Value and Benefits

Value and Benefits

Delivering unmatched value and benefits to customers worldwide

More value and benefits coupled with the ease and simplicity of working with the single source leader

Airborne Systems provides customers with more than a product or service solution. Value and important benefits are delivered with every product.

A Partnering Approach to Customer Requirements
Airborne Systems believes that understanding customer requirements, delivering the best solution, incorporating innovative approaches to design and functionality, requires a partnering approach toward the working relationship. We have been successfully partnering with local parachute companies to satisfy local customer requirements since our beginning. This partnering approach is part of our culture and is an integral part of the value we deliver to our customers.

Expert Workmanship
Manufacturing and delivering parachute products that meet rigid quality and best-of-class standards is a function of the expert workmanship that is applied to every product that leaves our factories. Every aspect of the production is made with meticulous attention from measurements, cutting, stitching, gluing, metal forging to the precision of the assembly. Our manufacturing teams know and understand fabric, applying the latest and most modern fabric for optimized fabric fit-weight, aerodynamic and structural performance. This expert workmanship has been a trade mark of our reputation and the confidence that our customers place in our parachute products.

Quality of Product
Our customers rely on and have come to expect an uncompromising standard in the quality of the Airborne Systems parachute products. Our quality is a result of many factors—the expert team, years of experience, knowledge of fabric and the practices and procedures that are applied to every product from initial concept through design and development to production. But most of all, quality of product is about our standards, what we stand for and our commitment to our customers.

Unmatched Engineering Services
Unmatched engineering services come from the most experienced team of engineers in the industry dedicated to providing best-of-class innovative and performance related solutions. Airborne Systems provides the most comprehensive range of engineering services available anywhere. Services include: Customization, Fabric Design, System Engineering, Systems Analysis, Mechanical Design, Control Systems, Product Testing, Program Management, Rigging and Packing, Logistics, Maintenance Services.

Hundreds of Man Years of Design and Engineering Experience
No other single source of parachute products and services can deliver the combined know-how, technology and innovative solutions. Each company in the Airborne Systems group has a team of experienced engineers, technicians and staff who bring years and years of experience to every product request, no matter how big or small; a team that is renowned for product design innovation, engineering content and years of providing reliable, practical and creative solutions to increasing customer requirements. This knowledge base enables the rapid, cost effective selection of the correct design for the application or design requirement.

Leading Edge Simulation Tools for Analysis and Optimization of Design
Airborne Systems leads the industry in the use of sophisticated simulation analysis software application for parachute design, flight and performance optimization. These leading edge simulation tools deliver important value by reducing time to use and containing unnecessary costs that are often critical to the success of the customer program. These computer analysis applications provide the most advanced insight into system performance and resulting design solutions. Our range of analysis capabilities include: parachute trajectory modeling and simulation, finite element analysis of metal parts, fabric structure and impact dynamics analysis, fluid structure interaction and floatation stability.

Highest On Time Delivery
Meeting or exceeding our customers' delivery expectations is an integral part of the way we do business and the way we approach every program request. Through modern work flow processes, realistic and proven scheduling methods, we have gained the confidence of our customers who count on us to meet their deadlines.

Reliability and Dependability
The history of the Airborne Systems companies speaks to our reliability and dependability. Together, we have an unparalleled record of delivering products with the resources and know-how to support these products and the future needs of our customers. Our customers have come to know that reliability of performance to the product specification and solution requirements is an uncompromising commitment that accompanies every product and service program.

Samples For Test and Evaluation
Making the right decision the first time is critical for our customers. Airborne Systems provides sample parachutes for test and evaluation that give our customers the opportunity to evaluate the applicability of an already in-service parachute, adding confidence to and reducing risk in the purchase decision. During test, should modification or customization be required, the in-service parachute can be used as the model on which to build.

Parachute Flight Tests
Airborne Systems team of engineers design and conduct parachute flight tests with a wide range of payloads. We can configure any required weight or mass property. With the most extensive set of test equipment, video and photo test measurement, on board instrumentation, dummy and live testing, access to several delivery aircraft and drop zones, Airborne Systems flight testing and parachute system qualification is unsurpassed in the industry.

Systems Integration
Airborne Systems provides customers with a systems approach to an optimum solution. Our team of professionals concentrate on critical elements of performance, reliability, scalability, and flexibility in an integrated manner. Our approach to the entire delivery or recovery is system based. Whether we are looking for an automated landing point solution or simply an understanding of the likely conditions, our review of the full system provides a full view of what is needed to successfully accomplish the mission.

Responsive Technical Support
Quick response is critical to our international customers. Our customers have confidence in our technical support and have come to know the benefits of working closely together. Based on that working knowledge, we are able to provide response in two ways—quick, time sensitive response and extensive technical know-how. Our network of technicians and engineers are available to ensure that our customers can continue their programs without costly interruption.

Servicing of Systems
Through the Airborne Systems Quality Management Team, we offer servicing of all our aerospace and airborne systems throughout the world. Customers value our ability to follow through after delivery, provide continuity of program knowledge and the flexible "can do" response and assistance in tracking equipment and monitoring performance. This allows our customers to better focus on their product mission.

Extensive Product Training
A wide range of training programs and courses are available from an experienced cadre of training professionals. Our team of instructors have extensive backgrounds in the application of our customers' parachute product and systems to satisfy the objective and mission. Most of our trainers have years of experience working in military environments and thoroughly understand the proficiency requirements at various levels. All of our courses offer certificates of proficiency to certify that our customers are keeping pace with changing market requirements.

Competitive Pricing
We recognize that our customers have cost requirements that must be met and that as suppliers, we must meet. We also know that the price our customers pay for their product must include more than just "build to specification". At Airborne Systems, we work hard to keep our costs in line with our ability to deliver product and services at a competitive price. Cost improvement programs and improvements in our manufacturing processes are continually adopted at each of our factories to keep costs under control and ensure that we meet this important customer objective. Competitive pricing is an important element in the value we deliver with every product.

Responsive Pre and Post Sales Support
Product delivery is often accompanied by our people. Airborne Systems prides itself in its long term business relationships that have been sustained by a cadre of engineers, technicians and trainers responsive pre and post support to product delivery. That group brings added value though its involvement at concept, explanation, problem solving, decision process, fielding, training and service life.

Detailed Publications
Thorough and detailed publications fully support every product produced regarding the recommended operation and use as called for in the product or system specification. We view the product publication as an important element of a complete product delivery. These publications are often tailored and written to meet the unique requirements of our customers. Our team of technical writers present clear and easy to follow manuals for the intended audience, whether it be the engineering staff or the maintenance technicians in the field.

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