How can the complex supply chain for an aero engine respond to a request for quotation from an airline in just a week? This is the presentation that accompanied our ICE 2006 conference paper on aero industry virtual enterprises, legal issues and the "seven day proposal". One output from the EU Sixth Framework Integrated Project, VIVACE (Value Improvement through a VIRTUAL Aerospace Collaborative Enterprise).
Uses the ‘Da Vinci’ theme from Keynote Theme Park.
2. Contents
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• An introduction to VIVACE
• Aims of this work
• Aerospace issues
• The virtual enterprise
• Functional requirements
• In search of trust
• Concurrent engineering...?
• Conclusions
3. •Value Improvement through a Virtual
Aeronautical Collaborative Enterprise
•Funded under the European Commission’s
sixth framework scheme
•Project aims:
• Halve the time to market for new
products
• Increase integration in the supply chain
• Maintain a steady fall in the cost of travel
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5. •Define and develop the process
to produce a customised value
proposal from an extended
enterprise in seven days
•Develop a functional
requirement specification for the
seven day proposal
•Evaluate solutions to the seven
day proposal, including
knowledge-based engineering
support, costing models and
information management
Aims of this work
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6. •Very complex products
•High initial investments
•Very long product life-cycle
•Very complex business models
•National interest
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8. The Virtual Enterprise...
•Deploys expertise where it is needed
•Spreads the development cost
•Shares risks among the partners
•Allows a customer-specific response
•Virtual enterprises take time to form!
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9. The Seven-day
Proposal
•Not a whole new product!
•The same engine, but a customised solution,
addressing the airline’s requirements.
•Response to the request for proposal (RFP)
within seven days.
•Ambitious targets show commitment!
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10. The Aero Engine Product
and Service Mix
•Ownership? Leasing? Power-by-the-hour?
•Maintenance, repair and overhaul
•Spare parts, spare engines
•Financial services
•Guarantees
•...etc.
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11. UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAMRICHARD FARR
It’s amazing what you can achieve in seven days!The Creation of Adam, fresco painting byMichelangelo
12. Functional
requirements of a
seven-day proposal
•An investigation of the working procedure for
collaborative programmes
•Industrial partners: Volvo Aero Corporation and
Rolls-Royce
•Identification of “who does what, when”
•Configuration of a support system
•Process organised into seven ‘silos’...
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13. Seven ‘Silos’...
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•Company Internal
•Partners
•Suppliers
•Customer
•Customer solution
•Business case
•Legal
•Information: data sharing and control
•Virtual Enterprise Business Model
•Trust
14. Trust is the key!
•There is no unit of measure for trust
•Cultural differences can affect perception
•Years to build; moments to ruin
•What about trustworthiness when things aren’t
going to plan?
•Is protection under law a substitute for trust?
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15. Legal issues
•The virtual enterprise has no legal identity
(ie no collective responsibility)
•Where does the virtual enterprise reside, for tax
purposes?
•The law assumes an adversarial relationship
•Getting approval for legal documents can
increase cost and lead time
•Legal mechanisms that protect the parties may
delay virtual enterprise formation, and inhibit
creativity
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16. Tools to support the
seven-day proposal
•Capturing and reusing knowledge
•Modelling the business environment
•Simulating the flow of cash within the
proposed value chain
•Simulating the delivery of services
•Improving the interfaces between
partners, and between functionsRICHARD FARR VIVACE
17. Concurrent
Engineering has
been seen to
reduce time-to-
market..
VIVACE
Can we apply
similar principles to
the development of
the enterprise?
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18. Concurrent Engineering
•Merge functions to reduce the number of
components
•Focus upon quality and continuous
improvement
•Modular system architecture
•The re-use of proven elements
•Adoption of standard interfaces
•Why consider only the product?
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19. Concurrent Engineering
•Fewer partners, but more significant
contributions
•Focus upon quality and continuous
improvement
•Modular approach to partner selection
•Repeat business
•Standardised communications and
logistics, where possibleWhy consider only the
product? VIVACERICHARD FARR
20. Conclusions
•Improved responsiveness in enterprise
formation is a powerful basis for competition
•Trust remains the key; the law does not yet
support the virtual enterprise adequately
•Business models work best where success is
positively correlated across the whole
partnership
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22. Further articles
from Richard Farr at:
http://capacify.wordpress.com
Associated conference paper:
Farr R, Buxton D, Bovik C and MacCarthy B (2006) “Streamlinin
the Formation of Virtual Enterprises in the Aerospace Industry”,
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Concurren
Enterprising (ICE 2006), 26–28 June 2006, Milan, Italy
Supporting slides follow.
23. Simulation approach
• Anylogic; a Java-based
simulation language
• Accommodates discrete
event,
system dynamics
and agent-based
approaches
in a single environment
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24. Simulation approach
•Demand; the business environment for new
aero engines
•Airlines, and
engine usage
patterns
•The product
and service
value chain
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