Dassault Aviation Accelerates Its Digital Transformation With Capgemini

Dassault Aviation and Capgemini today announced the successful deployment and commissioning of a new software foundation using SAP solutions at all of the aircraft manufacturers' French industrial sites.

Jean Sass, Executive Vice President, IT, and Chief Digital Officer, Dassault Aviation, said, "This project marks a turning point in our organic and digital transformation towards a more integrated, coherent operation and therefore ultimately towards better performance for the various professions involved.“Despite the global health crisis, we have achieved our objectives. We worked with Capgemini with great trust; they have been agile, constructive, and competent. We will continue our transformation from this solid base to optimize our industrial performance and meet our clients’ expectations."

Hélène Chinal, Chief Transformation Officer Southern and Central Europe at Capgemini, said, "We are proud to have contributed to the digital transformation of a major aerospace company by implementing cutting-edge technologies. Dassault Aviation had a strong desire to accelerate its transformation program and we combined our talents and know-how to build the best system to meet their needs."

As per the official statement, this project is a part of the Piloting our Future program, the Dassault Aviation transformation plan launched five years ago, aimed at modernizing infrastructures and processes and improving the group's competitiveness.

It also revealed that it represents the achievement of the first major phase in the transformation of the technology being used for managing operations.

Dassault Aviation sought Capgemini’s expertise in managing major transformation programs of information systems for this first modernization stage aimed at having a real-time production cost piloting process.

Around 130 people over four years were mobilized to put in place a new methodological framework, new collaborative platforms as well as modernized infrastructures, and a means of monitoring each stage of the manufacturing process while enabling accelerated production rates for both the civil and military programs.