Recently, the theme activity of "Automobile Lightweight" expert achievement sharing was successfully held in China Chongqing National Expert Service Base. Experts and scholars from China Academy of Engineering and well-known universities and enterprises in China gathered together to bring forward cutting-edge thinking and share the latest research results around the development trend of automobile lightweight technology, the research and application of lightweight materials, the design and manufacture of automobile lightweight, and the lightweight technology of new energy vehicles. The signing ceremony of "China Mg-Al Alloy Oversize Casting R&D Center" was also held.
Academician experts prescribe for automobile "weight reduction"
Help achieve national security and the goal of "double carbon"
In short, automobile lightweight means "slimming" the automobile, realizing "going on the road lightly", and reducing the automobile quality as much as possible on the premise of ensuring the strength, safety and reliability of the automobile, so as to achieve the purposes of improving automobile power, saving energy and reducing emissions.
Then, under the background of national security strategy and "double carbon", how can Chongqing’s automobile lightweight develop?
"To achieve national security and the goal of’ double carbon’, it is very important to improve the effect of automobile energy conservation and emission reduction. Lightweight is the most realistic and effective way to save energy and emission reduction in the automobile field." Pan Fusheng, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, said in his speech that the theme activity of "Automobile Lightweight" experts’ achievement sharing not only reflects the high integration of enterprises, universities and research institutes, but also highlights the national and international characteristics. He hopes to take this event as an opportunity to integrate national strength and promote the development of Chongqing’s automobile industry through training, so as to turn Chongqing’s "automobile city" into China’s "automobile capital" and even become the "city of hope" and "city of dreams" of the entire global automobile industry.
Chu Shuangjie, the chief scientist of China Baowu Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., believes that in terms of automobile hard steel and lightweight, it is necessary not only to make this steel, but also to allow auto parts factories to make parts. Now, iron and steel enterprises are also pursuing the lightweight of the whole car body, and are developing in the direction of higher strength grade and thinner wall thickness. Xiong Baiqing pointed out that aluminum alloy panels with high technical difficulty and large potential consumption have gradually become a new development hotspot in automobile manufacturing all over the world. With the improvement of localization efficiency, there is great potential in the field of lightweight automobile panels.
Shi Danghe, director of the technical system of Celeste automobile platform, said that at the macro level, lightweight is the driving force for the application of new technologies in enterprises and a comprehensive embodiment of the development of new technologies in an enterprise. On the executive level, lightweight is beneficial to the enterprise, and it should also be experienced and perceived by users.
"This is a feast with high technical gold content. Based on the actual situation of the industry, experts introduced the current technological breakthroughs, innovative applications, pain cases and future development of automobile lightweight, which provided a new path for our automobile manufacturing enterprises to upgrade their quality. I hope that I will have the opportunity to cooperate with the expert team in the future to jointly help the development of automobile lightweight technology." Chen Bo, a representative of the participating enterprises, said.
At the event site, the collision of the cutting-edge ideas of automobile lightweight, the confrontation of top technologies and the appearance of the latest achievements, generate always has a wonderful spark, which is a "two-way trip" for talent innovation and industrial development.
Innovating to Build a High-end Docking Platform for Expert Achievements
Let scientific and technological achievements "turn" into new kinetic energy for development
In the work report of Chongqing municipal government in 2024, it is proposed that Chongqing will persist in promoting industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and vigorously cultivate new quality productivity.
In this regard, Chongqing Human Resources and Social Security Bureau has innovated to create a high-end docking platform integrating the release, promotion and service of expert achievements. As the "first show" of the high-end docking platform for experts’ achievements, the theme activity of "Automobile Lightweight" focused on the development of Chongqing’s automobile lightweight industry, and performed a "drama" that featured the debut of the new achievements of "Magnesium alloy super-large automobile die-casting structural parts", the signing of the new platform of "China Magnesium-aluminum alloy super-large casting R&D Center" and the centralized release of key new technologies for automobile lightweight, and achieved a smooth start and a good start.
Production is the foundation of talent and the soul of production, and the integration of production and talent is the key to play the role of talent-driven. The high-end docking platform for expert achievements adopts the mode of "industry leading, government guiding and market participation", and invites top experts (teams) in various industries to introduce new trends in industry development, release major scientific and technological innovation projects, display great achievements of expert labor, and promote the allocation of innovative resources and the application transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
Chea Sim, member of the party group and deputy director of Chongqing Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, said that he would focus on the deployment and improvement of the talent chain around the industrial chain innovation chain, and continue to support the development of the automobile industry from the aspects of setting up expert studios, Post-Doctoral Research Center, job title evaluation, talent project selection and expert service, so as to further condense the surging wisdom of building a modern industrial system.
"China Mg-Al Alloy Oversize Casting R&D Center" was signed and established.
Help Chongqing build a world-class intelligent networked new energy automobile industry cluster.
Taking the achievement sharing activity as the service platform, the government departments actively "matched the bridge", which promoted the joint efforts of Chongqing University, Baowu Magnesium Industry and Chongqing Meilixin. During the activity, the "China Mg-Al Alloy Oversize Casting R&D Center" (hereinafter referred to as the R&D Center) was formally signed and established.
The advantages of the three parties complement each other and share resources, realizing a win-win model of 1+1+1>3. It is understood that the R&D center will realize technical joint research, common difficulties and achievements sharing, jointly develop new magnesium-aluminum alloy materials, develop advanced preparation and processing technologies for oversize castings, solve technical and technological problems in the actual production of magnesium-aluminum alloy oversize castings, accelerate the transformation of advanced scientific and technological achievements in the National Magnesium Center, and strive to build a world-class technology platform for magnesium-aluminum alloy oversize castings.
Jiang Bin, director of the R&D center, said that after the establishment of the center, it will plan to strengthen the development of super-large magnesium-aluminum alloy materials and components themselves, and strive to promote large-scale production and application. In the future, more OEMs will join this platform, and gather wisdom to promote Chongqing to build a world-class intelligent networked new energy automobile industry cluster.
