New Product Introduction — The process for ensuring that an organization utilizes appropriate and reliable methods of launching a new product into the market place on time within budget and ultimately meeting the agreed customer requirements.

Based on current plans the requirement is for services to be provided to up to 24 Aerospace suppliers across the UK as follows:

July 16 - 2 Beneficiaries;

August 16 - 2 Beneficiaries;

September 16 - 2 Beneficiaries;

October 16 - 2 Beneficiaries;

November 16 - 2 Beneficiaries;

December 16 - 2 Beneficiaries;

January 17 - 2 Beneficiaries;

February 17 - 2 Beneficiaries;

March 17 - 2 Beneficiaries;

April 17 - 2 Beneficiaries;

May 17 - 2 Beneficiaries;

June 17 - 2 Beneficiaries.

This current delivery plan is subject to change dependent on the on-boarding of beneficiaries to the programme.

The scope of this service is to include:

• The application of an NPI evaluation to assess the beneficiary suppliers’ internal process against industry standards and to identify

improvement opportunities, with the key deliverables being capability and cost reduction.

• Development of a training plan with the supplier to close any gaps identified by the NPI Evaluation activity;

• Provision of all training material for on-site coaching and support;

• Provision of any formal training courses identified through the diagnostic process;

• Provide a list of available training courses (PFMEA etc.);

• Coaching and informal training of approximately 30 days over a 104 Week period;

• Provision of all labour to carry out the evaluation, formal training and coaching over a period of up to 2 years;

• The vendor’s labour will be expected to work with the Sharing in Growth supplier development teams who will also be working with the supplier;

• Planning assumptions are to be based on an average supplier, but there must be flexibility to be able to adapt to specific local conditions.

The standard approach expected for each beneficiary is as follows:

1) Evaluation that is triggered by the SiG supplier Development Manager;

2) Training Planning;

3) On-site Work stream support;

4) Formal Training.