Supply chain impacts - Avidyne

n144sh

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From Avidyne forums below. It would be good to hear from Dynon as to any supply chain impacts they are seeing.


Valued Customers:

Like all manufacturers of electronic products, Avidyne has been subjected to unprecedented supply chain challenges in recent months. Despite our best efforts to maintain our costs and availability of components, including ordering our electronic components more than 52 weeks in advance of our production need dates, we have been subject to frequent supplier decommit to our orders. This situation is very dynamic, with new component shortages and price increases occurring daily.

To give you an example of the challenges we face, we have a long-term purchase agreement for a particular component used on Avidyne’s IFD and Skytrax products. The supplier of that component recently informed us that despite our long-term supply agreement, they would be unable to commit to suppling any more until at least 2024. We were fortunate to locate an alternative source for a limited number of this particular component that allows us to cover our expected production of the affected products through 2022, but for an increase in price of over 500% of what we were previously paying. This increase in the cost of an already-expensive component, with no advance notice, is unfortunately not unlike the increases that we have seen for many of the components in our products in recent months.
To address these challenges, and to make our best efforts to continue predictable price and availability of all of our products, Avidyne is taking the following actions with immediate effect:

• We will honor all purchase orders received and accepted prior
to today for shipment in 2021.

• All promotions are suspended.

• All new purchase orders going forward and orders scheduled in 2022 will be subject to a temporary Component Cost Increase Surcharge. We will establish these surcharges at the beginning of each month. When we accept a purchase order, we will confirm the price and delivery of that order, or we will provide our best estimate of our timeframe for delivery. Please confirm this surcharge amount with your dealer.

As of the date of this post, all Avidyne products as well as the NGT9000 are in stock and available to order. However, despite our best efforts, we may be subject to unexpected interruptions in the availability of our products in coming months. To avoid being impacted by shortages, we very strongly recommend ordering equipment for your planned installations as soon as possible.
We understand and regret the inconvenience of these changes. During this period of supply chain challenges, it will continue to be Avidyne’s objective to supply each order that we accept at the quoted price and on the quoted delivery date. Be assured we are working as hard as possible to mitigate future surcharges and potential supply interruptions. We will communicate future surcharge changes and any product supply interruption information as soon as possible.

Feel free to reach out to marketing@avidyne.com with any questions.
 

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Supply chain is hard for any electronics manufacturer right now. We don't have a comprehensive update to share at the moment, but relatively speaking (see some of the other announcements of late), that's a good thing!
 

n144sh

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Thanks Dynon, do you have any update on when you might be able to ship certified HDX units? It would be nice to have a forecast for these backordered (critical) items.
 

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I wish we could be more specific, but, it's tied to the Bonanza 36 approval, which is due shortly (again, wish we had a more specific date). The last rounds of back and forth with the FAA as we gain final approval are taking longer than we'd anticipated. The backstory is that supply chain issues with Dynon Certified (PMA) HDX displays components forced us to modify some internal components. These changes do not affect compatibility, performance, installation, and do not change the product in any way as far as the customer experience is concerned. However, these changes do require FAA certification.
 

n144sh

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Thanks, appreciate the update and information. Is there any way to separate the HDX from the B36 approval? Not getting AP approved is disappointing in the time it takes, but having customers planes down waiting on displays so they are grounded is a more serious issue.
 

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If you change the color of the box there's a six month FAA approval process. It's not Dynon's fault.
 
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Took over 3 months sitting on an FAA pencil pushers desk just to get the registration changed on the newly purchased Cherokee.

When dealing with government things cost 10 times as much and take 10 times as long as even your most pessimistic predictions for no reason whatsoever other than "it's government".
 

n144sh

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I wish we could be more specific, but, it's tied to the Bonanza 36 approval, which is due shortly (again, wish we had a more specific date). The last rounds of back and forth with the FAA as we gain final approval are taking longer than we'd anticipated. The backstory is that supply chain issues with Dynon Certified (PMA) HDX displays components forced us to modify some internal components. These changes do not affect compatibility, performance, installation, and do not change the product in any way as far as the customer experience is concerned. However, these changes do require FAA certification.

Any update on certified shipments? Is there anything we can do to help as customers? Call or mail representatives or FAA?
 
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