At about the time, from the 65th International Roofing Federation (IFD) Conference being held. News uploaded: Beijing, China won the right to host the 2020 IFD Conference and the 28th IFD World Youth Roofer Championship. The construction waterproofing industry was excited by winning the hosting rights of the IFD competition, known as the "Olympic Fair" in the global roofing and waterproofing industry.

On November 22, the five-month 2017 China Skills Competition - League Cup "National Construction Waterproof Industry (Waterproof Worker) Professional Skills Competition came to an end. The competition will be promoted to a national competition based on the successful hosting of the first four sessions. The champion will be awarded the title of "National Technical Expert" by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the "China Roof Waterproof Master" awarded by the China Building Waterproof Association, and enterprises will compete to participate.

Whether China's waterproofing is gradually moving to the international stage or waterproofing skills are becoming more sought after, it reflects the effectiveness and efforts of improving the quality of the construction waterproofing industry. In addition to the product quality at the manufacturing end, the quality improvement of the application and service ends, including waterproof vocational training, is catching up and building a quality improvement in the entire industrial chain.

In September this year, the "Guiding Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Carrying out Quality Improvement Actions" was issued, which clearly stipulated that the quality of products, projects and services should be comprehensively improved. This "comprehensive improvement requirement also coincides with the "full industrial chain improvement" of the construction waterproofing industry.

Enterprise quality improvement shows its magical powers

As of 2017, the improvement of product quality in the construction waterproofing industry has been underway for 6 years, and regulatory departments such as the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development have also been promoting it.

Speaking of the achievements of industry quality improvement, in addition to the data that the national lottery pass rate of commonly used products has increased year by year, Zhu Dongqing, Secretary-General of the China Construction Waterproof Association, also gave data on the number of advanced production lines introduced by industry enterprises. "In the past two years, more than 30 advanced production lines of various types of waterproof coils have been introduced, exceeding the total number of pieces introduced from 1986 to 2015. One of the subtexts of quality improvement is to improve the level of technical equipment so that product quality can be improved. This has been deeply rooted in the industry. This also proves that the industry's supply-side structural reform has begun to show results, the level of technical equipment has entered the fast lane, and the foundation for quality improvement is being consolidated."

Some time ago, the reporter followed the construction waterproofing industry quality improvement tour to visit East China, Northeast China, Southwest and other places and found that enterprises have practiced the first concept of quality and promoted quality improvement more and more colorful.

Beijing Oriental Yuhong Waterproof Technology Co., Ltd. won the National Quality Award not long ago. The company began to introduce an excellent performance model since 2012, constantly explored and improved, and created a unique Oriental Yuhong excellent performance sports car model. Among them, leaders are the driver of the Excellent Sports Car, strategy, customers and market are the front wheels of the Excellent Sports Car, resource allocation and process management are the rear wheels of the Excellent Sports Car, and measurement analysis and improvement are the "chain" connecting the front wheels and the rear wheels of the Excellent Sports Car.

"In recent years, it has reached a bottleneck, which may be related to the company's business philosophy, product system and other problems, and also to the inability to adapt to the new changes in the overseas waterproofing environment." Cheng Wentao, president of Shandong Huiyuan Building Materials Group Co., Ltd., spoke out bluntly when talking about challenges and difficulties. However, Huiyuan Waterproofing did not "wait, rely on, and ask for", but actively combined with the favorable international environment of the country's "13th Five-Year Plan and the Belt and Road" initiative. It has successively established branches and partner operation centers in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Turkey, Thailand and other countries, and has participated in large-scale infrastructure projects in many countries, blazing a new way of waterproofing for foreign exports.

Jiangsu Kailun Building Materials Co., Ltd. adjusted the company's organizational structure, separated the original quality department from the bottom of the R&D center, and upgraded it to a quality management center, responsible for finished product inspection, raw material and semi-finished product inspection, central control, quality complaints, quality accidents and other quality-related activities. "Industry quality is improved, the company's own initiative and sense of responsibility are the most important. In addition to being good at doing one's own good, it also requires industry guidance and government departments' supervision takes multiple measures." said Qian Lindi, chairman of Karen Building Materials.

As the first enterprise in China's waterproofing industry to pass the ISO9000 international quality management system certification, Yuwang Waterproof Building Materials Group strictly follows the standard system and continuously improves and improves it. In 2016, an excellent performance management model was introduced to strive to achieve quality improvement in the entire industrial chain. "Based on the ISO9000 quality management system, establish statistical data and fully integrate the standard system into the quality management process, without any ambiguity." This is also what Liu Zhiguo, chairman of Yuwang Group, has always advocated.

The "secret" of Chengdu Saite Waterproof Materials Co., Ltd. is to demand quality from information management. The "Set Quality Outline" was released internally in the company in February this year, determining the company's development ideas and roadmap in the fields of quality and performance in the next three years. According to Shi Wenjun, the company's general manager, the company's quality development strategy is based on the introduction of four technologies (systems) and 7 tools (methods), and is steadily promoted in 3 steps, giving full play to the role of the integration of industrialization and industrialization, and ultimately achieving the strategic goal of building an industry quality benchmark.

Not only the waterproofing companies mentioned above, but also the companies that pursue the construction waterproofing industry have placed quality improvement in a prominent position and explored improvement paths that suit them. The improvement of industry quality is not just a business for enterprises, but also requires the participation of the government, associations, society and other parties.

For example, what should an enterprise do if it encounters quality problems? Finding associations and experts is the first choice of Shouguang waterproofing companies.

Zheng Jiayu, president of Shouguang Waterproof Industry Association, has been competing with waterproofing for 40 years. Now the association holds a monthly quality meeting, with corporate legal persons and quality leaders attending. Seeing that many companies have patented results, Zheng Jiayu considers how to make them new financing channels for the company. After many docking with the intellectual property department] and repeated negotiations with many banks and waterproof companies, this year, the first "patent pledge loan" of the waterproof industry was successfully distributed to 13 companies, and intellectual property rights became tangible assets.

Let Chinese waterproof workers go to the world

In addition to product quality, engineering quality and service quality are increasingly valued, and the construction waterproofing industry is no exception.

In 2017, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development proposed to carry out quality improvement work in the field of construction engineering, especially to take engineering standards as a starting point to make breakthroughs in five areas, including waterproofing, and listed the goals: the quality assurance period of waterproofing projects will reach 20 years in 2020 and 30 years in 2025.

In Zhu Dongqing's view, this has opened up the improvement of the quality of the entire building waterproofing industry chain from the application side, and the breakthrough C is to improve the building waterproofing standards. To this end, a market mechanism that combines quality assurance and insurance for building waterproofing projects should be established to clarify the responsible subject of quality assurance.

"Since the reform and opening up, China's waterproofing industry has introduced many advanced foreign equipment technology technology technology, but there is no vocational education that introduces applied technology. "When talking about waterproofing vocational skills education, Zhu Dongqing is very sad. "I found a person with 0 skills to build a 100-point roll material. The ultimate effect in the building is 0, not an adder relationship, but a multiplier relationship."

Since 2013, the China Building Waterproof Association has hired experts from Canada, the United States, Germany, Japan and other countries to come to China to carry out waterproofing skills training. Currently, more than 200 trainers have been trained in the association through training, and then nearly 7,000 waterproof workers have been trained. At the same time, the association actively organizes enterprises to participate in the 2014 and 2016 IFD competitions to learn from the classics and accumulate strength for the 2020 Beijing IFD competition.

"We must not only win awards internationally, but also provide popular training." In Zhu Dongqing's view, domestic waterproof workers are mainly divided into two categories. First, there are a large number of labor and material contracting agents under the manufacturer, and their understanding of vocational skills education is much higher than that of waterproof contractors. Second, contractors are more difficult to organize simply by doing construction work. Representatives such as Pingyu County and Xiangcheng City, Henan Province, they can give full play to the advantages of the local party committee and government, take vocational education and training as the main focus, and build the construction personnel gathering area into the cradle of waterproof craftsmen.

"Quality improvement is a more advanced supply-side reform and has long-term significance for the future." Zhu Dongqing said that promoting the transformation of the business model of the waterproof industry is to promote enterprises to transform from a single waterproof material supplier to a system service provider. This transformation requires the quality improvement of the entire industrial chain. He also emphasized that large enterprises do not necessarily have competitive advantages in every market. If the company is small in scale, it is afraid of not having unique business models, innovation capabilities, and market competitiveness. In the end, the survival and development of an enterprise must rely on quality to speak.