Manufacturing & Supply Chain

There will be less harm in investing in guided missiles than in misguided men.

As the industry gets ready for a recovery in demand, legacy airlines and low-cost carriers alike are rethinking their product strategies.

Pricing based on costs that have risen since aircraft were sold will spell trouble throughout the supply chain.

Rolls-Royce has hired Infosys, one of India’s largest digitally-based consulting firms, to provide engineering, research and development services for its civil aerospace business, turning over a major office in Bengaluru that the engine-maker built up over the last decade.

Brazilian OEM thinks it can produce an aircraft far superior to competitors’; 50-seaters seen as market for 1,000 aircraft next 10 years.

Japan’s roles in the defense and commercial aviation supply chains make it a powerhouse.

Ask the Editors: The certification campaign may be long and expensive, but most of the development money has been spent.

As aero suppliers struggle with the worst downturn ever and the market share shifts from Boeing to Airbus, should suppliers shift, too?

The promise the French industry made this past June to make its supply chain stronger is beginning to materialize.

“These are very long-running issues; the Boeing-Airbus one has been running literally decades,” says one consultant.

Ask the Editors: “Embraer does not need to be saved,” says CEO Francisco Gomes Neto, but the company is looking for new partners.

The opportunity for other areas of the economy to grow are more numerous as the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Urban air mobility is a case study in the benefits of digital design.

Ask the Editors: Widebody fleets are under pressure and smaller single-aisles are expected to remain popular.

Germany is the first Eurofighter partner nation to top up its orders; Spain will follow in 2021.

OEM production rate guidance ain’t what it used to be; how the supply chain has to read between the lines.

NASA is looking at ways to enable industry to collaborate in maturing technologies for the next narrowbody airliner.

The answers to these questions will determine the segment’s shape and structure for the foreseeable future.

Latest Roland Berger report highlights lack of dominant business model in nascent UAM market.

The likely return of the 737 MAX is adding to what many fear will be overcapacity as airline recovery stalls.

With work reduced to documentation, it is not clear how the group is preserving corporate knowledge for a possible restart.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) will shift aerospace workers to other divisions for the duration of the downturn in demand for commercial airliners.

Fallout from commercial aviation business lost could eliminate businesses, create opportunities.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has suspended development of the SpaceJet for more than three years.

M&A activity among major A&D players is picking up again, but this time they are shedding assets or tacking on specialties.