Perfection of Rebirth

Chapter 772 Plant Construction Progress
The four seasons in Lingnan are like spring (it seems correct to say that the four seasons are like summer), but it is not a nonsense.

It was already January 2008, 1, but the construction site of Brilliant Automobile was still in full swing. If it were placed in the northeast, it would have been covered by heavy snow long ago, and construction would have to wait until next year.

Since the acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover by Brilliant Automobile was basically promoted with Brilliant Investment as the main body of the negotiation, Pi Wei was able to return to Wuyang to continue to follow up on the construction of the factory.

"Mr. Jiang, let's take a look at the floor plan of the factory first, and then we will visit the engine factory and the R&D building," Pi Wei said, pointing to the model in front of him.

After a year of tossing around, Jaguar Land Rover was finally taken down, and the rest was nothing more than procedures and some handover work, none of which required Jiang Hui to deal with in person, so Jiang Hui came to Wuyang at this time to see How is the construction of the factory and R&D center of Guanghui Auto's own brand?

According to Jiang Hui's plan, the first SUV model will be launched at the beginning of next year at the latest, so as to catch up with the blowout of the Chinese auto market!

Throughout 2009 and 2010, it can be said that the life of the auto industry was the happiest. As long as it is a car, it seems to sell well, especially SUV models, there is no bad sale.

Jiang Hui really didn't want to miss this wave of benefits!
"Okay, let's listen to your arrangement today," Jiang Hui said.

The entire Brilliant Automobile Industrial Park covers an area of ​​more than 5000 mu. If some future supporting parts companies are included, the area will be even larger.

Fortunately, Wuyang already has many automakers such as Honda, Toyota, and Nissan. After so many years, it has formed a relatively mature supply system. Basically, most parts can find suitable suppliers nearby.

This saves Brilliant Auto a lot of trouble.

After more than 100 years of development, the automobile industry has formed a very clear division of labor.The main engine factory is responsible for designing models and producing some core parts, and then most of the other parts are purchased from professional parts companies and assembled in the factory.

Parts giants such as Bosch, Denso, and Magna are actually no worse than vehicle companies in strength. If you look at their annual turnover, they are higher than some small OEMs.

Even the profit margin of others is higher than that of the whole car, and the salary of employees is higher than that of the whole car company. Without these parts companies, no OEM can completely produce a car.

However, the relationship between OEMs and component suppliers is also very complicated, and the relationship between different OEMs and suppliers is also different.

Generally speaking, the relationship between European and American OEMs and suppliers is more of a one-time cooperative relationship. This one-time cooperative relationship does not mean that you have cooperated with this model and will not cooperate in the future.

Rather, OEMs will choose one or two suppliers to cooperate with in the same category, and then choose the best manufacturer based on cost competitiveness for the next model, without too much consideration for past cooperation and friendship.

But relatively speaking, the Japanese and Korean departments are not like this.

Generally speaking, it is easier to enter the European and American supply system, but it may only be a one-day trip if you enter, and you may be eliminated by competitors if you make a model.

For the Japanese and Korean department, it is relatively difficult to enter their supply system, but once you enter, most people will not kick you out, but will continue to give you some orders. Of course, the premise is that you have cost competition It takes strength.

It's just that the European and American departments cooperate more with suppliers based on the principles of the market economy, while the Japanese and Korean departments also consider various factors such as cooperation, friendship, and common development on this basis.

In fact, this is also related to the characteristics of their respective suppliers.

The suppliers of European and American OEMs are basically mainly European and American. These suppliers generally have no shareholding relationship with the OEMs, and they generally do not have labels such as I am a general-purpose system, and he is a mass-produced system.

However, Japan and South Korea are different. The main parts companies are basically related to the shares of the OEMs. Generally, the OEMs will hold a certain percentage of the shares of the suppliers. Relatively speaking, each supplier often People will also be labeled that this is a Toyota manufacturer and that is a Nissan manufacturer.

Which is better and who is worse, it's really hard to say.

"Mr. Jiang, located in the lower left corner of our park is our engine factory. This is the first one we have completed. At present, the equipment installation has basically been completed, and some production lines have already started debugging. It is expected that there will be the first prototype when we come back next year. Offline", Pi Wei began to introduce the situation of Guanghui Automobile's factory.

Since the land acquired at one time is large enough, Brilliant Automobile has built the engine factory, R&D factory, and automobile stamping, welding, painting, and final assembly workshops in one place, which also improves everyone's work efficiency.

For example, designers sometimes need to hold meetings with workshop, purchasing, sales and other personnel to integrate some information, and they need to go to the site frequently when trying to build a car.

If the offices of the R&D center, production plant, and management department are not in the same area, the cost of wasted time is actually very high!
"According to our plan, we will first build and put into production a production line of 30 engines, and by next year we will have a capacity of 50. At present, the recruitment of personnel is already in full swing. For this reason, we have specially built a production line next to the engine factory. An [-]% cultural and sports center, the first and second floors are sports venues, which can be converted into a lobby when necessary, and the third floor and above are various training rooms," Pi Wei continued to introduce.

"After the engine comes off the assembly line, will it be moved directly to the assembly workshop with the transmission chain, or will it need to be transported by a trolley?" Jiang Hui asked.

"Our engine factory is next to the vehicle inspection department, and next to it is the assembly workshop. We have already arranged the transmission channel in advance. After the engine comes off the assembly line, it can be directly delivered to the assembly. Engine factory, vehicle inspection department, assembly workshop, Painting workshop, welding workshop, stamping workshop, these workshops can basically be strung together in a line according to the front and back of the process to ensure that our production layout is in the most reasonable state," Pi Wei continued while pointing to the model.

"Well, this layout must be well planned. It is unrealistic to change the equipment after it enters the site." Still relatively clear.

The automobile industry is a capital- and technology-intensive enterprise. If you rush into it without a full understanding, it is easy to be hit and bloody, and the tuition fee will be very expensive!
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