It is not enough for China's manufacturing to become bigger and stronger, and rely solely on labor and resource advantages. Only independent innovation is the eternal driving force for business development. Grasping independent innovation, Weichai has formed a set of own practices: perseverance and perseverance, making great efforts to cultivate and foster an international R&D team, and promoting independent innovation from the low end of the value chain to the high end, thereby forming its own competition. Advantage. It is expected that more and more Chinese manufacturing companies will accelerate their paces, form a strong competitive edge through independent innovation at the high end of the value chain, and build world-class companies.
Internationalized R&D
When investigating the Weichai Group, Chairman Tan Xuguang told reporters that the Weichai Group's leapfrog development in recent years has benefited from the continuous improvement of its independent innovation capabilities. He suggested that the reporter should sink into the technical center while investigating the workshop and experience the Weichai R&D capability.
Into the technical center is a spacious and bright design hall. In the quiet hall, almost no sound was heard except on the computer keyboard. More than 100 engineers and technicians face computer desk work. The scene is very spectacular.
In the small conference room, Sun Shaojun, executive director of Weichai's scientific research department, Weifang Power's vice president and director of the technical center Yan Dehui are holding a small video conference. Weichai's technical leaders and technical personnel at seven R&D centers in Shanghai and other places in the United States, Europe, and other countries and regions are using video to exchange information on the latest research and development of global engines and cutting-edge technology information. This system enables the Technology Center to realize the simultaneous development of network video in different places. Dehui told reporters that such a video conference at least once a week. Sometimes according to the needs of research and development, can be held at any time. This will ensure Weichai will cooperate with global R&D efforts, keep a close eye on the world's cutting-edge technologies, and develop new products with strong competitiveness.
International talent
Weichai's R & D, the front end extends to the United States and Europe, the back end is firmly rooted in the market. Technical Center Design Room 6 and Room 9 Lang Fengtai, 60 years old in 2011. The highly respected senior engineer has just returned to visit the main engine factory with the marketing staff. The R&D staff and the sales staff have visited Weichai together as a system to ensure that advanced technology is rooted in the needs of users. Lang Fengtai said: “We are visiting a construction machinery company this time. As soon as we entered the door, the leadership of the People’s Company chased the engine and demanded 150 units a day. In spite of the rapid growth in our production capacity in recent years, we still cannot meet the needs of users.†In the fully competitive market of engines, the tightness of Weichai products is unbelievable. But this is indeed the case. In the same year it was this factory, and nobody paid attention when they visited.
Technical experts like Lang Fengtai embody Wei Chai's R&D characteristics and ideas. When he participated in the R&D of Lanqing high-power engines, he frequently traveled to and from Europe to cooperate with high-end R&D personnel in Europe to absorb and digest the world's most advanced design concepts and methods. At the same time over the years, he has frequently visited users and absorbed nutrition from users. One hand grasps the advanced technology of the world, and the pulse of the first-hand number of the quasi-users. This has led to the shortage of the Weichai engine.
Dr. Li Yunqiang, 36, joined Weichai in 2005 and is currently Deputy Director of the Technology Center and Director of the Product Laboratory. When the reporter wanted to interview him, he was planning to dispatch new equipment to the New Product Experimental Center in the Weichai Processing Industrial Park. This experimental center will be fully operational by the end of March 2011. At that time, it will become a world-class, leading engine R&D test base in China, and will assume the full range of engine test development tasks for Weichai, as well as the mechanical development of the main components related to the engine, and the optimization of vehicle and powertrain matching. , NVH, electronic control and post-processing system development tests and other tasks.
Li Yunqiang said that when he first entered the factory, Weichai's annual sales revenue had just exceeded 10 billion yuan, and within five years in an instant, the operating income in 2010 reached 91 billion yuan. If you are not in it, this speed is really hard to believe. Weichai's R&D team had only dozens of people and it has now reached more than 1,700 people. At that time, Weichai's engine was still only the Level II of the country, and now it has developed a blue engine, and has the strength to compete with the world-class companies on the same stage. Only a handful of companies have this platform. It is my luck to be able to stand on this platform. I chose Weichai at first, let me catch a ride on my career and found a big stage for my talent.
Li Yunqiang told reporters proudly that during the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†period, Weichai Group had cumulatively developed 37 new products. The proportion of the output value of new products to the total output value rose from 45% at the end of the “10th Five-year Plan†to the current 58%. The company has hosted and participated in 10 national "863 projects" and scientific and technological research projects. It has obtained 577 patents for products and technologies and completed 10 new product certifications above the provincial level. Weichai was named the first batch of "independent and innovative model enterprises" by the China Enterprise Confederation.
Guo Shenggang, 34, is already Director of the Design Center at Room 10 of the Technical Center. In the more than ten years of research and development experience of Weichai, he felt most deeply that Weichai was thirsty for talents. He told reporters that over the years, Weichai has spared no effort to bring together all parties. In particular, after the outbreak of the international financial crisis, a special trip to the United States to recruit 47 high-end talent. Some of them have work experience with Fortune 500 companies and have now become leaders in Weichai's technology. As a result, Weichai has blossomed in the areas of original innovation and basic research such as electronic control technology, post-processing, and application software, and its research and development tentacles have reached the top of the industrial value chain.
Aiming at cutting-edge issues in the world to engage in development has accelerated the pace of knowledge updating among technicians. Wang Weiyan, senior engineer of the Technology Center's pre-installation process room, was 55 years old and engaged in a lifetime of craftsmanship. He said that when he was in his 40s, he eliminated the drawing board and the T-square and replaced it entirely with computer graphics. “The more than ten years of Weichai’s great development is the period when my knowledge has been updated most quickly and the technology has gained the most. When we closed our doors and engaged in research, our products have been consistently implemented for decades, so companies are not competitive. Now, we I often feel that I have heard that during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan†period, Weichai Group initially planned to spend more than 10 billion yuan for technology research and development, and I was very excited. To build a R&D and manufacturing base of 100 billion green power, we must rely on independent innovation."
Background links
Weichai Technology Center is a state-level technology center and is also the National Engineering Research Center for Commercial Vehicle Powertrain Assembly Engineering. The center has a sound management system and operates scientifically and efficiently. In order to strengthen the capacity for independent innovation, Weichai invested heavily in the establishment of enterprise technology centers and product testing centers. The plateau simulation platform can simulate the performance test of a 300KW diesel engine at a plateau altitude of over 5,000 meters. It is currently the highest power and highest altitude test bench that can be simulated in China. Its product R&D center has realized synchronized development of network video in different places. It can realize real-time communication with Weichai Power Europe R&D Center, US R&D Center, Shanghai R&D Center, Hangzhou R&D Center, and Chongqing R&D Center, which greatly improves R&D efficiency. The company has presided over and participated in 10 national "863" projects and scientific and technological research projects. The technological advantages in the same industry are very obvious.
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