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Precision parts manufacturing, Part 4: winning and running supply contracts

Supply-chain tiers, supplier approval, quoting and costing, capacity and rate readiness, contracts and flow-downs, scorecards, supply risk and long-term pricing

By Aerospace Garage Desk · What's next · 45 minutes · 24 narrated pages

  1. Part 1 · Basics

    Precision parts manufacturing, Part 1: materials and machining

  2. Part 2 · In practice

    Precision parts manufacturing, Part 2: special processes

  3. Part 3 · Managing it

    Precision parts manufacturing, Part 3: quality and inspection

  4. Part 4 · What's next

    Precision parts manufacturing, Part 4: winning and running supply contractsYou are here

Precision manufacturing · all 4 parts US$59 (save US$17) · See the Flight Path →

What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Describe the tiers of the aerospace supply chain, the difference between build-to-print and build-to-spec, and how published production rates become supplier demand.
  • ✓ Explain how a supplier gains and keeps approval through AS9100 certification, OASIS, Nadcap, customer audits and first article inspection, under the customer's production approval.
  • ✓ Build a part quote from material, machine hour rates, set-up, special processes and scrap, and apply a learning curve to multi-year pricing.
  • ✓ Check lead times and bottleneck capacity for a rate increase, and use AS9145 planning to demonstrate rate readiness.
  • ✓ Manage contracts, quality flow-downs, export-control awareness and delivery and quality scorecards, using official findings on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282.
  • ✓ Price long-term agreements with escalation clauses and manage single-source and raw-material risks through supplier development.

Course content

Session 1 · How the aerospace supply chain works

1.1

  1. From raw material to the final assembly line · free preview
  2. Build-to-print and build-to-spec
  3. Production rates: the demand signal
  4. Worked example: from aircraft rate to monthly part starts
Session 2 · Becoming an approved supplier

1.2

  1. AS9100 certification and the OASIS database
  2. Nadcap and special processes
  3. Customer audits, first articles and working under a customer's approval
  4. From the investigation file: Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
Session 3 · Quoting and costing a part

1.3

  1. The cost build-up
  2. Machine hour rates and set-up
  3. Learning curves, scrap and quote risks
  4. Worked example: building a quote for a titanium fitting
Session 4 · Lead times, capacity and rate readiness

1.4

  1. Anatomy of a lead time
  2. Capacity, bottlenecks and utilisation
  3. Rate readiness: APQP and production part approval
  4. Worked example: checking capacity for a rate increase
Session 5 · Contracts, flow-downs and performance

1.5

  1. Anatomy of a supply contract and its flow-downs
  2. Export-control awareness
  3. Measuring delivery and quality performance
  4. Worked example: a supplier scorecard
Session 6 · Long-term agreements, risk and supplier development

1.6

  1. Pricing long-term agreements
  2. Supply risk: single sources and long-lead material
  3. Supplier development and corrective action
  4. Worked example: a learning curve in a three-year agreement

Who this course is for

  • Machine shop owners and sales managers bidding for aerospace work
  • Estimators building part quotes with learning curves and escalation clauses
  • Supply chain managers preparing suppliers for a production rate increase

You need: Precision parts manufacturing, Part 3: quality and inspection, or experience at an aerospace supplier.

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