Project Drivers

• Primary Business Drivers
  • Support paperless assembly for Shop Floor Control System B747
  • Transformation of strategic system
  • More flexibility in deployment process
  • Process re-engineering
• Source Environment
  • 170 character based screen
  • 1 Million Lines of S-Cobol
  • 300 Flat files
  • Esncribe, Non-Stop SQL
  • Tandem Guardian Operating system
  • 700 users
• Technical Requirements
  • Leverage internal technical infrastructure
  • Real time integration with existing systems
  • Leverage internal expertise

Results

• Rearchitected to an open 3-tier C/S
  • 9 months
  • Rapid enhancement Implementation
• Application - Target
  • Client - X/Motif on X-terms
  • Functionality - ANSI C
  • Data - Oracle, ANSI SQL
  • Environment - HP-UX
• Benefits
  • Faster time to market (3 - 4 months)
  • Relational database
  • Empowered staff able to enhance application
  • New IT infrastructure
  • Fuselage sub assembly lead times - 24 to 18 months
  • Aircraft customization lead time -7 to 4 months