GKN Aerospace – Overview
A global Tier 1
26th January 2016
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GKN: A global engineering group
In numbers
Every day at GKN…
56,000 employees
Locations in more than 30 countries
£8bn sales
Sales by division
Land Systems
(10%)
Driveline
(44%)
We drive the
wheels of
hundreds of
millions of cars…
We help
thousands
of aircraft to fly…
And we deliver the
power to harvest
crops and move
earth.
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Aerospace
(35%)
Powder Metallurgy
(11%)
GKN Aerospace: A leading global Tier 1 aircraft supplier
Germany
1 location
Netherlands
7 locations
2
2
1
3
Belgium
1 location
1
Canada
1 location
United Kingdom
1
8 locations
1
4
3
1
Norway
1 location
1
Sweden
4 locations
2
2
Romania
2 locations
2
USA
1 13 1
2
7
China
Turkey
26 locations
2 locations
1 location
2
Mexico
1
1
1
4 locations
2
2
India
2 locations
1
1
Thailand
1 location
1
Singapore
1 location
1
Office locations
Aerostructures
Landing Gear
Electrical and Wiring
Services
Engine Systems
Transparencies
and Special Products
Number of employees
2014 sales
Number of locations
17,500
Approx $4 billion*
62 in 15 countries
*including pro forma Fokker
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Widest capabilities of any Tier 1
AEROSTRUCTURES
ENGINE SYSTEMS
Fuselage,
wing, nacelle
& pylon,
Static &
rotating
structures
Inflight
opening
doors+
empennage
Titanium
engine inlet
parts
GLOBAL
NO. 2
GLOBAL
NO. 2
SPECIAL PRODUCTS
Transparencies
Ice protection
systems
Flotation devices
Fuel Tanks
GLOBAL
NO. 1
LANDING GEAR
Helicopter
Landing Gear
Composite
load carrying
landing gear
components
(drag brace)
GLOBAL
NO. 8
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WIRING INTERCONNECT SYSTEMS
Electrical
Wiring
Interconnection
Systems
(EWIS) for
aircraft &
aircraft engines
GLOBAL
NO. 3
GLOBAL SERVICES
Availability
Services,
MRO,
Conversion
and
Completion
for Mature
and Legacy
aircraft
GLOBAL
BRAND
GKN Aerospace Filton and Western Approach
Mike Platt
General Manager
GKN Aerospace Proprietary and Confidential
Filton – A Century of aircraft manufacturing expertise
1910
British & Colonial Aeroplane Company founded at Filton – Bristol Boxkite first
aircraft manufactured
2,000 aircraft built at Filton.: Bristol fighter, Bulldog, Blenheim, Scout,
Bristol Aeroplane Company formed
1939
Factory doubles in size to become largest aircraft factory in the world
Beaufighter first flight.
Concrete runways installed
1945
Over 52,000 employees on payroll
Brabazon Airliner first flight
1960
Britannia first flight
Concorde
British Aerospace – BAe 146 fuselage production, Tornado components
1980
A310 Trailing Edge
A320 Wings
A321 Fuselage section
2008
A330 / 340: major sub-assemblies
F1-11 refurbishment
A380 Fixed Trailing Edge
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GKN Aerospace Filton – What We Do Today
Customers
Airbus
Dassault
Triumph
BAE Systems
Programmes:
Large Civil: Airbus A320 family, A330, A380,
A350XWB, Boeing 787
Military Transport: A400M
Business Jet: Dassault Falcon 5X
Military Fast Jet: Joint Strike Fighter
Investment:
> £40M capital investment since 2009
Approx £25M projected over next 3 yrs
Filton Engineering Centre established
− Over 200 design and engineering specialists
People:
Safety
Employee engagement
Education and Community support
Apprenticeship programmes
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GKN Aerospace - Filton Overview
>1,500 employees
Wing Assembly
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> £300M Sales
Wing Systems
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Major structural assembly
Metallic and Composite
Automated and robotic
assembly
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Full system capability –
hydraulic, pneumatic, fuel, antiice
Electron beam welding,
automated robotic welding and
assembly
Business Support Capability
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Design - build capability
Filton Engineering Centre
Independent quality approvals
Metrology and conformance engineering
Additional capabilities through GKN network
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Components
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Large structural and complex
parts – max 6m x 2m
Hard and soft metal capability
Investment in New Technologies at Filton
Additive Manufacturing Centre
of Excellence
Powder Bed
− Electron Beam Melting
− Laser Melting
Linear Friction Welding
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GKN Aerospace - Western Approach Overview
GKN’s Centre of Excellence for major
composite primary structure components
Approx £235M invested in new state-of-the-art
composite structures manufacturing and assembly facility
Over 30,000m2 of floor space
First Advanced Fibre Placement spar manufacture
– largest composite part in GKN
First FTE automated moving assembly system
Fully integrated product teams working closely with customer
and supply chain
Programmes
A350 XWB Spar manufacture and Fixed Trailing Edge Assembly
A400M Spar manufacture
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A350 Fixed Trailing Edge Design
Outer Spar
Mid Spar
Inner Spar
3 Spars total over 27m in length with an accuracy of +/0.3mm
Total weight of spar carbon is 1230kg/aircraft
FTE assembly weighs 1800kg
The FTE is 7% of total wing weight and supports 10x its own
weight
First “large Scale” assembly operation undertaken by GKN
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