The invention discloses an automatable steel plate spring production process which comprises steps of material discharge, straightening, mechanical processing, lug coiling, thermal treatment, shot blasting, undercoating, total assembling, pre-pressing and finish coating. The process is characterized in that the step of thermal treatment comprises the following steps: a, heating a steel plate spring to Ac3 or greater at 40-50 DEG C in a heating furnace, and keeping the temperature; b, soaking the steel plate spring into a solution with 3-8% of sodium chloride and 0.1-0.3% of polyvinyl alcohol at 40-75 DEG C, introducing helium into the solution, and carrying out quenching cooling; c, carrying out spraying washing on the quenched steel plate spring, putting into an annealing furnace, heatingtill a critical temperature, keeping the temperature, and cooling to the room temperature. A special quenching medium is used in the process, and tests show that for most common steel in the market,such as 55Si2Mn, 60Si2Mn and 5SiMnVB, the process has very good hardenability, is free of pollution, free of fire, and safe to use.