The corporation we went to visit is named as KILEWS. KILEWS is both a company and a factory for electric screwdrivers, which means KILEWS manufactures and markets the products by itself. All of us were really looking forward to this trip, because it’s not that common for students to learn our lessons from actual operations, not to mention to spend half a day in a factory.

Entered the factory, barely no one could hide the curiosity to the factory from our faces. Whenever we passed by a different station, we showed a big question mark above our heads, gave out exploring look, and whispered in excitement. It’s obvious that the employees must have been notified not to get distracted by our sudden visit since most of them didn’t pay any attention to our presents.

Something in the factory soon got everyone’s attention—it was the day-counting board placed on the entrance of every section, which stated for “No misses for XXX days”. The manager told us that is the small tip they use for supervising quality. A department will be awarded when the “No misses for XXX days” reaches a certain standard. On the contrary, a department will get their “Price” if they can’t figure a way to break out. We did a small calculation while visiting, the department which maintain for the longest time would be Quality Control Department, and the worst performance should be Warehouse-Management.

Despite the day-counting board, slogans for encouragement like “Other pays for one’s mistakes. Implementing comprehension quality saves trouble.”, “Attitude is everything. Details determine everything. ” etc... The slogans inspired an attitude of responsibility not only for ONE employee, but for EVERY ONE of them. And I found the attitude quite generous and genius. It’s a possible motive for the company to grow and to succeed together, so that everyone would work with a selfishless attitude for their own good. On the other hand, we’re all impressed by how KILEWS manage quality control and how a small company it seemed to be, however, turned out it is an international company. KILEWS has been expanding its international markets since 1988, now its distributors have been established worldwide, like in China, Japan, Korea, USA, Vietnam, Germany, and etc...

How does KILEWS reach such an accomplished success? Let’s not talk about their comprehension quality control, which we’ve already knew how well they’re doing. By the time for QUESTION & ANSWER we gathered in the staff canteen. Before visiting the factory, some of our classmates were appointed as oral interpreters. They had to interpret English into Chinese or Chinese into English for both parties during meeting. The interesting part was that majority of participants were able to understand the whole conversation, so it ended up everyone staring at those students with enthusiasm and in anticipation. Especially Lynn, she did an amazing job. In addition to this, one of the KILEWS’s supervisors—Jimmy, was graduated from our school, and apparently he was very pleased to see us visiting, moreover sensed our outstanding ability in English. Jimmy generously talked about his experiences of what attitude we should bring with us when we started working, he mentioned that we should never quit, never feel satisfactory, and always remember to enjoy our job! Sometimes how talented a person is or how splendid his previous experiences had been were not points. What really lasts forever would be the heart that never limits. And so we must always look up and keep faith.

If some words are needed to describe KILEWS, I would prefer “Innovation, rigorous, passion, and energetic”. KILEWS isn’t like the kind of company we’ve heard in society, all employees are willing to give out their hands for those who are in need. Also they exchange ideas or opinions a lot during workshops. Besides their hospitality, they own both strict and energetic attitudes to their work. It was a really meaningful trip; I believe all of us had learned something from KILEWS. And at last I’d like to thank our teacher Mr. Zhao for giving us a day as interns in a real factory, and also thank KILEWS for providing us an opportunity to visit their company. We hope these kinds of activity would be kept continually so that our junior brothers and sisters would have the same chance to verify their knowledge in actual practice.