The next morning, Li He had his breakfast and began his tour of the automobile factory. The first stop of almost all factory tours was the stamping workshop. This was because stamping was the first step in transforming a lifeless steel plate into a car.
He was no exception. His first stop was the stamping workshop. A large number of shearing and stamping equipment in the production process produced a strong noise that almost shattered his eardrums.
"Isn't this an automatic stamping production line? Why is there such a loud noise? " The two 10,000-ton stamping equipment dismantled from the Czech Republic had made him complacent for a long time. The opening of the coil and the stamping in the middle only required one person to supervise. This showed how mature this production line was.
Stamping equipment was an important piece of equipment related to the national economy and people's livelihood. It was widely used in industries such as automobiles, aviation, and home appliances.
Especially in the automobile industry, which measured the level of a country's industry, stamping equipment played a pivotal role. Its technical level directly affected and restricted the development of the automobile industry.
However, he could not accept such a loud noise.
Chen Zutao said, "From the Soviet Union in the 1970s."
"That's right." Li He laughed. Anyone who knew the industry would understand this sentence. Russian products were stupid and crude, but they were practical.
Chen Zutao said, "It's good stuff. The best stamping workshop in the country is at Volkswagen and Isuzu, and they only have five to six thousand tons."
But then he shook his head and said, "But compared to overseas, there's a big gap. I have visited the Volkswagen factory in Germany. More than 500 stamping equipment of the same specifications are arranged in a line. For example, the stamping line for large thin plates has a 2,000 ton double-action press at the front and 1,000 ton single-action press at the back. The typical product is the sides of a car, from the headlights to the taillights, including the two wheel covers, and the two door frames. After stamping, we use two hooks to hang it directly from a high place to the welding workshop. That's modern. "
Li He smiled and said, "We're not doing too bad here. I believe it will get better and better in the future. Sooner or later, we will be able to upgrade our equipment."
Although his equipment was second-hand and the models were not uniform, there were a lot of them. There were at least a hundred of them. It was an achievement to be able to bring them back. Not to mention himself, it was a contribution to the country.
As for automobile equipment companies like Jeji No.2, they were still trying to learn from Jeji No.2.
Looking at the high quality cold-rolled steel plates being continuously stamped by many high-tonnage hydraulic presses, and finally being molded into complex, high-precision body metal parts, one could only sigh in admiration at the power of industrial heavy machinery to change the future.
He felt a different kind of beauty.
After that, he visited different workshops, such as welding, painting, final assembly, and so on. Different workshops performed different tasks in different stages of car manufacturing.
He was very satisfied with the car factory's area. The larger the area, the more space he had to perfect every detail of each stage of the car production.
He waved his hand. "Buy all the land around here for me."
"Ah!" Yang Yong and the others were very surprised.
Chen Zutao said, "Director Li, I think our scale is big enough."
Li He asked, "Is it as big as the Dongfeng Factory?"
Chen Zutao shook his head. "Of course not."
"That's enough. Continue to expand. I hope that our future development won't be limited by space." Li He was very determined.
Yang Yong said awkwardly, "The Municipal Party Committee has planned for this area to be a development zone. It will be hard to negotiate."
Li He laughed. "Development zone? To put it bluntly, the surrounding area is barren mountains. Other than the road from our factory, which has three roads and one flat land, it is not presentable. If the Municipal Party Committee wants to make a plan, they will definitely prioritize the urban area. It will take at least ten years to develop to this area. Only idiots like us would be willing to set up a factory here. "
"Then I will try." Yang Yong laughed. He could not understand why Li He insisted on choosing Xiaoshan as the location of the factory.
The last place to visit was the R&D center. Most of the people here were from the Soviet Union. There were a total of eight teams, such as those in charge of interior design, chassis development, and exterior design.
There were only two working languages, English and Russian.
Li He mainly visited the powertrain planning department, engine department, electronic control department, transmission department, and other core departments that were working on R&D.
"Mr. Li He, these are the car patents that we have applied for in the past few years. These include the two-seater microcard, motor vehicle gearshift …" The director of the R&D center, Ludovic, introduced the car patents that the institute had applied for in various countries to Li He.
"Very good. Thank you for your hard work." Li He could not understand most of the patents, but from the simple distribution of the patents, he could see that the body and accessories, engines, electronics, and other technologies were the focus of protection for various companies.
When he flipped to the last page and saw the serial number, he was shocked. There were 500 invention and utility patents. But after thinking about it, he realized that these people were still relying on the Soviet Union.
Back in the conference room, everyone had another small meeting. The main point was to come up with some specific ideas for the current situation.
Yang Yong said, "I think the current market environment is still too good. Heavy trucks like Steyr are in short supply. But in the long run, I think there will still be competition. There are a total of 163 car manufacturers in our country. This number is the highest in the world. Survival of the fittest."
"There are so many manufacturers?" Li He was shocked. Before he decided to go into the car industry, he did not know that there were more than 30 to 40 manufacturers. How could he have known that there were more than 100 manufacturers!
Chen Zutao nodded in agreement. "That's right. According to the industry department, there are 163 manufacturers. This does not include the more than 600 car modification manufacturers! There are automobile projects all over the country. Our country's main problem is that our automobile industry is not on a large scale. We only produce 1 million cars a year, and there are only 12 factories that can produce over 10,000 cars a year. For example, Japanese Benzene, there were less than 10 automobile companies that produced 13 million cars last year. They still do not understand why do they need so many factories? The whole world produces about 50 million cars a year, and we do not even account for 20% of the production. Our biggest manufacturer in China is Dongfeng. Last year, they broke the record by producing 160,000 cars a year. But that was only a month's production for General Motors. Most of the smaller factories were doing manual assembly. We can say that our automobile industry is scattered, messy, and out of control. The local governments are ignoring this phenomenon and are using protectionist measures to develop the local automobile industry. "
"This gap is a bit big." Li He shook his head helplessly. "But overall, we are still improving. We should be more optimistic."
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