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Make “Lean” a Part of Collaboration and Teamwork in Aerospace

DELMIA Quintiq

Recent global events have put the Aerospace & Defense sectors in a precarious position. Commercial aerospace is dealing with the sudden drop in demand followed by a gradual ramp-up of production while defense spending has remained strong fueling new production requirements. Teams and processes need to adopt lean principles.

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Happening Now: a Lean transformation in action

West Coast and California Logistics

A recent article from Supply Chain Digest was written in conjunction with the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI). The article focuses on the Lean transformation recently undertaken by aerospace manufacturer, Re:Build Cutting Dynamics – a transformation which has already yielded impressive results.

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Leveraging Virtual Twin in the Aerospace and Defense Industry

DELMIA Quintiq

The aerospace and defense (A & D) industry is facing numerous challenges following the recent pandemic, dealing with constrained demand and vulnerable supply chains. Support rate on demand with lean operations. Minimize risks and save money by avoiding unexpected failures.

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Leading Inventory Attack Teams with Richard Lebovitz

The Logistics of Logistics

Over his 30+ year career in the supply chain, Richard has worked with manufacturers around the world in operations, supply chain, and lean strategy roles to develop systems that can manage complex supply chains on a global scale. Richard previously founded and led Factory Logic, Inc. acquired by SAP).

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Supply chain pain points in the Aerospace and Defense industry

Kinaxis

by Alexa Cheater 7 barriers to aerospace and defense supply chain success. For supply chains in the aerospace and defense industry, keeping pace with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who are dramatically increasing production rates for components, systems and services, is a major challenge. Multiple ERPs. Life sciences.

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Trane Technologies’ Digital Simulation Journey

DELMIA Quintiq

In addition, this has allowed Trane Technologies to support new product development based on its current OPEX system driven by Lean Manufacturing principles and people involvement. It is clear that automotive and aerospace organizations have been at the forefront of these simulation technologies. Focus on KPIs.

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Global Independence: Reimagining the “What if Scenario”

NC State SCRC

I had the pleasure of speaking with Peter Guinto, who is the President of Government, Defense and Aerospace Business at Resilinc about the ‘art’ of managing supply chains in a volatile environment. In essence, adoption of lean management principles without supplier engagement creates substantial resiliency risk.