PEI principals and a cadre of its independent education and training consultants have held responsible positions in the aerospace industry and have developed tailored ethics courses for aerospace industry firms. Disciplines PEI can draw from include Business Development and Strategy, Business Management, Finance, Contracts, Estimating, Proposal Development (RFP Response), Audit, Facilities Management, Human Resources, Environmental Management, Safety, Information Technology, Purchasing, Subcontractor Management, Engineering (Design/Development), Manufacturing Operations, Test Operations and a host of other disciplines within the aerospace arena. Most importantly, PEI principals and consultants have experienced the same or similar challenges aerospace workers face everyday such as customer interface and reporting issue cost/quality/schedule issues, design/development issues and so forth. They understand that problems will arise in any state-of-the-art development effort. What PEI emphasizes is a focus or re-focus of the principles of truth telling, promise keeping, respect for property and above all respect for the dignity of those involved in the program, especially when things look bleak or go off-track.

We are particularly good at working with subcontractor firms and their employees who play such an important role (they provide as much as 50% of product components to the "majors") in making product integrity and quality assurance realities in the larger aerospace development and production process.

It is amazing the difference PEI can make when executives, managers and staff rediscover the utility of those basic, fundamental practices and principles that got them to a position of industry prominence. Client employees discover that the "work arounds" or the short-cuts in project management they elected to take may not be the best solution to a problem or issue in the long run. They discover that straight talk with the customer (who really is able to take some bad news) can pay dividends so long as creative people arrive at solutions to overcome the problem presented---and then put these into action.

PEI does not promise everything will always work out in such instances, (we are realists) but we can be convincing that a large measure of integrity in communications between contractor and customer will go a long way toward that end.

If you would like PEI to help you establish such a foundation for your operations in aerospace and for building relations with your customers that will work to achieve common purposes, please contact us directly or email us.