Presentation on platform issues in commercial aircraft companies Boeing and Airbu

Bador, Damien

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Platform Issues inCommercial Aircraft CompaniesPresented byDamien Bador - MITApril 18th, 2006http://lean.mit.edu © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Damien Bador / 04-18-2006 - 2Damien’s Biography• Master’s student in Aero-Astro and ESD at MIT. Industrial Engineer student at ENSAM Paris.• Joined LAI in Spring, and integrated the Product Lifecycle Team.• Practical work experience during summer internships in aerospace companies in Europe.• Focus on long-term Platform issues in commercial aircraft industry.http://lean.mit.edu © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Damien Bador / 04-18-2006 - 3Interest of Product Families• Reduce the overall development cost of products portfolio.• Reduce lead time of derivative products.• Integrate new technology faster through module improvements.• Increase standardization of the development process.http://lean.mit.edu © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Damien Bador / 04-18-2006 - 4Specificities of Aircraft Industry• Long lead time - Few development projects at the same time.• Few new projects - Increasing specialization of aircraft engineers.• Long product lifecycle - Sequential evolution of products.• Complexity of products - Intricate development process.• Specific requirements - Constraints on integrality / modularity trade-offs.http://lean.mit.edu © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Damien Bador / 04-18-2006 - 5Current State of the Practice• Platforms advantages perceived.Ex: Airbus A320 family.• Need to integrate legacy systems and reframe organization.Ex: duplicated processes resulting from Boeing mergers in the late 1990s.• Unequal integration of platform strategies into more global Product Development reframing.• Platform strategy used to achieve different goals in different enterprises.http://lean.mit.edu © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Damien Bador / 04-18-2006 - 6Observations to dateCommercial AircraftsSources:¾Willcox, Karen and Wakayama, Sean. “Simultaneous Optimization of a Multiple-Aircraft Family.” Reston, VA: Journal of Aircraft, Vol.40, No.4, July-August 2003.¾Nuffort, Matthew R. “Managing Subsystem Commonality.” Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 2001.¾Boeing and Airbus websites (http://www.boeing.com and http://www.airbus.com).- historical concern about product families. Commonality central to its success.- more emphasis on product innovation than on enterprise-level improvements.- production system dispersed across Europe.- recent focus on commonality. Extreme differentiation across aircraft models.- high integration level of enterprise transformation. Top-down strategy.- specialized knowledge scattered across the enterprise.Airbus:Boeing:http://lean.mit.edu © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Damien Bador / 04-18-2006 - 7Developing metricsPercentage of elements reusedSpare parts investment savingsLead time reduction for derivative aircraftsMaintenance productivity increaseProduction tools and machines savingsAircraft training savingsOrganizational(internal point of view)Functional(external point of view)Some propositions:http://lean.mit.edu © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Damien Bador / 04-18-2006 - 8Future Research• How platform strategies should be tailored to the aircraft industry? Current initiatives of main companies (Boeing / Airbus)?• What metrics could be best assess the efficiency of aircraft platforms?• What is the integration of platform strategies in current overall Product Development transformations (ex: Boeing Lean+)?http://lean.mit.edu © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Damien Bador / 04-18-2006 - 9Questions?Damien BadorContact: (617) 253-7633elendil@mit.edu

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