Japan plans to generalize auto parts

【14】 Japan's 14 automobile and motorcycle companies will work together to set up an "international standards seminar," you want to universal specifications of components and automotive semiconductors to reduce component development and production costs to Enhance the competitiveness of Japanese cars.

 

In 1993, the global economic downturn, in order to control the cost of automobile manufacturing, European companies frequently universal parts design, have since launched their own platform strategy has been developed so far, this platform-based strategy GM only confined to the enterprise. Subsequently, many companies are also following the internal platform to follow the strategy of promotion, in fact, that time the car prices have been trying parts of the sweetness.

 

For the recent 14 Japanese car prices and cooperation between enterprises, nothing more than cooperation between OEMs and OEMs and parts companies cooperation. It is understood that the current Volkswagen and Daimler and other vehicle companies in Europe are working with large components maker Bosch, committed to parts standardization in order to reduce component development and production costs.

 

It is an indisputable fact that the auto parts and components are not only platform-based nor universal, it is also an indisputable fact that the research and development, research and development, innovation and innovation of all scientific research institutes should be concentrated together. This not only improves the scientific and technological content but also reduces the cost of development, manufacture, procurement and use. At the same time, parts suppliers will no longer lead to disorderly competition due to lower prices.

 

"Standardization of components helps to improve the efficiency of vehicle research and development, shorten the development cycle, reduce procurement costs, reduce quality risks, assembly processes, manufacturing costs of OEMs," said Ning Xiaoyang, chief engineer of China Automotive Components and Parts Industries.

 

However, some experts pointed out that this large-scale common parts will bring some risks.

 

Due to the large amount of market tests, design, and repeated tests that enterprises require in the early stage of generalization of components, the cost reduction of such technologies needs to control customer complaints brought about by potential quality problems. Parts common, once the parts problems, easily lead to chain recall events.

 

As early as 2009 to 2010 Toyota recalls are supplier quality problems of components, parts common platform involving a large number of vehicles, resulting in a large number of recalls. During the same period, the three car companies in the same parts and components production enterprises to produce parts quality problems, the same day announced the recall, the recall in the history of China is still rare.

 

At the same time, some people worry that the common parts and components will have an impact on China's own brand and China's parts and components industry. In this regard, auto parts industry renowned expert Chen Guangzu believes that the common parts and components will have a positive role in promoting the development of China's parts and components industry. He said that now is not the time to purchase more than three of the strategic alliance is very important. International competition of basic components, we still have confidence. In addition, any car prices in the parts processing commissioned, will choose high quality, local enterprises, not far away, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing costs.

 

Chen Guangzu said that in the past 80% of the auto parts enterprises are their own processing, with the international development of the automobile, and now the basic energy of the vehicle plant focused on research, model development. Apple never developed spare parts, they developed the integrated system software. 【Reprinted please indicate the source Huaxia Mold Network】