AER1601 Aerospace Engineering & Operations Management-Working with Aerospace Industry

AER1601 –Aerospace Engineering & Operations Management-Working with Aerospace Industry

Fall 2017 – Bombardier Aerospace Projects 

Team 1-Work and Material Planning and Shop Floor Control

• MPS/MRP
• Inventory Accuracy
• Issuance of Material to the Line

Team 2 -Fabrication Shop Operations Improvement

• Workflow efficiencies, Plant Layout (NOT IN SCOPE), Plan and Unplanned Work, Vendor Part Management
• Capacity planning and Shop Loading, Bottleneck reduction, Order Release, Labour Staffing
• Priority Planning, AGO, Spares, Unplanned work

Team 3 –Labour Tracking and Learning Curves

• Visibility and Usefulness
• How are decisions made?
• Gaps and Inefficences

Team 4 – Methods Engineering Operational Improvement

• How do we manage critical parts using the critical path method? Is it efficient rand effective?
• What are the predecessors and Successors – how is this defined and used?  Is it accurate? How do we improve it?
• Line Balancing to Remove workstations (new assembly methods sequencing)

Fall 2019 – Inclass Semester

• Bombardier Bay 2–Optimization Aerostructures line Global 5000/5500 & 6000/65
• Bombardier Work Center Optimization Bay 4 – Final Assembly Li
• deHavilland – Work Centre 710 Operations Optimization
• deHavilland – Assembly Line Work Center 610 Final Project Report
• Safran- Enterprise Wide Relational Database Governance model
• Safran– Factory of the Future project – technology management and change

Fall 2020 – 100% Online

• Bombardier –Tooling-Management Systems 
• Bombardier Aerospace–Evolution – from rise to fall to?
• deHavilland – Rethinking the Aircraft Production Process
• Lockheed Martin Case Study – Critical Success factors LM Skunk Works and Kelly Johnson
• Safran  – Agile Product Development for Landing Gear Development