Analysis of Airbus A380 Project: Reasons for Failure and Recommendations

This essay analyzes the background, scope, work breakdown structure, reasons for failure, and recommendations for the Airbus A380 project. The project failed due to the inappropriate wiring system, different CAD software, and complex designs. The essay provides recommendations for the successful functioning of the Airbus A380.

Essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Airbus a380 is the wide — body aircraft manufactured by Airbus. It is referred as the
world's largest airline which helps in providing the services and facilities to the passengers
traveling in it (Jackson, 2021).
The essay will analyze the Airbus a380 project will be undertaken which will describe the
background of the project, scope of the project. Along with this, work break down structure will
also be implemented and drawn upon. Further, how the project failed will also be described and
along with this the reasons of the project failure will be described which will help in analyzing
what are the ways in which Airbus a380 is facing failure and along with that the problems which
will be addressed at large scale. Furthermore, recommendations will be identified and will be
mentioned for the basis through which all aspects of knowing major changes will be analyzed.
MAIN BODY
Background -
Airbus a380 project is being undertaken which helps in knowing the wiring and electric
systems of the Airbus and due to this what failures it faced. The Airbus a380 is a wide — body
aircraft manufactured by Airbus. It is world's largest and most spacious passenger aircraft which
helps in providing the scale of how the passengers can incur the services and facilities through
the Airbus (Woo and et.al., 2021). Due to the operational services for six years the Airbus is
facing problems and issues in delays and service providence facilities which facilitates the
customers and passengers at large scale. Schedules for delivery in 2006, the aircraft entry into
service was delayed for 2 years and this faced the problem of over budget of several million
dollars.
The problem which further arose was of the complex wiring system which created failure
of the project. The complex wiring system needed to operate the aircraft with the metal air frame
which needed proper and appropriate wiring. The short wiring of the aircraft was an issue and
this created problem for the aircraft which resulted in failure while delivering its services and
facilities at large scale (Baxter and et.al., 2018). Therefore, this created major problem for the
Airbus a380 in knowing what are the faults in the system.
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[Source : Flexport, 2020]
Scope -
As the problem which the Airbus a380 was facing was of due to the poor wiring system
which was being faced and this created problem in knowing what are is the scale through which
all possible factors of how the Airbus a380 is ensuring to provide the services and facilities to the
customers or passengers so that they are being able to initiate the scale through which all
possible framework of working with the services and providence of facilities to the passengers is
known. The scope of Airbus a380 is defined as that it achieves sustainability advantage and uses
lower fuel so that the Airbus a380 is able to make and prepare itself from the changes which
have been taken in accordance with how the Airbus a380 is taking the factors of its functioning
into high consideration.
The Airbus a380 scope is also intended to improve the technological advantage so that
the facilities are being provided to the scale according to the functions of how effective and in
efficient way the Airbus is taking the concern of the following parameters of increasing the
scope of success at large scale. There will also be lower fuel usage while the Airbus a380 is
initiating the various ways through which all possible and effective ways are being intended to
create the ways through which Airbus a380 is initiating its concern towards growth and
development at significant basis. Along with this, the Airbus, a380 can also take concern of all
the things which are deliverable and are known at large scale with the help of how effective and
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in appropriate manner the services are being provided to the passengers. It was also identified
that cost of investment to handle A380 was also high.
Figure 1 Cost of investment of handling A380
Figure 2 A380 reach its end
Work break down structure/ details -
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Work breakdown structure is defined as outlining the task which helps in framing the base
through which the tasks in the project are being completed. WBS helps in addressing the
manageable deliverable making the project effective and provide detailed information of all the
activities which have been taken place. The work breakdown structure of the project helps in
identifying what are the major tasks which have helped in analyzing the basis through which the
Airbus a380 project is framed. There are various steps which are introduced in the WBS such as
project management. Employee training, data management, aircraft equipment, facilities
management and tests evaluations. These are the major tasks which have been outlined in the
WBS framework.
Work breakdown structure of the aircraft has helped in monitoring the major basis
through which all the aspects of how the tasks are being managed at large scale are evaluated.
This has made the basis through which the project aims, deliverable and work packages have
been mentioned in the framing of the WBS. The main thing which has been addressed in the
WBS are the important ans essential details of the Airbus a380 which has helped in analyzing the
functions which have helped the Airbus a380 maintain the scale of how the system works and
how the equipment functions. Along with this, the main systems in the WBS include the
mechanical systems, engine power systems, communication systems, navigation systems, safety
control systems. Therefore, WBS helps in analysis the various tasks which are being explained
and demonstrated through the various aspects through the stage of mentioning the major tasks
and what functions under that are being followed at large scale for Airbus a380.
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How project failed -
Airbus a380 faced project failure in its wiring and electric system which affected the
whole of the functions being undertaken at large scale. It is the most complex aircraft which is
flying today and this creates the value for the aircraft services which is being provided to the
customers or passengers at large scale and this helps in making the scale through which all
possible factors of how the services and the facilities are to be provided to the customers but
apart from the positive aspects and advantages, there are some problems and issues which are
being faced in the Airbus a380 while providence of its services (Too and et.al., 2017). The main
issue and the problem which Airbus a380 is facing is that it has been in the operational services
since past six years the Airbus has been facing the fair share of the delays and the problems
which is being faced in the operational aspect. The Airbus a380 was scheduled for delivery in
2006, the aircraft's entry into the services was delayed and this created problem for the
passengers and for the company. The aircraft entry into services was delayed for 2 years and this
project was several billion dollars over budget.
The project failed due to the inappropriate wiring system of the Airbus a380 which was
formed and this created the problem of integrating the complex wiring system which was the
main problem of the Airbus a380 at large scale. And this wiring system need the wiring air
frame which was to be threaded (Nelson, 2020). There are more than 100,000 wires and 40, 300
connectors performing the separate functions and in this the Airbus a380 has designed the
complex process of electrical system as this Airbus has designed. As the first prototype
(registration F — WWOW), the engineers began to realize that they had a problem and this
happened due to which the problem and the issues were arisen. This made the scale of creation of
the problem at first stage which insisted in knowing the major factors due to which all possible
aspects were being analyzed which were being directly linked to how effective and in
appropriate form the process of electrical system can be maintained but there were some
problems which happened to be creating the issue in the electrical and wiring system of Airbus a
380 (Kross, 2017). Wires and their harnesses were being manufactured for the specification but
during its installation it happened that the wires became short for completing the whole electrical
system. This made the huge realization that the wiring and el3ectrical system of Airbus a380
became a failure. As the construction of the prototype continued Airbus management slowly
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realized that the issue and problem was of the short wires which was being taken into
consideration.
Along with this, it was also identified that different design groups working on the project
had used different Computer Aided Design (CAD) software to create the drawings which
became the major problem for the Airbus a380 and due to this the main aim of providing the
services and facilities to the passengers was being identified at large scale. The design which was
framed was being shared which meant that the electrical system designed in Germany will be
compatible with the components of air frame designed in France as the both the countries had
designed the version of software (CATIA version 4) and in this they upgraded to the version 5
(Wilhelmsson, 2019). Along with this, two CAD systems were being used and this created the
problem through which the issue arose that the designs created inconsistencies, calculations were
being mismatched and management failures were seen due to the configurations.
As the development of this project became larger, it became more complex and more
risky and its became hard to compete with the services and facilities which was in function to
provide the basic forms through which all the aspects are in major concern. The system failure
was being noted but at the initial stages it caused problem due to changes in the configuration
and due to this the main thing which was being examined was how effective and in appropriate
manner the Airbus a380 could have maintained the electrical system and apart from this, the
main aim of the system and functions are being analyzed and this happened to be the major issue
and problem which affected the whole of the system of the Airbus a380 (Tranekjer and et.al.,
2017). Thus, due to such problems, the Airbus a380 project failed.
Reasons of failure -
Airbus a380 project had many reasons of failure which created the main frame through
which it helped in knowing that what are the ways in which all aspects of forming of the basis of
the electrical system and the wiring system which created the failure. There are many reasons of
failure of the project which are mentioned here to notify and analyze the lack of facilities and
services which the Airbus a380 created (Leoncini, 2017). The reasons of failure are as follows -
 The operational services were under the observation for 6 years which took lot of time for
the Airbus a380 services to be made available to the passengers.
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 The services were delayed for 2 years which was of several million dollars and this made
the scale through which all aspects of how the functions were to be identified were
known.
 There were difficulties in integrating the wiring system of the Airbus a380 and due to this
the main aim of the services was being distracted at large scale (Juristisches and et.al.,
2020).
 The wiring system which was being applied created problem in operation of the aircraft
due to which there was delay in the facilities which could be provided to the passengers. As different design groups created different software there was problem in the
engineering drawings which made difficult the process of the Airbus a380 functioning at
large scale (Airbus — A380).
 As various calculations were being made therefore, it created the problem due to which
the air frame became inconsistent due to the different versions of the software which was
being practiced under and this resulted in inconsistency of the calculations which was
being noticed and applied at large scale (Lincoln and et.al., 2019).
 Months were being taken to complete the project and due to this the problems were being
analyzed by the engineers.
 Many problems and issues which led to the failure were also due to the history of Airbus
a380 which it held. Due to the base of history, the main thing which was being identified
was that the Airbus a380 was concluded in knowing the basis through which all possible
aspects were being identified at large scale.
 Due to complex and large project type, it increased the chances of failure more and this
created the complex path (Ferreira and et.al., 2020).
 There were also various decisions which were undertaken but lately resulted in failure of
the project.
 The main reason of Airbus a380 is that it formed the decisions in which the complex
designs were followed which made difficult the project and its functions at large scale.
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 The changes in the software created major confusions and due to this, the main aspect of
which the failure was being analyzed.
These are the major reasons due to which Airbus a380 project faced failure and this happened
due to the aspect of what changes should have been made for the successful functioning of the
Airbus a380 was to be known. The pathways of what made the project fail was due to the
changes in the software and designs which were being designed at large scale (Jones and et.al.,
2019). The work of the engineers also affected the processing and the functions of the Airbus
a380 and this at large scale impacted the major services which were to be provided to the
passengers or customers.
Due to the changes in the different software, the patterns due to which Airbus a380
created ways to accomplish the processing was being identified at large scale. The reasons for
the failure of the project was created due to the effects of how decisions were taken place and
this created many difficulties in managing the processes and functions of software. The project
was delayed multiple times which distracted the process and this creates inconsistencies in the
project (Marion and et.al., 2021). It became major task for the Airbus a380 for redesigning the
wiring from the prototype and then re — threading the wire into the air frame.
Merging of the project with other projects is also one of the reasons which became
difficult for the process as to how the effectiveness and efficiency was being hampered as there
are different origins and different cultures which individuals follow and through this, the main
aim of how the Airbus a380 functions were to be known (Ferreira and et.al., 2020) There were
also configurations management failure which created major problem in knowing and
developing the scale through which all possible factors of what changes can be developed were
known and this impacted the growth and development of the Airbus a380.
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[Source : Prezi, 2021]
Recommendations -
There are various recommendations which should be adopted by Airbus a380 so that it
delivers effective and efficient processes throughout its functions. The major recommendations
should be provided which will help to resolve the issues and the problems which Airbus a380 is
facing. The recommendations are described as follows -
 The changes in the designs of Airbus a380 should be done in such manner that it does not
affect the decisions taken for other processes.
 Various strategies should be framed which helps in initiating the process of how the
Airbus a380 should work (Bachmann and et.al., 2021).
 The problems should be overcome so that the Airbus a380 can take major concern of
what are the problems and the issues which they are facing.
 The problems can be rectified with the due process of how effective and in appropriate
manner the electric system and the wiring system is taken for the aspect of knowing the
major changes through which the wires do not become short (Els, 2019).
 The supplies of the facilities and the services should be provided adequately and should
fulfill the aspects of Airbus a380 so that the changes are being taken into consideration
and the problems which the project is facing is resolved.
CONCLUSION
Thus, it is analyzed from the above essay that Airbus a380 project was being undertaken
which described the background of the project, scope of the project. Along with this, work break
down structure was also implemented and drawn upon. Further, how the project failed was also
described and along with this the reasons of the project failure was also described which helped
in analyzing what are the ways in which Airbus a380 was facing failure and along with that the
problems which were being addressed at large scale. Furthermore, recommendations were being
identified and were mentioned for the basis through which all aspects of knowing major changes
were analyzed. The major problems and issues which Airbus a380 was facing helped in
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analyzing and knowing scale through which all aspects of project to be made effective and
significant can be determined. Therefore, the project of system and wiring failure was taken.
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