UK Lean Aerospace Initiative
The UK Lean Aerospace Initiative (UKLAI) is a national research programme involving a leading consortium of Universities of Bath, Cranfield, Nottingham and Warwick, and working in close collaboration with the US Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT. This unique and wide-ranging programme is funded by the EPSRC and by forty-five SBAC member companies.
The UKLAI research programme at Bath focuses on lean process excellence within the aerospace industry and has addressed
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the industry wide adoption of common Aerospace Performance Metrics -
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the requirements of 'lean' accounting and performance measurement -
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and the emerging themes of Lean practices across the aerospace supply chain -
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