At this stage, the domestic automobile manufacturing field, especially independent car companies, are just starting out. From modern automobile appearance design to the manufacturing of two key internal components, we are guessing that it has just begun.

As a veteran, looking at the beginning of my country's automobile manufacturing industry, at this stage, it is still in a stage of introducing technology imitation.

Let’s not talk about the major domestic state-owned automobile companies. After more than ten years of cooperation with foreign automobile companies, they have basically lost the motivation and ability to independently develop.

Directly introduce major parts of the car from abroad, and then return to China to assemble them. With the support of the country and selling them in the market, you can make huge profits. In such an environment, who is willing to increase efforts to invest in R&D and carry out independent innovation?

Not only did they innovate independently, they also ruthlessly stifle many of their domestic independent peers. For example, in terms of production licenses for civil passenger cars, they took advantage of the background of state-owned enterprises to suppress and restrict private enterprises.

In order to license a civil passenger car, Chery had to give it a portion of its shares to SAIC in exchange for a production license. It was already destined to transform itself into a state-owned enterprise in ten years.

Geely, another private enterprise, has been working hard for seven or eight years for this birth permit.

During this period, these joint ventures have long adjusted their marketing strategies in China and completely occupied the domestic market.

Ten years later, these state-owned enterprises are still lacking in independent research and development, and these private independent enterprises have already launched a charge in the field of independent research and development.

However, because of the fact that the technology is too backward, foreign-funded enterprises have to be stuck. This has led to many backward technologies that cannot keep up with the mainstream international technologies.

For example, in the two major fields of engine and transmission, in China, ten years later, besides the BYD, who is willing to spend a lot of money in this field, do reverse engineering, research it yourself and come up with results.

Any other car company in this field has to rely on introducing parts from abroad and assemble them back to China to handle the situation.

This is the sadness of not having independent technology!

If you enter the field of 3D printing technology early, it can provide domestic automobile manufacturers with a very good opportunity to overtake.

Ten years later, although the development of 3D technology is not enough to completely replace the machining field of the entire automobile manufacturing industry, the application of 3D technology can already greatly replace the original machining technology in some key areas.

For example, ten years later, General Motors and Ford have begun to use this technology on a large scale to make the gearbox shells, forks, gears, and other key parts, and even the engine cylinders and pistons. They can also make it.

This greatly reduced costs and began to sound the horn for their large-scale rework.

The most representative company among them is Ford.

Before the large-scale outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States in 2008, the three American automobile companies have always paid the least attention to the application of new technologies and the international market.

In their opinion, the United States is the largest automobile market in the world, and the products they produce are representative of American manufacturing. Americans with a strong sense of national pride will pay for their products no matter what their products are.

They just need to cater to the needs of Americans and create products that cater to American tastes.

So they have always insisted on the development of small-displacement engines, including large fuel consumption, high-power V6, or V8 engines, and do not pay attention to the development of small-displacement engines, because in their opinion, as long as they can defend the US market, there is no need for other products to develop.

However, the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 gave them a heavy blow. Because of the lack of money and the surge in oil prices across the world, even the American people who were always generous could not afford to drive such a large fuel consumption car.

Energy conservation and emission reduction have become the mainstream concept of the entire automotive industry for a time. So how to ensure the high power of the engine when using small-displacement engines has become the key.

So various new technologies began to appear one after another. The turbocharger technology, which was originally a high-end technology, began to popularize the area, as well as the direct injection technology in the cylinder, and also began to be widely used in small-displacement engines.

And the best in this regard is that during that economic crisis, the only remaining American-made one, namely the American Ford!

Moreover, Ford has changed the business methods that did not pay attention to the market or foreign users' experience, and has begun to develop various models that are suitable for the tastes of consumers from all over the world.

It is not that simple to develop a brand new model. If you want to innovate, you must abide by the laws of developing new cars in the automotive industry.

Generally, it often takes 36 months to develop a new car in the field of automotive design.

And the first eighteen months of these thirty-six months, which is the so-called concept forming period, is the most waste of time and the most waste of costs.

In these eighteen months, the designers drew their ideas from their minds to computers, and then began to shape the model through computer-combined machining methods, from the initial one-to-four small model, and then to the later one-to-one large model.

Any component of the vehicle must be transformed into a solid model through colored mud, and it will take at least about a year to manufacture this solid model.

The manufacturing of one of the intake manifolds and exhaust manifolds takes six months, which shows that the time and cost of manufacturing this model are wasted.

Before 3D printing technology, designers needed to rely on computers and machining centers to create such models, and some key components were forced to make them by themselves, which was very time-consuming, labor-intensive and cost-effective.

With 3D printing technology, designers can shorten the total market from computer design to one-to-one model manufacturing to a minimum of four months.

It not only saves fourteen months, but also saves a lot of costs, but also increases the speed of automobile renewal and greatly outperforms other competitors.

Ford is the company with the most comprehensive technology and experience in this regard. Ford, in the later generations, especially after 2010, they launched new products much faster than before.

This has greatly won the favor of consumers in the market. In addition, the new engines they integrated with new technologies have become the top ten engines in the world for several consecutive years, which has quickly gotten rid of their previous slow and bulky image.

And it quickly turned losses into profits, becoming one of the three major American automobile giants, which was the first to get out of the quagmire after the economic crisis and quickly turned into a profitable company.

After tasting the sweetness, Ford has increased its application of 3D printing technology and has applied it to more and more fields, which has also allowed them to quickly embark on the road of catching up with Toyota and Volkswagen on the road of development.

It even took only two years for Ford to return to the world's automobile manufacturing giants with the application of new technologies, among the top five, and I believe that they will soon be able to enter the top three.

This shows the importance of a new technology to a company or even an industry.

The development of automobiles in China is a weakness in automobile design. Chery and Geely at the beginning designed many strange models.

On the one hand, it is because of the lack of experience of designers, and on the other hand, it is because they do not have a mature system at all.

Moreover, when designing and developing this type of car, it requires a lot of investment, so they must finally bite the bullet and let these ugly models be called strange ones be launched. After it was launched, these models not only performed poorly in the market, but also brought them countless criticisms, and even made their corporate brands plummet, becoming synonymous with failed designs and ugly models.

However, if you have this 3D printing technology, even if a model fails to design, it can give you enough time to redesign because of your time advantages.

After all, you can design a new model in four months, while others use traditional methods, it takes eighteen months to design a new model. This is the advantage of time.

This often has a irresistible temptation for a new automobile company.

When Li Yifan thought of this, he felt a little excited. It seemed that he still had to make plans early and start participating in this field, strive to master this technology as soon as possible, and apply this technology to reality.

Moreover, if you master this technology, you can not only use it in the field of automobile manufacturing, but also enter the field of medical product manufacturing.

Medical product manufacturing! This field is an absolutely profitable industry. How many people in the country need to replace their organs every year?

What a big market this is, and the most important thing is that if you master such technology, how many patients and people will benefit!
Chapter completed!