Auto parts standardization and serialization is the innovation of the product and the product data management (PDM) foundation. This paper from multiple perspective, this paper discusses the important significance of standardized design.

As is known to all, any design in need to adopt standard parts, we can refer to the standard manual "selection we need to adopt the corresponding standard. And through the access to the standard manual ", we can easily know the exterior of a standard size, strength and performance. Through the selection of standard parts, enhance the design product commonality, reliability. Choose standard parts, also facilitate procurement. Choose standard design products, also facilitate the future maintenance.

At present, the domestic few big auto makers, out of the requirements of market competition, every year to launch many new models. In these new models of development process, some of the design personnel go "shortcut", they are not in the deep research on the basis of the structure of the new models, borrow this enterprise existing the comparatively mature component products, but blindly copy (copy) foreign vehicle and parts style - copy or imitate foreign a car to do design drawings. The result: the enterprise components factory new product varieties excursion. Because of new products, components product quality is not stable, and the quality of the vehicle more unstable; Because of new products, the enterprise will to invest a lot of tooling, pay a lot of money, Due to the new product is overmuch, parts factory technical staff can only busy cope with new product output and debugging, and in no time to existing products necessary improvement.

In the long run, auto parts quality declining, leading to the quality of the vehicle also fall subsequently, investigate its "reason", and "false" thought product selection is bad, go to "copy" foreign other products, so a vicious circle, marched into the death.

Car the life of an enterprise lies in "research and development design". Now that we have the car r&d department, it should be to study, but is not a simple copy copy!

Of course, some people like in anger, so that he didn't copy copy, and he will go extreme to show you. Therefore, there must be an emphasis on, we are to study the problem, not in anger, we not only against copy copy, at the same time also opposed to work behind closed doors - we want to correct learning attitude. We welcome on the basis of reference for the research and development, the research results will have their own thinking, their own style, want to use of what he had.

Want to use of what he had, first of all to know that you have what. So, be about to gauge their own things - this is to "standardization".


1, automobile components standardized design is a solid work

Rome was not built in a day. Auto parts standardization work also not in one day will be able to do it, it is a long-term process, a meticulous and serious process, a bit by bit process.

At present, the automobile parts factory no products will be systematized and series classification, want to start to do, also can't eager to hope for success. First of all, want to consider the situation of the vehicle, the size of the parts available space and parts must be completed performance requirements. Often the vehicle once design finish, again want to change is very troublesome. So, in the design of vehicle, also want to consider to use parts factory existing product, in order to reduce inflation components new product varieties.


2, auto parts standardization is a persistent work

Standardization is classified into a form system, as long as happened, at any time consciously to do. To do the job, want to have strength of character. Three minutes enthusiasm, afterwards assault, this kind of attitude is to be bad.

Human character is can hone, accomplishment. Outgoing personality, not necessarily is not careful, not a "CuZhongYouXi" view it. In the past people speak "practice", through the "fix", edify the virtue of a man, but also to train a person's character. So as long as the enterprises advocated "strives for realism earnestly, conscientious and meticulous work style, encourage" faithful to their duties, and conscientiously "work attitude, employees can cultivate stringent and pragmatic character.

However, some leaders now lie, "like" working overtime work, then work accumulate a heap of, then assault to be finished, so is made "achievement", you can write summary, can report achievement. The great harm: a, assault work, is very hair grass, hard to avoid omissions; Second, accumulate work, during the period of time, the relevant work is put aside hysteresis down, affects the related part of the work; Three, lose the correct principle and guide, usually seriously do the job staff didn't get deserved praise, and usually lazy, rely on assault work are commended.


3, new product research and development funds

All mankind research and development of new products and automotive research institute are will be a research and development design funds - this is automobile parts factory new product variety irruptive an important factor.

In order to more research and development design, for can borrow other types of auto parts, also be deliberately mystifying, a slight change, "design" out of the new varieties. Results institute got research and development design, the following parts factory waste into new tooling. Often the new trial production, product performance and unstable, affect the quality of the vehicle performance.

A suggestion: can you in the new model design, even borrow existing components, the design fee also to graduate. So, research institute natural happy to use existing components. So, also from the following parts factory more investment and destroyed many unstable factors. From the overall point of view, still have to is greater than the loss.


4, automotive parts and the ideal state of standardization

Auto parts standardization and serialization after classification, should put the auto parts products into manual editing. Thus, in vehicle design, use the corresponding parts, can through the consult the manual "choose existing, mature products. Even if happen existing components do not meet the requirements, or select the "manual" on the variety of similar to revise. After the change, forming the new model will timely entry "manual", in order to form a benign circulation.

So, "auto parts standardization model editor into a", can improve the vehicle and parts design efficiency, shorten the design cycle, reduce design cost. More new models using existing, the comparatively mature parts, are also good for the quality of the vehicle.

To introduce foreign models, after "digest", according to our "parts manual" to "redesign", also is beneficial to speed up the introduction of car localization process. So as to reduce the cost, increase obtain profits.


5, auto parts standardization and continuous improvement

Nissan's household electrical appliances product often can give people leave deep impression, because they enjoy fine design, design have to considerate, a small details, designers are considered very in place. Investigate its design process, they have been hundreds of thousands of times, and even tens of thousands of times improvement - every year many times from the update product serial number, he sees one spot.

So, we have prepared the "auto parts standardization" work, into the "manual", isn't it infinitely continue down - ten years the same, or even a few decades the same? Of course not! Auto parts standardization and serialization purpose, is to enhance the different types of generality, reduce redundant may contain almost varieties, restrain the sharp increase of new varieties. To save a large number of technology, research and development, the design personnel, deep into the actual production, deep into the user group, obtain first-hand the user's opinion, the existing product repeatedly, deep, never resting to continuous improvement.

Quality pursuit is endless. Auto parts standardization, seriation, generalization later, will make technical personnel produce surplus, can concentrate on continuous improvement, thoroughly tempered, make the manual of the auto parts products mature, excellent.


6, "the first time to do the job well" understanding

A few days ago, there is a formulation is called "the first time to do the job well," how to understand? From the Angle of positive understanding, don't go to extremes. Here the "good" word, is relative and limited, because human knowledge with repeatability, limitless, rising sex, knowledge is 1, the deepening of the. So "the first time to do the job well," just said to have rigorous earnest attitude, in the first contact with understanding, on the basis of carefully to do as much as possible. Is not to say that, for the first time to do the job well, they never need to improve; It's not that, later you changed, it is the first time you didn't do the work well. Because the theory only through practice can obtain the inspection, also as long as in practice to constantly find new problems, and constantly solve new problems.


7, concurrent engineering and automotive parts design standardization

Automobile development is a complicated system engineering. Including creative, modelling, design, engineering analysis, model experiment, mold design and processing, assembly debugging, etc. Since the 1990 s, the United States and other countries automobile development due to the widely used parallel engineering technology, the new model has launched cycle from 48 months to 18 ~ 24 months, and at the same time, the performance of the new model is becoming more and more reliable. Concurrent engineering is already widely used mature technology.

Product data management (PDM) is the core of concurrent engineering. The distribution of it each developer role, have authority and development process. In order to coordinate oems and parts factory, PDM can provide visual tools for developers through the network meeting to discuss specific parts of design problems. More important is, PDM can guarantee parallel correlation, in a certain local modification, relevant parts will be submitted to the relevant personnel changes. At the same time, because in the early stages of design, introducing engineering design personnel and technology personnel to design evaluation, it can make problems early detection, early modification, greatly shorten the follow-up work of repeated cycle, improve the design quality. PDM can effectively integrate oems and parts factory design team, composition virtual development team.

At present the domestic automobile development is still in initial stage, most of the auto parts factory and part oems not implement PDM (product data management).

Auto parts standardization and serialization editing and record them, it is auto parts product data management (PDM) of the early work, also will work.


8, modular design and auto parts standardization

The end of February 1998, the United States at the Detroit auto engineering society (SAE) annual meeting exhibition, the United States Lear (Lear) shows a car concept car. The inner decoration all realize modular, inside of the train was simplified to front seat and back seat, instrument panel, workshop lining, door and trunk line and so on six big, these parts and all electrical machinery and equipment have advance assembly is good, can be made of the robot vehicle installation.

To realize modularization production, parts factory role will be major changes. In the "modular" mode of production, the car technology innovation center of gravity in automotive parts, parts designers to participate in oems product design.

Adopt the "modular" mode of production to improve automotive parts quality and automation level, and improve the quality and shorten the car production cycle, reduce the production cost, this is oems dream. To realize modularization production, parts factory will bear part of the vehicle before assembly work. According to Lear company that, if we adopted the modular way, global auto parts factory business will increase one 5, benefit. Therefore, modular production will make the car oems and automobile parts factory two benefit.

And modular car design foundation, it is auto parts product standardization and serialization.

In a word, no matter the concurrent engineering, or modular design, car parts of standardization and serialization will become the indispensable important link. The vehicle design development directions, car parts of product data management (PDM) will eventually become modern automobile vehicle design the necessary resources