by Susanne Lauda, Global Project Lead Manufacturing Automation for AGCO 

爱科(AGCO)作为全球******的农机设备制造商之一，在世界各地有多个研发中心和制造工厂，为提升集团整体效率，爱科在全球范围推行CM2，以整合不同的流程和信息化工具，2016年11-12月，爱科在中国常州和兖州两大生产 基地开展CM2相关培训实施工作。

AGCO operates several production facilities in China, the two biggest ones are in Changzhou, which is fairly close to Shanghai, and in Yanzhou, which can be easily reached by a high speed train traveling nearly 220 mph. The Changzhou site is producing Diesel Engines and the so called global series tractors which are based on a French design, and are also being produced in Brazil, Finland, and under license in India. Configuration and change management on a global basis are one of the biggest challenges for these plants, considering that there is some localization required as well. The Yanzhou plant re-uses US design to build harvesting combines and balers, and without tight change control the product literally develops a life of its own. In late 2016 AGCO Global Manufacturing decided to sponsor a CM2 training for both locations. Changzhou had already implemented some of the CM2 principles, so in their case it was only a training of additional staff members, but for Yangzhou this was all brand new. My plan was to have courses 01 through 04 taught for both teams jointly in Changzhou in November of 2016. Day 1 of course 01 arrived, and Haitao Yin of ICM - China, as well as the Changzhou students were ready to roll, but there was no sign of the Yanzhou team, although they had previously accepted the training invitation. After several angry phone calls it became apparent that they had decided on their own that the project work had priority over the training. The decision was made that we would not let them off the hook, instead I scheduled an additional training for them about a month later.

To make sure that this time they did not bail out again, I travelled to China and did some introductions of the CM2 principles and how they apply to AGCO in front of the plant management one day prior to the training. The importance was obviously clearly understood, because all students showed up for the training the next day. Haitao Yin did a fabulous job. Although my Mandarin is limited to about 7 words I was able to follow his teaching, because he made excellent use of the official training material, which he had translated into Mandarin. Travel to other countries is always educational, not only because it helps to understand their business practices better, but also to learn more about their culture. By pure chance I found out that the Yangzhou plant is very close to the Temple of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion, and although it was bitterly cold I dragged some of my Chinese colleagues there to show it to me, which was a wonderful educational experience after some tough training sessions. About 4 weeks later I followed up with the team in Yanzhou, and they confirmed that they not only enjoyed the training, but that they already successfully implemented CRB’s and CIB’s. I am curious to see the impact this has on the projects they are running. Stay tuned for more updates in regards to AGCO and its journey toward integrated process excellence with CM2.

爱科(AGCO)集团成立于1990年，在此之后先后20余次成功收购诸多世界知名农机企业，如：1994年收购英国福格森公司，1997年收购德国芬特拖拉机公司；1999年收购美国海斯顿牧草和青贮饮料机械工厂；2001年收购美国卡特匹勒挑战者橡胶履带拖拉机工厂；2003年收购芬兰维美德拖拉机有限公司。公司全球拥有8000多个独立的经销商，产品遍及世界150多个国家和地区，向全球用户提供全方位的现代化农业机械。集团公司2004年净销售额约为53亿美元。2005年美国财富500强企业排名第374位。