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Tuesday, April 27, 201011:05 am – 11:35 amEmpower your employees and increase your operational performance with the Daily Mananagement System (DMS) the Toyota Way Speakers : Mr. Pierre BEAUDOIN, Eng., MBA,, Continuous Improvement Engineer at Héroux Devtek, and Mr François BAZINET, Eng., MBA, Vice-President at The CREATECH GROUP (operational performance improvement consulting firm).
The transformation process initiated at Héroux-Devtek (manufacturer of landing gear, structural aircraft components and engine components) was based on the use of visual management tools and a more rigorous support structurefrom the steering and supervision groups. Following the adoption of the DMS at its Longueuil plant, Heroux Devtek has successfully:
During this conference you will discover:
tools have been somewhat painful in the past) The role of the continuous improvement manager in the deployment of new management principles
11:40 am - 12:10 amAviation Product Liability Risk and Insurance Speaker: Mr Pierre-ALEXANDRE LUSSIER, Vice President, MARSH CANADA, Mr Réjean BOURQUE, Senior Vice President, Financial Products, MARSH CANADA et Me Michel G.SYLVESTRE, Lawyer, OGILVY RENAULT
In the challenging market that has emerged post-9/11, aviation products liability is a key risk element for aviation manufacturers and more so for SMEs. SMEs are generally not involved in the design of the final products, but rather work on a sub-contracted, "build-to-print" basis for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Because they are removed from the design/conception process, SMEs often feel that they have limited or minimal exposure to legal actions from third parties, and this perspective is reinforced by the lack of direct claims activity involving SMEs. Greater demands are made on SMEs to procure aviation products insurance, resulting from a concentrated effort by OEMs to secure greater levels of contractual indemnity from their suppliers Marsh Canada and Ogilvy Renault's specialists address in a joint presentation, the key issues and discuss solutions on aviation product liability for SMEs in the aerospace sector.
2 :00 pm – 2 :30 pmLean/Six Sigma Metrics for Supply Chain Improvement Speaker : Mr Manivannan SUBRAMANIAM, Supplier development leader, ROLLS-ROYCE North America The Lean/Six Sigma is a proven method for eliminating waste from the value stream and for creating flow to maximize the productivity improvement. Lean techniques can be used to improve customer lead times and product quality while reducing inventory, Floor space and labor. Special problems that Supply Chain need to address when implementing lean Principles include: High Variability in Demand Uncertainty in work scope and Material Requirements Support Operations and External Suppliers Difficulty in Managing Shared Resources Physical Restrictions on Movement of Work Restrictions Requiring Repaired Parts to be Returned to the Original Assembly implications of the Diagnosis—Scheduling Dispersal/Backstop/Assembly/Test Sequence Complex and Unpredictable Flow Paths. Lean manufacturing techniques and flow technology are being used in each shop to reduce variation in Lead and improve productivity Supplier Chain also face the problem of integrating different improvement tools. This workshop , we will discuss about:
2 :35 pm – 3 :05 pmHow to do business with CMC Electronics Speakers : Mr Guy GAUVIN, Director, Supply Chain – Ms Caroline MICHAUD, Supply Chain Manager – MrPierre BOUTIN, Quality Assurance Manager, Supply chain, CMC Electronics For more than a century, CMC Electronics has achieved an International reputation for innovation and excellence in the design and manufacture of electronic products for the aviation market. The Supply Chain, as is in most companies, is a key contributor to establishing a company’s reputation on the market. The Supply Chain team, comprised of Guy Gauvin, Caroline Michaud and Pierre Boutin will explain who CMC is, what they buy, what are our guiding principles, and will relate real life cases with suppliers and the relevant experiences it has nurtured in establishing strong partnerships.
3:10 pm – 3:40 pmCanadian aerospace SMEs development Speaker: Mr Claude LAJEUNESSE, President AIAC and Mr Jacques SAADA, President AQA.
Mr. Lajeunesse will review the state of the Canadian Aerospace Industry and outline some of the initiatives taken to keep Canada among the world leaders in Aerospace. Mr. Saada will review the on-going major changes in the global supply-chain management with particular attention to their impact on SME's
3:45 pm – 4:50 pmItaly, an international crossroads of aerospace excellence: Campania, Piemonte and Apulia present their supply chains Speakers : Mr Gianpiero MASERA, Promotion and Territorial Development - Chief Executive, TURIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Mr Sergio MAZZARELLA, head of office for Integrated Politics for territorial development, REGIONE CAMPANIA and Mr Giuseppe ACIERNO, President, APULIAN AEROSPACE CLUSTER (DAP - Distretto Aerospaziale Pugliese) Piemonte, in particular the area surrounding the capital, Torino, is home to an important aerospace sector: the five principal companies in this sector have 7,000 employees and generate a turnover of 1,3 billion Euros. In addition to these big players, the region counts on a group of about 300 SMEs, with a total of 3.000 employees and a turnover of 1,2 billion Euros in the aerospace industry alone. The technical-productive specialisation of the companies which compose the Piemonte aerospace industry, both in manufacturing and technical services (research and development, project design, IT etc.) is able to respond to the wide spectrum of needs of the aeronautical and aerospace markets: aircraft, motors, propellers, satellites, infrastructure as well as ground and on-board control systems etc. In terms of manufacturing, the production chain is vertically developed in all its aspects: end producers of complex sub-systems, companies supplying parts, components or complete systems which are incorporated into these sub-systems, sub-contractors of specialised work and equipment.
The aeronautic sector in the Campania Region is one of the major national aerospace poles, not only in terms of the number of enterprises, turnover and number of employees, but also because it boasts an excellent scientific research and high-level education network. Campania accounts for about 25% of the entire aeronautical sector in Italy with more than 130 companies and 10.000 workers. It is growing at a high speed and “Campaniaerospace” is the brand promoted by the Regional Institution to support the aerospace local players under one joint Italian strategy. This is in order to play a role in national and international development programs, as indicated by our presence in EACP, which represents 31 aerospace clusters of 12 European nations.
“Apulia, a region nurturing excellence in the aerospace industry” Apulia is a dynamic region of the South East of Italy where companies have been involved in the aeronautics sector since 1934. Continuous investment in research, as well as skills development, have turned Apulia into a centre for excellence in the aerospace sector, which boasts one of the largest concentration of industrial aerospace firms in Italy (together with the regions Piedmont, Lazio, Lombardy and Campania) and where companies of national and international standing have chosen to locate state-of-the-art production facilities. In 2008 the overall turnover of the aerospace sector in Apulia totalled almost 800 million Euros. The Apulia Regional Government has promoted the recent setting-up of the Apulian Aerospace Cluster, which counts over 50 members, including large enterprises, S.m.e.’s, Universities and private and public research centres. The mission of the Apulian Aerospace Cluster is to foster competitive growth throughout the industry and scientific network at regional level, to favour the attraction of inward investments, by national and international players, to contribute to the integration, the qualification and the strengthening of the regional supply chain which currently plays host to diverse product specializations, including: fixed-wing (Alenia); rotating wing (AgustaWestland); propulsion (Avio); composite materials (Alenia Composite) and aerospace software (SSI).
4:55 pm – 5:25 pmSpirit Aerosystems and Haskell : Partners in expanding supply chain capacity in composites manufacturing for commercial aircraft Speaker : Mr Jonathan TOKE, Senior Project Manager, HASKELL and Mr Matthew CHANG, Project Manager; HASKELL Spirit AeroSystems is the largest independent supplier of aerostructures to both Boeing and Airbus. Faced with increased demand, Spirit needed to expand its global composite material production supply chain. The composite manufacturing process requires particular labor, facility, technology, and transportation conditions to succeed. Therefore, Spirit used a balanced criteria to select partners to perform its international site search, engineering/procurement/construction, and technology implementation (tooling). By selecting good partners, Spirit’s production facilities are developed quickly and cost effectively. The success of projects in the France, Malaysia, and the United States demonstrate that selecting partners with the correct values is more important than the size of the partner or the price of their services.
5:30 pm – 6:00 pmPresentation of the Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees region , the worldwide aeronautical location at the Heart of the Aerospace Valley (South west France) Speaker : Mr Philippe BAYLET, Executive Director, Inward Investment, MIDI-PYRENEES EXPANSION Aerospace
Valley is the world competitiveness cluster for aeronautics, space and embedded
systems . The cluster
embraces more over than 1 600 companies and 120 000 jobs in the
above mentioned sectors. Major aircraft manufacturers and prime
contractors are located in the Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees région : Airbus,
ATR, Daher Socata, Latecoere, Aerolia, Thales Avionics, Rockwell Collins,
Liebherr Aerospace, the Safran group and more than 550 companies
(OEM, subcontractors, supplier,...),
Wednesday, April 28, 2010.
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