Foshan Feichi Automobile: CAXA PLM helps enterprises achieve data centralization
2026-04-06 07:20:35··#1
I. Company Background: Foshan Feichi Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is located in Shiwan District, Foshan City, in the heart of the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province. Formerly known as Foshan Feichi Automobile Repair Factory, it was established in early 1971 and is a long-established enterprise in the transportation industry, specializing in the manufacturing, modification, and large, medium, and small repair of highway passenger bus bodies. Foshan Feichi has a history of over 30 years, possessing a certain production scale, advanced manufacturing technology, and R&D capabilities, forming a complete system integrating R&D, manufacturing, sales, and service. Foshan Feichi has also introduced various advanced bus technologies through international cooperation. Feichi FSQ6126 Large Bus Series . II. Application Requirements: 1. Using AutoCAD 2D drawing software, the drawings lack standardization and normalization, with fonts used arbitrarily. 2. Designers keep their drawings on their own computers. Each modification to a drawing generates a separate file, the location and content of which are only known to the designer. Other colleagues need to find the drawings on the designer's computer and then share them. 3. Drawings are numbered by designers at each level, and the numbers are not clear between them. Designers are only familiar with the products they are responsible for. When designing new products, if they remember previous drawings, they can borrow them; otherwise, they are designed as new parts. III. Implementation: 1. Standardizing Design Data Sources: The company has established a complete set of standard enterprise drawing templates using CAXA electronic drawing board templates. This standardizes the style of the drawing frame, title block, and detail column, as well as the data to be filled in and the filling method, achieving initial standardization and normalization of the company's drawings. All drawings in a product set are converted into the standard format of the electronic drawing board, and detail tables are added to the general layout and sub-assembly drawings. 2. Automatic Data Extraction and BOM Generation: The design department needs to provide statistical reports on self-made parts, standard parts, enterprise standard parts, and borrowed parts. CAXA drawing documents can automatically generate corresponding reports based on the product structure. Extracting and entering each product BOM only takes about 10 minutes, improving efficiency by more than 200 times. Users can also customize the physical attributes of the components to be output in the report, and can perform operations such as print preview, printing, file output, and modification of the report through user customization. 3. Secure management and sharing of design data and documents: Based on secure enterprise product data access permissions, it effectively manages the creation and sharing of product drawings, parts lists, BOMs, and related documents, providing accurate, consistent, and complete product technical data for technical and management departments, and establishing a complete technical document management system to realize the electronic and complete management of product technical documents, ensuring that product data is under effective and orderly management, and providing relevant personnel with a convenient platform for querying, browsing, borrowing, and outputting reports. IV. Application effects: 1. Forming a set of enterprise drawing standards. 1. All drawings and master plans are redrawn according to the new standards. Importing the product into the drawing and document system automatically creates a product structure tree, clearly defining the relationships between components and improving file retrieval speed. 2. Drawings and documents are stored centrally on a server, accumulating into an enterprise knowledge base. 3. Because drawing and document management categorizes and saves drawings and related documentation generated from product design according to the product structure tree, management can check progress at any time via the network, helping to improve product design efficiency. 4. Through version management in the drawing and document system, engineers can always see the latest drawing version. During the borrowing of design data, when the original data changes, the borrowed data also changes accordingly, ensuring data consistency. 5. CAXA software, including CAXA drawing and document systems, CAXA electronic drawing boards, and process charts, integrates seamlessly, resulting in smoother data exchange and management. 6. It can quickly and automatically generate catalogs of parts, purchased parts, borrowed parts, and standard parts. The generated reports only require minor modifications to become standard summary tables.