Shanghai Lingang plant: Innovation + creativity quest
Referring to Shanghai Automotive, a lot of people have a strange feeling, but when it comes to Shanghai Automotive's two sisters, Shanghai Volkswagen and Shanghai GM, am sure we are all familiar with. Shanghai, Shanghai Volkswagen, Shanghai GM is the largest automotive group in China--Shanghai Automotive Group.
At SAIC, Shanghai Automotive should be kind of a Dick, now has two MG mg and roewe brand. Two sisters married into the family, but did not forget to take care of your penis, SAIC is also full pampering to him, that hopes one day he two sister to become the breadwinner of the family.
In order to enable MG and roewe rapid growth, Shanghai Automotive invested 4 billion to establish research and development centers, covers an area of 500,000 square meters, covering a vehicle development needs of all devices. Technology Center scheduled for completion by end-2013 capital as a whole. In the "Twelve-Five" technology centre in all of the equipment during use. By then, the Center for automotive technology in Shanghai, including style, room, will become the largest vehicle development center in Asia. Now, many models in this research and Development Center, is only a draft or a clay model, but sooner or later they will be heading for China, the United Kingdom, streets around the world.
In order to achieve this, the car set up three production bases in Shanghai, a port, and second, Nanjing, three are in the United Kingdom. Port-construction of the plant began in June 2006, when deployed from Shanghai Volkswagen and Shanghai General Motors built a skeleton, is Shanghai Automotive brand of the most representative of the factory. The entire factory area of 1.2 million square meters, the first for 670,000 square meters, here are four process of stamping, body, paint, Assembly, workshop, also has an engine plant, a total investment of 3.56 billion yuan. Also expected to invest 600 million, the construction of a large displacement engine production line. Currently lingang plant production capacity of 225,000/year.
First of all, we come to the press shop, where chunks of steel moment into the skeleton of the car. Lingang plant currently has two punch lines, will be built in the future article III, are produced on a fully automated, this dangerous process, who is less involved, the better.
Finished product check is very strict, due to the welding process is automated, so high quality of stamping pieces is.
Press shop is attached to the body shop. Factory in Lingang has basically automated welding, welding automation with the highest rate can reach 99%. And to achieve a fully flexible production.
Building cars is simple to say, the body is put together piece by piece. Each car shape is different, previously traditional methods is a platform can only be welded to a car in Lingang factory welded bracket is open, however, called it the Opengate+butterfly, different models can automatically replace the position, can achieve the 3 platforms 6 vehicles collinearity.
After inspection, the soldered body in white by conveyor belts to the paint shop
Soldered body directly from a belt, to the paint shop. MG and Roewe uses water soluble gel electrophoresis, non-chrome passivation, water based paint designs, and all the wastes are incinerated. As the paint shop cleanliness requirements, as long as there is greater than 10 microns of dust, spray paint, it's gonna be a defect product. In order to guarantee the quality of painting, not allowing outsiders to visit, I can bypass the painting workshop, come to the Assembly plant.
Assembly plant can be seen from a car in the shell-a step by step into a car. Here are three things caught my interest, is called automatic quality control points, all sorts of things, like torque, are controlled by computer, and record problems once the screws during arise, it can be found from the computer, ensure the quality of each screw gear. The second one, came to the final assembly shop, you can see the rows of self-propelled trolley. This is the SPS system (that is, accompanying material). A factory to produce 4, 5 models, each model configuration is different, how make that many models on the same assembly line in it? Is this SPS system. SPS system completely controlled by computers, go with the car, an item with a good car in the car, loaded the car with it. Third is the lighting system, if assembled on an assembly line workers discovered the problem, just pull the laces, line will stop until the issue is resolved. Lean, agile, flexible, modular production throughout the entire production process.
The accompanying material is very interesting, corresponding to each rack line car. Parts on the shelf well in advance by a computer, which can be produced on a production line, 5 models, and workers need to do is get on the racks of parts fitted, without spending energy on identifying parts.
Lamp system, originates from the Toyota lean production, many manufacturers have used it to control quality.
When communicating with the factory workers in Lingang, I understand that many workers here are from Shanghai Volkswagen and Shanghai General Motors factories. Not only that, Shanghai Volkswagen and Shanghai General Motors auto parts, also provides products for MG and Roewe. Which maximize the SAIC had the same good quality of the product.
Internationalization of research and development team, advanced production line and the joint venture standard parts. Shanghai Automotive was beyond the inherent awareness of our brand. What quality of MG and Roewe, which consumers are most concerned about the issue.
