September 8th.

Geely Holding Group, Hangzhou Binjiang Avenue, Zhejiang Province.

Since the night before yesterday, Lin Shufu has been staying at the group headquarters and discussing issues with company executives about the layout of advanced assisted driving.

Although the comprehensive test of unmanned driving has achieved great success, it is still a long way from mass production.

This includes policy support, the introduction of laws and regulations, and the development and improvement of the industrial chain.

However, although unmanned driving cannot be launched for the time being, advanced assisted driving is fine;

Adas itself is relatively mature, but now it is nothing more than a technology upgrade and new suppliers replace old suppliers.

"Tianyi replied that the 64-thread lidar is expected to start production in late September;

A tyc-2 with a scan frequency of 120hz and scans a data point of 1 million per second. The price is estimated to be around US$1,500. It is expected to be controlled below US$700 per unit by June next year."

In the large conference room, the product manager paused and waited for Lin Shufu, who was in the first place, to digest the news and continued:

"Although the performance of tyc-2 is much stronger than that of Israeli mobileye and US velodyne, the price is also 2/5 more expensive. If you really need to purchase it, there will be a lot of pressure on cost control."

Lin Shufu put his hands on the conference table, his thumbs quickly circled, thought for a while, and then laughed, "The cost pressure is generated relative to the low sales price of our cars;

So can we change our thinking? Let me give an example, the 6at transmission is replaced with an 8-speed manual-automatic unit;

The alloy double wishbone independent suspension was replaced with all-aluminum integrated independent suspension, and the rear multi-link independent suspension with transverse stabilization rod was replaced with active air suspension;

Change the halogen headlights to LED headlights, etc.;

If you upgrade these hardware things, will the sales price also rise while the cost increases?

The reason why we didn’t dare to do this before was because we had to consider the issue of market competitiveness.

Your product has no characteristics, no one has anything I have, how can you let consumers pay for the configuration you have built?"

After pausing, Lin Shufu raised his left index finger and lit it in the air, and said with a loud voice: "But that's before."

The advanced assisted driving system we are about to assemble is the world's top technology and is even more advanced than the BBA.

Then I'm going to say, if you wear Armani clothes, a Rolex watch, and a pair of crocodile leather shoes on your feet, will you squeeze into the bus?

This is obviously impossible!

Therefore, with such a high-end driving system, we can no longer roll up our sleeves to grab the market share of low-priced cars, but instead launch an attack on the mid-to-high-end market."

"Smack it..."

A burst of warm applause rang out in the conference room.

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In the VIP reception room of Geely headquarters building, Han Yi is browsing the history of corporate development on the walls and a more model Geely car model in the exhibition cabinet.

One of them is a motorcycle model, which should be the motorcycle model that Lin Shufu built behind closed doors in the 1990s;

It looks very similar to the "Happiness 125" in the early 1990s, indicating a total displacement of 130m, 9.03k power, and a total mass of 218kg.

The staff next to him confirmed Han Yi's conjecture, "This motorcycle is the motorcycle built by our chairman in 1996. Unfortunately, the policy did not allow private motorcycles at that time, but the motorcycle plan was still in the womb."

Han Yi laughed, "Fortunately, I'm still in the womb, otherwise how could the current Geely be?"

"Haha, Mr. Han is right."

Just as I was browsing, there was another familiar laughter from outside the door.

"Haha, Xiao Han, come and ambush me again..." Lin Shufu quickly walked into the reception room with his secretary and assistant, and stretched out his hand three or four meters away.

Han Yi laughed and said, "I know that Mr. Lin is busy, so I didn't inform you, and there is no need to mobilize all the troops."

The two shook hands and exchanged greetings for a few words, then Lin Shufu pulled Han Yi to the living room.

The reception room is 50 square meters and is decorated in a simple and elegant manner. Geely corporate culture brochures can be seen everywhere, as well as huge photos of Lin Shufu, Chinese and foreign leaders and entrepreneurs.

"Come on, please sit down, Xiao Han." Lin Shufu stretched out his hand and pointed it out, "You are a busy person. You must have something important to come to your door today, right?"

Han Yi was also straight to the point, "Our company has been researching industrial robots. When you called me a few days ago, the spot welding robot made breakthrough progress."

Han Yi reached out to take the product manual handed over by Ruan Hongzhuang, turned it to the end, and spread it on the coffee table, "Look, the mainstream spot welding robots in the market are all of this type of single-line single-point spot welding.

Although it is much faster than manual efficiency, in my opinion, there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Our company has currently developed a single-line multi-point welding robot, which can operate simultaneously on a spindle.

Just like the left and right fighting in martial arts, the efficiency is twice or even three or four or five times that of traditional spot welding robots.”

Lin Shufu was surprised and said, "I understand what you mean, but how did you solve the problems of central control, servo machine, and encoder?"

Han Yi smiled and said: "The Huawei Kirin and Tianyi Light Sensors can be competent if the central control is used;

We have written the encoding program.

As for the servo machine, multi-point welding itself is to solve the problem of single-point welding overclocking burner, so the problem you mentioned does not exist."

After pausing, Han Yi followed closely: "There is also a harmonic reducer. According to our engineers' calculations, a robot can run continuously, stably and with high accuracy for about 29 months."

Lin Shufu was really shocked now.

The welding robots they introduced from ABB in Sweden can only maintain high accuracy for about 35 months without overclocking, and then they have to replace the spindle.

It seems to have a service life of half a year, but the price is more expensive than the Japanese benzene robot, and after-sales repair is also expensive.

If the Tianyi robot can really catch up with the Swedish abb, or even if it is a little bit bad, Geely will adopt it without hesitation.

"Xiao Han, didn't you lie to me?"

"Haha, you'll know if you'll see it with your own eyes."

"What did you say? You have already been shipped?" Lin Shufu was stunned for a moment, and stood up in surprise, "Let's go and take a look."

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The group came to the consignment department of the second branch of Hangzhou Bay Geely Branch. Two or three workers in factory uniforms were dismantling the wooden boxes, and Feng San was commanding.

When the box was completely disassembled, nearly 200kg of spot-welded robot parts were packed intact with plastic sealed paper.

The two engineers Feng San and Tianyi started the installation, and Lin Shufu looked at him with interest.

The speed is very fast. The engineer installed the components, Fengsan Installation Wire and Adjustment. After about 30 minutes, the spot welding robot was installed.

Geely employees brought a medium-sized displacement machine.

The positioning machine is an auxiliary equipment dedicated to welding, used for welding displacement of rotary work, so as to obtain an ideal processing position and welding speed.

It is generally used in conjunction with operating machines and welding robots to form an automatic welding center.

The worker drove a small lifting truck and lifted the spot welding robot to connect it to the displacement machine.

Soon, a set of spot welding centers was assembled.

The 3.5-meter-high spot welding robot consists of a transformer base, a controller the size of a PC computer case, a main motion shaft, two spot welding arms more than two meters long, and countless cables;

The two thick spot welding arms are forked from the wrist, in the shape of scissors, and look majestic.

Lin Shufu praised: "It looks very good!"

The Geely Welding Engineers standing behind him didn't say anything, but they didn't agree.

Who doesn’t know that adding a welded arm will improve efficiency?

But there are many problems involved, such as a series of problems such as robotic arm balance system, main control system, encoder, harmonic reducer, etc., which is not that simple?

Besides, people are still studying abroad. You, a robot company that has just been established for less than a year, has produced the finished product directly. Who are you?

However, because the chairman was there, he didn't say anything.

Their not speaking does not mean that others dare not speak.

"Roy Terry", executive director of Swedish ABB in Greater China, rushed to Hangzhou Bay after hearing the news.

What international jokes are you making?

Geely is an important customer of abb, with an average annual purchase amount of more than US$300 million, and the most profitable after-sales service is not included here.

Do you want to steal our customers now?

There is no door!

"Multi-point single-line robots cannot achieve their technical reserves. You are a business fraud!" Roy Terry shouted loudly as soon as he arrived at the scene.

Then, without waiting for Tian Yifang to speak, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, the tall Roy Terry said to Lin Shufu: "Chairman Lin, we abb is the world's leading industrial robots;

We have the most advanced research team, and the amount invested in robot research and development is as high as billions of dollars every year;

But with our technology, we dare not try multi-point welding easily."

Roy Terry pushed his glasses and looked at Han Yi coldly, "No matter where you Tianyi came from, if you dare to cheat our customers, we will never sit idly by."

"Wow, you're quite angry." Han Yi smiled, "You haven't used our products before, how did you know I'm cheating people?"

Roy Terry said with disdain: "I don't need to use the balance algorithm of multi-point welding, and we have not even made breakthroughs in abb. What are you doing?"

"You can follow me to robber logic, right?"

Han Yi smiled and said, "In this way, let's stop talking nonsense. Wouldn't you know if the two robots were pulled out to compete?"
Chapter completed!