| dc.description.abstract | Value engineering- a professional team is systematically invested in product’s functional analysis and research, and then provides effective analysis steps as well as suggests appropriate alternatives. On the premise that keeps the same level of the product’s quality, the professional team proceeds to eliminate over-designs, uses alternative designs, lowers the cost of raw-materials, substitutes materials and processing methods as well as deletes the redundant subsystems. The team has to consider all these adapted activities not only for reducing some part of the costs, but also still maintaining the same or even upgrading level of the product’s quality.
Based on the different needs of tactics, tasks and environments, SS missile proposed improvements of in-system’s module solutions and carried out product configuration changes and designs by using value engineering methods such as self-made change to outsourced, replace suppliers and materials, adjust specification, redesign and process improvement etc. For above changes, product cost measurements are straightforward but it is difficult to quantify the functions since many factors affecting them. Therefore, the analyses of the function before and after the configuration changes, the manufacture costs’ calculation become the core of value engineering research.
This research applies the value engineering to focus on economic value, and also compares & analyzes the subdivided use value and cost value. After configuration changed, the final product has passed its reviews, audits and tests. The cost reduction ratio for a single piece reaches to 16.27%, and it can be increased to 26.45% when using the optimal production batch - 300 pieces. We consider that an extraordinary value engineering not only reduce costs, improve performance and qualities, but also serves as a strong foundation for future improvement.
Modern military equipment uses many new technologies. The applied methods of this research contain changing military self-made to out-source as well as substituting appropriate materials. These approaches not only support the private supply chains but also upgrade industrial technological transformations. In the meantime, these movements can also increase both the military and civilians’ general scientific and technological capabilities. And they also make some parts of military equipment’s expenses transform to the private industries’ incomes. As a result, the corresponding domestic supplies will therefore expand their capacities and the aforementioned incomes will play a multiplicative effect on the overall economic development. It would definitely make us very impressive after the subsequent increases in such kind of production volumes. | en_US |