Aerospace Components Assembly Plant
A 620,000 SF aerospace assembly plant, ready for its first shipset on the date promised to the airframer.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Southeast
- Market
- Manufacturing
- Capital value
- $290M
- Size
- 620,000 SF
- Delivery
- Design-Build
- Duration
- 26 months
- Completed
- 2025
What was at stake.
Assembly tooling needs super-flat floors, overhead cranes and stable temperature before it can be set. The tooling vendor had a fixed installation slot, and the first shipset delivery carried contract penalties. Floor flatness testing and crane certification were not in the schedule at all.
How we controlled it.
What our schedulers and cost engineers did on this project.
Tooling backward
We scheduled backward from the tooling slot through crane certification, floor testing and HVAC balancing.
Floor as critical work
Slab pours were sequenced by tooling zone, with flatness testing and remediation as named activities.
Biweekly updates
Updates every two weeks against the baseline, with a narrative on float to the tooling slot.
Change control
Tooling layout changes were priced and their schedule effect shown before approval.
The result.
The tooling vendor had one slot and no second chances. The schedule started there and worked back.
Senior scheduler, AdenTurton
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