Aerospace Industry Outlook
Defense offsets and changing patterns
Right talent key to propel the growth Aerospace
Industry and Academia: Common goals but operate in isolation
Industry Academia alignment inevitable
Initiatives of UPES for development of Aerospace Talent
Conclusion
The Aerospace sector in India is comparatively fragmented and has three major segments: a. Defence b. Civil Aviation & C. Space
CII estimates total value of Aerospace Industry in India is USD 10-15 Billion
3. Defense:
Union Budget of India outlays 40.44 billion USD for defense expenditure in 2012-13 making India in top 10 country in terms of defence expenditure
Capital investment of INR 9400 crore during the 12th FY plan in comparison to INR1400 crore in11th five year plan. (click on Picture 1)
4. Civil Aviation:
Domestic Pax @15.9% & International Pax @ 10.4% CAGR from 2003-12
Total freight handled at Indian airport @ 10.9% CAGR from 2007-12
India’s aircraft fleet must quadruple by 2031 to keep pace with passenger growth (click on Picture 2)
Planning commission forecasts Indian airports will be handling 270 million Pax by end of 12th Five year plan (click on Picture 3)
5. Space:
12th FY plan has allocated INR 55,000 crore to Department of Space in comparison to INR 30, 883 crore in 11th FY plan
The Aerospace sector in India is comparatively fragmented and has three major segments: a. Defence b. Civil Aviation & C. Space
CII estimates total value of Aerospace Industry in India is USD 10-15 Billion
3. Defense:
Union Budget of India outlays 40.44 billion USD for defense expenditure in 2012-13 making India in top 10 country in terms of defence expenditure
Capital investment of INR 9400 crore during the 12th FY plan in comparison to INR1400 crore in11th five year plan. (click on Picture 1)
4. Civil Aviation:
Domestic Pax @15.9% & International Pax @ 10.4% CAGR from 2003-12
Total freight handled at Indian airport @ 10.9% CAGR from 2007-12
India’s aircraft fleet must quadruple by 2031 to keep pace with passenger growth (click on Picture 2)
Planning commission forecasts Indian airports will be handling 270 million Pax by end of 12th Five year plan (click on Picture 3)
5. Space:
12th FY plan has allocated INR 55,000 crore to Department of Space in comparison to INR 30, 883 crore in 11th FY plan
Government through its defense offset policy requires a minimum of 30% plough back of Forex outflow.
By the year 2017 offset can bring investment up to USD 10-20 billion. (Click picture 1)
EADS has signed 25 initial pacts with Indian companies and JV with L&T to meet the potential offsets requirements and is going to outsource USD 136 million business in India
Boeing plans to buy aerospace structures and aviation electronic product worth USD 600 million from seven Indian companies as a part of offset against winning USD 2.1 billion contract to supply 8 P-81 reconnaissance planes to Indian Navy. In next 10 years boeing plans to bid for USD 20 billion worth of defense aircraft order.
Leading Indian companies Reliance,Tata, Mahindra, Bharat Earth Movers, Wipro, HCL & HAL are enhancing their defense offering to move up the value chain which is encouraging for foreign companies to outsource not only work related to IT or System but also of manufacturing.
Reliance has announced to invest USD 1 billion to employ 1500 people research, design, develop and manufacture airframes, engines, radars, avionics and accessories for military and civilian aircraft, helicopters, unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVS).
As per HAL five year perspective plan the manpower requirement will reach from present level of 34000 to 42500
Government through its defense offset policy requires a minimum of 30% plough back of Forex outflow.
By the year 2017 offset can bring investment up to USD 10-20 billion. (Click picture 1)
EADS has signed 25 initial pacts with Indian companies and JV with L&T to meet the potential offsets requirements and is going to outsource USD 136 million business in India
Boeing plans to buy aerospace structures and aviation electronic product worth USD 600 million from seven Indian companies as a part of offset against winning USD 2.1 billion contract to supply 8 P-81 reconnaissance planes to Indian Navy. In next 10 years boeing plans to bid for USD 20 billion worth of defense aircraft order.
Leading Indian companies Reliance,Tata, Mahindra, Bharat Earth Movers, Wipro, HCL & HAL are enhancing their defense offering to move up the value chain which is encouraging for foreign companies to outsource not only work related to IT or System but also of manufacturing.
Reliance has announced to invest USD 1 billion to employ 1500 people research, design, develop and manufacture airframes, engines, radars, avionics and accessories for military and civilian aircraft, helicopters, unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVS).
As per HAL five year perspective plan the manpower requirement will reach from present level of 34000 to 42500
Now to take advantages of upcoming huge investments fostering of right talent is the key to success.
We need to prepare human resource who are capable to contribute in the areas of Materials technology, Manufacturing technology, Computational fluid dynamics, Aircraft control and dynamics, Aeroelasticity analysis and Multi-disciplinary optimization. (Click on hyperlink)
Already facing acute shortage of skilled manpower for the growth of civil aviation Industry in India. (Click on Picture)
4. Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Institutes
77 Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) approved AME institutes producing around 5,000 engineers per year
As these engineers do not have experience on heavy plane generally absorbed as technicians. Acute shortage of type rated license holders
5. Aerospace Engineering Institutes
About 150+ institutes are offering aerospace engineering courses but only few institute offers quality education
Industry wants qualified Graduates and Academia wants employment for their graduates but less interaction of both jeopardizes their common goal.
There are several creative ways to align activities between Industry and Academia for their common goal
Academia launches the tailored courses as per specific need of industry
Train the trainers i.e. faculty to be trained by industry so that academia produces qualified graduates
Academia not only award certificates but also focus on competency based skill development of their graduates
Design lifelong career development plan for graduates
Training labs at academia must be comparable to industry
Academia research centres engaged in knowledge generation and giving leads to R & D organizations for specific product development
UPES is amongst a group of very select institutes in India providing unique courses in the field of aerospace
The basket of programmes in the domain of Aerospace being offered by UPES are:
M Tech Computational Fluid Dynamics, a course with advanced aerodynamics and programming for numerical analysis
B Tech Aerospace Engineering, a unique combined course in aeronautical, space science and avionics
B Tech Aerospace Engineering (with specialization in Avionics) Engineering designed to specific areas of aerospace and avionics integrating key concepts and techniques from the field of aeronautics, electronics and instrumentation
The Aerospace laboratories at UPES are equipped to cater specific requirement in the field of Aero Modeling & Fabrication, Aerodynamics, Fluid mechanics, Avionics, propulsion and structure
Our students have bagged the
NASA System Engineering Award,
CANSAT International award,
National Aerospace Olympiad,
IREC 2013 International competition award &
Qualified for Google Lunar X prize
1. While a respectable amount of independence has been attained in space technology, India’s dependence on foreign technology in Aircraft (defense and civil) remains a matter of national concern as cost of importing these technologies is prohibitive
2. A close cooperation between Industry, R&D organization and Academia is to be forged. Where the academia contributes knowledge generation, the R&D organization engage in specific product developments and industry focus on mass production