Recently, China Gas Turbine Establishment (GTE) and Xi’an Aero-Engine (Group) Ltd. of Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) sent an appreciation letter to our university, thanking the research team led by Academician Yang Shanlin and Associate Professor Zhang Qiang from the School of Management at Hefei University of Technology for their arduous efforts and outstanding contributions in the implementation of the project of "Collaborative Process Optimization for Aero Engine Design and Manufacturing". At the same time, they also expressed their gratitude for the strong support provided by our university to the relevant work of GTE and Xi’an Aero-Engine.
This research team aimed at the cross-factory, multi-agent, and cross-regional collaborative barriers faced by China's aero engine research and development. Focusing on the establishment of a collaborative R&D process system for aero engines, the integration management of product data throughout the entire process, and the construction of a collaborative R&D integration platform, the team closely collaborated with GTE and Xi’an Aero-Engine to jointly address key issues, fully identified various scenarios and collaborative needs for aero engine design and manufacturing collaboration, and designed and proposed an integrated collaborative development process structure that deeply integrated management and technical elements, achieving the modeling and structured expression of advanced management ideas and concepts, and forming a standardized collaborative process system for aero engine design and manufacturing. The research results have effectively ensured the development of some models of aero engines in China.
The thank-you letter states: “On the occasion of the comprehensive implementation and tackling of China's major special program for‘aero engine and gas turbine’, Academician Yang Shanlin's team from your university has undertaken the project of “Collaborative Process Optimization for Aero Engine Design and Manufacturing” commissioned by GTE and Xi’an Aero-Engine since March 2020. Since the project was launched, under the leadership of Associate Professor Zhang Qiang, the team has fully demonstrated its pragmatic, rigorous, and devoted spirit of work, overcoming difficulties and working hard. It has overcome various difficulties including complex data, cross-domain knowledge and working in three locations, combined with the development work of some models, and identified the key bottlenecks in design and manufacturing collaboration through in-depth research, extensive discussion, and systematic analysis. The project team faced prominent problems directly, overcame difficulties, worked tirelessly, and exerted rich management experience and professional advantages. They systematically and comprehensively completed designing the plan for the collaborative process structure of design and manufacturing. This plan fully conforms to the requirements of "solving difficult problems, keeping down-to-earth, and gathering popularity" in the construction of the development system for AECC, and has been unanimously recognized by leaders at all levels of the corporation. Academician Cao Jianguo, Secretary of the Party Group and Chairman of AECC, listened to the special report on the plan during his investigation at GTE and gave a high praise to it.
Academician Yang Shanlin's research team has been closely aligned with major national strategic needs for a long time, delved into the front line of China's high-end equipment manufacturing engineering management practice, focused on key core issues in high-end equipment manufacturing engineering management, and worked together with enterprises to overcome difficulties and find solutions. In recent years, the team has hosted multiple major programs such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program, and has conducted in-depth cooperation with large domestic equipment manufacturing enterprises, such as Aero Engine Corporation of China, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, Weichai Power Co., Ltd. , Chery Automobile Co., Ltd., etc. They have achieved fruitful research results in engineering management fields such as high-end equipment manufacturing process management, R&D system construction, and information system development, which have been widely applied in enterprise engineering management practices, helping enterprises solve management problems and improve management levels.
(Written by Zhang Qiang / Illustrated by Zhang Qiang)
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