Jean-Paul Alary, president of Safran Nacelles, said: “The supplier network is crucial to our goals of providing quality nacelles, as well as offering best-in-class support and services. The suppliers recognised with our latest awards earned their distinction through dedication to excellence. They also demonstrated that both large and small companies can achieve top supplier status.”
Airbus Defence and Space Aerostructures received the Customer Support and Service Performance Award in the build-to-specification category (for which the supplier has both design and production responsibilities).
It provides fan cowl doors – an external cover that serves as an important engine nacelle component – for nacelles that equip the Airbus A318, A340-500/600 and A380 jetliners, as well as Airbus’ new A320neo version with LEAP-1A engines.
Philippe Couteaux, Safran Nacelles’ vice president of customer support and services, noted that Airbus Defence and Space Aerostructures significantly enhanced its performance to attain the top rating for 2015, demonstrating a supplier’s capability to address issues and implement solutions for improvement.
Maugars Industrie was named top supplier for Customer Support and Service Performance in the build-to-print category (involving parts that are manufactured based on drawings and data provided by Safran Nacelles). With a team of approximately 40 employees, Maugars Industrie supplies aluminium and titanium machined fittings to Safran Nacelles, which are used primarily in support and repair situations.
The company was recognised for its reactivity in delivering parts that are both made-to-measure for specific requirements and available from in-stock inventories. Its fittings often are provided in record time, and Maugars Industrie places particular emphasis on maintaining prompt and regular communications with Safran Nacelles, Couteaux said.
Woodward, which supplies electrical actuators that open and close the large nacelle fan cowls on jet engines that equip Airbus A380s, received a Supplier Award for Quality and On-time Delivery in 2015, recognising its demonstrated excellence and sustainable performance.
