Once upon a time, the birth of China's local high-end brands was accompanied by a lot of doubts, but who would have thought that today in the field of new energy vehicles, Chinese brands have been ahead of joint ventures and foreign brands, and have a greater right to speak.
On the one hand, the reason why Chinese brands can achieve "corner overtaking" is because Chinese brands have shown amazing efficiency in the exploration and popularization of electrification and intelligent technology. On the other hand, China's new energy vehicles have achieved a comprehensive upgrade in terms of supply chain, process level, and manufacturing standards.
Sailis Automobile is a "dark horse" that has emerged in the field of high-end new energy in recent years. Since entering the new energy vehicle market in 2016, Sailis has accumulated considerable technical strength. In the "three electrics" technology of new energy vehicles - batteries, motors, and electronic control, major car companies have invested huge R&D efforts.
In order to overcome the electrification technology, Sailis Automobile has set up a R&D team of more than 600 people, focusing on the independent R&D and production of core components such as electric drive, electronic control, and super range extension system.
Among them, the DE-i super electric drive intelligent technology platform developed by Sailis is one of the earliest technologies in China to meet the needs of user scenarios. This technology has been adapted to a variety of power forms such as pure electric and extended range, and has been applied to many models of the AITO Wenjie series, and has received good market feedback, winning many fans for Cialis. Of course, with Huawei's technical support, the Wenjie series also performs well in terms of intelligent experience.
At the same time, in order to further ensure production capacity and upgrade quality, Sailis has now built a Celis super factory in Chongqing in accordance with Industry 4.0 standards and industrial Internet requirements. The Wenjie M9, which was born and put into production in the factory, is not only the high-end of Cialis and the high-end of Chongqing, but also the world's high-end model, with a total of more than 70,000 units in three months on the market, becoming the new king of more than 500,000 gears.
New quality productivity leads the innovation and development of the industry
New quality productivity is the productivity driven by innovation, which is the number one task of the top ten key tasks in 2024. For China's automotive industry, promoting the development of intelligent networked new energy vehicles is a key way to improve new quality productivity.
Through the in-depth implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, relying on strong R&D and intelligent manufacturing capabilities, the new energy vehicle industry has been promoted to leap from quantitative to qualitative change, making the transformation process faster and faster.
In the field of manufacturing, Sailis Automobile pursues high-end, intelligent and green, which adds a distinctive background to the development of new quality productivity. They have built it with heart and are determined to become a new benchmark for smart cars in the world. Recently, the super factory they built and put into use is the world's leading smart factory for new energy vehicles, adopting a "four-in-one" intelligent manufacturing architecture, with industry-leading intelligent terminal applications, and the level of automation is also the top in the industry.
Celis also pioneered the IOT IoT platform and is the first in the industry to build a digital twin factory. The application of these high-tech technologies not only improves the quality of products, but also promotes the transformation and upgrading of the automobile manufacturing industry from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing.
Leading automation empowers efficient production
With the development of science and technology, manufacturing automation has become a key technology to achieve efficient production. The super factory of Celis Automobile has really put a lot of effort into automating production. They have more than 1,600 smart terminals working together, which is the most in the industry. This results in the highest automation rate in the industry for their final assembly shop, and the welding and painting processes are also 100% automated.
On the stamping production line, they use the most advanced 7700T fully automatic intelligent servo press in the industry, equipped with a flexible single-arm manipulator, which can press 16 sheet metal parts per minute. This equipment not only increases production speed and accuracy, but also consumes up to 15% less energy than conventional mechanical presses.
In the process of packing and transfer, Cialis adopts the combination of robot packing and AGV automatic transfer, which is the first in China, and realizes 100% automatic transfer. This not only reduces the workload of manual framing, but also ensures the stability and consistency of the quality of the parts, and improves the production efficiency of the whole vehicle.
In terms of measurement, Cialis uses high-automation, high-efficiency, high-precision CMM, blue light, lidar and other measurement equipment to achieve 100% automatic measurement. Their LiDAR measurement technology is the world's leading, with a measurement accuracy of ±0.02mm.
Sailis is also the first new energy vehicle company in China to use the world's leading 9000T integrated die-casting technology. This technology can die-cast the rear body composed of 87 parts in a single time, and the integration is leading. At the same time, it can integrate 222 parts into 10, reducing the number by 95%, improving the reliability of the body, reducing the number of welds, and achieving high strength and weight reduction of the body.
The production line of Celis is very flexible and can produce both all-steel and steel-aluminum hybrid car bodies. They have adopted the world's leading self-piercing riveting and hot melt flow drilling equipment to achieve a high-quality connection between the all-aluminum lower body and the steel upper body.
In terms of quality monitoring, Sailis uses lidar technology to comprehensively monitor the quality of the body-in-white, monitoring 160 key installation points, with a measurement accuracy of up to ±0.02mm, and a single-point measurement efficiency increased by 2 times.
The craftsman-level paint craftsmanship of Cialis makes every side of the body paint of the M9 exude an unparalleled beauty. They have also achieved green environmental protection, energy saving and emission reduction of the factory.
The M9's upper and lower color separation "skyline" and two-tone roof are all handcrafted, showing a luxurious temperament. Sailis Automotive uses an automatic paint quality inspection system, which can achieve 100% automatic detection, interception and traceability.
In the pretreatment electrophoresis process, Sailis adopts the industry-leading thin film process, which replaces the traditional phosphating treatment process and achieves zero emission of phosphorus and a class of metal nickel.
In terms of exhaust gas treatment, Sailis Automobile uses the exhaust gas treatment technology of zeolite runner and RTO, with a treatment efficiency of up to 99%.
In the topcoat spraying, Cialis adopts the world's leading B1B2 process, which is more environmentally friendly and energy-saving than the traditional 3CRB spraying process. They also used an internal electrification robot to improve the spray paint rate, reduce VOC emissions, and maintain a high-quality appearance.
The assembly production line adopts a series of efficient, high-precision and intelligent assembly processes such as chassis automatic assembly, automatic tightening, high-precision automatic detection, and intelligent process system to ensure the perfect delivery of high-end intelligent new energy vehicles.
Tires, seats, glass, instrument panels, front and rear suspensions, battery packs, etc. are all assembled in an automated manner, and the automation rate of the final assembly line is the highest in the industry. The chassis line adopts a fully automatic lifting and rotating holding conveyor loop, the chassis and the body are synchronized in place, and the whole is automatically assembled, and 12 connection points can be automatically tightened within 1 minute, and the production efficiency is increased by about 30%.
The key assembly adopts efficient visual guidance and visual inspection technology to realize 100% automatic assembly of the whole vehicle key weight assembly such as canopy, glass, tires, seats, instrument panels, and front-end modules, and at the same time, the appearance clearance surface difference of the whole vehicle is also 100% measured in real time, ensuring the high efficiency of installation and the reliability of quality.
The first IOT IoT platform escorts high-quality delivery
The super factory of Sailis Automobile not only has leading intelligent manufacturing technology, but also has very strict quality control management. They have used the latest technologies such as cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, and 5G to open up the data of the entire value chain of vehicle models, and also pioneered an industrial-grade application - IOT Internet of Things platform.
This platform can carry out digital intelligent monitoring, realize early warning and traceability, and fully automatically collect and analyze the whole process quality data of vehicles from raw materials to the whole vehicle off the assembly line. It can also use algorithms for deep learning, automatically find abnormal features, judge and control the production line, and intercept quality problems in real time. At the same time, this platform can automatically locate abnormal equipment to ensure that problems can be quickly analyzed, traced, and closed-loop processed.
In addition, Sailis Automobile has also efficiently integrated the automotive industry ecosystem, realized the centralized production of key components, and greatly improved the production efficiency. This provides strong support for the high-quality and efficient delivery of high-end smart electric vehicles such as the M9.
Write at the end
It is believed that with the continuous efforts of Celis Automobile on the track of intelligent networked new energy vehicles and its unwavering insistence on software-defined vehicles, it will be able to grow and develop new advantages with new quality productivity, accelerate its progress towards a global intelligent electric vehicle brand, and lead the high-quality development of China's automobiles.