Not long ago, a piece of news attracted the attention of many netizens "from the plan to the line in just three days, Wuling completed the daily production of 1.7 million masks". At the same time, BYD and Guangzhou Automobile and other car companies have also put into the production of masks. In the country has a difficult critical moment, these car companies step forward, in our sense of responsibility for the car companies praise at the same time, I believe that many friends will also be "China's speed" feel amazed: making cars and making masks are clearly two things that can not be hit, why can car companies so quickly into the production of masks? Today we will explore the mystery of this together.
One, the production capacity allows
Today's car companies, is a set of heavy industry, light industry in a highly integrated comprehensive industry. The production process of the car is extremely complex, which involves a lot of skilled labor. A family car that can be driven on the road contains 30,000 parts from hundreds of suppliers. So many parts to be seamlessly assembled together can not be wrong, behind the back of the reliance on every day with tens of millions of dollars worth of CNC machine tools and large-scale equipment dealing with professional and technical personnel. Because of this, the transformation ability of car companies is very strong, in the war years, there are often car companies "change" to the production of airplanes and tanks. And the production of masks relative to those mentioned above, the difficulty is much simpler.
At the same time, the car company production workshop is a large-scale, a variety of equipment, while the production of masks only need to include mask molding machine, nose bridge laminating machine, including seven or eight kinds of machines. Therefore, for car companies, the transformation of production lines to produce masks, is not a difficult thing. Take Wuling as an example, Wuling opened 14 mask production lines in just a few days, including 10 medical surgical mask production lines and 4 N95 mask production lines, with a daily output of up to 1.7 million.
Two, production materials allow
The parts needed to produce cars involve various fields such as metals, chemicals, textiles and paints. One of the main materials needed to produce the masks, polypropylene fibers, is one of the raw materials for soundproof cotton on cars, which means that there are companies in the supply chain upstream of the car companies that have been providing them with this material. Now because of the epidemic, car companies can quickly get the raw materials to produce masks to put into production, which is many other industries want to switch to masks do not have the advantage.
Three, the production environment allows
We know that the mask as a medical protective products, the production environment has strict requirements. And one of the four major production workshops of the car enterprise coating workshop, it is the dust-free workshop. Then the question comes, why do you need this kind of clean room to build a car? Originally, in the vehicle painting process, if there is dust adhering to the body, it will form the paint defects that we can see with the naked eye, seriously affecting the integrity of the appearance, so the painting workshop of the car company has very high requirements for the production environment. In addition to the complex particle filtration and air circulation system, the dust-free workshop of car companies also has a negative pressure system to maintain the air pressure in the workshop. This set of valuable equipment is also an important guarantee for automobile enterprises to quickly put into production of masks. The clean room of the car company, after part of the transformation, can meet the environmental needs of the production of masks.
Four, national policy support
With the ability to produce masks, car companies also face the problem of qualification approval. During the epidemic, for non-mask production enterprises to apply for relevant filing qualifications, as long as the intention to switch production and the ability to switch production, the relevant departments will immediately coordinate with the Medical Devices Association's experts, with mask production experience in the enterprise personnel, together with the enterprise to help view the site to build the production of quality management system, and then constantly debugging, perfect. Among them, the experts of the Medical Devices Association has previously done relevant ideological work, to obtain consent to the epidemic period exempted from the relevant certification fees, with the mask production inspection of the enterprise personnel is also free of charge to help. It is also the policy support, so that the car companies to switch to the production of masks to be carried out smoothly.
Car companies can cross-border production of masks, which reveals the strong industrial strength behind the car companies, but also highlights China as a manufacturing country's strong strength. In times of crisis, car companies are obliged to shoulder their own responsibility to solve the country's problems, which is worthy of our praise as consumers, but also as Chinese people!
This article comes from the author of the automobile home car, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.