The main material used in the manufacture of modern aircraft is aluminum alloy, but this material has one outstanding feature - extremely poor welding performance.

After welding by traditional welding methods, there is local stress concentration in the welding area, which makes the metal brittle, and it is easy to produce defects such as sand holes, bubbles, and microcracks, so that the performance of the structure in these positions is lower than that of the non-welded area. This is unacceptable in aircraft building.

Although there are some special welding processes, such as friction stir welding and laser welding, these technologies are too complex and difficult to ensure process stability.

For the same material, the thinner it is, the less easy it is to weld. The thickness of the aircraft skin is generally only about 2 mm, and even if it can be welded, it will be very difficult, and it is not suitable for ordinary staff, which is not conducive to the mass production of aircraft.

However, the aluminum alloy composite material developed by Huaxing Group itself has good weldability, and naturally began to be widely used in the aerospace field.

This material is also a dream material for Jaguar Land Rover, and the engineering staff are very excited about it: with this material, Jaguar Land Rover's production process will be completely changed, and Jaguar Land Rover's car range can quickly reduce production costs.

Jaguar Land Rover will also start to purchase various auto parts from Zhongyuan Automobile Group Company in the future, but these will not be realized until Jaguar Land Rover's new car platform comes out, which will take at least two or three years, while silicon carbide whisker aluminum matrix composites can be used quickly.

Jaguar Land Rover will next transplant the large-displacement powertrain assembly of Zhongyuan Automobile Group Company to all car series, and no longer use the large-displacement engine provided by Fuord Group, because Zhongyuan Automobile Group is already very mature in large-displacement engines, and the overall performance will not be worse than the large-displacement power system of Fuord Group, and it is very strong in the technical field of transmission technology and other technical products.

Because the industrial scale of Zhongyuan Automobile Company is quite large, and the R&D investment is also very large, all the core technologies are mastered by themselves, and there are various resources supported by a consortium like Huaxing Group, which is a high-intensity R&D of tens of billions of dollars every year.

This does not include the R&D expenses of many subsidiaries in the Zhongyuan Automobile Group Company system, which is a very large and terrible volume if you count it into statistics.

Zhongyuan Automobile Group Co., Ltd. is only a subsidiary of Huaxing Group in the field of automobile industry.

Zhongyuan Automobile Group Co., Ltd. has been stingy with high R&D investment for so many years, especially in the research and development of core technologies, and has established a very complete automotive industry chain and a large number of patented technical barriers with the backing of Huaxing Group, which is no less than the German camp on the other side of the world, Bosch, ZF, BorgWarner and other top European suppliers have technical barriers to technology, which is no longer a big deal for Zhongyuan Automobile Company, and the technical strength of Japanese manufacturers such as Toyota Group and the North American automobile camp are evenly matched, and even in electrification, intelligent driving and connected technology, it is already ahead of the curve.

This is the most real thought of the management of Jaguar Land Rover after learning the real situation of Zhongyuan Automobile Company.

Now even if Jaguar Land Rover does not get the product technical support of these top suppliers in the EU system, it can live very well by relying on Huaxing Group.

This time, the big boss personally came to Jaguar Land Rover to inspect in detail, so concerned about the company's problems, and even formulated the company's development strategic goals, which shows the importance of the company, and the company's management is very confident in the future development of Jaguar Land Rover.

Although the current John Bull domestic automobile manufacturing industry is riddled with problems: high welfare of workers, unreliable quality, backward technology, low efficiency, and management shortcomings, but these problems Jaguar Land Rover management is also confident that it can be adjusted by technical means, and there is no big problem in achieving profitability.

Dr. Schweder also mentioned to Yang Jie that he intends to move a senior R&D team of more than 170 people to the University of Warwick here, and establish a new cutting-edge technology innovation and education R&D center at the University of Warwick, bringing together scholars from Warwick's top universities and outstanding engineers and R&D personnel from Jaguar Land Rover and its supply chain, which will complement Jaguar Land Rover Guyton and Wheatley Product R&D Center.

Naturally, Dr. Schweeder was aiming for the University of Warwick's ace department, the School of Manufacturing Engineering.

The Department of Manufacturing Engineering is one of the world's leading research and teaching centres in the field of manufacturing design at the University of Warwick, with top-notch research laboratories and a number of top experts and professors, with strengths in the fields of automotive bearings, gear transmission surfaces, power electronics and electric machines, and battery technology.

The University of Warwick was founded in 1965. It is a top research university ranked in the top 10 of John Bull and one of the top 50 universities in the world, a member of the Russell Group of Ivy League universities, and a member of the University Alliance.

Although Warwick has a short history, it has established an excellent academic reputation in Europe and the world, and has a good reputation in the business and political circles.

Situated on the border between Coventry and Warwickshire in the Midlands of England, the University of Warwick is a place to focus on academics, while Coventry and Birmingham have long been the centre of gravity for John Bull's industrial manufacturing.

Most of the talents cultivated by this university are working in top companies at home and abroad, and it can be said that it is a very powerful university that can be ranked third in the whole of John Bull University.

Although John Bull has now lost its status as a manufacturing power, and the manufacturing industry has been declining for more than 100 years, the ship has broken 3,000 nails, and this old industrial country still has a family background, which is mainly reflected in the fact that the R&D and innovation capabilities of John Bull universities are still uninterrupted, and they can still provide high-tech personnel.

A number of R&D centers of Huaxing Group in John Bull are cooperating with well-known universities in John Bull, constantly getting new technologies and R&D personnel, or acquiring some small companies with special technologies, but the R&D centers established before are basically R&D in the field of optoelectronic technology and Internet of Things and display technology, while automotive technology R&D centers are mainly concentrated in Germany and Sweden.

The privatization of John Bull in recent years has led to some local manufacturing industries no longer owning, and foreign capital has the opportunity to acquire these enterprises, and it can even be said that the German manufacturing industry has bought John Bull's manufacturing industry, and Huaxing Group has the opportunity to win the two well-known car brands of Jaguar Land Rover.

Now Dr. Schweder wants to cooperate with the University of Warwick to set up such a R&D and innovation center for cutting-edge automotive technologies, and Yang Jie naturally agrees.

Although the number of R&D personnel in Zhongyuan Automobile Company is already very large, Yang Jie is not arrogant enough to think that with such technical strength, he can sit back and relax and be invincible in the world, and only by continuous technological innovation can the company continue to make progress in technology.

In this way, Zhongyuan Automobile Group Co., Ltd. has also set up a research and development center at the University of Warwick to invest together with Jaguar Land Rover, and the specific investment scale is planned in detail. ”

Yang Jie said to Schweide and Li Jianfeng.

Dr. Schweider and Li Jianfeng both nodded in agreement.

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