Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the automotive industry has taken action, and actively involved in supporting the epidemic prevention and control. 10 February, the country's many provinces and cities ushered in a wave of resumption of work, a number of car companies have said that they will be in accordance with the requirements of the scheduled start of work; at the same time, there is part of the car companies said that the resumption of work is still in the state of "to be determined".
As we all know, automobile manufacturing is a labor-intensive industry, which makes the prevention and control of epidemics, employee health and safety protection quite a test. If the epidemic prevention and control measures are not in place, in such a high density of staff operations, once the cross-infection will undoubtedly cause immeasurable consequences. Therefore, the car companies in the resumption of work at the same time to deal with the epidemic made sufficient preparations.
Starting work on schedule to ensure production, a number of measures to prevent the epidemic
The first day of the resumption of work for SAIC Group companies. SAIC Passenger Vehicle has adopted active epidemic prevention and control strategies, one of which is "organizational amoebaization", i.e., turning the existing organization into the smallest unit for management. office, staggered office hours, home office, partition office and other ways to gradually resume normal operation.
At the same time, SAIC-Volkswagen has also started production according to the original resumption of work. Staff from SAIC Volkswagen's R&D, quality assurance, purchasing, and safety and security departments have officially arrived at work. It is reported that SAIC Volkswagen has set up a volunteer team of about 500 people. According to the company's epidemic prevention and control measures and the demand for resumption of work,*** it was divided into six teams distributed in scene simulation, temperature measurement, employee parking lot diversion, shuttle bus and canteen management, psychological guidance and other work. Production at other SAIC-Volkswagen plants was delayed for seven days until Feb. 17, when work resumed.
Like the Shanghai automakers, Guangzhou Auto Group, which is based in Guangzhou, is also starting to deploy a plan to resume work. From Feb. 10 to Feb. 16, those who can finish their work at home will try not to return to the company, GAC Motor said. In addition, in order to ensure personal health and without the need for isolation, and the premise of good protective measures before returning to the office, the same day back to the company as far as possible to shorten the time to half a day.
GAC Passenger Vehicles and GAC New Energy, on the other hand, have adopted anti-epidemic norms at their bases: all personnel entering the plant must measure their body temperature and wear masks; employees who are on duty are required to measure their own temperature at 3:00 p.m. every day and report back; employees who need to have a meal are required to pack their meals from the canteen to the workstations or rest areas; and meetings and communications between employees are required to be spaced at an interval of more than 1 meter, etc. In addition, each department is equipped with a measuring device to measure the health of employees. In addition, each department is equipped with a thermometer; public **** places are placed at regular intervals with free hand sanitizer; and medical personnel are equipped with protective clothing and goggles.
On February 10, BAIC also officially resumed work. BAIC Group said that under the premise of doing a good job of epidemic prevention and control, it will make every effort to do a good job of production and supply, to ensure that key projects and tasks are completed. On February 10, BAIC Buggy Company responded positively and organized employees to return to work in an orderly manner, and resumed work in all business segments of the company. At present, BAIC Off-road Vehicle Company's three major workshops of assembly, body, and painting have been orderly production, the key projects of R&D are being promoted in an orderly manner, and the sales terminal has 125 stores synchronized with the opening of the store.
Changan Ford, on the other hand, requires its employees to wear masks, body temperature testing, factory disinfection, etc., and has purchased a large number of emergency supplies to ensure the smooth resumption of work and production. At the same time on the resumption of work of employees, including various departments to do the appropriate prevention and control of safety knowledge of some training. Before the resumption of work, Chang'an Automobile prepared a "Chang'an Automobile Employee Returning to Work" (referred to as "Returning to Work"), which included how to face the crisis of the epidemic that has not yet been lifted, as well as indicating that Chang'an Automobile can realize the production of the enterprise under the premise of ensuring the health and safety of the employees.
February 7, Geely public relations department said to the public, Geely strictly implement the requirements of the relevant departments on the extension of the holiday, delayed resumption of work, to take the batch resumption mode, to do a good job of epidemic prevention and control. At the same time, in order to reduce the possible epidemic potential after the holiday resumption of work, Geely said it will keep an eye on the guard post, canteen, dormitory and other key places of personnel movement. Every day on the employee workplace, the company's public **** facilities to carry out a comprehensive disinfection, for the employee employment environment to build a solid line of defense against epidemics.
In addition, most of the new forces car-making enterprises have joined the first batch of February 10 to resume work tide. It is understood that before the resumption of work, Xiaopeng Automobile has completed the frequent disinfection of public **** facilities in the office area, and carry out targeted disinfection work according to the characteristics of the region. Since the date of resumption of work on February 10, all parks/offices of Roc Motors set up testing and disinfection of entrances and exits, for employees who go to work in the office, enter the office area need to wear a mask and need to cooperate with the security personnel to conduct a body temperature test. In addition, the company's administrative department will issue two masks per person per day during the office period, and make strict process regulations for the control of express delivery, food delivery service, disposal of epidemic prevention products, etc., to maximize the guarantee of the working environment of the employees during the epidemic.
Since most of the car companies' factories are located in different provinces and regions, some of them are also planning the resumption of work and arrangements according to the requirements of each region. The head of public relations of Azalea Motor said that the company did resume work on February 10, but each factory will be strictly in accordance with the rules and regulations of each region, and even each park to make specific arrangements for the work on this basis. "For example, in Shanghai, returning personnel must be isolated at home for 14 days of observation before entering the park, so many of our field colleagues are required to work online." Also resuming work on Feb. 10 was Tesla's Shanghai Superfactory, which has very detailed and strictly written protection guidelines and supplies in its return-to-work guidebook.
Early start resumption of work, the production of protective materials and negative pressure ambulance
It is worth noting that there are also some car companies launched an early resumption of work. For example, JAC Commercial Vehicle, Brilliance Automobile, SAIC Datsun, Foton Motor, Jiangling Ford and other companies with professional ambulance vehicle production capacity have resumed production, and quickly delivered vehicles to the front line of prevention and control.
Meanwhile, this early resumption of work also includes the transformation of the production of protective materials: masks and disinfectant. For example, SAIC-GM-Wuling's Liuzhou Baojun plant has converted its production line to produce masks, with a daily output of up to 1.7 million, and on Feb. 8, the first batch of 200,000 masks produced by SAIC-GM-Wuling's joint suppliers rolled off the production line smoothly.
And BYD also announced on Feb. 8 that the company has begun the design and manufacture of production equipment for protective materials, aid in the production of masks and disinfectant, and is expected to ship mass production around Feb. 17 until the epidemic eases and is eliminated. By the end of this month, its production capacity for masks could reach 5 million per day and 50,000 bottles per day for disinfectant solution.
Postponement after postponement, "cloud office" at home
Of course, there are also many car companies continue to postpone the resumption of work, especially many multinational joint venture factories set up in Hubei, the main infected area. Toyota is suspending production at all of its Chinese plants until Feb. 16, with work resuming on Feb. 17, and Honda's three plants in Wuhan, China, are expected to resume on Feb. 17, according to the company. Honda's three plants in Wuhan, China, will suspend operations until Feb. 13 and resume work on Feb. 14, as originally planned. Kia also plans to resume production at its China plant on February 17th. Dongfeng Nissan, which started work on Feb. 10, asked its employees to work from home in a "cloud office" in view of the safety of the outbreak.
From Feb. 10 to Feb. 14, GAC Honda only arranged for a minimum number of necessary personnel to return to their offices to maintain epidemic prevention and control, safety and security, production preparations, sales support, logistical services and other related staff, while other staff worked from home. GAC Toyota planned similarly to GAC Honda, from February 10 to February 14, only arranging for the minimum number of employees related to company operations, production recovery, sales support, logistic services, and epidemic prevention and control preparations to return to the office, and prioritizing the use of home office for other work. In addition, due to parts suppliers and logistics reasons, GAC Mitsubishi production-related departments are scheduled to resume production no earlier than February 17th.
For its part, SAIC Motor has ordered a strict personnel management, plant management and emergency management program. All personnel who do not meet the requirements for resumption of work have been strictly enforced under the 14-day quarantine program, team activities have been canceled, employee travel has been suspended, and public activity facilities such as employee activity centers have been closed. In addition, SAIC Motor, in coordination with the three major brands of Buick, Chevrolet and Cadillac, has strengthened its guidance on quarantine prevention for dealership showrooms nationwide. Over the next two weeks, the company will gradually begin factory production with local partners.
In addition, Dongfeng Infiniti's Dalian plant will resume work on Feb. 16, with single-shift production from 17 and double-shift production from 24, while the Xiangyang plant will resume work on Feb. 18, with single-shift production from 20 on. FAW Pentium, Haima, BMW Brilliance are scheduled to resume work on February 17th. At the same time, there are still some factories resume work time are to be determined; Volvo said the plant is tentatively scheduled to resume work in the next 1-2 weeks, Infineon tentatively scheduled for the end of February. The resumption of work at the factories of four companies in the Dongfeng system, Shenlong, Dongfeng Passenger Vehicles, Dongfeng Components and Dongfeng Yulon; as well as those of BAIC New Energy, Jetway, Hopscotch, AIC, Weimar, and Zero Running are all to be determined.
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From the information, a number of car companies have gradually resumed work. The body temperature punch card, "high school-style" meals, elevator paper towels, issued masks, etc. has become the standard during the epidemic prevention and control, some car companies also aid production masks, disinfectant water and other protective materials. In addition, the supply of auto parts is also gradually improving. At the moment, all the difficulties faced by all are similar, and how to save for a rainy day, ready to be able to resume normal operation at the first time in the future, is a comprehensive test of the brand power, cohesion and system power of each car enterprise.
This article comes from the author of the automobile home car family, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.