Aerospace companies are navigating simultaneous changes in aircraft technologies, manufacturing systems, supply chains, sustainability requirements, and emerging mobility concepts such as eVTOL aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. By combining strategic consulting with deep technical and industrial expertise, FEV Consulting helps clients industrialize innovation, from technology selection and supplier sourcing to manufacturing transformation and business growth.
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Aerospace
What challenges are aerospace companies facing today?
The aerospace industry is entering a new phase of growth and transformation. Aircraft manufacturers and suppliers are expected to increase production rates, shorten development cycles, and deliver increasingly complex products while maintaining strict quality, safety, and certification standards. At the same time, new market entrants and emerging aviation concepts are reshaping parts of the industry. Success increasingly depends on the ability to turn strategic decisions into scalable products, efficient operations, and competitive business models.
Industrializing new aerospace technologies
New propulsion concepts, electrification, hybrid systems, advanced materials, and digital technologies are entering aerospace development faster than ever before. Companies must evaluate which technologies are relevant, understand their technical implications, and translate innovation into viable products, manufacturing systems, and business models.
Managing increasingly complex supplier ecosystems
Aircraft and aerospace systems depend on highly specialized suppliers and technology partners. As technologies become more complex, supplier landscapes become more fragmented and difficult to assess. Organizations need to identify capable partners, validate technical maturity, reduce sourcing risk, and build resilient supply chains.
Accelerating manufacturing and operational performance
Production ramp-ups, missing parts, resource utilization, planning accuracy, and manufacturing efficiency remain critical success factors. Aerospace organizations are under pressure to increase output while maintaining quality and certification requirements.
Building viable Advanced Air Mobility businesses
Advanced Air Mobility creates opportunities beyond traditional aviation but also introduces new challenges. Companies must make decisions on aircraft architectures, certification pathways, infrastructure requirements, operating models, suppliers, and market positioning long before large-scale market adoption.
How does FEV Consulting help aerospace organizations?
FEV Consulting supports aerospace OEMs, suppliers, and Advanced Air Mobility companies by combining strategic insight with technical understanding and implementation experience. This enables clients to translate emerging technologies into viable products, resilient operations, and sustainable business models. The project portfolio spans aerospace manufacturing, propulsion technologies, supplier evaluation, market strategy, and operational improvement initiatives.
Aerospace market & technology strategy
FEV Consulting supports clients in evaluating market opportunities, technology developments, competitive dynamics, and long-term industry trends. Typical assignments include market assessments, technology roadmaps, future mobility studies, sustainable aviation analyses, propulsion system forecasts, and Advanced Air Mobility market evaluations. These projects help organizations identify attractive growth opportunities and make informed investment decisions in rapidly evolving aerospace markets.
Product & technology assessment
Developing and selecting the right technologies requires both strategic evaluation and technical understanding. FEV Consulting supports product reviews, propulsion system assessments, battery technology evaluations, architecture studies, technology benchmarking, and engineering-focused due diligence. This helps aerospace companies assess technical feasibility, understand competitive positioning, and prioritize development activities.
Supplier & ecosystem strategy
From propulsion systems and electronics to advanced manufacturing technologies, aerospace programs depend on highly specialized suppliers. FEV Consulting helps clients assess supplier capabilities, compare technology providers, and build qualified shortlists for strategic sourcing and partnership decisions.
Aerospace manufacturing & operational excellence
Industrializing new technologies while maintaining performance and quality is a critical challenge across the aerospace sector. FEV Consulting supports production ramp-ups, manufacturing improvement programs, test facility optimization, performance management systems, and recovery programs. This helps aerospace companies to focus on improving efficiency, increasing transparency, reducing operational bottlenecks, and enhancing delivery performance.
Cost & value engineering
Aerospace companies must balance cost competitiveness with demanding technical and certification requirements. FEV Consulting supports should-cost analyses, cost reduction programs, value engineering initiatives, supplier cost assessments, and sourcing-related optimization activities. The objective is to identify cost reduction opportunities while maintaining product performance, quality, and technical requirements.
What evidence highlights FEV Consulting’s aerospace and AAM experience?
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Case samples
How does FEV Consulting apply aerospace expertise in real-world projects?
Designing an Advanced Air Mobility ecosystem
FEV Consulting supported a public-sector organization in assessing the feasibility of an eVTOL-based air taxi ecosystem. The project included the evaluation of operating concepts, locations, aircraft platforms, infrastructure requirements, supplier options, and business models. More than 80 eVTOL concepts were benchmarked, resulting in an integrated ecosystem design and over 1,300 functional requirements covering aircraft, infrastructure, and operational processes. These outputs provided a structured basis for future investment and implementation decisions.
Supplier screening for a hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft program
To support the development of a hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft, FEV Consulting helped an aerospace OEM identify and evaluate potential suppliers for propulsion-related systems and key electronic components. Through market research, supplier screening, technical assessments, and expert interviews, more than 250 suppliers were evaluated across multiple technology areas. The project resulted in a structured supplier landscape, technology benchmarking, and a prioritized shortlist of qualified partners, enabling informed sourcing and supplier selection decisions.
Aerospace production ramp-up and recovery support
To support increasing production rates and delivery requirements, FEV Consulting helped an aerospace supplier improve operational performance during a critical production ramp-up phase. By analyzing manufacturing processes, planning structures, and operational bottlenecks, FEV developed recovery plans and targeted improvement measures for shop-floor management and production steering. The engagement enhanced production transparency, established a structured framework for sustainable operational improvement and contributed to reducing a production backlog from 16 weeks to zero.
Global sourcing and aerospace cost optimization
FEV Consulting supported an aerospace supplier in evaluating alternative sourcing options and supplier capabilities in order to improve cost competitiveness without compromising technical requirements. Through should-cost analyses, supplier benchmarking, and structured sourcing assessments, the project identified approximately €1.6 million in potential cost reduction opportunities while maintaining product performance and feasibility requirements.
Advanced Air Mobility is not only an aircraft challenge. Long-term success depends on the integration of technology, infrastructure, certification pathways, suppliers, operations, and commercially viable business models.
Frequently asked questions
Successful industrialization requires product maturity, supplier readiness, certification planning, manufacturing capability and a viable business case to progress together. FEV Consulting connects these dimensions through technology assessment, supplier evaluation, production-system design and implementation planning. Our aerospace work includes production ramp-up support, technology and supplier assessments, and the development of decision-ready industrialization roadmaps.
A successful ramp-up depends on transparent production performance, stable material flow, effective planning, scalable quality processes and rapid bottleneck resolution. FEV Consulting supports aerospace manufacturers by diagnosing production constraints and translating them into short-term measures, implementation plans, business cases and longer-term facility strategies.
Advanced Air Mobility combines challenges that are normally separated across multiple industries. Companies must simultaneously address aircraft development, certification, operations, infrastructure, energy supply, digital platforms, and business-model viability. This requires expertise beyond traditional aerospace engineering. FEV Consulting supports clients by combining aerospace, automotive, mobility, infrastructure, and industrialization perspectives to evaluate both the technical feasibility and economic viability of future AAM concepts.
Many aerospace organizations focus on individual technologies while underestimating how market demand, supplier capabilities, certification requirements, and manufacturing readiness evolve together. FEV Consulting helps clients build fact-based technology and market strategies by combining industry intelligence, technology forecasting, supplier ecosystem analysis, and industrialization planning. This allows organizations to identify which developments are likely to create real business opportunities and which may remain technically attractive but commercially limited.
Aerospace organizations are confronted with a growing number of technology options, ranging from electrification and hydrogen propulsion to advanced manufacturing and automation solutions. The challenge is rarely identifying promising technologies, but determining which options can realistically be industrialized and generate economic value. FEV Consulting combines technology assessment, market analysis, supplier intelligence, and implementation planning to support evidence-based investment decisions.
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Wegner
Wegner
Director and Expert in Aerospace
Johannes Houben
Director and Expert in Aerospace
