Lessons Learnt from Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A380 Projects for Murasaki Aircraft Corporation

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Introduction
The Murasaki Aircraft Corporation or MAC is a relatively new aircraft manufacturer
in Japan. The new Project Director has been appointed to make sure that the operations of the
organisation are working properly. The CEO of the company would like to make it grow
further to the next level although the organisation has no ambition of competing with Boeing
and Airbus since the organisation has already manufacturing Boeing 787's wings. The CEO
of the organization wants that the company gets to the next level from medium size passenger
jet further reaching the bigger markets directly. It can be done by competing with the Boeing
and the Airbus. for this the company needs to analyse what went wrong with the Boeing 787
Dreamliner lightweight construction technology and the Airbus A380 aircraft to make sure
that these are not repeat it again and the problems that played their projects are not
implemented or can be avoided in this organisation. For this, analysis of what went wrong
with the previous project would be analysed as well as recommendation on how MAC can
form the benefit from the previous analysis would be projected.
Background of the projects
Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Boeing is an American multinational organisation which
reportedly manufactures and sells as well as designs various airplanes, rockets, rotorcraft as
well as satellites. In 2003 Boeing started developing its ambitious project of 787 Dreamliner
which dragged over many years and had a total cost of about a billion dollars. At the present
moment the 787 Dreamliner operates fully with its 200 planes frying all around the world,
however it can never be said that this project was always successful (Shenhar et al. 2016).
There were various problems to this project, both in the developing of the aircraft and other
problems coupled with the decision making processes. For the organisation of Boeing, the

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787 Dreamliner had been a nightmare between the year 2003 and 2013. The project had
already done past is deadline and the cost had increased at an exponential rate as a result. The
supply chain was equally complex and difficult for managing and the powers that be in the
Boeing made it very hard to come to a conclusion or make a decision about outsourcing the
design on manufacturing the majority parts of 787 (Abbas 2017). it was found that the reason
for this entire problem was conducting the in-house task to decrease cost which has resulted
in further running past of deadline for the project and decision making problems regarding
outsourcing the designs. As a result the outsourcing decision has made the organisation of
Boeing cost a billion dollars. It is not possible that the contradicting part of this particular
failure for the project was not due to a lot of billions to a supply chain which is extremely
complex but the decision that was made regarding the project. Boeing already received a lot
of advice from the technical experts even before the project was initiated to keep up with the
traditional methods of design and manufacture accordingly as the up to date company
procedures. To cut for the cost Boeing had ignored all the advices by the technical experts
and this is resulted in the project failure for 787 Dreamliner (Nguyen et al. 2018).
Airbus A380: Just like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, there has been another project
failure of Airbus 380. The project failure of Airbus 380 cannot be attributed directly as a
Project failure for the management has tried to change the internal culture of the organisation
but found it impossible to implement due to political reason. The Airbus was first to create a
consortium of the previously existing companies including 16 sites in four European
countries (Kossmann 2016). In the year 2008 bus undertake the most ambitious project ever
in the organisation's history. This project was known as airbus A380, which was an aircraft
design for ushering the new era of super Jumbo jets and had a capacity of carrying out about
853 passengers including the crew. The date of the launch was selected to be in 2002 and the
company and already taken additional steps for the integration of the consortium announcing