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It is one thing to design a game-changing product, but it is another thing entirely to deliver it in a lean, reliable, repeatable and sustainable manner.
Context
The Mirus production system is state of the art and intertwined with a ground up approach to quality systems and supply chain management. We adopt approaches and tools from the automotive industry to ensure industrial robustness, repeatability and reliability. Our ultra-efficient system is geared for high-volume mass production, a first for the aircraft interiors industry.
Mass production is an incredibly complex technical challenge. The automotive industry has pioneered and continues at the forefront of the efficient manufacture of complex products. In the automotive world, it is well known that Ford created a manufacturing revolution with the moving assembly line, whilst Toyota refined production methodologies. The sum-total of innovations over the past century has been the development of extremely efficient manufacturing systems that deliver maximum value with minimum waste. Different applications require different approaches however, and our challenge has been to adopt the right approaches for our product, adopting best practices and lessons learned from multiple industries.
The Mirus production system is designed for performance with the ultimate goal of ensuring industrial reliability.
Facility
All Mirus seats are manufactured within our fully-integrated 3500m2 production facility located in Norfolk, UK. The facility features an ultra-efficient automotive production cell manufacturing system with state of the art ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system and cloud-based production control. The facility has capacity for 60,000 PAX per annum.
Our facility is well versed in seeing products that extract every ounce of performance in order to excel for their given purpose. This site has a strong motorsport heritage, having been home to teams including Percival Hodges F1 Powerboats, Intersport, TOMs (Toyota Motorsport) and RTN (Racing Technology Norfolk – a wholly owned subsidiary of Audi). The site has produced numerous Formula 3, BTCC, Group-C, Formula 1 and Le Mans Prototypes (including the Le Mans winning Bentley Speed 8) and the roots of Audi’s highly successful LMP-1 campaign can be traced back to this facility (13x Le Mans wins). We are proud to be taking this facility forward, building upon this rich history. However, the challenge in building low-volume racing cars is entirely different to mass-production.
Our Approach
Our strong heritage within the automotive industry enables us to adopt best practices and introduce a new way of manufacturing aircraft seats.
We utilise the latest production methodologies, software and controls to ensure efficiency, industrial reliability, speed and scalability. We operate a lean 5S manufacturing philosophy coupled with a cell-based production system, and at the core of our operation is our holistic, fully-integrated cloud-based ERP system. This ensures total traceability, efficiency and transparency. Key elements of our approach:
Team & Philosophy
Our operations team bring years of automotive OEM / tier 1 experience to ensure a lean approach and best practice. We are committed to quality and continuous improvement and adopt appropriate automotive philosophies to ensure repeatability and elimination of waste.
Our manufacturing process is underpinned by a culture of continuous improvement and we continue to optimise this process as opportunities become available through techniques including:
Process Control
We employ the latest automated process control technology, as used by leading automotive OEMs, to ensure error-proofing, control and total traceability. Key elements:
Supply Chain & Control
Mirus utilises automotive quality assurance tools, software and methodologies that have been tailored for aerospace specific requirements. Mirus has adopted an automotive approach to outsourcing and has enlisted a largely automotive supply chain. Currently, 85% of our seat components are sourced in the UK. Suppliers have been nominated for industrial reliability and quality is controlled through:
Mirus ensures a proactive approach to inspection and quality sign-off. Quality assurance is monitored upstream at supplier level which ensures that stock received is right first time. This preventative and proactive approach to minimising errors eliminates any issues before goods are received. This pre-empting of potential issues and working with suppliers to continuously improve minimises any issues during assembly and eases downstream internal inspection processes.
What does all this mean?
Ultimately, this means that Mirus is able to deliver seats in a rapid, efficient and sustainable manner. The ultimate goal is to deliver seats in a high volume manner that is industrially reliable and repeatable. Key benefits:
Our commitment to efficient, effective manufacture means that we are able to deliver exceptional products in a lean, reliable, repeatable and sustainable manner.
Find out more about our environmental innovation in an upcoming insight!
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