Bombardier Transportation

Other well-known supply chains like those of Wal-Mart and Dell use operations-centric supply chains. Wal-Mart negotiates hard for low-cost sources of supply in an effort to offer customers low prices. Make-to-order manufacturers such as Dell stmcture their operations to make this model work. Bombardier Transportation, described in Section 24.2, pursued a product-centric approach, creating a supply chain for each of its products and services in its aftermarket business. 

Figure 24.2 is a product of an effort by Bombardier Transportation presented at the Supply-Chain World Conference. Bombardier Transportation is the world s largest manufacturer of locomotives and passenger rail vehicles. The organization in the case, the Material Logistics (M L) group within Bombardier Transportation Services, had a functional organization for its purchases of after-market parts for a variety of applications. 

Figure 24.3 shows another activity system for the M L Project sphere. This business was particularly complex and, at the time, M L s largest customer for parts. The life cycle of each overhaul project began with a competitive Pre-Tender, or Proposal, period. These activities are in white boxes in Figure 24.3. This required Bombardier Transportation to review the operator s drawings, assess the condition of the vehicles, and quote the cost of the overhaul. This often involved assuming considerable financial risk.

Bombardier Transportation, in pursuing outsourced maintenance contracts from rail operators, uses the same logistics model to ensure that they meet tight response requirements. It needs this model to assure its customers a fast turnaround time. 

Standardized operations. Documentation of individual operations as well as factory-wide expectations for a process. The latter includes cycle time, the operations routine, and quantity of work in process. Bombardier Transportation and our laptop repair center described above employed this concept. 

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Bombardier Transportation supplied the trains, signalling and signalhng eontrol. Bombardier Transportation has a contract with Westinghouse Rail Systems Limited (WRSL) for the delivery of the signalhng and signalling control, while delivery of trains was the responsibihty of Bombardier Mainline and Metros. Bombardier Transportation was responsible for the delivery of these systems and their irrtegration for the VLU. 

Deriving Reusable Process-Based Arguments from Process Models in the Context ofRailway Safety Standards Barbara GaUina andLucianaProvenzano,Malardalen University and Bombardier Transportation, Sweden. 

For example, Airbus Industries ABD 0031 and Bombardier SMP 800-C are industry specifications that place limits on the amount of toxic gases that may be generated in the NBS smoke chamber by materials used in aircraft and ground transportation vehicles, respectively. Part 2 of Annex 1 to the IMO FTP Code places limits on the amount of toxic gases that may be generated in the ISO 5659-2 single smoke chamber method by materials used in ships. ISO 5659-2 specifies the same chamber and smoke meter as ASTM E 662, but uses a scaled-down version of the cone calorimeter heater. The gas concentration limits for these three methods are given in Table 14.1. 

National Transportation Safety Board, Loss of Control on Approach, Colgan Air, Inc., Operating as Continental Connection Flight 3407, Bombardier DHC- -4oo, N200WQ, February 12, 2009 x, 8-9, 11-14 (2010) Sholnn Freeman, Panel on Fatal Crash Looks at Pilots Pay, Commutes, WP, May 14, 2009, at Az Sholnn Freeman, Panel Finds Pilots Broke Rules Before Fatal Crash, WP, May r3, 2009, at A5 Matthew L. Wald, Pilot in Fatal Crash Near Buffalo Did Not Reveal 2 Past Test Failures, NYT, May 12, 2009, at A21. 

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