Midlands Aerospace Alliance - Inside Meggitt with the MAA

08:30 – 17:00

Meggitt Polymers & Composites

Shepshed, Leicestershire

How do you supply a global aerospace company going through rapid change like Meggitt?

Ian Joesbury, President, Meggitt Polymers & Composites and Andrew Mair, Chief Executive, Midlands Aerospace Alliance invite you to come Inside Meggitt with the MAA.
This one-day intensive event incorporating a site visit to a key Meggitt aerospace facility is for a strictly limited group.
Meggitt has embarked on big organisational and operational changes in recent years to modernise its structure, strategy and improve its performance for its own customers -- the world's aerospace prime contractors.
This special day will give aerospace suppliers the cutting-edge knowledge they need to align business strategies and meet the requirements of rapidly evolving global aerospace players like Meggitt.

Meggitt plc

Headquartered in the UK, Meggitt PLC is a global engineering group specialising in extreme environment components and smart sub-systems for aerospace, defence and energy markets. Some 10,000 people are employed across manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe and North America and regional bases in Brazil, India and the Middle East.

Meggitt's corporate management

Meggitt businesses are supported by an evolving group infrastructure with strong functional leadership. This enables the company to combine talents and technologies, share services and benefit from a range of centrally managed initiatives. From information technology to strategic sourcing and low-cost manufacturing, all are designed to boost the efficiency of Meggitt operations and give customers what they want.

Change at Meggitt Polymers & Composites

Meggitt Polymers & Composites (MPC) designs, engineers and manufactures seals used for multiple purposes all over aircraft structures, aero engines and aircraft systems. As a strategic business unit within Meggitt, MPC is a superb case study in how Meggitt companies are currently being transformed to retain and grow their leading positions as suppliers of specialist technologies in world aerospace markets.

What does change like this mean for aerospace suppliers?
What can suppliers learn to help transform their own companies?

Meggitt electric braking system

Meggitt makes electric brakes for the Bombardier CSeries aircraft

Meggitt heat exchanger

Meggitt supplies heat exchangers to aero engine makers like Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce and Snecma

Meggitt Polymers & Composites makes seals used throughout aircraft

What you will get on the day

Meggitt plc, Meggitt Polymers & Composites and the Midlands Aerospace Alliance have set up a programme at the nearby Link Hotel in Loughborough (morning) and the Meggitt Polymers & Composites facilities (afternoon) which will give you the facts you need to be a supplier to Meggitt and other global aerospace players.

Meggitt Polymers and Composites

Manufacturing at Meggitt Polymers & Composites

In-depth knowledge about the structure of Meggitt as a corporation and the activities of its different business units.
A thorough understanding of Meggitt's business strategy in the aerospace industry and the direction of organisational change.
A special focus on product engineering and manufacturing at Meggitt using the example of Meggitt Polymers & Composites.
Up-to-date facts about Meggitt's supply chain requirements and how the company will manage procurement in the future.
Meet and network with senior Meggitt corporate and business unit executives including procurement managers.
Your company’s capabilities presented in an Inside Meggitt with the MAA supplier capabilities brochure that will be published at the visit
An in-depth facilities tour of manufacturing facilities at Meggitt Polymers & Composites including how process improvements are implemented.
Copies of presentations so you have a full set of notes
Refreshments on arrival and lunch
Following the event, when you have had the chance to absorb and reflect on the information presented, an opportunity to state succinctly what contribution you believe your company may be able to make as a supplier, in a document that will be circulated to key decision makers in the Meggitt procurement team.

Scope of the day

This is what we will cover during the day.

Meggitt corporate overview and story: changing organisational structure, key technologies, group strategy to grow in aerospace, drive to improve operations
The Meggitt corporate transformation journey -- turning a group of separate companies into an integrated corporation -- what is being changed and how the company is executing change
Meggitt Polymers and Composites business strategy: products, capabilities and perception -- case study of one major business unit, its core technologies, should its strategy be technology innovation or pursuit of a commodity-price approach?
Engineering change at Meggitt Polymers and Composites 2012-15: the lessons so far: aligning goals, policy deployment, how to make sure everybody’s moving in the same direction together, leadership and behaviours, lessons in change management
Making it happen: measuring the right things, making production flow
How to make the journey continuous: the Meggitt Production System
What does all this mean to Meggitt and its suppliers? How can supplier companies participate? What does Meggitt require from suppliers, and what will it give in return? Opportunities and challenges working with Meggitt.
Change on the factory floor: Meggitt Polymers and Composites extensive shop floor tour in small groups.

Keynote speakers

Ian Joesbury - Meggitt Polymers & Composites SBU President

Richard Pye - Meggitt Polymers & Composites SBU Director Procurement

Jim Johnstone - Meggitt Polymers & Composites SBU VP Commercial

Chris Hopper - Meggitt Polymers & Composites Loughborough Site Director

Richard Jenner - special consultant to Meggitt

Final programme

08:30 Arrival, registration, refreshments at Link Hotel

09:00 Presentations and discussions with key Meggitt executives

10:30 Break

11:00 Presentations and discussions continue

12:30 Lunch and networking

13:30 Bus to Meggitt Polymers & Composites

14:00 Small group guided tours of manufacturing facilities

16:30 Bus returns to Link Hotel car park

17:00 Depart

Meggitt Polymers and Composites 6

Manufacturing at Meggitt Polymers & Composites

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Notes

Warning! This is not primarily a “meet the buyer” event but an excellent opportunity for you as an aerospace supplier to spend quality time assessing your company’s fit with Meggitt's evolving strategy, organisation and supplier requirements.
Numbers are strictly limited to a maximum of 50, so book early to avoid disappointment.
The organisers reserve the right to refuse applications to attend.
All money generated from your participation in this event goes towards the Midlands Aerospace Alliance, a non-profit organisation owned by its 250+ members.
You are required to bring a pair of safety shoes.

Inside Meggitt with the MAA

08:30 - 17:00, Meggitt Polymers & Composites, Leicestershire