On February 18, the phase II capacity expansion of ai’an intelligent ecological factory was completed and the first new car aion LX plus was offline. It took only 15 days to complete the capacity expansion and put into operation. At the same time, the second factory of GAC ai’an is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
the second plant is expected to be completed by the end of the year
Since its establishment in 2017, the company has continued to maintain a high-quality pace of development, and its sales volume has doubled year after year, with an average annual compound growth rate of nearly 130%. In 2021, the cumulative sales volume of the company exceeded 123660 units, with a year-on-year increase of 119%, and the annual sales target of 100000 vehicles was advanced.
At the same time of rapid development, in the face of increasing market demand and continuous hot sales of aion family products, as well as the impact of adverse factors such as epidemic situation and lack of core, the original production capacity of 100000 vehicles in ai’an was insufficient, and the utilization rate was more than 160% at the peak. As the new energy vehicle market continues to be hot, production capacity has become an important part of brand development.
The reason why the capacity expansion can be completed so quickly is that from the beginning, ai’an intelligent ecological factory adheres to the concept of “small input, fast output and rolling development”. This flexible mode is not only conducive to minimizing the input risk, but also convenient for the subsequent expansion of capacity at any time.
At the same time, it also benefits from the world’s leading process technology and efficient production mode of ai’an, including: using digital twin and big data technology, real-time simulation and virtual debugging, saving 30% of debugging time; Secondly, Lego module pre assembly and batch independent assembly are adopted to improve the installation efficiency by 40%.
In order to cope with the subsequent sales explosion in the new energy vehicle market and provide users with more world-class products and services, ai’an has started the construction of the second plant, which is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
production efficiency and customization capacity are further improved
The phase II capacity expansion of ai’an intelligent ecological factory has also improved the production efficiency by 45% and the customization capacity by 35%. At present, ai’an intelligent ecological factory has four advantages: flexible production of steel and aluminum body, digital independent decision-making, interactive customization and comprehensive utilization of energy.
Among them, thanks to the world’s leading fast switching technology of steel spot welding and aluminum hot-melt drilling, AIAN can realize the CO line production of up to 10 different types and steel aluminum body materials; The industry’s first source data classification and distributed edge server realizes data standardization and multi-channel batch collection. The equipment networking rate is over 98% and the collection time is less than 300ms, which is the highest level in the industry.
With the accelerated development of the Shanxi Guoxin Energy Corporation Limited(600617) automobile market, the continuous improvement of market penetration and increasingly fierce competition, it is very important for new energy vehicle enterprises to have strong capacity guarantee, production intelligent manufacturing capacity and large-scale personalized production capacity.
In order to adapt to the changes of new technology, new materials and new processes in the future, ai’an continues to push “large-scale interactive customization” to a new peak. Different from the single product production mode, ea’an anchored the large-scale personalized customized production route from the beginning to realize “thousands of cars and thousands of faces”, rather than pursuing a single product.
Taking the world’s first ai’an rapid color change system as an example, the color change time is reduced from 7 days to 45 minutes, realizing personalized customization of up to 25 colors in the world; The world’s first digital transparent production process, with user personalized customization, seamless data connection and real-time synchronization, realizes 100% digital order distribution to guide production.
