Research On Improving Quality Of Product Research & Development In F Auto Group

The automobile industry has been developing with the times at the amazing speed.The great development of the auto industry in the world has brought about world-shaking changes to our lives. Although our auto industry rose just a few years ago and developed not as fast as the developed countries, it played a significant role in the growth of national economy and peoples' living standard.It's over half a century since the 1950s when the auto industry in China started. With the efforts made by several generations who devoted themselves to the industry, it has reached a new milestone. F Automobile Group has made great contribution to the development of the industry in China, which has laid solid foundation for the Chinese auto industry to have a role in the world.Since its establishment, the F Group has developed several hundred models such as HDT, MDT, LDT, mini, and sedan. Its production scale has reached a million units.With the competition more and more fierce, the requirement for the quality products and their update become higher and higher. The development of the auto quality comes from the quality control in the design and development. Design is the base of auto manufacture. It has direct influence on the profits and output when a new model is put into the market with great human resources, materials, and capital. Therefore, the quality control is the most important in the auto research and development.There is a great gap between F Auto Group and the foreign auto groups in the fields of the research and development process and quality control system. To make the Chinese auto industry rapidly develop and our product quality reach a new milestone, the Group has actively learned the advanced experience from foreign incorporations in various fields and greatly improved its capability of research and development.With several years of study and practice, F Auto Group has established the advanced research and development process that is not only suitable to the group but also similar to the one in the auto groups in developed countries. In the traditional process, the Group just copied the foreign car models by magnifying or dwindling and omitting many necessaryprocedures. As a result, the outcome of the product R&D was simply a copy of a foreign auto module. We knew it but didn't know why. However, the new process is divided into four stages including planning, designing, verifying, and confirming, which has ten milestones such as product planning, concept design, technical design, work flow design, trial-manufacture plan, trial plan, trial manufacture, performance test, reliability test, and document output. In all the stages, each of the procedures is combined closely with the market and conducted strictly according to the product research and development process.As a knowledge-intensive industry, it has very high requirements in each procedure. In addition to the establishment of new research and development process, the Group has made great efforts in quality management system, quality guarantee, and quality control to improve the product research and development.The quality management system is based on the requirement of the customers, the target of the Group, and relevant laws and standard to auto manufacture, which includes organization structure, process, resources (manpower, methods, facilities, and finance), documents (quality manual, rules, PEP manual, process documents, and task documents) and system examination (product check and examination, process examination, system examination, and management evaluation).With the quality management system, the quality control is implemented to make the product research and development meet the requirement of the users at the uttermost and enhance their satisfaction.The auto product research and development is the base of auto manufacture. It has direct influence on the profits and output when a new model is put into the market with great human resources, materials, and capital. Therefore, the quality control is the most important in the auto research and development.Quality control goes through the whole process of auto research and development (including planning, target establishment, plan establishment, plan implementation, check, verification, and feedback). During the product research and development, the detailed plans are made for every stage, each of the plans is reviewed by the experts, the work flow is strictly examined, trial-manufacture and universal components are checked regularly, and bench test is made before it is assembled according to the standards. The unqualified components are strictly prohibited from being put into assemble.The test plan is made to meet the requirement of customers. During the test of entire automobile, the Group finds out the problems in time and gives a timely feedback. After the relevant departments analyze and research the specific problems, the solutions are implemented on the trail-manufacture vehicles. In the several rounds of trial manufacture, the Group strictly manages each of the workflows and reasonably solves the quality problems in various stages to effectively control the quality in the product research and development. The trial-manufacture vehicles can meet our target at the uttermost and be regarded as the satisfactory products when they are put into the market.During the product research and development, the Group has gradually established and perfected the quality control system as well as product research and development process and grasped the methods of quality control to make the level of product R&D reach the international advanced one. With the unremitting efforts, F Auto Group will definitely drive the Chinese auto industry to the world and create a brilliant future for our auto industry.