Dassault takes a fresh look at assembly process
Dassault has bucked the trend among business jet manufacturers of announcing massive job cuts, furloughs or temporary factory closures since the beginning

Dassault has bucked the trend among business jet manufacturers of announcing massive job cuts, furloughs or temporary factory closures since the beginning of the economic downturn in 2001. Still, the French company has significantly reduced production rates for its Falcon line.

In an interview at Dassault’s Saint-Cloud headquarters near Paris early last month, Jean-Marc Grillet, senior v-p for industrial operations, explained how rebalancing the work- force between civil and military programs and reducing overtime and subcontracting work, among other actions, has made this possible. He also told AIN that computer-aided industrialization–now in its early stages–is expected to yield even more production flexibility in the near future. This should translate into reduced production costs by having more work done in countries with lower labor costs.

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