Aerospace Manufacturer Avoids Steep Penalty Costs Passed On To Crucial Parts Supplier

During the contract they worked across departments for the manufacturer and supplier, respectively, and advised them after performing the following:

• Provided root cause analysis to find pain points in overall process
• Identified design flaws which would have added to ongoing penalty costs
• Deployed a quality management system to find flaws interdepartmentally between the teams for the supplier and manufacturer, respectively
• Established cross-functional governance of program performance and roadblocks

Several critical paths were identified with respect to the crucial components needed in specific lines of aircraft being manufactured and some teams were found to be heavily siloed leading to miscommunications causing resulting penalty costs and aircraft production delays.