In January-February, 51,000 diesel engines sold by Xichai increased 33% year-on-year

According to the sales data just released, in January-February, Wuxi sold 51,000 diesel engines, a year-on-year increase of 33%; sales revenue was 2.531 billion, an increase of 61% over the same period of last year. The sales situation was fierce. The phenomenon of Xichai vehicle. The entire Xichai has entered the Daqin mode, and each production line has already started to build up its own horsepower and work overtime to fully meet the demand for liberation. In particular, the Aowei 11-liter engine, with an annual design capacity of 75,000 units, produced more than 8,700 units in January 2017 and more than 8,900 units in February, far exceeding the upper limit of design capacity. What makes Xichai people able to overcome the bottleneck and constantly challenge the capacity limit? Recently, the author visited the FAW Xichai heavy-duty diesel engine base (hereinafter referred to as Xichai Heavy Machinery Department) located in Huishan District of Wuxi.

Li Suxiao, head of Xichai Heavy Machinery Department, said that the continuous production of Aowei Engines has made it harder for employees to work harder than to “work smartly”. It can be said that Xichai uses the wisdom of advance planning, the wisdom of scientific management, the wisdom of the upper and lower, and the wisdom of the three accomplishments to achieve the speed of “chi-made” Xichai in China, and provides the market with high-quality products.

Planning ahead to provide "smart" equipment for high quality and high output

"For the workers to do good things, they must first sharpen their tools." This ancient Chinese wisdom, in today's Xi Chai party secretary and director Qian Hengrong, has a unique understanding: "to build a national brand, high-end power, equipment It is the foundation, the guarantee, and the key. The production of first-rate products must use world-class equipment." To this end, the Xichai Heavy Machinery Department consulted the construction standards of the world-famous engine factory as early as when it was planned to build, clarified the construction of the world's leading heavy-duty engine production base, and reached the “three lead” with advanced design, advanced equipment, and advanced management. The goal is to provide the most solid and powerful protection for Xichai’s “smart creation”.

People who have been to the Xichai Heavy Machinery Department will invariably be impressed by its advanced production lines. In the production area of ​​50,000 square meters, the world's top equipment such as the German GROB machine tool, Swiss ABB robot, American GORBEL and so on can be seen everywhere. These devices integrate flexibility, integration, and automation into one. The automated assembly line has 179 stations, among which the FANUC robot is responsible for the assembly of the crankshaft. It can turn over 200 kilograms of the machine parts by 360 degrees, place the crankshaft inside the machine parts, and the whole set of actions can be completed at one go; Robostar three-axis robot is responsible for giving cylinders. The automatic gluing ensures the lubrication and quality of the cylinder liner assembly, and the entire line automation rate reaches 28%. 6DM machine line 60 process, the automation rate is as high as 78%. At the same time, the machining production line is also equipped with equipment that can fully analyze and control the machining accuracy and real-time control. The assembly line is equipped with automated production lines for equipment such as tightening, gluing, conveying, and assembly, and is equipped with key dimensions, torque and appearance. Re-inspection equipment such as leakage. These equipments ensure that all aspects of product accuracy, reliability and production consistency can reach the international advanced level. In addition, the Xichai heavy-duty engine production line also set 6 domestic firsts, namely: China's first creative "X" type production line, to meet the non-adjacent three stations share a robot, reduce equipment investment, improve the utilization of the robot And production efficiency; the first use of three-axis robot to achieve automatic lubrication and automatic installation of cylinder liners; the first use of optical fiber sensing non-contact detection technology, to achieve the cylinder sleeve seal ring installation quality of anti-error detection, effectively guarantee the assembly quality; reduce labor The strength of the test, reducing the pressure of the manpower; the first use of visual error prevention technology to carry out error-proof scanning on more than 60 features of engine parts, control product defective product rate, reduce zero kilometers fault and 12MIS index; domestic first assembly line parts Full-site implementation of smart AGV automatic distribution concept.

In 2016, Xichai's heavy-duty vehicle engine production base was selected as the 2016 Smart Manufacturing Pilot Demonstration Project by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Li Dong, deputy director of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Equipment Industry Department, investigated the field and found that Xichai has become a benchmark company for the “Made in China 2025 Project” with great promise.