Boeing Base Case

Product life-cycle management is helping to get Boeing's 787 off the ground, but is a key factor in Airbus' A380 delays.

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.