STAG Group receives prestigious Franco-British Award for Co-operative Technology Innovation

Says Group Director Thibaut de Bouillane: “The award focused on our application of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) in the Aerospace Supply Chain. We are delighted that the jury understood the technicality of our innovation which enables us to greatly speed up and simplify the real-time management of complex supply chains. STAG is a relatively small company, having significant global impact based on an innovative approach with offices in the UK, France and USA, and backed by excellent relationships with a very large number of original equipment suppliers.”

Chris Osborne, Operations Director of SpecTech France described how the system was developed: “In France we have taken the best features of proven RFID tagging and combined them with the STAG Group remote access software package that both interrogates real-time stock values and actions the upstream replenishment process all the way to the manufacturer. This Anglo-French co-operative development can be applied to virtually any proprietary binning system to produce a true KANBAN operation with minimal staffing and optimal timing. This ensures that the same level of supply performance is available to military based customers as for civil oriented companies. Typically this can involve in the order of 100,000 plus lines of forecasted demand enabling visual oversight of anomalous trends in producing and actioning weekly purchasing schedules.”

STAG worldwide provides a full range of aerospace standard fasteners and organises the manufacture of items to customer specifications or drawings. Their multi-sourced stock management includes kit marshalling, Kanban, bar coding and specialist packaging with a fully automated flow line packaging system.

STAG Group across UK, France and USA are recognised distributors of aerospace parts for leading manufacturers, including BAE Systems, Westland Helicopters, Bearing manufacturers Barden, Timken,. The group counts the UK Ministry of Defence as well as most of the major NATO forces as part of its customer base.

The Group is also is a primary stockist of American and European connector and backshell manufacturers including: AB connectors, Aero Electric, AMP, Amphenol/Bendix, Amphenol/Matrix, Amphenol/Pyle National, Cinch, Deutsch, Fromatome, Hi Rel, ITT Cannon, J-Tech, Kings, Pyle National, Radiall, RMS, Sabritech, TEC, Electro Adapter, Glenair, Miles Roystone, Sunbank and Polamco.

Other specialist components include: Relays from Deutsch, Eaton/Cutler Hammer, Hartman, Leach, LRE and Teledyne; Contacts from AMP, Deutsch, ITT Cannon and Tri-star; Heatshrink from Hellerman Tyton; Switches from Arrow Hart, Eaton/Cutler Hammer and Texas Instruments and Tools from Apex, Daniels and Glenair.

STAG also manages the provision of a complete range of consumable parts including: Adaptors, Bearings, Braid, Bolts, Bonding Leads, Bonded Seals, Buckles, Buttons, Cable Ties, Caps, Circlips, Collars, Connectors, Cord, Couplings, Elbows, Eyelets, Fittings, Grommets, Hinges, Hooks, Inserts, Nuts, O’ Rings, Pins, Plugs, Rivets, Receptacles, Seals, Shackles, Sleeves, Split Pins, Springs, Straps, Studs, Unions & Washers. Many of these stocked to American and European standards, including A, ABS, AGS, AMS, AN, AS, ASNA, ASNE, BAC, BLC, BLS, DHS, DIN, EA, EAG, EE, EF, EN, FV, JN, LH, LN, MA, MDS, MS, NAS, NFE, NFL, NSA, PAN, S, SL, SP, STD, STM, & VGS.

The new RFID system enhances an already sophisticated repair and warranty management service, covering everything from small rotables through to complete engines where all items being sent for repair and overhaul, or which need to be returned to the manufacturer under a warranty agreement, are monitored from receipt through to delivery back to the end use customer and with the relevant documentation completed. Further information on STAG Group products and services can be found at: www.stag-aerospace.com.