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The Joint AdVenture in Shanghai - II
Lei • 17.Januar, 2008 @ 07:34 • Abgelegt unter: Forschung und Entwicklung
AdVenture 2: The Joint Venture – UAES
The actual event was a lot of fun. We learned a lot about our host: UAES, the biggest player in the Chinese market for gasoline engine management system. UAES is a 50-50 joint venture of Bosch and a conglomerate of Chinese manufacturers, among which SAIC is the major player. It currently runs 900+ customer projects simultaneously, which is said to be unthinkable in Germany considering its relatively small size. That is because the OEMs in China like to start at a time with big number of projects, or experiments, as you may call them, instead of just a handful, like the Germans do. (Only a few of these projects end up in mass production provided the market shows good response). But the point is, as supplier to these OEMs, UAES has to show their flexibilities and manage the projects accordingly given the very limited number of experienced engineers. On the other hand, the German specialties are not forgotten. Because of the increasingly demanding situation, a bit streamlining and planning from the German experts will help expedite the progress of the projects.
The plant tour was very special indeed. On first sight, the plant looked very much like the German Bosch plants I’d seen. The interesting differences were in the details. The absence of blond hair, for example. There are only 21 Expats at UAES out of approximately 2450 employees. This is probably one of the success factors from UAES: highly localized to keep the cost down. A less expected phenomenon were the numerous black and white patterns all over the plant, some are like zebras, some like chessboards. Turned out they are prototype cars in protective covers. As opposed to the uniform black covers in Germany, the Asians do enjoy a bit of variations – it feels a bit like jungle here. :)
19.Juni, 2009 @ 02:12
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