DELMIA’s solutions for manufacturing and supply chain support Hexcel's value. ONE HEXCEL: Accountability, Responsibility, and of course, Innovation.
Hexcel's strategy is to be number one in the markets they serve
Hexcel is a global leader in manufacturing advanced composite materials for commercial aerospace, space and defense, energy generation, transportation, and recreation.
Don Morrison, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer at Hexcel, emphasizes the company's strategy to be number one in the markets they serve with advanced composite materials. Meeting and exceeding customer expectations is a critical component of their approach, ensuring timely and accurate responses to their customers.
Using DELMIA Quintiq and DELMIA Apriso throughout all Hexcel sites
Daniel Carrick, Supply Chain Manager for Global Fibers, explains that DELMIA Quintiq enables them to load production plans over a two-year horizon into their ERP system. This integration flows requirements down to sister sites within their vertically integrated company. DELMIA Quintiq has consolidated multiple fragmented planning tools into one, allowing for rapid assessment and better decision-making regarding supply chain support.
Hexcel also employs DELMIA Apriso across all their manufacturing sites. Looking ahead, the company plans to expand the functionality delivered to the shop floor through the use of DELMIA Apriso. Random Kiser, Director of IT Manufacturing Systems, highlights the benefits of having a common entry point for all operations personnel worldwide. Supporting a single platform simplifies IT management and ensures data consistency for team analysis.
Having all data in one place and in one format
The significant benefits for Hexcel include product consistency, reduced scrap, increased throughput, and enhanced safety due to less touch time on products. Standardization across factories and digitizing documents into a single system allows business analysts to evaluate performance consistently. Operations teams can track product status and equipment condition in real time, while engineering and quality teams ensure up-to-date documentation. Customers benefit from knowing that products meet the latest specifications, quality levels and delivery deadlines.
One Hexcel: Accountability, Responsibility and Innovation
In conclusion, Hexcel's advanced manufacturing and supply chain solutions not only benefit employees and customers, but also reinforce the company's commitment to innovation and operational excellence. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, Hexcel continues to lead in their industry, delivering superior products and services to its customers.
Challenge
Hexcel’s mission is to create value for their customers through the delivery of exceptional advanced composite materials that meet or exceed expectations for quality, on-time delivery and performance.
Solution
Hexcel utilizes DELMIA Quintiq for advanced planning, ensuring precise inventory management to optimize availability for its customers. Additionally, DELMIA Apriso is leveraged to maintain rigorous product quality standards, emphasizing “right first time, every time” on the shop floor.
Benefits
DELMIA enables Hexcel to rapidly analyze customer demand and utilize the supply chain more effectively to meet customer needs. On the shop floor, it provides detailed process plans, offering step-by-step instructions for workers and allowing data collection throughout the production process. This includes validation of materials used and a digital thread of materials produced; ensuring Hexcel maintains high quality standards and employee safety.
Don Morrison, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Hexcel:
Hexcel's strategy is to be number one in the markets we serve with advanced composite materials, and our tools help us do that. Customers’ expectations are increasing and our need to respond effectively and on time; right every time is important for us.
Hexcel is a world leader in the manufacture of advanced composite materials for commercial aerospace, space and defense, energy generation, transportation and recreation.
Today, we're at our Casa Grande facility, where we make honeycomb core. We'll show you how our tools for manufacturing, execution and supply chain management help us deliver to our customers consistently and on time.
We use DELMIA Quintiq as our advanced planning solution, and we'll continue to exploit that capability to be responsive to make sure our inventory is in the right place at the right time as we're meeting customer needs. Let's go talk to a few members of the team to learn more.
Dan, we use DELMIA Quintiq as our advanced supply planning system for our global fibers network.
What can you do today with that that we couldn't do before?
Daniel Carrick, Supply Chain Manager, Global Fibers, Hexcel:
DELMIA Quintiq allows us to actually load a production plan over a two year horizon, typically into our ERP system, which then flows requirements down to the sister sites that are intertwined in our vertical integrated company.
DELMIA Quintiq allowed us to take essentially multiple, fragmented planning tools and eliminate them. So now everything is contained within DELMIA Quintiq. So you can almost make a change in one system that will flow through all of the systems, so we can much more rapidly assess changes to our supply chain almost instantaneously, so it allows better decision making when we're looking at whether or not we can support the requirements that the sites have.
Don Morrison:
Today, we use DELMIA Apriso in all of our manufacturing sites. And as we think forward, we'll continue to expand the functionality that we deliver to the shop floor through Apriso.
Random, what do you like best about DELMIA?
Random Kiser, Director – IT Manufacturing Systems, Hexcel:
A couple of things I really like about it. One is it's a common entry point for all of our operations personnel, all of our factories around the world. It's very easy, from an IT perspective, to support because it's just one platform to deal with instead of multiple platforms.
It's a great system because we have all of our data in one place in exactly the same format for our teams to analyze.
Don Morrison:
And, what are the benefits that you see?
Random Kiser:
There’s quite a few benefits, but really the best one for us is product consistency. A better product for us is a better product for our customers. Lower scrap for us means less touch time, more throughput. And it has knock on safety impact because we're just not touching our product as much as we used to.
Don Morrison:
And, how about our employees?
Random Kiser:
Each employee has a little bit different perspective. Our operations personnel don't have to write down on paper anymore or carry physical quality stamps. Our engineering and quality teams can be sure that the documents that are on the floor are the latest and greatest revisions.
And our operations teams can know exactly where the products are on the floor and see the equipment status. Finally, our customers know that the product that we're making is to the latest revisions of their specifications.
Don Morrison:
And, what about transformations? What is just completely different than it was in the past?
Random Kiser:
It's really all about standardization across our factories. And being able to digitize all of our documents in one similar system allows our business analysts to see how we're performing from factory to factory.
Don Morrison:
We've talked about the benefits for our employees, our customers, and the consistency and operational excellence in how we think and work at Hexcel. But more, our solutions for manufacturing and supply chain support Hexcel's value. One Hexcel: Accountability and Responsibility.
And of course, Innovation.
Focus on Hexcel
Hexcel Corporation is a global leader in advanced lightweight composites technology. We propel the future of flight, energy generation, transportation, and recreation through excellence in providing innovative high-performance material solutions that are lighter, stronger and tougher, helping to create a better world for us all. Our broad and unrivaled product range includes carbon fiber, specialty reinforcements, prepregs and other fiber-reinforced matrix materials, honeycomb, resins, engineered core and composite structures for use in commercial aerospace, space and defense, and industrial applications.
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