Aerospace & Defense  

A&D companies continually have to review their practices to address current challenges, which include: globalization, supply chain restructuring, costs and lead times reduction, changing customer expectations, information management complexity, global and integrated services.

Vinci Consulting offers a full set of consulting services to:
 
  Aerospace & Defense
  Automotive
  Energy & Utilities
  Industrial Equipments
  Retail and Consumer Goods
  • 
Manage the product life cycle and collaborate throughout the extended enterprise
  • 
Master product complexity and promote standardization
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Boost R&D efficiency, apply Lean Engineering practices
  •  Develop agility, value creation and flexibility all along Production and Service phases
  •  Improve supply chain performance
  •  Promote customer focus and innovative services
  Business Cases  

  PLM - Product Lifecycle Management  
Functional support to the definition and deployment of a corporate core model  
Client : Aerospace & Defense
Methodology
• Collect and refine user needs in the multiple Business units of the group
• Prioritize needs
• Specify the functions to be implemented in the corporate PLM system
• Elaborate and follow up acceptance test cases

Results
• A set of methods, documents, templates to describe the core model content, capabilities and use cases, as well
  as the deployment process and the organization and work breakdown structures
• Robust requirements: needs challenged by experts and design team, requirements prototyped in a pre-development
  environment, specifications complying to technical, economical and planning constraints, acceptance tests prepared
  and run with key users, non-conformances managed
• Project roadmap built and validated for several business units
  PLM - Product Lifecycle Management  
Innovation projects portfolio management for Customer Services  
Client : Aerospace
Methodology
• Scope innovation portfolio
• Evaluate R&T Projects and scope through experts’ interviews
• Manage projects through the deployment of Lean Management principles

Results
• Building of the roadmap of Customer Services Research
• Definition of Projects Agreements to scope the projects: objectives, planning, work breakdown, gross cost estimation...
• Monthly progress reviews based on Lean principles:
   - Definition of an Obeya to develop Visual Management and foster decision making
   - Focus on knowledge learning and standardization as means to pilot R&T projects (e.g.: knowledge gap identification
     and analysis)

Vinci Consulting is a completely independent consulting firm, and employs 40 consultants from high level engineering curriculums. The company has grown steadily since its creation in 1992 and had a turnover of 6 M € in 2011.
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PARIS (AGENCY)
  Vinci Consulting
  25, rue d'Artois
  75008 Paris, France
  Tel: +33 1 44 54 24 00
  Fax: +33 1 44 54 24 01
 
info@vinci-consulting.com
TOULOUSE (HEADQUARTERS)
  Vinci Consulting
  4bis, rue Brindejonc des Moulinais
  31500 Toulouse, France
  Tel: +33 5 62 88 78 00
  Fax: +33 5 62 88 78 01
 
info@vinci-consulting.com
 
 




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Specialized in PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), Lean Engineering / Lean Product Development & Supply Chain

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