Introduction: 500 low-code developers, 90% from the front line, low-code development is flourishing in FAW-Volkswagen.
FAW-Volkswagen has 500 low-code developers, 90% of whom are front-line business personnel. How can they use low-code to solve the digital needs around them? Dingding Yida "102 Developer Stories" walks into FAW-Volkswagen, and takes you to understand the story of Cui Guangming, a senior engineer on site, using Dingding Yida to realize the digital transformation of the workshop, as well as the popularization of low-code to accelerate the digital construction of FAW-Volkswagen.
Cui Guangming is a senior engineer at the painting workshop of FAW-Volkswagen Chengdu Branch. He is mainly responsible for the technical system and equipment management of the painting workshop. He is an enthusiast and practitioner of industrial digitalization.
As a business person who has been working on automobile manufacturing sites for a long time, Cui Guangming found that a large amount of data on the production site needs to be collected by paper forms. This method is not only inefficient, but also the data value has not been fully exploited and utilized.
In order to ensure the quality of the car body paint, workers need to test the film thickness and color of the car body every day, and also conduct high-frequency inspections of process parameters such as tank body PH and temperature. Previously, workers could only record data through paper forms, and if an abnormality was found, they needed to notify the responsible person by phone.
This method has problems such as slow feedback, easy forgetting, and inability to fully utilize the value of data. Abnormal parameters may also cause large fluctuations in the quality of car body paint.
In order to solve these problems, Cui Guangming taught himself Python, Java, JS and other languages, and tried to develop a digital and intelligent system for the workshop. With the explosive growth of workshop digital requirements, more and more scattered and personalized digital requirements are placed in front of Cui Guangming, but full code development requires a lot of energy, which makes Cui Guangming very distressed.
During May Day in 2021, Cui Guangming learned about Dingding Yida: "For the first time, I found that digital applications can be developed by dragging and pulling. After I tried to learn and develop a demo in a week, I found that the Low-code can not only quickly develop to meet the digital needs of the manufacturing business field, but also save a lot of energy to specialize in other businesses, which amazes me."
So Cui Guangming started to learn through the official video courses and live training provided by DingTalk Yida in his spare time. In addition, Cui Guangming also tried to create a digital system that truly meets the needs of the production site by learning from many excellent cases on Yida's official website.
The digital transformation of the paint shop
In May 2021, Cui Guangming used Dingding Yida to develop digital applications for the painting workshop, realizing the digital transformation of more than 30 core businesses in nine fields including safety, quality, efficiency, craftsmanship, production, epidemic prevention, and party building. Cui Guangming's problems have been effectively resolved.
Cui Guangming, through the safety management application developed by Yida , allows managers at all levels to fill in the safety inspection problems through the mobile phone, and push the relevant safety hazards to the mobile phone of the person in charge in time. The personnel saved at least 2 hours of supervision and analysis work, which greatly improved the safety performance efficiency.
Cui Guangming realized the online paint quality inspection data and tank parameters through the laboratory and process parameter management application developed by Dingding Yida . The inspector can use his mobile phone to inform the person in charge and the superior in time the abnormal parameters found through the process. , all levels can organize on-site solutions in a timely manner after receiving DingTalk information.
Dingding Yida helped FAW-Volkswagen Chengdu Branch realize business digitization and online field equipment based on production management needs.
Epidemic prevention and control, efficient travel
In terms of epidemic prevention and control, according to the company’s epidemic prevention and control requirements, employees’ travel reporting within and outside the province requires a paper approval process, which often takes 2 to 3 days, which brings great inconvenience and low efficiency to employees’ travel.
Based on the epidemic prevention and control platform developed by Dingding Yida, Cui Guangming realized the online approval and filing of travel within and outside the province, and the process could be completed within two hours. At the same time, according to the business needs of normalizing epidemic prevention and control, business functions such as vaccination, nucleic acid report, admission permission application, and epidemic policy announcement were also brought online to create a unified epidemic prevention and control platform for Chengdu Company.
Believe because of love
For Cui Guangming, love is the driving force behind his continuous progress.
Cui Guangming has been fond of automobiles since he was a child, and is keen on the study of automobile structure. He studied mechanical design, manufacturing and automation in college. After graduating from Chongqing University with a master's degree in 2012, he joined FAW-Volkswagen Chengdu Branch.
Cui Guangming has gradually realized the importance of digitization in the more than 10 years he has been engaged in automobile manufacturing equipment management and production management. Initially, Cui Guangming taught himself to develop full-code system applications, and devoted a lot of energy to self-learning programming techniques. However, due to the increasing demand for digital transformation in recent years, this requires a more agile and efficient development method.
Cui Guangming pointed out: "For a business person like me who has been working in the manufacturing field for a long time and loves digitalization, Yida can save a lot of development time, and let me have the energy to think about how to build some more complex digital applications that meet the needs of production sites. , to help the construction of digital workshops, thereby improving efficiency and reducing costs.”
Cui Guangming also led more colleagues around him to learn low-code and jointly develop digital applications that meet their respective business needs, so that everyone realizes that digitalization does not require a lot of programming skills, and is no longer difficult, but comes from supporting the core business. , and finally jointly embrace the positive changes brought about by digital transformation in the future.
With digital specialists on the production line, low-code development flourishes
Today, nearly 500 people in FAW-Volkswagen Co., Ltd. use Yida on DingTalk for low-code development, and more than 90% are front-line business personnel.
At FAW-Volkswagen, digital transformation has become a consensus. Business departments have an explosive growth in digital demand, but with limited IT resources, most of them are invested in large-scale business systems, and it is difficult to meet every scattered and personalized digital demand. Business departments urgently need a shortcut that can build their own applications.
At the beginning of 2021, when FAW-Volkswagen renovated the IT service management portal, it found that DingTalk had a low-code development tool suitable for use, and opened the tool to all employees.
"What we didn't expect at all was that without vigorous promotion, business departments would take the initiative to try this new tool, and gradually through word of mouth, more and more business departments began to use low-code, which has now formed The craze of low-code for all employees.” said Zhang Wenbo, project manager of Dingding, Management Service Department of FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd.
FAW-Volkswagen has also transferred some people from each business department to become digital specialists, responsible for collecting production line requirements and evaluating digital implementation paths, forming a virtual organization 'digital studio' between them.
Today, at FAW-Volkswagen, low-code development is in a state of blooming.
Many small applications have been born from the business department, including travel approval, safety operation, point inspection, spare parts management, etc. A maintenance engineer in the Changchun factory has realized the digital maintenance function through Dingding low-code, so that information such as spare parts and equipment maintenance can be grasped in real time on the mobile phone, and at the same time, it has solved the common mobile terminal compatibility problems of self-developed APPs in the past.
In the future, FAW-Volkswagen will also hold a low-code development competition within the company to encourage more front-line business personnel to participate in low-code development and digitize the work at hand.
"102 Developer Stories" is an original column launched by Dingding Yida focusing on character stories. It tells the stories of low-code developers around you through interviews, videos and other forms. Continuous learning, love to create, and willingness to accept new things are their common characteristics.
We will approach each individual in low-code development, discuss with them the usage scenarios and value of low-code, and hope to give more inspiration and reference to fellow travelers.
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