According to experts, we have now entered the second phase of epidemic prevention and control, which is also the most critical period.
In the face of the impact of the epidemic, in the strengthening of prevention and control at the same time, from the central to local authorities have taken a variety of positive and effective measures, the whole society is also doing their best to contribute to their own strength.
For the automotive industry, despite the market environment in the past two years is not very good, this sudden major epidemic is like "snow on the ground".
But it's worth recognizing that "when the country is in trouble, everyone has a responsibility", and the automobile people are still the first ones to take action in this big "epidemic". They not only donate money and materials, but also use their own production, transportation and other advantages, and actively collaborate with the offshore resources, and the epidemic race, to help the front line.
Just yesterday, SAIC-GM-Wuling following the first from overseas emergency return of 20,000 medical masks donated to the Liuzhou municipal government, used to support the first line of epidemic prevention and control work decided that it will be a joint supplier, through the alteration of the production line of the way to switch to the production of masks, and as a strategic reserve of materials, handed over to the Guangxi regional government unified allocation, to alleviate the current supply gap of medical masks, to further support the prevention of the epidemic and the development of the work and to protect the health and safety of the public.
Automobile manufacturers "turn production masks" the first case
Here we also want to SAIC-GM-Wuling the social responsibility of the bearer of praise, and this news also quickly attracted widespread attention and discussion of the netizens.
Since the outbreak of the "New Crown" epidemic, most of the country's regions and medical institutions are in a state of shortage of medical supplies. Especially as one of the most important protective materials, masks, now online can be said to be "a mask hard to find.
Although according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's mask production capacity of about 20 million per day, the current capacity recovery rate of about 60%. But this is mainly to ordinary masks, a variety of protective levels of dust, haze masks, N95 medical protective masks daily production capacity is only about 600,000 only. Visible, more specialized medical level mask production supply still exists a huge gap.
At the same time, the Guangxi Autonomous Region Party Committee and Government of the epidemic prevention and control of the relevant requirements, SAIC-GM-Wuling will actively raise. However, with the continuous development of the epidemic, many countries, including Indonesia, have listed the mask as a strategic reserve materials, can not be purchased from abroad and shipped back to the country.
"Auto Rip Talk" and China Automotive News Network learned in the interview, it is based on the above two backgrounds, SAIC-GM-Wuling initiative and innovation: mobilize supplier resources to transfer the production of masks emergency aid! Through staff training, transformation of the new production line, continue to put into this epidemic prevention and control of the blocking war.
According to the project construction plan, the production of masks of the dust-free workshop by Guangxi Construction Engineering Group is responsible for the reconstruction, will be completed and put into use in this month, *** set up 12 masks production line, of which 4 for the production line of N95 masks, 8 for the production line of the general medical protective masks, the daily production is expected to reach more than 1,700,000, will be able to quickly alleviate the situation of the shortage of medical supplies in the region of Guangxi.
It is important to know that, at this stage of the epidemic prevention and control of the critical period, the production of one more mask, you can protect one more person, the degree of this news can be imagined naturally uplifting.
Cross-border production of masks is how to do
It must be said, SAIC-GM-Wuling "production of masks" initiative is the most pragmatic, but also bold and innovative enough. This also makes a lot of netizens have many questions about this business: why can a car company overnight to do mask manufacturers? The quality of the masks and how to ensure it?
According to the "steam talk" and China Automotive News, the SAIC-GM-Wuling took the initiative to put forward the "production of masks" program, Guangxi District, Liuzhou City, Laibin municipal government's strong support. In order to implement the idea as soon as possible, SAIC-GM-Wuling also immediately set up a special working group, led by the company's leadership to promote.
Specifically, the project takes the joint upstream supplier Guangxi DeFuTe Group to produce masks through the transformation of its production line, while SAIC-GM-Wuling is responsible for the provision of personnel and technical support in the production, raw materials, equipment, quality, packaging and other aspects.
According to SAIC-GM-Wuling, the joint production of masks took less than five days from the time the idea was put forward to the concrete implementation stage. In the view of the "automobile pull steak talk", to be able to so efficient "transformation" can not be separated from the active promotion of all parties and close cooperation.
First of all, as the leader, SAIC-GM-Wuling quickly conducted site visits after getting government approval, formulated a production line transformation program, implemented personnel and technical support, and actively assisted Guangxi DeFord to carry out communication work with relevant government departments.
Secondly, the local government has also opened a "green channel" within its control, allowing it to quickly promote financial support, project approval, qualification certification and other aspects of the work, which saves a lot of time and cost for the production of masks.
Lastly, the Guangxi DeForte Group Co., Ltd, which rebuilt the production line, is the upstream supplier of SAIC-GM-Wuling, which mainly produces polymer materials and parts such as NVH acoustic foam.
You may know that the raw material for producing masks is mainly polypropylene. And in some of the products currently produced by SAIC-GM-Wuling, it is the polypropylene, a high-specification material that can be used for medical supplies, that is used for the production of acoustic cotton. Therefore, in terms of raw materials, production technology preparation, itself brings great convenience for the production of masks.
Not only that, the production of masks for the environment is very demanding, need to be completed in the dust-free workshop. Although the reconstruction work will be carried out by Guangxi Construction Group, as an OEM, it also needs to be completed in a dust-free environment in production processes such as automobile painting, so SAIC-GM-Wuling can provide sufficient technical support for the reconstruction of the dust-free workshop to ensure that the production line can be quickly launched after professional reconstruction.
Additionally, the staff also told the "steam talk" that the masks are produced in accordance with the technical requirements of medical protective masks GB19083. Currently in the trial production stage, to be completed after the dust-free workshop, it will be able to carry out the mass production of professional medical masks.
It is worth mentioning that Guangxi DeFuTe Group has set up a new medical device company, and has completed the medical device company's business license and medical device production license. That is to say, SAIC-GM-Wuling joint suppliers to produce masks business is not just for the epidemic "a hammer deal", but plans to carry out long-term.
What inspiration can be brought to the automotive industry
Summarizing, SAIC-GM-Wuling "switching to the production of masks" this business from the feasibility of saying that there is not much difficulty. Raw materials, workshops, technology and personnel are all there, while government departments have also given full support, guidance and strict control.
Then the reason why netizens have praised in addition to its important role in the prevention and control of the epidemic, but also in this idea for the automotive industry to bring new thinking.
In fact, in the face of the challenge of the epidemic, about the non-mask production enterprises to produce mask news there are a lot of, but basically are concentrated in the underwear, diapers and other enterprises, and in the automotive industry this time SAIC-GM-Wuling is considered to lead the industry first.
Possibly in the view of many people, underwear, diapers in the production of materials, links and production of masks, protective clothing has a certain correlation. But it turns out that the automotive industry, which seems to have no connection with the automotive industry, also has an inherent advantage in the production of masks.
According to previous notices issued around the world, many companies will return to work next Monday (February 10), and as an important material for protection, whether masks can be supplied is undoubtedly a major concern.
Obviously, SAIC-GM-Wuling has provided a proven solution for the community. I believe that if more car companies to join the ranks of the "production of masks", will greatly ease the national "a mask is difficult to find" the urgent need.
When the epidemic crisis comes, a socially responsible company should not simply donate money, but should actively participate in the rescue and prevention work.
The good news is that, as mentioned at the beginning of this article, the automobile people have demonstrated their unity of purpose. Not only SAIC-GM-Wuling, but also various car companies have been working overtime to send negative pressure ambulances and the most needed supplies to the front line.
But what I'd also like to say is that through this epidemic, the automotive industry has once again demonstrated the magnitude of its social volume, which involves a large number of upstream and downstream suppliers and peripheral derivative industries. And this wave of "transfer production mask" operation, but also let people see, perhaps in the country, the user needs, car companies in addition to the automotive industry can take up its own responsibility, but also "part-time" for the community to provide more important help.
The key lies in having an innovative sense of service, as well as the determination and boldness to take a step forward.
This article comes from the author of the automobile home car family number, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.