Daniel Simkin's Blog: The Industrial Asia

Ma jen jao ( I'm good), New Tapei City:

Scrolls Industrial Plan

I'm in the middle of the industrial zone of Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan. This is almost my 5th day here and I'm learning a lot about manufacturing processes. Eaglemaster – C.L.Auto Metal Industrial CO (the company I'm interring) is one of the largest companies in the country producing alarms and sirens for cars, motorcycles and others. Regarding the manufacturing process, which is what I'm focusing on, some of the processes they delegate to other sub-companies and others they make on their own. Today Monday 9^th, I visited a plastic injection plant, a PCB plant, two insertion line plants for the PCB one for deep PCB and the other one for soling the PCB, then I visited a scrolls plant and finally at the end of the day I participated in a meeting at the offices for developing new products. Eaglemaster as any other company struggles to develop new products in order to fight against China because they copy their staff. They develop new strategies to make complicated the duplication of any remote control.

Different Directors and Managers of the PCB soling Plant

Taipei in general is a high developing country with less than 3% unemployment. A big difference than Mexicans in the US and Colombians in Venezuela, here philipinians work an average of 13 hours per day for $700 a month. On the other hand, in China employees work more hours for a $300 - $500 salary... that's pretty cheap. There is a lot of technology here and the US has a lot of influence. I mean, I already found a Costco store, Ikea, and the even a 7 eleven. Of course that Japanese, Korean and Chinese restaurants are all over the place as well. People are very humble and handsome, I actually don't know how many tourists you actually see on the streets because I'm mainly inside the factories. Food is quite good, I like it. I have been learning some words in mandarin like: nijao ma? (how are you) ma jen jao (I'm good) or shenshe (thanks).

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