On the way back to the company from Yang Yan's house, Jiang Hui didn't speak again, closed his eyes and sat in the back row, Pan Wei also sat in the driver's seat and drove silently, without saying a word or asking.

The leader's bodyguards, drivers and secretaries are all very unique job positions, these people are sure of the leader's henchmen, and they also know many of the leader's official and private affairs.

But if you don't keep your mouth tight, you are destined to not be able to do this role well, and you won't be able to do it for a long time.

Pan Wei is a smart person and knows how to measure himself, and Jiang Hui is also very relieved of him, so naturally he doesn't need to tell him anything.

Back in the office, Jiang Hui went to take a shower first.

Jiang Hui's office is large enough, with a bedroom and a separate bathroom, as well as complete bathing facilities.

This is mainly due to the fact that sometimes Jiang Hui has to rest in the company at noon.

Of course, if it were another boss, it would not be strange to do something indescribable in this kind of office, but Jiang Hui has not tried it for the time being.

"Mr. Jiang, Mr. Kato, they have already arrived in the conference room," Liao Yun said when Jiang Hui returned to the office after freshening up.

"Okay, let's go over."

Today is a technical evaluation meeting within Guanghui Automobile, which is mainly to verify the 1:1 clay model and determine whether it is possible to start making a prototype.

The development of a car, once the prototype car trial production, it is considered to enter a new stage of spending money, of course, the prototype car is corresponding to the temporary mold, and when the mass production mold is opened, the money is more like running water.

I don't know who said a word in later generations, if you don't prepare 20 billion, you shouldn't easily enter the automotive industry, otherwise you can't afford to play.

Although it is still 2007, it is not necessary to really spend 20 billion yuan to develop a model, but considering the construction of the factory, the ministry threw in tens of billions, and it is difficult for Guanghui Automobile to mass-produce it.

In his previous life, Jiang Hui had a friend from college who majored in vehicle engineering, and after graduation, he went to an automobile factory.

Once, when the two of them were chatting, they received the process of car development, and Jiang Hui was very impressed by the fact that when he said that when the new model was developed in the early stage, it would cost five or six million yuan to import a prototype car from abroad.

This classmate is in a joint venture company, the main production is more than 100,000 cars, that is, a mass production is enough to sell hundreds of thousands of cars and make money, buy a prototype car from the research institute of a foreign joint venture to play five or six million, people who don't know the situation still think that the other party quoted an extra zero.

In fact, after learning more about it, Liu understood why the cost of the prototype was so high.

The development of a model requires the production of different prototypes in multiple stages, and each prototype is made with more than ten or twenty units, and as few as a few.

You must know that more than ninety percent of the parts of a car basically require tooling to produce.

Tooling, i.e., process equipment: refers to the general term of various tools used in the manufacturing process. Including cutters/fixtures/molds/measuring tools/inspection tools/auxiliary tools/fitter tools/station appliances, etc.

Tooling is its generic abbreviation.

The tooling is divided into special and general, the general one is good, and it has little impact on the cost of the prototype, and the special one is troublesome.

Among them, the mold for the production of parts is the most representative special tooling.

What is the mold used for?

In industrial production, various molds and tools used to obtain the required products by injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, die-casting or forging molding, smelting, stamping and other methods are molds.

In a nutshell, a mold is a tool used to make molded items, and this kind of tool is made up of various parts, and different molds are made up of different parts.

It mainly realizes the processing of the shape of the item through the change of the physical state of the molded material. It is known as the "mother of industry".

As far as you can see, the car door, engine cover, tailgate, instrument panel, interior plastic parts and other parts are all processed through molds.

Like bumper molds and engine hood molds, if they correspond to mass production parts, they are all "iron lumps" weighing more than ten tons at every turn, and many of the materials used in the mold core are imported.

In 2007, almost half of the important molds of the Celestial Empire joint venture were imported from abroad, and there were seven or eight hundred thousand sets at every turn.

Parts like the engine cover generally need four sets of molds of blanking die, drawing die, shaping die and trimming die, and only after four processes can a coil of steel plate be turned into a part.

Judging from the preliminary quotation from the island country Hagihara Mould, which is controlled by the Glory Group, to the Glory Automobile, the mass production mold of the engine hood alone will cost more than 6 million.

This is just a hood, and the mold cost of the entire car is estimated to be more than a billion, or even more.

Of course, with the rapid development of domestic mold technology, in ten years, the price of molds will have to be cut at least in half, maybe more than that.

Although the prototype will not be opened according to the requirements of mass production, even if it is a simple mold, the price is not cheap.

A 1 million mass production mold, its simple trial mold, how can it cost 100,000, or even more.

Just make so many parts at a time, and the cost of 100,000 yuan is spread to these few parts, and the apportionment fee of the mold alone is more than 10,000 yuan.

Of course, not every sample has to be re-made every time it is trial-made, and only those that have changes every time are needed.

So, in fact, about forty or fifty parts of each simple mold will be apportioned.

Even so, a hundred thousand yuan is apportioned to forty or fifty parts, and the apportionment of each part is two or three thousand yuan.

And the mass production price of such a part may only cost fifty or sixty yuan.

Mass production of fifty or sixty pieces, two or three thousand samples, which is why a hundred thousand yuan of economic car, its prototype cost as high as five or six million.

In short, to put it mildly, it means that the development of cars is actually very expensive, especially positive research and development, not to mention whether you will or not, even if you will, you have to have money.

If it is a reverse development and copying the models of other manufacturers, the number and number of prototype trials can be greatly reduced, which not only saves time, but also saves a lot of development costs.

This is also the reason why many emerging independent brands will adopt reverse development.

According to Jiang Hui's arrangement, Guanghui Automobile is now also taking a clever approach, which can be regarded as borrowing Land Rover models for reverse development, so the development progress is relatively fast.

However, the necessary trial production is still indispensable.

In addition, Jiang Hui did not completely copy any model from the Sang development team, but borrowed some chassis design and body skeleton design from others, and in terms of appearance, he still needs to correct it himself.

After all, with Jiang Hui's golden finger, the appearance is the easiest place for Guanghui Auto to highlight its advantages.

(End of chapter)