Reborn in 1984: From Warehouse Manager to World's Factory

1984.

In the warehouse of a state-owned factory,

materials are piled up like a mountain of trash.

Stock is issued with scraps of paper,

stocktaking is done by arguing,

and the workshops stop production every few days because they're short on supplies.

Nobody thinks there's anything wrong with this.

Until

A manufacturing operations director from a foreign company, reborn from thirty years in the future,

becomes the most inconspicuous warehouse keeper here.

He knows:

5S, PMC, supply chains, lean manufacturing, and international factory audits.

He also knows:

English, foreign trade, and modern factory systems.

While everyone else is still running factories by instinct,

he has already begun to establish “industrial order.”

From warehouse reform

to production scheduling;

from internal power struggles at state-owned factories

to foreign-owned factories in Guangdong;

from an overlooked warehouse keeper

to the head of Chinese manufacturing who astonishes clients in Europe and America.

This is a story about the rise of Chinese manufacturing.

It is also the story of a man

who, amid the chaos of his times,

builds a system of rules, step by step.

Reborn in 1984: From Warehouse Keeper to Global Factory

What factories fear most has never been poverty, but chaos.