Changan Ford has been established for half a year.

Naturally, the personnel of the various departments of the company are also in place.

Preparations are now underway for the Carnival, which will be mass-produced in January 2003.

As a purchasing department, it is natural to start identifying suppliers for individual parts.

As Changan Ford's first model, many parts of the Fiesta will inevitably be imported from the United States.

However, more than 40% of imported parts will be subject to tariffs as imported cars, so there is still pressure to localize.

Of course, the most important thing is that the high price of imported parts will make the carnival uncompetitive.

Therefore, Changan Ford's purchasing department is relatively active in the localization of various parts.

Among them, parts such as nut plates, bolts and bearings were originally made by Nanshan.

This time, Nanshan naturally also further obtained orders for related parts.

But this is not the most important, Nanshan's 6AT supporting carnival, this impact is greater than other parts.

It can be said that Nanshan has become the supplier with the largest amount of orders from Changan Ford.

This news naturally spread quickly within Changan Ford.

There are no secrets in the automotive industry.

The people of Changan Ford know, and the people of Changan Automobile also know.

And everyone has their classmates and friends, and many of these people are also from the automotive industry.

In this way, the news that Nanshan is going to supply 6AT to Changan Ford has spread completely.

"Yu Xing, have you heard that Nanshan wants to supply a 6AT automatic transmission to Changan Ford?"

As soon as Wang Huiliang went to work, he called Yu Xing to him.

Experience teaches.

At the beginning, the export of nut plates was transferred to domestic sales, but he was deeply impressed.

That's something that will directly affect his future on the side of the group leader.

The bearing almost made this kind of thing out in the back, so he paid more attention to things related to Nanshan.

He also knew that Cao Yang from Nanshan had a good relationship with General Motors' purchasing director.

After all, Zhang Fugui had also revealed the news in front of the people in the magic capital before, intentionally or unintentionally.

"Mr. Wang, I have also heard about this matter, and Zhang Bu of Nanshan mentioned to us that they can produce gearboxes, and also said that they will go to the General Motors headquarters to recommend it."

"But I haven't heard anything about them coming to GM headquarters."

Yu Xing naturally knew very well why Wang Huiliang asked himself this question.

The most important thing is what leaders value.

He sees this very thoroughly.

"Ask the people in Nanshan to see if they have any information over there. Let them share with us as soon as they have any situation. ”

Wang Huiliang didn't want to make a big export to domestic sales on such an important part as the gearbox.

Then he's going to be really uncomfortable.

"Well, it just so happens that they have a new sales manager, who will come to visit us in a few days, and I will get to know each other when the time comes."

"However, it is really surprising that their 6AT can enter Changan Ford for support."

Finally, Wang Huiliang talked to himself, and Yu Xing naturally wanted to brush up on his sense of existence.

Otherwise, Wang Huiliang is so busy, how can he usually have time to care about what Yu Xing is doing.

"I've always felt that Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd. is more evil, and it seems that my intuition is right."

"But if they can really make a good 6AT, that's a good thing for us."

"The ZF guys aren't good birds, and they haven't given us a penny so far."

Wang Huiliang is obviously also a little unhappy with ZF, and thinks that if his gearbox can be switched to Nanshan, it is also acceptable.

As for the technical issues, isn't it up to the headquarters in the United States?

"Indeed, up to now, there has not been a single quality problem with the parts supplied to us by Nanshan."

"Originally, everyone's worries can basically be slowly put down."

"If there are a few more parts companies like Nanshan in China, our cost reduction work will be easier to promote."

When Yu Xing was talking to Wang Huiliang, there were many people in many other companies discussing this topic.

"Minister Wei, is Aisin still not willing to sell us even a 4AT?"

Great Wall Motors, general manager Wang Ying called several heads of procurement and R&D to his office to discuss new projects.

"They are willing to sell the 4MT, but the 4AT gearbox, unless we sign a one-time order for 100,000 units, they are not willing to sell it to us."

"The most important thing is that their price is also very expensive, even if it is only installed on high-end models, it will lead to at least an additional 10,000 yuan higher price."

"This should be hard to accept."

Wei Qiang's teeth itched fiercely towards Aisin, but he had to beg the other party.

Because the gearboxes of ZF and Schaeffler are more expensive, they simply can't afford to use them.

"Spring City Toyota's models are now equipped with 4AT, and they definitely don't want to sell 4AT on a large scale before their models upgrade the gearbox to 5AT or 6AT."

"Otherwise, it will have a certain impact on their models."

"In addition, these transmission giants have been working together to limit the outflow of automatic transmission technology."

"If Aisin's 4AT is going to be equipped with our models, it will need to announce some technical specifications to us, and they probably don't want to."

Zhu Jianbo, the owner of the research center, added his own opinion on the side.

As a R&D personnel, he also wants Great Wall Motors to use the gearbox developed by himself.

But it is clearly not realistic in a short period of time.

Getting some of the other relatively simple parts together has taken a lot of effort from the research center.

Now the gearbox must only be considered for outsourcing.

"I saw a report on the NetEase Auto Channel yesterday, saying that the 6AT developed by Yangcheng's Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd. has received an order from Ford Motor."

"Have you heard about this? Does the purchasing department have contact with Nanshan? ”

Although Wang Ying is just a woman, her aura is very sufficient.

Otherwise, it would not be possible to suppress those ministers.

"Mr. Wang, that's the case."

"Nanshan, this company, we naturally heard about it."

"But before they were mainly making nut plates, wheel bolts and hub bearings."

"Since the structure of our model is in the style of the Dongying system, we don't use the nut plate."

"In terms of wheel bolts, we already have domestic suppliers, and the cost is still very competitive."

"In terms of wheel bearings, it is also the domestic Wanxiang Group that is supporting us, and the cooperation in all aspects is not bad."

"So although they have also approached us, they have never entered the system."

"As for the gearbox, it's the first time I've heard about it in the past two days, and I haven't heard them talk about their research on the gearbox before."

Wei Qiangneng can serve as the head of the procurement department, which is naturally related.

So for Wang Ying's questioning, he was not in a hurry.

He didn't feel like he had done anything wrong.

"There are indeed not many domestic enterprises that study automatic transmissions, and we have relatively little accumulation in this area."

"However, Nanshan can be recognized by Ford Motor, and it should be a bit expected that their 6AT will come."

"Minister Wei, can the purchasing department find a way to let Nanshan hand over a few samples of 6AT to us, and the R&D center will also confirm what their 6AT situation is."

"Is Nanshan's technical strength really so powerful, or is their 6AT imitating the products of other manufacturers."

Zhu Jianbo is obviously also very interested in Nanshan's 6AT.

People who are engaged in R&D have a better understanding of how difficult automatic transmissions are.

Not to mention the gearbox developed by itself in China, even if it is plagiarized, it is still not understood.

In Zhu Jianbo's view, there is a high probability that Nanshan should have been copied and understood.

This alone is up to me to check it out.

"If the Nanshan 6AT can really be used, it will naturally be the best."

"Then you won't have to be angry with Aisin."

"I'll get in touch with the people in Nanshan later."

Wei Qiang naturally doesn't want to deal with suppliers like Aisin every day.

The attitude is so strong, the price and supply conditions are difficult to negotiate.

This kind of supplier purchasing department is the least like.

"I think it should be more efficient to go directly to the other party's factory to visit and communicate."

"When the time comes, if we ask them to cooperate with us to carry out the test, they probably won't refuse."

Wang Ying gave his opinion on the side.

The boss said so, and Zhu Jianbo and Wei Qiang naturally had no opinion.

……

Zhang Sheng of Jier Machine Tool Factory has a good relationship with Changan Automobile.

In the nineties, Jier provided a stamping line for Changan Automobile, so he had a good relationship with many leaders of the other party.

In the past, Jier and Nanshan jointly won the stamping line order of Changan Ford, and some personnel from Changan Automobile also helped out.

This time, I heard that Nanshan actually won an order for Changan Ford's 6AT gearbox, and even exported it to the United States.

Liu Yanjie, director of the purchasing department of Changan Automobile, immediately couldn't sit still.

However, he didn't have much contact with Nanshan before, and this time, in order to be able to smoothly negotiate the matter of the 6AT automatic transmission, he directly invited Zhang Sheng to follow him to Nanshan.

"Mr. Cao, Nanshan is the pride of China's auto parts industry and an excellent enterprise that has mastered core technology."

"We need more excellent suppliers like you, so that our cars can slowly catch up with their international counterparts."

Zhang Sheng came with him, and Liu Yanjie naturally met Cao Yang and Ji Hua very smoothly.

As a joint venture partner of Changan Ford, Changan Automobile naturally has more information than other car companies.

Liu Yanjie, who is very confident in Nanshan 6AT, well, or very confident in Ford's judgment, came this time to lock in the direction of cooperation with Nanshan.

"Minister Liu is polite, there is still a big gap between us and Bosch, Continental and Denso."

"There's still a long way to go."

Cao Yang's words are really true.

But to others, it's just a modest statement.

After all, there are only a handful of companies in China that can be higher than 6AT, but there is none.

Now that Nanshan has broken this situation, whether it is various independent brands or some government agencies, they are actually very interested.

As long as this thing is confirmed to be true, the technology of Nanshan 6AT is also determined to be developed by itself, and there is no problem with quality.

Then more benefits will be waiting to be given to Cao Yang immediately.

"The engine and gearbox are the two most critical parts and components of the car, and there is a very big gap between the domestic technology and the international one."

"Today, Nanshan has first made a breakthrough in gearbox, and has also caught up with international peers such as SKF and NTN in terms of bolts and bearings."

"This means that in the future, our engines will also have the opportunity to catch up slowly."

"If there are any new parts in Nanshan in the future, please share them with us as soon as possible."

"Changan Automobile is willing to cooperate with Nanshan in an all-round way to jointly make Huaxia's own brand bigger and stronger."

Liu Yanjie came to Nanshan this time, and naturally reported it within the company in advance.

It can be said that he came to explore the way.

As long as Nanshan is willing to cooperate, there will be leaders of the research institute and the group to visit immediately.

At that time, it will enter the real cooperation mode.

"Liu Bu, I took what you said seriously."

"In addition to gearbox, Nanshan has really done a series of research in other fields."

"After the construction of Nanshan Industrial Park is completed next year, there will be a batch of new parts put into production one after another."

The transmission of Nanshan can get some orders from GM and Ford.

However, when we continue to expand our ABS, ECU and other businesses, it may not be so easy.

These areas, whether GM, Ford or Volkswagen, have their own traditional partners.

And the relationship between these partners and car companies is more complex and special.

Even if Nanshan can grab the order, at most he can only drink some soup.

In this way, it has become necessary to open the market of Huaxia's own brands.

In particular, some parts on the ECU and engine, in the future, independent brands will continue to develop their own engines.

This is Nanshan's best chance.

"There is no problem, if it is convenient, Nanshan can come to Changan Automobile to hold a technology exhibition."

"When the time comes, let our research institute and people from various departments fully see the strength of Nanshan."

"This will be beneficial to strengthening cooperation between the two sides in the future."

Liu Yanjie's proposal is still very sincere.

Directly enter other people's research institutes to engage in product display, this is the best promotion.

The matter is so big, it is more or less due to the results.

It's definitely a win-win situation then.

"No problem, Minister Zeng of our sales department will personally follow up on this matter and see how to get this activity up later."

Thinking about the Nanshan Research Center, there are already more and more products.

It is also important to contact the OEM in advance to get the opportunity of synchronous research and development.

Otherwise, if you don't catch up with the schedule of other people's new model development, it will be even more difficult to switch to mass production than to ascend to the sky.

(End of chapter)