Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2023

1. Information on the Company’s Activities

1.3 Other corporate activities

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1.3 Other corporate activities

Digital and Information Management at Airbus: Overview Digital and information management (“ Digital ”) has been a key discipline at Airbus for many years. In 2023, the Company continued its digital transformation journey, pursuing new developments and achieving further rationalisations.

– – the initiation of an innovative seamless digital user experience to better engage with employees and customers throughout their digital journey; – –to make the Company more attractive to digital talents worldwide, digital-focused employee career development paths have been created and a cybersecurity masters cohort has been initiated via the Airbus Digital School. This year once again demonstrated the uncertainty and complexity of the world in which the Company operates. In response, Digital aims to help make Airbus more robust and flexible. This aim was advanced through implementation of high grade cybersecurity capabilities and technology shifts such as modern device management (a cloud-based solution allowing for improved user experience and security on smartphones and laptops). These efforts to build resilience reached beyond compliance tools to include export control and, more generally, quality requirements.

Digital continued to address the Company’s challenges and enable Airbus to be a sustainable leader in the aerospace and defence industries. Notable progress during 2023 included: – –further steps toward a more efficient and simplified digital ecosystem, aimed at increasing the Company’s ability to invest in the future. This was achieved through Product Lifecycle Management upgrades, data quality improvements, reworking of resources planning for Operations, and the improvement of our systems’ resilience and performance; – – new digital design, manufacturing, and services deployments. These are now underway for Eurodrone and the A350 freighter, laying a solid foundation for future programmes designed to help kick-start the aerospace industry’s decarbonisation transformation;

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 for DDMS 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 key major achievements within DDMS this year were the following:

(MBSE). With more than 5,500 people trained to utilise these new capabilities in 2023 (compared to 2,500 in 2022), the Company made solid progress towards applying new ways of working to support the current industrial ramp-up, while preparing for the Company’s future developments. 2.New co-development processes, methods and the associated integrated digital environment; progressive deployment on key programmes Single Aisle (A320 Family): Further progress has been made in the digitalisation of the Single Aisle programme, especially in the area of cabin and customisation, and the Single Aisle is now our most advanced commercial aircraft programme in terms of the design and installation of electrical systems. Through implementation of digital continuity and automation in this process, the quality of the design and the overall lead time of the process has been significantly improved. Capabilities of the new Single Aisle Product Lifecycle Management (so-called Lean PLM) have been further enhanced to improve the extended enterprise cooperation with “Design and Build” and “Build to Print” suppliers. The structure assembly industrial process has been stabilised through new process methods and tools for tolerance management. A350 Family: Full digital continuity from Engineering to Manufacturing Engineering through shop floor execution has begun being deployed, which will facilitate workload and lead time reductions in order to support the programme ramp-up. Key contributions have been made as well on the A350 Freighter development, with the deployment of new ways of working and

1. People: transformation & competences A further step was taken in the overall DDMS transformation with a steep ramp-up of change management, upskilling and user adoption in all divisions. A special focus was put on Single Aisle and Future projects in the Airbus Commercial Aircraft business, as well as Eurodrone in Airbus Defence and Space, and Gearbox manufacturing and future projects in Airbus Helicopters. More than 20,000 people have started their upskilling journey either through digital or classroom training sessions in Lean Product Life cycle management, Automated Electrical Design capabilities and Systems Engineering / Model Based Systems Engineering

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