Assembly in Action: Aircraft Gets Orderly With Software
When Airbus decided to change its hardware platform. It chose Hewlett-Packard Co. as its vendor, with Computer Sciences Corp. providing consultancy and hardware implementation, and SAP UK assisting in data migration to the new HP-UX platform.
Building the world's largest passenger aircraft is a daunting task for Airbus (Toulouse, France). The new plane, the A380, is scheduled to go into full production in 2005. The wings are being assembled in England, the fuselage in Germany and the cockpit in Spain. But building the plane was made even more difficult because of the company's global manufacturing operations and its increasing database.