Integrating the Supply Chain to Create Customer Value

The ability to successfully to design and manufacture the airframes and engines for coming generations of commercial aircraft requires the availability of advanced materials systems capable of operating at performance levels beyond those currently available.    To meet these requirements, today’s materials manufacturers face dual demands.  First, they must develop profound customer understanding.  Then they must combine this understanding with the technical capacity to develop and manufacture the advanced materials capable of satisfying current as well as next-generation design, performance and sustainability demands of airframe and engine OEMs.

ATI is addressing these needs on multiple fronts: first, by creating market sector teams charged with understanding the most pressing needs of the aerospace industry; second, by expanding its materials and manufacturing capabilities; and third, by integrating its fundamental materials understanding from microstructure and melting through semi-fabrication to net-shape processing.

Mr. Harshman will review the company’s efforts to enhance its customer understanding, advance its manufacturing capabilities and expand and integrate its scientific and engineering knowledge.  He will also discuss the value he believes will be derived from ATI’s quantitative process understanding and the new horizons this understanding will create in the performance of titanium and nickel-based alloys.