#46 - Section: Visit the production line

Lu Haifeng's sudden burst of acting skills stunned Wang Cheng, the person involved, who stared blankly in disbelief.

The six people who came with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Leader Chang, four men and two women, including a short-haired girl, were all stunned by the legendary CEO of Audi's appearance.

As the CEO of a company, you're brazenly pleading poverty to the country, shamelessly making so many demands, and claiming to have an 80-year-old mother and a house full of concubines. You have no shame at all.

Even Xu Zhilin, Chen Changchun, and Zhao Jianhua blushed, feeling that Lu Haifeng was too shameless.

He brazenly asked the country for money, requesting hundreds of billions in funding and land to build a factory, and even more shamelessly asking for a hundred or eighty square kilometers.

Wang Cheng and Chang Yaohui were completely dumbfounded. They had never seen a company CEO so openly asking the country for money, and in such enormous amounts.

After regaining his senses, Wang Cheng could only force a bitter smile, coughing and saying, "Ahem... I will report Mr. Lu's response to the higher-ups as it is. Mr. Lu, would you like to take us on a tour of the production workshop?"

After some pleasantries, Lu Haifeng took Wang Cheng and Chang Yaohui and their group on a sightseeing car to visit the inside of the factory area.

Lu Haifeng introduced, "Director Wang, Leader Chang, this is our parts factory, which is also the predecessor of Audi Company."

"Although we have transformed to research and develop and produce cars, this parts factory has been retained. Building 3 here is the engine production workshop, and Building 4 next to it is the gearbox production workshop."

In the production workshop, Wang Cheng was immediately captivated by the 2.0T four-cylinder turbocharged engine. With a technical background, he was extremely fascinated by engine technology.

However, for the sake of his future and other reasons, he chose to pursue an official career instead of becoming a lifelong technician.

Lu Haifeng introduced, "This is a mass-producible engine, and it's completely different from those on the market. It's a turbocharged engine, codenamed HX888. This engine uses a water-cooled turbocharging system, and after tuning, it can reach a maximum power of 140 kilowatts, a maximum torque of 320 Newton-meters, and a maximum horsepower of 190."

This turbocharged engine was named the HX888 turbocharged engine by Lu Haifeng.

Nowadays, ordinary engines are all naturally aspirated engines. This is also one of the sources of Lu Haifeng's confidence in entering the automobile manufacturing industry.

You should know that the biggest advantage of turbocharging is that it can greatly increase the engine's power and torque without increasing the engine's displacement.

In other words, the most intuitive benefit is strong power and a strong sense of push in the back, which is a very obvious advantage compared to naturally aspirated engines.

Of course, turbocharged engines also have disadvantages, such as delayed power output, where the turbo only kicks in at a certain RPM, and so on.

Take this HX888 turbocharged engine as an example. The RPM must reach at least 2000 to 2500 before it kicks in.

If this were in his previous life, it might not be as good as some naturally aspirated engines, but that was his previous life.

After all, the automotive technology in his previous life was quite advanced, leading this world by at least ten or twenty years in terms of both turbocharged and naturally aspirated engines.

But here, there really isn't a naturally aspirated engine that can compare. Even though it has shortcomings, its shortcomings are not even considered shortcomings in today's world.

Even if the power output is a little delayed and it doesn't kick in at low RPM, it still beats other engines of the same level.

The saying "no comparison, no harm" applies here. Moreover, this is the world's first turbocharged engine, a pioneering engine product, which is already a bonus.

"This one here is also a large-displacement six-cylinder engine that we independently developed. We are preparing to finalize the design and mass-produce it, and plan to use it on high-end models of the new brand in the future," Lu Haifeng introduced.

After a brief introduction, Lu Haifeng asked Xu Zhilin and the others to demonstrate the engine's performance on the equipment for these people, while he sat aside curiously watching them.

In particular, Lu Haifeng noticed the short-haired girl from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. She was young, but she seemed to know a lot about various automotive mechanical knowledge, surrounding Xu Zhilin and Tang San, asking various questions about automotive engines, and the questions were very professional.

Lu Haifeng thought to himself, "This woman is definitely not from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. She seems to be a professional talent."

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After visiting the engine production line and the gearbox production line, Lu Haifeng said, "The construction site you saw when you came over is the Audi production assembly workshop. The walls haven't been completely removed yet. Come on, I'll take you to see it."

"However, don't underestimate our factory area just because it's small. The equipment is definitely the most advanced in the world."

These automotive production lines were also transported by various large special vehicles arranged by the system. It is worth mentioning that this time, due to the high technical difficulty of the automotive production lines, the system arranged a group of mysterious workers to help Lu Haifeng install and debug the production lines throughout the process.

So many large production equipment, robotic arms, painting workshops, laser welding workshops, the system sent hundreds of people to cooperate with Audi's employees to install them.

An automotive production line, or rather a production platform, consists of five processes: stamping industry, welding industry, painting industry, final assembly industry, and finally, the most important testing process.

Each process requires the use of many machines and equipment to operate, and the most used are robotic arms.

Producing a car requires the use of many robotic arms, and the industrial precision of these arms is the guarantee of whether a car can be made better.

Fortunately, all the equipment produced by the system, at the very least, has reached the world's top industrial precision.

Under Lu Haifeng's leadership and introduction, Wang Cheng and Chang Yaohui and their party also gained some knowledge. What fully automated production lines, what advanced laser welding equipment.

Along the way, all kinds of advanced equipment could drop their jaws. To be honest, they were not people who had never seen the world. They had basically inspected domestic and foreign car companies.

However, this was the first time they had seen such an advanced factory area as the Audi assembly workshop.

Even the so-called advanced equipment they had seen abroad in the past was not as good as the equipment in the Audi factory, not just not as good, but far from it.

These powerful production lines, with these conditions, apart from being a little smaller in scale, there was really no aspect in which it was inferior to those foreign car companies, and in many aspects, it was even better than those automotive giants.