Management Study On Engine Development Project In JL Company

Since China's accession to the WTO,China's car production and sales grow at a high rate of speed.Especially in the recent years,the people's income growing fast,and the price of car fall comparatively,the demand for cars began to soar.China gradually become the world's largest automobile market.With the rapid development of auto industry,auto groups at home and abroad increased the investment in development of new models and launched plent of vehicals.Auto industry competition is more and more fierce.Engine is known as the 'heart' of a conventional car.A vehical with a self-brand,environmental protection and energy saving enigne can be said to real self-brand cars.Automotive product development is a very complicated systematical engineering.To developement a new engine,in addition to request enterprise with advanced R&D equipment,plenty of skilled engineers,also need to have scientific and effective project management methods.In the developed countries,the application of project management is common.The big carmakers in the world have already formed the custom designed and standardized project management processes and methods for automobile industry.In recent years,due to the rise of self development of local carmakers,the application of project management is in the continuous development process.In this paper,taking automotive industry as the background,JL company independent development of gasoline engine was taking for study case.The application of project management in the field of engine development was analyzed and studied.The project scope,project work structure breakdown,project timing control management,project quality management,etc.,were analyzed.Summary the project management experience in this engine development project.This experience is good for the following project and also can be shared with other automakers in China.