economy

The Songdowon General Foodstuff Factory keeps increasing the variety of products.

The secret of its success lies in the management of talents. 

“As the saying goes, ‘A book that remains shut is but a block’. The management of talents is the key issue in making talents fully display their abilities,” said Jon Song Dae, technical staffer of the factory. 

The factory has many university graduates and old skilled workers who specialize in food and information technologies and mechanical engineering.

The annual selection of one excellent technician, skilled worker and workteam leader is carried out under the close concern of the factory.

At the year’s end, the factory deliberates on and evaluates the year’s results mainly with the development of new products, the creation of new technologies and the technical development by workteams contributing to rationalizing production processes and selects the best employees. 

In the selection, only actual result counts, irrespective of the term of service, grade of skills and qualifications. Fair assessment is made through discussion of all employees. 

The selected employees are listed as talents of the factory and put forward on different occasions.

The factory has developed dozens of new products including chocolate sandwich cake, corn flavour jelly, walnut-fried glutinous rice cake, pine-nut and glutinous rice cake and butter bread this year by relying on its own talents.

It also found scientific methods and introduced them into production, including the re-fixing of the mixing ratio per unit on several occasions for improving the quality of candies. It also improved the quality of sugar-coated beans to be supplied to the children in the province. 

The factory manufactured and installed dozens of pieces of modern equipment by relying on its technical forces, including a sugar determination feeder with a capacity of 2.5 times more than the previous one year and established a beer brewing process with a capacity of hundreds of tons a year to operate it on a normal basis.

It has consistently pushed ahead with the updating of the standards of foodstuffs, thus bringing about a substantial change in the improvement of the quality of products.