MISSION: TO ADVANCE ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, HEALTH AND

QUALITY OF LIFE IN INDIANA AND BEYOND.

FUTURE STATE OF THE
DEFENSE SUPPLY CHAIN
Innovation Checklist,
Seven Steps to
Compete and Win!
Download paper at:
http://mep.purdue.edu

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AEROSPACE DAYTON DEVELOPMENT COALITION 2013

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INDUSTRY DRIVERS
 Today we are in the fourth industrial revolution period – digital mfg & IIOTs
 Services industry experiencing its “industrial revolution” eg. Uber, Airbnb
 US manufacturing 17% of GDP
 Global competition: Indiana production to Mexico at $20/hr vs $3/hr
 DoD budget cuts and uncertainty
 Federal labs and agencies facing cuts
 Defense Innovation Initiative – outsource to the supply chain

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DEFENSE INNOVATION INITIATIVE
The DoD is:
 pushing innovation out to the primes and their supply chains and
 compressing delivery cycles from 12 months to 9 or even 6
months

Therefore:
 Today’s supply chain, over the next five to ten years, will evolve to
be more dynamic, innovative and agile

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 Will your company be ready?
PRIMES TO SUPPLIERS
Driving capabilities and requirements:
 Provide price, quality, delivery and now also INNOVATION
 Adopt DIGITAL MANUFACTURING – for compressed cycle times
and quality

Both go hand-in-hand.

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SUPPLY CHAIN – CURRENT STATE

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SUPPLY CHAIN – FUTURE STATE

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YOUR INNOVATION GOALS
Where will your company be in five to ten years?
 Innovation program
 R & D or specialization
 Digital manufacturing capabilities
– electronic design model data flows through work processes:
 engineering review
 estimating and quotations
 machine/tooling set-up
 quality; GD&T to CNC CMM
– and your supplier inputs returned/shared via the model package

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SUPPLIER ASSISTANCE
What assistance is available to you?
 Innovation Seven-Step Checklist - for Ideas and Resources
 Universities Offices of Engagement
 State Agencies (PTAC, IEDC)
 Crane Indiana, and Airforce Research Labs (Dayton)
 Purdue MEP – Onsite Assistance
 Purdue Federal and State Grants (e.g. Defense Manufacturers
Assistance Program, IN-MaC, Technical Assistance Program)

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PURDUE IMPACT

Purdue MEP provides high-value solutions that help

Indiana businesses maximize their success
by increasing profits, reducing costs, and implementing growth and
innovation engineering systems. Our organization serves more than 500
companies annually by implementing continuous improvement principles
in the areas of productivity, growth and technology. Purdue MEP has
helped our clients collectively achieve over $1 billion of economic
impact in Indiana since 2005.

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LIFETIME ECONOMIC IMPACT
Description Totals
Jobs Created and Retained 10,365
Sales Created and Retained $1.006 Billion
Cost Savings $115 Million
Investment $254 Million
Total Impact $1.375 Billion

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*July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2015
ANNUAL ECONOMIC IMPACT
Description Totals
Jobs Created and Retained 453
Sales Created and Retained $107,100,650
Cost Savings $9,961,050
Investment $17,014,405
Total Impact $134,076,105

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*October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015
PROFITABILITY
Increasing companies’ profitability through:
 Objective assessments that identify priority-improvement targets in
workforce, manufacturing, plant, engineering, and office processes.
 Integrated project implementation and management–– your team and
ours working toward the same goal.
 Customized Purdue training curriculum for associates, engineers, and
management.

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MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PARTNERSHIP
Providing high-value solutions to help Indiana manufacturers maximize their
success by increasing profits, reducing costs, and implementing growth and
innovation engineering systems.
Manufacturing Services:
 Lean Manufacturing
 Leadership & Supervision
 Innovation & Product Development
 Lean Office
 Quality (ISO) & Environmental
Improvement
 Six Sigma Certification
 Training Within Industry (TWI)

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MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PARTNERSHIP
“Myers Spring Co. has had fantastic success
through our collaboration with Purdue MEP. We've
increased sales and profit each of the last 3 years
by implementing lean improvements using Kaizen
events. Our facilitator comes in monthly and keeps
us on track with follow ups, action items, and
confirmation of productivity gains! The program
has paid back 2x's the cost via ongoing savings,
and we will continue to contract through the
Purdue MEP program.”
— Jim Parsons, Vice President, Myers Spring Co.

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DEFENSE MANUFACTURING
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
The Defense Manufacturing Assistance Program (DMAP) provides cash grant
assistance to identify and fund projects that address critical needs and areas of
improvement for communities and companies to help strengthen and diversify
defense contractors by leveraging Manufacturing Extension Partnership services
and subject matter experts.
Eligible companies:
 Small to medium size enterprises – under 1000 employees
 5% reduction in sales, production or employment within past
 24 months (or imminent threat of reduction in the next 24 months)
 Defense Contractor or tier 1,2,3,4, etc. supplier to defense industry
 Management team dedicated to improving and growing their business

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DEFENSE MANUFACTURING
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Defense Industry Manufacturer’s Innovation Checklist
Seven steps to initiate and plan innovation projects to become a more
successful defense supplier
 Understand your position in the supply chain
 Seek guiding requirements
 Collaborate with cluster partners
 Implement innovation best practices
 Enhance your public profile
 Consult your local Indiana Procurement Technical Assistance Center
(Indiana PTAC)
 Explore research and development contract and grant opportunities

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CAMPUS RESOURCES –
FACULTY PROJECTS
Confidential consulting on a full range of business and technical issues,
including:
 Business Services
 Information Technology
 Manufacturing
 Materials
 Product Design and Development
 Productivity and Process Optimization
 Quality Assurance
 Technology Leadership and Innovation

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CAMPUS RESOURCES –
FACULTY PROJECTS
“Hiring a large engineering
company was going to be
expensive. And we couldn’t afford
to spend that kind of money if it
wasn’t going to work. The experts
at Purdue helped us analyze the
hurdles we would have to clear as
a small company before launching
into this product.”

— Rex Alton, President, Founder and

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Owner, Midwest F.A.S.T. Structures
IN-MAC
The Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center, IN-MaC, is
accepting inquiries for technology adoption partnership projects.

Partnership objective: Adoption of technologies that will strengthen

competitiveness and add or preserve jobs in Indiana
Technology Adoption focus areas:
 Digital engineering for production design, including finite element methods,
materials characterization and computational fluid dynamics
 Product lifecycle management, including model-based engineering, supply
chain integration and the supporting technologies such as 3D modeling
 Production systems modeling and design, including factory flow optimization
and layouts, data intelligence, line simulations and warehouse systems.

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IN-MAC
“We are beyond pleased with the outcome of
our IN-MaC experience. Purdue has drastically
expanded the capabilities of our engineering
department, and we are now able to provide
some of the most sophisticated engineering
services of any bellows manufacturer. The
technical expertise and quality of the Purdue
faculty is among the best in the nation, and I
would recommend their services to any Indiana
business in need of technical assistance.”

— Nate Schaefer, Application Engineer

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FOR MORE INFORMATION
John Blignaut
Product and Market Growth Consultant
Purdue Manufacturing Extension Partnership

765-494-2131
[email protected]

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