Airbus inks partnership deal with two Indian firms

[Invincible INDIAN]

NEW DELHI (PTI): Major aircraft manufacturer Airbus has signed long term partnership agreements with Indian firms to make crucial aircraft parts like wings and fuselage.

Strategic agreements Indian tier one suppliers QuEST Global Engineering and CADES Digitech, aimed at tapping the country's engineering talent pool, an Airbus statement said here.

While QuEST would focus on Airbus wings and pylon engineering activities, CADES would work on Airbus Fuselage engineering activities.

The two firms, selected from over 20 suppliers, would work on a broad list of critical engineering activities across different Airbus aircraft programmes, the statement said.

QuEST was chosen "for their good core engineering skills and strategic orientation towards engineering", it said quoting Matthew Orchard, Head of Design of Airbus Wing and Pylon Engineering Centre of Excellence.

Robert Nardini, Airbus Vice President and Head of Fuselage Engineering Centre of Excellence, was quoted as saying "we are impressed by the ability of CADES to propose the right solution to reach the excellence required in Engineering services for Airbus".
Besides their dedicated centres in India, both the companies would also have offices in Europe to meet Airbus requirements.

Another Airbus Vice President for Industrial Cooperation, Srinivasan Dwarakanath, said "on top of our Airbus Engineering Centre in Bangalore, these new long term partnerships demonstrate our commitment to support and benefit from India's flourishing aerospace sector.

 

[angeldemon_007]

These kind of deals will definitely help us in our domestic projects like MRTA and RTA-70....

 

[shaktiman2010]

These kind of deals will definitely help us in our domestic projects like MRTA and RTA-70....

LOL! Making a screw-driver or door of Airbus, doesn't help MRTA or RTA-70, even remotely.

Projects like SARAS is what actually helps and makes difference.

 

[Firemaster]

LOL! Making a screw-driver or door of Airbus, doesn't help MRTA or RTA-70, even remotely.

Projects like SARAS is what actually helps and makes difference.

right said they wont let us allow to build whole aircraft

 

[Mujraparty]

LOL! Making a screw-driver or door of Airbus, doesn't help MRTA or RTA-70, even remotely.

Projects like SARAS is what actually helps and makes difference.

making a screwdriver or door for airbus will get them experience ...
may be HAL can outsource manufacturing of lca parts to these private firms and concentrate on R&D......

 

[shaktiman2010]

making a screwdriver or door for airbus will get them experience ...
may be HAL can outsource manufacturing of lca parts to these private firms and concentrate on R&D......

HAL is a production agency. They don't make everything inhouse. They source many parts from private industry. HAL has helped create a big base of private firms in India with technical skills to make airline parts. R&D is not their job. For that we have DRDO.

 

[Riaz Mohammed]

There is no country in the world producing an airbus right from the scratch within its territory. Manufacturing is delegated to several firms across the world.

 

[shaktiman2010]

There is no country in the world producing an airbus right from the scratch within its territory. Manufacturing is delegated to several firms across the world.

True.

Even each of Boeing's product has critical technologies developed by German, French, Israeli, Indian and Russian scientists. They are not home-made or indigenous. That's why they claim it as american as in "made in USA", but they never say its indigenous.

 

[sancho]

These kind of deals will definitely help us in our domestic projects like MRTA and RTA-70....

Actually this sounds more like outsourcing parts of their production, but our industry will gain from their edge in latest productions methods and the use of latest materials. More interesting for us in regard of RTA for example would have been to join the A400 as a partner country, because we would get more insides to such advanced and latest aircrafts and it's systems. That's one reason I prefered it over beeing just a normal buyer of C17s, but direct JV for our indigenous developments, like the JV we have with German Diehl Aerospace for the cabine, will be even better:

AERO INDIA: Diehl displays RTA-70 cabin mock-up

Projects like SARAS is what actually helps and makes difference.

Which is funny that you point out exactly that project, that ran into big trouble when we did it alone and where we have to get help from the Russians now again. Developing aircrafts alone requires a specific knowledge and experience base that we don't have now, that's even more obvious when you look at Sarars, IJT, or even LCA MK1, that all seems to have important design issues. LCA is thankfully the only onem where it just limits the performance and is not such critical, that it resulted in the lost of precious lifes, but it does tells us that we have still a long way to go and much to learn from more experienced and knowledged countries.

 

[desioptimist]

True.

Even each of Boeing's product has critical technologies developed by German, French, Israeli, Indian and Russian scientists. They are not home-made or indigenous. That's why they claim it as american as in "made in USA", but they never say its indigenous.

Does not matter the nationality of scientists, it is Boeing who makes the planes. And Boeing is american company. What is this indigenous and made in america difference. You are just splitting hair.