Bohai Piston owns the only national level Enterprise Technical Center, the only Postdoctoral Station in the piston industry and the only most complete comprehensive performance laboratory in the domestic auto parts industry, which are mainly used for new product development, piston die and tool development, Materials research and application, piston comprehensive performance test, piston machining process development, standardization and competitive intelligence. Currently, there are 352 technicians, including 4 doctors, 13 engineering application researchers, 4 senior engineers and 4 engineers enjoying special government allowances. A group of science and technology leaders for piston industry have been cultivated. A technology development team with reasonable age structure and comprehensive knowledge structure has been formed as well. Meanwhile, Bohai Piston cooperates with many scientific research colleges and universities on specific topic and project to train our own highly educated talents, 21 of whom were taken to Tsinghua University and Shandong University for master or doctor graduate school for further study. It strengthens the university industry cooperation and enhances the independent innovation ability. The company also hires more than 40 experts from domestic related research institutes and 6 experts from Germany and Australia on internal combustion engine and material for technical advice and guidance, which improved the R&D ability.

The R&D Center owns advanced development tools, CAD local area network with over 60 work stations, which realized the product data management. The equipments for machining, inspection, measurement and performance test are advanced as well, such as Gage2000 three-coordinate measuring machine, RONDCOM46A roundness measuring instrument, scanning electronic microscope, AVL AFA 250 test system, etc.

Due to the international advanced hardware and software technology research and development platform, Bohai Piston develops and improves more than 300 kinds of new piston every year. The R&D Center has licensed 63 patents, 10 of which are Invention Patent. It is playing important role in the national, provincial key scientific research projects and national debt project.