Chapter 2132 Difficult to Do

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(I’m really sorry, these first two updates in 2021 can only be updated once. Something really delayed me. I’ll resume two updates tomorrow. I’m really sorry.)

Wei Jianjun and others are about to faint.

Just change it no matter what you say.

You know, Daqin Heavy Industries' automobiles can now be said to be the number one among domestic private enterprises.

Among domestic independent brands, there are no rivals.

If we just talk about the sales volume of SUVs, then including joint venture brands and purely imported cars, no matter which brand or model, the sales volume is not as high as that of Daqin Heavy Industries' SUVs.

Today, Qin Feng's SUV, Fusu, Daqin Heavy Industries' first multi-functional medium and large SUV, has sales exceeding 10,000 per month.

This is an incredible sales achievement.

In terms of overall SUV sales, there is no rival. The rest don’t exceed 10,000 yuan. They are two to three thousand vehicles per month.

And Qin Feng's Fusu sales exceed 10,000 yuan every month, what kind of concept is this!

Although, the price is not high.

The entry-level model is only 98,000 yuan, and the top model is only 128,000 yuan.

This price is very low.

But because sales are high and quantity has increased, costs have naturally decreased.

The profit of each car exceeds 5,000 yuan.

This refers to pure profit.

Of course, this is completely incomparable with the profits of joint venture cars and purely imported cars.

However, this is already very high.

The net profit of one car is 5,000 yuan. If there are 10,000 units per month, the net profit will be 50 million yuan.

There are 600 million a year.

This is pure profit.

Net profit after leaving aside costs, labor wages, taxes and all other expenses.

Real pure profit.

This is the money that goes into Qin Feng's pocket.

In fact, if it weren't for Qin Feng's very strict quality control and very high quality control requirements, there would actually be no problem in doubling profits.

Earning 10,000 yuan per car is not much.

The net profit in that month would be 100 million.

But Qin Feng's quality control requirements were too strict.

What does strict mean?

For example, when the workers were assembling the motor connecting wires, they sometimes accidentally made a small flaw and tore a little of the insulation protective layer on the outside of the wires. This originally had no impact.

Directly, just stick them together with insulating tape.

It's already assembled and can't be seen. There won't be any problems.

At most, over time, due to the high temperature inside, the insulating tape may be over-oxidized and some may fall off, causing the wires to be damaged.

This damage may not be fatal. It's just that the power supply may be a little insufficient.

And it is definitely not in the near future. It may be three to five years after driving. The power supply in the wires may not be stable enough, which will make the output of the entire car not smooth enough. But it does not affect use. Just a little problem will arise.

This can be said to have no impact on use at all. And it’s all a few years later. If you drive a car for a few years, what's the problem?

However, Qin Feng absolutely does not allow it.

If there is a problem, the wire must be replaced and must not be taped with insulating tape.

Never allowed.

There are also some spare parts that are absolutely required to meet the standards, and there can be no mistakes. Even if it doesn't affect use, it won't work.

Because Qin Feng's high standards naturally led to some additional losses in production, which also led to a decline in profits.

However, Wei Jianjun and others also supported it.

Because any brand can win market reputation only if its quality is good.

Otherwise, it will be over sooner or later.

Even if consumers will pay because it is cheap, it will leave a low-end image to consumers.

Because you are low-end, it is easy to break. This is acceptable to everyone.

But in the future, if you want to build a high-end brand, it will be difficult for consumers to change their inherent thinking and cognition.

certainly,

What Wei Jianjun and others want to say is that Qin Feng did not take a penny of all the money they made every year, and all was used to invest in self-developed engines.

Finally, in the past two years, they have continued to spend money, and they also stole a lot of things from Audi's German headquarters.

Finally got some results.

If all goes well, this year, that is, in 2000, Daqin Heavy Industry's cars may use self-developed engines.

Although, in terms of performance, it cannot be compared with first-class European and American products.

At least 10 years behind.

Of course, this is already a very good result.

You know, before Qin Feng ordered the development of engines, civilian automobile engines were more than twenty or thirty years behind.

Now it is more than ten years behind, which is already very good.

And this mainly relies on Qin Feng reaching an agreement with Audi to let people study at Audi.

At Audi, I didn't learn anything about engine manufacturing.

However, Qin Feng learned a lot about the assembly process.

Generally speaking, there are five main details in engine development.

One is metal casting. The engine cylinder body and other simple structural parts are generally formed by metal casting. The specific process is divided into high-pressure casting and low-pressure casting. The metal is melted into a liquid and poured into the mold. The difficulty of this process is that residual stress, exhaust, release agent spray, etc. during the cooling and solidification process cause defects. Defects reduce the yield and seriously affect the service life, because metal fatigue is the most afraid of defects. . Secondly, the quality requirements of metal materials themselves are also extremely high, usually cast iron or cast aluminum. High-quality casting raw materials are not available in any country and must be imported from abroad.

Naturally, Qin Feng had no choice. Even if Wei Jianjun and others strengthen the research and development of high-quality cast aluminum raw materials to meet the needs of the engine, it may only bring benefits in the future. In the short term, there are simply no results.

Thirdly, for die-casting molds and die-casting machines, the best in the world are Japan and Germany, followed by Italy, and then others. The mold must be precise, durable, and adaptable to automatic production. It cannot be said that after a few molds are cast, they will break or leak, or it will not work if you can only watch and control the heat manually. The problem of metal casting is a huge problem. To put it bluntly, it has been a problem in China since ancient times. From the sword against the round moon scimitar to the current engine manufacturing, it has been this problem. This set of technologies is a typical product of the steam age and is the foundation of all modern industries. Now that they have cooperated with the electrical industry and computer information industry, it is even more powerful.

The second problem is machining.

Excellent mechanical processing requires good lathes, turning tools, and turners. Lathes and turning tools can at least be purchased from Germany at high prices, but lathes are a problem. The same part is cut out with different directions and wiring, but the lifespan is obviously different. What to do with these skills? The engine's piston has to move back and forth tens of millions of times in the cylinder bore, and its error requirements are extremely high. Its wall surface processing requires a process called honing, which ensures that the cylinder bore surface is wear-resistant and can also adhere to an oil film to ensure sealing performance. At this time, the materials, techniques, and directions of honing came again. If this process is not carried out well, even if the cylinder bore is slightly bent, the piston's tens of millions of movements will accelerate the aging of the engine. The crankshaft hole is a multi-stage intermittent long hole, and the requirements for dimensional accuracy, roundness, coaxiality, and surface roughness are very strict.

Wei Jianjun and others did not learn this aspect either. It is impossible for Germany to cultivate this kind of technology for you. This can never be given to you.

The third problem is the assembly process.

After watching "The Fast and the Furious", I felt that a car could be built by just a few people tightening screws and lifting the engine in a warehouse. Those are car repairs, just car repair skills. The assembly inside the engine cannot be done with just hands, but with professional assembly tools. These require experience, technology, and time. Some parts require specific machines for installation, and even the installation sequence of screws and tightening strength require experience and equipment. If fine hard particles are mixed into the piston gap, how much damage will be caused by grinding thousands of times. Therefore, the assembly environment, process, equipment, and technical requirements are very high. Generally speaking, if you don't do the first two steps well, you won't even have a chance to practice assembly.

Fortunately, Qin Feng arranged for someone to study at the Audi headquarters in Germany.

At the Audi headquarters, Qin Feng did not embarrass Qin Feng because he sold Audi well in China. In other respects, it was impossible to give Qin Feng any help, and Qin Feng's side was blocked.

However, in terms of equipment technology, the workers of Daqin Heavy Industry still got a real opportunity to learn.

They actually assemble the entire Audi vehicle inside.

It can be said that in terms of vehicle assembly, the technology of Daqin Heavy Industry is very different from that of Europe and the United States.

This is all thanks to the support of Audi headquarters in Germany.

Of course, everyone gets what they need.

But it is indeed not easy for Qin Feng.

This is also a very key reason why Daqin Heavy Industries' cars have good quality control.

The fourth problem is rubber.

In the third puzzle, organic materials are required during the assembly process. Some people say that the engine is the resonance of steel and rubber, which is true. It is no exaggeration to say that rubber is the core material of internal combustion engines. Whether it is the airtightness of the cylinder or the airtightness of the fuel tank and water tank, rubber plays a decisive role. There are many engine assembly videos from major foreign automobile manufacturers on Youtube. After watching them, you will find that even the ones tightening the screws are handsome guys, and their academic qualifications are by no means low. For automotive engine rubber, high-quality rubber is also critical. In this regard, it can only be imported.

The fifth problem is the main mechanical parts.

It's one thing to be able to make cams, crank connecting rods, gear sets, bearings, chains, and hydraulic parts. It's another thing to be able to use them stably for a long time. In the final analysis, there are still two issues: metal materials and mechanical processing. The machines that make machines are the lowest and most NB guys. As the saying goes, if you want to attack something first, you must first sharpen your weapon. Therefore, for blacksmithing, you still need to be strong yourself. If you have the bottom layer, you will have everything. The hammer of Japan, Germany, the United States, Russia, Italy, France and Britain has been sharpening for a long time.

In this regard, Daqin Heavy Industries still has a long way to go.

But now, he has taken a step forward.

A very solid step. As a result, Qin Feng now said that he wants to build an electric car?

Wei Jianjun and others wanted to strangle Qin Feng to death.

As for why the domestic manufacturing industry is not developing well, there is a reason.

First, we need to distinguish between two concepts: science and engineering. Science is shared and transparent, but engineering is confidential and private. The principle of the engine can be said to be extremely simple, and this principle has never changed in the more than 200 years of existence of the internal combustion engine: fuel combustion causes gas expansion to push the piston to do work. But science is easy to say, but how to use these plain-water theories that everyone knows to achieve engineering that behaves according to human will is another matter entirely.

How to increase the power, reduce the weight, extend the life and improve the efficiency can be said to be an endless journey. We can all remember scientific conclusions. I believe that our higher science education is very successful in memory, but the engineering education in traditional industry can be said to be a mess, with production technology and theory seriously out of touch.

Another, before humans entered the electrical age, there was a special period in Western countries. This period was a period of rapid development of the mechanical industry, known as the "Great Steam Age." Those who are interested can search for works from this period. Almost everything that moves is gear machinery. Its level of prosperity is unprecedented and unprecedented. Since our country did not accept the baptism of this period, a small number of national assets were later crippled by imperialist oppression and later confiscated by socialism, so there was basically no accumulation of technology.

The core of engineering accumulation is two words: secret recipe. Whether it is cooking, brewing, pharmaceuticals, steel smelting, or processing, the essence of technology is nothing more than these two words. The secret recipe is completely private and is usually passed down by the family or company. Inheritance requires time and national atmosphere. Only a nation that advocates speed, dares to challenge human limits, and dares to question authority will have enough motivation to develop such a machine of iron and fire. I think we are doing very poorly in this regard. Our education does not seem to encourage the cultivation of this adventurous spirit.

At the same time, some previous strategies also had problems.

I have been saying before that we should trade the market for technology. This refers to the country's strategic decision to allow foreign capital to enter China to build joint venture automobile factories from the late 1980s to 2001, before the country joined the WTO. If we give up a huge market, we will be qualified to acquire technology and profits. "In other words, we open the market in exchange for technology. Personally, I think this is a very naive theoretical assumption that stays at the macro level.

First of all, the country's open market is a general trend. If you follow it, you will prosper, if you go against it, you will perish. Whatever the purpose, the market will be open. There are only 200,000 cars in the vast territory of 9.6 million square kilometers, with an average of one car per 48 square kilometers. What kind of scene is this?

It is not an option for everyone across the country to ride bicycles. Second, the value of technology is greatly underestimated, and changing technology is wishful thinking. The value of those important technologies may scare everyone, and they are far beyond what can be purchased by selling millions of cars. There are five pillar industries in Germany, four of which are related to automobiles. The automobile industry has become the foundation of a big country, so how can we talk about "replacement"? Never expect others to give us progress in core technologies; as I said above, there are no shortcuts. It is really too naive to pin technological progress on others. It is this excuse of "market for technology" that kills the motivation for independent research and development.

So, stop thinking about "changing technology" and give up. You can't even "steal" or "rob". After all, the growth of national industry requires a process.