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Airbus digital transformation takes flight with APIs

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries	Aerospace
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Procurement
Use Cases	Manufacturing System Automation Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Airbus, a leading aviation company, was facing the challenge of meeting the growing needs of the aviation industry, which is expected to double in the next 15 years. The company needed to significantly increase aircraft production while reducing costs and improving efficiency in a sustainable manner. However, Airbus's legacy systems were not equipped to support this massive growth. As a result, Airbus needed to revolutionize its approach to IT, transforming from a manufacturing company into a technology company. This required a complete overhaul of its IT strategy, including implementing an enterprise-grade API platform to enable digital transformation at scale, building a library of reusable APIs to speed up development time, leveraging APIs to unlock data in backend systems and expose it to suppliers, employees, and internal and external stakeholders, streamlining the supply chain to meet growing production pressures, and delivering self-service mobile applications to improve manufacturing team efficiency. Read More
About Customer	Airbus is a leading aviation company known for its design, quality, performance, safety, and comfort. With about 25,000 daily flights, Airbus aircraft are taking off or landing every 1.4 seconds. The company is expected to face a significant increase in demand in the next 15 years, with the aviation industry expected to double its customers. To meet this demand, Airbus needed to significantly increase its aircraft production while reducing costs and improving efficiency in a sustainable manner. However, the company's legacy systems were not equipped to support this massive growth, necessitating a complete overhaul of its IT strategy. Read More
Solution	To meet its goals, Airbus formed a team within the IT department called the 'Digital Accelerator,' with the mission to apply digital technologies to transform the way Airbus builds aircraft. One of the Digital Accelerator's first decisions was to implement Anypoint Platform to drive digital transformation and enable an API-first strategy across the organization. With MuleSoft, the team is building a library of reusable APIs which can aggregate data from multiple backend systems and make it accessible and consumable to deliver real business value to multiple stakeholders. Using MuleSoft, Airbus built an application that shop floor operators can access from their personal mobile devices to gain real-time visibility into parts and projects. Through APIs, Airbus unlocked data from cloud and on-premise systems - including multiple SAP systems like SAP S/4 HANA and Skywise, a customer big data platform - bringing this valuable data together to reduce time to market of new aircraft. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Aerospace

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Procurement

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Airbus, a leading aviation company, was facing the challenge of meeting the growing needs of the aviation industry, which is expected to double in the next 15 years. The company needed to significantly increase aircraft production while reducing costs and improving efficiency in a sustainable manner. However, Airbus's legacy systems were not equipped to support this massive growth. As a result, Airbus needed to revolutionize its approach to IT, transforming from a manufacturing company into a technology company. This required a complete overhaul of its IT strategy, including implementing an enterprise-grade API platform to enable digital transformation at scale, building a library of reusable APIs to speed up development time, leveraging APIs to unlock data in backend systems and expose it to suppliers, employees, and internal and external stakeholders, streamlining the supply chain to meet growing production pressures, and delivering self-service mobile applications to improve manufacturing team efficiency.

About Customer

Airbus is a leading aviation company known for its design, quality, performance, safety, and comfort. With about 25,000 daily flights, Airbus aircraft are taking off or landing every 1.4 seconds. The company is expected to face a significant increase in demand in the next 15 years, with the aviation industry expected to double its customers. To meet this demand, Airbus needed to significantly increase its aircraft production while reducing costs and improving efficiency in a sustainable manner. However, the company's legacy systems were not equipped to support this massive growth, necessitating a complete overhaul of its IT strategy.

Solution

To meet its goals, Airbus formed a team within the IT department called the 'Digital Accelerator,' with the mission to apply digital technologies to transform the way Airbus builds aircraft. One of the Digital Accelerator's first decisions was to implement Anypoint Platform to drive digital transformation and enable an API-first strategy across the organization. With MuleSoft, the team is building a library of reusable APIs which can aggregate data from multiple backend systems and make it accessible and consumable to deliver real business value to multiple stakeholders. Using MuleSoft, Airbus built an application that shop floor operators can access from their personal mobile devices to gain real-time visibility into parts and projects. Through APIs, Airbus unlocked data from cloud and on-premise systems - including multiple SAP systems like SAP S/4 HANA and Skywise, a customer big data platform - bringing this valuable data together to reduce time to market of new aircraft.

Impact #1	Airbus is now able to streamline the development process and cut time to market for IT services.
Impact #2	The company can now provide data access through self-service options, accelerating the manufacturing and supply chain processes and reducing the time required to deliver new aircrafts.
Impact #3	The APIs developed through Anypoint Platform put critical data in the hands of employees on the front lines, improving efficiency.

Impact #1

Airbus is now able to streamline the development process and cut time to market for IT services.

Impact #2

The company can now provide data access through self-service options, accelerating the manufacturing and supply chain processes and reducing the time required to deliver new aircrafts.

Impact #3

The APIs developed through Anypoint Platform put critical data in the hands of employees on the front lines, improving efficiency.

Benefit #1	Airbus developers can deliver a new API in just one week.
Benefit #2	IT projects are delivered 4x faster.

Benefit #1

Airbus developers can deliver a new API in just one week.

Benefit #2

IT projects are delivered 4x faster.

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