The food is still delicious from China.
After wandering outside for a month, Cao Yang finally returned to the company to work.
This business trip made him even more convinced that it was okay to travel abroad and settle abroad.
No matter how delicious the bread is, it is not as comfortable as the rice rolls and pork offal soup from Yangcheng.
"Mr. Cao, this is your schedule for today. There will be a ministerial meeting from nine to ten in the morning, and then the institute will report to you on the research and development progress of each project."
"Starting at one o'clock in the afternoon, the finance department made an appointment to report on the revenue of the first quarter. At two o'clock, Xingchen Automobile reported on the domestic sales of Ziweixing."
"At three o'clock, Nanshan Engine will report on the planning and production capacity of the new factory."
"The fourth point is to go to the Nanshan equipment site to visit the trial production of the laser cutting machine used in the hot stamping forming production line."
"Then at five o'clock, Nanshan Special Steel made an appointment to report on the second phase expansion project of the special steel plant."
"After this meeting, I have booked a private room by the Banjiang River. Mr. Fang will be waiting for you there for dinner."
Early in the morning, Cao Yang had just returned to the company. Mi Ying, who came to the company in advance, reported to him today's itinerary.
"The minister will postpone the opening for two days. I will first understand the overall situation of the group during this period."
Although he was overseas, Cao Yang received various briefings every day.
But after all, we are not in the country, so we just need to briefly understand many things.
Before holding a ministerial meeting, it is natural to first understand the situation clearly.
"That's okay. Can you handle the mail first?"
Naturally, Mi Ying would not give Cao Yang any advice on matters such as scheduling.
Basically, what Cao Yang says about this kind of thing is whatever it is.
"Call Cheng Tao over. I'll talk to him about the engine first."
In this overseas trip, the engine-related gains were the greatest.
1.0T, 1.5T and 2.0T can all export related parts in large quantities, and even some complete machines.
This is also unprecedented for the Chinese automobile industry.
On this point alone, no domestic company can compare with Nanshan Group.
Of course, now that there are such big changes, Nanshan Engine’s next plan needs to be carefully discussed.
"Mr. Cao, our W12 engine development has basically been completed."
"Now all that's left is the durability test of the actual vehicle."
"However, there are no problems in bench tests, and there should be no major problems with the durability of the actual vehicle."
Cheng Tao came to Cao Yang's office and first reported the good news.
Both Xingchen 2 and Xingchen 3 need to use W12 engines, and even Ziweixing, which is already in mass production, will launch a high-performance version using W12 engines.
In this case, Cheng Tao naturally took it very seriously.
"The production line planning of the W12 engine should be appropriately bold. The first phase of the project will be prepared directly with an annual output of 100,000 units."
"For the V8 engine being developed, the layout of the production plant must also be considered in advance."
"Otherwise, with continuous expansion like the 1.5T engine, there would be no way to achieve the highest production efficiency."
Cao Yang now feels that the previous planning for the engine factory still lacks some systematicity.
In a year or two, there may not be many engines of various types.
However, as various independent brands launch more and more new models equipped with Nanshan engines, related demand has increased.
"Mr. Cao, the 1.0T engine used to be used by relatively few customers before, but now General Motors has a purchase demand of 500,000 units in three years."
"Our current production capacity can still cope with it, and the corresponding expansion plan can be implemented next year."
"By the end of next year, we can basically form an annual production capacity of 300,000 units of 1.0T, 1 million units of 1.5T, and 200,000 units of 2.0T."
Cheng Tao could probably guess what Cao Yang was going to say when he came to him as soon as he got to work today.
Therefore, the latest plan for the engine factory, which was originally reported later, was revealed.
"However, when it comes to corresponding engine parts, the situation is a little more complicated."
"Especially for major related components such as turbochargers, generators, and starters, the demand is quite different."
"In addition to our own needs, other domestic manufacturers are also purchasing, and now there is a relatively large demand for exports."
"I need to discuss it with Mr. Dai from Nanshan Auto Parts later."
The complete engine is very important, but the engine parts business also has great potential.
There is an interdependent relationship between them.
"Turbochargers and high-pressure oil pumps are the key products on our current engines."
"As the influence of our engines expands, more OEMs will begin to use turbocharged engines and direct injection engines."
"As a result, the demand for turbochargers and high-pressure oil pumps will also increase greatly."
In order to provide more timely matching, the main engine parts factories are built near the engine assembly workshop.
And related management is also participated by both Nanshan Engine and Nanshan Auto Parts.
"Mr. Cao, our current engine technology has been cooperated with Great Wall Motors, General Motors and Ford Motors."
“Can we consider more flexible ways of cooperation in the future?”
"According to my understanding, neither Chery, BYD, nor Geely Automobile have actually given up on their own engine technology research."
"Although their technology will definitely not be able to compare with ours in a short period of time."
"But in the long run, it is still a potential competitor."
"So I'm thinking about whether we can adopt a similar cooperation plan with Ford Motor Company in the future."
"Lock down some orders for complete engines, and then fully focus on the parts business, striving to expand the parts business?"
As the general manager of Nanshan Engine, Cheng Tao is naturally very concerned about the future of the company.
Even though Nanshan Engine is looking bright now, other OEMs will definitely not let it go and outsource such important parts.
Therefore, while other manufacturers' own engine technologies are not good enough, we can first lock in orders for a few years, and then achieve further development by launching more advanced engine technologies and expanding the parts business.
"For customers with strong intentions, the strategy can be appropriately adjusted based on changes in their engine technology."
"But don't let go so quickly."
"If we can make the entire engine, there is no need to choose to make only a part of the parts."
"The situation of Ford Motor and General Motors is different from them. The other party's technical strength is very strong. As long as others plagiarize our engines, they will soon be able to produce products of similar level."
"But domestic manufacturers are not so easy to plagiarize successfully."
“The assembly and processing of many parts contain some of our own unique technologies.”
Although Cheng Tao's proposal was good, Cao Yang felt that there was no need to let go so quickly.
"Then let's arrange some technicians to study a new generation of engines first, and then wait until the project makes progress before we let go?"
Cheng Tao thought for a while and made further confirmation.
"When engine technology reaches our current level, there is very limited room for improvement."
"The next step is nothing more than making some process optimization and adjustments to see if we can slightly improve performance and further reduce costs."
“Especially for some parts purchased from outside, only one supplier used to produce them. Now with the increase in production, it is necessary to develop a second or even a third supplier, whether from the perspective of cost reduction or stable supply. home supplier.”
"For example, valves can be further optimized to become sodium-injected valves."
"There are also water pumps that can also develop in the direction of electronic water pumps in the future."
"The structure of the timing chain can be changed to become a silent chain."
"More energy should be given to the development of hybrid engines."
"Due to the existence of batteries, hybrid engines do not have so high performance requirements, but they are more concerned about the improvement of thermal efficiency."
“We can invest more energy in this aspect.”
"Nanshan gearbox, you can also communicate with Mr. Ji later and ask their gearbox to follow you."
The current technology of Nanshan Engine is already at the level of 2023 for future generations.
It will be enough for ten years.
No matter how much improvement is made, it will always be like that.
So it would be better to simply expand production capacity and make some money.
As for investing a lot of manpower and material resources to develop engines with better performance, the results are slim.
Considering that the electrification era will definitely come earlier than in previous generations, research on next-generation engine technology becomes even more unnecessary.
"I understand. After developing the current W12 and V8 engines, we will impact the W16 engine based on the V8, and then we will no longer simply develop pure fuel engines."
Cheng Tao quickly took this opportunity to pull out the W16 engine.
"That's not entirely the case. The diesel engine side can still continue to develop in the direction discussed before."
"Even larger-displacement diesel engines can be further developed in the future."
Cao Yang obviously did not give up diesel engines completely.
This area will have broad application prospects in various fields such as engineering equipment in the future.
"I understand. Then I will readjust the plan in this direction and give you a detailed report later."
This result was still acceptable to Cheng Tao.
In the next few years, Nanshan Engine will still have a lot of R&D business.
As for the longer-term future, we will decide based on market changes at that time.
After Cao Yang finished chatting with Cheng Tao, Rao Yongxiang came over soon.
As the vice president in charge of R&D of Nanshan Group and also the vice president in charge of R&D of Xingchen Automobile, Rao Yongxiang is considered a key figure in executing Cao Yang's instructions.
However, this time, when he came to talk to Cao Yang, he first mentioned the reform of the R&D system.
"Mr. Cao, each branch is developing very fast now, and there are many new projects launched."
"I think it is necessary to further decentralize R&D functions to each branch."
"The research institute at the headquarters maintains the role of coordinating the R&D functions of each branch. This way the efficiency may be higher."
Rao Yongxiang didn't mean to throw away his job.
After all, even if the research and development work is divided according to his proposal, he cannot ignore it.
After all, a lot of R&D business revolves around Xingchen Automobile.
As the head of R&D of Xingchen Motors, he must understand the R&D work in engines, gearboxes, molds, equipment, parts and other fields.
There are so many parts in a car, but if one part is missing, it will be impossible to assemble it.
“It’s not impossible to make such an adjustment in the general direction.”
"However, it is still necessary for the research institute at the headquarters to retain some basic research and development functions in mathematics, physics, chemistry and other fields."
"R&D personnel in these fields can provide some technical support to each branch."
Cao Yang thought for a moment and agreed to Rao Yongxiang's proposal.
Two years ago, there were not many people in Nanshan Research Institute. The advantages outweighed the disadvantages if they were concentrated at the headquarters to conduct research and development together.
But now the Nanshan Research Institute has more than 10,000 employees.
And it continues to expand every year, and it will be normal for the number to exceed 20,000 people in the future.
At this time, it is a bit inappropriate to continue to put them together.
Now the business of each module has been developed, and even the relatively weak Nanshan Robot is on the right track.
Then each branch will be responsible for its own research and development, which will be more efficient.
"Then there is Nanshan Auto Parts. I wonder if we can further divide the business units internally."
"For example, it is divided into electronics division, chassis division and powertrain division. Each division is responsible for its own business."
"Otherwise, customers will feel that our management is a bit chaotic as it is now."
Rao Yongxiang boldly proposed another plan.
Nanshan Group now produces a large number of other parts in addition to engines and gearboxes and their components.
Especially as more and more self-branded models are equipped with parts from Nanshan Group, related businesses are developing rapidly.
For example, air-conditioning compressors and air-conditioning systems now account for more than half of the self-owned brand models.
As for ESP parts, as long as the independent brands have configurations, they are almost always purchased from Nanshan.
Some other instruments and other parts are also developing rapidly.
Different parts have different procurement responses in the OEM.
There is also a division of labor in research and development.
At this time, it is obviously necessary to do some division of labor within Nanshan Auto Parts to adapt to the development of the situation.
Cao Yang quickly thought through these issues.
"No problem, just proceed in this direction."
"How is the development progress of our Xingchen 2 and Xingchen 3?"
(End of chapter)
