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The LISI Group operates in
markets where technology
is a major competitive issue
.
Research teams at LISI innovate
tirelessly to meet the markets’
challenges. Designed to
optimize assembly operations
at the Group’s customers and
improve their performance, the
solutions implemented must also
integrate the new environmental
requirements without ever
compromising on what constitutes
the essence of LISI’s approach:
i.e.
the quality of its products and the
added value which its solutions
represent.
While the LISI Group’s expertise remains focused
on the manufacture and assembly of complex
fastening systems, it also lies in its ability to
devise, design and implement effective and
innovative solutions to meet the specifications
the company’s customers worldwide. If the
development and design of future fasteners
involve both improved materials performance
and optimization of processing steps, the
ramp-up phases of new product families at the
€
18.9
M
R&D expenditures
in 2011
+2.7
%
progression on 2010
INNOVATION,
THE DRIVER OF STRATEGY
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Group’s customers require special attention and
significant human investment. During these
decisive milestones, LISI’s teams question and
constantly review their procedures in order
to improve and simplify the implementation
of fasteners. Optimizing the management of
workflows and assembly timeframes, LISI’s
solutions generate savings on its customers’
assembly line. Once you realize that the fasteners
sector is the largest single cost heading within
industrial assembly activities, you get a better
idea of how crucial this research is.
LISI AEROSPACE
Accompanying the A350
assembly lines
The increased demand from LISI AEROSPACE
customers for new product families developed
over the past three years generated strong
R&D support requirements in 2011, especially
the assembly of the first Airbus A350 started.
The division’s teams were in charge of the
serial production of its new fastener systems,
while supporting their implementation on the
assembly lines of aircraft manufacturers. For the
A350, these assignments were for pre-assembly
stages, with CCTF temporary fasteners, and final
assembly with STARLITE™ titanium nuts, the
STL™ system for the assembly of wings, the new
HI-LITE™ fasteners, and finally the laying and
control tools associated with such fasteners.