Airbus Commercial Aircraft – Transition to a Product Line Approach
Define and implement modular avionics systems and a product line governance framework to improve flexibility and reduce costs across commercial families.
European Naval Defence Leader – Aircraft Carrier Cost Optimisation
Optimise development costs for a next-generation aircraft carrier, a multi-billion-euro programme requiring over 20% cost reduction.
PLM & Luxury: When Product Data Becomes a Competitive Advantage
The luxury sector has made product excellence a doctrine. Every material is sourced against standards that leave no room for compromise. Every artisanal gesture is documented, transmitted, protected. Every finishing detail draws on trade-offs adjudicated by the house’s most senior experts. Years, sometimes decades, go into building know-how that is, rightly, treated as a strategic […]
Engineering Management Transformation for an European Automotive Tech Supplier
Transform global engineering processes facing massive time-to-market pressure and digital transformation requirements.
Multiple Generations of PLM Within a Single Company: Why?
Two, three or even four product lifecycle management environments sometimes coexist within a single industrial organisation. What might appear to be an IT malfunction is in fact a complex operational reality, shaped by decades of industrial, regulatory and strategic developments. Across major aerospace, naval and defence groups, the coexistence of several PLM generations is far […]
Designing for Sovereignty: The Levers of Resilience ‘by Design’
Supplier diversification, buffer stocks, reshoring. Manufacturers have taken action to secure their operations, but these measures treat symptoms without solving the underlying problem. Real vulnerability is built into the very design of the product: rare components, rigid architectures, digital dependencies. By embedding resilience and autonomy from the design phase, it becomes possible to build products […]
Management: Change the Rules of the Game Before Changing the Managers?
Since the pandemic, talk of “new management” has been everywhere. Autonomy, trust, meaning, well-being: the vocabulary is familiar. Yet in many organizations, managerial practices seem unchanged. So what happened? And where does the real lever of transformation lie: in individuals, or in the system? A managerial revolution announced, yet unfinished The pandemic acted as a […]
Industrial Sovereignty and Resilience: The Central Role of Design
Industry has entered an era of fragility. Long carried by trade liberalization, territorial specialization and the global optimization of value chains, it now has to operate within an environment that is more uncertain, more fragmented and more demanding. Geopolitical crises, economic surges and environmental imperatives are putting to the test the industrial and digital system […]