Production Lean Management In TAECO

Over30years of reforming and opening in China, the increased and sustainedeconomic development caused its booming civil aviation market. As part of China’scivil aviation transportation, civil aviation maintenance industry will be responsiblefor the special requirement of aircraft airworthiness, operation safety and reliability.Based on its high barriers to entry, civil aviation maintenance industry has higherrequirement for the capital, technology and aviation privilege. Aircraft maintenancepackage out-sourcing to independent Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO)enterprise is the trend to reduce the maintenance turnaround time and man hours costwith the same higher level quality.To collect the raw data directly and reflect the real situation objectively, thispaper starts the research from Taikoo Aircraft Engineering Ltd Co (TAECO), onefast-growing with international operation background MRO enterprise in Xiamen.With a series of industrial environmental change, TAECO’s existing extensivemanagement is becoming obsolete with the continuous growing and developing basicmanaging level. Company’s long term strategy development has desired for morepractical, lean and systematic management. The facilitation of the efficient andeffective production lean management implementation in TAECO is crucial to thesurvival of the challenging situation.Through analyzing the current production operation and focusing on the basicactivities in key value stream，this paper addresses the key contributing factors inaspects of production and planning control, production support service and reflectsthe existing situation. During the facilitation of production lean on addressed aircraftproduction and planning control, spares delivery service, tool/facilities support, thevalue added activities in operation will be strengthened and reinforced. On thecontrary, the non-value added activities will be reduced to eliminate the unnecessarywaste.This paper elaborates “Lean Cardboard” planning and control approaches whichincorporate the “Kanban Management” and “Pull System Management”. The methodology of Lean Cardboard is effective and applicable for focusing on thecombination of critical milestone points with supplementary phase control throughmonitoring the flowing of the work cards in planning office. This kind of reinforcedprogress control will enhance the capability, flexibility and responsivity to theuncertainty in complicated production operation, and keep the work cards, man power,and supportive facilities flowing smoothly with the higher productivity. As far asproduction support aspect is concerned, the introduction and facilitation of “InternalCustomer Service” concept which caused the close cooperation and seamlessconnection in the whole process chain and the continuity of service process flowingwill be the company’s strategic direction and ultimate goal in production supportservice.