September 8th.

Binjiang Avenue, Hangcheng, Zhejiang Province, Geely Holding Group.

Since the night before, Lin Shufu has been staying at the group headquarters, discussing with company executives about the layout of advanced assisted driving.

Although the comprehensive test of unmanned driving has been a great success, it is still some way from mass production.

This includes policy support, the introduction of laws and regulations, and the development and improvement of the industrial chain.

However, although it is not possible to launch unmanned driving for the time being, advanced assisted driving is no problem;

ADAS itself has been relatively mature, and now it is nothing more than a technology upgrade, and new suppliers replace old suppliers.

Tianyi replied that the 64-thread lidar is expected to start production in late September;

A TYC-2 with a sweep frequency of 120HZ and a scanning data point of less than 1 million per second is estimated to be about $1,500, and is expected to be controlled below $700 per unit by June next year. ”

In the large conference room, the product manager paused, and waited for Lin Shufu, who was in the top position, to digest the news and continued:

"Although the TYC-2 is much stronger than Mobileye in Israel and Velodyne in the United States in terms of performance, it is also 2/5 more expensive, and if you really have to purchase it, there is a lot of pressure on cost control. ”

Lin Shufu put his hands on the conference table, his thumb quickly circled, thought about it, and then laughed again, "Cost pressure is generated by the low selling price of our cars;

So can we change the way of thinking, let me give an analogy, the 6AT transmission is replaced by an 8-speed automatic manual integration;

The alloy double wishbone independent suspension was replaced with an all-aluminum integrated independent suspension, and the rear multi-link independent suspension with a lateral stabilizer bar was replaced with an active air suspension;

Halogen headlights are replaced with LED headlights, etc.;

Upgrading these hardware things, while the cost rises, does the selling price also rise?

The reason why we didn't dare to do this before was because we had to consider the issue of market competitiveness.

Your product has no features, no one has nothing to do, how do you ask consumers to pay for the configuration you pile up?"

After a pause, Lin Shufu raised his left index finger and dotted it in the air, and said in a sonorous voice: "But that was before."

The advanced driver assistance system we are about to assemble is the world's most advanced technology, even more advanced than the BBA.

Then I'm going to say, if you wear an Armani suit, a Rolex watch, and a pair of crocodile shoes on your feet, will you go to the bus?

This is obviously impossible!

Therefore, with such a high-level driving system, we can no longer roll up our sleeves to grab the market share of low-cost cars, but to attack the mid-to-high-end market. ”

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

There was a round of applause in the conference room.

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In the VIP reception room of the Geely headquarters building, Han Yi is browsing the history of the company's development on the wall, as well as the model of Geely cars in the display case.

Among them, there is a motorcycle model, which should be a motorcycle model built by Lin Shufu behind closed doors in the 90s;

The appearance is very similar to the "Happiness 125" in the early 90s, with a total displacement of 130cm³, a power of 9.03K, and a total mass of 218KG.

The staff next to him confirmed Han Yi's conjecture, "This motorcycle is the motorcycle made by our chairman in 1996." Unfortunately, at that time, the policy did not allow private people to build motorcycles, and as a result, the motorcycle plan was stillborn. ”

Han Yi laughed, "It's good that the fetus was stillborn, otherwise how could there be good luck now?"

"Hehe, Mr. Han is right. ”

Just as I was browsing, the familiar sound of laughter came from outside the door.

"Haha, Xiao Han, you came to ambush me again......" Lin Shufu walked quickly into the reception room with his secretary and assistant, and stretched out his hand three or four meters away.

Han Yi smiled and said, "I knew that Lin Dong was busy, so I didn't notify him, and there was no need to mobilize the people." ”

The two shook hands and exchanged a few words, and then Lin Shufu pulled Han Yi towards the living room.

The reception room is 50 square meters, decorated with simple and elegant decoration, and Geely's corporate culture brochure can be seen everywhere, as well as a huge group photo of Lin Shufu and Chinese and foreign leaders and entrepreneurs.

"Come on, Xiao Han, please take a seat. Lin Shufu stretched out his hand, "You are a busy person, you must have something important to do when you came to the door in person today, right?"

Han Yi also got straight to the point, "Our company has been researching industrial robots, and when you called me a few days ago, there was a breakthrough in spot welding robots. ”

Han Yi stretched out his hand to take the product manual handed over by Ruan Hongxiang, flipped directly to the back, and spread it out on the coffee table, "You see, the mainstream spot welding robots in the current market are all single-line single-spot spot welding.

Although it is much faster than manual efficiency, in my opinion, there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Our company has developed a single-line multi-point spot welding robot, which can work simultaneously on one spindle.

Just like the left-right fight in martial arts, the efficiency is also two times or even three or four or five times that of traditional spot welding robots. ”

Lin Shufu was a little surprised: "I understand what you mean, but how did you solve the problems of central control, server, and encoder?"

Han Yi smiled and said: "The central control of this Huawei Kirin and Tianyi light sensor can be competent;

We've already written the coding program.

As for the servo, multi-point spot welding itself is to solve the problem of single-point spot welding overclocking and burn-in, so the problem you said does not exist. ”

After a pause, Han Yi followed closely: "In addition, there is a harmonic reducer, according to the calculations of our engineers, a robot can run continuously and stably and with high precision for about 29 months." ”

Lin Shufu was really shocked at this time.

The welding robot they imported from Sweden's ABB could only maintain high accuracy for about 35 months without overclocking, after which the spindle had to be replaced.

It seems to have a service life of more than half a year, but the price is also more expensive than the Japanese benzene robot, and the after-sales maintenance is also expensive.

If Tianyi Robot can really catch up with Sweden's ABB, or even if it is almost okay, Geely will not hesitate to adopt it.

"Xiao Han, you didn't lie to me?"

"Haha, you can see it with your own eyes. ”

"What are you talking about, it's already been consigned?" Lin Shufu stood up in surprise after a pause, "Let's go, go over and have a look." ”

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The group came to the consignment department of the second branch of Geely in Hangcheng Bay, where two or three workers wearing factory uniforms were disassembling wooden boxes, and Yusan was directing on the side.

When the box was completely opened, nearly 200KG of spot welding robot parts were packed in good condition by plastic paper.

The two engineers, Yusan and Tianyi, began to install, and Lin Shufu watched with interest from the side.

The speed is very fast, the engineer installs the parts, installs the connecting wires and adjusts, and after about 30 minutes, the spot welding robot has been installed.

Geely employees pushed a medium-sized positioner.

Positioner is an auxiliary equipment dedicated to welding, which is used for welding displacement in rotary work, so as to get the ideal processing position and welding speed.

Generally, it is used with manipulators and welding robots to form an automatic welding center.

Workers drive a small hoisting truck and lift the spot welding robot to a positioner.

Soon, a set of spot welding centers was assembled.

The 3.5-meter-high spot welding robot is composed of a positioner base, a controller the size of a PC computer case, a main motion axis, two spot welding arms more than two meters long, and countless cables;

And the two thick spot welding arms are forked from the wrist, in the shape of scissors, which looks majestic.

Lin Shufu praised: "It looks very good!"

The group of Geely welding engineers standing behind him did not speak, but they did not think so.

Who didn't know that adding a welding arm would increase efficiency?

But there are many problems involved, such as the balance system of the robotic arm, the main control system, the encoder, the harmonic reducer and a series of problems, which is so simple?

Besides, people abroad are still researching, and a robot company that has just been established for less than a year has actually directly produced a finished product, who is it?

However, because the chairman was at the scene, he didn't speak.

Just because they don't speak doesn't mean others don't dare to say it.

"Roy Terry", the permanent executive director of ABB in Greater China, rushed to Hangcheng Bay when he heard the news.

What international jokes?

Geely is a key customer of ABB, with an average annual purchase value of more than $300 million, not including the most profitable after-sales service.

Do you want to come and grab our customers now?

There are no doors!

"Multi-point single-line robots can't be realized at all with your technical reserves, you are commercial fraud!" Roy Terry shouted as soon as he arrived at the scene.

Then, without waiting for Tianyi to speak, the tall Roy Terry wearing gold-rimmed glasses said to Lin Shufu: "Chairman Lin, our ABB is a global leader in industrial robots;

We have a state-of-the-art research team that invests billions of dollars in robot research and development every year.

But with our technology, we don't dare to try multi-point welding easily. ”

Roy Terry pushed his glasses and looked at Han Yi coldly, "No matter what your Tianyi comes from, if you dare to deceive our customers, we ABB will definitely not sit idly by." ”

"Hey, it's a big mouth. Han Yi smiled, "You haven't used our products, how do you know that I'm cheating people?"

Roy Terry said with a look of disdain, "I don't need to use it." The balance algorithm of multi-point welding, even our ABB has not broken through, what do you do?"

"You're going to rob logic with me, aren't you?"

Han Yi smiled and said, "In this way, let's talk nonsense, won't the two robots pull out the competition and compete?"

Lin Shufu was happy to see it, "Okay, just do it!"