Only half a year after its listing, Dongfeng Citroen Versailles C5 X has frequently shown the "Versailles Moment" with high safety and global quality: it has won the honors of "2021 China's Top Ten Body" and C-NCAP "Five-Star" safety ratings; thousands of Versailles C5 X have set sail for overseas sales, refreshing the largest record for the export of a single vehicle of DPCA... Today, Xiaobian will reveal how the Dongfeng Citroen Versailles C5 X was built into "global quality"?
As the first new flagship model of the Citroën brand "Made in Chengdu and Sold Worldwide", the "global quality" of the Versailles C5 X is mainly reflected in the three key points of "global standards, global supply and global factories".
Start with the architecture and look forward design to meet global standards
Just as software design is inseparable from architecture, the performance of automotive products and the construction of intelligent technology also need advanced architectural support. The FAIRANTIS Group's EMP2 V3 modular architecture, designed to meet high safety standards in line with different road conditions and environments around the world, is the cornerstone of versailles C5 X's global quality.
Versailles C5 X not only meets the domestic C-NCAP and C-IASI crash safety standards, but also develops the EuroNCAP European safety standards in a targeted manner, and meets the higher standards formulated by the SAINTONIS Group, providing consumers with a high level of global safety and quality for every trip with all-round and dead-end safety protection.
"Full body brand", key components from global suppliers
The complementary R&D concept will achieve the effect of 1+1>2. In order to ensure that consumers have a higher quality car experience, the key components of the Versailles C5 X are sourced from leading international industry suppliers.
For example, the 8AT automatic transmission comes from aisin, which is recognized as a high performance performance in the industry; the master chassis tuning matches KYB OEM, and the PHC adaptive hydraulic stabilization technology shock absorbers held by Citroën with 20 patents, together with BASF shock absorbing rubber sleeves in Germany, can provide a soft and comfortable driving experience.
The new ESP 9.3 body stabilization system is provided by Bosch, a Fortune 500 company in Germany, when there is a sign of oversteering or understeering, ESP can make the maximum rapid response, avoid vehicle loss of control, reduce the probability of accidents...
In short, Dongfeng Citroen started from the source and chose the world's first-class suppliers, so that we have reason to believe that the Versailles C5 X of the "full body brand" will become the first choice for customers to enjoy extraordinary life travel.
A global factory that integrates leading equipment and exquisite craftsmanship to escort the global quality strength
As we all know, the factory is the starting point of the "life" of the car, and the intelligent and automated level of production and manufacturing has a profound impact on product quality to a certain extent. Versailles C5 X, the world's only production base, The Chengdu plant of Dongfeng Group and STEELTIS Group, is the "global new generation benchmark factory" of Dongfeng Group and STEELTANIS Group, and the four major process workshops adopt industry-leading intelligent equipment to achieve highly automated production.
Stamping: Forged Versailles C5 X reinforced iron bone. 80% of the versailles C5 X is made of high-strength steel and advanced high-strength steel as materials. Through the two industry-leading fully enclosed high-speed automatic stamping lines in the stamping workshop, the four-sequence production mode is used to realize the fully automated production of stamping, and the stamping accuracy control is efficiently ensured within 0.01mm to ensure the rigidity of the body.
Welding: 100% automatic welding to ensure that the body is beautiful and strong. In the intelligent welding workshop, 491 robots work synchronously, and the welding automation rate reaches 100%. The unique ultra-large hexahedral horizontal rotary table in China, a production line can produce six kinds of large body parts at the same time, and the production efficiency has increased several times.
The most advanced technology in welding production - laser welding technology, with a maximum of 6000W high-power laser beam as energy for the body sidewing and roof for tight seam high-precision welding, coupled with advanced structural glue new process to ensure versailles C5 X body beauty and sturdiness. In addition, online monitoring of body-in-white geometry can also effectively avoid the outflow of non-conforming products, ensuring the consistency and high quality of the body.
Not only that, after the welding process is off the line, the factory will regularly randomly select a body for a broken test to ensure the integrity of the product solder joints and the safety and quality of the vehicle.
Coating: Energy saving and environmental protection to create a clean cockpit. The painting workshop integrates leading processes such as no-stroke coating and green pre-treatment, and is equipped with 68 robots to achieve high-quality fine painting process inside and outside the vehicle. Taking into account the technology and environmental protection of the coating process, not only for the Versailles C5 X to provide high-quality water-based topcoat coating body, the silane process used in the old phosphating process saves energy consumption of up to 50%, no heavy metal emissions, bringing customers green and healthy high-quality clean cockpit.
Final Assembly: Strict checks ensure that the Versailles C5 X is consistently reliable. The final assembly workshop achieves a parts collection rate of up to 95% through advanced logistics mode, which not only improves production efficiency, but also ensures zero errors in the final assembly operation of Versailles C5 X parts. The fully automatic fitting and tightening of the body chassis, the monitoring and traceability management of the whole process of key assembly parameters, also further realize the high quality of the vehicle assembly.
After the assembly is completed, each Versailles C5 X must also pass 241 strict inspections such as vehicle initialization inspection, functional inspection, front wheel forward speed adjustment, four-wheel positioning detection, and rain. In addition to the quality inspection area, there is also a world-class in-plant dedicated runway with a total length of 4.5 kilometers, providing 100% runway testing and 21 kinds of full-road condition road testing, ensuring that every Versailles C5 X after the launch of the production line can maintain consistent reliability.
In fact, in the vehicle development stage, Dongfeng Citroen also has its own unique skills. That is, in addition to the conventional "high temperature, high altitude, high cold" three high experiments, Versailles C5 X also needs to go through the open road user simulation "catching insects" experiment with a total mileage of more than 2 million kilometers, and put a large number of experimental vehicles into the actual road for "fatigue testing" to find out the problems missing in the development, so as to improve the quality and reliability of the vehicle.
At present, the production capacity of DPCA's Chengdu factory is being steadily released, effectively ensuring the delivery of Versailles C5 X products. The Versailles C5 X, which is built in pursuit of world-class quality, will surely bring customers more extraordinary life experiences.