Virgin Atlantic
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Q Who are Virgin Atlantics competitors?
A As an independent airline, Virgin Atlantic successfully competes on all of its routes with most of the industrys major national carriers. These include British Airways, bmi british midland, American Airlines, Continental, Delta and United on transatlantic routes; BA and SAA to South Africa; BA, ANA, Cathay Pacific and JAL to the Far East; BA to Delhi
The pain area
Huge number of parts used in aircraft making
Maintaining
The solution
Use of RFID and sensor-based solution to manage the accurate consignment, storage and dispatch of parts
This helps reduce costs and increase efficiencies through improved visibility and accountability, and to gain better automated control of its engineering parts supply chain
are tracking three things with tags: parts, location identifiers on bins and users within the warehouse, so we can identify who is doing what and who is supposed to be doing what
The process is such that as a part arrives at the stores door, it goes through a three-stage receiving process to confirm that the parts have arrived at the facility, that the quantity of parts is accurate and that the parts are in good condition. From receiving, the parts move to an inspection process and then out to store shelves to be issued to aircraft engineers for maintenance
The problem
With a globally dispersed workforce, and engineers located wherever the aircraft were, Virgin was looking for a remote access network solution which would let their employees use business applications and access email and documents from anywhere. Virgins engineers were among many remote workers who were spending vast sums of money on costly international dial-up connections to access the companys intranet. Virgin needed a remote access solution that would cut these costs. For example, engineers