Maximise your share of the value chain and increase service effectiveness

The Issues
Manufacturers in the aerospace industry face a market of modest growth, combined with globalisation and consolidation of both supply and demand. As cost pressures are pushed back from unprofitable airlines and increasingly frugal defence programmes, there will be a fight to maximise the share of the value chain.

While some will undoubtedly achieve this through product innovation, the early wins will come from profits generated through the delivery of aftermarket services, where competitive advantage can be rapidly attained. As aircraft operators seek to both cost minimise and de-risk their maintenance charges, manufacturers face a great opportunity to deliver services into the aftermarket in order to realise greater value from their businesses.

Solution
WCI has wide ranging expertise in Aerospace aftermarket and service environments, working with both suppliers and customers to create integrated, service-driven supply chains. We use our experience, supported by proven tools and techniques, to structure our design and implementation activities in order to ensure successful and sustainable delivery of benefits. Our change management approach engages with all levels in the organisation and we deploy and transfer our service and aftermarket skills and knowledge to increase ownership, self-sufficiency and ensure sustainability of improvement.

Benefits
For an airline WCI redesigned the processes for repair and overhaul activities on Boeing 737’s and 747’s delivering a 45% reduction in turnover times and a 15% reduction in costs.

For leading global Aerospace companies WCI has designed new organisation structures, changed working practices and created best practice templates that reduced turn around times by 15%.

WCI reviewed and redesigned a pioneering flight and technology company’s shop floor layouts to optimise product flow, reduce lead-times and increase manpower utilisation. A 10% increase in capacity was achieved.