Founder Freeman Shen was an absolute star professional manager before he founded Weimar. His pinnacle was the acquisition of Volvo for $654.38+08 billion on behalf of Geely Automobile. At that time, this acquisition was the focus of domestic and foreign media reports, and Geely Automobile began to run forward.
Freeman Shen, unwilling to work all his life, founded Weimar Automobile on 20 15. Freeman Shen is the only one among the new domestic automobile manufacturing forces with a profound automobile industry background.
20 15 1 month, Weimar Automobile was established. Freeman Shen, with his connections, has dug up many people from his old club.
Among them, Lu Bin, co-founder and vice president of brand strategy of Weimar Automobile, was the deputy general manager of Geely Sales Company; Zhang Ran, CFO of Weimar Automobile, was an executive director of Geely; Du Ligang, co-founder and director of Weimar Automobile, participated in the negotiation team of Geely's acquisition of Volvo; Xu Huanxin, director and chief operating officer of Weimar Automobile, once worked for Volvo and led the development of new energy technologies.
At present, Weimar Automobile has established three centers and one research institute around the world, namely, the design and procurement center in Shanghai, the big data center in Beijing, the technical center in Germany and the global R&D center in Chengdu. In terms of production, Weimar Automobile has two production bases in Wenzhou and Huanggang. In other words, in China, Weimar Automobile has completed the overall layout from the east to the midwest.
Weimar Automobile Wenzhou Factory is located in Oujiangkou, Wenzhou City. On March 28th, 20 18, the first batch of Weimar EX5 production cars rolled off the assembly line, becoming the first self-built factory in the new force of car making.
Weimar Automobile Wenzhou Factory is an intelligent factory that meets the requirements of "C2M" mode. C2M is a customer-to-manufacturer, which means that the factory is connected with the customer. In other words, this factory can achieve high customization, real-time scheduling and on-demand production after consumers place orders. In order to realize this ability, Weimar's investment in digitalization accounts for more than 10% of the total investment of the whole factory, which is three times that of the traditional automobile factory.
Weimar Huanggang Factory, located in Huangzhou District, Huanggang City, is Weimar Automobile's second industrial 4.0 intelligent manufacturing vehicle factory. The first car rolled off the assembly line on June 8, 2020.
In welding, handling, spraying and other links, Weimar Hubei Huanggang factory uses a large number of robots, and the automation rate of the main line is as high as 100%, which greatly improves the production efficiency. In addition, the factory adopts QCOS quality control system, real-time data acquisition based on industrial Ethernet, and the application of online laser measurement, blue light detection and other technologies can fully ensure the production quality.
China's first unmanned production model Weimar W6 was rolled off the assembly line in this highly intelligent and automated vehicle factory. detail
Compared with the traditional automobile industry, the manufacturing of new energy vehicles is different, and the production of spare parts is the most important. The quality of new energy vehicles depends largely on the "three electricity (batteries, motors and electronic control systems)", and batteries, motors and electronic control systems are important accessories of new energy vehicles. Freeman Shen, the founder of Weimar Automobile, said, "If I choose OEM, I won't sleep every day", which shows Weimar Automobile's confidence in product quality.