Large Aircraft Manufacturing Foothold In China

    In February of this year, the State Councilresearch and development for aviation spare parts
approved in principle the large aircraft technologyprocessing technology and procedures. Machine tool
officially approved major projects. May 11 the samemanufacturing company also set Airways account
year, China Commercial Aircraft Co., Ltd. was formallysales manager, responsible for aviation manufacturing
established in Shanghai, marking China's large aircraftmarket sales, strengthen contacts with the aviation
research project was officially launched. Chinamanufacturing enterprises, feedback information on the
Commercial Aircraft Company is mainly engaged inneeds of aviation manufacturing market. The domestic
civil aircraft design, development, production,machine tool manufacturers can learn from abroad,
manufacture and undertake the processing of aircraftthis advanced approach, we must first understand the
parts production business.needs of aerospace manufacturers and aircraft parts
    Focus on developing large aircraft, the aircraftmanufacturing process, which established machine tool
is necessary to strengthen R & D, keydesign, research process route suited to provide to
components manufacturing and assembly, andmeet the requirements of aviation enterprises machine.
marketing capabilities, to break aircraft engines,Most aviation manufacturers have said that if the
airborne equipment, material and other key coredomestic machine tool to meet the requirements, or
technology. Typical parts and difficult materialswilling to use China-made machine tools, because the
processing is also one of the key links.domestic machine tools and low cost. Second, the
    At present, aircraft manufacturers of machinehigh-end CNC machine tools purchased from foreign
tools used by the majority are imported, domesticcountries, foreign set many restrictions, and even sold
machine tools are few and mostly for roughing, mainlyus.
because: It is now made to maintain the accuracy of    Therefore, the development of large aircraft
machine tools, quality, stability, timeliness, and othermust be based on domestic development of these
matters there is gap between the requirements ofmuch-needed processing equipment, in order not to be
aviation users, and some machine domestic or blank. Incontrolled by others. China's machine tool industry
order to change this situation, foreign machine toolenterprises should shoulder heavy responsibilities for
manufacturers in cooperation with the aviationthe country share those concerns. Aero-engine
manufacturing enterprises have some good practicesmanufacturers and aircraft manufacturers, but also
are worth studying.contribute to the revitalization of China's equipment
    If some foreign machine tool manufacturers tomanufacturing industry, the positive application of
establish the corresponding aeronautical applicationsdomestic equipment to help improve domestic
development department, the department's duty is toequipment as soon as possible the formation of
collect the needs of aerospace manufacturers, toindustry, academia, research, and use interactive
product design department to convey these needs,innovation mechanism.