August 31, 2006
Crunch in tech-savvy resource pool leads to aviation outsourcing
You might be surprised to hear this, but India, China, and Mexico produce more engineering graduates than the US. So you have a limited resource pool in the US to absorb all aspects in the aviation industry. In this scenario, aviation companies in the US cannot be blamed if they look toward other countries for subassembly help.
It is the age of partnerships, and the aviation industry is not lagging behind in this respect. A major criterion for this trend is the quintessential benefit of outsourcing—it reduces the cost of production and cuts out unnecessary chains in the production cycle
At the General Aviation Technology Conference and Exhibition at Century II sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers, a panel of leading executives in the industry confirmed to engineers that the time is ideal for more partnerships and outsourcing contracts. However, the panel is well aware of the downside of outsourcing:
The devil is always in the details.... Companies must have the digital technology needed to transfer large files. And there must be good communication among engineers in U.S. companies working with those in other places.
The worrying factor for educationalists and aviation industrialists in the US is that there is a perceptible drop in interest in the engineering disciple. The aviation industry can hope to keep engineering jobs within the US only if students get rid of this apathy toward the subject. If this doesn't happen, the specter of outsourcing is bound to cast its spell even darker and deeper in the future.
GrandForks Herald has more.
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