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The aviation industry is on a path of long-term growth – but it also faces complex challenges along the way.
While the demand for new aircraft and MRO services is becoming increasingly dynamic, businesses in the aviation sector are being confronted with rising costs, challenging supply chain issues, and a persistent shortage of skilled labor. Taking advantage of new opportunities and ensuring long-term success requires the right strategies, processes, and methods — all built to support sustainable growth.
What Are the Key Areas of Action for Businesses in the Aviation Industry Currently?
The impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid recovery that followed have brought lasting changes to the aviation industry. As a result, several key areas now require transformation:
Ramp-Up & Delivery Capability
The entire supply chain is undergoing a significant and long-term ramp-up, particularly for single-aisle products. For many companies, meeting future production rate demands is a challenge, and issues with delivery capability and quality are already starting to appear. In this context, it is fundamental to offer transparency about current production progress, disruptions, and issues using targeted shop floor management.
Performance
Efficiency and costs are playing an increasingly important role. Rising material and labor costs make it essential to align all production and support processes efficiently to stay competitive now and in the future.
Supply Chain Management
Recent geopolitical events have caused significant challenges in supply chains across many industries. In today’s environment, stable and secure supply chains, built for sustainability and strengthened by digital transparency and risk management, offer a clear competitive advantage.
Ingenics Consulting: Your Corporate Consulting Firm for Aviation
As a consulting firm specializing in the aviation sector, we support you from strategy to implementation in the core areas of operations management, quality management, and supply chain management. On top of that, we are your partner for factory planning and digitalization.
With years of experience in the aerospace industry, we deliver fast, practical solutions that lead to measurable improvements in a short time.
Additionally, you benefit from our benchmarking methods, which our consulting team adapts from other industries to the aviation sector. This combination has been proven successful with OEMs, aviation suppliers, and MRO service providers worldwide.
APQP: Consolidating Knowledge, Avoiding Errors, Lowering Development Costs
Advanced product-quality planning (APQP) is a systematic methodology for planning quality ahead of time. The methodology creates a product-quality plan that you can use to develop your products faster, more cost-effectively, and more reliably. The knowledge and experience (“lessons learned”) from all relevant departments are consolidated into one pool to close off sources of errors and lower development costs. It usually does not require any elaborate implementation process. Instead, all it needs are isolated adjustments that, in our experience, pay off very quickly.
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How Can I Boost Production Rates at My Company?
There are several ways to increase production rates at your company: improving efficiency through operational excellence, expanding production capacity, or providing targeted training and qualification for your employees. In addition, optimizing and increasing transparency in supply chains is crucial for avoiding bottlenecks and improving production flow (more about that under Supply Chain Management).
What Strategies Can Help Solve Supply Chain Challenges in Aviation?
In aviation, resolving supply chain issues demands stronger integration and transparency across the supply chain. This can be achieved by using supply chain visibility tools such as a control tower to enable real time monitoring. Working closely with suppliers through digital platforms and diversifying the supplier base are also key strategies. Using multiple suppliers for critical components (through dual or multi-sourcing) and partnering with regional suppliers to reduce geopolitical risk both help improve supply chain stability. Strategic partnerships and vertical integration, including equity in supplier companies and the development of long-term contracts with key suppliers, are other measures for safeguarding stable production capacity and prices.
How Can I Improve Visibility Into My Production Progress?
How Can I Improve Visibility Into My Production Progress?
You can achieve an increase in the transparency of your production progress with digitalization and real-time data monitoring. A manufacturing execution system (MES) links all relevant production data and information and offers real-time dashboards visualizing the current production status. Standardized communication and shop floor routines, like regular stand-up meetings and key metrics for production status, shift targets, lead times, and error rates, are also crucial for improving transparency.
What Are the Most Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in the Aviation Industry?
Effective cost reduction measures in the aviation industry include improving operational efficiency, optimizing processes, and enhancing supply chains, quality management, and correction costs. Digitalization and automation also play a critical role in reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
What Digital Tools Support Shop Floor Management in Aviation?
What Digital Tools Support Shop Floor Management in Aviation?
Digital tools that support shop floor management in aviation include manufacturing execution systems (MES) which provide real-time data about status, material flows, and product quality. These types of systems offer detailed tracking for each component and optimize production planning and resource management. Digital shop floor dashboards provide a real-time view of production metrics and allow for quick responses to any issues or discrepancies.
What Are the Best Practices for Ramping Up in the Aviation Industry?
The best practices for ramping up in the aviation industry include planning and simulating ramp-up phases using stress tests, as well as creating a clear roadmap with defined milestones and checkpoints. Regular assessments and tests help to identify maturity and adjustments when needed. Offering early training and onboarding for new employees, along with considering a ramp-up phase, are also key steps. Improving quality through employee training and establishing transparent quality control loops with feedback cycles are also essential for a successful ramp-up. Regular updates and transparency about production progress allow for early detection of disruptions and delays, enabling quicker responses.
How Can I Safeguard the Quality of My Products When Production Rates In-crease?
How Can I Safeguard the Quality of My Products When Production Rates In-crease?
Safeguarding the quality of your products even when production rates are increasing requires the implementation of quality management systems such as ISO 9001 certification. Regular audits, inspections, and ongoing employee training and development are essential. Ongoing error prevention and cross-training enhance quality awareness and promote a safety-focused mindset, with regular training on the impact of errors on safety.
What Benefits Does Targeted Shop Floor Management Offer?
What Benefits Does Targeted Shop Floor Management Offer?
Targeted shop floor management offers numerous benefits, including an improvement of efficiency and productivity as well as rapid identification and remediation of bottlenecks. It contributes to a reduction of waste and increase in transparency and communication. Real-time data and visualization enable all stakeholders to be informed immediately and react at short notice if necessary. Improved communication ensures a fast flow of information and prevents delays in decision-making processes. Proactive quality control ensures that errors can be detected and fixed early. Standardized procedures and continuous employee training and professional development foster the employees’ sense of personal responsibility and help to prevent errors and optimize processes.
What Focus Areas Does Ingenics Consulting Have in Aviation Consulting
What Focus Areas Does Ingenics Consulting Have in Aviation Consulting
Ingenics concentrates on a variety of focus areas for its aviation consulting services, including industrial strategy & footprint, operational excellence, factory planning, logistics planning, supply chain management, quality and supplier management, industrial engineering, and digitalization.
Which Fields of Aviation Is Ingenics Consulting Active In?
Which Fields of Aviation Is Ingenics Consulting Active In?
Ingenics Consulting advises clients in all the relevant fields of aviation manufacturing, from major corporations to SMEs. These clients include OEMs, suppliers, maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) contractors; and helicopter and space travel companies.
