Samsung plant in the Kaluga region. Smart electronics factory in Ukraine: photo report from the Jabil factory Samsung factory in Hungary

Samsung Electronics' factory Kaluga region(Samsung Electronics Rus Kaluga LLC) is located in the north of the region in the Borovsky district on the border with the Moscow region, at the 85th kilometer of the Kyiv highway.

The agreement to establish Samsung Electronics Rus Kaluga was signed in July 2007. On September 5 of the same year, a solemn ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the future plant was held and the construction of production facilities began - the main workshops for the production of television equipment and printed circuit boards were launched in less than a year.

On September 4, 2008, the official opening ceremony of the plant was held, which was attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Russia, top management Samsung and representatives of the administration of the Kaluga region.

The company is systematically implementing innovative technologies, improves logistics processes, diversify and increase production. To date, the total area of ​​the plant complex is 460 thousand m2, while industrial premises occupy about 63 thousand m2.

The plant is an important point in the route of the New Silk Road project, created for the transit of goods from Northeast China and South Korea through the port of Dalian along the China East railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway. The warehouse complex of the Samsung plant is used to store goods delivered along the New Silk Road.

The first container train, departing from the port of Dalian on January 27, 2016, delivered components to the Samsung Electronics plant in the Kaluga region, covering the entire journey in less than 10 days.

Using the Just in Time supply system, the plant tries to attract as much as possible the enterprises of the Kaluga and nearby regions as suppliers. To date, the level of localization of the production of Samsung washing machines is more than 50%, while 100% of plastic parts for washing machines are produced directly at the factory. Special attention pays attention to the issues of localization of raw materials (plastic and metal) - in this area, the plant actively cooperates with OJSC NLMK (Lipetsk region), OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, OJSC Nizhnekamsneftekhim.

The plant is constantly developing, among its partners are enterprises from the Lipetsk, Samara, Vladimir, Moscow and Kaluga regions, and this list continues to fill up.

Television equipment manufactured at a plant in the Kaluga region is sold not only in Russian market from the western regions to the Far East, but also sent to consumers in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova.

Since September 2016, the plant has been exporting washing machines to 20 European countries, including Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary.

The Samsung Electronics plant in the Kaluga region employs about 1,200 residents of the region. Most of the plant's employees are residents of the nearby cities of the Kaluga region (Obninsk, Borovsk, Balabanovo, Zhukov, Protva, Ermolino, Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga); employees from the Naro-Fominsk district of the Moscow region also work at the plant.

The Samsung Electronics plant in the Kaluga region is the first foreign enterprise in the Kaluga region to employ 20 hearing-impaired workers. This initiative of the plant was awarded by the diploma of the Ministry of Labor and social protection Kaluga region in 2014. Hearing-impaired workers are employed on electronics assembly lines. Many of them show excellent professional results - some of the hearing-impaired workers are recognized as the best employees of the half year in production.

The company's policy is focused on the training and development of young professionals. Employees are given the opportunity to study foreign languages, as well as internships at Samsung enterprises in other countries of the world.

At the plant, meals for employees are organized at a high level, workplaces for people with disabilities are equipped, a system of dialogue between the personnel and the management of the enterprise has been established, including thanks to the created council labor collective Smart Management Committee.

Conditions for sports activities have been created for the employees of the plant, equipped gym, sports grounds, as well as corporate tournaments, competitions and cultural events are regularly held.

Manufacturing processes at the Samsung Electronics plant in the Kaluga region meet the high standards of environmentally friendly production and the requirements of environmental legislation Russian Federation. The plant implements an energy-efficient management system, and the plant is certified annually.

The company takes an active part in public life region, supporting various environmental, social, sports and educational projects.

With the support of the Samsung Electronics Rus Kaluga plant, training for high school students was organized as part of the project additional education on the basics of IT and programming "IT School Samsung" in Obninsk.

This project is part of the federal social and educational initiative of Samsung Electronics. At the Samsung IT School, students learn Java programming for free, and at the end of the program they create their own mobile applications on the Android platform. The goal of the project is to assist in the training of future engineering and technical personnel, as well as assistance in the professional self-determination of students and increasing their interest in the field of IT innovation.

On July 29, 2017, on the Day of the city of Obninsk, the Samsung Electronics plant became one of the main sponsors of a large-scale sports festival- Obninsk Atomic Marathon, by donating their products - TVs and monitors - to the prize fund. The leaders among men and women at a distance of 21.1 km received the main prizes - Samsung TVs with a diagonal of 55 inches, at a distance of 7 km - TVs with a diagonal of 32 inches. Also, TVs and monitors were awarded to the winners of both distances, and 15 Samsung TVs and monitors with a diagonal of 22 to 32 inches were raffled among the finishers of both distances.

For the first time I heard about Jabil in 2008, when in the then emerging blogosphere slipped information that Nokia began to produce phones in Ukraine. The information caused a stir and made the Nokia PR service nervous, which had to spread an official message that Nokia did not have own production in our country. At the same time, the name of the Jabil Circuit company was highlighted, which opened its plant near Uzhgorod back in 2004 as part of the Transcarpathia free economic zone project that was in operation at that time. Therefore, it was a sin not to agree to the proposal to visit this production and see live at the place where they are able to produce electronics that correspond to the level of large international companies.

For the first time I heard about Jabil in 2008, when in the then emerging blogosphere slipped information that Nokia began to produce phones in Ukraine. The information caused a stir and made the Nokia PR service nervous, which had to spread an official message that Nokia does not have its own production in our country. At the same time, the name of the Jabil Circuit company was highlighted, which opened its plant near Uzhgorod back in 2004 as part of the Transcarpathia Free Economic Zone project, which was in operation at that time. Therefore, it was a sin not to agree to the proposal to visit this production and see live at the place where they are able to produce electronics that correspond to the level of large international companies.

Once a year, Jabil organizes an open day and invites everyone to come on a tour. The plant is located in the village of Rozovka, actually adjacent to the southern outskirts of not the largest regional center of Ukraine - the city of Uzhhorod.

This is what it looks like from a satellite. It is 5 kilometers to the border with Slovakia, 20 kilometers to Hungary, which is one of the key advantages of this plant for customers: a truck that left the plant in a few hours can arrive in the capital of half of the EU countries.

Three flags also attract attention from the street: Ukrainian, American and the Jabil corporate flag.

A sign at the entrance invites all visitors to register their cameras and laptops with the guards. I would also add telephones to the list, the document clearly lags behind the realities of life. By the way, pay attention to the inscriptions in three languages: in addition to Ukrainian and English, which are logical for such a situation, there is also an inscription in Hungarian. Due to historical circumstances, there are a lot of Hungarians in the region. In general, this was my first visit to Uzhgorod and Transcarpathia is even less reminiscent of the rest of Ukraine than Lviv. This territory was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and most best years heyday fell, according to our Uzhgorod guide, at a time when Uzhgorod was part of Czechoslovakia.

About company

Before the tour itself, a presentation for guests is held by CEO, Anatoly Mikula. The plant is growing rapidly and is constantly recruiting new employees, and in next year plans to expand further, so the open day for the plant is an opportunity to tell about yourself and attract new employees. According to Anatoly, who gives the impression of a very open and sociable person, their goal is to make the profession of an engineer prestigious - the plant needs not only ordinary workers for the conveyor, but also a whole army of technical specialists.

The word Jabil itself is simply an acronym for the names of the two founders, James Golden and Bill Morean. Today the company has 101 factories in 28 countries.

Jabil factories are located all over the world. This is all contract manufacturing, that is, Jabil produces electronics for other companies in cases where it is more profitable or expedient to outsource these functions to a third-party contractor.

According to the CEO, thanks to the representatives different cultures living in the Transcarpathian region, the plant is able to work 365 days a year - even during religious holidays there are always those for whom their holiday comes earlier or later.

Over the past year, every third employee of the plant has received a promotion. Jabil emphasizes the possibility career development and create all conditions for it, up to individual plan growth for every employee. As an example, they give a slide with a track record of four people:

The production capacity of the plant is impressive. alone mobile phones the factory produced 17.5 million pieces. These are hundreds of thousands of units per month.

To put it mildly, the shortcomings of Ukrainian legislation forced us to rent a separate office in Hungary, where the products are simply repacked and sent on to customers. The plant also plans to build a second workshop next to the first, so the need for new people will only grow. By the way, the advantages of living in Uzhgorod include the very proximity to the border, which allows you to spend weekends in Europe more often than, for example, in Lviv, which is the same 3 hours by car as Budapest.

Smart factory technologies have been introduced at the plant. In general, everything is automated as much as possible, and such things as safety and quality are generally elevated to the rank of corporate religion.

Motivational posters and signs are everywhere. A lot of visual aids for all occasions. From safety reminders to collecting opinions and suggestions. This is how, for example, the meaning of a smart factory is explained: it has three components: optimization, visualization and digitization.

Before entering the shop

In front of the entrance to the shop there is a small museum of electronics manufactured at this Jabil plant.

The tour takes place on a weekend, so the back office is empty, unlike production, where work does not stop even on weekends.

But I have not seen such a thing at any similar factory, although I visited several of them in China and South Korea. This is a grounding stand in front of the entrance to the workshop.

You need to step on a metal shield with your foot and put your finger on the plate on the wall. There are eight such stands and they stand in front of the turnstiles at the entrance to the workshop.

Everyone who enters the workshop is given special shoe straps, without them they simply will not be allowed into production.

Information stand for employees. The personnel management service works in all directions.

Looking at this stand, one involuntarily recalls a phrase from a Soviet film: “Have you had any accidents at work?” The green rectangle indicates that the week has gone by without incident. There is also a folder with files describing the latest incidents that occurred at all Jabil factories around the world. The company is studying experience in order not to step on the same rake at its enterprises.

I immediately had a question: what do Jabil consider an accident. Here is the answer to it (I photographed the top sheet). A factory worker on the other side of the world... cut his finger with a knife. According to the director, even a leg twisted by an employee can be considered an incident. In general, it doesn’t fit in my head how, with 2,400 employees, nothing like this happens in a year.

But here we go through the turnstiles (by the way, pay attention to the two frames of metal detectors - employees go through them to the exit) and find ourselves in the workshop.

Manufacturing facility

To be honest, if you've been to at least one electronics manufacturing plant, you've been to almost all of them. Because inside they look pretty similar. A huge workshop, inside which assembly lines are located. The Jabil plant does not differ much from what I saw at the plants in Asia, but there are still a few differences, and they all characterize the Uzhgorod plant with better side. Take at least the requirements for grounding all visitors. Strictly speaking, the probability that a visitor static electricity damage any product tends to zero. But here everything is done to reduce even such statistically small risks.

Immediately outside the workshop doors, we are greeted by three screens, which show not only information from the stands (on the issue of converting information into digital form), but also the status of work in real time (another point of the smart factory, which was discussed earlier - visualization ). Each employee can see how the current work relates to the plan, who is ahead of schedule, and who is behind.

The Jabil plant uses the Six Sigma principle, which is popular in production management. Anatoly Mikula says that the company is introducing the so-called lean culture, where lean means respect.

Frankly, all these assembly lines do not look as impressive and spectacular as we would like. A significant part of the work is generally carried out by automation in equipment that is closed for review, from which already semi-finished printed circuit boards leave.

And only plates with line numbers show that different customers can be served here in parallel and completely different things can be assembled. The factory floor allows you to re-plan the free space for different needs.

Part of the workshop is reserved for warehousing. Here are stored components for future devices that came from different suppliers from different parts of the world. At the entrance to this part of the plant, everyone is given helmets. Frankly, such a precaution looks excessive - they don’t give out helmets to buyers in construction stores, although there are the same racks. But, remembering the statistics of incidents at the plant, you begin to understand how such indicators are achieved.

Another element that I have not seen anywhere before: a hemispherical mirror under the ceiling for better view, first of all, drivers of electric cars.

All components after registration in the warehouse receive one of three cones: green, yellow or red. The Green Cone is sourced from suppliers who have never experienced quality problems. Modern systems controls allow you to assign an individual code to each component and track its entire path from the supplier to the buyer of a particular device. Thus, in the event of a defect, the plant can, in a very short period of time, determine where else the defective parts could have ended up and stop production or recall already produced goods. Suppliers of such components receive a yellow cone and new batches of their products are tested before being sent to production. If for a long time such a supplier delivers parts without defects, he may again be assigned a green cone. Red cones are used to indicate batches with defective components.

Another component of a smart factory is optimization. Anatoly Mikula demonstrates a solution born at the plant: placing a green sticker on a box with parts indicates whether the box is empty or occupied. Depending on its position (empty boxes are simply turned over), it is located above or below the hand hole. This simple solution saves a lot of time.

There are posters everywhere reminding about safety rules at work.

What does production actually look like? It all starts in these machines, where all the necessary components are installed on the finished board.

Each component is fed with a tape on a reel. Approximately so looks and any other production of electronics.

Further, all installed components are soldered on the finished board in a special chamber in compliance with the correct temperature regime. Anatoly Mikula says that the Jabil factories have long abandoned the use of lead in solder, as well as any other unsafe materials. frankly, in the box itself, there is little to be seen, despite the video camera installed inside. Most of the processes are automated, as, in fact, it should be.

Some large elements that automation cannot handle are then installed manually. For example, huge interface connectors.

Then the finished products are sent for quality control and packaging. As a rule, it is no longer possible to shoot there. It's not that something secret is going on there, there are no special secrets. It's all about the NDA, that is additional agreement on non-disclosure, which is signed in most cases. Companies selling all this electronics under their own name prefer not to advertise the specific place of production. According to the general director of the Uzhgorod plant Jabil, the owners trademarks they know how to sell their products, and we know how to produce it with high quality, everyone does their own thing.

For example, in the world Jabil manufactures products for Cisco companies, Philips, HP, Johnson Controls. Specifically, in Ukraine, Jabil manufactures electronics for Nespresso, Ceragon, Sagemcom, SIAE Microelettronica, DUCATI Energia, SIT and TeleTec brands at its plant. So boxes with the inscription "Made in Ukraine" also come out of the walls of the Uzhgorod plant.

Instead of a conclusion

Ukraine does not have its own manufacturer of mobile phones, no matter what we think about this. But it cannot be assumed that there are no factories in the country that are not capable of coping with such tasks at the proper level. Jabil enterprise in Uzhgorod - the best of that proof (by the way, it is also not the only one in Transcarpathia, there is a Flextronics plant nearby in Mukachevo). The Jabil facility is modern and has the right working environment for all employees. The plant is growing and plans to expand, so if you are thinking about where you can apply your technical and engineering knowledge, you have a chance to start a career in international company not only in Kyiv. Yes, and modern developers of consumer electronics (I remind you that such projects as Petcube were created in Ukraine