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By Jeremy Tranmer, Is there a future for Western commercial Aerospace industry? Europe was this week devastated with the news that Airbus is to close all its European plants except its A380 superjumbo line. The economy of Hamburg will be badly affected, but less so than that of Toulouse wher
Bombardier Inc.'s Toronto plant employs an efficiency system developed by Toyota Motor Corp. At first blush, the operations Simon Roberts and Dr. Kevin Smith run could not be more different. Mr. Roberts oversees the construction of some of the most complex aircraft in the world as head of Bomb
More mirthful back-and-forth between Boeing and EADS. Boeing today fired off a rebuttal ad to the EADS “Get Real” ad published right after it got back into the KC-X tanker competition. Boeing also posted this message on its website: Standing Up for the Truth May 25 The Boeing Company has taken our tanker technology trailer to 14 cities in 12 weeks to demonstrate why t
By early 2000, as a result of higher build rates and the development of new aircraft variants, Airbus was challenging itself to improve efficiency in order to achieve shorter lead times and reduced cost. This led to a ‘blue sky vision’ programme focussed on implementing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement within the Broughton facility (wing manufacturing Centre of Excellence). Airbu
Wikipedia Definition • Quality function deployment (QFD) is a “method to transform user demands into design quality, to deploy the functions forming quality, and to deploy methods for achieving the design quality into subsystems and component parts, and ultimately to specific elements of the manufacturing process.”, as described by Dr. Yoji Akao, who originally developed QFD in Japan in 196
By Rob Coppingeron February 10, 2010 (source: Flightglobal) The UK government is to set up a leadership council for the spaceflight industry as it nears a decision on what to name its new space agency. The council will oversee the implementation of recommendations from The UK government is to set up a leadership council for the spaceflight industry as it nears a decision on what to name
9th February 2010, Jeremy Tranmer The MOD Defence Green Paper published earlier this month warns of funding crisis for major weapons projects in a new era of warfare. It pledges just one weapon system to be renewed– the Trident nuclear missile submarine fleet, however, plans to build two new large aircraft carriers are not mentioned . The defence secretary Bob Ainsworth said this government
Kamran Zamir, 27th January 2010 The industry enters 2010 with a high level of uncertainty, however, this recent Flightglobal report provides an interesting backdrop to the forthcoming scheduled EU discussions (10th Feb 2010) when the matter of a Commercial AAR Interim Solution (CAARIS) project will be raised with the 26 EU member states. The findings presented will be based on a 2005 European D
Kamran Zamir, 26th January 2010 Future arms programmes under closer scrutiny to focus defense resources -- dollars, people and leadership attention -- where they are most critically needed. We seek the most 'bang for the buck' -- the best security payoff for every taxpayer dollar invested," said one of the documents. The Pentagon plan also would scrap work on an advanced infrared missile war
Kamran Zamir, 28th January 2010 This collection of recent quotes highlight that the airlines are not satisfied with the performance of either Airbus or Boeing. The critical issue of mis-servicing customer (internal and external) requirements, is rapidly becoming one of the most serious problems affecting the industry today. Notice how Udvar-Hazy’s choice of wording has strengthened over th
On January 21st, 2010 the wings for the aircraft, known as MSN4, arrived on board an Airbus Beluga at the final assembly line in Seville (Spain). The final assembly process for the fourth Airbus Military A400M military airlifter has already begun. The vertical tailplane manufactured in Stade (Germany) is expected in mid-February followed by the fuselage and nose one month later. A40
Recent reuters bulletin reporting that EADS may freeze the drone programme. BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Defence group EADS (EAD.PA), which is already wrestling with European governments over delays and cost over-runs on its A400M military transport plane, is now questioning the future of its drone project Talarion. Should Germany, France and Spain fail to submit binding orders for the Talario
All around Europe's periphery, business is burgeoning at new independent MRO houses and offshoots of the continent's...
By Jeremy Tranmer, Is there a future for Western commercial Aerospace industry? Europe was this week devastated ...
AIRBUS UK Airbus is the only European manufacturer of commercial aircraft, and it is important to set up of the overa...
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