The popularity of "Glorious Speed" made the originally unknown company of Glorious Motors Co., Ltd. quickly become well-known to everyone.

Guanghui Automobile, which has been moving forward in a low-key manner for a year, has also basically completed the formation of the development team of the R&D center.

As a major department directly concurrently served by the deputy general manager of Guanghui Automobile, the R&D Center of Guanghui Automobile consists of nine functional departments.

They are the Styling Department, the Test and Certification Department, the Body Design Department, the Chassis Design Department, the Interior and Exterior Design Department, the Electrical Design Department, the Powertrain Design Department, the Materials Department and the General Management Department.

The styling department is responsible for the design of the exterior styling of various models, which is mainly composed of engineers with rich artistic cells and industrial knowledge.

The styling department can be regarded as the leader of model design, after all, a model, appearance is the most important factor, especially in the Celestial Empire, consumers first look at the face, if it is not good-looking, no matter how good the performance is, few people will buy it.

In addition, as a styling department located in the upstream of the industrial chain, it means that a designer's casual stroke may affect the entire downstream supply chain, all the way to the basic raw material suppliers, and also plays a pivotal role in the shaping of the company's brand.

Therefore, Jiang Hui pays the most attention to the modeling department, and when recruiting people, they all participate in the re-examination in person.

The personnel of the modeling department have the highest requirements for hand drawing basics, 3D modeling, clay model capabilities, surface software capabilities, 2D/3D rendering capabilities, material science knowledge, processing technology knowledge, ergonomic knowledge, and engineering basic knowledge.

For the two core positions of automotive exterior and interior designer, designers are required to have superb three-dimensional modeling ability. Many of the recruits have a background in studying abroad.

The styling department is followed by the test and certification department, which is mainly responsible for promoting various tests in the process of model development.

Experiment (generally considered to be a kind of experiment) is a science and technology and method developed with the modern industrial revolution, experimental science has made a great contribution to the development of modern science and technology, through experiments people can test a new hypothesis, hypothesis, principle, theory, can reproduce some natural phenomena, through experiments and experiments can determine and understand many unknown things.

Because automobile production is a large amount of flow of water, the amount of production, manpower and capital investment, the social ownership of products is also large, once the product development is not successful, it will cause heavy losses to the enterprise and sometimes even lead to the closure of the enterprise.

At the same time, the car is a means of transportation, once there is a safety and quality problem, the impact on life, property and society is huge. Therefore, test validation in vehicle development is indispensable and continues throughout development.

Therefore, the position of the test and certification department in the R&D center of Guanghui Automobile is also very important.

Various tests are required in various fields such as vehicle reliability, driving performance, NVH, safety, electrical appliances, and power lights, such as vehicle testing, matching testing, and parts testing.

Considering that the test and certification department has relatively high requirements for experience, Guanghui Automobile is mainly poached from major domestic joint ventures and foreign research institutions.

The rest of the design department, such as the body design department and the chassis design department, as the name suggests, designs parts in the field of body and chassis lights.

The corresponding parts of the body design department are mainly the structural parts of the car body, and the crash performance of a car is basically determined by the structural parts of the car body.

In the past, when Jiang Hui went to the 4S shop for maintenance, he would always see some customers gently tapping on the car's hood, fenders, door panels, and opening and closing doors, judging whether the steel plate of the car is thick or not through the dullness of the sound, and then judging whether the car is safe.

I don't know when this misunderstanding began to appear or why, and even extended to the saying that "the steel plate of Japanese cars is thin and unsafe, and the steel plates of German cars are thick, and the cars are heavier and safer".

In fact, the body parts that customers can see are basically not related to safety.

Covering parts such as engine covers, doors, and tailgates cannot be regarded as structural parts, but can only be said to be decorative parts.

If there is an exception, that is, some models are made of aluminum plates, which has nothing to do with high strength.

What really determines whether it is crash-resistant or not is the structural parts that consumers are not easy to see, such as bumper anti-collision beams, front and rear longitudinal beams, A-pillars, B-pillars and other parts, which are all kinds of bone parts that are really related to the strength of the car body.

The difference between low-end and high-end models is often reflected here.

The chassis design department is mainly the design and development of the four-part group functions of the drive train, driving system, steering system and brake system, which are necessary to support and install the automobile engine and its various components and assemblies to form the overall shape of the car, bear the engine power and ensure normal driving.

Whether a car has good shock absorption or not, whether it is stable or not, is basically determined by the chassis, and this part is also generally weak in the Celestial Empire.

As for the interior and exterior design department, it corresponds to the design of seats, instrument panels and various decorative parts, which is mainly affected by aesthetics and comfort.

Relatively speaking, this is the easiest, and it is also the area that independent brands are best at, and it is best to dig people.

As for the powertrain department, this is a bit of a long way to go. The engine and gearbox, these two are the two independent brands in the automotive industry of the Celestial Empire, especially the automatic transmission, which is almost 100% controlled by foreign companies.

If Jiang Hui had not been in it, there would have been no fundamental improvement in this state in the next ten years, at most there would be only a slight improvement.

It is also the most difficult for this department to produce results, otherwise those companies of Jili would not have made cars for so many years, and they would not be able to achieve the average level of foreign brands.

That is, after the economic and financial crisis, some foreign-funded enterprises were acquired, and they slowly improved their own level.

Jiang Hui is also ready to take the road of combining acquisition and independent research and development, and take advantage of the economic and financial crisis and the vast market demand of the Celestial Empire to improve the level in this regard.

The last department is the General Management Department, which is mainly responsible for all kinds of messy things.

The General Management Department is responsible for the ordering of trial parts, experimental equipment, project management, product planning, etc.

After a year of hard work, the nine departments of Guanghui Automobile R&D Center have finally been built in a decent manner.

In terms of the number of people alone, there are already more than 300 people, and they are still increasing rapidly.

Although compared with Volkswagen, General Motors, and Toyota, which have tens of thousands of R&D personnel at every turn, the R&D center of Guanghui Automobile is still very weak, but the seeds have been sown, and when the right time comes, it will naturally grow vigorously.

The golden scales are not the things in the pool, and they will turn into dragons when they encounter wind and clouds. The Nine Dragons are shocking, and they will swim in shallow water during the wind and clouds.

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