Chapter 365: Ingenious idea, ready to overtake in corners
Although Shenzhen University is a very young university, as the first university in the special zone, the ministries and local governments attach great importance to it.
Otherwise, we would not have directly invited the vice president of Huaqing University to serve as president, and asked several top universities to assist in the construction of related majors.
This kind of treatment is unthinkable for other young universities.
Lai Yongfeng was able to move from Capital University of Technology to Shenzhen University to become the deputy dean of the newly established School of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering. This is definitely a leap in his career.
Building a college from scratch is also a great test for his ability.
Although he is the deputy dean, the dean's position is temporarily vacant. In fact, he is in charge of the college.
The principal only occasionally inquires about relevant situations.
After arriving in Shencheng and settling down for a while, Lai Yongfeng made a wise choice to visit Jiang Hui.
On the one hand, their academy was established because of Jiang Hui's suggestions.
On the other hand, Lai Yongfeng knew Jiang Hui's abilities very well.
In the field of car design, he has never seen anyone with a higher level than Jiang Hui.
That is to say, Jiang Hui did not choose to stay at the school to teach, otherwise the position of president of Capital Institute of Technology would most likely belong to Jiang Hui from now on.
"Director Jiang, I didn't expect that we would meet again in Shenzhen."
"I never thought that in just a few years, Shenzhen's automobile industry would become what it is now, starting from scratch."
"BMW Motors, BMW Motors, Nanshan Equipment, Nanshan Technology, Nanshan Engine, Nanshan Transmission, and the automobile industry industrial park built around you, the development of the entire Shenzhen City has been accelerated a lot because of your arrival."
Lai Yongfeng's words are really not just flattery.
He also made a special effort to understand what Shencheng was like before.
It can be said that it is a small fishing village with nothing to offer.
Now it is showing its ambition to become the largest automobile city in China.
"The main thing is that the local support is strong enough. Whatever we want to do, we can get 12% support."
"Otherwise, it will take a lot of time just to acquire land and build factories."
"Unlike the north, the temperature here in winter is not low, and various construction projects are not affected. In addition, the wages in all walks of life are relatively good."
"So as long as they come here, many people are willing to roll up their sleeves and go for it. This is an advantage that cannot be compared with other places."
Jiang Hui knew that Lai Yongfeng would develop in Shencheng for many years to come, and it was still necessary for everyone to have a good communication.
"It's true. The new atmosphere in Shenzhen City is incomparable even to the capital. Everyone is very motivated."
"This time my superiors asked me to come over to assist in the construction of the School of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering of Shenzhen University. I am also under a lot of pressure, but I am very confident about the future."
"With the BMW Group as our backer, we can make full use of the industry-university-research program you mentioned before and make the vehicle engineering major of Shenzhen University a distinctive major in the country."
“Capital Institute of Technology specializes in military vehicles and commercial vehicles and has become the leader in vehicle engineering in China.”
“The vehicle engineering major of our school focuses on passenger cars, and we aspire to become the third largest vehicle engineering major in the country.”
"When the time comes, one in the south and one in the north, everyone will cooperate with each other to allow China's automobile industry to achieve a completely different development rhythm."
"At my alma mater, starting from the second half of this year, the enrollment class of the Department of Vehicle Engineering has been expanded to four classes. In addition, there are two classes of ground weapons and machinery and its mobile engineering, and two classes of thermal energy and power engineering. It’s equivalent to eight classes that are closely related to cars.”
"By the time these people graduate, there will be 240 graduates a year. These people are distributed in automobile factories across the country. They will definitely make the Department of Vehicle Engineering of Capital Institute of Technology more and more famous."< br>
Lai Yongfeng fully combined the situation at Capital University of Technology and discussed the construction and development of the Department of Vehicle Engineering with Jiang Hui.
This way, if we have some common memories, many things will be easier to handle.
"Professor Lai, I think your positioning is very good. The heavy industry in the south is relatively not that developed. The Department of Vehicle Engineering of Shenzhen University focuses on the passenger car market. I think it is completely feasible."
“In foreign countries, more than 80% of the automobile market is actually the civilian passenger car market.”
"As long as we do it well, the influence will definitely not be ignored by anyone."
"With the development of reform, there are more and more wealthy people, and naturally more people will buy cars."
"China's civilian vehicle market will definitely be huge in the future, enough to support the Department of Vehicle Engineering of Shenzhen University to become a world-renowned automotive major."
Lai Yongfeng's positioning is completely in line with the interests of the BMW Group, and Jiang Hui naturally fully affirms it.
In a short period of time, the BMW Group will definitely focus on producing civilian cars and develop the export market.
After the Land Rover brand has gained a reputation in the international market, it will once again focus on the domestic market. By then, the general environment must have changed a lot.
After more than ten years of reforms, more people can afford cars. BMW Group also has a foundation for its domestic efforts.
Unlike now, BMW Light sells more than 100,000 cars a year, which is basically the peak.
It is very difficult to continue to improve significantly in a short period of time.
Unlike in later generations, the annual sales volume of the entire Chinese automobile market has reached a level of 30 million vehicles, and the sales volume in a month is several times more than the current sales volume in a year.
"I think so too. When the time comes, our school will have in-depth cooperation with the BMW Group, invite your technical experts to teach students, and even let some students follow your experts to conduct research, so that we can understand the needs of the company earlier. Access to the latest automotive technology ”
"Whether it is for the school, the students, or the BMW Group, it is very beneficial."
"In addition to these actions, during this period, I also got in touch with some classmates abroad. One of them, who is engaged in automotive parts technology research, agreed to return to China to teach and serve as deputy director of the Department of Vehicle Engineering."
"I am better at chassis, but he is very good at the design and production of body parts, especially in the metal forming process."
"It is said that in Europe, he was deeply involved in the development of a patented technology and became one of the first batch of talents in the world to study automotive hot stamping technology."
"This patent was also used by Saab Automobile on their latest mass production of the Saab9000 last year, which greatly improved the strength of the body."
In order to show his efforts, Lai Yongfeng also shared some of his arrangements with Jiang Hui.
We all need to cooperate in depth in the future, so we naturally need to understand the situation clearly.
"Hot stamping technology?"
Hearing this somewhat distant yet familiar term, Jiang Hui immediately became interested.
If others don't know the development of hot stamping technology in the automotive industry, how can he not know?
This technology was developed in 1977 and was initially used in the production of lawn mower blades and saw blades. It was not used in the automotive industry. Saab engineers ingeniously introduced this technology into their own products, achieving a historic breakthrough.
However, the hot stamping technology of this era is not yet so mature, and it is still very difficult to produce automobile body parts.
This results in very high production costs for parts and a relatively long mold preparation cycle.
When people didn't pay special attention to the collision performance of cars, the advantages of hot stamping technology were not so obvious.
Especially compared with the high cost, the strength improvement is not so obvious.
In order for everyone to fully feel the huge improvement in strength, it is necessary to increase the use of hot stamping parts.
Key body skeleton parts such as the front anti-collision beam, A-pillars, B-pillars, and door sill reinforcements are all processed using this process, which can increase the overall strength to a very huge level.
However, the technology of this period was not enough to support the production of these parts, and the costs were extremely exaggerated.
An ordinary front anti-collision beam is made of steel plates that are stamped and welded, and the production cost of one part in Europe is only twenty or thirty dollars.
But if the hot stamping process is used, the cost will soar to hundreds of dollars or even higher.
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This is certainly unacceptable.
But Jiang Hui knows that with the rapid development of the automobile industry in various countries around the world, the introduction of various regulations will place higher demands on vehicles for lightweight and high-strength bodies.
Lightweight itself and high strength are two contradictory requirements.
After all, for the same steel plate, the thicker the steel plate, the higher the strength.
At this time, in order to achieve these two contradictory requirements at the same time, hot stamping technology began to be used on a large scale in automobiles.
By around 2020, almost all cars will already be using hot stamping parts.
And there are generally a dozen or even dozens of body parts on a car that use hot stamping forming technology.
If Land Rover off-road vehicles could use this technology in advance...
Jiang Hui thought of a lot at once.
"Yes, Director Jiang, have you heard of this technology?"
Lai Yongfeng looked at Jiang Hui in surprise.
He only learned about this technology after communicating with his classmates, but judging from Jiang Hui's reaction, it seemed that he had heard of it before.
"Your classmate used to work at PLANNJA in Sweden?"
When Jiang Hui asked, Lai Yongfeng was even more surprised, "Yes, I was in this company before, then I went to Saab, and I just returned to China to join Shencheng University this month."
"This is because he earned enough money in Europe and my warm invitation, so he returned to China to try a new job and life."
"My classmate's name is Liu Yushu. Did you know him before?"
Although his guess seemed very illogical, Lai Yongfeng couldn't understand why Jiang Hui knew so much.
He had never heard of the Swedish company PLANNJA before.
"I have been paying attention to the development of the global automobile industry in the past few years. I have read a lot of various automobile magazines and related papers in Europe and the United States."
“I just happened to notice hot stamping technology.”
Jiang Hui casually found a reason, otherwise he couldn't say that he often heard about this technology in later generations, right?
"Next time I will bring Liu Yushu over to have a good exchange with you on this technology."
"He plans to continue to engage in research in this area after returning to China. He hopes to use hot stamping technology in the country so that our automotive technology can quickly rise to the world level. In this regard, his idea is exactly the same as yours "
Feeling Jiang Hui's interest in hot stamping technology, Lai Yongfeng became active.
Lai Yongfeng, who has some preliminary understanding of this technology, knows that it is actually very expensive to study hot stamping technology.
Not to mention other things, to engage in this technical research, you have to produce several sets of related hot stamping molds, right?
Otherwise, why don't you study the air?
Then with the mold, you must also have supporting stamping equipment, right?
Doesn't this cost money?
To build a liberal arts university, the biggest expense may be just to build the school building.
But for engineering-related majors, the situation is completely different.
If you don’t buy equipment or instruments, how can you teach or do research?
Although departments at all levels attach great importance to the development and construction of Shenzhen University, the financial support they can provide is relatively limited.
If Liu Yushu's research can be fully integrated with BMW, there will be no need to worry about funding.
Most of the equipment and molds are located at BMW, which is not far away anyway.
"Okay, there's no need to wait until next time. Let's go directly to the school to visit some Professor Liu now."
"I really have a lot of relevant ideas about hot stamping technology."
"We will have a good discussion with Professor Liu later to see if we can use it in our next model."
When Jiang Hui said this, Lai Yongfeng immediately became excited.
Although he is not responsible for this technology, he is the head of the college and the head of the Department of Vehicle Engineering.
If the college can achieve some good scientific research results just a few years after its establishment and use them in new BMW products, it will definitely be a very impressive result.
"Since you are so interested in hot stamping technology, let's go directly to Lao Liu."
Lai Yongfeng was afraid that Jiang Hui would change his mind, so he immediately stood up and prepared to leave.
As the person in charge of several companies, he also knows that Jiang Hui is very busy at work every day.
If I am temporarily called away by other people, I don’t know when the next time I will go to the school to visit and exchange.
This is certainly not the situation Lai Yongfeng wants to see.
Soon, several people arrived at Shencheng University in a modified BMW Light.
(End of chapter)