Molex Shanghai Business Newsletter Volume 6

Shanghai Outlook

Molex Shanghai November 2022

Issue 6 of 6

- AGILITY

-BREAKTHROUGH

- COLLABORATION

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Business Newsletter

Bimonthly in 2022

6 Issues in total | Issue 6

Preface

Greetings from CCS Management Team

Shanghai

Outlook

Transformation & Innovation

04-07

Shanghai MOS Project Updates

08-09

Shanghai Fusion M&O Project Updates

Principle Based Management

CY23 Molex Shanghai Theme

Capability Overview of Shanghai Fusion M&O

“Headwinds & Tailwinds” Principle in PBM

“Fusion & MOS are Coming” Accomplished in Shanghai

Shanghai Fusion PD Project Overview

16

User Experience of GSOP&E 2.0 in Shanghai

14-15

CY23 Molex Shanghai Culture Plan

10

11

Internal Used Only

Plant Dynamics

Talent Development

Interaction with Readers

CY23 Molex Shanghai Talent Development Plan

19

20

Internship Base Launched Successfully in Molex Shanghai

21

23

24

Award-Winning Quiz

Call for Articles 

28

29

25-26

CY22 Q4 Long Service Award of Molex Shanghai

12

November Principle Based Management Workshop

22

CY23 Molex Shanghai Annual Strategy Workshop

CY22 Molex Shanghai “Quality Promotion Month” 

"My Wonderful Moments with Molex" Activity

Christmas & New Year Activities in Molex Shanghai

27

13

18

17

Issue 6 in 2022 - Greetings from CCS Management Team by CCS Management Team

Greetings from CCS Management Team

2023, the year of Rabbit is coming! CCS Lead Team sends best wishes to the employees who have made outstanding contribution to Molex Shanghai.

I wish you and your families a Happy New Year!!

It’s great to see Shanghai team achieved another record performance in 2022, while navigating through the big headwinds, lockdown situation. And very proud to see such a great teamwork throughout a year, also appreciate the hard work from all of you.I want to say thank you for your every continuous contribution and our successful experience will help us being motivated to overcome another new challenge in the future.

As being we look towards 2023, we’re already facing demand softening from Q4 in 2022, together with global economic recession and inflation which are bundle of the challenges we should break though this year. As we believe, we have been facing and navigating those though situations last over 2-3 years.

 CCS Operation VP

CK Ryu 

Hello Shanghai Team, thanks for your contribution in the past year. During the Covid and lockdown, you showed the power of the teamwork and the leadership by Principle Based Management.

Hope you continuously contribute to the company and wish you a good year. Good luck next year!

Global Operations Capability

SVP & President

JH Lee

Thank you again for all of your perseverance and incredible work in 2022. It is truly remarkable what you accomplished given the many challenges. 

In 2023 we expect continued – but likely new – challenges to our business.  However, these challenges and disruptions create opportunities for you to build new capabilities and create advantages in the market. 

 I’m certain you are well prepared for another successful year.  I wish you all continued success in CY 2023! 

Thank you for all your support and fantastic results over the last few years.  The success of PSBU is a direct result of how well Shanghai has performed! 

Your hard work and passion for the business is very valuable to Molex.  I look forward to continued success.  Let’s make 2023 great!

CCS PSBU

VP & GM

Kevin Alberts 

Digital Transformation & Supply Chain Planning

 VP

HT Leong

Thank you Shanghai team for a well prepared and successful launch in MOS & Fusion M&O, beside achieving excellent operational and financial result, especially in a challenge Covid-19 environment in China.

For 2023 which might be a very uncertain year in many ways, I do believe and wish you all the best to achieve greater financial and operational success, and in your Fusion digital journey with Shang "High" Speed with High Quality!

Wish everyone a fruitful CY23!

CCS MSBU

VP & GM

Justin Kerr

Now I’d say we are getting motivated to face it all and ready to get over these challenges as one team. By consolidating new organization, Global Operations Capability, along with our transformational initiatives, we will be well positioned to be sustainable growth for longer term perspectives. We will leverage global Operation Excellence and capabilities to help CCS to accelerate profitable growth and strengthen our culture. We fully being awaken, we need to stay focused on long-term value creation by embracing and applying Principle Based Management.

All we should be aligned that when we all embrace our values and make decisions, also high expectations with a contribution motivated mindset, great accountability to deliver strong results. This creates value for Molex so that we 

can continue to motivate our teams, attract, and retain talents, and improve a customer experience for mutual benefits coming truth.

        We need always being open to the challenge process, to learn fast by accelerating knowledge sharing across the Global Operations.

        Wishing the new year could bring you happiness, peace and health.

Issue 6 in 2022 - Greetings from CCS Management Team by CCS Management Team

Division ME and Innovation

VP

Atsuhito Horino 

I am really glad to take this opportunity to express my feeling of respecting Shanghai operation.

Shanghai has gone through very tough time this year especially during lockdown of city.

It was definitely amazing to me that you can keep operating in such tough environment.

I was really impressed with teamwork of Shanghai, what a contribution motivated culture.

From this December, Shanghai ME joined Division ME group, which means ready for contributing outside of own plant and own country.

I believe Shanghai ME can contribute a lot to many parts of Molex all over the world with strong growth mindset and contribution motivated mindset.

Anyway, congratulation to another successful year for Shanghai.

I am very much looking forward to seeing you again in person next year.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

VP

Miyuki Uchino

Thank you Shanghai Team for your tremendous contribution in 2022. I believe that you are one of the most outstanding sites in terms of quality.

Although PMI/ENDS product quality lost a great deal of trust from customers in 2021 due to quality issues, the results of your consistent quality efforts from end to end, from new product development, mass production, and suppliers, will be accomplished Rank A quality in 1H of 2022.

I am looking forward to working together with Shanghai Team in 2023. Let's achieve better results.

When the 2023 Spring Festival is approaching, I wish all of you and your families a safe, healthy and peaceful new year holiday. The past year was extraordinary and we have met many unexpected challenges successively, but all our employees pulled together to overcome those challenges on after another by appropriately applying PBM principles and values. And with the joint effort from our employees, the vitality, capability and agility of Molex Shanghai has been fully demonstrated. There is no doubt that the new year will bring more challenges with higher goals and severer situations. No matter what changeable circumstance it will be internally and externally, I believe Molex Shanghai team could continually rise to the difficulties and seize the opportunities proactively to create more value to CCS, Molex and Koch, as well as help employees self-actualize. We have the confidence to realize all above as we apply PBM into our daily work. In the day of celebration, wish you all a happy Spring Festival and good luck in the year of Rabbit!

CCS HR

VP

Betty Zhu

 I just want to sincerely appreciate Molex Shanghai helping our division to have another great year despite what was happening in the world with Covid, and all those uncertainties that we experienced this year. I hope to visit China next year and look forward to meeting all of you!

 Again, thank all your hard work, and happy new year!

Global Category & CCS Procurement

Sr. Director

Michael Kim 

Issue 6 in 2022 - Greetings from CCS Management Team by CCS Management Team

Issue 6 in 2022 - Greetings from CCS Management Team by CCS Management Team

Shanghai MOS Project Updates

Issue 6 in 2022 - Shanghai MOS Project Updates by MOS Team

In November 2022, flowers were not blooming but withered. However, the story of MOS never stopped. We kept moving against headwinds and continually wrote a new chapter.

Along with the mature operation of Type C Value Stream Management, we have produced a rich harvest. We have enabled all fruits to be tasted through the team’s continuous summarization and reflection: optimize layout to shorten moving distance, use visual and standard work to guide production, cultivate talents and realize quick exchange of die, so as to reduce work-in-process inventory and improve key performance indicators of plant.

In order to better play the role of value stream and more widely be accepted value stream management, we still need to mitigate the impact brought by the increase in the number of changeover times, chemical scrap, insufficient supermarket space, and large fluctuation in customer demand. The value stream team has already actively sought resources to obtain reasonable solutions, including but not limited to learning from experience of other factories.

New Material Calling System is one of the countermeasures. It can help solve the problem of insufficient supermarket space as well as realize paperless material calling system. Through several rounds of communication with MIS and Automation teams on relevant demands, the development work is now proceeding as scheduled. It is predicted that the system will be tested after the Spring Festival. It will fully go live at the end of February 2023.

Not all hard work pays off, but every harvest requires hard work. Let’s say goodbye to November and keep on moving afterwards.

▲ Shanghai MOS Project Progress

▲ MOS Knowledge Competition

As early as August 2022, Molex Shanghai implemented MOS Daily Management mode among all production cells. MOS deployment team wished to provide an opportunity to help the cell members review basic knowledge about MOS, and assess whether they had correctly applied MOS concept in daily work. So we decided to organize an interesting knowledge competition.

At the end of October 2022, a total of 69 representatives of 23 cells (*3 shifts) from Stamping, Molding, Plating, Assembly, and Warehouse began the qualifying competition. At the knockout stage and semifinal stage, cell members, cell leaders and MOS facilitators formed teams, to secure a place for the next round of competitions for their cells.

Issue 6 in 2022 - Shanghai MOS Project Updates by MOS Team

In the contest, we designed some special challenges closely related to MOS Daily Management for the teams. For example, the participants were required to stick the red tags for simulating production line scenes, demonstrate daily standard work, and identify the full Chinese names for the abbreviations of MOS daily expressions.

The final of MOS Knowledge Competition was held on November 23, 2022. Thanks to the solid foundation in MOS knowledge and rich daily management experience, the three teams of Stamping, Assembly, and Molding advanced to the final. They competed fiercely in the final and Molding eventually won out.

It is worth mentioning that HT Leong and Stuart Hunt, representatives of CCS Digital Transformation project lead team observed the qualifying competition onsite. They highly affirmed the achievements made by Shanghai plant in MOS project.

Issue 6 in 2022 - Capability Overview of Shanghai Fusion M&O by Shanghai Fusion M&O Team 

Capability Overview of Shanghai Fusion M&O

Production is one part of the entire manufacturing process. Work orders are generated according to customer demand and production activities are carried out based on work orders. Closing work order is the last step of the entire manufacturing process.

CPU controls the labeling (printing and attaching labels) and packaging method of finished products. How to close production orders is also included. After production is finished, confirmation messages are sent to ERP.

▲ CPU

To put it simply, CPU consists of two main sub-processes, namely packaging and labeling finished products as well as collecting production records to be sent to ERP. As shown below is the overview of the two sub-processes.

MES is an important step in digital transformation. As the intermediate layer of digitalization, MES has realized information-based production management and quality traceability of materials, as well as improved the timeliness and accuracy of information among different departments.

As an important capability of MES, CPU is the last step of production process. MES leads supuports Molex digitalization to success.

The deployment of Fusion M&O project writes another important chapter in November to December, 2022. The deployment team and about 25 Super Users underwent two rounds of “System Integration Test” together, finished simulation test of 747 cases, and conducted offline tests on at least 750 cases. In the two rounds of test, the team not only tested the 18 new system enhancements,. tThe mobile solutions and devices applicable to the end users were also applied for test.

Issue 6 in 2022 - Shanghai Fusion M&O Project Updates by Molex Shanghai Fusion OCM Team 

Shang “High” Speed was still fully demonstrated at this stage. Site deployment team, Tech. team and Super Users worked together to quickly finish SIT 1, one day ahead of schedule. During SIT 2, though 90% of members were affected by COVID and thus faced the challenge of severe shortage of human resources, each functional team still worked in close collaboration and supported each other to eventually finished the test on schedule.When system testing activities were in full swing, the organization at different levels were continuously deepening knowledge sharing and communication.

Shanghai Fusion M&O Project Updates

In early November, we invited HT Leong and Stuart Hunt, representatives of CCS Digital Transformation lead team to hold a Q&A session to Shanghai BLT. In the session, those present had a heated discussion on the progress and future deployment of each digital transformation project currently undertaken in CCS as well as some hot common issues.

In addition, representatives of Shanghai Fusion M&O Deployment Team and Production Team once again went to Chengdu plant to conduct in-depth exchange with local project members, as well as made onsite observation of the actual operating condition and employee experience after Fusion fully went live in Chengdu. When returning to Shanghai, the members shared what they had seen and heard with other colleagues through departmental meetings or specific communication sessions.

Issue 6 in 2022 -“Fusion & MOS are Coming” Accomplished in Shanghai by Molex Shanghai Fusion OCM Team 

Molex Shanghai Digital Transformation OCM Team once launched “Fusion & MOS are coming” activity in 2021 and promised to offer an opportunity to the final winners of visiting other brother plants. In late October 2022, as representatives of final winners, Zhou Bing from the Molding Department, and Ruan Shicui from the Plating Department, went to Chengdu plant together with Shanghai Fusion M&O team and site management team for a 3-day visit. For this journal, we have invited Ruan Shicui from the Plating to share what she had seen and heard during her visit in Chengdu:

“Fusion & MOS are Coming” Accomplished in Shanghai

For production staff, it is very precious to have the opportunity to visit other plants. I was very honored to visit Chengdu plant with the Fusion M&O team and colleagues from other departments.

I felt the very different company culture in different cities despite the same production model. An enterprise can only survive with the joint efforts of all its members. Each department commend and reward employees who have outstanding performance and always address problems in time through bulletin board. Only in this way can employees be motivated and develop a strong sense of accountability.

Besides, I also exchanged work experience with colleagues from the department I’m familiar with. They took me to the production line and introduced their production status. I noticed that they did very well in many aspects which we should learn from. After returning to Shanghai, I shared and discussed some good practices of Chengdu plant with others, made some adjustments and improved our inadequacies immediately.

During this visit, I felt the high work efficiency of employees in Chengdu plant. We should learn from them and make our company better and better!

Shanghai Fusion PD Project Overview

Issue 6 in 2022 - Shanghai Fusion PD Project Overview by Anson Yin 

Fusion is a project of digital PLM transformation developed by Molex under the concept of “One Molex” to better serve our customers. This project will last for several years until digital transformation is truly realized. Fusion PD, whose full name is “Fusion Product Development”, is an important part of Fusion that is the digital transformation of product development.

At Stage 1, Fusion PD mainly includes three modules: Requirement Management, Change Management, and eBOM.

For each model, the management of Molex Shanghai respectively designated the persons in charge, who are Eric Yao, Lina Xiong and Nicolas Zhang. These three persons in charge will comprehensively promote the implementation of Shanghai Fusion PD together with Anson Yin.

Fusion project involves the global design, production, sales, quality, supply chain, customers, etc of the whole Molex. So far, part of TIS’s BU have rolled out Fusion PD (in November 2021) while CSBU, PCSBU, RFBU of DSS are being rolled out Fusion PD. For PSBU and MSBU of CCS, the preparation work of Fusion PD is scheduled to be initiated in March 2023. In this preparatory phase, the Company will invest a lot of manpower and materials for system testing, training of relevant personnel, and user test. After such preparatory work is done, Fusion PD will go alive in September 2023.

Successfully implement of Fusion PD is one of most important tasks of Molex Shanghai NPI Team in CY23. It requires the close cooperation between NPI team and IT team. So far, IT team and the leading team of CCS Fusion project have started the early preparatory work. In the days to come, we will continuously update the Fusion PD progress to you in appropriate way.

Liu Baojun (Network Planner): Introduction of Kinaxis Rapid Response (RR) as an end-to-end planning tool will not only help reduce manual work, but also send the changes in market demand and supply schedule to another terminal more quickly. What’s more, it can increase execution tracking and improve the execution of plans to some extent.

Terry Lu (Network Planner): Kinaxis RR targets at long-term plans while Fusion targets at operation plans which is a short but intricate process. The combination of the two is a complementary tool.

User Experience of GSOP&E 2.0 in Shanghai

Issue 6 in 2022 - User Experience of GSOP&E 2.0 in Shanghai by GSOP&E 2.0 OCM Team 

The new operating mode of GSOP&E 2.0 (Global Sales and Operation Planning & Execution 2.0) was fully launched in Shanghai plant in Q4 of 2022. For this journal, we have invited users from different functional departments in this model to share their experience.

As a member of GSOP&E 2.0, what do you think about this new model? 

Tim Zhou (Network Planner): In the past, comparison with system results and calibration needed to be made manually; at present, most results can be generated automatically by the system. Data and results are shared with relevant departments. However, further optimization and adjustment need to be made later according to actual conditions.

Terry Lu (Network Planner): Some new functions need to be further optimized and improved by end users according to their actual feelings and actual needs.

How do you find the application of Rapid Response System? 

Tim Zhou (Network Planner): It can save time and help quickly get the results. It reflects the importance of system data maintenance in each department. There are rules and schemes to follow, and the results can be looked up.

Liu Baojun (Network Planner): Customers can get more accurate delivery schedule more quickly. While customer satisfaction can be improved, manual verification work can be reduced for planners. Materials are prepared according to supply condition, so that inventory can be reduced and capital turnover can be sped up.

Lu Xiao Fang (Planning Manager): Through RR system, purchase orders and work orders are organically linked, which can play the guiding role of market expectation in production scheduling. We no longer rely only on the experience of production planners or information source to decide whether to carry out production activities. The goals that production planners need to pursue are specified so that leading indicators can be managed more clearly.

Vivian Man (Purchasing Manager): Information is more transparent and delivered more timely. The Purchasing department will have the opportunity to obtain more valuable client-side data, so as to manage suppliers more efficiently. Besides, it is of great help to inventory management, delivery management and cost reduction.

What benefits has GSOP&E 2.0 project brought to your work? 

Tim Zhou (Network Planner): Ensure the accuracy, consistency and timeliness of system data. All functional departments can share data, give timely feedbacks and trace them.

Lu Xiao Fang (Planning Manager): Make continuous improvements and effectively coordinate with production planners, so that RR can effectively assist production planner, truly reduce workload and improve efficiency.

Vivian Man (Purchasing Manager): Set KPI in each key node to measure and evaluate actual operating effects, review them regularly, try to find problems, make continuous improvements, and continuously optimize processes.

What suggestions and expectations do you have regarding the future deployment of GSOP&E 2.0 project?

Issue 6 in 2022 - User Experience of GSOP&E 2.0 in Shanghai by GSOP&E 2.0 OCM Team 

Issue 6 in 2022 - CY23 Molex Shanghai Culture Plan by Molex Shanghai HR team

 CY23 Molex Shanghai Culture Plan

The year 2022 just passed. Shanghai plant will continue the learning journey of PBM in 2023. Over the past December, the HR Department and the management team have established culture plan after full discussions.

1. Continuously hold monthly BLT PBM Workshop and invite DLT and PBM consultant team to the workshop, to enlarge the global view of the management team and learn from the experience of other CCS entities in PBM application.

2. PBM culture promotion is one of the important responsibilities of supervisors. Further enhancing this supervisor responsibility is part of the plan for 2023.

3. Continuously advance PBM culture in a variety of ways, such as Company WeChat, email and Business Newsletter.

4. PBM consultant team is an important resource. The management team will seek their suggestion for PBM learning, internalization and application.

5. Promote the Supervisor Development Series to ensure a high participation rate of supervisors.

1. Vigorously promote online PBM learning resources and more flexible learning styles, such as PBM Go, Supervisor Essentials and Accelerate Academy.

2. Hold offline or online PBM workshops, help everyone learn and apply new PBM framework and important principles.

3. Invite BLT members to participate the PBM workshops of other departments, providing their suggestions on PBM philosophies.

4. Daily guidance and assistance from supervisors.

1. Learn and discuss PBM culture through daily cell or area huddle.

2. Organize various PBM activities, such as PBM knowledge contest and PBM poster design competition.

3. Share PBM knowledge at the Employee Communication Meeting held on a quarterly basis.

When learning new framework of PBM, you must have noticed that there are many changes in the contents of 5 Dimensions and some important principles have been added to each dimension. Today, let’s talk about an important principle newly added to the dimension of Vision, that is, “Headwinds & Tailwinds”. This principle requires our business teams and function teams to use the concept of “Headwinds & Tailwinds” to realize capability transformation by revising their respective visions and strategies and building up required capabilities, so as to succeed in various environments. Then, what is Headwinds & Tailwinds? It is particularly pointed out in the dimension of Vision “Headwinds exist for a product where its long-term opportunities and profitability are being seriously eroded by declining demand or a reduction in the barriers to entry. These winds can be generated by, among other things, competition from new technologies or products, unfavorable changes in consumer preferences or government interventions.” Then, what are the headwinds & tailwinds for Molex Shanghai in the new year? What should we do? Can this principle be applied on an individual level? Let’s listen to what Julia Huang had said about these questions. We believe her sharing and suggestions will help deepen your understandings of the meaning and application of headwinds & tailwinds.

Issue 6 in 2022 - “Headwinds & Tailwinds” Principle in PBM by Molex Shanghai HR Team

“Headwinds & Tailwinds” Principle in PBM

Sharing and Suggestions from Julia Huang, Operations Director of Molex Shanghai

Shanghai plant faced with various headwinds & tailwinds in the past and will be faced them in the future. In terms of headwinds faced by Shanghai plant in the past were mainly due to internal factors, e.g. the gap between our existing ability and customer requirements. However, whatever the customer requirements are, we can meet them by employee brainstorming, transformation coordination, process optimization, etc. In the process of pursuing satisfaction of customer requirements, our ability can be continuously improved and headwinds can be turned into tailwinds. 

Nevertheless, in the new year, the headwinds will be more due to external factors, such as COVID-19 pandemic, uncertainty of external economy and changing market. Hope we can rise to the occasion against these headwinds.

Of course, Shanghai plant also faces many tailwinds such as product diversification, high speed and agility in response to transformation, and the management’s highlighting of talents and culture. However, we should try to take full advantage of them rather than be content with the status quo.

Last but not least, individuals can also apply the principle of Headwinds & Tailwinds. We believe that every employee wishes to realize their personal values. However, they may not know how to surpass themselves and tap their potential. This will become their headwind. I suggest that every employee should become a lifelong learner, identify with company culture, and keep learning. By doing so, they will surely overcome difficulties and have more opportunities for self-actualization.

Issue 6 in 2022 - CY23 Molex Shanghai Theme by Loucts Zhang

CY23 Molex Shanghai Theme

Many employees proposed several good ideas for the Molex Shanghai “2023 Annual Theme” activity which kicked off in November 2022. On the basis of employees’ suggestions and after discussion with plant management, we eventually confirmed Molex Shanghai CY23 theme, which is, Synergy with Advantages, Growth against Headwinds.

Next, let’s listen to the interpretation of this theme by Loucts Zhang, representative of Molex Shanghai management team:

Molex Shanghai  Operations Excellence Manager

Loucts Zhang

We must synergy all our advantages and build our capacity to achieve self-actualization. We succeed to the extent we apply the principle of “division of labor by comparative advantage”, resulting in superior cooperation and teamwork. Shanghai team must give full play to the comparative advantages of agility and strong sense of urgency, build a team which is more willing to make contributions, pay constant attention to the ability of operation optimization and innovation, develop digital enablers through MOS and Fusion, accelerate creation of values by talents through transformation projects, and boost organization changes consistent with PBM culture.

We have made some achievements during long emphasized the importance of continually improving to drive creative destruction. As the speed and magnitude of these changes accelerated, heightened sense of urgency and higher execution force was required to not only improve but transform our performance. This led our businesses and capability groups to apply the concept of headwinds and tailwinds to transform their ability to succeed in variety challenges of 2023 by modifying their visions and strategies and building the required capabilities.

In the very challenging year 2023, we must, under the guidance of PBM culture, fully develop our advantages, empower ourselves, transform ourselves, empower others, transform each other, and convert headwinds into tailwinds that promote personal growth, so as to realize the vision of becoming a flagship plant.

Issue 6 in 2022 - November Principle Based Management Workshop by  Molex Shanghai HR Team

In November 2022, the management held another round of PBM Workshop. Anson Yin, PD Manager and Forest Liu, Plating Manager, carried out learning activities regarding the dimension of “Comparative Advantage” and the dimension of “Motivation” among the five dimensions of new PBM framework. These two dimensions are actually the ones with great changes in content after MBM changed into PBM. For example, the names of dimensions became entirely different now. The dimension of “Comparative Advantage” was known as the dimension of “Decision Rights” before whereas the dimension of “Motivation” was formerly called the dimension of “Incentive”. Regarding the two dimensions of “Comparative Advantage” and “Motivation”, the management put forward many problems before. This PBM Workshop discussed the questions the management was concerned about one by one, so that it could further understand the new meanings and relevant basic principles of these two dimensions and how to apply them.

November Principle Based Management Workshop

Next, the management will ask each department to learn and discuss the dimension of “Comparative Advantage” and the dimension of “motivation”. Please actively join them.

Dimension of Comparative Advantage：The management discussed the concept of comparative advantage and how to arrange work according to the Comparative Advantages of team members so as to maximize the contributions of the team, especially for a relatively stable organization.

Dimension of Motivation：How to identify the work motivation of employees, and how to motivate employees through financial or non-financial ways to maximize their individual contributions.

Based on Vision and Strategy, we put forward the 2023 theme: Synergy with Advantages, Growth against Headwinds. In 2023, faced with challenges from both inside and outside, we stand at the starting point of a new cycle of transformation, we must act as a lifelong leaner and work hard to press ahead by utilizing our advantages in this challenging year.

Shanghai plant has always been devoted to providing employees with opportunities and environments allowing them to continuously realize their personal values, and attaching great importance to talent development and retention. This is also one of the key elements for Shanghai plant to achieve long-term development and success.

In 2022, the operations departments made Annual Talent Review and Planning. For example, it analyzed the shortage of talents in light of the business needs of the company, define ABC employees, individual development plan, organization optimization proposal, culture advancing program, successor development and key talent retention plan etc. Next, the department supervisors and the HR Department will work together to implement these specific action plans.

In the meantime, the HR Department has also collected the talent development needs of each department, in the process of this Annual Talent Review and Planning. Therefore, in 2023, the HR Department will also launch talent development programs throughout the plant, including:

At present, these programs are being designed and planned. 

Just like what Koch President Charles Koch said: “I hope you can be the best of yourself”. We hope every employee can tap their potential and improve their abilities in the new year through continuous learning and practice.

Issue 6 in 2022 - CY23 Molex Shanghai Talent Development Plan by Julia Lu

CY23 Molex Shanghai Talent Development Plan

Issue 6 in 2022 - CY22 Q4 Long Service Award of Molex Shanghai by Ye Lei

CY22 Q4 Long Service Award of Molex Shanghai

In a team, dedication is very important. In Molex Shanghai, there are such a group of people who have been working hard at their positions for many years, devoting to Molex Shanghai selflessly.

They have worked for Molex Shanghai for ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, or even longer. They are the employees winning the CY22 Q4 Long Service Award.

I am an employee from Molding Team, working in Molex over 15 years. I like my department very much since I can always feel warmth in this department, from the leadership’s care and from the mutual cooperation among colleagues. Leaders continuously improve employees’ work environment and work efficiency. After a series of improvements, Molding team now has more cleaner and brighter environment, the production machines are placed in order, and have high efficiency of standardized operation. Company also provides employees with more humanized area where employees can drink water and take a short break after high-intensity work. I feel honored and proud to work in Molex. Hope Molex will become better and better in the future. I will also move forward together with Molex.

Ji Jianguo 

Molding

My 25 years in Molex witnesses the joint endeavor Molex. Over this period of time, I have grown from a production worker to an experienced production supervisor. Thanks to the trust and support of leaders, I was able to make rapid progress in both professional skills and management competency. As leader, I also attach great importance to the cultivation of employees. What makes me very proud is that I have fostered Assembly engineers, technicians and cell leaders who have grown from production workers gradually to competent technical talent. When I joined the company, Assembly Team had only over 10 members and less than 10 machines. Now, it has nearly 500 members and over 100 machines.  In the future, I will still be engaged with Molex to create values for the company and realize my own values.

Pang Fei

Assembly

Issue 6 in 2022 - Internship Base Launched Successfully in Molex Shanghai by Angel Yan

Internship Base Launched Successfully in Molex Shanghai

An industry can be enabled with talents. With the development of science and technology, competition for the market has increasingly evolved into competition of talents. Talent is the most important resource of enterprises and also the new engine for enterprise development. As a famous enterprise in its industry and the leader in technology, Molex must also be leading in the industry in terms of talent cultivation. It not only continuously improves the skills of its employees, but also recruits more high-caliber talents. As one of the primary target groups of recruitment, interns have attracted more and more attention from enterprises. For long-term development, every year Molex recruits outstanding interns from famous colleges and universities as trainee targets. It thus established systematic talent development program, to supply new human resources required by enterprises in a timely manner.

In 2022, Molex Shanghai applied to Shanghai Employment Promotion Center for the construction of Internship Base. After application material review level by level and on-site qualification evaluation by the third-party organization, Molex Internship Base was eventually approved and will be put into trial operation in January 2023. 

 After the on-site interactions and Q&A session, each department had deeper understanding of each other and know how to cooperate with each other and provide support, so as to help Molex maximize its value more effectively. While promoting the increment of profit, it enables employee to use their comparative advantages to unlock their potential and accelerate growth for self-actualization.

At this workshop, a wealth of professional internal information was shared. In addition, a very impressive lecture was facilitated by external instructor with the topic of “how to embrace changes in ever-changing complex environment”, which made the participants realize the importance of international macro-economic situation and policies to enterprise development. As a member who work at key positions should have comprehensive understanding of the national economic situations and policies. This means we must be able to adapt to rapid changes and keep learning, in order to go farther with company in the bright future.

We have no regret in the tough 2022. Just like CY23 theme “Synergy with Advantages, Growth against Headwinds”, we will surely better empower our organization by effectively capitalizing on our comparative advantages. We will march forward with the most positive attitude despite the headwinds. We will remain true to our original aspirations, be full of confidence!

CY23 Molex Shanghai Annual Strategy Workshop

At the end of 2022, it was time to review our harvest in the past year and plan for the new year again. In December 2022, despite the many emergencies caused by COVID-19 pandemic, over 60 management and department representatives of Molex Shanghai held “CY23 Annual Strategy Workshop” in the form of online meeting on December 20th and 21st. Some leaders from CCS and other business departments were also specially invited to attend this 2-day workshop. Mr. JH Lee, representative of global management team shared the very meaningful PBM culture at the meeting. He introduced in a simple way the behavior characteristics with Contribution Motivated. He showed sincere appreciation to every employee of Molex Shanghai plant for the great contribution and excellent performance we made for the organization. 

Issue 6 in 2022 - CY23 Molex Shanghai Annual Strategy Workshop by Jolin Zhou

Each intern who trained in Molex is entitled to not only internship allowance, but also internship subsidy granted by the government. This will greatly enhance Molex competitiveness edge in the talent market, and also help Molex better attract and retain high-caliber talents.

As an independent Internship Base, Molex can not only enjoy government subsidy and policy guidance, but also accept the government’s supervision of the practice base, including evaluation of the operation of the base, the reasonableness of post setting for interns, qualification of trainers, implementation of internship program, attendance of trainees, and satisfaction degree of trainees. This will help enterprise establish a more systematic and comprehensive intern cultivation and management system.

The Internship Base will better drive the enterprise forward through talents.

The department business updates presented by each team introduced the situation of the company, the direction and goal of future development, and how each functional department should achieve company objective and fulfill specific tasks, so that the decision-making level can have a clear picture in formulation of strategies. 

Issue 6 in 2022 - CY22 Molex Shanghai “Quality Promotion Month” by Rachel Zhang

 Quality is the lifeline of an enterprise and represents the ability of enterprise development. In 2022, under the guiding principle of “Zero Defect”, Molex Shanghai continuously reduced the quality cost and customer complaint rate. We successfully passed the customer audit and no major findings was figured out, which was a good job!

CY22 Molex Shanghai “Quality Promotion Month” 

November is the World Quality Month and the second Thursday of each November is the World Quality Day. It is  to reward global quality professionals for their dedication to quality.

In order to celebrate this quality event, Molex Shanghai conducted a one-month Quality Promotion Month activity. This activity was carried out both online and offline. It deepened employee’s understanding of quality through different channels.

Online Promotion: In November 2022, Molex Shanghai pushed “Quality Newsletter” email weekly and shared quality related activities, quality policies of brother sites, and important sharing from quality leaders of each division.

“We are committed to achieving customer satisfaction. Zero defect is our goal”. As members of Molex Shanghai, we will all work hard to attain this goal.

Offline Promotion：The Quality Team of Molex Shanghai set up posters in the lobby, canteen, rest areas to promote the Quality Month. Besides, Quality team customized a coffee cup for each employee on November 10th, 2022 (World Quality Day) in memory of this big day. This practice was very much praised by the employees.

Issue 6 in 2022 - "My Wonderful Moments with Molex" Activity by  Molex Shanghai HR Team

"My Wonderful Moments with Molex" Activity

In November 2022, Molex Shanghai HR Team carried out the online activity “My Wonderful Moments with Molex”, to collect memories from employees which might be warm, moved, hot-blooded, frozen wonderful. We believe that employees of Molex Family might keep at least 1 photo they cherish very much. The contributors are expected to indicate the time of photo, the person photographed, the place of photo, and the reason for photographing. The prize winners can respectively get a mug and activity fund.

Employees took part in the event actively after its launched. Within two weeks, we received 63 photos, among which 49 works were selected for the final “Like” competition.

The contributors showed their love and memories with Molex.

  Let’s find out the stories behind these precious photos.

In 2021 May, the cycling team rode from Renmintang Road of Sanjiagang along the cycle route to the coastal road along the Huangpu River, covering a total of over 60km. Such riding activity tempered the cyclists’ will, built up bodies and enhanced team spirits. During the pleasant ride, we shared some achievements made by the club. Hope the club will become better and better!

--- AQP Zhang Yin

We were from different places, but we could know each other and work with each other. It’s really a destiny!

Time of photographing: May 25, 2012; Place of photographing: the original Socket workshop

--- ME Tang Chunjuan

Thank the employees who share with us their preciously moments. Their wonderful moments will become our eternal memory. In the future, Molex Shanghai will hold more wonderful activities. Hope more people will join us!

Issue 6 in 2022 - Christmas & New Year Activities in Molex Shanghai by Molex Shanghai HR Team

In December 2022, Molex Shanghai ushered in the Christmas. On this special day, Molex Shanghai specially decorated the lobby of Admin building and Production building. The recent popular element “Santa Clause” wall climbing prop was also furnished. The buildings of Molex Shanghai plant became more brilliant with these decorations.

On December 23rd, the General Affairs Team meticulously prepared “Christmas Eve Apple”, a symbol of safety and auspiciousness to all employees. 

Such a Christmas gift could give a warm feeling in cold winter.

Christmas & New Year Activities in Molex Shanghai

In January 2023, China ushered in its lunar new year.

Molex Shanghai was decorated with lanterns and streamers for the new year of Rabbit. Hope the new year decorations of Molex Shanghai will bring good luck and fortune. Wish all Molex members a bright future!

Issue 6 in 2022 - "My Wonderful Moments with Molex" Activity by  Molex Shanghai HR Team

AQP Team met challenges with a positive attitude by taking part in Fusion actively, learning Fusion, participating in promoting it, gaining experience, and holding knowledge contest. Digital transformation has become an irresistible trend.

--- AQP Yin Xiaomei

The theme of kart racing of team building activities highly accords with our identity of auto group. Let’s experience “galloping life” and “passion” together.--- Sales Jiang Qiuyan

This photo was taken while technician Zhang Jibin and I were discussing some technical problems in Northwood workshop when I just joined Molex. I was then a project engineer, responsible for the product line of socket. Whenever I recall that period of time, I can always recall the colleagues and feel very grateful.

--- Operations Julia Huang

At the beginning of 2022, an epidemic suddenly swept across the country. During the 65-day lockdown of Molex, a group of volunteers did their bit to fight the epidemic to tide Molex Shanghai over the difficult period of time.

--- GA Amy Shen

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