Equipment Procurement Theory and Practice

Author: Li Ming
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book innovatively explores and researches the theory and practice of equipment procurement. First, it analyzes the background of equipment development, the characteristics of equipment procurement, and the existing practical issues, which are the content of the Introduction. Next, it studies the basis of equipment procurement—contracts—from their essential attributes—contracts, principal-agent relationships, and information asymmetry, which constitutes the content of Chapter 2. As everyone knows, product quality is ensured by technology and maintained by service, while the generation and development of technology depend on systems. Establishing systems is guided by theory, hence the economics community has formed a development chain of "Theory, System, Technology, Product, Service." For this reason, this book elaborates on the new concept of equipment quality—bidirectional subjective quality in the process in Chapter 3; in Chapter 4, it discusses the incentive and constraint mechanisms between the principal and agent, specifically the relationship between quality and price; Chapter 5 explains the foundation and practical countermeasures of quality supervision, while Chapter 6 conducts several thematic studies. These chapters all fall under the category of systems. Chapter 7 takes aviation equipment as an example to illustrate the current status, causes, development trends, and application of aviation new technologies; Chapter 8 conducts targeted thematic studies from the perspectives of advanced methods, process specifications, and evaluation systems. These two chapters belong to the category of technology. Chapter 9 discusses user support. This book can serve as a reference for equipment agencies, equipment research institutes, and military representatives, as well as for equipment development, production, and usage departments. It can also be used as a reference for various equipment procurement training and seminar courses.