The aerospace industry is experiencing unprecedented constriction due to current global economic pressures. Aerospace companies are focused on adapting to order reductions by rightsizing headcount, reducing operating costs, optimizing yield, and increasing asset and resource productivity, coupled with expanding global competition and strict security and regulatory requirements. Surviving and thriving in the aerospace industry today requires a partner that can fundamentally change the way business is conducted, driving quick change throughout the organization. This change process can strengthen your enterprise upon exiting the current economic downturn. Thomas Group can help you realize those results. We can equip you with the key competitive tools that will ensure your prosperity during the downturn and place you ahead of your competition when the economy regains momentum. We can help you focus on key differentiators such as optimizing current continuous process improvement programs, maximizing the effectiveness of back office and IT support, focusing on better customer support and service, speed to market, and maximizing the utilization and payback of assets and resources. We can help you implement these components quickly and efficiently so that they impact current quarter operating results.
Thomas Group’s aerospace expertise spans sectors including commercial and business aviation, MRO, logistics, and military segments. We can effectively address the entire asset life cycle and its effect on a company’s free cash flow, economic profit and capital structures and help you mitigate business risk. Our aerospace consulting and program management solutions focus on airlines, airport operations, and aerospace companies.
Our company experts work shoulder-to-shoulder with you to implement change strategies. We deploy a vast array of tools, applying their knowledge across multiple complex business operations. We provide turnkey solutions in such areas as:
Through our continuous process improvement methodology, we provide commercial aerospace companies, airlines, and airports more opportunities to create shareholder value.
Thomas Group can change the way airlines, airports, and aerospace suppliers do business. Our people have the ability to apply knowledge across multiple complex business operations and provide support in all areas of process improvement, including lean, six sigma, supply chain management, time to market, operational excellence, merger analysis, strategic sourcing, and other operational improvement initiatives. We offer complete turnkey solutions or tailor our talents to your specific needs.
We have been delivering operational improvements to aerospace and aviation-related service industries for over 30 years. Our expertise in operational and process efficiency improvements allows businesses like yours to succeed quickly in spite of difficult macroeconomic or industry-sector complexities.
Thomas Group consultants helped an aircraft manufacturer make significant process management changes that resulted in major on-time-delivery improvements, dramatically reduced labor and rework hours, and provided a six-to-one improvement in operating income.
A senior executive for the corporation stated, "Thomas Group processes drive cross-functional actions and facilitate team building. They introduce measurements that drive process change to improve quality, cycle time and cost.”
Through close collaboration with our client, we were able to impact profitability in the key areas of:
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