Value Engineering Applied In Innovation Design Of Automobile Front Axle

Value Engineering has been taken as important management technology in U.S.A and Japan. Under the background of severe competition in the market of automobile products, this paper applied VE successfully to the innovation design and manufacture of automobile front axle, and instructed the correct direction for its innovation design and the manufacture.Following tasks has fulfilled in this paper:1. Introduced the fundamentals and methods, principles and procedures of VE.2. Discussed the advantages and disadvantages of various methods for collect main objects of innovation design in VE, and suggested that, adopting them comprehensively to achieve expected results.3. Took automobile front axle as an example, carried out VA with its 30 components, used ABC law to carry on target's primary choice, used FD method in further choice, performed functional analysis for various components, and finally found out some components and parts as main objects of innovation design with the most appropriate region law and base-point Tanaka method, and provided the correspondent innovation plan.Results of such an application shows that, applying VE to the innovation design and manufacture, has the practical value for enhancement of the design and manufacture level of automobile front axle in a certain extent.The findings in this paper are valuable to the human resources administration in universities and colleges. Because it is written from a completely new angle and together with the characters of the knowledge economy era. And it hopes to take the theory to a high layer.