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

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

Fall 2020 – 100% Online

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

Fall 2021 – 100% Online (Full Semester)

1. Bombardier Aerospace London, UK – Expanding hanger operations and planning a facilities move
2. Bombardier Aerospace London, UK– Optimizing Operation in Maintenance Stores – How to Improve Flow
3. deHavilland Aircraft – Developing a Parallel Superstation Assembly 
4. Bombardier Toronto – Developing a Pre-Flight Status Tracking System
5. Bombardier Toronto – Developing a Pre-flight Crew Handover system
6. Safran  – Developing a Digitization strategy for an aerospace enterprise

Fall 2022 – 100% Online (Full Semester)

1. deHavilland – Implementing a manufacturing operating system for the new DHC-515 Water Bomber 
2. Pratt & Whitney – Technology Maturation Process Improvement 
3. Safran – Assessing the disconnect between the innovation funnel and innovation implementation strategy 
4. Bombardier – Developing Operations Monitoring System to Improve Visibility and Pre-flight Operations Planning