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What is?
car manufacturers design, several models of common product platforms.
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Function
automotive manufacturing platform for rapid production of similar chassis, body structure, and vehicle electrical system.
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Did you know?
a platform can be applied simultaneously to different models of R & D and manufacturing. Those around us different styles of cars, most likely on the same platform produced.
the public PQ35 platform
PQ35 “platform” concept was first proposed and practiced by the Volkswagen Group. “PQ35” P represents the passenger platform (Passenger car), Q represents a transverse engine (transverse Quer / vertical position l # 228; ngs- German), 3 represents an A-Class, which is compact car, 5 It refers to the fifth generation. So “PQ35” refers to the transverse engine fifth-generation compact car, based on a variety of models can be developed to expand the platform. Currently in production on this platform models including the Tiguan, Golf Five, six-generation Golf, Touran, Caddy, Scirocco, the Audi TT, the Audi A3, Skoda Octavia and many other models. Technical characteristics of the vehicle and PQ35 process comprises: four independent suspension (front McPhersonJohnson four-link), a large length of the laser welding seamless, two-sided galvanized high strength steel, CAN-BUS entire vehicle information control networks and multi-channel entire vehicle coating process and the like.
PSA Peugeot Citroen Group (PSA), the No. 2 platform
PSA No. 2 platform can be said that the group produced in Europe and a crucial global platform, PSA’s Platform 2 models They are: Peugeot 307,408, Citroen Sega, C4, triumph. Although these models differ in size, but the product on the No. 2 platform to maintain a high rate of common parts, all comfortable configuration and basic security configuration interoperable, which is one of the most obvious features of the French platform.
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Further reading
modular platform
large-scale industrial production vehicles occurred three changes : production line mode, auto production platform, “modular” production. And today’s automotive industry production has entered a “modular” era. Module concept, only you define the layout of the powertrain, and vehicle wheelbase, front and rear suspension and width dimensions can be varied, so that the vehicle has a greater flexibility in shape, while the body has the form of an extension of a strong , so that both production and cost of the car can be greatly reduced.
