Difficult innovation process alliance to promote the industrialization of automatic transmission

Editor's Note: At the Auto Shifting Assembly Innovation Alliance Symposium, Mei Yonghong, Director of the Department of Policy and Regulation of the Ministry of Science and Technology, stated: The difficult process of industrialization of China's auto transmissions. The lack of core technology is the biggest “plain injury” in China’s automobile industry and is the main bottleneck restricting the strengthening of China’s automobile industry. Therefore, it is imperative to accelerate the independent innovation and industrialization of the complete set of technologies for China’s “automated transmission” assembly.

Although the organizers only informed the participants on July 21, although the invited guests were distributed all over the country, the reporter saw on the site of the seminar on the 23rd, the Ministry of Science and Technology Policy and Regulation Department, China Gear Professional Association, China Automotive Engineering. Several persons in charge of the Institute of Mechanical and Scientific Research, as well as professors from some colleges and universities and more than 20 auto-transmission gearboxes and supporting companies, all attended the event.

"This is enough to show that all parties are currently concerned about the development of China's auto transmissions," said Wang Shengtang, secretary-general of the China Gear Professional Association.

This urgency stems from the various setbacks companies have experienced in the research and development of automotive automatic transmissions over the past 20 years. The China Industry News reporter heard the word “heartache” in the speeches of many business representatives. The current state of development of the industry can be imagined.

Skin pain

According to Wang Shengtang's introduction, China's current autonomous production of automobile transmissions is mainly manual. After more than 20 years of development, the self-owned brand automatic transmission still remains at the prototype stage and has not yet been industrialized. In order to overcome the technology of automotive automatic transmissions, the state provided support in the 863 project, but for various reasons, it failed to make a breakthrough. This led to the long-term dependence on imports of most of China's auto transmissions.

With the rapid development of the automotive market, China’s demand for automatic transmissions has increased and imports have increased. Wang Shengtang pointed out that major foreign gearbox companies such as Japan’s Aisin, Aida, ZF, GETRAK, and BorgWarner of the United States have all invested and built factories in China, completing the market layout in China. It firmly controls the automatic transmission market in China.

This dilemma is the common "pain" of domestic self-branded automatic transmission companies.

Where is the road?

Frozen feet, not a cold day. "There are many reasons why China's self-owned brand auto transmissions are difficult to industrialize." Representatives of participating companies have stated that the first is the lack of core technologies. Other reasons include the late start, lack of investment in R&D, and lack of technical talents. As a result, our technology is not as advanced as foreign ones and we have to adopt foreign products.

Some corporate representatives talked about their opinions based on the physical aspects.

“We cannot simply attribute the problem to the technical gap. Because the development of this industry is not just a matter of transmission manufacturers, but it needs the cooperation and support of all aspects of the upstream and downstream industries.” Zhu Zhu Gear Co., Ltd. General Manager Li Jianhua believes that the failure of vehicle companies to lead to effective market pull is one of the main reasons why domestic automatic transmissions cannot be industrialized. He said: "For a long time, transmission companies have only been hot, and OEMs have not attached importance to this link, making transmission companies lack experience in matching with vehicle companies."

Wang Shunli, chief engineer of Shaanxi Fast Automotive Transmission Group Co., Ltd., also pointed out that “the key components of auto transmissions (solenoid valves, electronic control systems, etc.) are basically dominated by multinational corporations, and transmission manufacturers are under great pressure in the middle. ”

In this regard, Mei Yonghong also has deep feelings. He frankly stated that the problems mentioned above are not solved by a company or association organization. He said: "The state's attention to the auto parts industry needs to be strengthened. More importantly, there should be a strategic level framework."

In the period of rapid growth of the automobile industry in the 1970s and 1980s, Japan specialized in legislation for the auto parts industry, the core of which was to separate some of the key auto parts manufacturers controlled by the auto companies in the past to form a complete competition and make the whole zero. The component industry is moving toward innovation. At that time, Japan did not pay attention to the development of the whole vehicle as it did to China. Instead, it focused on cultivating a complete system of parts and components at the core of the development of the entire automobile industry.

Where is the road? Mei Yonghong asks himself: First, we must rely on independent innovation to achieve technological breakthroughs and master core competencies; Second, we need to reconsider and plan the overall structure and layout of the future Chinese auto industry.

Cohabitation

Establishing industrial alliances is an effective way to master core technologies through independent innovation. In fact, this has long been common in the development of industries in some powerful countries.

Mei Yonghong described the case of Japan's research and development of electric vehicles: At present, China is vigorously developing electric vehicles. In China, there are about 2,800 patents related to electric vehicles, but only 300 of them belong to our own patents, and Japan has applied for more than 700 patents in China. A country that has applied for a patent in China is more than twice as many as our own, and this gap continues to widen. How did Japan accomplish this? They brought together the most powerful 31 companies in the field of electric vehicles in their country to Kyoto University, leaving more than 300 core R&D personnel out of their original units and setting up a similar technology alliance to tackle key problems in electric vehicles. Technology, funded by the government, companies, and schools.

"Japan has already taken the lead in this field, but they still have to compete with us in this way of group operations. The final result will be self-evident." Mei Yonghong pointed out that cooperation is particularly important for Chinese auto parts companies. important.

In fact, the main topic of this seminar was the discussion of the establishment of the "China Automotive Automatic Transmission Assembly Innovation Alliance" related issues. At present, the China Gear Professional Association, the China Automotive Engineering Society, and the General Research Institute of Machinery Science have jointly organized more than 30 experts from more than 20 companies and are preparing to set up an "Innovation Alliance." The alliance is trying to overcome the core common technology of automotive automatic transmissions and make them industrialized, breaking the field where foreign companies dominate the world. Delegates said that the establishment of this industrial technology innovation alliance is itself an effective innovation in the R&D system.

“The companies that are here today are all competitors in the market. But we can walk together and reflect not only the interest orientation but also the cultural value orientation.” Mei Yonghong said at last that the cooperation is symbiotic and the students are born. Win-win, only cooperation can have the future.

Core tips:

The independent brand has not yet formed industrialization. It is a long-standing “wounding pain” in the field of automobile automatic transmission in China.

On July 23, the Auto Union’s Innovation Conference was held in Beijing. Mei Yonghong, director of the Department of Policy and Regulations of the Ministry of Science and Technology, used the term "sorrowfulness" to describe the difficult process of industrialization of China's auto transmissions.

It is undeniable that China is a big country in automobile manufacturing. In the first half of this year, China's automobile production and sales volume has reached 6.09 million, an increase of 17% year-on-year. According to this rate of development, this year's automobile production and sales in China have leapt to the forefront of the world's first few. However, we are not a car manufacturing power. In terms of brand awareness, international competitiveness, industry concentration, automotive core technologies, and independent innovation capabilities, there is still a big gap between China's auto industry and European, American, Japanese and other automobile powers.

At the root of this, the lack of core technology is the biggest “plain injury” in China's auto industry. Among them, the manufacturing technology of auto parts is the most critical, which is also the major bottleneck restricting the development of China's auto industry. The automatic transmission of an automobile is an important part of the long-term control of people. China has independently developed this product since the 1980s, but most of them still need to be imported. The independent brands mostly stay at the trial stage and cannot be mass-produced. What is even more worrying is that some of the existing automatic transmission technologies we are developing are in danger of being eliminated. Therefore, it is imperative to accelerate the independent innovation and industrialization of the complete set of technologies for China's "automobile transmission assembly."

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