Future Competitiveness And Advanced Manufacturing Technology In The Aviation Industry

For the present time, manufacturing level has become an important mark of national economic development level; it intensively represents a country or an enterprise 's competitiveness. Manufacturing is the main source of social wealth; mastering Advanced Manufacturing Technology means holding market and being invincible in the market competition.Starting from analyzing the changes of enterprises' competitive environment, this text expounds the significance of Information Technology for improving Enterprise Competitiveness and its important role for a country or an enterprise. By studying the changes of manufacturing mode, the second part puts forward the most advanced idea about manufacturing mode whose core conception is Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS) and its physical realization form. Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS) is the highest-level project of computer application in enterprises whose difficulty in technique is well known. But we cannot ignore CIM's requirements for enterprises' management mechanism and operation ways, this is the key to CIMS's success, this is also why this text analyzes and studies the changes of manufacturing mode. This text' emphasis is the third part about Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS), which puts forward this viewpoint that information integration is the most important way of the exercise of CIM in enterprises in China. These enterprises face seven obstacles in information integration. In order to get rid of these obstacles, the following thoughts are formed: By means of the basic idea of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT)-- Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS) and other derivative forms of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) such as Concurrent Engineering (CE), Lean Production, Virtual Manufacturing (VM), and Agile Manufacturing (AM), a series of guidance thoughts and implementation strategy is put forward with full consideration of national and enterprise's actual situation. To be more specifically, it includes: the most important aspect of the implementation of CIM is to utilize its most advanced management thought-----human oriented point without blindly pursuing automation of base equipment but organic integration of human, machine, technology and management. Human factor is key to success and leadership principle should be fully represented in the exercise of CIM. Besides, system innovation and CIM, technology reform and CIM should be combined. Also, this text makes the significant exploration on how to propel our work on the condition that enterprises' inner and outer environments are changing abruptly with the deepening of economic system reform.This text mainly adopts the method of instance analysis that combines the actual application situation of Chengdu Aircraft Corporation and the application instances of aviation enterprises both at home and abroad. Its aim is to present those experiences and ways we can draw on for the exercise of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) in China. Through this, we can be firm in our resolution and boost enterprises' transformation and reorganization. Because of the fact that the developed countries' exercise of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) is begun from enterprises of war industry, this text uses application instances of aircraft manufacturing in Boeing Company. We can say that instance analysis and application instances in aviation industries are the feature of studying method and content arrangement of this text. We hope that this text will give some help to those enterprises who embark on studying or implementing Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT).