On Tuesday morning we boarded the high-speed train to Tianjin to visit Joy Mining Machinery's Chinese headquarters. The train is similar to the Bullet Train in Japan and can travel about 200mph at top speed. After about 55 minutes, we arrived in Tianjin's Tanggu Station and boarded a bus to Joy's headquarters. We listened to a few presentations from the Director of the China Supply Chain and the Manufacturing Manager, and then we donned our reflective gear to prepare us for a tour of the facility. It was almost as if I set up the presentations, because they mentioned a lot of the concepts that we had been discussing in class over the past two weeks. Many of the students were surprised to see that the manufacturing facility was spotless and had an orderly flow of materials from one station to another. After the tour they provided us lunch on their metal trays that made us feel like a cross between prisoners and factory workers, but we all appreciated the fact that they gave us lunch. We then made our way back to the train station and then to Beijing.
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Professor Drake
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