Knowledge, Skills, & Competenciesfor the Aerospace & Aviation Sector

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Knowledge, Skills, & Competenciesfor the Aerospace & Aviation Sector

UPES22nd Feb 2014

Presented By:Sujit Pant

Presented at the 1st Aerospace HR Roundtable in the Leela Palace Hotel, Bengaluru organized by UPES Dehradun & ISPe

Confidential Information © Mahindra Aerospace

Introduction

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• Manpower challenge is a phenomena faced by the entire aerospace industry due to globalisation. Need to establish synergy between the Indian academia and aerospace industries in general

• UPES is making significant & ongoing contributions to ensure that its students are provided the knowledge and tools needed to deliver high quality, safe, effective, & current aeronautical engineering and management education

• This presentation aims to focus on the knowledge, skills and competencies required for young engineers entering this growth sector.


Opportunities in Aerospace

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• According to a Nasscom-Booz Allen Hamilton report, there will be a $40 billion opportunity in India for the offshore aero engineering industry worldwide by 2020.

• Offsets obligations• Buy and Make Policy of GOI in defence Aerospace• India Defence Programs• India Civil Aircraft Vision• India Space Programmes• Expansion in Aviation Sector –Airlines and Airports


Opportunities…..

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• A specialized aerospace park of around 1,000 acres, proposed near the Bangalore International Airport is being set up.

• A 2,500-acre SEZ for the aerospace and avionics industry is proposed to be established in south Gujarat, close to the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor. This is likely to have a number of MRO facilities.

• A Rs. 3,000-crore Aerospace and Precision Engineering Special Economic Zone to be set up at Adibatla, Ranga Reddy district in Andhra Pradesh

• A 300 Acre SEZ has been set up by Quest in Belgaum (Karnataka)


Opportunities……

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• Mahindra Aerospace and its subsidiary Mahindra Aerostructures have set up a state of art Aircraft Structures Manufacturing & Assembly Facility at Narsapur. It has jointly developed a five-seat light aircraft with the National Aerospace Laboratories.

• It has Gipps Aero and Aerostaff Australia for manufacture a range of Utility Aircraft for sales worlwide.

• The Tata group is keen to move into full-scale aircraft assembly and production in both the civil and military markets and is setting up manufacturing facility on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Tata have already signed deals with several International companies, including one to manufacture components for Boeing.


Opportunities……

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• Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Boeing, Sikorsky have signed a MOUs to establish a new JVs to develop, manufacture and support a wide range of defence and aerospace products, including, Helicopters, A/C structure parts, missiles, UAVs, radars, electronic warfare systems and homeland security systems.

• Reliance is setting up an Aircraft Manufacturing facility near Bangalore/Nasik in Maharashtra.


Opportunities……

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• Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has formed a joint venture with the European EADS to develop high-tech defence electronics in Pune.

This venture will focus on developing electronic warfare, radar, military avionics and mobile systems for military applications.

• So, it is clear that this industry will act as a growth stimulant in coming years.


Challenges

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• However, to fulfill its potential, the aerospace sector must surmount challenges such as:

Inadequate trained, skilled and competent Manpower

Inadequate R& D investment

Dispersed production centers

Frequent change in regulations/Policies

Inadequate Foreign Direct Investment

Lack of co-ordination amongst the different players and govt agencies


KNOWLEDGE HIERARCHY

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• DATA• INFORMATION• KNOWLEDGE• WISDOM

WISDOM

KNOWLEDGE

INFORMATION

DATA


Skills

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21st Century Skills

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21st Century Skills

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Ways of Thinking• These skills emphasize the upper-end of thinking skills, and

also incorporate more straightforward skills such as recall, and drawing inferences. A major characteristic of these skills is that they require great focus and reflection.


21st Century Skills - Ways of Working

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• Customer-centric Engagement Model• Global Network Delivery Model• Full Services PortfolioAero Business is witnessing a rapid shift in the way people work. Outsourcing services across national and continental borders is just one example. Another is having team members collaborate over distances on the same projects. To support these types of work scenarios, excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential. Communication must be rapid, concise and cognizant of cultural differences.


21st Century skills - Tools for Working

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• “Tools for working” are about information and IT literacy and skills—critical skills given that work is increasingly represented electronically.

• In one year more unique information will be generated this year than in the previous 5,000 years.

• Students must develop the skills to access and evaluate new information efficiently ……to effectively utilize all that is available and relevant to their tasks at hand.


21st Century Skills-Living in the global world

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• Essentially people must learn to live not only in their town or country but also in the world in its entirety.

• As more and more people individually move in the 21st Century to connect and collaborate, it is important that they understand all the aspects of citizenship. It is not enough to assume that what goes on in your own country is how it is or should be all over the globe.


Assessing 21st Century Skills

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• Students claiming to possess 21st Century Skills will need to demonstrate that they can integrate, synthesize and creatively apply content knowledge in novel situations.

• 21st Century Skills Assessments must therefore

ask students to apply content knowledge to critical thinking, problem solving, programme management, and analytical tasks throughout their education.


Engineers wanting to Work In Aerospace Organizations :

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Also need to demonstrate:

Versatility• Universities need to nurture individuals who are not only

able to apply subject matter knowledge, but have the ability and motivation to expand their horizons, and transfer and apply skills and knowledge in new settings.

Editing and Communicating• With the explosion in the amount of information available

through the internet, engineers who can meaningfully sort and filter information and explain specialized content will become increasingly important.


Contd.

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Creativity and Synthesis• Creativity and innovation enabled through

strong communication and collaboration skills are what will give individuals the competitive edge. In today’s workplace, value is created by synthesizing unrelated pieces of data and information.

Collaboration and Orchestration• With exponentially increasing complexity in the

global marketplace, organizations need more sophisticated co-ordination and management.


Interpersonal skills, teamwork, & collaboration

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• Valuable skills and attributes are interpersonal skills, teamwork and leadership.

• The problem is that in the vast majority of Universities, students learn individually and at the end of the academic year their individual achievement is certified.

• In the interdependent world of work, collaboration is a core skill. In assessments at universities, collaboration is usually frowned upon.


Airlines and Aviation Competencies

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Airline Management

Fleet Management

Maintenance Planning

Maintenance Engineering

Flight Data Monitoring

Service Engineering


Airlines and Aviation Competencies

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• General Aviation

• Airports Management

• Air Cargo Operations

• OEM Customer support

• Spares and Inventory Management

• Parts Procurement

• Quality Control and Management


Aircraft Design and Engineering

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• Aircraft Design

• Aircraft Loads and structures analysis

• Engine structural, CFD and fire analysis

• Components design and analysis

• Electronic and Avionic System Design

• CFD Analysis

• Preparation of Aircraft, Aero Engine and Components

Technical Documentation

• Configuration Management

• Design and Analysis Tools


Aircraft Manufacturing

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Airframe

Components

Aero Engine


Aircraft Manufacturing Skills

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• Aircraft Manufacturing require skills and competencies in • Machining Technology including Nonconventional• Production Management• Materials Sciences• Materials management• Methods and process Engineering• Machining, Sheet metal forming, Heat Treatment,

Welding, Special Chemical Processes, Riveting and Sub assembly, Composites, Assy, Final Assy

• Manufacturing Supply Chain & Logistics• AS9100 Quality System and NADCAP for global suppliers


MRO

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• Very High Potential

• Global Annual spend 48 USB$

• India Annual spend only 0.75USB$ to grow to

1.5USB$ by 2020

• Constrained by Duties and Taxes

• Aircraft MRO

• Engine MRO

• Component MRO


Aerospace & Defence

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• Civil & Defence Offsets

• Defence Procurement Policy

• FDI

• Foreign OEMs looking for Indian Partners to

meet their Offset Commitments


Funnelling into :

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• Aerospace Manufacturing

• Aircraft Structures Assembly

• Aerospace Design Analysis Engineering Services

• Aftermarket , Service Engineering and LCM

Support services

• MRO Services


Aerospace Companies

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DEFENCE & AEROSPACE ( MFG)HALIAFNAVYARMYDRDOISRO (Non Defence)BRAHMOSBDLBEL---------------MASPLTATASQUESTDTL…….……..

OEMs•Boeing•Airbus•Bombardier•Embraer•GE•P&WTech •Goodrich (UTAS)•Honeywell•Bell

ENGINEERING SERVICESPROVIDERS• Tech Mahindra• TCS• Infosys• Wipro• Cognizant• InfoTech• Quest• IBM• Accenture• L&T


Overcoming the challenges of training, skilling engineering manpower

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Collaborate with expert consultants and stakeholders to achieve five primary goals, specifically:

• domain-specific curriculum review, diversified and in-depth aeronautical courses to meet the industry requirements of manpower and greater interaction of industry think-tanks with academia.

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• Create learning resources, modules, and interactive case studies to help prepare graduates with the competencies needed to provide quality and confident functioning across all settings in the aerospace domain.


Contd.

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• Host workshops and seminars to promote awareness in faculty on latest trends, and developments.

• Interactions between faculty and their Industry partners to facilitate implementation of the consensus-based competencies.

• Develop a Web-based learning and interaction program, an online collaboration community, and content-specific teaching materials for graduate-level faculty and their Industry partners.

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Knowledge, Skills, & Competenciesfor the Aerospace & Aviation Sector