Midlands Aerospace Cluster Midlands Aerospace Alliance Dr. Andrew Mair Chief Executive Midlands Aerospace Alliance 1 Midlands aerospace cluster 2 1
Midlands aerospace systems: “guts” of the aircraft gas turbine engines aircraft wing controls control systems for engines 3 Airframe Industrial Marine Medical Motorsport Automotive gas turbine Midlands aerospace cluster Mechanical Systems for & structural engines/ parts airframes (e.g. fuel) Fluids Materials Major suppliers: Metals Gas turbine mechanical propulsion metals, processing components composites Wiring, connectors Control systems Electronics Equipment for design, Manufacturing Support services Research engineering, testing equipment design, training, IT organisations Midlands Core aerospace Support sector Diversified market 4 2
Midlands aerospace cluster geography 5 Setting out member capabilities • member capability directory helps you identify world-class Midlands partners and suppliers for your aerospace programmes and projects 6 3
The aircraft and engines driving Midlands cluster performance Boeing 787/ Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 Airbus A350/ Rolls-Royce Trent XWB Airbus A380/ Rolls-Royce Eurofighter Typhoon/ Airbus A320 neo Trent 900 Pratt & Whitney EJ200 Purepower 7 Midlands aerospace growth performance Strong productivity growth 2005-16 Growth keeps pace with Airbus and Boeing, significantly faster than UK 8 4
Midlands Aerospace Alliance 9 Midlands Aerospace Alliance (MAA) one of five regional aerospace alliances in the United Kingdom ADS Scotland ADS Northern Ireland Midlands Aerospace North West Aerospace Alliance Alliance Aerospace Wales Forum Farnborough Aerospace West of England Aerospace Forum Consortium 10 5
Who we are • 300+ member companies: 80% flying parts makers are members • a regional cluster body: encompass entire supply chain and all stakeholders • companies outside the Midlands are welcome as associate members. • 50 member representatives on Board and three working groups which govern our activities MAA board • business development (new business) • innovation and technology • supply chain performance (productivity) 11 What we do • we are all about working together we promo te collaboration to help companies in the Midlands develop new technologies, improve • productivity performance, develop required skills, win new business and generate good jobs Conferences Networking Exhibiting Trade missions Technology roadmapping Technology projects & funding 6
Focus on new technology in supply chain 13 Aerospace supply chain tiers Bottom-up innovation 7
MAA “bottom-up technology development” trajectory MAA bottom up innovation model applied in three major programmes 2017+ we have found funding for • Collaborative R&D projects New bottom-up • Projects emerge from clusters National Aerospace and horizontal • Every project industry-led Technology Exploitation • Project budgets £300k to £500k technology Programme (NATEP) • Expert mentoring and customer advice projects . . . (national funding 2012-17 through project lifecycle Aerospace Technology 100 projects) • Boost SME R&D capabilities for future Exploitation Programme (ATEP) 2 (regional funding and ERDF 2009-12 five projects) Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme 2005 (ATEP) 1 (regional funding 2006-08 five projects) 15 8
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