How can Isuzu achieve a century-long cause？

　　[Pacific Auto Network Culture Channel]The Internet bubble seems to be gradually pouring into the automobile manufacturing industry. Many people are challenging the traditional automobile manufacturing industry under the banner of building cars on the Internet, and taking people’s century-old manufacturing experience and technology accumulation as one thing, and the final result is a fiasco. Perhaps there are not many automobile brands in the world with a history of hundreds of years. Isuzu is one of them, but it still modestly follows its own diesel engine route. From 1916 to 2016, many things have happened in the world, and Isuzu has also experienced many ups and downs. What kind of experience Isuzu has had in the past 100 years, Isuzu brain powder will take you to count.

The pilgrimage of brain powder in Isuzu factory in Japan

　　Netizens who are familiar with Qingshan Xiaobian know that Qingshan bought an Isuzu. Everyone is very puzzled why this small series started such a niche car. Diesel engine, which is a non-load-bearing body, is so expensive. Among them, various specific reasons can be spied in the following stickers, but the deep feelings are difficult to show through rough stickers. Only by going to the root can we know the answer.

　　Taking Isuzu bus to Fujisawa factory in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, this feeling seems unreal. Speaking of Isuzu bus, around 2000, Isuzu set up a factory in Guangzhou to produce buses. Unfortunately, the price was too high and it was not in the same direction as the Chinese group’s goal, and it ended in discord.

　　Isuzu’s power reliability is well-known. Its code name is 4JB1, and it is still active in China market through optimization. Even many consumers only recognize the power of Isuzu, and Isuzu is the guarantee of confidence. Unfortunately, this 4JJ1 engine has not completely entered the China market, and it is only mounted on the MU-X.

　　Fujisawa factory is the core factory of Isuzu. Fujisawa factory has 8080 employees, with an average age of 41.4 years and an average length of service of 14.4 years. Of course, the age level of employees is also largely related to the social age structure in Japan. In fact, the employees of Isuzu assembly line need more experience to be qualified to enter. Which factory in China can reach this level of service? Experience ensures the quality of products, and the factory is not a place for young people to learn. This is also incomparable in domestic factories. More experienced employees ensure the quality of products on the assembly line, which is also a checkpoint for product control.

　　After a brief explanation, we entered the assembly plant for a formal visit and study. Due to confidentiality reasons, Qingshan can’t take pictures of the factory, and the pictures inside the factory below are provided by the government. Qingshan sees more with the naked eye and feels it with the heart, and shares it with everyone through words.

　　The production capacity of Fujisawa factory is not as high as that of some large domestic factories. The highest speed is 1.62 minutes/set, that is, the production cycle is 37JPH. However, Fujisawa Factory does not mass-produce the same model, but produces it according to customers’ requirements. Freight cars have a wide range of uses, and different uses have different assemblies. Therefore, there are more manual assembly methods on the assembly line.　　

　　Domestic OEMs talk about how many kinds of vehicles can be mixed in the production line, which seems to be really dwarfed compared with here. Because various products are inconsistent, Isuzu will optimize the distribution of parts and reduce the occurrence of quality defects. On the traditional production line, a steady stream of the same kind of parts is next to the workers, who choose the parts for installation, which is easy to miss the installation. In Fujisawa Factory, parts are selected by special personnel according to the vehicle type, and they flow after each vehicle. Workers in each step only need to install parts as needed, and in the end, if parts are not installed, the product is defective.

　　"People may make mistakes if they work hard, and it is necessary to save its structure!" This is also Isuzu’s mental preparation for promoting quality management. Therefore, Isuzu also admits that people will make mistakes, but it needs to improve production management methods to avoid mistakes. The core of Isuzu’s production technology — IMM (Isuzu Manufacturing Management) system minimizes the possibility of human error. One of the measures is to mainly pass the inspection on the production line. Because there are many models assembled in Fujisawa factory, in order to ensure the quality of each car, it is necessary to set up multiple inspection points on the production line to check each car. Secondly, as mentioned above, parts selection and assembly are separated, which reduces workers’ experience and opportunities for mistakes. In addition to manual self-inspection, the whole line will be temporarily stopped at 10 o’clock and 13 o’clock every day to allow the machine to carry out self-inspection and reduce machine errors.

　　IMM is the core of Isuzu’s quality assurance. In addition to the participation of workers, Fujisawa factory also has various advanced machinery and equipment, such as AGV self-driving vehicles (interestingly, the theme song of Isuzu is played while driving,Click to audition.), camera positioning, robot installation glass, Kawasaki robot installation center console, Komatsu robot hand and so on. Isuzu applies more production technology to the production of trucks.

　　Walking in Castle Peak, I found that Isuzu parts were produced by well-known supporting facilities, such as Autoliv Autoliv, Denso Denso, FB Guhe and so on. Even the production of freight cars has no strict requirements to reduce their quality, or the pursuit of comfort. It is seen that the front axle of the freight car produced by Fujisawa Factory does not adopt a new structure, but adopts a structure. Double wishbone independent suspension is helpful to improve comfort. This is also why Isuzu applied the manufacturing experience of old passenger cars to the manufacturing of cars.

　　Isuzu can be seen everywhere in Japan, which shows how popular Isuzu is in Japan. No matter the loading and unloading of 7-11 or the chassis construction, Isuzu trucks are used, which is not an exaggerated description. See in Fujisawa factory, our trucks are OEM. This can also prove that Isuzu is trusted by peers in the field of commercial vehicles. Through the visit of Isuzu Fujisawa factory in Japan, Castle Peak felt more about Isuzu’s corporate style of keeping a low profile and doing practical things. Qingshan is often teased by colleagues, and Isuzu is a truck. Indeed, Isuzu is not afraid to admit its mission of "transportation", in other words, transportation. It is Isuzu’s responsibility to provide better and more professional means of transportation, and it is also Isuzu’s development direction.