Smart S7 gets off the assembly line in one minute. How tough is Huawei’s quality control？

A few days ago, Huawei released a video to start large-scale delivery, which showed that a large number of Zhijie S7 had left the production line and were being delivered to users all over the country. This also directly reflects that the current production capacity of Zhijie S7 has been greatly improved. Now you don’t have to wait to book a car, and the future sales volume is expected to usher in rapid growth.

As Huawei’s first smart car, Zhijie S7 was jointly built by Huawei and Qiangqiang. Chery set up the Zhijie Division, while Huawei empowered product research and development and quality control, and will build more user centers to provide users with high-quality delivery and better services.

How do Huawei and Chery realize 1+1>2 in production?

In the field of mobile phones, Huawei has always been synonymous with high quality and high quality in the industry. For the production of Zhijie S7, Huawei also brought in advanced quality management experience and AI-assisted quality management experience, which also made Zhijie S7 a benchmark product for intelligent manufacturing since mass production, and it has done quite well in quality control.

One by one, Zhijie S7 uses intelligent networked super production line, which brings more stable and reliable quality performance and higher production efficiency under the blessing of various intelligent production technologies. According to official data, the off-line of Zhijie S7 has to go through nearly 10,000 tests, covering all aspects of the vehicle.

Among them, with the empowerment of Huawei, the automation rate of the production line in the stamping workshop of the production intelligence S7 has reached 100%, and up to 900 parts can be processed per hour, and the precision of stamping parts is 0.5 mm. At the same time, 100% inspection and monitoring are achieved, achieving zero production defects. Moreover, Zhijie S7 stamping workshop is one of the few production lines in the industry that has developed a factory-level production management middle platform system at present, which truly makes every parameter of the equipment from operation to every link of the production process visible in the dimension of information management, and can give full play to the capabilities of various equipment.

When we came to the welding workshop, there were more than 600 robots, which realized 100% automation of nine connection processes, 100% qualified rate of key solder joints, 100% automatic detection of welding parameters, and the equipment detection accuracy reached ±0.1mm, which was equivalent to the aircraft detection standard, ensuring a firmer body and higher durability. Similarly, the welding workshop is fully intelligent, and AI visual inspection is applied to the visual guidance of grasping parts, bolt tightening, gluing and VIN code to ensure the high quality of welding details.

In the painting workshop, there are 167 robots operating covering different processes such as gluing, spraying, cleaning and inspection. The topcoat adopts water-based technology and environmental protection treatment, realizing 100% unmanned automatic inspection in the whole process, and painting a car body in one minute to ensure efficient production of vehicles. At the same time, the workshop realized the full coverage of 5G network, and realized equipment interconnection, data interconnection and business interconnection through IOT platform. The intelligent energy management system carries out multi-dimensional fine management in different media, process sections and time periods, realizing intelligent detection, digital process and transparent management.

Finally, there is the assembly workshop, which has 10 automatic main production lines and 3 high-precision inspection lines, realizing one car off the assembly line in one minute, and the vehicle needs to go through 32 inspections and about 4,000 inspection contents in the assembly to ensure high production capacity and high quality of products. Among them, Huawei used the experience of quality management in the field of mobile phones to control the whole process of quality of Zhijie S7. The data collection rate of vehicle assembly exceeds 98%, and the production quality is controlled through the whole process of quality gate+wire control +AI vision, and the quality parameters of manufacturing process are 100% digitally traced. In addition, the IQC test and EOL test for electric vehicles adopted by Huawei can ensure the perfect quality of every off-line vehicle.

Huawei ICT empowerment, quality control is far ahead

It is not difficult to see from the production process of Zhijie S7 that Huawei is very strict about the quality control of its models. Based on the accumulation of ICT technology for more than 30 years and the ultimate pursuit of user experience, Huawei has carried out end-to-end quality management for the intellectual community from the whole process of R&D, manufacturing and product verification, that is, completely transplanted the manufacturing experience in ICT and terminal fields to the automotive field.

From another point of view, for the traditional automobile manufacturing industry, the empowerment of Huawei, a new force, is very valuable, which not only polishes the quality control of the intellectual S7 far beyond its peers, but also brings high reference significance to the industry. As far as the production workshop is concerned, Huawei’s intelligent equipment has basically achieved full coverage, which makes the production of the whole vehicle both efficient and of high quality.

Conclusion:

In the past two years, new brands and new models have emerged in the automobile industry, and everyone is comparing price, configuration and technology. But don’t forget, as a very complex industrial product, especially after the addition of more complex electrification and intelligent technology, the quality control of automobiles is also very important. This is also the weak link of many new brands and new models, and Huawei’s strength is precisely that it not only brings strong technical endorsement to the intellectual S7, but also gives its own intelligent manufacturing. To put it simply, Huawei has already done a good job in choosing the intellectual S7 and quality control.