Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 344 Cao Yang’s Busy Day

The food should still be delicious in Huaxia.

After wandering outside for a month, Cao Yang finally returned to work in the company.

This business trip made him more convinced that traveling abroad is fine, but going abroad to settle down is fine.

No matter how delicious the bread is, it’s not as comfortable as Yangcheng’s rice rolls and pig offal soup.

"Mr. Cao, this is your schedule for today. There will be a ministerial meeting from nine to ten in the morning, and then the research institute will report to you the progress of each project."

"From one o'clock in the afternoon, the finance department has made an appointment to report the revenue of the first quarter, and at two o'clock, Xingchen Automobile will report the sales situation of Ziweixing in China."

"At three o'clock, Nanshan Engine will report on the planning and production capacity of the new factory."

"The fourth point is to go to Nanshan Equipment to visit the trial production of the laser cutting machine used in the hot stamping production line."

"Then at five o'clock, Nanshan Special Steel made an appointment to report on the second-phase energy expansion project of the special steel plant."

"After this meeting, I have already booked a box by the Banjiang River, where Mr. Fang will wait for you for dinner."

Early in the morning, Cao Yang had just returned to the company, and Mi Ying, who came to the company early, reported to him today's itinerary.

"The ministerial meeting will be postponed for two days. I will first understand the overall situation of the group during this period."

Even though he was overseas, Cao Yang received various briefings every day.

But after all, it is not in China, and many things are just a simple understanding.

To hold a ministerial meeting, it is natural to understand the situation first.

"That's alright, can you deal with the mail first?"

Naturally, Mi Ying would not suggest anything to Cao Yang about the schedule.

Basically, this kind of thing is what Cao Yang says.

"Call Cheng Tao over, I'll talk to him about the engine first."

In this overseas trip, the engine-related harvest is the biggest.

1.0T, 1.5T and 2.0T can export a large number of related parts, and even a part of the whole machine.

This is also unprecedented for China's auto industry.

For this alone, no domestic company can compare with Nanshan Group.

Of course, with such a big change now, the next step of Nanshan Engine's plan should be carefully discussed.

"Mr. Cao, the engine development of our W12 has basically been completed."

"Now the real vehicle durability test is not over yet."

"However, there is no problem in the bench test, and the durability of the real car should not be a particularly big problem."

When Cheng Tao came to Cao Yang's office, he first reported the good news.

Both Xingchen 12 and Xingchen 12 need to use the W[-] engine, and even Ziwei Star, which has already been mass-produced, will launch a high-performance version using the W[-] engine.

In this case, Cheng Tao naturally attached great importance to it.

"The production line planning of the W12 engine should be appropriately bold, and the first phase of the project will be prepared directly on the scale of an annual output of 10 units."

"For the V8 engine under development, the layout of the production plant should also be considered in advance."

"Otherwise, with continuous expansion like the 1.5T engine, there is no way to achieve the highest production efficiency."

Cao Yang now feels that the previous planning of the engine factory still lacks some systematicness.

In a year or two, the number of engines of various models may not be very large.

However, as various independent brands launch more and more new models equipped with Nanshan engines, the related demand will come up.

"Mr. Cao, the 1.0T engine used to be used by relatively few customers. Now, if General Motors has a purchase demand of 50 units in three years."

"Our current production capacity can still correspond, and the corresponding expansion plan will also be implemented next year."

“到了明年年底，我们基本上可以形成1.0T年产30万台，1.5T年产100万台，2.0T年产20万台的产能。”

Cheng Tao can probably guess that Cao Yang came to him first as soon as he got off work today, and he wanted to say something.

So I told you the latest plan of the engine factory that was originally reported later.

"However, in terms of corresponding engine components, the situation will be a little more complicated."

"Especially the main related components such as turbocharger, generator, starter, etc., the demand is quite different."

"In addition to our own needs, other domestic manufacturers also purchase, and now there is a relatively large demand for exports."

"I need to discuss it with Mr. Dai from Nanshan Auto Parts later."

The complete engine is very important, but the engine parts business is also promising.

There is an interdependent relationship between them.

"Turbochargers and high-pressure oil pumps are our flagship products on engines now."

"As the influence of our engines expands, more OEMs will start to use turbocharged engines and direct injection engines."

"In this way, the demand for turbochargers and high-pressure oil pumps will also increase greatly."

For more timely support, factories for major engine parts are built near the engine assembly workshop.

And related management is also participated by both Nanshan Engine and Nanshan Auto Parts.

"Mr. Cao, our current engine technology has cooperated with Great Wall Motors, General Motors and Ford Motors."

"Is it possible to consider more flexible cooperation methods in the future?"

"According to my understanding, neither Chery, BYD, nor Geely Automobile has actually given up their own engine technology research."

"Although their technology will definitely not be able to compare with ours in a short period of time."

"But in the long run, it's a potential competitor."

"So I wonder if we can adopt a similar cooperation plan with Ford Motor in the future."

"Lock part of the order for the complete engine, and then start fully from the parts business, and strive to expand the parts business?"

As the general manager of Nanshan Engine, Cheng Tao is naturally very concerned about the company's future.

Although the Nanshan engine is bright now, but such an important component, other OEMs will definitely not let it go and purchase it all the time.

Therefore, while the engine technology of other manufacturers is not enough, first lock in orders for several years, and then achieve further development through the introduction of more advanced engine technology and the expansion of parts business.

"For customers with strong intentions, the strategy can be adjusted appropriately in combination with changes in their engine technology."

"But don't let go so fast."

"Being able to make the whole engine, naturally there is no need to choose to make only a part of the parts."

"The situation of Ford Motor and General Motors is different from them. The other party's technical strength is very strong. As long as they copy our engine with their faces, they will soon be able to produce products of a similar level."

"However, those domestic manufacturers are not so easy to copy successfully even if they copy."

"The assembly and processing techniques of many parts have some unique technologies of our own."

Although Cheng Tao's proposal was good, Cao Yang felt that there was no need to let go so quickly.

"Then let's arrange some technicians to study a new generation of engines first, and wait until the project has progressed before we start letting go?"

Cheng Tao thought about it, and then made a further confirmation.

"Engine technology has reached our current level, and the room for further improvement is very limited."

"The next thing is to do some process optimization and adjustment to see if the performance can be improved slightly, and then the cost can be further reduced."

"Especially for some components purchased from outside, there was only one supplier before, and now with the increase in production, no matter from the perspective of cost reduction or stable supply, it is necessary to develop a second or even a third supplier. home supplier."

"Like valves, further optimization can be considered to become sodium-injected valves."

"There are also water pumps that can develop in the direction of electronic water pumps in the future."

"The timing chain can be changed to a silent chain."

"More energy should be considered in the development of hybrid engines."

"Due to the existence of the battery, the performance requirements of the hybrid engine are not so high, but the improvement of thermal efficiency is more concerned."

"We can invest more energy in this regard."

"Nanshan gearbox, you can communicate with Mr. Ji later, and let their gearbox follow you."

As far as the current technology of Nanshan Engine is concerned, it is already at the level of later generations in 2023.

That's enough for ten years.

No matter how you improve it, it will be like that.

So it is better to simply expand production capacity and earn a sum of money.

As for investing a lot of manpower and material resources to develop an engine with better performance, in terms of results, there is little hope.

Considering that the era of electrification will definitely come earlier than the previous life, the research on the new generation of engine technology is even more unnecessary.

"I understand, then after developing the current W12 and V8 engines, we will attack the W8 engine on the basis of the V16, and then we will no longer simply develop pure fuel engines."

Cheng Tao quickly took this opportunity to bring out the W16 engine.

"It's not exactly like this. The diesel engine can still continue to develop in the direction discussed before."

"Even further development of larger displacement diesels is possible in the future."

Obviously, Cao Yang has not completely given up on diesel engines.

This piece, if done well in the future, will have broad application prospects in various fields such as engineering equipment.

"I understand, then I will readjust the plan according to this direction, and I will report to you in detail later."

This result was acceptable to Cheng Tao.

In the next few years, Nanshan Engine will still have a lot of research and development business.

As for the longer future, we will talk about it according to market changes at that time.

After Cao Yang finished chatting with Cheng Tao, Rao Yongxiang also came over soon.

As the vice president in charge of R&D of Nanshan Group and also the vice president in charge of R&D of Xingchen Automobile, Rao Yongxiang can be regarded as a key figure in carrying out Cao Yang's instructions.

However, this time when he came to Cao Yang, he first mentioned the reform of the research and development system.

"Mr. Cao, the development speed of each branch is very fast now, and there are many new projects launched."

"I think it is necessary to further decentralize R&D functions to various branches."

"The research institute at the headquarters maintains a role of coordinating the R&D functions of each branch company, which may be more efficient."

Rao Yongxiang didn't mean to throw his job away.

After all, even if the research and development work is divided according to his proposal, it is impossible for him to ignore it.

After all, a lot of R&D business revolves around Xingchen Motors.

As the person in charge of R&D of Xingchen Motors, he must know about the R&D work in the fields of engines, gearboxes, molds, equipment, and parts.

There are so many parts in a car, but if one part is missing, there is no way to assemble it.

"It's not impossible to make such adjustments in the general direction."

"However, the research institute at the headquarters still needs to retain some basic research and development functions in the fields of mathematics, physics, and chemistry."

"R&D personnel in these fields can provide some technical support for various branches."

After a little thought, Cao Yang agreed to Rao Yongxiang's proposal.

Two years ago, there were not too many people in Nanshan Research Institute, and the benefits outweighed the disadvantages by concentrating on research and development at the headquarters.

But now the Nanshan Research Institute has more than 1 personnel.

And the scale is still expanding every year, and it is normal for more than 2 people in the future.

At this time, it is a bit inappropriate to continue to put them together.

Now the business of each module has been developed, and even the relatively weak Nanshan Robot is on the right track.

Then each branch is responsible for its own research and development, and the efficiency will be higher.

"Then there is Nanshan Auto Parts. I think it is possible to further divide the business department internally."

"For example, it is divided into electronics business department, chassis business department and powertrain business department, and each business department is responsible for some of its own businesses."

"Otherwise, the current situation will make customers feel that our management is a bit chaotic."

Rao Yongxiang boldly proposed another plan.

In addition to producing engines, gearboxes and the above components, Nanshan Group now has a large number of other parts.

Especially as more and more self-owned brand models are equipped with parts from Nanshan Group, the related business is also developing rapidly.

For example, air-conditioning compressors and air-conditioning systems have now accounted for more than half of the share of self-owned brand models.

As for ESP parts, almost all of them are purchased from Nanshan as long as the self-owned brand has configuration.

Other parts such as instruments are also developing rapidly.

Different parts and components have different purchasing correspondences in OEMs.

There is also a division of labor in R&D.

At this time, within Nanshan Auto Parts, it is obviously necessary to do some division of labor to adapt to the development of the situation.

Cao Yang quickly thought through these issues.

"No problem, just follow this direction."

"How is the development progress of our Xingchen [-] and Xingchen [-]?"