Digital depot and fleet command

摘要

Pratt & Whitney Military Engines recently took a strategic decision -for cost reasons, one which required the division to justify its thinking thoroughly to the top management echelons of Pratt b Whitney and its parent United Technologies - to establish a S2 billion military engine spares holding. Noting that Pratt & Whitney today is in the best business cycle it has ever seen, with P&W Military Engines, P&W Commercial Engines and Pratt & Whitney Canada's small-engine business "all growing at top-line rates", Kevin Kirkpatrick, P&W Military Engines' VP sustainment, said of the spares holding decision: "We're loading material we know we're going to sell." The $2 billion figure represents "a number that's required to keep them (the division's military customers] flying and a number that applies across the board to [include its] international customers."