LBRW offices, Ostfildern nr Stuttgart
Join Dr Andrew Mair, chief executive of the Midlands Aerospace Alliance at Forum Aerospace Baden-Wurttemberg's (LRBW) workshop with Diehl Aerospace for this unique opportunity to gain an insight into international customer requirements and how they impact may impact onto your business strategy. This workshop is free to attend due to the support from the EU ERDF funding through INTERREG IV B.
The aim of this TransNetAero* workshop is help the supply chain understand international customer requirements:
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Find out what international aerospace customers really need
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Promote your company internationally
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Learn what your customer needs to hear, not only what you would like to tell them
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Get feedback on how you present your company
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Benchmark and learn from your peers
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Learn to adapt your company's business strategy
This event is set up for European (including UK) SME suppliers to the aerospace industry with an interest in:
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Latest supplier requirements from major aerospace customers
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Participating in a European networking event to promote their company
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Learning to adapt your message to communicate more effectively with your customer
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Creating a plan to meet new requirements
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Benchmarking yourself against companies from the UK and Europe
This TransNetAero event is held at the in Ostfildern, near Stuttgart, Germany and the event is organised by the LRBW.
Participation in this event is free of charge, thanks to the support of the EU INTERREG IV B programme; participants will be responsible for their own travel to the event and accommodation.
Who will you meet?
This event is held at the heart of the South-West Germany aerospace cluster of Baden-Wurttemberg. The LBRW cluster members are part of an integrated supply chain with a turnover of around 4.8 billion euros and invest 17.5% of their turnover into research and development.
Diehl Aerospace is joint venture with Thales and part of the Diehl systems group with a turnover of 240 and 2,900 million euros respectively. Diehl Aerospace is responsible for a number of systems including the door control and monitoring systems on the A350 XWB, A400M and A380 platforms, as well as lighting and avionics systems on the A350XWB. For more information on Diehl Aerospace please click here.
Dr Rolf-Jürgen Ahlers president of the LRBW, lecturer at the University of Technology Darmstadt and owner of two aerospace SMEs
Dr Andrew Mair CEO of the Midlands Aerospace Alliance.
Agenda
09:00 Greeting and introduction by Prof. Dr Rolf-Jürgen Ahlers
10:10 Diehl Aerospace provides a system providers perspective.
10:25 Supplier presentations, selected from participants
11:25 Discussions on how to create a better alignment, moderated by Prof Dr Rolf-Jürgen Ahlers
12:10 Lunch
13:10 Impulses from transnational centres of excellence, Dr Andrew Mair
13:40 Discussions on how suppliers can align their business plans
14:40 Summary, Prof. Dr Rolf-Jürgen Ahlers
15:00 End Of workshop
Arrangements for travel/hotels
Participation in this event is free of charge, thanks to the support of the EU INTERREG IV B programme.
Participants will be responsible for arranging and paying for their own travel to/from the event nr Stuttgart Germany. To be held at
LRBW
Gerhard-Koch-Strabe 2-4
73760 Ostfildern
Tel: +49(0) 711 327325-35
Email: info@lrbw.de
The LRBW have recommended the Park hotel Ostfildern, for more details click here.
* What is TransNetAero?
TransNetAero (Transnational Network for Aerospace) is a network of organisations in six European aerospace regions and small countries which are going to work together and share their resources so that aerospace industry suppliers in each of them can get expert support and knowledge from the others to help them be better prepared to succeed against global scale competition. The participants are Wallonia (Belgium), Normandy (France), Baden-Württemberg (Germany), the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Midlands (United Kingdom). For more about the TransNetAero project, click here.
