Expectation article
The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the main contradiction in our society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people’s growing need for a better life and the unbalanced development. This major judgment takes the people’s yearning for a better life as the goal and points out the direction for planning and promoting development in the new era.
As a pillar industry of the national economy, the automobile industry plays an important role in meeting people’s living needs, improving the quality of life and stimulating consumption aspirations. Under the background of the increasing production and sales volume in the automobile market and the share of independent brands, the employees of FAW R&D Institute face the challenges directly, continue to innovate in their independent journey, and are full of expectations and confidence in the future.
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In view of the new changes that have taken place in the R&D Institute after the reform, Jiang Wenhu, director of the Trial Institute of the R&D Institute, Cao Zhenglin, director of the CAE Institute, and Wang Lijun, director of the project management office, briefly explained the positioning of the core value chain, challenges and development direction in the future.
"What I wanted to do before can now be done, especially the liberalization of institutional mechanisms has given us a lot of room for growth."
—— Jiang Wenhu, director of the trial production institute
Jiang Wenhu, director of the trial-production institute of the R&D Institute, said that the biggest feeling after the reform is that what I wanted to do before can now be done, and a market-oriented operation mode under the state-owned enterprises has basically been realized, especially the liberalization of institutional mechanisms has given us a lot of room for growth, which is of great help to stimulate the vitality of internal employees. After the reform, the pilot plant will play a greater role in connecting the preceding with the following. While undertaking the project tasks, it will complete the loading with good quality and quantity, which will provide good support for the next work of the experimental department. As the core department, the trial production institute will also focus on confidentiality related work according to the requirements of the chairman. In the future, the trial-production institute will help employees change their minds as soon as possible, stimulate their innovative and market-oriented thinking, further improve and optimize human resources, enhance the overall technological level and the influence of technical leaders, and act quickly to actively respond to the challenges brought about by increasingly fierce market competition.
"Employee value must be reflected in the product development value chain. The remarkable feature after the reform is the equivalence of responsibility, right and benefit."
—— CAE Zhenglin, Director of CAE Research Institute
Cao Zhenglin, director of CAE Research Institute, said that the key point of this reform is to require employee value to be reflected in the product development value chain, and employee value is defined by President Xu Shili of R&D Institute as the value created by employees. On the other hand, the remarkable feature after the reform is the equivalence of responsibility, power and benefit.
The core positioning of CAE research institute in the product development chain is the guarantee of two important properties, one is the safety performance of the whole vehicle, and the other is the stiffness and strength, fatigue and durability of the body, chassis and powertrain. According to the spirit of the chairman’s speech, CAE research institute should strive to realize the digital simulation of the whole process of product development and test, improve the ability of successful one-time design of products, and greatly reduce the product cycle. In order to meet the challenge of 24-month product development cycle, CAE research institute will focus on improving the CAE research and development capability of body durability and collision safety. On the one hand, by improving personnel ability and software and hardware equipment support ability, CAE automation development is accelerated, CAE simulation accuracy and digital simulation verification ability are improved; On the other hand, by going out and inviting in, we can benchmark the advanced technologies inside and outside the industry, transplant the best practice cases at home and abroad to our product development quickly, and further shorten our development cycle.
After the reform, the work efficiency has been improved, the enthusiasm of employees has been obviously improved, and the feelings for independent career have been effectively stimulated.
—— Wang Lijun, Director of Project Management Department
Wang Lijun, director of the project management office, said that after the reform, he felt three changes: first, the work efficiency was improved; second, the enthusiasm of employees was obviously improved; third, the feelings for independent career were effectively stimulated. We always insist that the project management office should realize the whole process, the whole business field and the whole value chain project management. In this process, we should coordinate the internal and external resources to ensure the effective achievement of the project indicators. The focus of the development of the project management office is to further enhance the project management office’s deep understanding of the whole vehicle, its ability to identify customer needs and create the charm of the whole vehicle through two measures: professional knowledge learning and project management system, process, tools and methods in the fields of technology research and development, vehicle physical evaluation and commodity awareness, so as to meet future challenges.
Reform article
"Only reformers advance, only innovators are strong, and only those who reform and innovate win" is the main point that General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has emphasized on many formal occasions, and it has also become the strong voice of the times of the central reform and innovation achievements in recent years. Judging from the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it is the only way to solve the major contradictions in the new era. In order to adapt to the national situation, adjust the development direction of enterprises and carry out the reform to the end, FAW Group launched this top-down deepening personnel system reform on September 18th.
The Technology Center is the first unit to deepen the reform of the Group Company, and it is also the most difficult and involves the widest number of personnel. Therefore, the leaders at all levels of the Group Company attach great importance to it, and at the same time, it has won the understanding and support of all employees.
The R&D Institute established after the reform is mainly responsible for the development of Hongqi series vehicle products. At the same time, it is also responsible for the development of powertrain, basic platform, basic module, CAE, NVH, vehicle trial-production test and other fields of passenger car business of the group company.
The leading idea of the future work of the R&D Institute is to develop competitive products as the main line, and all the resources of the Institute should also be inclined to this main line. To this end, we should pay close attention to project management, professional ability improvement and team work style construction.
A total of 336 people were promoted in technical posts through post competition reform, and 7 chief engineers and 6 young post-85 directors were produced.
The seven chief executives have outstanding professional abilities, achieved excellent results in various fields of the technical center and accumulated rich experience, which will definitely play a greater role in the research and development of Hongqi products in the future.
And all the six post-80s employees were promoted directly to directors by ordinary employees, which indicates that the reform idea of younger cadres and preferred posts has achieved initial results and brought more development stages and opportunities to young people.
In the process of reform, the leaders of the group company paid special attention to the technical personnel of the R&D Institute, and instructed the relevant leaders of the Group Reform Office to take the lead in interpreting the relevant incentive policies for the core technical backbone of the center, which enhanced everyone’s understanding of the reform policies and strengthened their confidence in future development.
At present, the research and development institute presents a new atmosphere; The work attitude of "day-to-day settlement and day-to-day settlement" has been gradually developed in the work log of each employee; The working method of "quickly implementing and improving efficiency" has become a common practice in the "fast walking pace" of every employee. Now, all employees devote themselves to their own jobs with all their strength, breaking waves on the road of Red Flag revival with a brand-new work style, and facing difficulties.