Supply Chain & Manufacturing

Enhancing Safety and Optimising Performance

Supporting production resilience and long-term part availability

At Airbus Protect, we provide expert support to ensure your supply chain and manufacturing operations remain efficient, resilient, and risk-aware. Our services span from production incident analysis to strategic obsolescence and supply chain risk management helping you maintain operational continuity and meet delivery commitments.

Why Airbus Protect?

With deep roots in aerospace safety and risk management, Airbus Protect brings a unique combination of engineering expertise and operational insight to your supply chain and manufacturing challenges. We work closely with your teams to proactively manage risks, resolve incidents, and anticipate obsolescence ensuring your production and repair activities remain efficient and compliant across the lifecycle.

Expertise we serve

Incidents Follow-up

We analyse production incidents with a process and quality focus, identifying root causes and directing them to the relevant stakeholders. Our teams also manage synchronisation and follow-up of both minor and major incidents.

Obsolescence Management

We help to ensure the long-term availability of materials, substances, equipment, and parts through a comprehensive and proactive approach:

  • Design Phase
  • Planning Phase
  • Reactive Phase

Supply Chain Risk Management

We support the end-to-end process of part availability for production and repairs:

  • Stock evaluation, forecasting, and planning: Anticipation of shortages
  • Supplier capacity and production planning integration
  • Risk analysis and mitigation planning

Safety & RAMS

We support safe system development throughout the V-cycle by applying best practices like ARP4754 and ARP4761 to anticipate and mitigate risks. This covers safety plans, dedicated to customers’ processes, safety analysis tailored to aircraft (aircraft/system/equipment levels) or helicopters, such as FHA, PSSA, SSA, FMEA/FMES, MMEL, CCA, PRA, and dependability assessments aligned with space authority regulations.

Industries we serve

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Case Study 

Managing production incidents and obsolescence for a major helicopter manufacturer

Airbus Protect supports one of the world’s leading helicopter manufacturers across all its programmes by managing internal production and customer service incidents through a structured Major Incident Process, ensuring swift resolution and quality compliance.

In parallel, our experts contribute to obsolescence management for helicopter fleet components, helping to sustain availability, performance, and regulatory alignment throughout the lifecycle.

This collaboration highlights our ability to enhance supply chain resilience and secure manufacturing excellence in complex, high-demand industrial environments.

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