Many of the problems plaguing the airline industry are also plaguing other industries. The underlying cause is also the same-they've lost sight of basic principles.
Lockheed Martin plans to increase productivity and product quality while reducing overall costs for manufacturing activity by implementing electronic work instructions.
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.