Research And Application Of Collaborative Manufacturing Chain In Aerospace Fastener Enterprises

With the continuous development of fastener manufacturing industry, the consumerdemand is changing to be individual and diversified. This market tendency gives themanufacturers a short delivery time to finish the products. The shorter delivery time andindividuation make the manufacturers realize that the traditional production modecannot match the market press any more. In most cases, the business competition is notabout a product to a product, or a company to a company, but a supply chain to a supplychain, including all the companies in the supply chain. So the most advisable way is tounite all the stakeholders to be a business association, which is a virtual enterprise (VE)with a dynamical organization structure. In this dynamical organization, every membershares their best resources, and then the main enterprise optimizes the utility of all theresources to achieve the corporate goal. In the instruction of collaboration theory, all theVE members implement the collaborative manufacturing mode and share the resourcesto face the market challenge about production time and cost.At first, the paper analyses the challenge that the fastener manufacturing industry isfacing in the21century, which make all the manufacturers realize that collaborativemanufacturing model (CMM) is supremely needed.Secondly, the paper presents the framework, operational mode and practicalproblems of CMM According to the problems, the paper elaborates three managementmechanisms to solve the practical problems, including profit distribution mechanism,trust mechanism and partner selection mechanism. The construction of thesemechanisms builds an appropriate business environment, where the practical problemsin the implementation of CMM can be solved, and then, CMM can run smoothly.At last, the paper puts forward a case of product JGY3712in an aerospace fastenercompany H and elaborates the whole manufacturing process, where the CMM and threemanagement mechanisms are put into use in the alliance comprised of main enterprise,suppliers and outsourcing venders. Through the expatiation of the operational process,CMM is a perfect solution to cope with the market challenge in fastener manufacturingindustry in21century.