The comprehensive "Industry & Services" package: improving aerospace performance 

By combining industrial capabilities with service provision, DAHER is leading the way in developing new practices in a sector undergoing complete restructuring. More than just an equipment manufacturer, the Group is also able to offer aerospace industries all-inclusive, optimised service provision with added-value services, thus helping them optimise their production performance.


For DAHER, the comprehensive package offered to aerospace industries consists of completing all phases of a project on-site, including:

  • Design and joint development with shared risks
  • Prototypes and tests up to qualification
  • Make or buy industrialisation
  • Mass production
  • Grouping at a consolidation hub
  • Kit preparation and delivery to assembly lines
  • Integration onto aircraft through assembly and installation
  • Maintenance


Examples:

DAHER, project manager for the belly fairing on the Airbus A320

DAHER coordinates all operations from the design of the A320 belly fairing to its integration on the aircraft. The design offices in St Julien de Chédon and Toulouse are responsible for the design and industrialisation whilst the production plant in Tangiers (Morocco) manufactures the composite panels. The Purchasing department procures additional parts. All the parts are then brought together at a "hub" managed by DAHER at Saint-Nazaire. For each aircraft in production, one kit is prepared, checked and transported to the AIRBUS site in Gron in shuttle containers specially designed by DAHER. On this customer site, DAHER accepts the batches and has put in place teams of partners who assemble and install the belly fairing onto the section of the A320.

One of the main challenges of this contract has been to keep up with AIRBUS as it increased throughput, which has risen from 24 aircraft a month to what will soon be 40 per month in the space of just two years.

 

DAHER, a major contributor to the commercial fitting of the A330 and A340

Likewise, on the final assembly line for the A330 and A340 in Toulouse, DAHER acts as partner to AIRBUS to perform a large part of the commercial fitting.
DAHER centralises all the equipment from suppliers (interior panels, luggage racks, seats, rollers, etc.), delivers them to the foot of the aircraft at the Clément ADER plant in Toulouse and then installs them on the aircraft, operating directly on the final assembly line.