Thales
Thales is a world class designer and manufacturer of electro-optical equipment and systems, providing innovative, next generation optronics solutions to meet a broad spectrum of defence requirements on land, at sea and in the air. The company prides itself for being at the leading edge of the defence sector and providing high quality customer service. Thales has a reputation for high quality optronic solutions that not only set the market pace, but also create solutions based on the foundations of low energy consumption, effectiveness and reliability. Globally, the company is heavily involved in a significant number of defence and commercial programmes, and has the expertise to meet even the most demanding specifications required by clients.
What doesThales do?
Thales is a global electronics and systems group, serving defence, aerospace and security markets worldwide, supported by a comprehensive services offering.
Forty percent of their Glasgow workforce are engineers and scientists.
The company's key engineering capabilities encompass:
- Electro-optic protection measures
- Solid state lasers
- Stabilisation and servo control
- Man machine interface
- Infra red sensors
- Data/image fusion
Thale's successes
Thales has significant expertise in designing and producing a range of navigation, surveillance and targeting systems.
In addition to its continuous evolution of products through innovation, Thales is also rolling out a key project that aims to boost its productivity.
The Thales Supply Chain Group Project will deliver productivity growth rates across the entire supply chain of companies involved in a single product.
Increased productivity
The company has succeeded in increasing productivity rates by 33 percent and value add per employee by 39 percent.
It is a UK pilot for the development and implementation of “lean thinking” principles across a supply chain and the results will be used as a model of best practice across the industry.
New opportunities
Thales' initiative is transforming their business processes as well as their customer and supplier businesses.
This has been the catalyst that has allowed their company to drive forward significant productivity gains which has in turn led to new opportunities for the future for both the company and their suppliers.
Thales Optronics forms part of a major global company network and can draw on the support of a wide range of expertise and service that will enhance the final product and service offered to clients.