PLM: Boeing's Dream, Airbus' Nightmare - ' Boeing Base Case '
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Boeing Base Case
Headquarters: 100 N. Riverside, Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: (312) 544-2000
Business: The world's largest combined manufacturer of commercial
airplanes and military aircraft.
Chairman, CEO: James McNerney
CIO: Scott Griffin
Financials in 2005: $54 billion in revenue, $2.6 billion in profits,
profit margin 5%.
Financials, first nine months of 2006: $44 billion in revenue, $1.2
billion in profits, profit margin 2.8%.
Challenges: Maintain lead over Airbus as world's largest
commercial airline producer, and shepherd the revolutionary
787 Dreamliner into production.
BASELINE GOALS:
- Maintain position as world's largest producer of commercial
airplanes by increasing yearly airline orders by 284%, from 272
net orders in 2001 to 1,044 net orders in 2006.
- Shave 20% to 25%, or about one year, off the time it normally
takes to develop a new plane, from six years in 1995 with
the introduction of the 777 to five years with the planned launch
of the Dreamliner in 2008.
- Reduce development cost of Dreamliner through the use
of PLM software by 20%, from about $12 billion to $10 billion.
- Reduce time it takes to assemble a 787 in Everett, Wash.,
from about six days at start of production in 2008, to about
three days after it builds the first 100 planes in 2010.
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