R+D+i

WEC invests heavily on R&D as a source of sustainability and long term competitiveness, through the active participation on R&D programs.

For instance, WEC is currently involved, as an Associate Company, on the OPENAER Project (a CENIT type project, developed by the Spanish CDTI, Consorcios Estratégicos Nacionales de Investigación Técnica) : New Aircraft and Engine Configurations for the future Air Transport System.

By its participation on this Project, WEC is positioning as a major reference in terms of new technologies development. This preferential position will lead WEC to become an influent industrial actor for the future aircraft and engine configurations.

Development

Our engineering cross-functional teams manage the industrialisation and production of any new parts or packages throughout the whole development and product life cycle.

These teams are responsible for the whole Chain Value, from tooling design and up to the necessary investments in production means.

Design

WEC has the necessary design capacities to tackle any further design projects jointly with our customers. These capacities are supported by CATIA v5 design software package. As an example, WEC has extensive knowledge in editing detailed definition drawings starting from our customers’ draft models, following special design procedures that are qualified by our customers.

Manufacturing

Our mixed production capacities enable WEC to design and set up performance processes that are oriented by Lean manufacturing principles.

Our flexible production means (laser cutting, press-brake forming, weldings, etc.) rally with fix means (press forming, etc.) in order to ensure increasingly tighter production cycles, in sum, flexibility and reduced lead times for our clients.

In our workshop, all resources, both human and technical, are set up on a basis of self-managed working cells that perform their processes segmented by clients or by products.