BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS Boeing’s engagement in emerging markets has produced significant alliances in the past 18 months: • Brazil: Expanded technology partnerships with Brazil’s Department of Aerospace Science and Technology and National Institute for Space Research • China: Working with Aviation Industry Corp. of China, or AVIC, to develop its capability to produce seats, galleys and lavatories • Indonesia: Collaborating with government to support commercial aviation safety and efficiency • Malaysia: Partnering on education and vocational training to support the country’s future workforce • Qatar: Working with Qatar Computing Research Institute on data analytics research • Russia: Expanded cooperation in commercial services and titanium procurement and development • Saudi Arabia: Hosted business students from Alfaisal University for an Emerging Leaders Program at the Boeing Leadership Center • Singapore: Founding partner of the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Center, a collaboration between government, universities and companies • United Arab Emirates: Awarded first direct composites supply contract in the Arab world to Strata Manufacturing, a Mubadala Aerospace facility – Jessica Kowal Dey and Embraer engineer Fernando Guimarães emphasize the value of reaching across company boundaries. “Our collaboration is marked by re-spect, professionalism, enthusiasm and hospitality,” said Guimarães, Embraer’s product development manager. “We feel that we are a single engineering team working to achieve common objectives.” Dey, the manager of flight-deck engineering for Commercial Airplanes product development, agreed. “We have sparks of innovation when we toss ideas back and forth and see something new.” At times, though, collaboration is complicated by competition. China is Boeing’s largest market outside the U.S., with anticipated 20-year demand for nearly 5,260 airplanes worth $670 billion, according to Boeing’s long-range com-mercial market forecast. But Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) is build-ing the C919, a competitor to Boeing and Airbus single-aisle aircraft. Nevertheless, Boeing and COMAC are finding ways to work together. Over the past year, they opened a joint research center in Beijing and began three projects related to aviation biofuel and air-traffic management. They limit research to noncompetitive topics that will support sustainable growth for China’s aviation industry and reduce carbon emissions—goals of both companies. “The Chinese government expects Boeing will broaden its research coopera-tion in China. And our work with COMAC PHOTOS: (Far left) The collaboration between Boeing engineer Mike Dey, left, and Embraer engineer Fernando Guimarães, shown in the cockpit of an Embraer E175 jetliner, is part of a broader agreement by the two companies to work together. SÉRGIO ZACCHI (Above, left) Dong Yang Wu, managing director of Boeing Research & Technology–China. ZHIJIAN LIU (Above) Engineering teams from Boeing and Embraer visit the assembly line of Embraer’s E-jets series in Saõ José dos Campos, Brazil. From left: Peter Gunn of Boeing, Todd Oakwood of Embraer, Suzie Ness and Dey of Boeing, Guimarães of Embraer. SÉRGIO ZACCHI BOEING FRONTIERS / JUNE 2013 19 develops our global resources and leverages unique Chinese research capabilities,” said Dong Yang Wu, managing director of Boeing Research & Technology–China, who oversees the Boeing-COMAC research relationship. In April, Wu and her COMAC counterparts visited a laboratory in Hangzhou, China, to review the progress of research to lower the cost of converting waste cooking oil into aviation biofuel. As the Boeing and COMAC teams inspected lab equipment and heard promising early results, Wu was thinking, Wow, we are really making progress. n jessica.m.kowal@boeing.com “Our work with COMAC develops our global resources and leverages unique Chinese research capabilities.” – Dong Yang Wu, managing director of Boeing Research & Technology–China
Frontiers June 2013 Issue
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