On the eve of the two sessions of the National Committee, the reporter walked into the birthplace of China’s modern engine, FAW Wuxi Diesel Engine Factory, and heard a series of good news. In 2009, in the domestic engine industry, FAW Xichai’s production and sales volume exceeded 360,000 units, and sales volume increased first in the industry. , The per capita labor productivity, net asset profit rate, labor costs and other important indicators are among the forefront of the industry.
Then, under the situation where domestic companies are hit by the international financial crisis, FAW Xichai is relying on what is "outstanding" in the industry and has achieved such impressive performance?
“We are always on the path of scientific and technological innovation. For FAW Xichai, if there is no one step ahead of others in the core technology, it will not be possible to use today’s new technologies and new product development levels.†FAW Wu Heng Diesel Engine Plant Manager Qian Hengrong said.
Breaking through key core technologies
FAW Xiechai believes that “it is impossible to master the core engine technology and develop the national auto industry is just a vanity; if there is no independent research and development engine, the self-owned brand automobile company will eventually be controlled by others.â€
For this reason, many years ago, FAW Xichai had proposed a loud slogan “letting independent innovations create new brilliance for Xichai.â€
Over the past few years, in order to build the company into a leading heavy truck power base in the world, FAW Xichai has focused on international advanced technologies, integrated research and development resources at home and abroad, and strived to make breakthroughs in key core technologies to realize “national brandsâ€. , High-end power's corporate value.
After absorbing advanced international technologies and successfully developing the CA6DL, they have not stopped their steps. With the development team, development process and development model developed during the development process, Xichai has independently developed a full range of engines that meet Euro III emission standards.
They have implemented 10 major simultaneous projects of design and development, complete vehicle matching, cooperative support, institutional organization, management mechanism, cost price, quality control, engineering construction, market planning, and equipment procurement, and gradually explored a set of efficient and practical development systems. , Assisted by digital development and management tools, the development speed increased by more than 50%, the design cycle was shortened by 2/3, and trial production and test cycles were shortened by 1/3.
At the end of 2009, in order to meet the needs of domestic heavy-duty commercial vehicles for the upgrading of 272kW-309kW power grade engines, Xichai launched a new generation of diesel engines, the Aowei 11L, independently developed by Xichai. The aircraft has 3 invention patents and 5 utility model patents. This engine has excellent power and torque of 1900NM. It uses engine compression braking for safety, and the average user can decelerate automatically without stepping on the brake when he goes downhill, which shortens the braking gliding distance and greatly improves the situation under heavy load. The safety of truck driving, while the starting point of the engine emission is the State III, easily reach the national IV, high environmental performance. It can be said that the power, economy and reliability of this product are in the leading position in the domestic same power level products and are favored by users.
Breakthrough in improving system and enhancing innovation capability
In the new century, the new technology revolution with the theme of safety, energy saving, and environmental protection has triggered a new round of innovation in the global automotive industry. The competition in product technology has become increasingly fierce. The winners of strong technology have won, and those with strong ability have won, becoming the ironclad rules for the survival of the fittest in the current Chinese market.
As the main production base of heavy-duty engines of FAW Group and Jiefang Company, Xichai is the vanguard of the domestic heavy-duty engine's own brand and deeply feels shoulder responsibility.
“The advantage of the system is a key factor in representing the company’s core competitiveness. In product development, we constantly innovate ideas and form new research and development ideas, in particular breaking the old system and mechanism, and establishing a new system of research and development system. "Qian Hengrong said.
In recent years, FAW Xichai has implemented the development road of “mainly for me and for my own use.†In the process of using foreign intelligence to develop new products such as Aowei, it has learned advanced methods and procedures, improved its ability to absorb and digest, and gradually With the ability to re-innovate and independently research and development, the advantages of the company's independent system are increasingly prominent.
When FAW Xiecha stood on the same starting line with a foreign strongman, the importance of basic research began to appear. Therefore, they pay more attention to basic research than ever before.
Bench and vehicle calibration testing technology, electronic control technology, vibration and noise analysis, shortened school bus time, overhead camshaft cylinder head manufacturing technology, fuel economy technology, engine braking technology, post-processing technology and other basic research topics, have achieved encouraging results The breakthrough has accumulated technical reserves for the development of the company.
In fact, over the past few years, FAW Xichai has focused on perfecting its technological innovation system, and has independently developed new one-to-one models for medium and heavy-duty diesel engines and light-duty vehicle diesel engines that meet the national III and IV requirements.
Xichai has gone further and wider in the path of self-reliance and self-strengthening. Among them, the CA6DM diesel engine that won the China Automotive Industry Science and Technology Award was the only special prize. It took only less than 3 years from the start of the project to the user to verify the batch production. Compared with the Aowei machine that was introduced in 2003, the industrialization cycle was shortened. 50%.
China's national conditions and markets have determined that engine manufacturers must not only have high-end products that lead the heavy-duty vehicle market, but also have “liberish people†popular products that are suitable for the agricultural vehicle market.
How to achieve "all the best?"
"Only through innovation, production of the most economical, most affordable, most adaptable to China's national conditions and public relations series of products, will be excellent scientific and technological achievements into the most suitable for the profitability of the user's 'money making machine' in order to enable the independent development of Xichai Walking faster on the road and receiving real results.†Qian Hengrong said.
In accordance with this idea, Xichai takes the market as the first signal, sticks to users, seizes emission upgrades, implements key platform strategies, accelerates step-by-step product expansion, accelerates diversified structural adjustments, and enables the development and expansion of potential products for various platforms. Have achieved more significant results.
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