Airbus - 2022 Universal Registration Document

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Digital and Information Management at Airbus: Overview

Digital and Information Management has been a core discipline for Airbus over a number of years. 2022 saw the continuation of the previously initiated digital transformation, together with new developments and further rationalisations. Digital continued to answer company challenges and to enable Airbus to be a sustainable aerospace and defence leader. This included: – A more efficient and simplified digital ecosystem to increase capacity to invest for the future. This was possible with the single aisle family production ramp up assistance via the PLM upgrades, data quality improvements, reworking of the resources planning for Operations and technical debt eradication. – New digital design, manufacturing and services deployments. These are now running for Eurodrone and the A350 Freighter, establishing a solid groundwork for future programmes to

enable the kick start of aerospace industry decarbonation transformation. –An initiation of seamless digital user experience to better engage with our employees and customers with innovation and acceleration over the digital journey. –People career development paths creation, including the opening of the Airbus Digital School and its first cybersecurity diploma class to make our Company attractive worldwide for digital talents acquisition. 2022 showed once again the uncertainty and complexity of the world we operate in. In response to this, Digital aims to make Airbus both robust and flexible. This was implemented with high industrial grade cybersecurity capabilities and technology shifts like modern devices management. This resilience also went beyond compliance to include export control and more generally quality requirements. –New co-development processes, digital continuity and digital twin technologies progressive deployment on key programmes across the Divisions and the aerostructure a s se m b l y c ompanie s: Single Aisle: Major achievements include increased availability of 3D-configured Digital Mock Up (DMU), a sharp reduction in the lead-time of the heads of version design and improved quality thanks to the implementation of a digital continuity on the associated processes from offer to services. The new information system upgrade for the single aisle programme (so called Lean PLM) has been deployed as planned. The savings provided by the DDMS capabilities materialised. Lastly, key contributions have been made to secure the solution development of the A321 XLR programme. A350 Freighter: Key contributions have been made with the deployment of new ways of working and digital solutions for airframe sizing, system design, virtual testing, and industrial assembly design and simulation. Further digital solutions ensuring full digital continuity between design and shop floor execution are being deployed for the new main deck cargo door and the fuselage assembly at the major component and final assembly line level. Eurodrone and FCAS: The common working environment with integrated digital solutions was deployed from the beginning for the Eurodrone development. More than 2,000 users have been upskilled and onboarded in this digital way of working. The FCAS Phase 1B development will rely on the same platform enhanced with additional capabilities under development.

Digitally Enabled End-to-End Processes

Digital Design, Manufacturing and Services (“DDMS”) DDMS is a group-wide transformation programme aimed at creating a digital environment where our future generation aerospace products and their industrial and support / services systems will be virtually designed and qualified in a connected way for greater speed, efficiency and quality.

It is enabled by the definition of collaborative development processes, digital continuity and digital twins across the entire programme lifecycle. It also relies on the use of model-based system engineering and the application of a flexible and modular architecture approach to the co-development of our products, industrial and support / services systems. The mandate is to be launch-ready for the next aircraft programme, while securing early benefits by progressively deploying the developed processes and capabilities on early

adopter programmes in all the Divisions. The major achievements in 2022 were: – People: transformation & competences

One more step was taken into the overall DDMS transformation with a steep ramp-up of change management and upskilling plans implementation. A special focus was put on Single Aisle and Eurodrone with the deployment of the Lean product life cycle management capabilities, Systems Engineering / Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). More than 20,000 people have started their upskilling journey either through digital or classroom training sessions.

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