one: build the plant, qualify every machine, train first-generation local line leaders who had never seen the industry, and transfer technology from the mother site in Taiwan.
03 Approach
He drew the layout down to water, power and gas; set the build schedule; evaluated each machine; and wrote the documents a factory runs on — SOPs, maintenance rules, FMEA, OCAP.
04 My role
Process supervisor and project lead of the plating station — from empty floor plan to production.
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