Manufacturing and Engineering Magazine Volume 425 - January 2016 | Page 11

AEROSPACE MIDLANDS AEROSPACE ALLIANCE
their customers, whether it's Airbus or RollsRoyce through their own technologies, such as
lighter components or a manufacturing
process to make parts faster, then they need to
be aware of existing technologies, understand
how they can be inserted into aircraft and
develop their own intellectual property.”
Where the MAA comes in specifically is, on
the one hand to support this collaboration,
whilst on the other hand trying to support
member businesses which may be rich in experience on the factory floor, but may not have
the relationships needed with key industry
partners and educational establishments to
drive forward research and development, new
technologies and production methodologies.
And by tapping into this resource with the
MAA's guidance, companies are able to over-

come many of the key challenges currently
being faced in the aerospace industry, such as
that of increasing demands for efficiency, productivity and overall manufacturing capacity.
For supply chain members of the aerospace
industry, specifically smaller enterprises struggling to be ^\