The Project Management Of FAW R&D CENTER's Heavy Duty Vehicle Develop Project

Since the 1970s, product development process of the modern automakers gradually transferred from traditional functionary department mode to matrix project management mode, a new type of product development and research management mode is thus formed that consists of longitudinal functionary department and traverse project management which intersect with each other, aiming at work linkup and information communication between different departments and specialties, realizing in-phase engineering and shortening development period, thus win the best timing amid market competition.It's not until recent years that the domestic automakers started product development management , FAW Group Corporation brought together its good product technology resources and established a research and development center in 2001, laying foundation for the operation of project management.Since then, after many years of accumulation of market sales information and comprehensive analysis by the market departments, it was forecast that the market sales of medium duty vehicle would gradually stabilize or decline, whereas the market of heavy duty vehicle would expand rapidly and take the place of medium duty vehicle. FAW Group Corporation decided to develop independent brand heavy-duty truck and required the R&D Center to operate matrix project management during the course of this development on trial basis, accumulate experience on product development management and further extend to other projects.In the two years followed, the heavy duty truck development project team was set up in the R&D Center, it brought its advantage in project management to full play, on the one hand, completed the whole process of product planning...