Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order

Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by JoeAltmaier on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:35AM (#16177272)

Facilities are part of the equation. But people have to be trained and measured and certified. Those processes have to be designed and documented. The population needed for any process varies with the task - it'd be a coincidence if it was the same for a different pipeline.

And the facility is full of jigs and benches and tools and doorways and props and a million things that are bespoke to a process too.

Making very complicated things isn't the same as making toasters.

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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by alkonaut on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:40AM (#16177319)

I get its terrifying complexity here - and lots of it is bespoke (and international, but outsourced parts probably helps in this case as it becomes someone else’s problem). But when e.g a car manufacturer makes 2 new models they try to keep many components similar. Planes aren’t cars but you’d think at least some systems are common to both A350 and A380.

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