IED Class 11, Tues 2017-10-10

1   Details, details: $6,000,000,000 A380 wiring harness problem

  1. EADS Airbus is a consortium of 16 company sites in 4 countries.
  2. The management culture wasn't fully integrated.
  3. They used different versions of CATIA that couldn't communicate.
  4. The A380 was a major new project.
  5. The wiring harnesses were made in Hamburg.
  6. The fuselages were assembled in Toulouse.
  7. It was discovered in 2006 that the wiring harnesses for the A380 didn't fit into the planes.
  8. Cost: six billion dollars and a two year delay.
  9. Airbus 380.
  10. There are many other stories, this was widely reported.
  11. As we keep saying: you have to learn to work in groups.

2   Today

  1. Here are today's files .
  2. Activity 12-1: Concept generation and selection

3   Thurs

Teams present their concepts to the class.

  1. You may use any presentation format that allows you to give me a PDF hardcopy for my records.
  2. You will use the classroom PC.
  3. Put your presentations on your favorite cloud account.
  4. Also, email me a PDF before the class.
  5. Talk length is 15 minutes.