Industrial organisation A330

Industrial organisation and logistics of hangars for conversion of commercial aircraft to Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT)

Airbus Military | Technical Consultancy | 2007-ongoing

For this project the industrial organisation was carried for the processing centre of the A330 in-flight refuelling aircraft. For this, the Lean Manufacturing technique was used, based on a Life Cycle and Cost Analysis (LCCA). Also included was an analysis of storage requirements, along with the design of the store layout.
The flows making up the process were defined and optimised, both industrial and logistical, therefore generating the ideal flow, helping improve management of the parts.
In order to support this parts management process, a production order management process was defined, to be carried out by the production control department, along with the logistical management of parts from a new warehouse to the different conversion hangars, based on JIT supply.

Works phases
· Industrial organisation study
· Definition of production order management
· Definition of processes, flows and logistics facilities

Scope of works
· Diagnostic of initial operation
· Definition of work hypothesis based on the 5S and Lean Manufacturing methodologies
· Industrial process organisation study
· Development of the production layouts
· Analysis of the industrial and logistics resource flows
· Definition of production order management and logistics management based on JIT supply.
· Definition of the distribution of the new hangars and warehouse based on priority criteria flows and LCCA
· Definition of the processes and logistics facilities
· Design of the warehouse layout.

Technical details
· 3 hangars with capacity for 1 aircraft / each hangar 6400 m ²
· 750 m ² of office space distributed across 3 floors
· 4 workstations
· 150 employees/ aircraft, approximately 12 AERTEC employees
· Internal storage area of 2000 m ²
· External Logistic Centre (Toledo and Seville)
· Air and terrestrial transport supply
· Lean Development using SMED techniques