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Hamburg calling – how the 8th Aviation Forum gave insights into tomorrow’s aerospace supply chain

The 8th Aviation Forum opened its doors on November 6-7. And more than 700 participants attended this 8th event of its kind, hosted again by Airbus CPO Dr Klaus Richter and organized by IPM.The participating companies – among them airliners, OEMs, suppliers, BDLI, clusters, regional aerospace organizations, service providers and consulting companies – discussed hot topics like globalization, digitization and smart production. (more…)
Hamburg calling – how the 8th Aviation Forum gave insights into tomorrow’s aerospace supply chain
Industry News

Construction Equipment Forum: Paths to digitizing the industry

The Construction Equipment Forum - the first event of its kind.On October 9, 2018, the IPM Institutes's Construction Forum opened its doors for the first time to some 200 participants from various disciplines: building companies, OEMs, suppliers, representatives of the scientific community, and service providers. Professor Walther of IPM opened the event with a keynote speech on “Driving the future”, addressing alternative propulsions, automation, digitization, and competition. He emphasized the need to increase at digital competencies in the building equipment industry.Due to the large number of speeches and talks held, Walther has compiled a subjective selection of what for him were the most prominent presentations and workshops. (more…)
Construction Equipment Forum: Paths to digitizing the industry
Use Cases

A convincing industry approach: SupplyOn’s Rail Community boosts the efficiency of the railway industry

The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), with around 34,000 employees, a transport network of over 3,000 kilometers and almost a half billion passengers per year, is the national railway company of Switzerland, consisting of the four divisions Passenger Transportation, Cargo, Infrastructure and Real Estate. In 2016, the division Passenger Transportation took the initiative to transition the ordering process, until then carried out with high manual effort by email and fax, to a continuous digital process using the RailSupply solution from SupplyOn. The goal of this changeover was to significantly streamline the SBB’s purchasing and procurement logistics. (more…)
A convincing industry approach: SupplyOn’s Rail Community boosts the efficiency of the railway industry
SCM Insights

InSight, InControl: Real-time position and quality monitoring for production material transports

A materials controller needs up-to-date information at all times for production planning purposes. He needs to know whether the goods required are going to arrive at the plant in time – and whether they will do so in an intact state, a very important point when it comes to sensitive components. And all this preferably in real time, of course. But this is a lot more than what most track-and-trace solutions have to offer. (more…)
InSight, InControl: Real-time position and quality monitoring for production material transports
Use Cases

Mastering challenges in customer communication

Many suppliers are still a struggling with unstructured processes when collaborating with customers despite the digital era. TEMA-Fischer GmbH solved this problem many years ago with ZF Friedrichshafen AG in an exemplary way and now handles the most important processes via SupplyOn. This is now also the case with their order processes for Siemens. Every additional customer who takes the same approach to collaboration will increase the benefits for the machining specialist. (more…)
Mastering challenges in customer communication
Industry News

Aviation Forum: Advancing the digital value chain in a dynamic world

The location and the timing has changed - but the excellent setup prevailed: this year, the 7th Aviation Forum took off at the beginning of November – this time on the grounds of the Hamburg Trade Fair.Compared to the previous year, even more exhibitors and visitors attended the leading aerospace event in Germany. The Aviation Forum, organized by the Institute for Production Management (IPM) under the patronage of Klaus Richter, Chief Procurement Officer Airbus, offered an international gathering of speakers and exhibitors from Japan, Russia, Canada, USA, India and Abu Dhabi. (more…)
Aviation Forum: Advancing the digital value chain in a dynamic world