When it comes to sourcing components from India, there is no love lost between the two majors. Both have willy-nilly chosen Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL). For example, HAL supplies 50% of A320 doors to Airbus, and its order book is full for the next year with a backlog of about 5,000 doors. Airbus has chosen five Bangalore based private firms to become its Tier-1 suppliers. It claims that 1,110 engineers from Bangalore have worked with it on live projects; 100 engineers worked on the A380 project. Says Enders, “The partnerships are now moving from parts manufacturing to IT, ITeS, engineering & R&D, besides traditional sub assemblies.”
How’s Boeing combating Airbus’ initiatives? Phantom Works, Boeing’s R&D arm, is exploring opportunities for partnerships with National Aerospace Laboratory on wind tunnel technologies and Indian Institute of Technology on RFID. For those who thought that Airbus’ HAL contract was the first of its kind, here’s a surprise. Boeing already has a contract for single-handedly supplying its B757’s exit doors and the landing gear up-block boxes for B777. And this affair with HAL has lasted 16 years.
Here’s a further confirmation that the two aircraft makers will never give each other a chance to steal the thunder from under their feet. Airbus has entered into partnerships with Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Aetos, HCL Technologies, i2 Technologies, & Satyam for various engineering and/or IT services co-operation. And Boeing is working with India’s top IT forces – including Wipro, Infosys & TCS – on several projects like systems re-engineering, long-term application maintenance et al.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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