Offer gray matter

Not only plying the lab and books, in Ho Chi Minh City, some scientists did not hesitate to phase out ' gray matter ' .

'Osin Institute of Science'

' Institute of Microbiology ' is a funny way of Dr. Nguyen Bach Phuc introducing the Institute of Electrical - Electronic - Private Informatics created by him and some scientists. ' Calling the scientist to do science because if anyone needs to hire gray matter, we will respond ' - Dr Phuc said with a smile.

At the beginning of his ' gray matter ' job, Dr. Phuc wrote an open letter introducing the hospital to companies, even to the production place of the business to learn facts and advice, from small stories. such as improving a device to projects with energy saving scale. In the last days of the year, scientists of the Institute of Electrical - Electronics - Informatics still hung down on the ' battlefield ' of the locomotive and railroad cars of Di An and Binh Duong. Here they do the work of renovating the ancient control motor system that belonged to the French colonial period. It is the motor that controls the lifting of the crane and the rudder but due to . old age, is seriously ill.

Months ago, Di An Railway Company invited foreign experts to review and the answer was to replace the entire crane system with a price of VND 1.6 billion. After visiting the system, Dr. Nguyen Bach Phuc asked for correction with the technical design price of just over VND 200 million. The contract is signed and accompanied by a commitment: if the improvement is not completed, it must compensate! 'When legally binding, it is not just about making it available for reporting' - Dr. Phuc said.

Dr. Nguyen Bach Phuc on a one-way motor from the French colonial period.
He will replace it with an AC motor with low cost (Photo: Thu Thao)

So is an evaluation plan, survey, technology improvement is put in place urgently. ' The factory only stopped working for a week, during which time we had to replace three DC motors with three AC motors. At the same time, installing the inverter with the programmable panel to control the speed, or overload, can win and replace the control with just a lever '.

There are real products, there will be output!

Dr. Vu Van Tieu, former director of Viet Nga Tropical Center (Southern branch), after years of struggling with the reality to find markets for his research products, contemplation: products, topics Research that wants to go to life must find the output. However, in order to bring the product to reality, Dr. Tieu and his colleagues have also been struggling. For many years, he spends time and effort to research and perfect the technology of manufacturing sterile cabinets (ensuring sterility) and sterile fume cupboards (sucking dangerous bacteria).

Although his topic was highly appreciated by the councils, there was no unit to buy. In 1998, hearing that a medicine manufacturing unit in An Giang used this type of cabinet but was having trouble, Dr. Tieu actively asked to meet the board of directors and suggested using the research cabinet with the promise: if If it is not good, it will be returned without charge. In the urgent phase of production, this unit director agrees.

After only one week of using the device, the company called and asked to supply seven cabinets at once. This time, they said very earnestly: the company prepares to certify GMP (good production practice), if they cannot keep up the cabinet level in the next ten days, they will face many difficulties. Pressing the stomach to accept the words but TS Tiễu still worries about snoring: ' We work hard, many nights have to stay awake to keep up with the progress '. After that, the company passed GMP inspection and became its customer.

Dr. Pham Hung Van, advisor of Nam Khoa Company, also started from researching and making homemade small utensils in the laboratory to serve as teaching antibiotic paper plates to make antibiotics, microbiological set of jelly boxes, microbiological test kit to quickly find pathogenic microorganisms . Seeing convenience, many colleagues in institute and university laboratories asked and ordered.

Dr Hung Van said scientists working at the company must always keep abreast of life needs for research. ' Starting from life only, scientific products can be applied and really live ' - he said.

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