Chapter 180: The Great Inspection

"Good day, Director! Good day, Deputy Director Huang!"

As soon as the car carrying Lu Kun and Huang Mingbo arrived at the main gate of the Master Kong Food and Beverage Factory, a dozen management personnel immediately greeted them.

These people had evidently been waiting there for quite some time.

"Hello everyone, thank you for your hard work," Lu Kun said with a resonant laugh.

"It's no trouble at all, no trouble..."

Lu Kun nodded inwardly. Huang Mingbo had trained these people quite well.

Those waiting at the factory gates were the primary and secondary heads of the various departments within the facility. Ordinary workers and technicians were all carrying out their normal shifts, avoiding any unnecessary fanfare.

Lu Kun walked in the lead, followed closely by a large group of people hurrying along behind him.

"Director, which workshop shall we inspect first?" Huang Mingbo asked with a smile, walking beside Lu Kun.

Lu Kun turned his head slightly and gestured toward a middle-aged man with a dark, weather-beaten complexion who looked rather like a coal miner. "Old Liang, let's go. Let's take a look first at how well you're managing the boiler room."

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"The boiler room is one of the departments and workshops most susceptible to safety accidents. Safety is the utmost priority in the boiler room.

We must establish and improve a rotational inspection system, and never allow any mentality of leaving things to chance or any lazy behavior.

Old Liang, as the head of the boiler room, you must ensure that safety work is properly handled. You must conduct an on-site inspection of the boiler room every week. You must not simply stay in your office waiting for your subordinates to hand over the record sheets of inspection results, identified problems, and related handling procedures."

Old Liang, the head of the boiler room who had been summoned over by Lu Kun, was usually steady and grounded in his work. However, as he listened to Lu Kun continuously point out various detailed issues within the boiler room, beads of sweat could not help rolling down his forehead.

"The operating personnel on duty in the boiler room must establish a specific rotational inspection route based on the exact layout of each boiler room during every patrol to prevent any missed checks... While the rotational inspection responsibility system must be implemented down to the individual, the direct supervisors shall likewise bear joint and several liability..."

Although Lu Kun was not exceptionally well-versed in production management, he had, after all, managed to keep his small hardware factory afloat without going bankrupt during those fiercely competitive years in his past life. Therefore, he still possessed considerable competence in production management.

Coupled with the thorough preparations he had made prior to the inspection, his fluent and articulate performance presently took everyone by surprise.

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"Next, let's go take a look at the production workshop," Lu Kun said, completely mastering the rhythm as he gestured to the production workshop director to lead everyone over for a tour of the production floor.

"As everyone knows, food is the people's heaven, and safety is paramount when it comes to food. We must strictly control everything that enters the mouth, eliminating food safety issues from the source. Not a single mistake is permitted!" Lu Kun said with a stern expression.

"Disinfection work, washing procedures, and sanitation must be strictly carried out," Lu Kun said as he walked through the production workshop, casting a meaningful glance at Huang Mingbo.

Catching the "signal" in Lu Kun's gaze, Huang Mingbo hurriedly said, "Food production, food processing, and finished product quality inspection are tasks I will oversee personally. I will not let down my guard for a single moment."

Lu Kun nodded and continued walking forward.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, Lu Kun frowned slightly, pointing at some debris on the ground. "Why are there all these sundries piled up in the passageways of the food workshop?"

Anyone with even a modest understanding of food production and processing knows that, to prevent cross-contamination, the passageways in a food workshop must separate personnel flow from material flow. From raw material processing to finished product warehousing, the material logistics channel should follow a single production line. Piling raw materials, auxiliary materials, and sundries inside food passageways is strictly prohibited.

"Take charge of this matter and handle it with strict discipline. Since detailed regulations have been established, they must be strictly observed," Lu Kun instructed Huang Mingbo beside him, while everyone else present held their breath in absolute silence.

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"Director, ahead is the central laboratory of our Master Kong Food and Beverage Factory. Would you like to go take a look?" Huang Mingbo asked, pointing to a building ahead.

"Very well. Everyone follow me and accompany Deputy Director Huang to take a look," Lu Kun said, turning his head slightly toward the crowd.

The group immediately quickened their pace to follow.

"Our central laboratory is divided into three main modules: new product research and development, food quality inspection, and mechanical repair," Huang Mingbo introduced to everyone.

"Oh?"

"Putting the mechanical repair department inside the laboratory—isn't that rather inappropriate?" Lu Kun pondered aloud.

The air suddenly fell silent.

"Director, although our machinery is of the finest quality, minor malfunctions still occur. To avoid affecting production efficiency, we believe the factory needs mechanical repair personnel and a department for them. As for why the mechanical repair department is located inside the laboratory, it is because other locations were simply not suitable for exploring mechanical repair technology..."

Huang Mingbo beat around the bush, and it took Lu Kun a good while to finally understand.

To put it bluntly, the building here was vacant, and space in other buildings was difficult to clear out, so they simply let the mechanical repair department take root right here.

As for new product research and development and other such matters, Lu Kun did not know a great deal about them and could only provide some conceptual direction.

At present, the flagship product of the Master Kong Food and Beverage Group was Master Kong Braised Beef Instant Noodles, which had already been introduced to the market. Although the initial response was lukewarm, Lu Kun knew this was because large-scale advertising and promotional sales campaigns had not yet been launched.

Most ordinary people in Angui still harbored doubts about this novel type of "instant noodles."

To them, traditional noodles and rice noodles were still far more reliable.

The development of convenient fast foods was inextricably linked with the wave of migrant workers. In the short term, the market focus for Master Kong Braised Beef Instant Noodles should be concentrated in the coastal regions.

After touring the various departments, everyone returned to the conference room for a summary meeting, where Lu Kun and Huang Mingbo delivered speeches respectively.

Although rather cliché, the procedure still had to be observed.

"Fellow colleagues, as you all just witnessed during our tour of the various departments, our Master Kong Food and Beverage Factory indeed suffers from quite a few problems and loopholes.

Food is the people's heaven, and safety comes first. At any given time, food safety remains the foundational basis of our Master Kong Food and Beverage Group, and we cannot afford the slightest slackness.

Since this is a food production management meeting, I would like to put forward a few requirements to everyone here:

1. The responsibility for food safety supervision must be implemented down to specific departments and individuals. Once a problem arises, the Group will hold the primary responsible persons and joint responsible persons accountable;

2. Production safety must be emphasized every year, every month, and every day. We must eliminate all loopholes and prevent all accidental production incidents..."

"We must promptly rectify and resolve the issues just raised by the Director, strictly implement the responsibility system, and strictly supervise ourselves and our employees to abide by all the detailed rules and regulations established by the factory..."