Meanwhile.

Siam, Chiang Mai.

As a base for the automobile industry planned by Homo Sapiens, Domino, which had been secretly controlled before, has roughly improved some of its infrastructure.

After more than three months of integration, there are now three production lines in operation, compared to the Aoba Automobile Company, which entered Chiang Mai Province early in the morning.

Jewel Automobile, Yangon Automobile, Chiang Mai Group's own Glory Automobile, Siam Group and Homo Sapiens joint venture Nanyang Automobile, Ubon Ratchathani Group's wholly-owned tungsten steel heavy industry.

Factories have been set up here one after another, and these factories are currently in the process of improving their infrastructure and preparing supporting plants.

It seems that there are six automobile companies, but in fact they are just six subsidiary brands of Homo sapiens.

Therefore, there are differences in the positioning of these companies.

For example, gemstone and tungsten steel, they mainly focus on construction vehicles, heavy trucks, excavators, cement trucks, agricultural vehicles, etc.

Yangon series, glory series, mainly sedans.

Nanyang and Aoba series, mainly focusing on auxiliary vehicles, small trucks, vans, RVs, high-end cars, and buses.

Anyway, the six will adjust their product positioning to avoid concentrating products on a small category.

At this time, the three production lines of Aoba Automobile were the production lines for small trucks, vans, and minibuses.

The hundreds of engineers who were poached from Lifan Automobile had adapted to life in Chiang Mai Province at this time.

In particular, Guan Jianzhi, whose family immigrated to Honsavady, has already learned some internal secrets, although he does not know any core content, but at least he still knows a thing or two about the products that the company will produce in the future.

Guan Jianzhi is a gearbox designer and currently serves as the head of the gearbox design department.

For a car, parts can be roughly divided into engine, gearbox, chassis, transmission, electrical, tires, shell, glass, and interior.

Among them, tires, shells, glass, and interiors basically do not have too many technical thresholds.

Especially for Homo sapiens.

And those core components, in the past, had to import spare parts to enterprises in Huaguo, Dongying, and Germany, or even a whole component, which greatly increased the production cost.

Now it's finally going to be localized.

This localization progress has exceeded the previous estimates of major foreign car companies.

At this time, in the transmission R&D team, Guan Jianzhi has designed several transmissions that are borrowed from Japanese cars according to the requirements of the previous company.

The reason why we learn from the transmission of Japanese cars is mainly because Dongying people do have a hand in design, and many of the other party's product problems actually appear in cutting corners, not in their own design.

And the material happens to be the strength of Homo sapiens, and when the two are combined, it is the transmission design of Japanese cars that is the most cost-effective.

Guan Jianzhi and others were a little apprehensive, because today's company's parts supplier has already transported the parts to Chiang Mai Province.

Once they got the container, they couldn't wait to start assembling it.

In fact, their worries are unnecessary, as long as their design does not have too many problems, the performance of the parts is absolutely exceeded.

Although the parts supplied by Sea Snail New Materials are reduced versions, their performance still exceeds similar products on the market by a lot.

There were a total of 5 transmissions, and 20 sets of parts were issued for each of them.

Soon Guan Jianzhi and others assembled the first transmission, which was a transmission used in a small truck.

After pouring the special oil for the transmission, the transmission is loaded into the test platform.

Guan Jianzhi wiped the oil on his hands with a rag: "It's a mule or a horse, pull it out and try it!" ”

The tests officially began.

The first is to experiment with the use of various gears.

The engineer in charge of the test tested one gear after another, and found that the problem was not big, at most it was not proficient in use, and it felt a little unsmooth.

But after testing it more than a dozen times, he gradually became proficient, and with the assistance of the booster pump, the gear shift was relatively easy.

Guan Jianzhi was not surprised by this, after all, this is a bit of a reference to the transmission, if there is still a big problem, then they will roll up and go back to their hometown!

And the next test is the most critical.

That is the service life, high-intensity and violent operation, and the operation of harsh environments.

Whether it can withstand the devastation can determine whether this transmission is qualified or not.

Guan Jianzhi, who doesn't have much confidence in parts suppliers, is also nervous at this time, and he really can't understand why the company is looking for this kind of three-no parts supplier.

"Lao Guan, do you have confidence?" The Mediterranean engineer on the side asked with a smile.

"Hehe, leave it to fate!" Guan Jianzhi spread his hands.

What could he do? Cold!

When the ultimate life test system was activated, the gears and bearings of the transmission ran wildly, and on the computer screen of the test platform, the numbers of the ultimate life were also beating non-stop.

A young engineer joked, "I bet it won't last more than 3 years." ”

"It's a lot, this kind of three-no product, whether it can be used for a year is a question." Another old engineer looked disdainful.

And Guan Jianzhi's face is not very good, after all, the product test is not good, and he is worried that the company thinks there is a problem with his design.

It's just that as time passes, minute by minute.

Their expressions grew more and more weird.

Because at this time, the ultimate life test has passed 5 years, which is quite good for a transmission.

After all, the transmissions of many car companies sometimes have problems in one or two years.

However, this is not the limit.

The value quickly broke through 10 years.

In the end, it was 15.3 years before there was a serious failure problem.

"This ......"

The engineers who were slapped in the face also looked at each other at this time.

The Mediterranean engineer swallowed his throat: "Could it be an exception?" Don't want to try another one? ”

Guan Jianzhi, who had just woken up from a dream, also felt that one was unreliable, so he nodded: "Then test the other one." ”

The faulty transmission was removed by them and placed not far away for a complete overhaul.

Test and overhaul at the same time.

After disassembling it, Guan Jianzhi found that there was no problem with the bearing, but that two of the pinions were worn, which caused the tolerance to become larger, and then it failed.

If it is not a limit life test, it usually does not wear out so badly in 15 years, because it is impossible for the vehicle to be in operation 24 hours a day.

After the two pinions were replaced, the tolerances were readjusted and the oil was changed.

Guan Jianzhi found that the transmission could continue to be used.

At this time, the ultimate life of another transmission also came out, which was also about 15 years.

They were all shocked.

"This parts supplier is amazing."

"Couldn't it be a Bosch subsidiary or a joint venture?"

"Whatever, if the quality of this part can be guaranteed, then our transmission can be handed over now."

Guan Jianzhi pressed the excitement in his heart and continued to assemble the rest of the transmissions, after all, this batch of samples was used for testing.

For more than a week, they were all cats in the test field.

It wasn't until the last sample transmission was scrapped by them that Guan Jianzhi and others stopped the test work.

At this time, they have accumulated a lot of test reports in their hands, and they no longer doubt the quality of the new parts supplier's products, but feel admiration.

In the eyes of a group of engineers and designers, this quality of products is simply a breath of fresh air for car companies that now advocate planned scrapping.

Thank you for your support (ω'), and thank you for the tips of "Yuming Daoren" and "Tigerhill".

(End of chapter)