{"id":119873,"date":"2021-12-17T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=119873"},"modified":"2021-12-17T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:36:51","slug":"boeing-wants-build-its-next-airplane-in-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2021\/12\/boeing-wants-build-its-next-airplane-in-metaverse.html","title":{"rendered":"Boeing wants to build its next airplane in the ‘metaverse’."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Boeing Co\u2019s factory of the future, immersive 3-D engineering designs will be twinned with robots that speak to each other, while mechanics around the world will be linked by $3,500 HoloLens headsets made by Microsoft Corp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a snapshot of an ambitious new Boeing strategy to unify sprawling design, production and airline services operations under a single digital ecosystem – in as little as two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192 Boeing expands 737-800BCF conversion capacity.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics say Boeing has repeatedly made similar bold pledges on a digital revolution, with mixed results. But insiders say the overarching goals of improving quality and safety have taken on greater urgency and significance as the company tackles multiple threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The planemaker is entering 2022 fighting to reassert its engineering dominance after the 737 MAX crisis, while laying the foundation for a future aircraft program over the next decade – a $15 billion gamble. It also aims to prevent future manufacturing problems like the structural flaws that have waylaid its 787 Dreamliner over the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about strengthening engineering,\u201d Boeing\u2019s chief engineer, Greg Hyslop, told Reuters<\/a> in his first interview in nearly two years. \u201cWe are talking about changing the way we work across the entire company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192 777 Partners orders 30 additional 737 MAX airplanes.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After years of wild market competition, the need to deliver on bulging order books has opened up a new front in Boeing\u2019s war with Europe\u2019s Airbus, this time on the factory floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boeing\u2019s approach so far has been marked by incremental advances within specific jet programs or tooling, rather than the systemic overhaul that characterizes Hyslop\u2019s push today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how does the metaverse – a shared digital space often using virtual reality or augmented reality and accessible via the internet – work in aviation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Airbus, Boeing\u2019s holy grail for its next new aircraft is to build and link virtual three-dimensional \u201cdigital twin\u201d replicas of the jet and the production system able to run simulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The digital mockups are backed by a \u201cdigital thread\u201d that stitches together every piece of information about the aircraft from its infancy – from airline requirements, to millions of parts, to thousands of pages of certification documents – extending deep into the supply chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overhauling antiquated paper-based practices could bring powerful change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 70% of quality issues at Boeing trace back to some kind of design issue, Hyslop said. Boeing believes such tools will be central to bringing a new aircraft from inception to market in as little as four or five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou will get speed, you will get improved quality, better communication, and better responsiveness when issues occur,\u201d Hyslop said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the quality from the supply base is better, when the airplane build goes together more smoothly, when you minimize re-work, the financial performance will follow from that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Eric M. Johnson, Tim Hepher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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