The rationalization proposals of technology innovation of Yanshan Petrochemical have a broad mass basis, and on the basis of inheriting fine working traditions, in recent years, the work has achieved new breakthrough in standardization, programmable management, precise management and informationization, and achieved good performance beyond expectation. The latest statistics shows that totally up to 16,170 people in Yanshan Petrochemical participated in the rationalization proposal movement in last year, total of 26,433 pieces of rationalization proposal were raised, reaching to 1.63 pieces per capita, hereinto 12, 863 pieces were implemented, the implementation rate was 48.66 %, 7,932 pieces of rationalization proposal raised by workers have been transformed into technology innovation projects. Through carrying out the rationalization proposal movement, the enterprise has totally created economic benefits of about 171 million Yuan.

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As the trend of the transition of human society from industrial society to information society has become increasingly obvious, people have paid more attention to the information and development and use of information resources than before. Nowadays, the computer network technology and communication technology have developed by leaps and bounds and covered every aspect of our social life. In recent years, Yanshan Petrochemical has been exploring new forms and mechanisms of rationalization proposal and in 2006 Yanshan Petrochemical developed rationalization proposal work management program with the cooperation of relevant units and departments, the rationalization proposal work caught the express train of the network times.

The rationalization proposal work management program was developed on the basis of Yanshan Petrochemical OA Office working system, and through the OA online system, users can submit spreadsheet forms, horizontally covered every unit of Yanshan Petrochemical, vertically linked the management staff with the common employees in grass-root units , thereby achieved the online submission, rapid conversion, real-time queries, proposal sharing, automatic statistics and results of rationalization proposal. As the rationalization proposal work management program was successfully developed, Yanshan Petrochemical firstly put it into trial in the Polyester Division in early September of 2006. The trial results showed that the management program had been functioning quite well and achieving the desired objectives basically. Subsequently, Yanshan Petrochemical promoted the use of this program in headquarters in mid-November of 2006, and the program was fully operating in other divisions in mid-January of 2007.

Since the rationalization proposal management program replaced the traditional management methods, it has completed the transmission from paper manual exchange of information into website automatic electronic information management, turned the office work to be paperless, it not only simplifies the work flow, but also changes the working methods, and it is also of excellent innovative and practical significance. The online submission of rationalization proposals solves lots of long-standing issues, such as the relatively loose management system, unclear management function, lack of management strength, and unclear management responsibilities and difficult to implement rewards and punishment and so on. The rationalization proposals management program, within the framework of Yanshan Petrochemical, formed a network of responsibilities from decision level to teams of workshop, from the leadership to detailed work of common staff, which established a solid organizational guarantee for the development.

Paper manual exchange of information has been transited into website automatic electronic information management, which greatly simplifies the submitting process. We obviously felt that this work was easy to promote and save energy with few time consumption, employee can conveniently participate in the movement of rationalization proposals. What is more obvious is that the features of rationalization proposals management program, including features of powerful real-time query, automatic statistics and results display, it could meet the demand of internal information sharing and exchange at technical level in Yanshan Petrochemical so that the rationalization proposals statistical results and assessment work had become more fair, just and open, effectively improved the staff enthusiasm and work efficiency.

With strong support of all departments and units, Yanshan Petrochemical rationalization proposal management system has now been fully promoting the use, the promotion rate, application rate and success rate within the scope of Yanshan Petrochemical were all more than 90 %, what’s more, the users reflected well. The rationalization proposals submitted by each unit have a substantial improvement on both quantity and quality, and the proposals submitted online are more standardized with continuously improved quality, and each piece can be queried and obtained the desired effect. At present, on the one hand Yanshan Petrochemical sums up the experience of online operation and urges all units to use and make good use of the program, on the other hand it makes further adjustment on working methods, and constantly improves the management system, establishes a new working mechanism as soon as possible, so that the daily, mass and general features of rationalization proposal can be fully presented.

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Rationalization proposals work in Yanshan Petrochemical has been developed for many years. And it has made great achievements which made its contributions to the development and expansion of the enterprise. However, this work also has certain problems. For example, each unit has different understanding on the significance of rationalization proposals work, which leads to more or less attention. Each unit has focused much on actual objectives of performance assessment such as production and operation, but as for rationalization proposals, some units have not paid sufficient attention to those work such as mobilizing the enthusiasm and creativity, some units even do not arrange the work in daily schedule, which results in the negative situation “action with push” in this work.

In order to encourage the enthusiasm of employees for participation in the rationalization proposals, Yanshan Petrochemical introduced corresponding incentives and evaluation policy, but some units still focused on the quantity but not quality. In order to complete the task, some units even make suggestions onrush, some employees can work out 3 or 4 proposals in half an hour. The result is that the number increased and the mission is complete, but the quality of the rationalization proposals is greatly reduced. It is more obvious that some daily work was submitted, some proposals are even meaningless, and have not much relation to the enterprise development, thus impossible to organize and implement. All of above make the rationalization proposal movement a mere formality to complete in many units.

To resolve the above problems and deficiencies, Yanshan Petrochemical organized the movement month of rationalization proposals in wide range. For example, in 2006, in the theme of “deepening the strict management and building innovative platform”, it launched the rationalization proposal movement. And in 2007, on playing the “three major campaigns”, and to grasp the production and operation and construct domestic first-class enterprise, it organized the rationalization proposal movement in all units. During the movement, Yanshan Petrochemical worked out relevant themes for technical innovation and movement month of rationalization proposal, required each unit to organize rationalization proposal movement on the aspects of production safety, technology management, personnel training, energy conservation and environmental protection, information construction, electronic commerce, supply & sales, distribution system, employment mechanism, factors impacting the stable and well operating of devices, started from their actual conditions, widely mobilized workers in a targeted manner, organized the movement. This movement could show the features of broad masses and innovation.

Yanshan Petrochemical rationalization proposal movement received positive response from various departments and units. In two grades bid and post movements, vast majority of common staff actively looked for the bottlenecks restricting security and stability of production, in a targeted manner, to develop technological innovation and technology research movement, which received immediate effect. For those efficient and small-quick projects proposed by the workers, Yanshan Petrochemical organized to implement as soon as possible, and as to the cost-effective but more difficult projects, Yanshan Petrochemical will appoint responsible departments and create conditions for the implementation of rationalization proposal , through the form of bid and post or organize the study and research, focus on key problem and make efforts to cultivate new economic growth points for Yanshan Petrochemical. In the period of movement month of rationalization proposal, Yanshan Petrochemical realized that leaders led to submit proposals and everyone made recommendations, pick out good proposals, and implement effective proposals, the objective was to transform the proposals to benefits as soon as possible. In addition, as to those units and individuals showed good performance and achieved remarkable results in the movement and in the process of bid and post, Yanshan Petrochemical will sing high praise of them through newspapers, television, Internet and other media to give significant award, which effectively promote the development of technology innovation and rationalization of the proposals movement in depth.

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A good piece of rationalization proposal can save an enterprise, and it can also save great expenditure. The rationalization proposal movement can provide the staff a platform to express feelings and sense of master and responsibility, thus close the relationship between leaders and common staff, and mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative and creativity of the staff, make enterprise have a more solid foundation of humanities. With the increasingly fierce market competition, from the view of human-oriented management and building culture of enterprise, there is great significance in the rationalization proposal movement. In the movement year of “work carefully and manage strictly”, Wang Yongjian, Chairman of Yanshan Petrochemical brought forward the call of “A small step forward by workers, a big step forward to enterprises”, which emphasized the important role of workers in the development of the enterprise, and emphasizes the dialectical relationship between innovation by workers and development of enterprise.

To mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative and creativity of people to participate in the rationalization proposal movement, Yanshan Petrochemical has made more efforts to publicize the movement, it has introduced typical characters and typical cases, and produced promo for rationalization proposal movement. Publicizing in a big way created the dense atmosphere of full participation, so that the rationalization proposal movement has been more and more popular.

To promote the application of rationalization proposal management program, on the basis of knowledge lectures, Yanshan Petrochemical amended and wrote the popularization teaching material for rationalization proposal. After trial in the Polyester Department, the teaching material was formally put into use in training of second grade units and liaison officers.

To strengthen the “Three foundations” work in rationalization proposal movement, Yanshan Petrochemical asked the second grade units to create documents and statistics and to build three specific management networks, establish the work principles of pragmatic, truth-seeking and efficiency, put forward the objectives of “start currently, start from small”, and strive to, lay a good foundation, innovate mechanisms, establish a qualified team in three years, and show good work performance with solid and reliable, accurate and practical data achieved in the rationalization proposal movement.