Episode Description

"Shipping 100,000 components with no quality escalations is not an easy job, especially in the aerospace world where the tolerances are very tight…”

Vishal and Venkatesh, the co-founders of Jeh Aerospace, state this with the quiet confidence of people who understand both the magnitude of the achievement and the stakes involved. In aerospace, even one delayed part can cost airlines hundreds of thousands in grounded flights. Meanwhile, 15,000+ aircraft sit undelivered in backlogs.

The need of the hour in is clear: resilient supply chains that can deliver the right part, at the right quality, at the right time. With 80% of manufacturing concentrated in the US and Europe, these high-cost centres are struggling with an aging workforce retiring faster than it can be replaced.

Jeh Aerospace has positioning itself at the forefront of the global reorganization of aerospace supply chains. After spending two decades building Tata Group's aerospace joint ventures with Boeing and Sikorsky in India, Vishal and Venkatesh saw an opportunity to solve the industry's speed and reliability challenge through software-defined precision manufacturing.

Mayank Khanduja (Partner, Elevation Capital) and Ashray Iyengar (Principal, Elevation Capital) walk through Jeh's state-of-the-art facility in Hyderabad and discuss how the company is redefining aerospace manufacturing for the 21st century.

They explore the Center of Resilience that compresses new product introduction from 15 weeks to 15 days, the Center for Skills that transforms fresh graduates into aerospace manufacturing specialists, and the completely digital factory floor where every component journey is tracked from raw material to shipping.