Introduction: 500 low code developers, 90% from the front-line, low code development in FAW-Volkswagen bloom.

Faw-volkswagen has 500 low-code developers, 90% of whom are front-line business personnel. How do they solve the digital demands around them with low code? “102 developer stories” into FAW-Volkswagen, take you to understand the scene of senior engineer Cui Guangming with Nail appropriate to build workshop digital transformation, and the popularization of low code to accelerate faW-Volkswagen digital construction story.

Cui Guangming is a senior engineer in the coating workshop of FAW-Volkswagen Chengdu Branch. He is mainly responsible for the on-site technical system and equipment management of the coating workshop. He is an enthusiast and practitioner of industrial digitization.

As a salesman who has been engaged in automobile production and manufacturing sites for a long time, Cui Guangming found that a large amount of data on production sites need to be collected by paper forms, which is not only inefficient, but also fails to fully explore and utilize the data value.

In order to ensure the paint quality of the body, workers need to test the film thickness and color of the body every day, as well as carry out frequent checks on the PH and temperature of the tank and other process parameters. In the past, workers could only record data on paper forms, and they needed to call the responsible person if they found anything unusual.

This way has problems such as slow feedback, easy to forget, data value can not make full use of the problems, abnormal parameters may also cause large fluctuations in the quality of car body paint.

To solve these problems, Cui guangming taught himself Python, Java, JS and other languages, and tried to develop a digital-intelligence system for the workshop. With the explosive growth of workshop digital demand, more and more scattered and personalized digital demand is placed in front of Cui Guangming, but the whole code development needs to spend a lot of energy, which makes Cui Guangming very upset.

During the May Day of 2021, Cui Guangming learned that nails should be built: “The first time I found the original can also be developed by means of the pulling, digital applications, in a week I try to use the time to study and develop a demo, found with low code can rapid development meet the demand of manufacturing business in the field of digital, and other business grinds only can save a lot of effort, it makes me very surprise.”

In his spare time, Cui began to learn via video courses and live training provided by Dingdingyitian. In addition, Cui Guangming also learned from many excellent cases on the official website of Appropriate to build a digital system that truly meets the needs of the production site.

Digital transformation of painting workshop

In May 2021, Cui Guangming used Dingdingyitian to develop digital applications for painting workshops, realizing the digital transformation of more than 30 core businesses in nine fields, including safety, quality, efficiency, process, production, epidemic prevention and Party construction. Problems that troubled Cui Guangming in the past have been effectively solved.

Cui Guangming through appropriate development of safety management application, the managers at all levels to end is allowed through security check, the relevant safety problems timely delivery to head phone side, hidden dangers rectification of camera phones end to upload, for safety management personnel to save at least 2 hours every day and analysis work, the supervision of executing efficiency greatly improve the safety.

Cui Guangming by nailing should take the development of laboratory and process parameter management applications, the paint quality test data and tub parameters online, inspectors found using a mobile phone can put exception parameters through the process to inform the director and supervisor, after receiving certain information in a timely manner at the level of organization to solve at the scene.

Dingdingyitian helps FAW-Volkswagen Chengdu Branch to realize the digitalization of business and online on-site 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, the paper approval process is required for employees’ travel reports within and outside the province, which usually takes 2 to 3 days, bringing great inconvenience and low efficiency to employees’ travel.

Based on the epidemic prevention and control platform developed by Dingdingyitian, Cui Guangming realized online travel approval and reporting within and outside the province, and the process could be completed within two hours. At the same time, according to the regular business needs of epidemic prevention and control, business functions such as vaccination, nucleic acid report, admission permission application, and epidemic policy announcement were also put online to build a unified epidemic prevention and control platform for Chengdu Company.

Because of love, so I believe

For Cui, love is the driving force for his continuous progress.

Cui Guangming has been fond of automobiles since childhood and keen on studying automobile structure. He majored in mechanical Design and manufacturing and automation in college. After graduating from Chongqing University in 2012, he started to work in FAW-Volkswagen Chengdu Branch.

During more than 10 years of equipment management and production management in automobile manufacturing, Cui Guangming gradually realized the importance of digitalization. Initially, Cui Guangming taught himself to do the application development of the whole code system, and invested a lot of energy in self-learning programming technology. But in recent years, the need for digital transformation has increased, which requires a more agile and efficient approach to development.

Cui Guangming pointed out: “appropriate for me to take this kind of work in the manufacturing field for a long time, and love digital business personnel, can save a lot of development time, let me have the energy to think about how to build some more complex and satisfy the digital application of manufacturing, boost the construction of the digital workshop, so as to improve efficiency and reduce costs.”

Cui Guangming also led to low side more colleagues learning code, to jointly develop the digital applications meet their business needs, let people realize the digitization is not must want to understand a lot of programming skills, no longer is tall, but from support the core business, eventually bring positive change to embrace the future digital transformation.

With digital specialists on the production line, low-code development flourishes

At present, faW-Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. has nearly 500 people working on low code development with ease, and more than 90% of them are front-line business personnel.

At FAW-Volkswagen, digital transformation has become the consensus. Business departments have an explosive growth in digital demand, but limited IT resources, most of which are invested in large business systems, are difficult to meet every scattered and personalized digital demand. Business departments are in urgent need of a shortcut that can build their own applications.

At the beginning of 2021, faW-Volkswagen found a low-code development tool suitable for IT service management portal transformation, and opened this tool to all staff.

“What we didn’t expect at all was that, without a lot of promotion, the business would be more proactive in trying out this new tool, and slowly through word of mouth, more and more business units started to use low code, and now there is a low code craze.” Faw-volkswagen Automotive Co., LTD. Management services nailing project manager Zhang Wenbo said.

Faw-volkswagen also selects some people from each business department to become digital specialists, who are responsible for collecting the demand of production line and evaluating the path of digitalization realization, forming a virtual organization “Digital Studio” between them.

Today, in FAW-Volkswagen, low code development is the state of a thousand flowers.

Many small applications were born from the business department, including travel approval, safe operation, point inspection, spare parts management, etc. A maintenance engineer in Changchun factory realized the digital maintenance function through the low code of the pin, so that spare parts, equipment maintenance and other information can be grasped in real time on the mobile terminal, and solved the common problems of mobile terminal compatibility of self-developed APPS in the past.

In the future, FAW-Volkswagen will also hold a low code development competition inside the company to encourage more front-line business personnel to participate in low code development and digitise the work at hand.

** 102 Developer Stories ** is an original program launched by Dingdingyi.com focusing on character stories, telling stories of low-code developers around through interviews, videos and other forms. Constant learning, love of creation and openness to new things are common characteristics.

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