As an ordinary consumer visiting a factory, you may not have much emotion for the cold machine, and the factory that AM Car Mirror is visiting today may change your opinion. It was also a whole new experience for me. As an automotive media person, I will take you to explore the Blue Valley Magna Intelligent Automobile Factory, as the owner of BAIC Jihu Alpha T, I will personally witness the production process of the vehicle.
At openDAY, we visited this high-end intelligent manufacturing base known as "Oriental Graz", gained an in-depth understanding of the world's super-first-class MAFACT production system, witnessed the production process and management system of Jihu Automobile from beginning to end, felt a luxury intelligent car production line made by Magna at zero distance, and explored what "black technology" Jihu Automobile applied in those invisible places.
What models did Magna produce?
When it comes to Magna, many consumers may not be familiar with it, but In fact, Magna is a diversified global auto parts supplier with more than 100 years of experience in automobile manufacturing. For example, the Mercedes-Benz Big G was born in the Magna factory, and of course, supercars such as the Aston Martin.
The Blue Valley Magna plant we visited today, located in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, was completed in December 2019, which is also the first time that Magna has set up a factory outside of Europe, and the two models of the Polar Fox, the Alpha T and Alpha S, were born here.
Visit from the perspective of media people
The so-called insider looks at the doorway, and the layman looks at the bustle. As a professional automotive media person, I explore the entire manufacturing process at close range in the Jihu factory, and what I am most concerned about is the manufacturing process and manufacturing materials of the whole vehicle. The entire Magna factory adopts the european advanced industrial standards, and the entire production process is basically produced and manufactured by machines. This can avoid human error, to the maximum extent to ensure the quality of its vehicles and product unity, the entire stamping workshop, a total of 40 homemade parts, according to the MAFACT system standards, from the material to the final product, from appliances to equipment, all-round in-depth control, so as to achieve a pass rate of 97%, while most of the main engine factory of the indicator is only about 90%.
Blue Valley Magna's high-end manufacturing base has the first 30JPH steel-aluminum hybrid production line in China, which is a fully automated production line consisting of 290 German KUKA robots and 206 sets of connected equipment. In the painting workshop, 52 ABB high-performance robots form a fully automatic conveying system, which is combined with LASD water-based damping coating to achieve automatic spraying of the body. Simply put, most of the production and manufacturing is done by machines, and the spraying level is in the industry leading.
Jihu Automobile won the "China Top Ten Body" and "Best Material" awards. In addition, in the first batch of CA-CAP corrosion resistance evaluation, Polar Fox also obtained a "Platinum Grade" rating, from which it is not difficult to see that Extreme Fox Automobile has reliable product strength. Only advanced manufacturing technology can achieve the honor of today's Jihu Automobile, so as an automotive media, I think the quality of the product of Jihu Automobile is no less than half a million models.
Pride as a car owner
If you feel that the media evaluation of a car is not convincing enough, then at this moment I will share with you the manufacturing charm of Magna blue valley as the owner of the car. In August this year, I purchased a Polar Fox Alpha T, and I briefly talked about the experience of using the car during this time. First of all, the mileage anxiety problem that everyone is most worried about, I chose the model with a range of 653 kilometers, and the biggest advantage when driving in winter is that the remaining endurance displayed by the instrument is very accurate, and I have confidence in my heart. In addition, the Polar Fox Alpha T can quickly and accurately view the location of the nearby available charging pile through the mobile phone APP, and it can be fully charged in about 50 minutes, which is convenient and fast.
In addition, the upgrade iteration of the car machine system of The Fox is very rapid, since I bought the car in August, the Pole Fox has carried out two OTA upgrades in just four months, and in the current automotive market, the update speed of the Car Machine of the Pole Fox can be said to be the fastest. Each OTA upgrade brings a lot of rich features and improvements. Therefore, Jihu Automobile is not the same after buying, but is constantly growing and optimizing.
As a consumer, how you feel about the Polar Fox
Let's take a look at Jihu Automobile from the perspective of consumers. In the factory, we saw the white body that has not yet been formed, as well as some car parts, and picked up a bonnet, and found that its weight is not only about 14 pounds, to know that most of the current models on the market the engine cover needs to take some effort to open, and why is the bonnet of the extreme fox so light? The reason is that it is made of all-aluminum manufacturing process.
In addition, Jihu also adopts a lightweight design, the whole vehicle uses a mixed body of aluminum under the steel, such a mixed body will be applied to many luxury cars of more than 800,000 yuan, and also uses more than 1500MPa of thermoformed steel in the A and B pillars of the vehicle, which form a cage frame structure, so that the vehicle can effectively protect the safety of passengers in the car in the event of a collision. Due to the use of the upper steel under the aluminum body process, the material of the upper and lower body can not be directly welded like steel or iron, for this Extreme Fox Automobile took the lead in the treatment of special processes, using the method of pre-weld pickling passivation and preset coating to solve the problem of dense oxide film on the surface of the aluminum alloy, in addition, the application of SPR, FDS and high-strength structural adhesive combination process, so that the connection between the materials is more stable, to achieve the perfect link of steel and aluminum materials.
AM Mirror Summary:
Pole Fox Automobile is at the leading level of the same level in terms of both the manufacturing process and body structure of the vehicle, and there is also the support of Blue Valley Magna, so the product quality of Extreme Fox Automobile is very reliable. At the same time, as the owner of the Polar Fox Alpha T, I am also proud and grateful for the wise choice at that time, and in the actual car experience, I have also verified the strong strength of the Extreme Fox Car, which is completely suspended in terms of power, mileage or intelligent configuration.