Workers diligently innovate, contributing to increasing productivity from small operations

In 2024 and 2025, Mr. Le Van Suu - a worker at Ha Phong Export Garment Joint Stock Company (Bac Ninh) has always actively researched, proposed and implemented technical improvement initiatives at his workplace. His initiatives do not start from distant ideas but originate from the inconveniences he encounters in the daily working process.

As the person directly standing at the machine, performing the sewing stages, Mr. Suu said that he clearly understands that each operation, even if it only takes a few more seconds, but if repeated hundreds or thousands of times, it will create a significant amount of time in the entire production line.

Therefore, in the process of working, he often closely observes each stage, finding ways to eliminate unnecessary operations. Outside of working hours, he proactively learns from experience, watches tutorial videos online, then self-studies and experiments to find ways to perform work faster, more conveniently and more effectively.

To have initiatives, I work and learn at the same time. For the stages I am doing, I watch more videos online and then tinker with ways to make my sewing stage faster and more effective" - Mr. Suu shared.

From that way of thinking, many small improvements are gradually being formed and put into production practice.

One of Mr. Suu's recognized initiatives is "Creating a bag to store threads for canvas machines, helping to collect and remove excess thread heads more conveniently, saving operating time, and improving labor productivity".

In the sewing stage, after completing the sewing line, workers must handle the excess thread. Previously, these threads were often thrown out, causing unsanitary conditions in the working area and possibly sticking to clothes during work.

Mr. Suu thought of making a bag for thread right at his workplace. After cutting or removing excess thread, workers can put it directly into the bag instead of leaving it outside.

“Previously, when sewing sleeves, we had to throw out a lot of excess thread, which was dirty, sometimes even sticking to clothes. After having a thread bag, I put all the thread in the bag, without sticking the thread to my pants, and the workplace was also cleaner,” Mr. Suu said.

The initiative not only helps handle oversight conveniently but also contributes to maintaining the hygiene of the workplace, in line with the 5S implementation requirements of businesses.

For Mr. Suu, the value of the initiative does not necessarily lie in a large device or a complex change. In the garment industry, where productivity is calculated very specifically according to the implementation time of each stage, shortening one operation is also meaningful.

In the garment industry, we are calculated by the second. When extra time is saved, it can both increase productivity and reduce dead time" - Mr. Suu shared.

From the perspective of a direct producer, he believes that initiatives such as sleeve holders or bags only help workers more conveniently in their own work, while limiting redundant stages in the production line.

These improvements also show the proactiveness of workers in finding ways to work more efficiently. When the person directly in charge of the machine understands best the inconveniences in each stage, they are also the ones who can detect periods of time and operations that can be shortened.

With those contributions, Mr. Le Van Suu was awarded 2 Certificates of Merit for initiatives by the Executive Committee of the Trade Union of Ha Phong Export Garment Joint Stock Company.

The company's Trade Union also proposed that the Standing Committee of the Bac Ninh City Labor Federation commend him as a worker with typical topics and initiatives in 2026.

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