Moreover, a VAZ from the Soviet era collaborated with Porsche:
Cooperation with Porsche on the development of the design of a new front-wheel drive car VAZ-2108 began at the second stage in 1980.In January 1980, immediately after the New Year holidays, the then general director of VAZ A. Zhitkov, accompanied by the chief designer G. Mirzoev, appeared at the firm.
The purpose of the visit was to sign a contract, which had already been prepared by that time.
They met with the chairman of the board of the firm E. Furmann, chief designer G. Bott and his deputy, Mr. Ayb - the curator of the future project. For the purpose of conspiracy, this project was named "Gamma".
The Italian firm UTS, the technology division of FIAT, was brought in as the third technology development firm. Project managers "Gamma" were appointed: by f. Porsche - Mr. Rainer Term, head of the body department, and on the part of VAZ - Y. Nepomnyashchy, deputy. chief designer.
The first VAZ delegation consisting of Y. Nepomnyashchy, A. Zilpert, Y. Pashin, E. Nosenko and translator G. Krune arrived at Porsche at the end of April 1980.
For collaboration with Porsche, a front-wheel drive carrier was manufactured at the VAZ on the basis of the VAZ-21011 body based on the development of the UGK designers, which was delivered to the company on April 17.
Work began with Porsche designers and testers. It was carried out mainly on the body, engine, gearbox and chassis. A landing model was made.
For the operational conduct of work at the VAZ, the Gamma group was also created. In general, work in the "triangle" VAZ-Porsche-UTS was carried out very intensively, there was an immediate exchange of information, samples, and delegations.
The first "triple" meeting took place at Porsche in September 1980. G. Mirzoev from the VAZ and V. Kadannikov arrived with a whole delegation from Turin.
Upon the arrival of the VAZ delegation, they sat and worked at the firm until late at night, drew up protocols. The German word Forgang ("forgang") has come into use, meaning a message about test results, changes in design, technology. There was a triple exchange of these documents.
Report by Mr. Gorisson
For 20 years, Porsche has been involved in development with the Russian automobile company AVTOVAZ, which during this time has become an essential partner for us in the former USSR, and now in Russia.
Despite all political differences and all economic circumstances, this partnership between AVTOVAZ and Porsche has developed into an exemplary contribution by many personalities to the trusting relationship between East and West. I would like to tell you about the history, works and some features.
In the mid 70s. The Soviet government decided to give AVTOVAZ an opportunity to develop from a purely licensed enterprise into a completely independent car manufacturer oriented towards the Soviet and European market.
This decision, plus the fact that Porsche is one of the largest technology providers in automotive industry and that Porsche had contacts with the Soviet industry already in the 1930s, and facilitated the cooperation between AVTOVAZ and Porsche.
It should not be forgotten that in the face of political, economic and bureaucratic difficulties, it took the efforts and will of prominent people to make this collaboration successful.
Four names should be especially mentioned here: from the Russian side - the then General Director of AVTOVAZ, and later the Minister of Automotive Industry V.Polyakov, and from the German side - Dr. Ernst Fuhrmann, at one time the Chairman of the Board of Porsche.
Both initiated the connection between AVTOVAZ and Porsche and thus opened - as it turned out later - a real window to the West for the Russian automotive industry.
G. Mirzoev, chief designer of AVTOVAZ, and Horst Markhart, currently a member of the Porsche board responsible for development and research, also contributed to the prompt implementation of the work.
The AVTOVAZ-Porsche cooperation can be divided into 4 different phases.
The beginning, in the period from 1975 to 1980. This is, first of all, a proposal for the modernization of "Lada" (a vehicle licensed by FIAT) and "Niva".
Then, in the 2nd phase in 1980-84. followed by the joint development of the model 2108 "Samara".
The third phase - 1987-91 - mainly work on a 16-valve engine with a working volume of 1.5 liters and a car "Gamma-2" (2110).
In the last phase of 1989-91. - development of small 3- and 4-cylinder engines for the Oka car.
Russian company KATE was founded in 2004. We are developing and planning to master the production of a wide range of automatic transmissions (AKP) for the Russian market.
The managerial staff of our company has 20 years of experience in the development, development of production of various automotive systems and components, as well as supplies, repair and maintenance of automatic transmission russian market.
The engineering staff - graduates, candidates and doctors of sciences of the M.V. Bauman, one of the best technical universities in Russia, which retains the school of synthesis of new kinematic schemes and the design of planetary gearboxes for transport vehicles.
Some of our initiatives in the period from 1997 to 2004. was aimed at creating experimental models russian cars with foreign automatic transmissions: GAZ 3102 with automatic transmission A4 LD from Ford, Moskvich Svyatogor with an F3R Renault engine and automatic transmission 42LE Chrysler, GAZ 66 with a 5.7 liter engine. and automatic transmission 4L60Е "Chevrolet", GAZ "Tourist" with diesel "Steyr" and automatic transmission 5R55E with control system own development, UAZ 3153 with 3.0 liter engine and 4L60E "Chevrolet" automatic transmission. Since 2004, the main activity of the company is the development of modern Russian automatic transmissions, prototype production, testing, preparation for production and serial production of automatic transmissions. Our company has patented more than 30 different kinematic schemes for automatic transmissions and, on their basis, develops 6, 7 and 9-speed automatic transmissions for the entire range of passenger, commercial and trucks.
Specialists of KATE LLC actively cooperate with Russian, European and Asian companies, developers and manufacturers of automatic transmission components.
LLC "KATE" has its own high-tech pilot plant, which creates and undergoes bench tests, both prototypes of individual components and automatic transmission systems, and prototypes of automatic transmissions assembled, demo cars with the latest Russian automatic transmissions are created.
Very soon, a small-scale production of a 9-speed automatic transmission KATE R932 for modern domestic cars F-class. The production will have a high degree of automation and meet the highest modern quality standards.
At the same time, in the city of Kaliningrad, preparations are underway for a modern assembly production complex with a total area of \u200b\u200bmore than 10,000 m2 on an area of \u200b\u200b8 hectares for the assembly of advanced automatic transmissions and the latest components and systems of vehicles.
Working in our company is an excellent opportunity to create complex, unique and technological products of domestic development!
Our team is glad to new competent employees!
VAZ and people close to the plant have repeatedly made attempts to launch a model with an automatic transmission into the "series". And they seem to have succeeded.
Automatic transmission on VAZ cars. History of the issue
It is almost impossible to mention all cases of experimental automatic transmission installations on Lada, so I will name the main ones. At the turn of the century, one of the first cars with "automatic" was the ugly minivan "Nadezhda", on which the well-deserved 4HP-22 gearbox from ZF was installed in the Moscow Center for Automatic Transmissions of the MAI by order of the plant.
| Automatic transmission ZF 4HP22 |
Then it was decided to change course and pay attention to variators gaining popularity. In the same AT Center, a ZF unit with a pushing belt was installed on the "twelfth". The car showed itself quite well, in dynamics it was in no way inferior to its "mechanical" brother, but the way to the conveyor was ordered to it - the variator with the installation pulled at $ 3000, which was almost half the cost of the car. For comparison: the "automatic" Suzuki Swift cost $ 10,000 at that time, and the Peugeot 206 - $ 12,650.
Nevertheless, in the mid-2000s, the "Super-Auto" company offered for sale small-scale "Lada" with "automatic machines". However, due to the high price, they did not find buyers and did not convince the plant of the advisability of continuing the partnership.
| CVT ZF on VAZ-2112 |
Later, versions with automatic transmission were tested on the basis of the newly appeared Kalina, options for equipping with an “automatic” were also laid during the development of the Priora. The most likely supplier of boxes, in the event of a serial production launch, was the German ZF. However, then the plant turned to domestic development - the famous 7-speed "automatic" KATE.
Maxim Nagaytsev stood at the origins of the KATE firm, who later took the place of vice-president of VAZ. And the owner of the company was the wife of Sergei Chemezov, the then head of Russian Technologies. KATE took off the bat - announced the development of 6- and 7-speed "automatic machines", built and tested the first samples, announced its intention to build a plant in Kaliningrad with a capacity of 260,000 boxes per year. At the end of the 2000s, the prototype of the automatic transmission was handed over to the English company Riciardo for fine-tuning, and the head of AvtoVAZ, Igor Komarov, said that in 2012 the plant plans to launch Kalina and Prioru equipped with KATE automatic devices on the market.
But it didn't go further. Having told about the plans with KATE, Komarov also added that even earlier - from 2010, Japanese automata from Nissan will be installed on Lada. And after the Renault-Nissan concern bought out a stake in the plant, VAZ logically switched to finding a supplier automatic gearboxes from abroad. The result was the announcement that they will begin to install "automatic machines" by Jatco, which supplies units to a number of Japanese companies, on Grant.
But here the question arises - is there a need for an automatic machine at VAZs? Dealers answer unequivocally - it is necessary, since a considerable part of the customers are forced to change to used foreign cars only because they cannot buy an inexpensive one domestic car with automatic transmission. The plant considers the installation of "automatic machines" necessary measureas it is one of the three essential components of comfort modern car, along with power steering and air conditioning. AvtoVAZ has been offering the consumer cars with air conditioners and power steering for several years. Now is the time for the "machine", which is confirmed by marketing research.
| R608 - 6-speed hydromechanical gearbox KATE |
The first car to receive an automatic transmission will be Grant this fall, followed by a restyled version of Kalina, which is currently preparing for launch. The issue of equipping the "automatic" and "Priora" is still under discussion.
The Jatco "automatic" is a proven and reliable 4-speed unit with a classic design, which is installed on a number of models of the Renault-Nissan concern (for example - Nissan Tiida). The engineering services of AvtoVAZ have already carried out a set of tests and, together with the specialists of the manufacturer, adapted the automatic machine to the Russian 16-valve engine VAZ-21126.
Roughly, the automatic transmission will add 30-35 thousand rubles to the cost of cars, but the exact prices are still unknown. The plans are to release by the end of 2012 10,000 cars with automatic transmissions.
It is possible that AvtoVAZ will organize the production of its own "automatic machines", which is economically justified in the long term. Moreover, plans for the development of engines and gearboxes together with Renault-Nissan are included in the "Strategy 2020". And the planned increase in R&D funding and the unification of the components used give good chances for the implementation of these plans.
This step is necessary, given the production of the Largus model on the conveyor, the emergence of a new C-class model (it is assigned the role of one of the three flagships lineup AvtoVAZ, along with "Grant" and "Largus") and a number of other models. However, the plans for equipping them with "automatic machines" are rather vague - the decision on each model will be made on an individual basis.
Now these cars are equipped with only five-speed mechanical boxes transmissions of our own production
VLADIVOSTOK, May 29, PrimaMedia... The wife of the general director of "Russian Technologies" Sergei Chemezov Ekaterina is also engaged in technology. It is she who is the main owner of Kate LLC, which has developed an automatic transmission that can be installed on Lada, reports the Vedomosti newspaper. Now Lada Kalina is completed only with five-speed manual transmissions of our own production. The price of the car varies from 260,000 to 320,000 rubles. The installation of the "automatic machine" will increase the price of the car by 35,000-50,000 rubles, the analyst of IFC Metropol Mikhail Pak calculated.
From left to right: Silvio Berlusconi, Dmitry Medvedev, Sergey Chemezov (November 6, 2008)
The general public first heard about Kate LLC in 2005 - then several high-ranking officials came to the presentation of the little-known company during the Moscow Motor Show at once: the general director of Rosoboronexport Sergey Chemezov (now the head of Russian Technologies), Boris Aleshin (at that time the head Rosprom), top managers of VTB. The company was founded in 2004 by a group of graduates of the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman, and her main achievement was the development of automatic six- and seven-speed transmissions.
It turned out that Chemezov's wife Catherine also contributed to this development. “Together with her friends, she organized this business [Kate LLC], where Maxim Nagaytsev, the current vice president of AvtoVAZ, used to work,” Chemezov told Vedomosti. “The company planned to launch the production of these boxes in Kaliningrad. already there, we hope that it will start working next year. Now, as far as I know, they are looking for partners. Presumably they will be the German ZF. "
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the founders of Kate LLC are Ekaterina Ignatova with a 70% share; 30% - from the general director of "Kate" Evgeny Novitsky. Novitsky refused to talk to Vedomosti yesterday.
The Kate plant was supposed to start work in 2007, its estimated capacity is 260,000 transmissions per year, it was reported in 2007. The investors of the LLC were VTB (VTB representative does not comment on this) and private investors. Kate has already received a site for a plant in Kaliningrad, Mikhail Karapysh, Minister of Industry of the Kaliningrad Region, told Vedomosti.
Automatic transmissions "Kate" - the first "automatic" russian development... According to company representatives, Lada Kalina with automatic transmission has already passed the first tests.
Several years ago Nagaytsev said that both AvtoVAZ (25% controlled by Rostekhnologii) and other Russian car factories could become Kate's clients.
ZF did not respond to Vedomosti's request. A representative of AvtoVAZ declined to comment, Vedomosti reported.
REFERENCE (according to the official website of the company): The Russian company "KATE" was founded in 2004. We are developing and planning to master the production of automatic transmissions (AKP) for the Russian market. The managerial staff of our company has 10 years of experience in the supply, repair and maintenance of automatic transmissions in the Russian market within the framework of the Tahoe Transmission company. The engineering staff - graduates of the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman, one of the best technical universities in Russia. Some of their initiatives in the period from 1997 to 2000. was aimed at creating experimental models of Russian cars with foreign automatic transmissions:
1997 year - GAZ 3102 with automatic transmission A4 LD from Ford
1998 year - "Svyatogor" (engine F 3 R "Renault") with automatic transmission 42 LE "Chrysler"
1998 year - GAZ 66 with a 5.7 liter engine. and automatic transmission 4 L 60E "Chevrolet"
1999 year - GAZ "Tourist" with diesel "Steyr" and AKP 5 R 55 E with a controller of its own design and program
2000 year- UAZ 3153 with 3.0 l engine and 4 L 60E "Chevrolet" automatic transmission
At this stage of our project, we are looking for suppliers of various automatic transmission components: torque converters and pump components; components of planetary mechanisms; frictional controls; electrical control system components (solenoid valves, sensors, connectors and controllers); gaskets, seals, bearings and other accessories.
Automatic transmission (AT) FT703 is developed on the basis of a unique kinematic scheme, synthesized and patented by KATE. Only three planetary gear sets and six control elements make it possible to realize seven gears forward motion with optimal division of the AT kinematic range. At the same time, the low loading of the links contributes to the creation of a reliable and compact design. This allows us to say that at the moment there are practically no analogues of AT FT703.
7-speed AT FT703 is designed for operation on front-wheel drive cars with a gross weight of up to 2 t with a transverse arrangement power plantdeveloping a maximum torque of no more than 175 N * m.
Estimated resource - not less than 300,000 km of vehicle mileage.
2. Gear ratios
3. Kinematic range - 7.113.
4. Efficiency of the planetary gear
5. Design features.
When creating AT FT703, it was decided to abandon the use of complex hydrodynamic transmission in order to increase efficiency and reduce weight and size characteristics.
The compact planetary gear and the rational arrangement of control elements in the AT FT703 allow achieving its minimum dimensions (the axial dimensions of the AT FT703 are smaller than the axial dimensions of the five-speed transmission of VAZ cars of the tenth family)
Providing low relative peripheral speeds of the discs in the switched off friction control elements allows to reduce the power consumption during free rotation, and small pressures on their surface significantly increase the wear resistance, and, consequently, the resource. friction clutches.
High unification of parts together with the use of simple and high-tech solutions makes the AT FT703 the most affordable in its class.
On the same warm summer days last year, within the framework of the Moscow International automobile exhibition "Motor Show-2005" the team of the "KATE" company for the first time announced to the public about the development of a domestic automatic box gear. And last week, two types of automatic transmissions were presented to the attention of the guests and participants of the exhibition, already really embodied "in iron" and tested by the employees of the KATE development bureau together with the specialists of the department wheeled vehicles MSTU them. Bauman. General Director of KATE LLC Evgeny Novitsky assured the journalists present that the first of them was a 6-speed automatic transmission RL608 for passenger cars weighing up to 3.5 tons and longitudinal arrangement engine up to 200 hp - is not inferior in quality characteristics best transmissions Japanese and German manufacturers. The second automatic transmission is a 7-speed FT703 for front-wheel drive cars weighing up to 2 tons with a transverse engine with an output of up to 127 hp. - is generally the only one in the world. The first prototypes of FT703 are already being tested and refined on LADA Kalina vehicles.
Along with the "birthday people" from "KATE", who did not hide their joy about this event, many distinguished guests were present at the stand, each of whom was also, to varying degrees, the "culprit" of the occasion: the former General Director of "KATE", now interim general director OJSC "AvtoVAZ" Maxim Nagaytsev, Director of the State Research Center FSUE "NAMI" Aleksey Ipatov, Head of the Department of Wheeled Machines, Moscow State Technical University Bauman Georgy Kotiev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC AvtoVAZ Vladimir Artyakov, Head of the Federal Agency for Industry Boris Aleshin. A year ago, the head of Rosprom publicly blessed the KATE creative team for this very useful and promising business for the country's economy, and the credit of trust was justified. This is probably why Boris Sergeevich did not skimp on kind words that day: “Such undertakings and results are very important, since the main thing that we lack in Russia is confidence that could bring us good economic results. people in order to raise our best achievements to the heights of the world's competitive products! And the example that we all see today allows us to hope so ... ".
Indeed, the creation of domestic automatic transmissions is a landmark event not only for KATE, but also for our entire state. There are less than a dozen manufacturers on the world market, which is 20-25 million of automatic transmissions, but there have not been any Russians among them so far. Having its own similar quality products, our country will also have the right to apply for a certain segment. this market, especially since the demand for automatic transmissions for Russian cars has arisen long ago and continues to grow every day. After all, cars of foreign manufacturers with automatic transmissions are quite expensive and actually "drop out" from that part of the Russian car market, where the most popular models are presented in the price range from 7 to 11 thousand dollars. Namely, these machines are used in Russia. most in demandif they are sold about 700 thousand annually. Marketing research has shown that many Russian citizens are ready to overpay for cars up to 10% in excess of their cost, if only they are equipped not with mechanical, but with automatic transmissions of a high level of reliability and quality - in order to make driving more convenient, easy and comfortable.
Automatic transmissions created by KATE are an original Russian product protected by 21 patents for inventions. Combining Russian theory and practice, analysis of Western gearbox designs, our specialists have found optimal circuit solutions. In particular, for the automatic transmission RL608 (which will be used on the rear and four-wheel drive vehiclescategory "B"), a kinematic scheme was chosen that allows six forward gears and one gear reverse... It includes three planetary gear sets, three brakes and two locking clutches. As for automatic transmission FT703, it was developed on the basis of an even more unique kinematic scheme: only three planetary gear sets and six control elements make it possible to realize seven forward gears with an optimal expansion of the kinematic range of the automatic transmission. And most importantly: at the moment in the world there are no analogues of the FT703 automatic transmission! In addition, when creating the FT703, it was decided to abandon the use of a torque converter in order to increase efficiency and reduce weight and dimensions. Thus, in terms of consumer properties, this decision puts the FT703 on a par with such modern transmissions as DSG (Volkswagen), CVT (Nissan) and ZF. And the high unification of parts, together with the use of simple and high-tech solutions, will certainly make the FT703 the most affordable in its class.
The availability of new automatic transmissions to consumers is ensured by their cost (RL608 - up to $ 800, FT703 - $ 1000), fuel efficiency and low costs for service. Reducing the number of controls contributes to best estimate the driver of the road situation and thereby increases traffic safety. Reliability is determined by the original kinematic diagram, a minimum of parts, low dynamic loads and the use of modern CAD / CAE. They differ from foreign automatic transmissions in better side compactness, minimum number of parts, broken down by gear ratiosto maximize the dynamic performance of the engine. To the above, it remains only to add that the foreign partner of KATE and largest supplier Tsang Yow (Taiwan) - one of the recognized world leaders in the production of accessories for automatic transmissions. In turn, private entrepreneurs and Vneshtorgbank provided financial support to the ACP developers. The production of automatic gearboxes of the "KATE" company will be carried out at a plant in Kaliningrad, where a mechanical assembly production, a testing area, a mechanical repair section, as well as a warehouse for assembly and finished products will be located on an area of \u200b\u200b8 hectares. An administrative building, utility and auxiliary premises, a canteen will be erected. The total number of personnel will be about 400 people. To ensure production, contracts have already been concluded with manufacturers of components from Europe, Asia and America, some components are produced at domestic enterprises, in the future it is planned to increase the share of orders at domestic enterprises.
The opening of the assembly plant will take place at the end of this year, and KATE plans to reach its design capacity in 2007. The production structure will include 4 production lines: the first one will annually assemble up to 100 thousand FT703 automatic transmissions, the second - 50 thousand RL608 automatic transmissions. On the third line, it is assumed that the production of 100 thousand promising models of front-wheel drive transmissions will be established, and on the fourth line, the assembly of 10 thousand automatic transmissions for trucks and military equipment... The total capacity of the enterprise in aggregate should be 260 thousand boxes-"automatic" per year.
