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Case Study: Airbus / Unipart Logistics lean manufacturing and continuous improvement

Case Study: Airbus / Unipart Logistics lean manufacturing and continuous improvement

By early 2000, as a result of higher build rates and the development of new aircraft variants, Airbus was challenging itself to improve efficiency in

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Watch, Building an Airbus A340-600 in 346 seconds

Watch, Building an Airbus A340-600 in 346 seconds

10th January 2010. Kamran Zamir In my opinion, one of the most comfortable panes. The Airbus A340-600 is the largest of the Airbus jetliners and

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Case Study: Operational Improvement On-time, On-Quality, On-Cost

Case Study: Operational Improvement On-time, On-Quality, On-Cost

Background A new final assembly line of a major aerospace and defence company was not performing to expectations; while the product was being deliv

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Case Study: Aerospace Improvement and Change Programs

Background The business improvement initiative of an aerospace company had been successful initially, but support was fading. They needed help to r

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Case Study: MRO – Test time reduction for a defence contractor

Case Study MRO – Test time reduction Background This defence contractor was experiencing losses due to excessive time to test and repair eq

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Case Study: Compliance management for a civil avionics division of a major aerospace and defence company

Case Study Compliance management Background This civil avionics division of a major aerospace and defence company was experiencing difficulti

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Shannon Aerospace Seeing Benefits of Lean

Shannon Aerospace Seeing Benefits of Lean

Shannon Aerospace Ltd. attributes the 24-day turntime it achieved for D checks on a pair of Croatia Airlines' Airbus A319s to Lean activities it h

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PARIS 2009: SR Technics details reduced check times

PARIS 2009: SR Technics details reduced check times

SR Technics has unveiled details of of the reductions in maintenance check durations that it is achieving following a concentrated effort under ne

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