CEOs of Snecma (Groupe «SAFRAN»), NPO Saturn, PowerJet, Sukhoi Company and Sukhoi Civil Aircraft have coordinated the production program and delivery schedule for SaM146 engines and SSJ100 aircraft during meeting at Saturn’s office on May 25th 2011. AEX.ru

The following persons have taken part in the meeting:

- on the part of Snecma: president and CEO Philippe Petitcolin, Director Genetral of Safran Group’s Representative office in Moscow – Mark Sorel, the director of SaM146 program Rober Vivie, chief designer of SaM146 project – Ivan Lapidus;

- on the part of Saturn: managing director Ilya Fedorov, deputy managing director and the director of SaM146 program, Yuri Basyuk, deputy general designer – chief designer of SaM146 project, Georgiy Konyuhov, unit manager Viktor Polyakov, deputy managing director – director on economics and finance Alexey Sobolev.

- President and CEO of PowerJet, Jacque Desclo.

The chief executives of aircraft industry have also taken part in the meeting at the invitation of Saturn’s management:

- President, Chairman of the Board of UAC, CEO of Sukhoi Company, Mikhail Pogosyan; deputy general director on civil aviation programs of Sukhoi Company, Viktor Subbotin;

- on the part of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft: President, Vladimir Prisyazhnuk, vice-president on strategy, Alexander Pimenov.

After having heard the reports of Saturn’s unit manager on the status of SaM146 production and vice-president of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, Alexander Pimenov on production program of SSJ100 for 2011-2012, the parties have approved the production program and delivery schedule for SaM146 engines, proposed by PowerJet.

The representatives of Sukhoi Company and Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCA) have noted that they are pleased with improvement of NPO Saturn’s production, in particular by the increase of its capacity, implementation of lean-technologies, and as a result, by possibilities for further increase of its capacity in accordance with increase of SCA’s aircraft sales.

«Our partners have seen the enterprise, modernized for SaM146 production, the main arms, allowing the increase of output to 5 engines per month», - the managing director of NPO Saturn, Ilya Fedorov, noted. – «It is a new assembly workshop, modernized arm of monocrystalline casting and direct crystallization casting, new specialized workshop for machining of rotor blades and sectors of low-pressure turbine nozzle assemblies for SaM146. At the same time, the partners have seen real results in the area of manufacturing cycles decrease for the most critical elements of SaМ146, in particular, manufacturing cycle for rotors has been decreased more than twice», - he added.

The representatives of Snecma, Sukhoi and SCA were impressed by the status of lean-technologies development at NPO Saturn.

According to deputy managing director and the director of SaM146 program, Yuri Basyuk, “the main thing is that there are no contradictions between the production program and delivery schedule. Everything is coordinated. The SCA'’ supposal of delivering the jets in 2011-2012 has been used as a basis for production program. It is supposed to increase the capacity of engine production since October 2011».