Wed, Oct 10, 2007
Transnational System Means No More Excuses
Representatives with Airbus tell ANN
the European planemaker's management team recently completed a
series of briefing sessions at its major sites in Toulouse,
Hamburg, Filton and Gefafe -- and via world-wide video-conferences
-- dedicated to present and explain the details of the fully
integrated and transnational "New Airbus" organization, which went
live on October 1.
So... what does the "New Airbus" have in store?
"The New Airbus organization is a strong enabler for more and
better integration, cross-border collaboration, faster
decision-making and harmonized tolls and processes," said Airbus
President and CEO Tom Enders.
Digging beneath the PR-speak, what Enders means is from now on,
starting with the planemaker's upcoming A350 XWB program, Airbus
will have one group lead for each major subprogram -- instead of
the previous system, that saw managers from each country in the
aerospace consortium involved in platforms such as wiring, fuselage
design, and engines.
As ANN reported, the previous
system was partly to blame for the most recent delay in the
planemaker's A380 superjumbo program... caused by wiring systems
that did not match up between fuselage segments designed and built
by different plants... each flying a different flag out front.
The new program reduces the number of national "Centers of
Excellence" from seven, to four trans-national entities... a move
Airbus says will reduce many layers of bureaucratic and
nationalistic clutter, leading to clearer accountability and faster
decision-making processes.
"The new leaner and more efficient organization is a key
contributor to the successful implementation of Power8," said
Airbus COO Fabrice Bregier, speaking of the massive restructuring program
now underway at Airbus.
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