The car hurtled wildly forward, the gas pedal glued to the ground and the gritty roar of the engine could be heard half a mile away. New tarmac roads in the suburbs need no gentle treatment, and the sweet-scented osmanthus trees planted by the side of the road sprout bright yellow petals and disappear quickly in the rearview mirror before they can be examined. Before I know it, I’ve got my foot on the gas 80 yards.
I received a call from the company half an hour ago. From the anxious tones of my colleagues, I knew there was a big problem. I promised them to come as soon as possible. It was actually a Saturday, a day off for me. Of course, this is only a theoretical day off, which ceases to be a holiday when the company needs it.
A year ago, due to some reasons, I quit my job in a first-tier city and returned to my hometown. I entered a local enterprise under the recommendation of my friend. The company belongs to the manufacturing industry and has a certain say in the field. The group has thousands of employees and is a leading local enterprise. My old employer was an Internet giant and I worked as a project engineer for many years before coming back. Thanks to my experience and qualifications, I successfully served as the head of the IT technical support department in the new company.
As we turned the junction on the low, hilly edge of the suburb, factories appeared at the far end of the road. As soon as I parked my car in the parking lot of the factory, my colleagues called me to urge me. I told them THAT I had arrived at the company, and they said to wait for me in the 19th workshop. I agreed.
I trotted all the way to the 19th workshop. In fact, as soon as I entered the company, I noticed that today is different from other days. According to the normal arrangement, the workshop should be in full production today, and ear muffs must be worn to enter the workshop area on weekdays, otherwise the machine noise may damage hearing. But now the workshop area is so quiet, it’s eerily quiet.
Two minutes later, I appeared at the door of Workshop 19. I raised my hand and looked at the same time: 11:09 a.m. At this moment, Lao Qin, the rotating head of the production department, came to meet me. He had called me earlier.
“Zhang Gong you come, take a vacation also call you come over, really hard!”
“Now! This doesn’t matter, minister qin you say this is a what circumstance after all first?”
Lao Qin, a southerner, speaks to me in putonghua with a strong local accent about today’s problems. His accent made it hard for me to hear, but thanks to his clear logic, I soon figured it out.
Back a few minutes ago, the factory was very quiet at that time. Normally, the machines growling like steel beasts were lying motionless on the ground in complete silence. Only occasionally could we hear workers whispering in the huge factory.
Lao Qin strolls through the workshop, hands behind his back, wearing the pink cap of leadership, slowly making his way through the assembly lines, followed by female assistants. Even though He was wearing a mask, the workers could see confusion and confusion in his eyes.
“What time is it? He asked. Female assistant blankly once, then quick step followed up, say: “just ten o ‘clock!” She had already guessed qin’s next question, and added, “Yesterday’s production plan has been finished, but the new plan has not been issued, and it has been stopped for nearly an hour.”
Lao Qin frowned, obviously very dissatisfied with this situation. The female assistant said that she had asked the planning department and the engineering department, but had not received a reply. Lao Qin walked quickly out of the workshop without speaking. There was a knock on the semi-glazed door of the planning department. It opened and Old Qin appeared in the doorway.
“Oh, Minister Qin you came!” Planning department colleague Xiao Su smiles.
“The workshop has been shut down for an hour. Why hasn’t the production plan been issued?” Lao Qin came straight to the point.
“Sorry, we can’t send out the production plan on our MES system, we are trying to solve it now! This you see, other relevant departments have sent people over, we are also busy into a pot of porridge!” The door of the office was flung open.
Old Qin’s eyes were in a mess and hurry. He understood and asked if Sue could be more specific. Xiao Su said that they were conducting internal self-examination and found no problems in the planning department for the time being. IT was probably the fault of the software system. They suggested consulting the IT technical support department.
As we all know, I was called back to the company from my vacation to solve the problem. However, as far as I know, the MES system they use is customized by the procurement department to the software company and belongs to closed-source software. Now there is a problem that our own IT department cannot solve and we have to turn to the software provider for help, so IT may not be able to resume production anytime soon.
Sure enough, even though I contacted the supplier as soon as I learned about the situation, MES didn’t return to normal until 9 p.m. Thousands of employees across the company have been on standby for the past 10 hours. This is bad for workers who earn their income by memorizing items, but worse for those at the top of the supply chain.
After a period of time, MES still appeared large and small multiple failures, to the company and staff have brought huge losses. Finally, the senior management convened a meeting with relevant personnel and decided to abandon the old system and independently develop a new one to solve this problem.
So, in the end, it was natural for our IT department to do that. As for the MES development project, the budget was quite adequate, but the group was given only 20 days to develop the new system because the old system was too bad to wait.
I told the internal meeting that the time was so short and the workload was so heavy that it would not work according to the old method. What we need now is a shortcut, a shortcut to developing software quickly, preferably if there’s something out there that we can use directly.
Finally, after consulting and exploring, we learned a development tool from our predecessors, so lishun rapid development platform began to participate in our development work.
This is a visual code generation tool that helps developers build software quickly. The platform adopts a wizard-style development approach, which can be developed through visual operations such as drag-and-drop editing. What you see is what you get, and functionality can be generated at the same time as design.
In the process of using it, we found that it has already built a framework for developers, and preset all kinds of basic modules can be directly used. In addition, it has established a number of customized templates according to the characteristics of various systems. We can quickly develop various business systems directly according to the development wizard, which makes the development team very useful.
Colleagues in the department have not been in the industry for a short time, but some of the language, we are not commonly used, so not familiar with, for example. NET, which is very passive in development.
Fortunately, however, the powerful soft rapid development platform, when the developer in the front of the visual operation, the software will automatically generate source code to facilitate compilation and modification. In the preparation of complex business logic, it can also be used to complete the basic code development, and then write the business logic, the framework is also integrated with all kinds of common operation library, which is for everyone to use. NET to complete the development of complex functions from a great help.
During development, we felt that the technology used in this platform was mainstream, and it was very standardized, so there was no worry about bugs. This is one of the main reasons why I use it.
In numerous practical functions, the most worthy of saying, is its authority control function.
It provides various forms of permission control, whether by role, department, post, user, or user group. Moreover, the operation permission is refined to every button on the interface, and the data permission is refined to every record, and even the access restriction of IP segment can be achieved. The functions and reports developed based on the framework can be directly attached to the authorization system. With the separation of permissions and functions, we only need to care about the implementation of functions.
Thanks to lisoft rapid development tool and the team behind it, our department successfully completed the development task and the new system was launched on time. The self-developed software completely fits the actual situation of the company. There has never been any problem in the nearly six months since it was launched, and the production efficiency of the plant has been continuously improved.
Sometimes when I eat in the canteen, I will meet Xiao Su and Lao Qin. When they see me, they will come to say hello with a smile and then sit together while eating and talking. In those days, leaders of the production department like Lao Qin often sat beside us at lunch.
“But thank you so much, MES for our own people!” “, “Your IT department has worked hard! Now the production scheduling system is maintained by you, we are relieved!” .
These are the words they often hang in the mouth, I feel flattered.
Maybe they were scared by the old system.
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