Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2021

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Digital and Information Management at Airbus: Overview

and Services, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Airline Sciences and Augmented Reality. These capabilities have been embedded into the Company’s mainstream activities to create a seamless digital experience. This is vital for the production rate adaptation and also for deliveries. Digitisation brought a wind of change in our mind-sets, and as the world evolves, the strategy does too, to push the boundaries on processes, people, products and services and to capture opportunities. This will further prepare the Company to embrace the challenges of delivering its programmes with highest flexibility, while laying the ground for a sustainable future.

The five years of digital transformation paved the way for Airbus to become an advanced digital company from the early design of its products to the digital services the Company is offering to its Customers. The impact in 2020 and 2021 of the COVID-19 crisis highlighted the need for long-term resilience and business continuity. Digital has enabled newways of working and flexibility, and continuously enhanced our industry. Putting in place strong and modern information management, cybersecurity, data governance and skills was the foundation for reaching this objective. The f ive years of digi tal explorat ion, incubat ion and industrialisation have resulted in mature industrial-grade digital aviation platforms such as Skywise, Digital DesignManufacturing

Digitally Enabled End-to-End Processes

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

– – Eurodrone and FCAS : Major capabilities (including design and configuration management) have been delivered to secure the start of the programme for the Eurodrone. The common working environment has been delivered to the Eurodrone and the FCAS programmes, with a growing base of users and the connection with the extended enterprise. – – H175, H225 and LH programmes : Major contributions with the deployment of digital shop floor solutions in the frame of Meca 4.0 factory in line with the programme milestones. – – ZeroE concept : Delivery of the collaborative development logic for the early phases for the ZeroE concept. Several other capabilities have been delivered notably – System Of Systems (SOS) trades to ease early-stage fact and model- based decision making; industrial design space exploration capability to speed up the industrial architecture phase; top-down modular architecture and commonality policy to accelerate the product lines approach. – – Significant progress has also been made in terms of developing learning solutions and up-skilling teams working on all the above programmes, in order to ease the deployment of the new concepts, capabilities and ways of working. – – On the sustainability front, a digital model has been built to evaluate associated transition risks that might challenge the assumptions for our next generation of developments, such as evolution of travel demand or energy price and availability. This digital model has been recognised and adopted for open and shared development with key financial stakeholders in the OS-Climate consortium.

It is enabled by the definition of collaborative business processes and data continuity across the entire programme lifecycle, 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 and services systems. Furthermore, digital twins will link the product, industrial and operational systems. The mandate is to be launch-ready for the next aircraf t programme, while securing early benefits by progressively deploying the developed processes and capabilities on early – – Single-Aisle Fit for Future : Increased avai labi l ity of 3D-configured Digital Mock Up (DMU), a sharp reduction in the lead-time for cabin and structure heads of version designs and improved quality have been demonstrated. Further, key steps have been made on the information system upgrade for the Single-Aisle programme with the development of lean product lifecycle management. The savings provided by the DDMS capabilities have already been factored into the operation planning for the upcoming years. Lastly, key contributions have been made to secure the solution development of the A321 XLR programme. – – A350 Freighter : Key contributions have been made to secure the opportunity of the programme with solutions such as new airframe sizing, system design, virtual testing and industrial assembly simulation capabilities. adopter programmes in all Divisions. The major achievements this year were:

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