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Rolls-Royce: FMEA for Design Efficiency and Less Costs in Aerospace

Rolls-Royce, UK

Introduction

Reducing costs in aerospace by integrating FMEA activities to improve design efficiency. John Gebhard is a Reliability and Life-Cycle Engineer with Rolls-Royce, a manufacturer of aircraft engines. He said: “The part of the business that I represent, life-cycle engineering, interfaces with a lot of different groups within the business, from the component designers to the systems engineers to the people that manage the products and service.”

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“About two years ago, the organization put a challenge out there to the rest of the business and all the functions (including reliability) to become more efficient, so that we can grow this business. We had to find a way to integrate pieces together that would allow us to get more efficient as a company. So that we could take on new business, build a better product, and deliver better products to our customers at Rolls Royce.”

“The fact that [HBM Prenscia] had come along actually became an enabler to utilize ReliaSoft XFMEA. And to integrate those pieces, such that we were able to use the designers information to help augment what we needed to do for the FMECA for the certification and what we needed to do for the service engineers, so that they could manage the product in the aftermarket effectively.”

“It was easy to take that information and transfer it over to the XFMEA software, and recognize the integration that we could leverage to help the different parts of the business communicate in a more efficient manner. XFMEA offered us the ability to integrate the different parts of the FMEA, and reduce the amount of load that took on the business by about 40 to 50 percent.”

Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce is a British multinational corporation that designs and manufactures aircraft engines and power systems for a range of industries including aerospace.