Samlesbury Site

PROFILE SHEET BAE Systems divides its business into five accommodation at the Samlesbury site. business groups: Electronics, Intelligence The new investment, which is supported & Support, Land & Armaments, by the North West Development Agency, Programmes & Support, International will serve to sustain current jobs and Businesses, and HQ & Other Businesses. potentially create a significant number of The Programmes & Support business new jobs. This will help secure the future group includes Military Air Solutions of aerospace in by (MAS). MAS is responsible for the design, safeguarding the skills, technology and development and production of BAE's knowledge the region possesses. major military aircraft programmes. Process Samlesbury is BAE Systems’ Military Air Solutions (MAS) primary manufacturing BAE Systems, Samlesbury embarked on a site. It has a strong tradition of design, Lean journey in 2004 with a view to taking engineering and manufacturing excellence a more systematic and standardised in the aerospace industry. The site is home approach to business improvement. to some of the most advanced aerospace manufacturing and assembly technologies Due to the complexity of the activities at in the world. Samlesbury Site, our initial focus was to establish a truly aligned performance Achievements reporting framework around the categories of Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery & Safety - 43% reduction in incidence rate People (SQCDP). In order to establish since 2004 ‘what good looks like’ in terms of performance – a Blue Sky Vision (BSV) Quality – 88% reduction in customer was created to give a consistent clear complaints since 2006 message to all employees, one that has Lean principles ingrained into it. This was Cost – 76% reduction in cost of scrap a critical step in engaging ‘hearts and since 2005 minds’ of our people in the Lean Transformation journey. Delivery – 89% reduction in jig stops since 2005 As a Site, we were now in a position to align ourselves to achieving the BSV and People – 93% reduction in Working Time our Policy Deployment approach Directive breaches since 2005 incrementally guides us all towards this goal. We recognised the importance of People developing our own enterprise-wide internal skill-base in Lean and so the Lean BAE Samlesbury employs over 4500 Learning Academy (LLA) was launched to people at its 351 acre aerospace facility on help enable the journey. the outskirts of , Lancashire, England. By bringing all the elements of improvement under one ‘umbrella’, we To enable us to support the men and believe this has given us a bedrock for women of the armed forces, BAE Systems building a culture of continuous has embarked on a major investment improvement. programme which will provide additional manufacturing facilities and office

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Product is supplied to Warton Site for Final Assembly. At Samlesbury, BAE Systems provides manufacturing and support capabilities to a Corporate number of internationally important aircraft programmes including Typhoon, BAE Systems plc (BAE) is a British the most advanced swing-role aircraft in defence and aerospace company the world and F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter - headquartered in Farnborough, England. JSF), the largest contract of its kind in the BAE is the world's third largest defence world. contractor and the largest in Europe. It was formed on 30 November 1999 by the Samlesbury Site’s expertise and £7.7 billion merger of two British capabilities enable it to define, evaluate companies, Marconi Electronic Systems and develop the products, systems and (MES), the defence electronics and naval concepts to meet the demands of our shipbuilding subsidiary of the General customers in both today's environment and Electric Company plc (GEC), and aircraft, to meet tomorrow's challenges. munitions and naval systems manufacturer (BAe). BAE Systems These include Military and civil aircraft defines its "home markets" to be Australia, design and manufacture, Airframe Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sweden, the structures, Composite assemblies, UK and the US. BAE Systems is the Electrical assemblies, Advanced predominant supplier to the UK Ministry machining and fabrication, Advanced of Defence (MOD). tooling manufacture. BAE Systems, Samlesbury can be found Plant online at:

Samlesbury Site Leadership team is http://www.baesystems.com/Sites/Samlesb headed by Nigel Blenkinsop, Director of urySite/index.htm Manufacturing MAS. For more information please contact: The main Programmes and Functions located in Samlesbury Site include F-35 Nigel Blenkinsop (JSF) Operations, Typhoon Operations, MAS Manufacturing Director Manufacturing Shared Services (Machine Samlesbury Aerodrome Shop Operations, Advanced Forming & Balderstone Fabrications Operations, Airbus/Carbon Blackburn Fibre Operations), Quality, Finance, BB2 7LF Production Planning, Manufacturing Phone: +44(0)1254 766158 Transformation, Commercial, Email: [email protected] Manufacturing & Materials Engineering, SHE, Human Resources and Production System Design.

The BAE Warton Site, Preston, is the headquarters for MAS and therefore undertakes Programme and Functional activity that links the two BAE Sites together. For example, Typhoon Front- Fuse is assembled at Samlesbury Site and

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