SAIC Motor works to accelerate intelligent, digital manufacturing

SAIC Motor Passenger Vehicle is promoting the intelligent and digital manufacturing transformation within the automotive industry, with its Lin-gang factory being at the forefront of the drive.

Operational since 2008, SAIC Motor's Lin-gang factory is one of the first highly flexible manufacturing bases in China to achieve full integration of traditional and new energy vehicle production technologies.

With a total area exceeding 1.2 million square meters, it houses both vehicle and engine manufacturing facilities.

"As a core production base of SAIC's passenger vehicle, our Lin-gang factory has undertaken the manufacturing responsibilities for numerous flagship and bestselling models," said Chen Peifeng, director of the factory.

Through deep integration of industrial big data platforms, intelligent equipment, and core business scenarios, an efficient, practical, and precise intelligent manufacturing system has been established. "By leveraging digitalization, we have significantly improved work efficiency, reduced manual errors and costs, and lessened the workload for our analysis engineers," Chen added.

"Our Lin-gang factory can now produce 43 vehicles per hour, with a new product vehicle rolling off the assembly line almost every 70 seconds," according to Chen.

Real-time data monitoring, defect analysis and vehicle tracking have streamlined operations while improving efficiency. At the Lin-gang base, statistics show that single-vehicle energy consumption decreased by 3.8 percent, single-vehicle logistics costs dropped by 6 percent and potential inventory funds reduced by 2 percent.