All round car designer

Chapter 126 Assembly of Trial Vehicle

Faced with such a new uncertain factor, Zhou Fei didn't hesitate at all, but only had an increasingly strong fighting spirit. When encountering a narrow road, the brave wins. If QQ can win in the competition with the pioneers, it will be more prominent. The car is value for money.

After the new engine factory was put into use, Zhou Fei was finally able to devote all his energy to the construction of the vehicle factory.

The traditional four major processes of complete vehicles include stamping, welding, painting and final assembly. Each process constitutes a workshop and forms an indispensable part of complete vehicle production.

Among the four major workshops, the stamping and painting production lines are relatively simple, and the most complicated ones are the welding and final assembly workshops.

The welding workshop mainly produces the body-in-white of the vehicle. The main process is the welding process. Therefore, the equipment in the workshop is mainly a variety of welding machines. The most common ones are spot welding machines and more advanced welding. Robot.

The number of welding robots determines the degree of mechanization of the workshop.

Compared with the welding workshop, although the final assembly vehicle does not need large-scale equipment such as welding robots, its importance is undoubtedly the most important of the four major workshops. All parts of the car will be assembled in this workshop , and finally rolled off the assembly line in the form of a product car.

At the same time, the assembly workshop will also use a variety of tightening tools, such as pneumatic tightening guns, electric tightening machines, and many filling equipment, monitoring equipment, etc. The total cost of these equipment will not be lower than that of the welding workshop.

Therefore, the investment funds required for these four workshops alone are astronomical!
After careful investigation, the construction of QQ's OEM has finally kicked off.

On the side of Feichi Company, a preparatory team headed by Zhou Fei was established. After a series of program demonstrations, the specific plan of the vehicle factory was finally determined. A new chapter of development.

According to the current plan, the vehicle factory under construction can produce [-] QQ cars per year, which just matches the current engine production capacity.

Of course, whether the annual production of [-] vehicles can meet the market demand will have to wait until the QQ is officially launched, and then decide based on market feedback whether to expand or reduce production capacity.

However, judging from QQ's sales volume of 80 units in the past seven years, the sales volume of this release will definitely not be bad, and the annual sales volume should at least not be less than 10 units!

Zhou Fei is even ready to sell out.

While the vehicle factory was breaking ground, Zhou Fei was also busy with other things. The first thing was to prepare for the offline trial installation of QQ.

Only after the offline trial assembly is successful, can this car be considered for assembly on the production line. The offline trial assembly is also a process of exposing, discovering, and solving problems. The initial assembly process will also be completed at this time. form.

However, since the construction of the four major workshops has just started, all parts except the engine can only be outsourced.

Ordinary parts are fine, you just need to tell the corresponding suppliers your technical requirements, but the assembly parts like the car body are not so simple, except for OEMs, there are very few special car bodies supplier.

If he wants to produce the car body, he can only entrust other domestic OEMs, so after arranging the subcontract processing of other parts, Zhou Fei immediately flew to Chuncheng, preparing to use Chunqi's welding workshop to provide his own Produce several bodies for trial assembly.

Except for Zhu Zhijun, Zhou Fei couldn't think of anyone else who could help with this.

"You send me the technical requirements and drawings of the car body, and I will arrange the rest." After hearing Zhou Fei's request, Zhu Zhijun replied without any hesitation.

The production of these bodies can be completed in less than an hour, which is not difficult for Zhu Zhijun.

"I brought all the things, thank you Mr. Zhu for being willing to help me." Zhou Fei quickly replied gratefully.

The current Feichi company is already a competitor of Chunqi. Zhu Zhijun is still willing to help Zhou Fei at this time, so Zhou Fei is naturally very moved.

"I don't need to say thank you. You also helped us Chunqi solve a big problem before. If you don't help us with this small matter, it would be too unreasonable." Zhu Zhijun waved his hand with a smile, and then continued,
"However, I can only arrange for these bodies of yours to be carried out after the workshop is off work. Today's arrangement is a bit hasty, so let's do it tomorrow night. It will be finished in an hour at most."

"I'm not in a hurry here, I'll just listen to Mr. Zhu's arrangements."

After staying in Chuncheng for one night, on the second night, under the arrangement of Zhu Zhijun, five bodies for QQ trial assembly were completed in the welding workshop of Chunqi Car.

After the body production was over, Zhou Fei also contacted the transporter as soon as possible, and transported the five bodies to his hometown overnight. As long as the other parts were processed, the QQ trial assembly could be carried out immediately.

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At the same time, the recruitment and training of the employees of the OEM has also been officially launched in full swing.

Compared with the engine factory, the vehicle factory needs more employees, and the processes involved are more complicated, so it is more difficult to train, and the training cycle and training costs have skyrocketed.

This time, Zhou Fei expanded the scope of recruitment to the whole city, not just limited to his hometown county.

But there is still a very prominent problem, that is, it is easy to find ordinary assembly workers, but there is still a shortage of professional technical personnel, especially front-line technical personnel who need to go deep into the workshop, such as equipment maintenance, and they are not satisfied.

In the final analysis, there is still a lack of professional vocational and technical colleges in my hometown, so Zhou Fei plans to finish this part and mention this matter to Tang Qiang. He must build an automotive vocational and technical college to match the Mercedes-Benz company.

But for the time being, Zhou Fei's work focus is still on the assembly of the trial car.After more than two weeks of waiting, the various parts used for the trial car have been sent to the company one after another. After checking the BOM, Zhou Fei chose to officially carry out the offline assembly of the trial car on July 7. !

From time travel to now, nearly two years, this is Zhou Fei's first time to face the whole vehicle assembly.

The body, engine, front and rear axles and other parts have been neatly placed on both sides. In order to cooperate with this assembly, Zhou Fei also designed several simple tooling, such as hoisting the front and rear axles, the spreader of the body, and the positioning of the engine. Tooling etc.

After emphasizing a few words with several workers, the assembly officially started!
Starting from various body wiring harnesses, the rear axle, drive shaft, engine and other related assemblies are assembled together one after another. There are fewer and fewer parts on both sides, and the appearance of the whole car is becoming more and more clear.

Although it is inevitable to encounter various interference problems during the assembly process, with the efforts of Zhou Fei and the technology department, they can always adjust the process in time and resolve the difficulties smoothly.

An hour and a half later, with the completion of the body fitting and the assembly of the wheels, the first QQ trial car was announced to come out!

(End of this chapter)