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Airbus Cuts Problem Resolution Time 40% by Performing Business Process Monitoring With SAP Solution Manager
White Papers Airbus, turned to SAP Solution Manager for business process monitoring. The company wanted to reduce number of incidents reported by users, and speed up error detection, escalation, and resolution as well as improve service to users.
[September 14, 2007, 1:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Airbus A380 misery continues to spread, with Rolls-Royce now shutting down the Trent 900 engine production plant for a year. The A380 story is one of frustration all round; it flies fine and is progressing with reasonable dispatch through the...
[October 6, 2006, 18:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Congratulations to Airbus, which has created literally high technology by launching the mammoth A380 into the skies above Toulouse. Times have changed since test pilots strapped themselves in for the first flight with nothing but wind tunnel tests...
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Manufacturer Aligns Processes, Cuts Costs, and Satisfies Employees With SAP Travel Management
White Papers Airbus S.A.S.headquartered in Toulouse, France, has an annual travel budget in excess of ¬260 million. The budget covers 180,000 business trips made by Airbus employees every year. With growing business needs - including the decision to build the...
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
China to get in-flight mobile service by 2009
News The OnAir service will be installed across Shenzhen Airlines' full fleet of Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 aircraft by mid 2009. Benoit Debains, chief executive of OnAir — which is a joint venture between aircraft manufacturer Airbus and airline...
[September 4, 2007, 9:31]
BMI promises in-flight mobile trials
News BMI intends to test the business case for fleet-wide rollout of an in-flight mobile service on one of its A320 Airbus planes flying out of London's Heathrow airport towards the end of 2006. The trial is being done in conjunction with OnAir, the...
[September 21, 2005, 15:55]
'No mobiles' to replace 'no smoking' signs on planes
News The technology, developed by Airbus and Sita joint venture OnAir, will allow passengers to make in-flight mobile calls and send text messages on short-haul flights across Europe at a cost of around $2.50 per minute.
[August 7, 2006, 16:10]
Tech tsar to develop government strategy
News Gray is currently managing director of Airbus UK. He joined Airbus in 1979. The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has appointed Iain Gilmour Gray as chief executive of the Technology Strategy Board.
[September 20, 2007, 8:37]
Colubris CEO departs
News The Connexion project revenue has already been offset by wins in other airframe projects, such as the Airbus A380 project. For example, the Airbus A380 will use Wi-Fi to serve seatback viewing screens, he said.
[September 11, 2006, 17:00]
IPTV takes off on planes with GSM to follow
News Siemens is already developing a light-weight GSM pico cell and has been contracted to provide this to OnAir, a joint venture launched in February between Airbus and transport application developer SITA.
[July 12, 2005, 11:25]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback This was despite a better offer given by the french air-craft manufacturers AIRBUS (with high-end Rolles-Royace engines), to Air India. Even at this point of time AIRBUS is challenging the AIR-INDIA autorities (Govt of India) regaring the fixing...
[September 2, 2005, 7:29]
France talks up its tech prospects
News Without the prodding of Charles DeGaulle in the 1960s, "the story of Airbus would have never happened", Gaymard said. Repeating Airbus, however, may be difficult in the global marketplace. There is the sense that we are old fashioned, unproductive...
[May 25, 2005, 9:25]
Midnight on La Rambla
Blog Team ZDNet has successfully decanted itself onto the Gatwick Express, into the EasyJet Airbus of Dreams, shuffled dolefully along the First Giant Queue Of Many to the taxi and into our sumptuously appointed two star palace on La Rambla.
[February 10, 2008, 23:50]
CIMPA Enhances Reliability of Its Financial and Project Management Information System
White Papers An Airbus subsidiary since July 2003, CIMPA is a specialty services company that produces engineering and industrial information systems. The company wanted to build an IT system that integrates all of CIMPA's accounting, financial, and project...
[June 30, 2007, 1:00]
RFID in Aviation: Airport Luggage Control
White Papers Major aviation industry players, such as IATA (International Air transport Association), Boeing or Airbus have recognized the potential huge savings and benefits of such technology being incorporated on a large scale basis.
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]
BA to allow texting on some flights
Blog The service, provided by OnAir (a joint venture between Airbus and the airline industry body SITA), will be restricted to the airline's new 32-seater, all-business-class flights in the autumn. British Airways is to allow GSM/GPRS-based texting...
[January 29, 2009, 15:33]
Benchmarks don't measure up for new platforms
Leader Some time next month - the smart money is on 11 April - the latest and by any measure greatest Airbus will depart the tarmac on its first test flight. There is great excitement in the aviation community about this: the A380 is an aircraft of...
[March 23, 2005, 12:30]
Ryanair announces in-flight mobile
News The budget airline announced on Wednesday that it will partner with OnAir, an Airbus and Sita joint in-flight communications venture, which plans to fit the entire Ryanair fleet with technology called Mobile OnAir.
[August 30, 2006, 14:55]
Embedded computing to boom in Europe
News Industry group Artemis, whose members include Airbus, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens, predicts that embedded computing — the technology that sees microprocessors arriving in everything from phones to cars to shop tills — will grow by around 10 per...
[July 5, 2005, 9:05]
BA allows mobile calls on NY flights
Blog The in-flight connectivity service, provided by OnAir, is being introduced on two Airbus A318 flights between City Airport and JFK. From Tuesday, British Airways will let business class passengers on its London-to-New York route use their mobile...
[September 29, 2009, 14:24]
