Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client January 24 (trainee reporter Lei Xinrui) On January 24, in the factory building of BorgWarner Auto Parts (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. in Caidian District, Wuhan City, the P2 production line of the new energy vehicle drive module is running rapidly. Recently, the factory has always maintained the production state, most of the production lines are fully loaded, and the output of new energy vehicle motors has reached 5,000 units per month. This year, BorgWarner's Wuhan plant is continuing to expand, with the second phase of the smart plant already under construction in December 2021 and expected to double to 10,000 units per month by the second half of 2022.
The automation rate of P2 line of new energy vehicle drive module exceeds 90%
Realize the fully intelligent production workshop
The reporter observed that there are only a small number of employees in the huge factory building of BorgWarner's Wuhan factory, and robots, robotic arms, AGV cars and other equipment can be seen everywhere. Employees work side by side with industrial robots, forming a symbiotic ecology of human-machine collaboration. "The automation rate of our P2 line of new energy vehicle drive module is more than 90%, and compared with the traditional production line, the operator is reduced from 31 to 10 people." The relevant person in charge introduced.
The robotic arm of the intelligent production line at BorgWarner's Wuhan plant is working.
The plant has more than 10 production lines, including the P2 line, which is the second production line arranged by BorgWarner in the world after the Swedish plant, and it is also the international leading production line. In the fully intelligent production workshop, automation equipment can be seen everywhere. The reporter saw that from automatic winding, automatic embedding to automatic paint dripping, each production process is connected in series and can be completed by automatic circulation.
"There are dozens of error-proofing devices on a production line, the production parts are qualified, the equipment is automatically released into the next production link, if it is unqualified, the production parts cannot be released, and the equipment alarms." The relevant person in charge also showed reporters the MES system and automatic identification and error-proofing technology with traceability as the core, "by improving the level of quality control, the rate of defective products of the product can be reduced." ”
The annual investment is more than 10 million yuan
The production line is fully intelligently upgraded
BorgWarner is one of the industry's leading suppliers of combustion engines, hybrid and electric drive vehicles. Its Wuhan plant mainly produces core key components such as electric vehicle drive motors, motor management systems, and electric vehicle electronic control integration, and is also a factory with an independent research and development team for the "three-in-one" project of motors, electronic controls and gearboxes, which can independently design and manufacture "three-in-one" products.
"We will continue to invest in new energy and intelligent manufacturing. We are full of confidence in the future and the Wuhan market. The person in charge said that since its establishment, BorgWarner's Wuhan factory has been committed to building a smart factory. In the face of the increasingly competitive new energy vehicle spare parts market, BorgWarner broke through in the intelligent transformation of the production line and realized the official mass production of the P2 intelligent production line in June last year. Every year, enterprises invest more than 10 million yuan in intelligence and digitalization, and more than 10 production lines, including P2 production lines, are undergoing intelligent upgrading.
BorgWarner's Wuhan plant is in full production.
The relevant person in charge of BorgWarner (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. said: "We started the second phase of the project in December 2021 and are expected to be put into use in June 2022. More automated production lines will be added for the production of new energy products. "Through the transformation and upgrading of these automations, about 50% of manpower will be saved and about 500 million yuan of output value will be added."
More than 1,200 auto parts companies
The automobile industry has accelerated its transformation and upgrading
According to the "Wuhan Industry Map", Wuhan has gathered more than 1,200 auto parts companies, of which about 140 are foreign investment institutions or branches of foreign investment agencies, bosch, DENSO, Valeo, BorgWarner, Webasto, Getrag, ZF and Garrett and other global auto parts giants have been in Wuhan for many years.
"The establishment of the R&D center in Caidian has enhanced the strength of independent brands, independent research and development and accelerated the progress of research and development." The relevant person in charge of BorgWarner (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. said, "This year, the output value of BorgWarner's Wuhan plant is expected to exceed 1 billion. ”
In the future, Wuhan will attach great importance to the cultivation of the basic capabilities of the city's automobile and parts industry, and actively promote the restructuring and upgrading of enterprises. Adhere to the transformation of the "new five modernizations" (lightweight, electrified, intelligent, networked, and shared), and support vehicle and parts enterprises to accelerate transformation and upgrading around the "new five" technology trends.
【Editor: Xiao Pin】
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