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point of view: excellence as a motto

Daher:
Shaping industrial intelligence

Nicolas oraNce
chief iNNovatioN officer

Daher Group
JEC Composites Magazine:
Can you briefly tell us about
Daher's activities?

Nicolas Orance : Daher

is a Tier 1 specialist in the hightech sectors associated with the
aerospace and defence industries.
We have developed expertise in
design/manufacturing and also
in supply chain management and
optimization. My job as Chief
Innovation Officer for Daher
is more specifically focused on
monitoring the technological
strengths that differentiate us
from our competitors.
We are now organized so that we
can continuously monitor both
our production and that of our
suppliers. We follow a "single supplier-single customer" approach
so that there is more transparency
for the final customer.

JCM: Daher had a good year in

N.O. : Our first goal is to manage the ramp-up generated in
2014. We also have a priority on
assimilating new techniques and
continuously developing our
processes and human capital.
The year 2014 was consistent with
the Group's "Performance 2017"
strategic plan to reinforce our
position as "Best in class" in the
sector. In 2015, we will continue
to pursue the Group's activities
around four main goals:
1) Stepping up the standardization of our production processes
to achieve operational excellence.
This is implemented through
the capacity to bring the Falcon
programmes into production,
the continuation of the projects
linked to the A350, and the integration of the production outputs
linked to the A320.

Daher 2014 key figures
- 970 € M in turnover
- 3,5 years of turnover in
order backlog
- 17% order backlog
growth in 2014
- 8100 average headcount
- 9 R&D and engineering

tives, we set up an active human
resource planning programme
to help us identify in-house skills
and profiles and position them
within the Group so as to develop
their professional potential.

2014 - what are the Group's goals
for this year?

centers
- 12 industrial sites
- 1400 aircraft with Daher
parts delivered in 2014
- 300 suppliers in attendance at the first daher
suppliers' day

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JCM: What role do composites play
in the success of the aerospace division, and what are your priorities
for this year in that field?

interview

Thanks to the talents of each of its partners, Daher is shaping the
future of industry by focusing on the convergence between our valueadded services and advanced manufacturing processes.
As 2014 was an exceptionnal year for the group, Nicolas Orance explain us what's 2015 will be made off.

Our business model is
fairly atypical, compared to those of our
competitors

2) Reinforcing our Core Model to
make us more effective at monitoring, anticipating and adapting
the Group's financial and legal
processes.
3) Stimulating innovation, both
in house and with our partners
to enable us to determine which
technological, business-model
and creativity drivers will contribute to Group growth.
4) Developing the value of our
human resources to enable us
to identify and follow up on key
sources of talent and skills within
the Group. We strongly encourage
internal mobility and continuing
in-service training for our teams.
To do so, we have developed
training schools. For our execu-

N.O. : Daher develops a twofold
"metal and composite materials"
approach. Thanks to the capabilities of design and simulation
software and our receptivity to
customer needs, we can now
offer our customers an "architect's
outlook". For a given problem, we
can use our differentiation tools
to find the best technical solutions
or to propose hybrid solutions.
Above all, we reject the "black
metal" approach for composite
materials in our programmes. Our
2015 goal is to continue industrializing our composite solutions.
To do so, we rely on assets like
our plant in Nantes, now one of
the world's largest dedicated to
thermoplastics. We also continue
to pursue our ongoing project to
change to an entirely dematerialized information network, and are
also using virtual reality solutions.
All this will help us achieve more
flexible procedures.

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