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Summary of Development and Manufacture Contracts in the Aerospace and Defense Industries

NC State SCRC

Our third contract research paper is by James Wilkinson, focusing on aerospace contracts which typically entail a great deal of risk (as illustrated by the Boeing 737 MAX incident…). The type of contract of interest in this report is for Development and Manufacture contracts in the Aerospace and Defense industries. Description.

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The Journey to End-to-End (E2E) Supply Chain Visibility Is Ongoing

Logistics Viewpoints

” E2E also means being able to see things when they are not in transit, such as raw materials upstream, inventory in a warehouse or yard, products in retail outlets, or shipments stuck in customs. Aerospace manufacturers have an average of 200 tier-one suppliers and 12,000 across all tiers.

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How to Become DFARS Compliant and Avoid Counterfeit Parts in the Aerospace and Defense Supply Chain

RFgen

In 2014, Massachusetts resident Pierre Picone pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit integrated circuits (IC) to the U.S. We’ll also provide questions and strategies to help contractors improve systems and processes for combatting counterfeit electronic parts in the aerospace and defense supply chain. Navy over the course of 5 years.

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VMI system goes live at Fokker Aerostructures

Supply Chain Movement

VIBA Aerospace Products and Services in the Netherlands and Peerless Aerospace Fastener Corporation, a distributor of aerospace fasteners based in Farmingdale (NY), went live with their Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) of special fasteners at Fokker Aerostructures covering several programs.

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The internet of (supply chain) things

Kinaxis

In a 2014 study, 46% of manufacturing executives didn’t know what the internet of things was. In a previous life, we had examples where aerospace products were produced in a non-air-conditioned factory but measured in an air-conditioned QA lab. Imagine if your inventory itself could tell you how much there is.

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Insights from the 2014 Institute of Analytics Winter Symposium: Building a Culture of Analytics

Supply Chain View from the Field

Many analytics will be driven into future generations of products, which may trigger maintenance requirements, sales efforts, parts inventory management, and improved product design decisions. This would lead to remote maintenance, and predictive failure analysis.

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Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process

GlobalTranz

Even in industries such as automotive, aerospace, and defense, this metric plays a crucial role. By analyzing performance indicators in a way that creates standardized metrics—average response time for corrective actions, MRB inventory levels, delivery times, customer complaints, etc.—suppliers Percentage of products in compliance.