With the Covid-19 outbreak still at large, BYD, one of the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturers, created a new plant in one of its industrial parks in Shenzhen, China to produce face masks and disinfectants to help alleviate severe shortages.
The plant is now capable of producing five million masks and 300,000 bottles of disinfectant daily, but what is truly remarkable is the pace at which the company’s employees worked to make it all possible.
In late January, a special task force was appointed by BYD chairman and president Wang Chuanfu consisting of leaders from different business divisions and more than 3,000 engineers involved in research and development, design, processing and other roles.
In less than two weeks, the task force finished two months’ worth of work in less than two weeks. This includes the R&D and manufacturing process of mask production equipment within seven days, which would normally take 15 to 30 days on the market.
The company is currently capable of producing about five to ten new mask-producing machines on a daily basis, further increasing the number of masks that can be produced at a rate of approximately 300,000 to 500,000 units per day. Each machines requires about 1,300 parts, 90% of which are BYD’s self-made parts.
The team also did R&D work on medical-grade hand sanitisers in six days, which were then shipped to medical staff on the front lines of the epidemic after just eight days. On February 8, the newly-built production lines started to produce these critical supplies, with hundreds of staff working both day and night shifts along with machines working around the clock.
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Salute, this is corporate social responsibility culture to wider bene as hoping ours country could learn from it.
Marvelous action by Game-Changing China! This is why we have to learn a lot from them, even Game Over Proton needs China’s help to survive
They are the reason the whole world is having this pendamic….crazy ppl
Yep, with many local bigger firms still mum on their social responsibility. This stinks.
Very good job
Not mean to talk about politics but this kind of things can only happen in communist countries where their workforce is large, law-abiding, disciplined and committed to obeying any instructions from the government. Look at how fast they built the COVID 19 hospital in Wuhan. But kudos to the Chinese people who are willing to help the other nations in these trying times and hope that we learn from them. This is not the time to for trade wars, politics or egos. It’s about saving lives without looking at religion, race, culture and skin colour.
And they are the ones whom start spreading this wuhan virus….conspiracy? Most western countries are planning to move out their factories after this is over due to lack of human rights/ animal protection
this is relative small compared to china population.
1 disposable surgical Mask per day also not enough.
Proton, Geely? are you ready?
Idiots…stop eating those crazy stuffs…its your fault china! – trump –