Shanghai GM How to Guarantee the Quality of Expansion


In April 2003, Shanghai GM Dongyue Automobile Co., Ltd. was officially established. In August of this year, Shanghai General Motors reorganized Jinbei General Motors and established Shanghai General Motors Beisheng Motor Corporation. In more than a year, Shanghai GM has completed the construction of two production bases in Yantai Dongyue and Shenyang Beisheng. Together with Shanghai Jinqiao production base, Shanghai GM has formed a three-footed production pattern from south to north. The rapid expansion brings a full range of challenges for the company from management to quality control. How does Shanghai General Motors guarantee the quality of expansion? The key to system hardware, software and people is the vice president of SAIC Motor Group, General Manager of Shanghai General Motors Corporation. Chen Hong once said that Shanghai GM’s sustainable competitiveness is its system competitiveness. Replicate and extend Shanghai GM's manufacturing and management system, and transplant lean production from concept to operation. It is the key to Shanghai GM’s expansion of scale and strength. Based on GM's global manufacturing system, Shanghai General Motors has created its own lean production system, SGM-GMS (Shanghai General Motors Standard Manufacturing System), based on its own characteristics and national conditions. From the hardware design and process specification, complete replication and extension of such a system. This has become the construction goal of Shanghai GM Beisheng production base, and it has also become a strong guarantee for future product quality. Shanghai General Motors has sent a team of more than 30 people to Shenyang to be responsible for the preparation of Beisheng. They cover all aspects of the automobile manufacturing industry from procurement, logistics, manufacturing, and information. In terms of hardware. Shanghai General Motors plans to invest 288 million yuan in equipment restructuring and process improvement for Shenyang Beisheng. Ensure that the main production equipment and key product control facilities fully comply with the production requirements of Shanghai General Motors. In terms of software, Shanghai General Motors' process documentation and management system documents were converted into the documents required by Beisheng. In order to fully protect the material quality, Shenyang Beisheng fully used the original GL8 suppliers. Shanghai General Motors invested more than RMB 40 million to build Shenyang Beisheng’s IT system. From the beginning of the customer's order, production orders, material planning, purchasing, finances, costs, until sales to the customer, the entire business process has a complete information system to support the business operations of the company's various departments. The manufacturing site management system running on the local server in Shenyang can synchronously transmit the production information of the production line to the large-scale flexible manufacturing system server at Jinqiao for operation and control. This makes the lean production system at Beisheng Base and the Jinqiao Base share the same source, and the instructions are consistent. The "planned on-duty probation" is an effective personnel training program developed by Shanghai General Motors in the construction of the Dongyue production base in Yantai. It has also been fully utilized in the construction of Shenyang Beisheng. Shenyang Beisheng completed 704 people and over 200,000 hours of technical and management training in 4 months. All front-line workers received training in batches at Shanghai GM Jinqiao Base and Dongyue Base. It is also a major feature of SGM-GMS to make full use of the existing mature system on a sound system structure and to manage mature systems. Shanghai General Motors produces four quality valves, namely Tryout (equipment commissioning), pre-production, pilot production and formal production. All are led by Shanghai Jinqiao production base quality control headquarters. The setting of the quality valve enables Shanghai General Motors to make a major quality control of the new vehicle production. The review of its quality standards is made by the collective resolution of the company's top management. This is the system force that Shanghai GM imposes on the quality control system. It embodies the core idea of ​​quality control of SGM-GMS: the control of quality is guaranteed by the system, rather than the decision of one individual or several individuals. In the Shanghai General System. The opening of each mass valve produced in a new car is a “big event” that is enough to make a sensation inside. The quality system of Shenyang Beisheng fully follows the quality system of Shanghai General Motors. When the first quality valve of the GL8 relocation project was opened, senior leaders of the company collectively came to Shenyang Beisheng to discuss the decision making at the scene. During the construction of the Beisheng site. The quality system creation process is synchronized with the project construction process. The control of the system and the understanding of the quality of personnel have become the two key elements for implementing product quality control. Ensure product quality is guaranteed.

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