In Luoding Civil Explosives, there is such an equipment specialist. He doesn't have the title of expert or the prestige of a professor, but with a heart passionate about research and rich practical experience, he has blazed a trail of invention and innovation of his own. His name is LAN Shaowei, an equipment management expert with a background as an ordinary mechanic. With his outstanding professional skills and solid technical foundation, he has been safeguarding the safe production of enterprises and has been honored with titles such as the "Outstanding Craftsman Award" and "Model of Technological Innovation" by Hongda Civil Explosives.

LAN Shaowei joined the company in October 2007. Despite only having a secondary vocational school education, he actively pursued a junior college degree in mechatronics while working and taught himself programming on his own initiative. Through hard work, I independently completed the writing of many automation programs for the company and made significant contributions to its development. In the process of dealing with cold equipment day after day, he studied hard with enthusiasm, applied what he had learned, united his efforts, and strived forward. He forged extraordinary practical skills and exquisite innovative abilities, and quickly grew into a technical backbone of the company. Taking technological breakthroughs as his responsibility, he made countless minor improvements to the production process and equipment operation.

LAN Shaowei is not only an experienced technical backbone but also an expert in overcoming difficulties. In the company's recent technological transformation projects, as the core force of the technological transformation projects, he has performed outstandingly. At the end of 2019, the company carried out a technological transformation to expand the production line of 17,000 tons of emulsion explosives per year. To ensure sufficient time to release the annual production capacity after the technological transformation, the project technical team began a race against time at the very beginning of the project's approval. The following Spring Festival, due to the impact of the epidemic, the resumption of work was postponed. He led the technical team to work day and night, overcame numerous obstacles, and completed the disassembly, installation and commissioning of all equipment except the emulsifier in the pharmaceutical workshop, the drug filling workshop and the packaging workshop within the planned time, ensuring the timely completion of the technical transformation project and the smooth commissioning of the new production line.

In 2022, in order to enhance the safety of ammonium nitrate solution unloading, LAN Shaowei carried out improvement work on the ammonium nitrate solution unloading system. He independently designed and wrote the remote operation program for the unloading system, adding safety measures such as interlocking, high-pressure alarm, low-flow alarm, and automatic shutdown when the cooling water flow is low, achieving the automatic unloading of ammonium nitrate solution. This improvement work not only shortened the time for technological transformation but also saved the company more than 100,000 yuan in technological transformation funds. In order to achieve the automatic feeding of perlite and reduce the number of on-site operators in the 1.1-level workshop, in 2023, the company carried out a technological transformation of the automatic perlite conveying and feeding system. As a key member of the technical transformation team, LAN Shaowei led the team to carry out the installation, testing and optimization improvement of the perlite negative pressure conveying pipeline system. After trial production verification, the system is operating normally and the conveying efficiency can meet the production requirements. This technological transformation has enhanced production efficiency and provided a strong guarantee for the company's safe production and long-term development.

The key proposal he published this year, "Improvement of Automatic Film Bonding Devices", is to replace the photoelectric sensors of the automatic film bonding machines in the production workshop with color mark sensors, effectively breaking through the bottleneck of automatic film bonding technology in the drug filling process. This innovation significantly saves the consumption of raw materials. After improvement, it saves nearly 15,000 yuan annually.

With the steady progress of the company's "Blue and Green Plan", LAN Shaowei has also taken on the responsibility of a master this year, leading his two apprentices and selflessly imparting his skills and experience. With his exquisite skills and rigorous working attitude, he has set an example for his apprentices, interpreting the profound connotation of the craftsmanship spirit. Under his guidance, the apprentices not only continuously improved their skills but also were cultivated in terms of professional qualities. With the succession of the young and the inheritance of craftsmanship, LAN Shaowei is writing a new chapter in the development of the enterprise with its actions.

The story of LAN Shaowei shows us the extraordinary perseverance in an ordinary position. He proved with his actions that as long as one puts their heart into it, any position can achieve extraordinary results. LAN Shaowei's achievements are not accidental; they are the result of long-term persistence in learning and practice. He is a role model for us to learn from and also the motivation for our work. With craftsmanship to fulfill the original aspiration, as long as there is a dream in the heart, there is a path under the feet!