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 European aircraft manufacturer

 Major delays completing its A380

 Implemented the biggest private sector RFID

deal ever

http://youtube/m2Dka1B1KVk?t=18s

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 Airbus was looking for the way to:
 increase productivity
 reduce cost
 make its production process more efficient.

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 RFID
 What is it?
◦ Radio Frequency Identification
 How does it work?

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 RFID is using as a business radar
◦ let (them) see what's going on faster and in real
time so (they) can make the right decisions faster."
(Gaudin, 2008)

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 Airbus uses RFID in:
Minimize unplanned maintenance Manage and reduce airline parts
and detect malfunction early inventories

Manage and reduce airline parts Ensure that the correct part is
inventories being used in the right place

Mechanics can access document,

Identify and track tool location,
task, and parts data, and locate
usage history, and repair
and track approved spare parts in
requirements
real time

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 a reduction in inventory, capital assets and
stock reconciliations
 increased labour productivity
 supplier monitoring
 improved supplier delivery performance
 reduce their costs of production,
maintenance and inventory
 reduced 8% incorrect deliveries

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Opportunities:

 increase productivity

 reduce costs

 make its production process more efficient

 Boeing Competition

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RFID:
a) Software infrastructure

b) Readers

c) Tags

Turban, E., & Volonino, L. (2009). Information Technology for Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &
Sons Inc.

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 Conference held April 16-18, Las Vegas,
Nevada
-won the best company RFID implementation
award at the 2008 U.S. held April 16-18.

- comprehensive approach to deploying RFID

company-wide, its pilot & implementation
results, and its focus on delivering quick value
to the company and its value chain partners.
http://www.airbus.com/newsevents/news-events-single/detail/airbus-wins-radio-frequency-
identification-rfid-award/

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 An RFID is a system that transmits the identity of
an object or person wirelessly, using radio waves

 RFID’s can be used for

◦ Supply chain management
◦ Membership admission/access control
◦ Work in Progress (WIP)
◦ Vehicle Tracking
◦ Asset Tracking

 The warehouse workers of Airbus will be

supported by the implementation of RFID’s

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 Airbus implemented process-improvement
projects involving RFID’s
◦ Will help to track parts inside warehouse, as they
move from one region to another, and as they are
built into the aircraft

• Because RFID’s cost more than $1 per tag, Airbus

uses them only on rolling cages, pallets, cases, and
high cost parts

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http://www.airbus.com/support/material-logistics/
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