RUAG Aerospace Structures Precision … Passion … Performance

Well-prepared for tomorrow‘s challenge
Dieter Etzold – Managing Director
RUAG Aerospace Structures GmbH
We have done our homework. In all fields we have further improved our market position
and have continued to intensify our business relationships to our customers. Furthermore,
we have started a comprehensive process in our entire company to establish our
business culture “the best will learn from us” orientating on RUAG’s clear and long-term
vision: Creating confidence in our RUAG “brand” for customers, suppliers and employees.
Our structures and processes have made differences to our strategic priorities.
We have proven that it is essential to react flexibly, decidedly and quickly to changes. It is
still necessary to continue to develop established cycles to be on the top rung also in the
future. We have pushed major innovations and we are now concentrating on our core
competencies by adjusting the product range. Our research, design and development
departments have set standards.
At Oberpfaffenhoffen aerostructure has a tradition for several decades. The know-how
and the valuable experience of the employees are unpayable. “Aerostructures made at
RUAG at Oberpfaffenhofen” make us proud. This advantage in location does not exist
twice in Germany.
We want to advance our business culture. The diversity in our company requires a strong
cooperation with a clear understanding and actively lived values which offers orientation
and identification for the employees. Our vision to lead the “brand” RUAG requires a
clear performance of each individual in the company. On all levels an integrated communication
and a lived transparency will help us.
In order to fully utilize our business potential, we continue to concentrate on the consistent
lowering of the quality cost, the adjustment of structures and further measures for
increase in efficiency by innovative, trend-setting and economical production technologies.
We strongly focus on standardized workflow on all levels and functions. With the
organization of the global supply chain management process, we are even able to react
quicker on the increasingly international requirements.
Thanks to our customers for their confidence in our business and in the “brand” RUAG
and our technologies.
The challenge of the next years is our chance. We are very well prepared for the future.
We have a solid financial basis, we are well positioned on the market and have highly
motivated employees. We consistently continue our initiated processes to ensure the
requirement for the long-term success of our company and that also in the future “the
best will learn from us”.
Dieter Etzold – Managing Director
RUAG Aerospace Structures GmbH
Our location in the middle of Bavaria
RUAG Aerospace Structures GmbH is located at Gilching, adjacent to the Airport Oberpfaffenhofen,
20 km south-west of Munich. The area around Munich has the largest
concentration of aerospace companies in Germany. Over 25,000 highly qualified employees
generate one third of sales within the German aerospace industry. Embedding in
this innovative environment makes us a reliable partner in aerospace industry.
Excellent transport connections
Our location comes with an excellent
transport connection:
Only 300 m to the next intersection of
expressway A96 Munich-Lindau. Furthermore,
we have a railway side track on the
airport, the distance to the next railway
station is 1000 m.
Airport Data
• Certified for all aircraft up to PCN 46
• Opening hours: PPR
• Runway: 2,286 x 45 m
• Landing systems: ILS/DME, CAT I, Min. 1000 m / 200 ft
• Operator: EDMO Flugbetrieb GmbH
RUAG Aerospace Structures GmbH
RUAG Technology
Tel. +49 (0)8153 30 4301
Friedrichshafener Str. 6a
Fax +49 (0)8153 30 4454
82205 Gilching
info.structures.aerospace@ruag.com
Germany
www.ruag.com
EDMO: Tel. +49 (0)8153 8817 2250/1 Fax +49 (0)8153 8817 2875
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RUAG Aerospace Structures
Precision … Passion … Performance
RUAG Aerospace Structures – taking advantage of competence
Our production facilities supply integrated assemblies to commercial aircraft
OEMs. We provide innovative solutions and ready-to-install components according
to today‘s market needs in compliance with customers‘ specifications – from
the idea to the successful ready-to-use product. Lean manufacturing supported
by a continuous improvement process ensures permanent added value to our
customers.
Program Supply Chain Design, R&D,
Management Management Testing
Depending on
our competencies we
cover even more than
the full
process chain!
Aircraft Life Customer System
Extension Support Installation
Tailored solutions
We offer a variety of modular services:
• Pre-series to specification
• Build to print
• Build to specification
• Build to innovation
• Outsource to print
• Outsource to specification
Range of products
We design and manufacture metal and
composite structural parts for several
Tooling Design
aircraft types including surface protection
and stuffing. We deliver directly to the final
assembly lines:
• Automatic drilling and riveting
• Automatic assembly of pressure bulkheads
for wide body and narrow body aircraft
• Manual assembly of panels for wide and
narrow body aircraft
• Automatic riveting with multi-axis IPAC
riveter including enhanced manufacturing
solution for skin panels and shell
assembly
Assembly
Dedicated to safety
RUAG Technology operates a companywide
quality management throughout the
whole life cycle of its products and services.
Certifications and approvals
• DIN EN 9100
• EASA Part 145
• EASA Part 21G
• Design organisation capability
• Bombardier approval as structural
supplier

Program Management – keeping the overview
Top priority has compliance with contractual
obligations toward our end customers ensuring
and coordinating both current production
and activities in design areas.
We generate confidence at customers and
suppliers through long-term business relations.
Apart from ensuring current series programs
and managing customer and special projects,
defined central objectives of program man-
Supply Chain Management
SCM, as we define it, is procurement + production control/material planning + logistics.
Total cost of ownership and first time right is our SCM guideline. We pursue a long-term
improvement of our performance to increase our competitiveness to the customer’s benefit.
Our experience:
• Supplier market research, evaluation
development, selection, monitoring
• Contract, risk and tool management
• Packaging and freight management
• LEAN approach
• KANBAN, free stock, line feeding
• Customs
agement include preparation of sound
partner selection criteria within responsibility
and risk areas allocated in aviation
industry.
Interdisciplinary management of partial
projects under design-to-build and buildto-print
contracts is effected in due consideration
of schedule and quality while
meeting technical requirements.
Legal
HQ
R&D
Procurement
Board
Q
Production Control
& Logistics
IT
To ensure and extend the product portfolio
into the future, we prepare, across
the disciplines, proposals considering
high-value and time-relevant customer
demands; thorough responsibility for
both proposal concepts in acquisition
phase and project-based implementation
after contract awarding will always
ensure compliance with demands and
customer satisfaction.
HR
FI-CO
Sales &
Program
Collaboration of all departments
Design, R&D, Testing – setting the standards
Design
Production support of in-house built components:
• Current production of Airbus A320 family and Bombardier CRJ 700/900/1000
• Engineering support for modifications, redesign and cost-saving investigations
Development
Participation in several new aircraft projects:
• 3D design, fatigue and stress analysis of major primary structures,
using standard, customized and in-house tools
Research
Participation in national research programs about new technologies:
• Welding technology for metallic joints
• Hybrid structures
• Composites for high temperature applications
• In-house research program for bonding technologies
Tooling Design – leading to a most efficient production
Jigs and tools design defines the built philosophy
and qualifies it through all processes
as well as FAI.
The tool design is the key to a most efficient
production of complex aerospace
structures.
Next generation design study of full CFRP tail cone
With state-of-the-art CAD-systems, our
best educated designers generate:
• Assembly conception
• Tooling design
• Tooling management
• Tooling check with laser tracker systems
Assembly – processing 120,000 rivets per day
The focus of our production ranges from
individual components to complete assemblies
for the aviation industry.
State-of-the-art production facilities and
machinery are the perfect basis for our
performance.
• Structural parts for center wing box,
rear fuselage sections and tail cones for
Airbus A320 family
• Large fuselage side shells and floor
sections for Airbus A320 family
• Rear pressure bulkhead for Airbus
A320 family
• Fuselage shells for Airbus A330/A340
family
• Rear fuselage sections/tail cones and
bulkheads for the Bombardier CRJ-series
System Installation
Customer Support
Aircraft Life Extension – increasing cost effectiveness
To increase the Design Service Goal (DSG)
of the Airbus A320 family, a test program
for large components including e.g. a Full
Scale Fatigue Test (FSFT) has been developed.
The three test sections of the A320
with its forward fuselage (NEF1), center
Beside the assembly of large fuselage
structures, our competence encompasses
system integration depending on customer’s
requirements.
For the Airbus A320 family, we integrate
system components and electrical installation
into the rear fuselage section.
With the increasing use of technology in modern times, there is a growing requirement
to provide tailored customer support. In response to market needs, our task is to operate
a 24/7 AOG and spare parts service.
fuselage & wing (NEF2) and rear fuselage
are integrated into the testing environment.
Based on the results, a calculation follows
to ensure the required aircraft life extension
to be achieved. Thus, the mainte-
Production share on Airbus A320 family
Production share on CRJ 700/900/1000 series
nance program as well as flight cycles and
flight hours will be readjusted.
To the aircraft operators, RUAG Aerospace
Structures offers the complete support for
FSFT and the entire calculated verification.