JPRS ID: 9296 WEST EUROPE REPORT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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JPRS L/9296
11 September 1980
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JPRS L/9296
11 September 1980
WEST EUROPE REPORT
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(FOUO 11/~0)
CONTENTS
IN DUS TRI AL TE Q~NOLO GY
Machine Tool Industry Reviewed
(azR & cos~ros , 3i rray so) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i _
General Commentary
Line Company
Aeritalia Produces Componeats for Boeing
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INDUSTRIAL TE(HNOL~GY
MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY REVIEWED
General Commentary
Paris AIR & COSMOS in F*ench 31 May 80 p 32
~Text~ Reaching a production ra':e of up to lU Airbuses per month by 1985
induces a significattt demand for machine toals. First, let us evaluate the
part to be played in this productiion by machines: 50 percent of the French
portion of it. In other words, half the time involved in France's share
of Airbus production goes into machine-tool.operations as diatinguished
from "manual" operations such as assembly, fitting, metalsmithing, etc.
Of this SO percent, material-removing machines* account for the largest
single portion (60 percent, of which half a=e milling machinea); material-
forming machines** aoaount for~another 20 percent. AER~OSPATIALE ~National
Industrial Aerospace Company~, if for no~.other reason than to plan its
_ investment program, has made the tollowing calculation: each Airbus added
to the monthly production sate requires the installation of 30 additional
milling machines (for the French portion af that additianal production
alone)! Since these machines cost 2-10 million francs each, ].et us say
5 million francs each on average, one additional Airbus per month induce~
an additional 150-million �ranc market for milling machines...
To this must be addes 8 machine-finishinq centers, still.per additional
Airbus per month, representing anothez 20-million franc market offered to
industrialists.
* Machines for shaping materials by removal of material, i.e., by cutting,
shearing, abrading, and otheL material-removing processes (chemical,
' electrochemical, electronic, ultrasonic, etc.).
impact, bending, pressing, squeezing and other machines for shaping
materials by forming processea not involving temoval. of material.
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And to these, lastly, must be added 25 conventional machine-tools such as
lathes, grinders, and jig borers, especially among subcontractors. Going
from 3 Airbuses per month today to 10 per month in 1985 thus represents an
expenditure totaling over 1 billion francs over the next 5 years for
machine tools!
Despita this, the French machine tool industry is heard to complain from
time to time about a certain halfheartedness on the part of AEROSPATIALE
about committing itself... For Mr Berthier, industrial director of AERO-
SPATIALE, this accusation lacks validity: "We have publicized these figures.
The market is known. Whatever happens, we will produce, at the very least,
600-700 Airbuses, and, we hope, many more!"
Adding to th~ machine-tool delivery period (18 months on average) the
2-year production cycle per plane, the machine tools ordered today will
put Airbuses "in the air" beqinning by the end of 1983... This means that
a portion of that billion-franc market has already materialized and---what
is comforting--that Airbus production to the end of I983 must already have
been assured in terms of machine tools. The needs of 1984-1485 and beyond
have yet to be covered.
These quick calculations show that the Airbus in fact generates substantial
induced needs~and that time is now pressing. They are also revealing the
existence of limitations on an industry's adaptability to rapid increases
in demand: Should it be expected to embark in 1975~(or 1980} on the devel-
opment of a new machine designed to produce Airbuses scheduled to become
operational in 1980 (or 1985)?
AEROSPATIALE counters with several arguments: Firstly, machine tools are
taking on an increasing proportion of the production workload: hydraulic
cylinder presses that eliminate finishing processes, automatic riveting
machines, etc. And secondly; the industry should kru~w that its market is
not limited solely to the Airbus. AEROSPATIALE certainly cannot be expec-
ted to encourage the French machine-tool industry to work for Boein