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Living ． Eating ． 享樂生活
Traveling NO.94

Retirement Reflections

Looking Back on My Time at USI

Author: Taiwan Tsaotuen Site / Corporate Operations Development / Jintiao Liu

the production line at 2 a.m. to repair a malfunctioning we proceeded with the trial production, marking my
component placement machine. Subsequently, I first experience in cross-country and cross-cultural
documented the maintenance procedures and production management.
trained the production line staff. This experience in In 1999, the devastating 921 earthquake had a
Equipment Engineering deepened my understanding profound impact on Taiwan, USI, and USI's
of the ICT/SMT industry. Afterward, I had the employees. On that day, USI set up a war room in the
privilege of traveling to Japan several times to canteen to assess the situation of the company and its
u n d e r g o t e c h n i c a l t r a i n i n g pr o v id e d b y employees and maintain close communication with
manufacturers, including Panasonic, Kyushu customers. Wearing safety helmets with headlamps,
Matsushita, and Sanyo.
we entered the production line and discovered that
From 1993 to 2000, I felt that USI was incredibly several-ton heavy SMT equipment had shifted. With
considerate of employees who were also parents. The effective leadership from USI's management and full
With gratitude and joy, my wife May and I retired diligently documenting all these insights, which company provided a thoughtful service of picking up support from employees, the supply chain, and
from USI on June 30. We want to express our heartfelt eventually became my treasured knowledge of the employees' children and bringing them to the customers, operations quickly resumed.
thanks to everyone for their guidance and care USI's operations. The practical training as a reserve company's kindergarten using a special bus. After
throughout our 34 years of work and life at USI. cadre provided me with a profound understanding of school, the kids could stay at the security office to do In June 2006, I was transferred to TSC (Technology
USI's various departments, production products, Service Center). Together with Humiko, Near, Andrea,
Time flies, yet I still remember the year 1989 when I process management, and cross function collaborations, their homework, where they were taken care of, Cony, and Emi, a group of skilled individuals, I visited
rode my motorcycle from Changhua to Taichung and which has proven to be a valuable asset throughout allowing the employees to work with peace of mind. IBM in Japan, the United States and Singapore, as well
Nantou, searching for job opportunities. Passing by my tenure at USI. USI's job rotation mechanism This was the heartwarming aspect of working at USI. as Lenovo in Beijing and Zebra. We also visited
the entrance of USI along a rural path, I noticed two allowed me to take on challenges in various job In 1997, I took on the role of Equipment Engineering various technical service centers to understand their
fire trucks parked in front of the canteen. "Wow! This functions. I fondly remember the first time I Manager and accompanied USI's merger and operations and participated in different customer
company is truly significant to have fire trucks!" I completed the Test Method of Instruction (Test MOI) acquisition assessment team to evaluate an IBM quotations. To this day, TSC remains my favorite
thought to myself. I recall my interview at the for product testing. Additionally, I had the opportunity motherboard production plant in Texas, USA. team.
Conference Room 1 in Tsaoteun Site. Upon joining to work with Consultant Yang to create samples by Although USI ultimately did not acquire that facility,
USI, I underwent a three-month training program as placing PLCC on LPM 286 motherboards on the in 1998, we established a manufacturing base in In 2008, due to the transfer of related manufacturing
a reserve cadre, during which I rotated through production line. As an SMT engineer, I learned from Mexico. As part of the team, I traveled to Guadalajara to mainland China, the willingness of the relevant
different departments each week to gain hands-on Ronny Hsu about programming the printing machine to install SMT equipment, train local employees in business unit to set up factories in Europe decreased.
experience. I learned about the product characteristics, and component placement machine. One remarkable equipment operation and maintenance, and develop However, driven by the customer's after-sales service
production processes, and cross function operations, needs, George Li and I went to Poland and Hungary to
incident was when I received a late-night call from P&P (Process and Procedure) programs. From there,

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