The quality of the packaging bag is: 100－1=0

Konosuke Matsushita, the "God of Management" in Japan, once famously said: "For products, it's either 100 points or 0 points." Any product with even the slightest quality issue means failure.

No wonder some entrepreneurs have the feeling that 100-1=0. 100-1=0 is the equation for product quality; that is, if there is even one defective product out of 100, the quality of that product is not 100-1=99, but 100-1=0.

Packaging bags are the first external quality assurance presented to users for numerous products, including clothing, apparel, underwear, towels, home textiles, cosmetics, hardware electronics, and food. The quality of the packaging bag directly affects the user's impression of the product, so the quality of the packaging bag must also achieve 100-1=0, thus being refined and better meeting the packaging needs of the product.

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Near the Yellow River bank, there was a village. To prevent floods, the farmers built a majestic embankment. One day, an old farmer accidentally discovered that the number of ant nests had suddenly increased.

The old farmer thought: Will these ant nests affect the safety of the embankment? He wanted to return to the village to report, and on the way he met his son.

The old farmer's son said indifferently: "Such a strong embankment, are you afraid of a few little ants?" Then he took the old farmer to the field.

That night, there was a storm, and the Yellow River water surged. The roaring river water seeped from the ant nests, then spurted, and finally broke through the embankment, flooding large swathes of villages and fields along the river bank.

This is the origin of the idiom "A thousand-li dyke is ruined by an ant's nest." It means that a long embankment can be destroyed by an ant's hole, which is a metaphor for how small negligence can lead to great disaster.

Everyone knows that quality is the market, and it is the guarantee for the survival and development of an enterprise. Without it, everything is just a castle in the air. Quality is the life of a company's products; without high quality, there is no development to speak of.

Konosuke Matsushita, the "God of Management" in Japan, once famously said: "For products, it's either 100 points or 0 points." Any product with even the slightest quality issue means failure. This can be described as "A thousand-li dyke is ruined by an ant's nest."

Toshiba's minor problems with its laptops led to $1 billion in compensation in the United States, and in China, it fell from the sales champion to second place; Ford experienced huge losses due to problems with Firestone tires; and Coca-Cola was once banned in Belgium and France.

In the United States, statistics show that if only 99% of the quality is qualified, it means losing 20,000 letters per hour, two plane crashes per day, and more than 200,000 wrong prescriptions per year in hospitals.

Poor quality is like a trap, waiting to destroy the enterprise and everything around it. Defective products have swallowed up many enterprises, personal careers, customers, competitors, various associations, and even innocent civilians.

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Research by General Electric shows that the cost of finding and correcting quality problems before production is only $0.003; finding and solving quality problems during production costs $30; and finding and correcting problems after the product is sold costs $300.

In 1993, General Motors recalled about 500,000 cars produced between 1987 and 1991 because of a defect in the engine head gasket;

Chrysler recalled 35,000 1991 Dodge Ram cars due to fuel pump problems, and the recall eroded a large amount of profit;

Toyota spent $1.24 billion on repairing recalled cars, while General Motors spent $200 million on recalling cars in 1992.

The serious losses caused by human error or mismanagement are alarming. These painful facts are enough to convince us that quality is a matter of survival.

The equation 100-1=0 requires 100% qualification in terms of quality. If there is 1% unqualified, all efforts may be in vain, so we must strive for perfection in terms of quality.

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Once, Yang Mianmian from Haier was inspecting quality work at a branch factory and found a hair in the drawer of a refrigerator.

She immediately called a meeting of all relevant personnel. Some employees said that a single hair would not affect the quality of the refrigerator; just remove it, there's nothing to make a fuss about.

But Yang Mianmian told the cadres and employees present in a firm tone: "To control quality is to not let even a single hair go!"

Quality is the life of a product and the guarantee of competitiveness. It directly affects the corporate image and product image. The aforementioned saying by Konosuke Matsushita, although simple, contains profound meaning.

For 100 products, if 99 are of high quality and only 1 is defective, it means that the product will lose 100% of its market competitiveness. Because there is no 1% chance in the market.

For any enterprise, it is necessary to ensure that no defective products are allowed to leave the factory. All products on the market must be 100% qualified. This is the foundation for enterprises to maintain their reputation for a long time.