All round car designer

Chapter 123 Floating?

QQ's engine development work has come to an end for the time being, but the completion of the model and technical drawings is only the first step, and the subsequent trial production and calibration work still needs to be continued.

However, before that, Zhou Fei needs to know about the work progress of other departments before he can make further arrangements.

After coming out of the office, Zhou Fei walked straight towards the conference room.

Compared with the previous two months, the current construction noise in the factory area is much smaller. Looking from the outside window, you can see three newly built factory buildings, which have stood opposite the old factory buildings. Large-scale construction equipment has stopped working Only the factory building is still busy.

After this period of emergency laying, the production lines of the three major workshops have basically entered the final stage. Except for the engine assembly workshop, which needs to be completed in May, the remaining two workshops can be completed by the end of April. .

After the production line is laid, it only needs about a week of trial operation before it can be officially put into use.

In other words, starting from June, the output of Mercedes-Benz's EA888 engines will reach the level of [-] units a month!

As for the remaining production capacity of about 1 units, it can just be used in the production of FCQ888 engine, and the production process of this engine is simpler than that of EA888. The production capacity of 1 units of EA[-] can produce at least [-] units The FCQ[-] engine!
This coincides with Zhou Fei's production plan. According to his previous market forecast, the sales volume of QQ will probably be at the level of [-] vehicles a year. Of course, this number may be even higher.

One hundred thousand is just the most conservative estimate.

After arriving in the meeting room, other people had already taken their seats and waited. Zhou Fei said without any hesitation, "The following departments will report on their work progress. Let's start with the project department first. Old Chen, tell me about the speed change." box development progress.”

In addition to the engine, the gearbox can be said to be the most important assembly on the vehicle. However, the gearbox equipped with the QQ has no special requirements, so there is no need for Mercedes-Benz to redesign it. The existing models on the market are sufficient. Meet the needs of this car.

"According to Mr. Zhou's request, we have conducted a series of screenings for domestic transmission suppliers during this period, and finally locked the target suppliers on two transmission companies, Xunming and Tianqi, both of which can provide us A five-speed manual gearbox is required, only different in price."

Xunming Transmission Company?

Zhou Fei's heart skipped a beat, he didn't expect the world to be so small, and he would "reunite" with Xunming in this way, but he didn't know how this company would feel after knowing his identity.

"Then what is the result of your current negotiations?" Zhou Fei continued to ask.

"If there is no accident, I should choose Xunming. The gearbox they provide is more advantageous in price, and it is also closer to our company, which can save a lot of transportation costs."

"Okay, after the supplier is confirmed, the procurement department will complete the follow-up work, and the same is true for other departments." Zhou Fei nodded.

Subsequently, the remaining departments also reported their work progress one after another. Among them, the development of suppliers for vehicle interiors and frame wiring harnesses has basically been completed, and only the contract signing work has not yet been carried out.

The development of other suppliers such as brakes and steering gears is also at a similar progress, and they will all be completed in June.

"In mid-May, we will hold another meeting. After the meetings of various departments, we will continue to move forward according to the tasks I just assigned. In June, we will start discussing the technical plan for building a complete vehicle factory. .”

After arranging the remaining work in a targeted manner, Zhou Fei said again.

After the meeting, everyone left one after another. Only Zhou Fei and Zhou Dehai remained in the meeting room. Besides, Zhang Xiang, a doctoral student who just joined Feichi, also sat beside him.

Zhang Xiang actually graduated last year, but after graduation, he stayed in Xu Nan's experiment to work. Later, when recruiting talents, Xu Nan recommended his favorite student. Zhang Xiang did not hesitate and agreed at that time. Willing to join Mercedes-Benz.

After this year's New Year's Day ended, Zhang Xiang came here to work directly. Currently, he is mainly responsible for all technical issues in the engine factory, and at the same time assists Zhou Fei in completing some engine development work.

"Dad, I have finished developing all the engines of this QQ car. I want to arrange a few for trial production next month. You can inform the workshop later and let the production plan be arranged. There are a total of five engines. It is now Some production lines."

Zhou Fei looked at Zhou Dehai and said.

"As for the assembly process, does the process department need to modify and improve it?" Zhou Dehai asked side by side.

"I have already made preliminary revisions to the process documents. After the five engines are online, let the people in the process department follow up from the beginning to the end, and when they encounter unreasonable processes, they will record and revise them in time."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements as soon as I get back." Zhou Dehai nodded.

After talking about the trial production, Zhou Fei turned his attention to Zhang Xiang, "Brother Xiang, after the trial production is over, I will trouble you to take charge of the calibration of the engine."

"No problem, just leave it to me." Zhang Xiang smiled and said.

"I know that the current job seems a bit overkill to you, but the company is just in the development stage, and there are not many places that need research and development. After the company's car is released, I will arrange more things related to what you have learned. Work for you."

After all, Zhang Xiang also graduated with a Ph.D. It was indeed a bit of a shame to let him work in the workshop.

Zhang Xiang waved his hand hastily, "I'm sorry for Mr. Zhou's words. Since I come to work here, I naturally know what I will encounter. I should bear all these."

"Okay, there's nothing else to do, you can go get busy first." Zhou Fei also smiled, and didn't say anything else. He will use practical actions in the future to let Zhang Xiang get the wealth and status he deserves.

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In the next period of time, everything is steadily advancing according to Zhou Fei's plan, especially after entering May, the suppliers of gearboxes, brakes and other components have been determined successively, and the trial production of the FCQ1 engine has also been arranged. Go on, and it will be officially launched on the 10th.

Although the line speed of the workshop was reduced due to the launch of this engine, with the efforts of the technology department, several unreasonable processes have been successfully modified, and the production line has been able to run at normal speed.

Just when Zhou Fei was preparing to hold a new round of meetings, the news that Mercedes-Benz was planning to enter the complete vehicle market spread like wildfire, and was first reported by a domestic auto self-media "Auto e-family".

All of a sudden, this article titled "Fei Chi Company Was Revealed to Be Secretly Building Cars, Is It Flirtatious or a Confidence?" quickly spread and attracted the attention of many insiders.

(End of this chapter)