Airbus, producer of Airbus airliners since 1970, is a multinational division of EADS employing 57,000 people in France, Germany, Spain, and the UK. When Airbus began work on the A380 Superjumbo aircraft, it also began work on building a new documentation system. The PDF files and paper used for past airliner documentation could not adequately address a product that would require over a million pages of customized documentation and a thousand people in four countries developing the content.
The new documentation system has successfully delivered a complete set of repair manuals for the A380, proving its efficacy. Migration of all other Airbus models to this new system is well underway. Airbus will reap substantial savings when it retires redundant legacy documentation systems: less IT cost and greater efficiency for the documentation organizations which will no longer be working with different methods, standards, and tools.
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