Implementation Of Project Management In Quality Control At FAW-Zexel Climate Control Systems Co., Ltd

Project management has a very long history. Great wall built in ancient China, pyramid in Egypt, and other great buildings are the typical examples managed under project management. Moreover, people pay more attention to project management due to the success of the Manhattan plan and Apollo moon plan.With the developing of global economy and competition, project management is developing much faster and has become an individual science. It develops from the old construction project to current fields, such as software, national defense and medication. As popularized in enterprises globally, it also applies in company's daily operation, and has already been the efficient means to react to the complicated market and to achieve the company's objectives.Quality management, as a part of the company's administration, plays a role in the whole producing process. Due to its over-100-year's developing, product quality has been improved a lot. However, the customers enhance their quality demand, along with improvement of people's living. So it is with car industry. In recent years, to improve the A/C quality, enhance management level and strengthen competing capability, FAW-ZEXEL climate control systems co. ltd. has implemented the quality systems as ISO9000, QS9000, VDA6.1 and the worldwide popular quality system for car industry ISO/TS16949 in order to better product quality and to satisfy customers' requirement.But some problems still exist, such as, old method for quality control, even no application of advanced quality tech, inflexible organization, that is rigidly organized, slow reaction, can not react to the changing market, lack of innovation and group ideas, reoccurrences of the same problem, no quality awareness among employees, no sufficient involvement of personnel, etc. so how to improve quality management level is a very urgent issue to solve for the top managers and all the employees, and also the condition for future development and competition.Therefore, to overcome all these problems is the further step of quality control, that is to renew the concept and apply new management theory and means, management is a always-changing and improving process and needs to be innovated, especially in the intelligence economy age, new theory, and new technology method are introduced very often, all kinds of knowledge fuse together, so we must have innovation awareness, try to find the keys to every problem in purposing of survival and development.In this regard, project management is the very weapon to deal with such circumstance. Take practice as evidence, project management is an effective method to the changing situation. As the famous consultant Tom Peters and Cle-land said, "In the complex world, project management is the key to success." "Strategy management and project management play very critical role in the global market." That means it is necessary to adopt project management in auto industry.Thanks to the deepen development of project management in these years, it has become the one time action, but it is the first time to apply in quality control. In this paper, by studying project management idea and methods, in the light of the characteristic of the auto industry, its current situation and all the problems, taking FAW-Zexel Climate Control Systems Co. Ltd. as example, the author analyses the possibility and by comparing the two aspects, divides quality controlling content according to the cycling of P, D, C, A, with the help of project life cycle, puts forward the quality control in project form process according to different projects.In respect of quality control, the author points out a new quality managing means, that is a new quality control in project pattern, which will be adopted in auto field, by establishing the quality management system, it connect and mix the project management and quality control, and set up the organization framework in the form of project, define responsibilities of the project team members and the flow of quality control which is controlled according to different projects.Taking quality improvement for example, the author puts forward the means and process to apply " one-time" action in the managing of the project, break through the traditional quality improvement idea, introduce the ideas and methods...