{"id":36835,"date":"2019-04-09T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa1.ats-global.com\/aerospace-smart-manufacturing-systems-expert-joins-ats\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:51:58","slug":"aerospace-smart-manufacturing-systems-expert-joins-ats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/aerospace-smart-manufacturing-systems-expert-joins-ats\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerospace Smart Manufacturing Systems Expert joins ATS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>ATS Global is delighted to announce the appointment of Christopher Biddle to the role of Global Strategic Business Development Director.This is a new role for the organisation which reflects the increasing importance of executing ATS&#8217; business plan through growth in key sectors and geographies and strengthening our penetration into the Aerospace sector.<br \/>\nChris joins us from the Rolls-Royce Group (Aerospace &amp; Defense), where he led the Manufacturing Systems Centre of Competence and recently the creation of the Centre of Digital Competence. In these roles he developed a strong relationship with suppliers and delivered a number of significant transformation programs across the Shop Floor and MES arenas. He also set up a thriving systems community that is driving Rolls-Royce towards their Industry 4.0 vision.<\/p>\n<p><b>Paul Bron<\/b>, CEO at ATS explains: <i>\u00abWith his wealth of knowledge and experience Chris will add real value to our customer deployments. Knowledge is the oxygen we breathe every day to turn our experience into our customer&#8217;s success\u00bb.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Christopher Biddle<\/b>, Global Strategic Business Development Director at ATS explains the strategic importance of the further expansion into the Aerospace Industry. <i>\u00abATS improves continuously its product offering, services and capabilities across all aspects of Industry 4.0, but has built up specific in-depth experience in the Aerospace Industry over the last decades. I would like to bring my experience to bear to guide other aerospace companies as they start upon their manufacturing transformation journey and describe the value proposition of how ATS can support them and realise tangible business benefit.\u00bb<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element in-legacy-container\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" title=\"chris-biddle-150_PR\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/chris-biddle-150_PR.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-54073 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/210;\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Christopher Biddle<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"success_stories_industry":[15744],"business_offerings":[15830],"page_categories":[15670],"knowledge_services":[],"class_list":["post-36835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-it","success_stories_industry-not-industry-specific","business_offerings-others","page_categories-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218099,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36835\/revisions\/218099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36835"},{"taxonomy":"success_stories_industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success_stories_industry?post=36835"},{"taxonomy":"business_offerings","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/business_offerings?post=36835"},{"taxonomy":"page_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_categories?post=36835"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ats-global.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_services?post=36835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}