Civil Aircraft Supplier Quality Assurance And Manufacturing Capability Assessment And Control

Supplier evaluation and control "is a new topic for modern quality engineering and manufacturing technology. It is the expansion and development of enterprise quality assurance system and manufacturing capability. The aircraft manufacturing industry is a reflection of comprehensive national power and industrial development level. It is a strategic industry integrated with capital, technology and knowledge. It is a complicated systematical project. It is very difficult for an absolutely independent industrial enterprise to accomplish this project. The aviation enterprises need to strengthen the wide cooperation with the other enterprises including metallurgy, chemical industry, electronics and information technology and establish supply-demand system in order to reduce the period of design and production, reduce the cost and investment risk so as to obtain more market shares and improve the competitiveness of enterprises. This paper studies the latest results of supplier quality assurance and manufacturing capability evaluation and control of aviation enterprises from both home and abroad. It puts forward the new thoughts of supplier quality assurance and manufacturing capability evaluation for aviation enterprises in China regarding to the current management situation and problems in our aviation enterprises. The quality assurance requirement and evaluation outline suitable for Chinese aviation enterprises is established based on the reasonable classification of suppliers. This paper also discusses the management mode for supplier evaluation and finally develops the management thoughts of the supplier root cause corrective actions for the technical and quality problems.