Wei Jianping has not had much contact with Zhao Tian, and has always thought that this new boss is a genius in power design, and he is naturally absolutely familiar with industry or automobile manufacturing processes.

But with Zhao Tian's way of thinking about one thing at a time, Wei Jianping now began to have deep doubts.

So Wei Jianping asked tentatively: "Mr. Zhao, you must be familiar with the process of automobile manufacturing, right?"

What he meant was that if you are familiar with the process of car manufacturing, you must know that there are at least five stages for any new car from the beginning of design to its molding, and then it can enter the real manufacturing.

Zhao Tian was stunned, he didn't know what Wei Jianping meant by asking, according to his previous practice, he directly gave the model or engine and provided a concept, like BYD did a good job, it was in accordance with its own proposal to develop the four beauty sports car series, and the market response was still very good. Then he replied: "Isn't it just to set up a project, and then do research together, propose a direction, and then build it." ”

Wei Jianping's face was black.

What the hell is this, Wei Jianping now seriously suspects that he has gotten on a thief ship, and building a car is such a rigorous and sacred thing, how can he hit Zhao Tian when he says this, it seems to be like that.

Immediately, he said speechlessly: "Listen to this, then Mr. Zhao, you have built your own car before?"

Zhao Tian scratched his head, this question was difficult for him to answer. After all, if you want to say that you have no experience in building cars, after all, he has also participated in the research and development tests of the four beauties, but if you want to say that you have really built cars, after all, you have not presided over any project, so you can only say truthfully: "Strictly speaking, no." I had only the experience of cooperating with others to build cars before. In the face of Wei Jianping, he will be regarded as his own person in the future, and Zhao Tian did not hide it and continued:

"Like BYD's four beautiful models, it is the creative and power technical support provided by me, but I did not participate in the specific design, development and trial production, including the recent Geely company's 'dream era', which has just been on the market for a long time, and the main technology is also provided by me, but I have not participated in the specific research and development work, and I don't know too much. ”

Wei Jianping is a little confused, according to his experience, which power designer has not presided over some projects, and only after having experience did he start to engage in research and development by himself.

But the person in front of him completely shattered Wei Jianping's long-standing cognition.

Zhao Tian didn't seem to understand anything, but he was able to design so many engines against the sky. This point is too contradictory, which makes Wei Jianping scratch his heart a little and can't figure it out.

Wei Jianping suddenly realized that what Zhao Tian said just now was very informative, according to Zhao Tian's meaning, the cooperation with BYD and Geely Automobile seemed to be completed by him alone, and he was surprised: "What do you mean just now, in terms of technical cooperation with those two companies, ZT Company is the only one involved?"

It's just that after asking, Wei Jianping himself has the answer. The reason why ZT recruited their team seems to be because there is no technical team, which also shows that Zhao Tian alone is the technical core of ZT company.

Zhao Tian nodded and said, "Yes, what's the problem?"

Wei Jianping shouted in his heart: "It's too special, you're going too far, one person can hold up the sky, what else do you want us to do." ”

However, Wei Jianping, who was quite devastated, could only say: "Of course there is no problem." "It's just that I have mixed tastes in my heart, and I can't tell the taste.

Now, Wei Jianping has his own preliminary judgment on Zhao Tian's situation.

The technology is there, and it's the kind that is very inexplicable, the technology is so good that it explodes, but it seems that I really don't know anything about the process of automobile manufacturing.

Immediately, he introduced to Zhao Tian the work that needs to be prepared in the early stage of automobile manufacturing.

Building a car is not just about the four major processes that need to be carried out in the production workshop. There's a lot of preparation to be done before building a car.

First of all, according to the current mature car companies as an example, before building any kind of model, these car companies will have a research cycle on the market, that is, to collect information such as the needs, preferences, and habits of ordinary consumers for cars, and after a series of data statistics and research, they will limit the model and formulate market goals.

Of course, many mature car companies now have a large number of customers, even if there is no detailed market research, these car companies will develop market goals according to the preferences of existing customer information.

However, for any new car company, if it does not have a certain awareness of the market, it is very likely that it will be cold in the market if it rashly launches a new model. For example, Citroen Fukang, which entered the Chinese market in the early nineties, entered the Chinese market with a strange hatchback without a butt, because the people's perception of sedans at that time was basically limited to sedan models, and most of them felt nondescript to the appearance of hatchbacks. The result must have been the Beverly model, which was basically a failure from the moment it was put on the market.

After analyzing the various aspects of consumer preferences in the market, it is possible to plan the construction of the model.

This is often referred to as the conceptual design stage in the industry. In this stage, three steps can be divided, namely: general layout, modeling design, and making clay model.

The overall arrangement is the overall design scheme of the car, including the layout of the vehicle compartment and the driver's seat, the layout of the engine, clutch and gearbox, the transmission shaft, the frame, the load-bearing chassis, the front and rear suspension, the brake system, the fuel tank, the trunk and so on.

After the general layout sketch is designed, it is time to design the shape on its determined basic dimensions, that is, to put a beautiful coat on a pile of exposed parts.

At this time, on the basis of the overall layout sketch, the general designer will make a simple manual drawing according to the needs of the style, and modify it at any time to complete the model modeling sketch that needs to be made.

When the sketch of the modeling design is completed and the opinions of all parties are basically satisfied, it will be converted into a computer 3D model according to the style of the sketch, and then the model will be 3D printed, or the data will be entered into a 5-axis milling machine to mill out the clay model.

The clay model or 3D printed model will be smaller than the size of the original design, and it is generally manufactured according to the scale of 1:5.

Subsequently, the clay model was reviewed, and after the aesthetics, technology, structure and other aspects were reviewed, there were no problems, and then the model was made at 1:1 scale.