Performed by: Nguyen Nam
Tuoi Tre Newspaper May 23, 2011
Dien Quang Lamp Joint Stock Company is implementing a project to build a factory and transfer light bulb production technology to a Venezuelan partner. To do this, Dien Quang Lamp Joint Stock Company has assigned work to young engineers who are “passionate about their profession”.
Exporting energy-saving light bulb manufacturing technology has been a topic that Dien Quang engineers have been discussing a lot recently. A core project team consisting of young engineers from the technical department was established to carry out the technology transfer project. This group of engineers worked day and night to complete the work in the first phase of the Viet-Ven EPC (engineering – procurement – construction) project with partner PDVSA Industrial (Venezuela).
“This project will be implemented from 2010 to 2017. Dien Quang will build a factory for Venezuela to produce energy-saving light bulbs with an initial design capacity of 74 million compact bulbs per year,” said Mr. Ho Quynh Hung, General Director of Dien Quang Company.
“We already have a light bulb production process. However, to export the product, many improvements are needed to suit the foreign market,” said engineer Ho Huu Thai, a member of the project team. In addition, because each country uses different voltage levels, the first thing the engineering team must do is to change the product voltage to suit the market, then perfect the technological process and production line to serve export. “Our team is improving the available light bulb voltage meter to measure voltage at many different levels, avoiding the company having to spend money on importing new machines,” said engineer Thai.
The group’s idea of turning a voltage meter that was operating stably in the production line into a multi-function machine was initially… dismissed as too adventurous. Therefore, the whole group determined to make a meticulous improvement plan and finally put it into successful testing. As a result, Dien Quang now has a system of “homegrown” multi-function voltage meters!
In addition to designing light bulbs to compete in foreign markets, completing the design of the production line for the new project in Venezuela also made Ta Quang Toan's engineering team think a lot: "I took my work home, turned on the light and looked at the drawings over and over again. I turned off the lights and took a nap, then woke up and looked at them again."
Young people develop
At a sidewalk cafe on Ham Nghi Street (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City), engineer Vuong Quan Truong enthusiastically told his colleagues interesting stories he had just experienced during a business trip to the South American country of Venezuela: "There were many funny stories, but the funniest was when I checked into a hotel and saw many Dien Quang light bulbs being used there."
Nguyen Thanh Phuong Thao, the only girl in the project team exporting manufacturing technology to Venezuela, also expressed pride in her work, because Vietnamese enterprises have previously only played the role of subcontractors in EPC projects, and have never acted as general contractors. “The profits brought to the company through this project are huge, so everyone knows they have to work harder,” Thao said.
“Youth is a necessary condition for creativity, a value that we always promote. The force of engineers and experts that Dien Quang mobilized to implement the Viet-Ven 100% project of Vietnam. I think young Vietnamese workers can go far, export their brainpower abroad if they are trusted and invested in the right direction” – Mr. Ho Quynh Hung could not hide his pride”./.
