An automobile factory generally consists of several basic workshops: stamping workshop, welding workshop, painting workshop and assembly workshop.
The automotive stamping parts purchased from outside and the large stamping parts produced by the stamping shop will be welded into a body in white in the welding shop.
The so-called body in white is the skeleton of the car.
Just because the steel plate looks a bit silvery-white, it is called the body in white.
After these white bodies are sent to the paint shop through an automatic conveyor chain, they will be painted by cathodic electrophoresis.
This process is actually very important.
This is related to the anti-corrosion performance of the car.
At the same time, the appearance of various colors is also sprayed on here.
In a sense, all cars are blister cars.
Because these white bodies are in the paint shop, the entire body needs to be immersed in the electric pool.
After that, the painted body-in-white will be sent to the assembly shop to be installed with various parts.
For an automobile manufacturer, the assembly workshop also has the largest number of employees.
Even if a large amount of automated equipment is used, only part of the workforce can be reduced.
"Leader, our welding workshop is where the various parts are assembled into the body in white. The workshop is divided into two floors. The first floor is for the door cover, floor 1 line and assembly line. The second floor is mainly for the side panels, floor 2 line, general assembly and assembly line. Intersecting lines.”
"Compared with the welding workshops of other car companies, Xingchen Automobile's automation rate is very high."
On December 12, 2006, Xingchen Automobile's vehicle factory officially entered the mass production stage.
Cao Yang naturally held a large-scale ceremony for this important moment.
The media who had just been invited to participate in the test drive event after the auto show returned to Yangcheng again today to visit the Xingchen Motors factory.
There are many leaders here today, and the leaders from Lingnan Province are also present in person.
However, the leaders had a very tight schedule and left immediately after the event.
When it comes to the on-site visit, Cao Yang only needs to match Liu Tianwu.
"This has a high automation rate. How can it be a high-tech method?"
Liu Tianwu, wearing a safety helmet, followed Cao Yang with great interest, listening to the relevant introduction.
"The current design production cycle of the welding workshop is 60 seconds per unit. Calculated based on 246 working days a year and only one 8-hour shift per day, it can produce 120,000 body-in-white units annually."
"If necessary in the future, we only need to switch to two shifts and the production capacity can be increased to 240,000 units."
"Even under extreme circumstances, there is no problem in increasing the production capacity to more than 300,000."
"The number of robots in this welding workshop has reached 472, and the automation rate has reached 84%. This is the automobile welding workshop with the highest automation rate in the country and even the world."
After Cao Yang explained this, Liu Tianwu immediately had an idea.
The information previously reported by Xingchen Automobile stated that it would build a factory with an annual output of 100,000 units.
It now appears that their previous calculations were very conservative.
Production capacity can be expanded at any time as long as there is demand.
"The higher the automation rate, the greater the investment in the factory, and the production cost should be higher, right?"
Liu Tianwu also has some knowledge of the automobile industry.
So I took the initiative to ask.
"Yes, it seems that the cost will increase now."
"However, with a high degree of automation, the stability and consistency of product quality can be better guaranteed."
"At the same time, the requirements for quality management and control are also higher."
"Because once there is a welding quality problem, it must be in batches."
"Therefore, we need to strengthen the control of welding quality from the process source, automatic detection, predictive analysis, etc."
"This also forces Xingchen Motors to improve its management level and quality level."
Cao Yang doesn't mind the increased investment now.
As labor costs in China continue to rise, increasing the automation rate is a major trend.
Although Nanshan Group needs to increase the number of employees through various methods, it definitely cannot be achieved by reducing the automation rate.
"Are these robots produced by you yourself?"
Liu Tianwu knew that Cao Yang attached great importance to the development of robots.
Even because of the existence of Nanshan Robot, the district has attracted several other robot startups to set up shop, and slowly began to form a robot industry chain.
"Yes, all the robots used in the welding line are produced by Nanshan Robot. Each robot has a small instrument, which is a pressure gauge to monitor whether there is any abnormality in the robot."
"Relying on this highly automated robot, we have built a flexible total welding system."
"This body-in-white flexible assembly welding system independently developed by Nanshan Group and with independent intellectual property rights can support the production of 6 types of models and can be expanded to a maximum of 8 types."
“In addition to being able to produce Ziweixing and Yangwang, it also lays the foundation for the production of different models in the future.”
"This total welding system not only has a high level of flexibility, but also has high welding dimensional accuracy."
These things will be important technologies that will be vigorously promoted in the future to enhance the brand power of Xingchen Automobile.
Now let Liu Tianwu see it first. Many visits and inspections in the district can also be arranged by Xingchen Automobile.
For this reason, a special visiting channel has been set up in the factory.
"Why do those robots look a little different? They don't look like they are used to weld parts?"
Liu Tianwu pointed to a tall robot not far away and asked curiously.
"Leader, these robots are used to tighten bolts."
"A lot of bolts and nuts need to be installed on the car. For the first time, Xingchen Automobile adopts a fully automatic robot tightening process."
"This is a cutting-edge technology in factory construction in the automotive industry that can further improve the level of automation."
"The welding workshop has two automatic tightening stations, containing 12 robots. Each robot tightens two bolts on average, and the tightening time is about 40 seconds. If the running time of the car body between stations is added, the entire cycle time is 51 seconds."
"It selects different technical solutions for different working conditions and independently develops bolt feeding and nail removal technologies. The tightening steps include nail removal, initial tightening, pre-tightening, intermediate tightening and final tightening. The torque of each tightening is different. , where the final tightening torque is”
"In order to ensure the success of this technology, Xingchen Automobile conducted more than 1,000 nail removal tests to ensure that no failures occurred. At the same time, it overcame the difficulty of lack of technical standards and ensured the stable production process."
Several cameras behind Cao Yang were filming.
Of course, these are all taken by Nanshan Group’s own employees, and visitors from outside are not allowed to take photos at will.
Even cameras are not allowed.
If it weren't for the fact that mobile phones in this era generally don't have high pixels, the camera of the mobile phone would need to be processed to a certain extent before entering.
"During the launch ceremony, I heard you mention the term 'benchmark factory' many times."
"I didn't feel anything when I heard it."
"Now that I'm visiting and listening to your explanation, the feeling is different."
The more advanced Xingchen Automobile's factory is, the better it will be for Liu Tianwu.
To a certain extent, this can be regarded as a facade factory in the district.
"Leader, our factory can be called a benchmark factory in the automobile industry, and we can't just brag about it."
“In just one welding machine workshop, there are many places where other peers may not be able to catch up in ten years.”
“In addition to what you just saw, we also use a cold metal transfer welding process.”
"Compared with traditional welding processes, the temperature of cold metal over-welding droplets is relatively low, and the thermal deformation of parts is small. The welding process can reach a drawing speed of 70 times per minute, does not produce spatter, and is not affected by the surface condition of the workpiece. It can make The shape of the welds is more aesthetically pleasing.”
"At the same time, it uses high-density repair welding, which can be applied to different models without switching welding guns, and the welding capacity is increased by 3 times. There are currently 14 welding robots responsible for this process, which can be expanded to 16 in the future."
As Cao Yang continued to introduce, the smile on Liu Tianwu's face never stopped.
"What other advanced processes are there in this welding workshop? You can introduce them to me."
"Then I can show off to other leaders."
After Liu Tianwu said this, Cao Yang was naturally not polite and continued: "Our welding workshop also uses high-speed laser welding technology."
"After welding the roof and sides, the body is ready to enter the laser welding station."
“This station includes laser welding and repair welding of several solder joints.”
"The laser welding speed used can reach 110mm/s, which is the fastest laser welding among automobile factories in the world."
"Increasing the speed can better meet the demand for production capacity, so that the overall laser welding rhythm can be controlled within 60 seconds, so as not to hinder the welding workshop."
Xingchen Automobile is an industry that Cao Yang attaches most importance to.
Cao Yang also personally participated in the construction of this benchmark factory.
So at this time, each parameter is also clear.
You can tell it directly without looking at the information at all.
"Are there any benefits to laser welding?"
Liu Tianwu followed Cao Yang's words to save face and asked.
"That's a lot. The advantages of laser welding include high power density, excellent directionality and high welding speed, and the weld surface is smooth."
"It can replace the welding joints connecting the roof and side panels, and there is no need to install sealing strips on the roof. At the same time, the heat input can be accurately adjusted and controlled, the galvanized layer will be less burned, and the deformation of the welded parts will be reduced."
"This is also very important for the positioning of Xingchen Automobile's high-end luxury models."
"Otherwise, how would consumers feel the luxury of Xingchen cars."
After Cao Yang introduced the laser welding process, he continued to lead Liu Tianwu forward.
"After laser welding, there are automatic robot grinding and manual grinding stations. Workers mainly check the grinding quality of the robot. If they find that the grinding is not good, they will simply sort it out."
"Compared with other companies' workstations, this also adds the technology of automatic robot polishing, which is a very big breakthrough."
"So far, no factory in China has used robots for polishing, not even Mercedes-Benz and BMW."
Speaking of this, Cao Yang couldn't help but show a proud expression on his face.
To put it bluntly, this factory will be world-leading ten years from now.
At that time, it can be used as a selling point and promoted continuously.
Even when various colleges and universities compile textbooks related to automobile majors, they can include some things.
As for accepting people majoring in automotive engineering from various universities to visit and study, it is a good opportunity to subtly improve everyone's understanding of Xingchen Automobile's technical level and advanced level.
"The construction of the welding workshop brings together high-quality resources from various branches of Nanshan Group. The production line has many highlights, a high degree of flexible automatic production, smooth logistics, advanced technology, first-class technology, and strict quality control. It is not only a model for the domestic automobile manufacturing industry to learn from It is a role model and a classic case for various universities to study the development trend of intelligent manufacturing of automobile body welding."
"Mr. Cao, I think Xingchen Automobile can use your welding workshop as a model of advanced technology and apply for some major awards with the country."
"There is no problem in even using this project to participate in the National Science and Technology Progress Award."
After visiting the entire welding workshop, Liu Tianwu also gave a very high evaluation.
Yangcheng is not only Xingchen Automobile, he has also visited the welding workshops of Yangcheng Honda, Yangcheng Toyota and Xifeng Nissan.
Without bragging, Xingchen Automobile’s advantages are crushing.
Even if people from Toyota and Honda were called over, they would have no way to refute.
"Leader, thank you for the reminder, I will arrange someone to do it right away."
Although Xingchen Automobile is already doing the matter of applying for awards.
However, Liu Tianwu reminded him so kindly, so naturally he couldn't say, "Leader, we are already doing this."
That would make Liu Tianwu's level nothing surprising.
"The first welding workshop brought us such a big surprise, and I am full of expectations for the next painting workshop."
Xingchen Automobile did not build a stamping workshop, and their stamping parts were produced with the help of the nearby Yangcheng Huaqiang Factory.
This is quite special.
Fortunately, stamping technology is not a particularly core technology in the first place, and no one will use this to criticize Xingchen Automobile.
Liu Tianwu was very interested, so Cao Yang naturally took him to visit every workshop.
Behind the two of them, there were hundreds of people following.
Especially the automotive media, they have visited many domestic automotive factories and have an intuitive understanding of the advanced nature of Xingchen Automobile.
"Editor Fang, Xingchen Automobile has really spent a lot of money to build the factory so well."
"When Mr. Cao spoke just now, I thought he was bragging."
"Unexpectedly, after visiting the site, I discovered that not only did Mr. Cao not brag, he was actually humble."
Lin Jiayan and Fang Dawen naturally came to participate in the on-site visit today.
For every automotive media, introducing the production lines of various OEMs is basically a must-have article.
Although this type of article is highly professional, it is not of great interest to general readers.
However, there are also some readers who have a certain understanding of cars, and they like to read this kind of articles with a certain technical content.
"Nanshan Group owns Nanshan Robot, which is the most advanced in domestic robot technology, so it dares to use automated processes everywhere."
“In addition, Nanshan Group’s technology in CNC systems is also world-leading.”
"This technology should also be used in the automation control of factories."
"In addition, Nanshan Equipment, a subsidiary of Nanshan Group, can produce a variety of machine tools and equipment. I even heard that laser welding and laser cutting equipment can also be produced."
"Under such circumstances, it is understandable that Xingchen Automobile's welding workshop can be built to such a high standard."
"If we let other OEMs build the same factory, regardless of whether it can be built, the money required will probably be several percent more than that of Xingchen Automobile."
Although Fang Dawen was deeply shocked in his heart, he still pretended that it was nothing.
"That's true. This benchmark factory is not so much the benchmark factory of Xingchen Motors as it is the benchmark factory of Nanshan Group."
"I feel that after this factory is built, when other automobile companies build new factories in the future, some businesses will actively seek cooperation with Nanshan Robotics or Nanshan Equipment."
"Their benchmark factory really serves as a benchmark."
Lin Jiayan couldn't hide her admiration in her words.
Professionals like them still have a deep understanding of who has the best technology.
"Boss, this is our paint shop."
Cao Yang didn't care what everyone in the team behind was talking about, he just took Liu Tianwu to the front of the team to visit the factory.
As for other personnel, they can choose headsets to accept Cao Yang’s explanation, or they can listen to explanations from other staff nearby.
"The coating workshop has seven major processes: pretreatment, electrophoresis, PVC, sanding, topcoat, submission, and wax injection."
"There are 159 various types of operating robots on the production line, with an automation rate of 73%."
“The coating line not only uses robots for painting, sealing, protective coating, polishing, wax injection and other processes, but also uses robots to spray water-based sprayable damping pad materials in the sealing line. This coating workshop is also the one with the highest automation rate in the country. Assembly workshop.”
The standards of the welding shop are set so high that the painting shop will naturally not lag behind.
"What advanced technologies are there in this paint shop? Please summarize them carefully so that they can be used in our district later."
Liu Tianwu followed Cao Yang and continued to visit with interest.
"That's necessary. I'll ask Mi Ying to send the introduction materials to Secretary Luo later." Cao Yang responded with a smile, and then continued the introduction.
“Our paint shop uses full rotary dip conveyor technology, which is the first special technology.”
"This pretreatment electrophoresis line uses full-rotation reverse dipping conveying equipment to flip the car body 360 degrees to make the electrophoresis film thickness of the car body more uniform and increase the thickness of the electrophoresis film in the inner cavity of the car body, which helps to provide anti-corrosion properties."
"Next, let's look at our second special technology."
"In order to support the spray production of different car models and car bodies of different colors in the workshop, our group has developed and applied a rapid color change and paint delivery system. It is also the first time that this technology has been used in China. The rapid paint change system has improved the efficiency of paint supply and color change."
"As for the third special technology, it is the robotic wax injection process."
"It uses an automatic door panel wax spraying robot to replace manual door panel wax spraying. Not only does the automation rate increase, but the quality is also more stable and the anti-corrosion performance is better."
"The fourth special technology was mentioned just now, which is the robot spraying liquid damping material."
"Our paint shop uses sprayable body damping materials to replace the traditional manual-adhesive asphalt damping pad materials, which can reduce weight by about 40% under the same thickness."
"Moreover, the use of robot spraying to replace manual work not only improves work efficiency and spray quality, but also reduces VOC emissions, improves the working environment, and reduces workers' working intensity."
"During the entire painting process, our intelligent control system for the body painting process will monitor the entire process."
"Thereby improving product quality and reducing energy loss and material consumption during the production process."
Compared with the welding workshop, the route that can be visited in the coating workshop is much shorter.
After all, many internal processing areas are not suitable for viewing.
Of course, when the time comes, Xingchen Automobile can provide relevant materials, so the media will not have to worry about not knowing how to write articles.
"You have used so many advanced technologies. If everyone comes to visit, wouldn't others be able to imitate yourselves?"
Liu Tianwu asked a rather critical question.
It is not uncommon for companies in China to copy things back and forth.
As a star company in the district, Liu Tianwu did not want to see Xingchen Auto suffer losses.
"Leader, some techniques can't be learned just by visiting."
"If that were the case, so many independent brand car companies in China would not be what they are now."
Cao Yang really isn't worried about others following suit and learning Xingchen Automobile's factory technology.
For example, in a welding workshop, if you want to learn how to do it, you need to buy a lot of robots.
Among domestic high-precision welding robots, Nanshan Robot is the best.
In addition, the benchmark factory of Xingchen Automobile is located over there. If those manufacturers do not buy products from Nanshan Robot, they will have to spend more money to find manufacturers such as KUKA or ABB.
"As long as you have this confidence."
"Is it time to go to the assembly shop next?"
"There shouldn't be anything special about this workshop, right?"
Liu Tianwu and Cao Yang chatted while walking, and soon arrived at the entrance of the assembly workshop.
"Leader, you are wrong."
"It seems that the assembly shop just installs various parts without any technical content."
"In this workshop of ours, we have realized the first 'fully unmanned distribution' workshop in China."
"Whether it is the engine or gearbox, or the seat or subframe, everything is transported by AGV automatic navigation vehicle."
"Our final assembly workshop has 188 AGV navigation vehicles of various types."
"They follow the programmed trajectory along the 33 gray magnetic strips on the ground."
"The car is equipped with Ziweixing and various types of accessories used on it."
"As the first full-line AGV automatic logistics system in China, it adopts RFID automatic identification technology to automatically identify the location of material distribution, truly achieving intelligent logistics."
"These are another achievements of Nanshan Robotics, which are very promising in the future."
"Don't look at these AGV cars as ordinary, they are actually very 'polite'!"
"You can try it later. Standing in front of the AGV cars, they can automatically recognize pedestrians in front of them and slow down or avoid them. They are very 'smart'."
Liu Tianwu was really surprised when Cao Yang said this.
Did a final assembly workshop really make Xingchen Motors famous?
The key is that after entering the assembly site, looking around, you can indeed see many small cars moving parts.
Obviously, Cao Yang was not bragging.
"Is there anything special about this AGV car?"
If you don’t understand, just ask.
In front of Cao Yang, Liu Tianwu never dared to pretend to understand things.
"AGV is actually not a new thing. The earliest application can be traced back to 1953."
"At that time, an American auto parts manufacturer introduced an automated AGV for transporting heavy parts. This was the world's first AGV."
“It was adapted from a simple AGC Products tractor-trailer with a carriage, and was used to transport goods along wires arranged in the sky in a grocery warehouse.”
"Subsequently, AGV-related research in Europe and the United States began."
"The application scope of AGV has gradually expanded and officially entered the production and manufacturing field."
“In the 1960s, AGVs began to be used in the automotive industry to transport and assemble automotive components.”
"In the 1970s and 1980s, AGVs began to be widely used in industrial fields such as chemical, electronics and pharmaceuticals."
"Our first AGV in China was born in 1976, but its real application was in 1991. The AGV product built by Xinsong for Jinbei Company was officially put into operation in this year."
"However, AGVs have not been put into large-scale use in various factories in China in recent years because there are still various technical problems that need to be solved."
"In terms of cost, it doesn't seem to be as cost-effective as using people directly."
"We at Nanshan Robot started the AGV project the year before last and invested a large number of R&D personnel to innovate."
"In terms of technology, our Nanshan Robot has mastered the basic core technology."
"Including key technologies such as autonomous navigation, obstacle recognition and avoidance, and path planning."
"In the future, we are prepared to further promote the development of AGV technology, such as considering the development of lidar, visual recognition, artificial intelligence and other related technologies, and then combining these technologies with AGV."
Cao Yang was introducing Liu Tianwu and the media behind them who were wearing headsets.
After all, although this group of media has visited many OEMs, they have never seen something as special as Xingchen Motors.
If you don't educate them on some technologies well, people may not be able to feel how powerful you are.
"Xingchen Motors is adhering to the development direction of your Nanshan Group and taking the route of relying on technology to gain consumers."
Liu Tianwu heard Cao Yang say countless times that Nanshan Group relied on technology to win orders.
Now on Xingchen Automobile, it is said that it is taking the road of relying on technology to gain consumers.
There is obviously nothing wrong with it.
"My leader, your summary is very accurate. If we, Xingchen Motors, want to gain a foothold in the luxury car market, we can only rely on technology to gain consumers."
"Otherwise, why would consumers give up Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Porsche and choose Xingchen Car?"
Cao Yang's words unintentionally stepped on several opponents.
It gives people the feeling that Xingchen Automobile seems to be more powerful than Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Porsche.
"This assembly shop is quite large, let's take a look around."
Liu Tianwu looked up at the vehicles, which were driven by chains and came to each work station.
Then workers will remove the parts from the AGV and assemble them into the corresponding parts.
"From parts to complete vehicles, the AGV automatic logistics system accurately distributes the materials required for each link of automobile assembly, saving a lot of manpower."
"Like here, there is only one interior line, which mainly assembles the vehicle wiring harness, ceiling, carpet, dashboard, sunroof, front and rear windshields, etc..."
"This is the wheel assembly station."
"Two robotic arms accurately install the wheels on the car body, and the tires are fully automated from entering the factory to transporting, grabbing, and tightening."
"Manual tightening of screws sometimes causes misalignment and errors, but the machine will tighten them correctly in one go, and can smoothly switch between assembling Ziweixing and looking up at tires of different diameters. This technology is the first of its kind in China."
"This is the windshield installation process. Xingchen Automobile has realized the entire process of automated installation."
"Generally speaking, domestic car companies mostly use a single robotic arm to install windshields."
"But Xingchen Automobile's assembly shop uses two robotic arms to operate."
"One is responsible for grabbing, gluing, docking, etc., and the other is installing the visual guidance system."
"The two robotic arms working together will greatly improve the accuracy of windshield installation."
"In order for a car to run normally, the pipeline systems such as brake fluid, antifreeze, air conditioning refrigerant, windshield cleaning fluid, and gasoline need to be well sealed. Our assembly workshop has introduced the latest automatic filling equipment developed by Nanshan Equipment, which will These pipeline systems are first charged with positive pressure for leak detection to ensure that the system has excellent sealing characteristics..."
"This is the engine..."
"This is the exhaust pipe installation..."
"In terms of vehicle testing, internationally advanced technologies such as laser three-dimensional wheel alignment, dynamic high-speed hub rotation experiment, vehicle electrical testing, and high-voltage vehicle rain testing ensure the excellent quality of every car produced here."
Following the tour route, Cao Yang, Liu Tianwu and others stayed in the assembly workshop for almost half an hour before the introduction was completed.
Since the assembly workshop can best visually see the production process of the car, the assembly workshop of each car company is the workshop that receives the most visits among all workshops.
Xingchen Auto will certainly not be an exception in the future.
Therefore, this need was fully taken into consideration when designing from the beginning.
"Xingchen Automobile's factory can be built in more than a year and become a benchmark factory in the country and even the world."
"It contains a large amount of advanced technology from Nanshan Group. Other companies in the district should take Nanshan Group as a model."
Liu Tianwu followed Cao Yang out of the assembly workshop with emotion.
If this factory hadn't appeared so real in front of everyone, he would never have been able to imagine that it was a factory of a Chinese car company.
Even if you go to Germany, the United States, or Japan to visit the headquarters of car companies, you can't be more advanced than this factory.
Xingchen Motors, a benchmark factory, has once again set a bunch of records.
There are many people who have similar experiences to Liu Tianwu.
Especially the media who followed the tour were very excited.
They have visited too many car companies, and they are very clear about the gap between the production lines of independent brand car companies and joint venture car companies.
Faced with this gap, they feel quite aggrieved.
But now the benchmark factory of Xingchen Automobile has emerged, sweeping away all opponents.
They can also feel that sense of pride.
A feeling of pride slowly emerged.
That night, various car channels launched reports related to Xingchen Auto.
Although they were not allowed to shoot directly in the workshop, Xingchen Automobile also provided a lot of material for everyone.
As long as you do a little processing, you can still write a lot of colorful articles.
The topic of Xingchen Automobile's benchmark factory was also a hot topic that night.
"Weidekin, I just shared a video link with you. I suggest you take a good look at it when you have time."
In distant Germany, Lai Ping called Porsche CEO Weidekin.
As a Chinese, he pays more attention to the Chinese automobile industry.
Xingchen Automobile's benchmark factory was on the hot search, and he naturally found a lot of related reports to read.
You don’t know this by looking at it, but you’ll be shocked when you see it.
China actually has such an advanced automobile factory?
Even the factory at Porsche headquarters is far behind others in terms of automation rate and use of new technologies, right?
In particular, Lai Ping was deeply impressed by the AGV systems in the welding shop and assembly shop.
This is simply not what a Chinese company should have.
"how?"
"Did you see any good cars?"
Weidejin obviously didn't know what was in the video Lai Ping recommended to him.
However, Lai Ping did not argue with him this time, but continued: "It has something to do with a good car. But I suggest you take a good look at it first."
And when Lai Ping and Wei Dejin recommended relevant videos and reports about Xingchen Automobile's benchmark factory, the response from various domestic car companies became even greater.
"Mr. Wang, this Xingchen Automobile has really invested a lot of money."
"Such a factory that claims to have an annual output of 100,000 vehicles has actually introduced so much automated equipment, and the entire factory has less than 2,000 people."
"If we want to expand production capacity in the future, it will be a matter of minutes."
In BYD's canteen, after Wu Huabian put the plate on the table, he couldn't help but chat with Wang Fu about the Xingchen Automobile benchmark factory.
"Many of Xingchen Automobile's factory equipment are produced by Nanshan Group's own companies."
"So I am willing to spend a lot of money to use it, to a certain extent, for the purpose of publicity."
"I think it is a waste to build such an advanced factory at this stage."
"Not to mention other things, just because the factory is too advanced, each car of Xingchen Motors will cost at least several thousand yuan or more in amortization costs for factory equipment than that of ordinary car companies."
"That is to say, Xingchen Automobile makes high-end luxury models, otherwise I don't know how I will die by then."
Zhong Qiang, the Minister of Purchasing Department, was also sitting nearby and eating together, obviously not supporting this kind of large investment.
BYD is now planning a new factory, and related equipment procurement will soon start.
Zhong Qiang naturally didn't want to do so much work for the purchasing department.
Otherwise, many equipment requirements will be very high by then, problems will easily occur, and the purchasing department will be under great pressure.
"Although Xingchen Motors' benchmark factory may not be suitable for all car companies, I have to say that the technological content of its factory is still very high."
Liang Chuanqing, who is in charge of research and development, is obviously more concerned about the technological innovation of the factory.
Although the content of this section is basically not his responsibility.
But if it has anything to do with it, it also has something to do with him as the person in charge of R&D.
After all, when designing a car, you must also consider how to produce it.
"Zhong Qiang, please communicate with Zeng Tingting from Nanshan Group later and see if you can arrange for us to visit the Xingchen Automobile factory."
"No matter what our new factory will look like in the future, we must at least know what a benchmark factory looks like."
Wang Fu didn't say much and asked Zhong Qiang to make an appointment for an on-site visit.
This is obviously more convincing than anything else.
If you don't like other people's production lines, why go and visit them?
The same thing happened at Yangcheng Automobile Group.
"Mr. Zeng, our factory has just started construction, and basically the equipment has not yet arrived."
"Communicate with the relevant project personnel to see if it is possible to benchmark the factory of Xingchen Automobile and improve the automation rate as much as possible."
Zhang Jiaqi naturally saw the relevant reports about Xingchen Automobile's benchmark factory, and was deeply moved.
Yangcheng Automobile Group is the leader in the automobile industry in Lingnan Province.
But the current position of the leader does not seem to be stable at all.
"Mr. Zhang, it can definitely be changed, but the related investments will definitely undergo very big changes."
"And after readjusting the plan, the schedule for the factory to start production will also be affected."
"I think we should continue to advance according to the plan first, and then when building the second phase of the project in the future, we can refer to Xingchen Automobile's standards to get closer."
Zeng Guangda is the person in charge of Yangcheng Automobile’s independent brand project.
Seeing that the new models will roll off the production line next year, we still need to adjust the factory planning.
He definitely didn't want to see such a situation arise.
When the schedule is affected, he will definitely take the blame.
“I don’t know when the second phase of the project will be officially launched.”
"As long as one of our two new models is successful, we can consider starting the second phase of the project."
"I don't think it will be long."
Yangcheng Automobile Group is currently developing an SUV and a sedan, and is also considering another SUV.
As long as one model is successful, the load on the factory will increase to the point where it is necessary to consider expanding production.
After all, they are also built with an annual output of 100,000 units.
As for the current domestic car sales, among the top 10 best-selling cars, no one has a monthly sales volume of less than 10,000 units.
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