Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1780 Technology Generation Difference

In fact, in Duan Yun's plan, he must develop a medium-sized car. Using the technology absorbed by Volvo and Santana, he will develop a car that meets the needs of Chinese people, and form a domestic brand with his mini-car model. High and low collocation, so as to further occupy the market.

Consumer psychology must be taken into consideration when developing a car, and the main factors for individuals to buy a car include safety, price, fuel-efficient models, brand, and after-sales service. important consideration.

Almost no model produced by a multinational company can satisfy all these purchasing factors, and it is considered very good to be able to achieve 3 to 5 of them. This means that any model can only please a part of consumers. It is impossible to do everything.

Even the top luxury cars in the world, such as top luxury cars like Rolls-Royce Bentley, these models are top-notch in all aspects, but the high price is enough to discourage most people, even dare not even think about it , Car fuel consumption and after-sales maintenance are also unbearable for ordinary people, so there is no truly perfect car in the world.

If Duan Yun wants to develop a car, he can only focus on the price, fuel consumption and after-sales service, especially in terms of price. Even in later generations, this is the trump card of domestically produced cars.

As for after-sales service, it also needs to be laid out in advance.

For example, the best-selling Santana car in the Chinese market was first produced at the main factory in Anting, and there is only the only Santana car repair shop in the country.

At that time, there was no Shanghai Volkswagen 4S store in any part of the country. If the car broke down, it could only be repaired at the main factory, which was very inconvenient. This situation did not improve significantly until the mid-90s. , Auto repair shop is a very profitable business, difficult and expensive repairs have always been a problem in the domestic auto industry.

If Duan Yun wants to occupy a place in the domestic auto market, he must establish a nationwide after-sales service maintenance network. If the sales volume of automobiles is small, establishing maintenance stations across the country will be costly and the rate of return is very low. In addition to spending a lot of money, the training of technicians is also a lot of investment. All in all, to build a self-owned brand of cars, the problems that need to be solved go far beyond the technical aspect.

At the dinner that day, Duan Yun and Zhang Weiguo had an in-depth exchange on the development of self-owned brand cars, and Zhang Weiguo also put forward some opinions of his own.

After all, Zhang Weiguo used to be the deputy chief engineer of a state-owned automobile factory, and he is quite familiar with the after-sales maintenance of automobiles. He said that he would try to establish a training center in Shanghai within half a year, specializing in training various skilled workers and automobile manufacturers. Repair workers, and will cooperate with technical schools in Shenyang, Shanxi and other places, and the schools will be responsible for the training. Tianyin Group will sign a targeted recruitment contract with the school to allow a steady stream of technicians and maintenance talents to enter Tianyin Group.

After dinner, Duan Yun went back to the guest house and fell asleep straight away. He was somewhat exhausted after riding the train for nearly two days. He had to gather enough energy to prepare for the next trip.

In the early morning of the second day, Duan Yun came to the factory building and workshop of Longteng Shanghai Branch again to visit the current equipment installation and commissioning.

The factory was only capped in February this year, and now the equipment is basically in place, mainly high-precision machine tools and equipment moved from Shenzhen, and part of the production received from Volvo Group some time ago equipment.

After entering the workshop, a smile appeared on Duan Yun's face. The whole workshop is spacious and bright, and the cement-painted floor is very clean.

The automobile gearbox assembly line is a complex engineering system, involving processes, technologies, equipment, tooling, fixtures, inspection tools, measuring tools, personnel arrangements, machine operations, logistics trends, and production beats.The entire assembly line can be regarded as a main line and several auxiliary lines, which divide each assembly process.

Compared with the equipment that Duan Yun brought from Shenzhen, the Volvo gearbox production equipment that entered Shanghai this time is obviously much more advanced, and because the entire system was introduced, the layout of the factory in Shanghai basically borrowed from the original Volvo factory. production layout.

As far as the gearbox shell production line is concerned, there are currently two processing methods in the world, one is the automatic production line of combined machine tools, and the other is the production line of machining centers. The automatic production line of combined machine tools is multi-axis processing, with high production efficiency and high production capacity. It is relatively large, and the cost of parts processing is relatively low. The disadvantage is that the processed products are relatively single, which cannot meet the mixed production of multiple varieties.

The other machining center production line is single-axis processing, which has low production efficiency, but can meet mixed flow production, but the production capacity is much worse.

Duan Yun’s previous equipment in Shenzhen was only suitable for the establishment of the second type of machining center production line, while the imported Volvo transmission production line is an automatic production line for combined machine tools, which is considered to be the most advanced transmission production line in China. The entire production line uses The production line adopts a combination of linear layout and side-by-side layout, and uses raceways at the junction box line. The loading and unloading of workpieces is done manually, and the pipeline for conveying workpieces is arranged on the loading and unloading side of the equipment. Special workers are responsible for testing.

In fact, this kind of production line is the layout of the previous generation of the Volvo Group. Now Volvo has adopted more advanced smart trays to install parts, the power raceway moves according to the station, and the identification chips are installed on the parts. The relevant equipment will automatically scan the chips for processing. , Compared with the previous generation of production lines, the efficiency is much higher, but the technology is more complicated and the investment is huge.

But in any case, compared to the Daxing Red Star Gear Factory where Duan Yun worked first, the production line equipment here is simply a shotgun replacement. Compared with the way in the past where workers processed and produced parts individually and then assembled them in a unified way, the current production line is at least more efficient. Ten times or even dozens of times is definitely not the same.

In addition, even if Volvo's previous generation of production line equipment is used, compared with the current manual transmission production method in China, it is at least nearly 20 years ahead in technology, even for large state-owned automobile companies such as FAW and Erqi. , Tianyin Group's gearbox production line is obviously more advanced, which is also an important reason why Duan Yun did not hesitate to spend all the group's foreign exchange funds to introduce the Volvo car production line.

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