Diehl Aerospace Cuts Capacity Planning from Weeks to Days with Integrated Project Management
 
 

Diehl Aerospace Cuts Capacity Planning from Weeks to Days with Integrated Project Management

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Diehl Aerospace is Germany's foremost first-tier supplier for avionics systems, cabin illumination and cabin systems for civil and military aircraft. The company has four development and production sites in Germany and operates customer support centers in Hamburg, Donauwoerth, Singapore, Sterrett (USA) and Toulouse (France) as well as a liaison office in Bangalore (India).

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Diehl Aerospace GmbH

  • “Oracle Primavera makes structured production plan generation possible, something we were unable to do in our previous system.”– Matthias Grosskopf, Development Manager, Frankfurt, Diehl Aerospace GmbH

  • Coordinate development of all the hardware, software, and mechanical components required for complex avionics systems
  • Manage large-scale projects that last an average of three years and require 50 workers per year, putting in an average of 200,000 hours
  • Standardize the variety of mechanisms, subprocesses, and tools required for managing these complex projects
  • Provide an overview of project planning, project status, allocation status, earned values, and content-related progress for avionics and cabin system work packages
  • Create a direct connection between project management and other business applications

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Deployed Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management to facilitate multisite resource administration for avionics and cabin system development
  • Instituted direct access between Primavera and key business applications, which helped streamline internal processes for resource management and reduce administrative effort by pulling schedule and expense data in automatically
  • Increased transparency and raised project management and delivery quality due to the ease of making and managing changes across various projects in Primavera P6
  • Reduced the time needed to complete capacity planning for developing aviation components from weeks to just a few days
  • Made it easy to produce management reports for resource planning
  • Enabled planners to spend typically 10% to 20% of their working hours on project and resource planning
  • Completed the rollout of Primavera P6 smoothly and in just a few months with the help of Oracle Partner Inteco GmbH
 

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