Recently, I chatted with a German vocational education expert and talked about a story: a well-known domestic enterprise imported a batch of German equipment, and the assembly instructions stated that a screw somewhere should be tightened for seven and a half turns. When China technicians actually assemble, they sometimes twist it seven times and sometimes eight times. They think that the fastening degree of the two methods is similar. The Germans said it was useless. Seven and a half laps are required. This is the best fastening degree of German local equipment assembly for a long time.

It was just a gag during the interview. I didn't expect this German vocational education expert to seriously emphasize that this is exactly one of the basic qualities that German vocational education wants apprentices to have. Flexibility and creativity are allowed and encouraged in the product development stage, but the production implementation process must be meticulous.

One of the basic professional spirits of German vocational education is to strictly follow the operating rules, and there is no room for "flexibility". Not only ordinary mechanics, but also technicians One of the duties of technicians is to ensure the quality of products. According to vocational education experts, the title of technician itself will make him "zero tolerance" for sloppy operation.

Imagine a car with so many parts. If there is a small error in the assembly of each part, it is not surprising that the quality of the whole vehicle is not up to standard. Bridges and buildings collapsed soon after they were built. Are there also reasons why the builders were careless and the project supervisors did not strictly follow the rules?

This expert in vocational education has been engaged in vocational education cooperation in China for seven years. It is regrettable to talk about his experience in China. For example, when some China technicians who participated in joint training went to German enterprises for internships, the German side assessed that their skills were even better than those of German workers, but some German entrepreneurs and vocational schools often paid little attention to the actual skills of technicians and only paid attention to their certificates.

In addition, he clearly saw that there were quality supervisors on the production lines of some automobile factories in China, but there were still some visible quality defects in the final cars. If these cars were put on the market in Germany, no one would buy them at all. He believes that this is not only the professional ability of technicians and quality supervisors, but also the quality of vocational training for relevant personnel.

Another important professional accomplishment of German industrial workers is that they have a strong sense of corporate identity, which is similar to our sense of ownership? Due diligence is related to the product quality and sales volume of an enterprise, to the corporate image, and to its own image and jobs. According to this expert, many domestic enterprises and vocational training institutions do not attach importance to cultivating this sense of identity.

From entrepreneurs to workers, from vocational education institutions to quality supervision departments, meticulousness and Excellence can be said to be an important soft power that runs through all aspects of the German real economy. In practice, an important foundation of this soft power is the hierarchical and standardized training of applied talents such as technicians and engineers in Germany. This is actually a systematic project, which not only has a unified and quantitative quality control for the acquisition of skill certificates at all levels, but also pays more attention to the cultivation of practical ability and professional accomplishment. The excellent foundation of "Made in Germany" is excellent talents.