A: How do you control your cost?

　　B: We haven't done anything specially.

　　原材料 raw material

　　A: Does this plant handle everything from raw material to finished products?

　　B: Some accessories are made by our associates specializing in these fields.

　　Here's the production workshop.

　　零配件 spare parts

　　A: Do we need to store so many spare parts?

　　B: Yes,because many of them are easy-to-break parts.

　　我们生产… We produce...

　　A: Currently we produce several kinds of cooking pots

　　made of different materials.

　　B: Technically speaking,the one made of duralumin is both cheap and durable.

　　装配线 assembly line

　　A: I will show you around the work shop.

　　Put on the safety hat and watch your steps,please.

　　B: Okay.Is the assembly line fully automated?

　　月产量 monthly output

　　A: What's the monthly output?

　　B: One thousand units per month now.

　　But we will be making 1,200 units per month next year.

　　废品率

　　percentage of reject products

　　A: What's your usual percentage of reject products?

　　B: Around 2% in normal operations.

　　A: That's really great.

　　工厂的生产能力

　　capacity of the factory

　　A: What is the capacity of your factory?

　　B: 500 sets per week.

　　A: So you can complete this order on time?

　　B: Definitely.

　　提高生产效率

　　improve production efficiency

　　A: How do you improve your production efficiency?

　　B: We bought the latest equipment from Germanny this month.

　　A: Are those equipment easy to operate?

　　B: We have the engineers to direct the operation in our company.

　　促进创新

　　encourage innovations

　　A: As the manager of your department,

　　how do you think of innovations in our companay?

　　B: I think that's really important.

　　A: Yes,so do you have any way to encourage innovations?

　　B: We can draft the incentive policies for innovations.

　　加工效率 processing efficiency

　　A: How is our processing efficiency?

　　B: We can do better.

　　A: How?

　　B: We'd better introduce some advanced techniques from other counties to improve ours.