Why can car companies quickly turn into masks? Revealing epidemic prevention "sideline" has a mystery

The anti-epidemic work in novel coronavirus has entered a critical stage, but in the face of the huge demand gap for epidemic prevention materials, the demand for masks, especially masks, actually exists. In order to fight the epidemic prevention war well and provide as many support materials as possible, some qualified car companies quickly transformed to produce masks. How to turn a car with a steel body into a soft mask? And at this time, it seems that two completely unrelated industries can still intersect? This sounds incredible and has aroused the curiosity of many friends.

In order to better answer this question, we can first look at the process of making masks.

Generally speaking, the production of masks requires raw materials such as meltblown cloth and non-woven fabric. Then cut into small rolls, put them on the production line, press them into masks by high-frequency welding, sort and inspect them, manually bag them, sterilize them for 16 hours, and analyze the volatile sterilization gas in the warehouse for two weeks, and then the masks that meet the quality standards will enter the market through logistics sales.

In the whole process of mask production, it needs to be carried out in a dust-free environment, which is particularly important and one of the core conditions for car companies to produce masks.

Car companies have inherent advantages in this respect. In order to spray the car paint evenly and beautifully, the process flow has extremely high dust-free requirements for the "painting link" in the whole vehicle production, which just meets the conditions for mask production. Therefore, in order to produce masks, automobile enterprises only need to purchase related raw materials and equipment.

But then again, although the production conditions meet the requirements, these car companies are not specialized in medical devices, so are the masks produced reliable? This involves related qualifications and other issues.

Take BYD as an example. After all, if people release masks with a daily average of 5 million. In fact, compared with other car companies, BYD has an innate foundation, that is, its "BYD Ninth Division". This is not a mysterious organization, but a department specially established by BYD to study mobile phones, computers, automotive electronics and other products, and it has also obtained the certification for producing medical devices. Therefore, BYD is an enterprise with relevant qualifications in terms of infrastructure and related personnel skills. This directly omits the process of qualification application and approval. Therefore, the ninth division can be quickly adjusted and put into new use in this situation.

In addition, SAIC-GM-Wuling is also a typical example. Strictly speaking, making masks is definitely not a specialty, but Wuling contacted a supplier of sound insulation cotton for cars-Guangxi Defu. Here, we need to popularize a little knowledge, that is, the raw materials needed for automobile soundproof cotton are polypropylene, just like masks. Therefore, Deford has a natural advantage in the procurement and storage of raw materials. The rest only needs two powerful companies to join hands and export materials, workshops and manpower at the same time, and then they can switch to masks.

For example, Guangzhou Automobile Group started from scratch. Equipment, suppliers and production conditions need to be solved one by one, and various forces have been assembled in a short time. It is understood that on February 1 1, the first mask production equipment of GAC was successfully installed and entered the debugging stage. At the same time, Guangzhou Automobile Group plans to make 30 to 50 sets of equipment, and will race against time to invest in the research on the related technology and production process of mask equipment.

From the above examples, we can see that although some automobile companies have no experience in manufacturing masks, they can quickly and efficiently complete the seamless connection of production conversion through cooperation and other means. Furthermore, with the mature management of car-making technology and technology, the masks produced can also meet the industry standards and meet the corresponding needs.

Of course, if the interlacing is like a mountain, car companies still have to objectively evaluate their own conditions when they switch to masks. In fact, in addition to automobile companies, there are many other industries that also have the ability to produce masks, and even more suitable for making masks. For example, enterprises mainly in the textile industry, such as diaper factories, underwear factories and shoe factories, can also achieve rapid transformation.

Here, I sincerely thank those enterprises that work overtime and stay up late to produce masks. It is because of your existence that the health and safety of more people have been guaranteed.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.