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Challenges for the Aeronautical Industry Aviation Forum, Vienna 2015

Aviation Forum, Vienna 2015

Axel FLAIG

Head of Research & Technology AIRBUS

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Content

• Business Opportunities

• Challenges and Paradigm Shifts

• Airbus Strategy

• Technologies & Future Configurations

• Development and Industrialization Process

• Boosting Innovation and Technology Development


Airbus aircraft are a familiar sight around the world

Presence

- An Airbus takes off

or lands every

2 seconds

15,979+ Aircraft sold

60 Produced monthly

25,000+ Daily flights

9,282 Delivered

September 2015


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Meet the Airbus family from 100 to 500+ seats

The Airbus Family

A320 Family A330 Family A350 XWB A380

The market leader The right aircraft, right now The Xtra that makes a difference Own the sky


Aviation drives our global economy


Growth

- Air traffic doubles

every 15 years

58million

Jobs supported

50million

Tonnes of freight

3billion

Passengers

$2.4trillion

Global GDP annually

Source: ATAG 2014


What are the market opportunities?

Traffic will double in the next 15 years


1,550

22,927

Potential for more than 32,600 deliveries in the next 20 years

20-year General Market Forecast

8,108

32,585 new aircraft

Passenger Transport Demand evolution

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

1972 1977 1982 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007 2012 2017 2022 2027 2032

Air traffic has doubled

every 15 years

Airbus GMF 2015ICAO total traffic

Source: ICAO, Airbus

World annual RPK (trillion)

4.6%

2014-2034

x2



Smart & Efficient mobility

Reduce Environmental impact

What are the key challenges?

Strengthen European leadership

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More and more Aviation Mega Cities ….

New challenges or new opportunities?

91 Mega cities

2034 forecast

Typical Mega City demography:

More than 10 Million people; Up to 400 Nm wide

Potential new market for regional transport

Source: WWW


Customer needs are changing

New challenges or new opportunities?

Typical ram-up curve…

INDIGO 530

AIRASIA 475

LUFTHANSA 469

EASYJET 415

US AIRWAYS 261

A320 customers….

(total orders)

Industrial ramp-up and maturity

CEAS, 7th September 2015 Delft

2012 2013

Flight TestDevelopment Customer deliveries

A350 production ramp-up

2014 2015 2016 2017

Rate 1

Rate 2

To Rate 10



What do we need to stay competitive?


Reduce cost (RC and NRC) & Leadtime

• Improve performances

(aerodynamic, weight, propulsion)

• Increase cabin productivity

Increase Customer Value

• Non Recurrent Cost (development process)

• Recurrent cost (manufacturing)


Derivatives

Efficiency New products

2050 2010 2030

The AIRBUS strategy

Incremental

Innovation

Disruptive

Concepts


Balance between incremental and breakthrough


Strategic roadmaps: Ultra efficient engines


Ultra efficient engines

Advanced

turbofan Hybrid propulsion

Long-term Mid-term Short-term

CROR


Strategic roadmaps: Aerodynamic efficiency


Aerodynamic efficiency

Sharklet Future concepts


Laminar flow

Riblets


Strategic roadmaps: More efficient operations


More Efficient operations


Innovative

cockpit Formation flight

Future ATM

Green trajectories


Strategic roadmaps: Systems and avionics


Systems and avionics


More

Electrical Aircraft

Integrated Modular

Avionic 2nd Generation

E-taxi

https://airbus-photolib.keepeek.com/airbus/media/ELECTRICAL_CABLE_CLOSE_UP/146397/;jsessionid=C02F9955C42BCEE32D029600F00B2502.prem2

https://airbus-photolib.keepeek.com/airbus/media/A320_ELECTRIC_GREEN_TAXIING_SYSTEM_-_LANDING_GEAR_WHEELS_CLOSE_UP/137440/


Strategic roadmaps: Advanced materials & manufacturing


Advanced material


Composite &

metallic

technologies

Termoplastic

Dry fibber

Out of autoclave CFRP

Electrical Network

Printing


Strategic roadmaps: Innovative structures


Innovative structures


ALM

Bionic

structure

Fully integrated

fuselage


New Paradigm for Development and Industrialization


Seamless Digital Development and Industrialization process

Detailed Digital A/C

Virtual Testing

Model based

Muti-disciplinary Optimization

& Component Design

Virtual Product Development Digital Factory


Boosting Innovation


SPRINTs

Technologies

Speed and ambition SPRINTs

Business needs

Accelerated techno

maturation

Pull for

innovative ideas

Universities

REs

Suppliers

…


Summary

• Growing global business potentials for the European Aeronautical Industry.

• Minimizing environmental impact and overcoming congestion on ground and air

are key for sustaining the growth.

• Production rates beyond 50 A/C per month are changing the entire industrial system

incl. supply chain.

• Airbus follows a 2 fold strategy for maximizing customer value and competitiveness

of existing products while preparing the next “Game-changer”.

• New propulsion systems will open the design space for novel configurations.

• Significant increase in effort & resources are required for wider exploration and

maturation of break-through technologies & novel configurations.

• A seamlessly integrated “Virtual Development and Industrialization Process”

shortens development time and secures steep ramp-up of production.




Make Technology Fly



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