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Answers to Market DemandsThe aerospace industry is expected to experience continued growth in most segments for the foreseeable future.
The target to deliver a product that meets all the technical and perfor-mance requirements at cost and on schedule challenges OEMs and their suppliers to continuously transform their extended supply chains to opti-mize total productivity while maintain-ing a highly dynamic and virtual work force.
In the aerospace industry, programs are becoming more complex, bids are more challenging and customer priori-ties are changing. The need for newer technologies, such as composites for more fuel-efficient aircraft, will con-tinue to grow.
Aerospace companies also have to manage regulatory requirements to make sure design and manufacturing practices are documented and trace-able. The need for greater program performance has never been so critical for aerospace companies.
Aerospace companies are trying to find a more efficient way to enhance collaboration between design and manufacturing. The industry needs a process-driven product lifecycle man-agement approach to include manu-facturing engineering in every aspect of program development. This can drive profitability, reputation and prove the firm’s ability to drive suc-cessful program execution.
TrendsWith the changing dynamics in the in-dustry, aerospace manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers are gradually becom-
ing large integrators of airplane pro-duction. This enhances risk-sharing be-tween suppliers and buyers, including suppliers from low-cost regions in the value chain, and increases the need for transparency in aircraft programs, plans and schedules.
OEMs are working towards a business model where they will need to work with fewer Tier 1 suppliers and de-crease direct interactions with Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers.
All this is producing a number of com-mon trends among aerospace FTS manufacturers:
• Increase in production rates by ma-jor aircraft makers will place intense pressure on every part of the supply chain. The problem will be especially acute for subsystem OEMs that have to simultaneously produce high vol-umes for new product lines as well as continue serving their established base (MRO)
• Dramatic improvements in engine
design due to the introduction of all-composite in commercial aircraft
• Constant pressure on the quality of
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the final product and reliability of the production lines
• Need to add new levels of innovation for engineering and manufacturing to meet government mandates for global emission standards.
• Aircraft and systems will be built in a far more complex manner. To keep up, the industry needs far more qual-ified workers who can handle the technology needed to develop, build and run next generation systems and technology.
ImplicationsThese trends generate a number of im-plications in the way aerospace manu-facturers are addressing their process-es. This, in turn, is leading to new needs:
• Increased importance in manage-ment of the Supply Chain in terms of synchronization of materials and sub-assembly.
• Supplier companies may become overextended, creating issues such as parts shortages, out-of-sequence work, defects, rework, and un-planned overtime. All of this will af-fect delivery schedules and costs.
• Need for increased global execution
due to changes in growing markets and due to increased externalization to FTS
• Tier-1 system integrators, who have developed a competitive advantage, will be the first line of suppliers for new OEMs
• Aging workforce and possibility of losing the current know-how gener-ates the urgency of improving and managing skill training/updating in the various regions to adhere to global specifications.
• Newer technologies and processes require new methods of manufactur-ing.
SolutionsSiemens MES/MOM offers a complete portfolio to assist in facing many of these challenges. Aerospace FTSs can introduce MES/MOM solutions into their manufacturing processes and thus obtain optimized order manage-ment, an automated APS for coordina-tion of the supply chain flows (OEMs <> suppliers) and optimization of ma-terial synchronization.
Cross-process visibility, operator inter-face and work instructions enforce-ment, higher performances, real time processing of large amounts of data,
R&D process synchronization with shop floor, a configurable set of quali-ty information to be traced (including compliance and regulatory standards) are just some of the assets our plat-form supplies to aerospace FTS manu-actures.
SIMATIC IT MES/MOM platform is the enabler for:
• Integrate automated and non-auto-mated manufacturing processes.
• COTS functions ready to use for Complex Manufacturing Operations.
• Support to operator guidance (and skill adaptation)
• Support to compliance & regulations requirements
These technological benefits are pro-vided through our MES/MOM integrat-ed software portfolio:
• Closed Loop Manufacturing between process design and manufacturing execution
• Flexible production workflows and asset integration
• Electronic work instructions
• Integration with machines and auto-mation
• Connector to DNC to configure ma-chine programs
• Support of part and assembly manu-facturing
• Full traceability