IED Class 11, Tues 2017-10-10
Table of contents
1 Details, details: $6,000,000,000 A380 wiring harness problem
- EADS Airbus is a consortium of 16 company sites in 4 countries.
- The management culture wasn't fully integrated.
- They used different versions of CATIA that couldn't communicate.
- The A380 was a major new project.
- The wiring harnesses were made in Hamburg.
- The fuselages were assembled in Toulouse.
- It was discovered in 2006 that the wiring harnesses for the A380 didn't fit into the planes.
- Cost: six billion dollars and a two year delay.
- Airbus 380.
- There are many other stories, this was widely reported.
- As we keep saying: you have to learn to work in groups.
2 Today
- Here are today's files .
- Activity 12-1: Concept generation and selection
3 Thurs
Teams present their concepts to the class.
- You may use any presentation format that allows you to give me a PDF hardcopy for my records.
- You will use the classroom PC.
- Put your presentations on your favorite cloud account.
- Also, email me a PDF before the class.
- Talk length is 15 minutes.