I am greatly moved by the way CEO Zang Ruimin was able to change the mindset of the 'factory workers' to be the People who had a place in their industry. Important was the portioning of a large unwieldy super-factory into self- managed sections with immediate improvements to quality control and production. The greatest change was when the secretive, fearful, patent hugging, litigation mongering of the past was replaced by encouragement in innovation and entrepreneurial skills; Bravo!
Jack Welch of GE was a legend in America. He boosted GE's value by 4000% during his 16-year tenure in GE. Jack graduated from Massachusetts University for undergraduate degrees and then gained his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Illinois University. Zhang Ruimin of Haier had a checked schooling since youth, interrupted by China's Cultural Revolution. He had discontinuous high school education and never went to University before he became the CEO of Haier. These two great CEOs have very different backgrounds.
Jack Welch turned GE from an industrial giant to a finance company. It turned out that the new success was due to accounting gimmicks. His management style was copied by other American CEOs who outsourced well paying American jobs to China! Most of the products Made in China break down in a few years and have to be replaced by Americans that no longer have the same pay and quality of life that was present in the heyday of the American worker! The good jobs are gone forever in spite of MAGA movement. We are now dependent on China for industrial products, but also for medicines etc.
Will Haier’s AI-equipped smart home appliances be banned from the US market, for fear of espionage? Reasonable trade cannot exist, without reasonable trust. A trade partner shouldn’t be treated as a servant. America has to respect foreign investors, by adhering to basic market principles for the global economy to function properly. Washington cannot dictate to the world.
After the first Year the Light died in my Fridge and when I tried to get it replaced under the Two Year warranty Haier Refused, and tried to sell me one. Also my Haier Fridge Leaks since it does not have a Tray underneath it to catch the water. I Would not buy another one.
There is a "Email Air" AC by "weatherwall" from 1965 in our house. Still works great. I think its made in England. How many times has your AC been touched by a serviceman? Ours has never been repaired or serviced. I just change the filter once every few years.
Seems like lots of stuff was produced sturdier from staplers to washing machines... but now it's race to the bottom, use cheap plastic and poor metal and plastic molds, shitty designs lead to the stuff breaking sooner. Funny thing though, is that some prices on some items like staplers or major appliances haven't remain cheap, just bigger profit margins and more volume sells as life cycle of these things break faster. Vehicles seem to be different though, cars do seem to be lasting longer with fewer repairs. Particularly transmissions and engine block and radiators. Suspension systems suck worse though, fortunately fairly cheap to replace.
It was such a great story I watched now. Truly inspiring! It's weird but I even almost cried seeing this rise from humble beginnings to that greatness, with being persistent, always learning and working on yourself, aiming to be the best but staying humble! Thanks for making this film
In 1973-74 when I was in Japan I used to think and said that Japanese technology and Chinese human resources if combined together could form a great industrial powerhouse for engineering and consumer products and meeting needs of the whole world. China did not look as industrially and technologically advanced then as Japan because of Japanese workers amazing capability to produce high quality products in the form of automobiles, steel making, ship building, heavy fabrication and other high technology and quality product Japan was making in high capacity competing USA. Amazingly in just 20-25 years of time since then China achieved tremendous technological breakthrough in a way perhaps the world has never seen before. Now it is a producer of all kind of high technology engineered product, machinery and equipment that only Europe and America could produce or producing before. This story of Haier is one story of one type of product and there are many more surprising stories not yet revealed.
@@jameschristophercirujano6650 Japan is still better in terms of robotics, high precision machine tools and carbon fibre, but in terms of telecommunication, semiconductors and high speed rails China is now better.
@@joseph_wei Shenzen isn't the hardware capital of the world for nothing. I think Japan is still ahead in high speed rails though but generally Japan is still ahead of China.
@@jameschristophercirujano6650 You have that impression most likely because China developed too fast. The high speed rail part has been tested by youtubers. They let a coin stands on the tables of both trains and see how long it lasts and on Japanese high speed trains it lasts only seconds, but on Chinese high speed trains it lasts minutes (it looked like it could last forever, but video is only that long). And we all know Chinese high speed train is faster now.
@@jameschristophercirujano6650 You might also ask well then why China's GDP per capita is still so much lower than Japan's. Chinese population is more than 10 times of Japanese population, so I think China needs to have 10 times more fields better than Japan to have similar amount of wealth per person.
So inspiring...Am currently working with Haier company in Kenya as a merchandiser..and am looking forward to growing and help grow the company in Kenya. Thank you Haier
Very informative and inspiring... Extreme out-of-the-box management, in product & services, in innovation mgt, in talent retention, accountability and etc.
I bought an American made Amana refrigerator back in 1995.That's 23 years years ago! It has been with me through 2 marriages, also the appliance store I bought it from (SiLo) went under, because of Circuit City, which also went under years later. This Amana refrigerator is still going strong! No issues whatsoever. Very happy with my purchase.
@Mr Cabot Why did you insinuate this comment, dumb dumb. Inspirited means motivate or inspire. I just learnt a new word from this comment. Thanks Razzez Est.
Wow this is so inspiring! One of the best documentary I have ever seen in my life. The CEO decisions and actions have changed many aspects of life. What a legend!
Invention of features or advancement of a product has limited benefit for a company. If you change the way they operate, now that has massive implications. Companies used to understand this, Ford while famous for an invention they didn't invent, Invented a process that changed the world in ways nothing else ever has. The invention of the moving assembly line created the world we have today.
Our 20 year old GE fridge finally kicked the bucket and went cold yesterday. Went to the appliance store and finally settled on a Haier fridge. Found out thru this video that my fridge is related to GE
Ha! Haier bought NZ's Fisher and Paykel Appliances at a time when the share price was very low in 2011. The technology was market-leading and innovative and F&P had 420 patents for their unique technology. Good on them for seeing value when all those other so-called "Market leaders" like GE were looking the other way.
I hope this merger will become successful. Haier products can learn from GE to build rugged lasting products. I have been using a Haier AC for around 20 years and it's still doing fine. Keep up with the good job
I once had a Haier fridge, the thing lasted 10 years and was only decommissioned due to non-availability of parts. Went to the market and got another Haier fridge. Five years later, it's still running like new.
Communist china cannot be any democracy nation friend. It is like different ways and either for democracy or communism. It is time to change into democracy or else risk being left behind.
In the 40's, both of my parents worked at GE in Ft. Wayne, IN. My father in the Specialty Transformer Dept. and my mother as an RN in the in-plant medical facility. My aunt and two uncles all worked at GE too. When I graduated from high school in 1963, I also went to work at GE. All our appliances were GE, purchased at the employee store at a deep discount. GE is now gone from Ft. Wayne, with the acres of buildings repurposed or torn down. Our last refrigerator, a GE, lasted for 27 years before it needed replacement. A new GE from Home Depot replaced it. The new one has more bells and whistles than the old one but works great. I guess we made the right choice by picking GE.
I have purchased HAIER air conditioners and other products and have been very satisfied HAIER, I will continue to purchase these products as they last and last.
Great documentary, just goes to show its all about the people and giving them accountability and ownership. If UK manufactures adopted this strategy 20+ years ago I'm sure the nation would have more larger scale manufacturing.
I have photos of myself when I was just 2 years old posing behind a GE refrigerator. In 2003, my mom bought a National refrigerator that's still working today. National is now known as Panasonic. I don't what happened to that old GE refrigerator from 1998, because we moved and left it, but I hope it's still working to this day.
Dont worry your GE in your basement will automatically change its name to HAIER that's how brilliant the Chinese are! Have a look tomorrow when you wake up!😉
It is saying that Haier knows better the market economy's essence lies with clients and users. How amazing the legendary GE Appliance buys the open culture of Haier!
Sorry to contradict but Eddison did not solely provide the world with the electric light bulb. In fact, what he did was patent, in 1879 and 1880, the introduction of the carbon filament light bulb and the screw to hold the bulb in place, and that was in the U.S.A. Before that, in 1878, Joseph Swann, in England had publicly demonstrated the first light based on commercially-viable carbon. However, before either of those men had a light to shine on anything, the British chemist Warren de La Rue had already solved the scientific challenges nearly 40 years earlier and even before him the basic idea of using electricity to create light was first investigated by the English chemist Humphrey Davy. It was he that showed that when electric current flowed through wires, their resistance caused them to heat up to the point where they gave out light. He also pinpointed the main problem in creating the first practical incandescent light by finding a cheap material that both burned brightly, and lasted for many hours. These two major points led to the Davy Lamp used by miners. Sorry to break the myth about Edison but not everything was started or invented in the States, In fact, they often took inventions from other countries, similar to the way the Japanese did after WWII, and improved on them, e.g. the electric toaster, the electric vacuum cleaner by British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth, the car, the rifle, jet engines, in 1748, William Cullen, at the Universityof Glasgow demonstrated the first artificial refrigeration system, first working sewing machine, generally considered to have been the work of Englishman Thomas Saint in 1790, the computer, etc. 'nuf sed.
its amazing what they are doing with refrigerators but, i remember the GE units from grandparents days still running and new ones only last 8-10 years if your lucky. you pay a load of cash for something that dies in less then decade. but the old farm fridge from the 40s is still going strong behind the bar.
Disappointing that there’s no mention of the joint-venture with Germany’s Liebherr which was much to do with the quality improvements given the company was now using proven German technology and quality control processes. The name Haier even comes from the Chinese translation of Liebherr! The joint venture was the true turning point in the fortunes of the company, with the other changes at management level and in the attitude to workers ensuring the joint- venture delivered the results it was designed to.
so what you're saying is Liebherr shared it's main selling point to Haier and with all Merkel's newly invited "doctors and engineers" now working in Germany you'd surely be better off buying a Haier.
Hmm, that seems to be true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier To be honest, this entire program looks like a glorified informercial. Laudatory and lack of critical analysis.
I’m Chinese and I’m thinking about the same thing. They even made an anime back then called haier brothers, staring a European kid and a Chinese kid, symbolizing the joint venture. It was a great anime too, the ultimate 90s collective memory of China.
We own a Haier fridge, we did not knew that it was a Chinese company while buying, now i do, but even though Chinese products are usually associated with poor quality, Haier is an exception, our fridge works really well, and we never had a problem with it. I will recommend Haier refrigerators to anyone wishing to buy one.
@@rukmanibalaji2775 Well, it has never broken down or given any sort of problem since we bought it 8 years back, so there was never any service or need for any spare parts. They say Haier uses Japanese compressors and these are best. But i reckon their after sales service will be good too, tho i have never had any need of them. Haier gives peace of mind.
I my Haier fridge and washer are over 10 years old and still running like they are new. No issues what so ever, and it was way cheaper than the other shitty brands like whirlpool and maytag
wow to think like that in China back in the 80s is truly a sign of humility and vision. I mean u gotta remove ego and pride to acknowledge ur stuff is crap... and the vision to incorporate non socialist views during that era... I’m glad this dude wasn’t caught up in that mao propaganda... truly working with the people
I came from a small city next to Qingdao. My father bought a Haier refrigerator when he got married with my mothe, and it still working until last year, we stop to use to use it because of its electric cost was to hight and there is no place to put.
A powerful lesson is made in this program. Listen to your markets, hear your employee's ideas on how to innovate, then begin the tasks of creating the processes to create the product/service which will improve upon it's previous version/iteration !
i love the concept of reinventing again and never stop , i learn from this video that invention and individuals held responsible for their action is great technique to flourish.
Try mapping ripe and unripe fruits and vegetables with infrared or other sensors continues monitoring and allowing the user to. Also provide a relative life span of the produce. Make ripe choices.
It is a shame that this wonderful story hasn't continued. I purchased a new GE refrigerator for our kitchen remodeling based on the good name of GE. It failed after only 3 months of service. Following three visits by a repair service company under warranty, the compressor was replaced, however the refrigerator never cooled again. After discovering on the internet that many GE refrigerators were failing due to bad compressors, I requested a refund. That was 10 weeks ago and I am still waiting for my check with an inoperable refrigerator taking up space in our house. In trying to resolve this issue, they are now asking me to disable the refrigerator, send them proof via photos, and they will send the check directly to me. leaving me with the inoperable refrigerator. Customer satisfaction is no longer their goal.
For those who are faired of Chinese SOEs, Haier Group is a publicly owned and publicly traded private company, only less than 3 percents of its shares are in the hand of the local city government's investment holding company via another internationally traded bank.
It is a PR piece , not to take any merits from the Chinese, over Americans and how GE lost its ways. I would love to get posters on feedback from German makers such as Miele , Liebherr, Bosch . And top tier appliances such as Viking.
All this modern IOT is all very well if you're busy in the city and haven't got time (but loads of money), but it doesn't have the quality of life I experienced in my granny's Welsh hillside cottage, which had no running water or electricity. Bathing in a tin bath in front of the kitchen range, listening to a old battery valve radio, climbing the hill with a bucket to bring back icy cool fresh well water, with the sound of the River Elwy rustling through the valley, and fresh tomatoes growing behind the 'petty', and breathing in the cold fresh winds off the Irish Sea - _that_ was quality of life.
*Lin Mai* "Sounds damn cold" - just coolish if you were a 10 yr old. "a little primitive from this point in time!" - There's nothing so sophisticated on YT. "But I can see your fondness for a simpler way of life." - You had better believe it. I went on to build what you're using right now. It wasn't a fair exchange. I'd rather have the old world back. Too much has been lost.
I totally agree with you. I've been building most of these applications but mostly for companies, for home it would be nothing more than a novelty and a way to minimize meaningful interactions we have with other humans. There's certain things that technology can/should not replace
i was told by an appliance repair technician that haeir has a reputation for producing cheap disposable junk appliances that are not worth fixing. I'm not experienced enough to know but i know they are sold heavily at Walmart
GE is still GE. unlike some other merges no layoffs from GE. The only differences is that way better management concepts promoting innovations. GE is still made in US creating jobs locally paying taxes to the povernment people are happier than before.
Today a HUGE recall of Haier Refrigerators was made in the USA, tens of thousands of them have defective electrics that can and HAVE caused serious fires in peoples' homes.
In the EU we've Simens, Electrolux, Miele, Bosch, AEG, Whirlpool and of course the two Korean giants LG & Samsung. We don't use American or Chinees brands over here.
for thousands of years China was leading in terms of quality in craftsmanship, architecture, technology, academics and literature, I would not be surprise if that inner genes catch up to the rest of the world again and I am pretty sure about it, when I was at a trip to China I just see little things and it screams to me that's the future and its mind-boggling.. and to think they just open up to the world after years of isolation...I sometimes see many jokes about this made in China phrase and it may be true for dodgy companies out for a quick buck but those that strive for quality will stand out and become the market leaders
I have been doing business with China for nearly a decade. They always made quality stuff, but maybe only one or two manufacturers in each industry niche in the early days.. just no one wanted to pay the well-worth extra cost for quality. But unfortunately most general public only come in touch with 'made in China' when it fails them, often due to their own lack of education and poor decision making.
Ella Shy - you are regurgitating the CCP-sponsored myth of Chinese exceptionalism and superiority over all other races/culture. As Steven Mosher says in 'Bully of Asia', the CCP sponsors a Narcissistic Nationalism - a propaganda rather like that of Nazi Germany that Chinese are racially superior and destined to rule the world!. First of all, China is a relatively young civilisation with only 3,600 years of history - not the CCP myth of 5,000 years. see: eastasiastudent.net/china/5000-years-history-myth/ www.wa-pedia.com/forum/threads/43752-5000-years-of-chinese-civilization-Really In really ancient times, 3rd M b.c.e. China did not exist and most inventions were created in the Middle East, India and the Mediterranean where the civilisations are much older than China's. China did not lead the world for thousands of years in the things that you claim! Famous Chinese inventor Lin Yutang wrote that India was China's teacher in so many things such as Maths and Grammar. In fact, most of what Westerners labelled modern Maths (Arithmetic - the Indian decimal place value system with zero) which Cambridge prof. John Barrow says is the greatest intellectual invention of all time, modern Algebra (which Colebrooke showed al-Khwarizmi copied from Indian bijaganita), Trigonometry and even Infinitesimal Calculus [the basis of modern physics which originated in Kerala centuries before Newton] is of India origin. As Charles Seife wrote, Descartes Analytic Geometry and Newton's calculus would have been impossible without Indian maths. One thousand years ago, the Arabs wrote that India led the world in Science and they called Maths Hindisat (Art of the Hindus). Chinese scholars, as with Middle easterners would come to study in India. Even in the 1790s after the Industrial Revolution started, English experts considered Indian wootz steel, the best in the world and the English copied its process. As Hu Shih, who was a famous scholar and KMT ambassador to the USA, wrote that India conquered China for 2,000 years without sending a single soldier. The Chinese copied so much Indian culture voluntarily primarily through the adoption of Buddhism. Block printing of books entered China with Indian missionaries. Kung Fu was developed from Indian martial arts that an Indian monk taught to the Shaolin monks. Feng Shui was copied from Indian Vastu. The first Chinese Opera Po Tow was based on an Indian play. Hu Shih even wrote a book on the development of logical thought in China. The pictogram based Chinese language did not facilitate abstract thought and hence Chinese peddled pithy proverbs as 'philosophy'. It was the integration of over 35,000 Indian words into Chinese (including the word Mandarin - from Sanskrit mantrin) and Indian/Buddhist conceptual philosophy that allowed the Chinese to develop logical thought. Indeed, most of 'Indo-China' became civilised through Indian (not Chinese) influences, and was known as 'Greater India'. Hence the Hindu-Buddhist cultures in Burma, Thailand, Indonesia [Brunei is from Hindu Varuna], Cambodia etc. - even the first Philippino written language was based on Sanskrit.
I don't want a talking refrigerator. I want one that keeps food cold / frozen, and lasts for 25 years. If my refrigerator talked, it would say "Ooops... I've just leaked water all over your kitchen floor. I think it's because of design flaw that my manufacturer refuses to acknowledge. Of course, I'm out of warranty, so you'll have to pay the repair bill for something that's the fault of the company that built me." So, Mr. Heier or Mr. GE, how about designing a simple box with two compartments that keeps food cold / frozen and will last 25 years without a major repair?
Really enjoy these documentaries. Hope you can add subtitles or at least allow CZcams's auto-generated subtitles. That would also allow non-English speakers to auto-translate and watch it subtitled in their own language.
comments are for anybody who would like to express opinion here. Others who agree or not agree with each comment is very personal. Useless to attack others here just because their comments are not what anyone cannot agree. Learn to respect others and understand comments before contact anybody would be a good start.
I purchased a Haier washing machine 3 years back and once out of warranty it just had a pcb to be replaced as said by their authorized service man. I purchased it for $139 and they charged $70 for repair. They don't have good products; and I guess they don't test them. In the long run if you buy from this company you end up paying more. I have the receipts in case any one want to see.
I am greatly moved by the way CEO Zang Ruimin was able to change the mindset of the 'factory workers' to be the People who had a place in their industry. Important was the portioning of a large unwieldy super-factory into self- managed sections with immediate improvements to quality control and production.
The greatest change was when the secretive, fearful, patent hugging, litigation mongering of the past was replaced by encouragement in innovation and entrepreneurial skills; Bravo!
Jack Welch of GE was a legend in America. He boosted GE's value by 4000% during his 16-year tenure in GE. Jack graduated from Massachusetts University for undergraduate degrees and then gained his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Illinois University.
Zhang Ruimin of Haier had a checked schooling since youth, interrupted by China's Cultural Revolution. He had discontinuous high school education and never went to University before he became the CEO of Haier.
These two great CEOs have very different backgrounds.
Whats ge doing now? down 3200%? Lots of people have a poor education & do just fine.
Jack Welch turned GE from an industrial giant to a finance company. It turned out that the new success was due to accounting gimmicks. His management style was copied by other American CEOs who outsourced well paying American jobs to China! Most of the products Made in China break down in a few years and have to be replaced by Americans that no longer have the same pay and quality of life that was present in the heyday of the American worker! The good jobs are gone forever in spite of MAGA movement. We are now dependent on China for industrial products, but also for medicines etc.
We own a Haier fridge / freezer since 10 years - and it never let us down. Great appliance, and now I have begun to understand why.
@renge99O9 china produces pets' food now? you are a troll right?
Will Haier’s AI-equipped smart home appliances be banned from the US market, for fear of espionage?
Reasonable trade cannot exist, without reasonable trust.
A trade partner shouldn’t be treated as a servant.
America has to respect foreign investors, by adhering to basic market principles for the global economy to function properly.
Washington cannot dictate to the world.
@Cjango Freeman lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Markus Patients wrong. goodman is made in the usa
After the first Year the Light died in my Fridge and when I tried to get it replaced under the Two Year warranty Haier Refused, and tried to sell me one.
Also my Haier Fridge Leaks since it does not have a Tray underneath it to catch the water.
I Would not buy another one.
My parents bought a haier ac when i was born. it is over 20 yrs old and still functioning.
There is a "Email Air" AC by "weatherwall" from 1965 in our house. Still works great. I think its made in England. How many times has your AC been touched by a serviceman? Ours has never been repaired or serviced. I just change the filter once every few years.
wow，thats impressive.
I might be interested in buying that off of you, Dayu.... The last haier fridge I bought only lasted 13 months.....
Seems like lots of stuff was produced sturdier from staplers to washing machines... but now it's race to the bottom, use cheap plastic and poor metal and plastic molds, shitty designs lead to the stuff breaking sooner.
Funny thing though, is that some prices on some items like staplers or major appliances haven't remain cheap, just bigger profit margins and more volume sells as life cycle of these things break faster.
Vehicles seem to be different though, cars do seem to be lasting longer with fewer repairs. Particularly transmissions and engine block and radiators.
Suspension systems suck worse though, fortunately fairly cheap to replace.
It was such a great story I watched now. Truly inspiring! It's weird but I even almost cried seeing this rise from humble beginnings to that greatness, with being persistent, always learning and working on yourself, aiming to be the best but staying humble! Thanks for making this film
I think i just watch some of the best documenteries in my life!
In 1973-74 when I was in Japan I used to think and said that Japanese technology and Chinese human resources if combined together could form a great industrial powerhouse for engineering and consumer products and meeting needs of the whole world. China did not look as industrially and technologically advanced then as Japan because of Japanese workers amazing capability to produce high quality products in the form of automobiles, steel making, ship building, heavy fabrication and other high technology and quality product Japan was making in high capacity competing USA. Amazingly in just 20-25 years of time since then China achieved tremendous technological breakthrough in a way perhaps the world has never seen before. Now it is a producer of all kind of high technology engineered product, machinery and equipment that only Europe and America could produce or producing before. This story of Haier is one story of one type of product and there are many more surprising stories not yet revealed.
Still not good as Japan does though.
@@jameschristophercirujano6650 Japan is still better in terms of robotics, high precision machine tools and carbon fibre, but in terms of telecommunication, semiconductors and high speed rails China is now better.
@@joseph_wei Shenzen isn't the hardware capital of the world for nothing. I think Japan is still ahead in high speed rails though but generally Japan is still ahead of China.
@@jameschristophercirujano6650 You have that impression most likely because China developed too fast. The high speed rail part has been tested by youtubers. They let a coin stands on the tables of both trains and see how long it lasts and on Japanese high speed trains it lasts only seconds, but on Chinese high speed trains it lasts minutes (it looked like it could last forever, but video is only that long). And we all know Chinese high speed train is faster now.
@@jameschristophercirujano6650 You might also ask well then why China's GDP per capita is still so much lower than Japan's. Chinese population is more than 10 times of Japanese population, so I think China needs to have 10 times more fields better than Japan to have similar amount of wealth per person.
So inspiring...Am currently working with Haier company in Kenya as a merchandiser..and am looking forward to growing and help grow the company in Kenya. Thank you Haier
Very informative and inspiring... Extreme out-of-the-box management, in product & services, in innovation mgt, in talent retention, accountability and etc.
I bought an American made Amana refrigerator back in 1995.That's 23 years years ago! It has been with me through 2 marriages, also the appliance store I bought it from (SiLo) went under, because of Circuit City, which also went under years later. This Amana refrigerator is still going strong! No issues whatsoever. Very happy with my purchase.
Such an inspiring story, CEO Zhang is an admirable manager
Very inspiring. Together we can make so much more
I had been inspirited by watching this wonderful documentary
@Mr Cabot Why did you insinuate this comment, dumb dumb. Inspirited means motivate or inspire. I just learnt a new word from this comment. Thanks Razzez Est.
Didn't expect the content will be so much inspiring. Very interesting documentary.
Great storytelling. Thank you for covering this. I do not own any Haier products but I will be looking now as I purchase a home.
very interesting. One of the better documentaries I have watched.
Wow this is so inspiring! One of the best documentary I have ever seen in my life. The CEO decisions and actions have changed many aspects of life. What a legend!
US GE felt running like empire or dictatorship while HAIER companies felt running like democracy!....really strange!
Name a single thing Haier has invented.
their own business ?
Invention of features or advancement of a product has limited benefit for a company. If you change the way they operate, now that has massive implications. Companies used to understand this, Ford while famous for an invention they didn't invent, Invented a process that changed the world in ways nothing else ever has. The invention of the moving assembly line created the world we have today.
Too late, but I got ways around that.
A company can not be compared to a country, what a silly premise.
Good documentary. I want a documentary next about Volvo's sale revival under Geely.
Our 20 year old GE fridge finally kicked the bucket and went cold yesterday. Went to the appliance store and finally settled on a Haier fridge. Found out thru this video that my fridge is related to GE
Good doc...i like this and DW documentary very much.
Ha! Haier bought NZ's Fisher and Paykel Appliances at a time when the share price was very low in 2011. The technology was market-leading and innovative and F&P had 420 patents for their unique technology. Good on them for seeing value when all those other so-called "Market leaders" like GE were looking the other way.
Brilliant CEO a man with foresight!
Really good to see how two companies can grow together.
I have owned and still use haier products.
I hope this merger will become successful. Haier products can learn from GE to build rugged lasting products. I have been using a Haier AC for around 20 years and it's still doing fine. Keep up with the good job
I once had a Haier fridge, the thing lasted 10 years and was only decommissioned due to non-availability of parts. Went to the market and got another Haier fridge. Five years later, it's still running like new.
Excellent example of refining Actual Intelligence inherent in the uniqueness of individuals, in mutual respect and competetive cooperation.
A very inspiring business story from China. It has proved China and US can work together and thrive both
ge is going down the shitter
No such thing as that. is either the strong survive or die!
Truly inspiring. Buy Haier with no second guessing.
Communist china cannot be any democracy nation friend. It is like different ways and either for democracy or communism. It is time to change into democracy or else risk being left behind.
@@proudtobewhiteprivileged9530 Even Lee Kuan Yew, the great statesman think twice ruling democratic without fusion.
In the 40's, both of my parents worked at GE in Ft. Wayne, IN. My father in the Specialty Transformer Dept. and my mother as an RN in the in-plant medical facility. My aunt and two uncles all worked at GE too. When I graduated from high school in 1963, I also went to work at GE. All our appliances were GE, purchased at the employee store at a deep discount. GE is now gone from Ft. Wayne, with the acres of buildings repurposed or torn down. Our last refrigerator, a GE, lasted for 27 years before it needed replacement. A new GE from Home Depot replaced it. The new one has more bells and whistles than the old one but works great. I guess we made the right choice by picking GE.
I have purchased HAIER air conditioners and other products and have been very satisfied HAIER, I will continue to purchase these products as they last and last.
Great documentary, just goes to show its all about the people and giving them accountability and ownership. If UK manufactures adopted this strategy 20+ years ago I'm sure the nation would have more larger scale manufacturing.
I have photos of myself when I was just 2 years old posing behind a GE refrigerator. In 2003, my mom bought a National refrigerator that's still working today. National is now known as Panasonic. I don't what happened to that old GE refrigerator from 1998, because we moved and left it, but I hope it's still working to this day.
Dont worry your GE in your basement will automatically change its name to HAIER that's how brilliant the Chinese are! Have a look tomorrow when you wake up!😉
I'm drinking cold beer from my Haier fridge right now. Thank you!
Truly inspiring story
When i bought a Haier notebook years ago i seriously thought it was a German company. Haier turns out to be a
very innovative company. Great job!
Me too, i thought it was German company
Haier has made progress by leaps and bounds ❤ Great products ❤
It is saying that Haier knows better the market economy's essence lies with clients and users. How amazing the legendary GE Appliance buys the open culture of Haier!
Loved the lucid and engrossing narrative. Thank you
This guy is a visionary and innovator
Sorry to contradict but Eddison did not solely provide the world with the electric light bulb. In fact, what he did was patent, in
1879 and 1880, the introduction of the carbon filament light bulb and the screw to hold the bulb in place, and that was in the
U.S.A. Before that, in 1878, Joseph Swann, in England had publicly demonstrated the first light based on commercially-viable
carbon. However, before either of those men had a light to shine on anything, the British chemist Warren de La Rue had already
solved the scientific challenges nearly 40 years earlier and even before him the basic idea of using electricity to create light was first
investigated by the English chemist Humphrey Davy. It was he that showed that when electric current flowed through wires, their
resistance caused them to heat up to the point where they gave out light. He also pinpointed the main problem in creating the first
practical incandescent light by finding a cheap material that both burned brightly, and lasted for many hours. These two major points led to the Davy Lamp used by miners. Sorry to break the myth about Edison but not everything was started or invented in the States, In fact, they often took inventions from other countries, similar to the way the Japanese did after WWII, and improved on them, e.g. the electric toaster, the electric vacuum cleaner by British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth, the car, the rifle, jet engines, in 1748, William Cullen, at the Universityof Glasgow demonstrated the first artificial refrigeration system, first working sewing machine, generally considered to have been the
work of Englishman Thomas Saint in 1790, the computer, etc.
'nuf sed.
Learned alot here, thanks
its amazing what they are doing with refrigerators but, i remember the GE units from grandparents days still running and new ones only last 8-10 years if your lucky. you pay a load of cash for something that dies in less then decade. but the old farm fridge from the 40s is still going strong behind the bar.
Disappointing that there’s no mention of the joint-venture with Germany’s Liebherr which was much to do with the quality improvements given the company was now using proven German technology and quality control processes. The name Haier even comes from the Chinese translation of Liebherr! The joint venture was the true turning point in the fortunes of the company, with the other changes at management level and in the attitude to workers ensuring the joint- venture delivered the results it was designed to.
so what you're saying is Liebherr shared it's main selling point to Haier and with all Merkel's newly invited "doctors and engineers" now working in Germany you'd surely be better off buying a Haier.
Hmm, that seems to be true.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier
To be honest, this entire program looks like a glorified informercial. Laudatory and lack of critical analysis.
Indeed, that has been omitted from the documentary...
+Jacqu J
This is the story of Zhang Ruimin. With out him -- no HAIER today. If it wasn't Liebher -- it would've been other foreign companies.
I’m Chinese and I’m thinking about the same thing. They even made an anime back then called haier brothers, staring a European kid and a Chinese kid, symbolizing the joint venture. It was a great anime too, the ultimate 90s collective memory of China.
Excellent docus!!! Thanks!!!
Wow....amazing story haier
We own a Haier fridge, we did not knew that it was a Chinese company while buying, now i do, but even though Chinese products are usually associated with poor quality, Haier is an exception, our fridge works really well, and we never had a problem with it.
I will recommend Haier refrigerators to anyone wishing to buy one.
What about the service and spare parts
@@rukmanibalaji2775 Well, it has never broken down or given any sort of problem since we bought it 8 years back, so there was never any service or need for any spare parts.
They say Haier uses Japanese compressors and these are best.
But i reckon their after sales service will be good too, tho i have never had any need of them.
Haier gives peace of mind.
I bought Haier frudge 10 years ago and the freezer door wasn't sealed well when closed.
An eye opener for me.
I my Haier fridge and washer are over 10 years old and still running like they are new. No issues what so ever, and it was way cheaper than the other shitty brands like whirlpool and maytag
Wow, i learn to love my Haier tv more
wow to think like that in China back in the 80s is truly a sign of humility and vision. I mean u gotta remove ego and pride to acknowledge ur stuff is crap... and the vision to incorporate non socialist views during that era... I’m glad this dude wasn’t caught up in that mao propaganda... truly working with the people
I came from a small city next to Qingdao. My father bought a Haier refrigerator when he got married with my mothe, and it still working until last year, we stop to use to use it because of its electric cost was to hight and there is no place to put.
Brilliant
A powerful lesson is made in this program. Listen to your markets, hear your employee's ideas on how to innovate, then begin the tasks of creating the processes to create the product/service which will improve upon it's previous version/iteration !
i love the concept of reinventing again and never stop , i learn from this video that invention and individuals held responsible for their action is great technique to flourish.
Good job, Haier
Try mapping ripe and unripe fruits and vegetables with infrared or other sensors continues monitoring and allowing the user to. Also provide a relative life span of the produce. Make ripe choices.
It is a shame that this wonderful story hasn't continued. I purchased a new GE refrigerator for our kitchen remodeling based on the good name of GE. It failed after only 3 months of service. Following three visits by a repair service company under warranty, the compressor was replaced, however the refrigerator never cooled again. After discovering on the internet that many GE refrigerators were failing due to bad compressors, I requested a refund. That was 10 weeks ago and I am still waiting for my check with an inoperable refrigerator taking up space in our house. In trying to resolve this issue, they are now asking me to disable the refrigerator, send them proof via photos, and they will send the check directly to me. leaving me with the inoperable refrigerator. Customer satisfaction is no longer their goal.
i have haier led tv id bought it 7years ago although its cheap and not famous. but still its working fine☺️
proudly from my hometown Qingdao!!
this is refreshing knowledge is power thank you
A win win for both haier and GE.
Very inspiring
I’m 54 and I don’t ever remember GE being known for quality products, always avoided them. Looks like others did the same eventually.
Supreme brand delivering great products 👍🏻
Haier is good love From India
For those who are faired of Chinese SOEs, Haier Group is a publicly owned and publicly traded private company, only less than 3 percents of its shares are in the hand of the local city government's investment holding company via another internationally traded bank.
Owe, quality guaranted...from now on I will buy Haier products only, cheap and best.
It is a PR piece , not to take any merits from the Chinese, over Americans and how GE lost its ways. I would love to get posters on feedback from German makers such as Miele , Liebherr, Bosch . And top tier appliances such as Viking.
Amazing documentary !!
All this modern IOT is all very well if you're busy in the city and haven't got time (but loads of money), but it doesn't have the quality of life I experienced in my granny's Welsh hillside cottage, which had no running water or electricity. Bathing in a tin bath in front of the kitchen range, listening to a old battery valve radio, climbing the hill with a bucket to bring back icy cool fresh well water, with the sound of the River Elwy rustling through the valley, and fresh tomatoes growing behind the 'petty', and breathing in the cold fresh winds off the Irish Sea - _that_ was quality of life.
Sounds damn cold and a little primitive from this point in time! But I can see your fondness for a simpler way of life.
*Lin Mai*
"Sounds damn cold" - just coolish if you were a 10 yr old.
"a little primitive from this point in time!" - There's nothing so sophisticated on YT.
"But I can see your fondness for a simpler way of life." - You had better believe it. I went on to build what you're using right now. It wasn't a fair exchange. I'd rather have the old world back. Too much has been lost.
I totally agree with you. I've been building most of these applications but mostly for companies, for home it would be nothing more than a novelty and a way to minimize meaningful interactions we have with other humans. There's certain things that technology can/should not replace
Sounds like my grandma's home. My ideal simple life.
i was told by an appliance repair technician that haeir has a reputation for producing cheap disposable junk appliances that are not worth fixing. I'm not experienced enough to know but i know they are sold heavily at Walmart
Really hardworking people,need some good management guys,
Very good video, will definitely use some of the contents for my assignment about HAIER GROUP - Internationalization Strategy.
GE is still GE. unlike some other merges no layoffs from GE.
The only differences is that way better management concepts promoting innovations. GE is still made in US creating jobs locally paying taxes to the povernment people are happier than before.
All this technology isolates society and implements control by others of these isolated people. Big brother.
Today a HUGE recall of Haier Refrigerators was made in the USA, tens of thousands of them have defective electrics that can and HAVE caused serious fires in peoples' homes.
Wow amazing
I fucking love this documentary!
I don't have great fondness for chinese brands, but our 15 year old Haier AC unit still works just fine
Great documentary!
Inspiring story of haier💙💙
In the EU we've Simens, Electrolux, Miele, Bosch, AEG, Whirlpool and of course the two Korean giants LG & Samsung. We don't use American or Chinees brands over here.
for thousands of years China was leading in terms of quality in craftsmanship, architecture, technology, academics and literature, I would not be surprise if that inner genes catch up to the rest of the world again and I am pretty sure about it, when I was at a trip to China I just see little things and it screams to me that's the future and its mind-boggling.. and to think they just open up to the world after years of isolation...I sometimes see many jokes about this made in China phrase and it may be true for dodgy companies out for a quick buck but those that strive for quality will stand out and become the market leaders
Are you on drug or in self denial
@oneviwatara citations needed
I have been doing business with China for nearly a decade. They always made quality stuff, but maybe only one or two manufacturers in each industry niche in the early days.. just no one wanted to pay the well-worth extra cost for quality.
But unfortunately most general public only come in touch with 'made in China' when it fails them, often due to their own lack of education and poor decision making.
Ella Shy - you are regurgitating the CCP-sponsored myth of Chinese exceptionalism and superiority over all other races/culture. As Steven Mosher says in 'Bully of Asia', the CCP sponsors a Narcissistic Nationalism - a propaganda rather like that of Nazi Germany that Chinese are racially superior and destined to rule the world!. First of all, China is a relatively young civilisation with only 3,600 years of history - not the CCP myth of 5,000 years.
see: eastasiastudent.net/china/5000-years-history-myth/ www.wa-pedia.com/forum/threads/43752-5000-years-of-chinese-civilization-Really
In really ancient times, 3rd M b.c.e. China did not exist and most inventions were created in the Middle East, India and the Mediterranean where the civilisations are much older than China's.
China did not lead the world for thousands of years in the things that you claim! Famous Chinese inventor Lin Yutang wrote that India was China's teacher in so many things such as Maths and Grammar. In fact, most of what Westerners labelled modern Maths (Arithmetic - the Indian decimal place value system with zero) which Cambridge prof. John Barrow says is the greatest intellectual invention of all time, modern Algebra (which Colebrooke showed al-Khwarizmi copied from Indian bijaganita), Trigonometry and even Infinitesimal Calculus [the basis of modern physics which originated in Kerala centuries before Newton] is of India origin. As Charles Seife wrote, Descartes Analytic Geometry and Newton's calculus would have been impossible without Indian maths. One thousand years ago, the Arabs wrote that India led the world in Science and they called Maths Hindisat (Art of the Hindus). Chinese scholars, as with Middle easterners would come to study in India. Even in the 1790s after the Industrial Revolution started, English experts considered Indian wootz steel, the best in the world and the English copied its process.
As Hu Shih, who was a famous scholar and KMT ambassador to the USA, wrote that India conquered China for 2,000 years without sending a single soldier. The Chinese copied so much Indian culture voluntarily primarily through the adoption of Buddhism. Block printing of books entered China with Indian missionaries. Kung Fu was developed from Indian martial arts that an Indian monk taught to the Shaolin monks. Feng Shui was copied from Indian Vastu. The first Chinese Opera Po Tow was based on an Indian play. Hu Shih even wrote a book on the development of logical thought in China. The pictogram based Chinese language did not facilitate abstract thought and hence Chinese peddled pithy proverbs as 'philosophy'. It was the integration of over 35,000 Indian words into Chinese (including the word Mandarin - from Sanskrit mantrin) and Indian/Buddhist conceptual philosophy that allowed the Chinese to develop logical thought.
Indeed, most of 'Indo-China' became civilised through Indian (not Chinese) influences, and was known as 'Greater India'. Hence the Hindu-Buddhist cultures in Burma, Thailand, Indonesia [Brunei is from Hindu Varuna], Cambodia etc. - even the first Philippino written language was based on Sanskrit.
@@sutapasbhattacharya9471
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_and_technology_in_China
17:14 i fail to understand what he trying to explain, please help anyone?
I don't want a talking refrigerator. I want one that keeps food cold / frozen, and lasts for 25 years. If my refrigerator talked, it would say "Ooops... I've just leaked water all over your kitchen floor. I think it's because of design flaw that my manufacturer refuses to acknowledge. Of course, I'm out of warranty, so you'll have to pay the repair bill for something that's the fault of the company that built me."
So, Mr. Heier or Mr. GE, how about designing a simple box with two compartments that keeps food cold / frozen and will last 25 years without a major repair?
Buy a Miele. They are more expensive but they are the best on the market. (German made)
It is my honor work in Haier.
We use Hair, Chigo and Madie those Chinese brands when I was deployed in Afghanistan and Kuwait.
Innovation is great but it must remain affordable!
Unlike the UK foreign governments support their manufacturing industries & don't asset strip them
My Haier Tv working flawlessly from years,love dat
The quality of Haier products had come through the joint-venture with Liebherr. Without this event, we woould not be seeing this triumphalist video.
I love tech and the whole concept of IoT/IoE... the potential nefarious uses for 'mass surveillance' scares me shitless though...
Fascinating on many levels.
Really enjoy these documentaries. Hope you can add subtitles or at least allow CZcams's auto-generated subtitles. That would also allow non-English speakers to auto-translate and watch it subtitled in their own language.
i love China
comments are for anybody who would like to express opinion here. Others who agree or not agree with each comment is very personal. Useless to attack others here just because their comments are not what anyone cannot agree. Learn to respect others and understand comments before contact anybody would be a good start.
Inspiring innovative exciting,
later in the video there are very bad lip sync issues.
How ironic, today Nov 9 2018, GE stock is just $8.59 and project to drop to $6.00.
I purchased a Haier washing machine 3 years back and once out of warranty it just had a pcb to be replaced as said by their authorized service man. I purchased it for $139 and they charged $70 for repair. They don't have good products; and I guess they don't test them. In the long run if you buy from this company you end up paying more. I have the receipts in case any one want to see.
I bought a Haier fridge and washing machine 8 years ago and they still are fine. You're just unlucky