Avio Aerospace Case Study
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The document details a successful cost-cutting initiative by Aviogroup in the aerospace industry through the implementation of Open IT's software usage metering solutions. Key findings from the project's phases revealed a 40% reduction in yearly costs during Phase 1 and an additional 14% in Phase 2, resulting in a total cost reduction of 47%. The project achieved significant efficiency improvements and established a framework for future optimization across additional applications and locations.
Avio Aerospace Case Study
- 1. Cutting costs by metering engineering applications usage: a real life success story in the aerospace industry Enrico Girotto, Aviogroup Massimo Dal Vecchio, Open iT Francesco Dipasquale, Polimatica Turin, October 28th 2009
- 2. Managing Software Costs Open iT, Polimatica and Aviogroup Aviogroup Requirements The solution Phase 1 Phase 2 Results Next steps Conclusions
- 3. Open iT Mission: Enable companies to optimize their IT resources. Leading worldwide vendor of enterprise IT resource usage metering and optimization solutions: LICENSEAnalyzer速 LICENSEOptimizer速 SYSTEMAnalyzer速 Visit us on the web: www.openit.com
- 4. Open iT Key Figures Worldwide presence: USA Houston, TX Europe UK, Germany, Norway Far East Philippines Reference markets Oil & Gas Aerospace, Automotive, Hi-Tech Engineering, EDA Serving most of the Fortune 500 companies
- 5. Polimatica An ITC solution provider and consulting company founded in 1982 Active in the following market sectors: IT Security & Business Continuity Cost Reduction on IT infrastructure and IT asset PDM/PLM & Content Management Systems Supply Chain Management and Execution Turn Key Custom Projects & Developments on Embedded and Real Time Systems
- 6. Polimatica - Key Figures Turnover: 3,8 M (2008 Fiscal Year) People: 58 Highly skilled engineers and professionals Partnerships: Strong relationships with all market leaders in the relevant ITC industries Visit our website: www.polimatica.it
- 7. Aviogroup Business Activities CIVIL Modules and Components for civil aviation aeroengines & aeroderivative engines GEnx MILITARY Complete propulsion systems and services Space propulsion & LEO EJ200 SPACE Launchers (solid & liquid) CIVIL Civil aeroengine MR&O MR&O Vega Maintenance
- 8. Aviogroup The companies Subsidiaries - Regulus 60% - Europropulsion 50% - ELV 70% - ATLA 30% - Avio Inc. 100% Avio Group - Eurojet 21% - Avio Polska 100% - Turbo Union 20% - Secosvim 100% Companies - Arianespace 8% - DutchAero 80% - Cira 5.30% - AvioFix 86.9% - Getti Speciali 100% - DutchAero Services B.V 80% - Polonia AeroeLaboratory Sp.zo.o. 59%
- 9. Aviogroup Worldwide Locations 7 in Italy: Turin (3), Colleferro (Rome), Brindisi, Pomigliano dArco (Naples), Acerra (Naples) 2 in South America: (French Guyana) 1 in the Netherlands: (Eindhoven) 1 in Poland: (Bielsko-Biala)
- 10. Aviogroup Locations in Italy Sangone (Turin) Rivalta di Torino (Turin) Covered area m212.200 Covered area m 163.000 2 94 people 1765 people Developement Testing: Mechanical Transmissions Engine, components Rotating Parts Getti Speciali Borgaretto (Turin) Covered area m2 22.000 226 people Casts for aeronautical components Colleferro (Rome) Brindisi Covered area m 157.918 470 people 2 Covered area m248.403 642 people Space Solid Propulsion Military engine assembly Military MRO, Naval Package Pomigliano dArco (Naples) Covered area m284.418 772 people Acerra (Naples) Combustors, Structural Parts Covered area m236.309 362 people Civil MRO Airfoils
- 11. Aviogroup Requirements Key priority Getting actual data on SW resources usage was becoming essential and "in-house" or existing commercial solutions were not holding up to cost and feature constraints The starting point We were looking for a supported product working with multiple License Manager vendors We needed flexible and powerful analysis capabilities Our target was to implement optimization strategies
- 12. Aviogroup Engineering IT infrastructure Open)iT Centralized Server Bielsko Biala Rivalta di LM Server Torino (Torino) LM Server LM Server Colleferro (Roma) Brindisi Acerra (Napoli) Pomigliano dArco (Napoli)
- 13. Aviogroup Engineering SW Portfolio Application License Server Simlab FlexLM CFX FlexLM AmathLab FlexLM Fieldview FlexLM Flowmaster FlexLM Euclid3 FlexLM Autodesk FlexLM Numeca FlexLM MathCad FlexLM HyperMesh FlexLM Siemens UGS FlexLM CATIA/Smarteam LUM
- 14. The solution After evaluating the alternatives we: Selected the Open iT platform Enrolled Polimatica for helping in the project The project: License Managers (FlexLM, LUM & Sentinel) were instrumented with the LICENSEAnalyzer速 Workstations and Pcs were instrumented with LICENSEOptimizer速 and SYSTEMAnalyzer速 A single, centralized, database started to log all the data
- 15. The Project Select the group of users to be involved Install Open iT on a dedicated centralized server Start system's instrumentation Deploy the LICENSEAnalyzer速 client on 13 License Servers Deploy the SYSTEMAnalizer速 data acquisition module on 500 clients (workstations & Pcs) Define the methodology for the analysis and the required reports
- 16. Key Reports: Max Concurrent Used Licenses
- 17. Key Reports: Run Time at Concurrency Level
- 18. Phase 1 The target is to find actual usage levels and patterns The initial focus is on: LICENSEAnalyzer速 This module collects and analyzes application license usage providing insight on several utilization metrics. SYSTEMAnalyzer速 This module collects and analyzes how HW and other system resources are used on each client providing insight on actual system obsolescence and on local applications usage
- 19. Phase 1 Findings: Actual Level of Concurrency MAX AVAILABLE CONCURRENT LICENSES 64 Max Concurrent Licenses Used between July 2007 and July 2008 46
- 20. Phase 1 Findings: Run Time Distribution
- 21. Phase 2 The target is implementing optimizing actions The focus is on LICENSEAOptimizer速 This module detects active application usage. Inactive applications can be suspended and forced to release the acquired license It allows for enforcing a better usage policy resulting in a faster circulation of available licenses among users. This policy can be fine tuned to assign different levels of service to different user groups
- 22. Phase 2: The Targets The target is to define the optimal number of licenses in the following scenario: Achieve the maximum efficiency level Acknowledge a 15% increase in demand forecast by the business Grant the same service level without any impact on the users
- 23. Phase 2: The Optimal Number of Licenses MAX CONCURRENT LICENSES AVAILABLE 64 Max Number of Concurrent Licenses forecast for 2009 (15% increase over actual 2008) 53 Max Concurrent Licenses Used between July 2007 and July 2008 46 Optimized Number of Concurrent Licenses Required for 2009 (assumes 15 licenses being reclaimed by LICENSEOptimizer速) 38
- 24. Phase 2: Checking the Impact 38
- 25. Project Results Phase 1: 40% reduction in yearly costs/engineering apps Phase 2: 15% increase in the user demand 14% further reduction in yearly costs Total yearly cost reduction achieved: - 47% Project Payback: Less than 6 months
- 26. Next Steps Extend the metering to: More Engineering application Other locations worldwide Leverage available historical data for: Finding further areas of savings Optimizing office productivity application usage Implementing active HW obsolescence policies
- 27. Conclusions Open iT proved to be a valuable tool High ROI Fast Pay Back Effective Open iT long term benefits are just emerging A comprehensive database enables further discoveries Support for a wide range of metrics allows to address many sides of IT infrastructure optimization