Research On Cost-sharing Mechanism Based On Modular Automotive Products R&D

With the increasing competition in the world, and developed countries have the flexible manufacturing to be as the country's important strategic decision-making of the manufacturing industry, China's manufacturing sector should be to develop flexible manufacturing has become an indisputable fact. Today, the world is entering a modular manufacturing time, only to introduce flexible manufacturing technology of the manufacturing sector is unable to meet the demand for the needs of diversity and global competition obviously. Therefore, China's enterprises should catch up with this wave of Modularity in the world, and implement the modular production in the manufacturing sector with a firm hand.Compared with the traditional FMS, FA, CIM, cell-type flexible manufacturing model and so on, modular production is a new one, it has the unique advantage in terms of cost, delivery, personalization and innovation, and on behalf of the direction of Flexible Manufacturing development in the 21st century. Research and development in modular production, as that are done for the General module, its cost-sharing has become a key issue at the beginning of our development we should focus on. This will affect the enthusiasm and creativity of the members, and related to the stability,the success or the failure of the league.In this paper, we take CA Group for instance to illustrate the reality cost-sharing problem on the development of general modules during operating experience, and then we introduce some commonly used methods, such as Shapley method, core method, Nash bargaining game and so on. By comparing its strengths and weaknesses, a new method has been designed to be used in cost allocation. This new method uses the quadratic sharing principle: in the first assessment, the cost of the individual player is viewed as the basis point for assessments. Because of its spillover effects, the expense of modules developed in cooperative development must be less than which developed in individual development. Therefore the savings in the second re-distribution can be returned to participants. In the new assessment approach, some factors, such as members'future earnings and risk, are taken into account and reflected in cost-sharing. In this way, we can make cost-sharing more fair and reasonable, and also can be able to stimulate the members'activity and innovation ability.Cost-sharing of Cooperation development on general modular products in favor of enhancing the utilization of technology and assets, avoiding extravagance and investment duplication, there is also conducive to improving the financial position of single product, and provide a basis of right investment decision-making for enterprise leadership.