Reflections on Parts Enterprises Not Participating in Shanghai Auto Show

Global economic recession and cost-cutting pressures have caused some multinational suppliers to cancel their plans to participate in the Shanghai International Auto Show held in April.

Suppliers Magna International, ArvinMeritor, American Axle Manufacturing, Delphi, GKN Plc., Johnson Controls, and TRW Automotive all stated that they will not participate in this exhibition.

ArvinMeritor said, "We have reduced the number of participation in major global trade shows. The Shanghai Auto Show is one of the exhibitions we decided to give up."

However, suppliers such as Visteon, Bosch (China) Investment Co., Ltd., and BorgWarner will continue to exhibit. Some companies still participate in the Shanghai Auto Show, but the scale will be smaller than the previous one.

【News Reviews】

1. It has been learned that more than 10 multinational suppliers have already decided not to participate in the auto show; in addition, many people believe that the government will directly subsidize or rescue the OEM, but it will not directly fund suppliers.

Participating in participation is the freedom of the company. Ten years ago, the government taught us that it was an era of two-way choice. Moreover, the absence of a large number of suppliers will not cause great trouble for the organizers.

But for the automotive industry, this relatively consistent approach shows that suppliers are entering a rational self-help stage. However, I still do not know how long this rational self-help will be reflected in domestic parts companies.

2. The government will not provide direct funding. It does not mean that the government will abandon the parts and components industry, but because, first, the parts and components companies are too complex and huge in number. If they are included in the scope of assistance, the amount involved will be astonishingly high. Secondly, according to current estimates, about 70% of the value of vehicle products is provided by suppliers. I estimate that this ratio may be even higher for most Chinese vehicle manufacturers because of some of their engines. And the gearbox also needs someone else to supply.

This means that the government’s assistance to the automotive industry will theoretically have a large portion of the flow of funds flowing into the hands of excellent suppliers, and both parties will jointly develop core products and launch markets. This reasoning, in the current economic downturn, should be the consensus of the industry, put aside competition and plunge, put down technical protection and light each other, and unite to coexist. This is the most lacking of the Chinese auto industry.

3, in the past six months, I contacted the two core parts industry, first, the engine EFI system, common rail, single pump, EGR hit out of steam; second automatic transmission, DCT, CVT And AT also has its own supporters. In doing these two manuscripts, I discovered that in the early 1990s, the Chinese government had Tsinghua developed a common-rail EFI system and put it on Dongfeng's light trucks to do a road test. It worked well. Since this is only a scientific research project, I did not find out the information of its industrialization. These past efforts have turned into discontinuous research and development in different companies and institutions in the past 20 years. The closest I know is the Wuxi Oil Pump Institute. They have developed a common rail system that satisfies the country's three emission standards, with an annual output of 200 to 300 sets for testing. It was attached to FAW in administrative relations. After a long time of hard work, FAW Investment allowed it to build a production line with an annual output of 10,000 sets. At the same time, FAW and Bosch have been long-term partners of the common rail system, which can provide stable quality but slightly higher prices.

Examples of DCT and CVT are more typical. While everyone was worried that the Dalian DCT project would become a monopoly of BorgWarner, I found out in the public information that Zhejiang Wanliyang Company had developed a complete set of DCT products, and Luoyang United also began mass production of CVT. There is no domestic OEM to cooperate with them. In a Chinese OEM that participated in DCT in Dalian, it also started cooperation with foreign CVT technology providers.

Therefore, it is very worrying that most people are criticizing foreign companies for their technical monopoly, but they have not been able to think rationally why Chinese parts companies cannot build their own technological capabilities through accumulation. The technologies of BorgWarner and Bosch It is indeed mature and stable, and with the deepening of localization, its price will be reduced to a reasonable level. Those who are worried about the formation of a technical monopoly will also choose such products in the future. I have no doubt about this.

4. The national auto industry revitalization plan clearly puts forward the need to strengthen the independent development of parts and components. What I think should be more appropriate is to force these companies to jointly develop, prescribe certain technologies, and must join several capable companies, and pull up the main engine plant. Overcoming difficulties. It should not be that the parts and components companies would make samples in an irresponsible manner. The OEMs turned to see the multinational corporations.

This can be seen from the new energy models. Many domestic brands of new energy vehicles refuse to take a closer look at the internal structure, especially the power aspect. They will close the lids of the machines, but just let you ride and announce that it is a self-developed product. I estimate that at this Shanghai auto show, similar "exhibits" should not be a minority.

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