Airbus Helicopters implemented a production control system

On July 8, 2015 the Dassault Systèmes company announced Airbus Helicopters choice - division of Airbus Group holding, industry solution of Build to Operate for increase in effective management of production operations and profitability of programs for creation^[1].

Project Tasks

At the Airbus Helicopters enterprise the strategy directed to improvement of service quality of customers, providing replacement of outdated operation and management systems with the new high quality digital systems is developed and accepted. Within this transformation the Airbus Helicopters company needed the powerful solution for planning of intra factory processes and production management which allowed to reduce terms of an output of new products to the market, to increase operational efficiency.

Products of Airbus Helicopters, 2014

Project Progress

For implementation the industry solution of Build to Operate developed taking into account requirements of the enterprises of the space industry and defense industry is used.

By means of Build to Operate technology the Airbus Helicopters company has an opportunity with a digital accuracy to execute monitoring, control and check of any aspects of productive activity – starting with repeated processes and the sequences of production operations and finishing with sending finished goods to supply chains.

Specialists of Airbus Helicopters have an opportunity of modeling of properties of products, planning and implementation of processes, exchanging experience at all design stages, designing, production and sales of the existing and new models of helicopters. By means of modeling and check of processes in virtual environment the company can set and implement practice of lean production for increase in efficiency of the programs.

Project Results

Global production, the systems of quality assurance, processes of management of labor resources and supply chains which were separate earlier are synchronized with each other due to use of the approved data stream now. The single digital platform provides transparency of real-time control and a possibility of optimization of all business processes, since deliveries of the main nodes and components and finishing with operation of the line of final assembly. Digital means of the analysis of factory transactions allow Airbus Helicopters to estimate effect of introduction of constructive improvements and technical completions and in a foreground mode to eliminate the arising production tasks.

Helicopters of the company, 2014

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