Markets Served Customer Success Story Aerospace

Eaton’s Aerospace Case History — A380

Customer: Background the environment, and its Airbus unprecedented level of light- Airbus has been an innovator in weight, advanced materials commercial development Contact Information: reduce its weight, helping to for decades and has a family of Eaton Corporation make it a highly fuel-efficient air- aircraft covering the spectrum craft — burning 12 percent less Peter Parsons — from short-haul single aisle 3 Park Plaza fuel than its competitors and planes to larger intercontinental reducing exhaust emissions. Suite 1200 passenger and freighter craft. The Irvine, CA 92614 most sophisticated, and certainly 949-253-2116 the largest of the these planes, Challenges [email protected] the A380 is now entering service and will serve a market that is For the Airbus A380, reducing expected to triple in terms of the weight of the world’s largest global passenger demand over passenger aircraft was critical to the next 20-30 years. the program’s successful devel- opment. Several major systems Combining the very latest- tech- in the platform were addressed, nology materials, systems, and including the hydraulic system industrial processes, the A380 can with its requirement to oper- comfortably carry 555 passengers ate some of the world’s largest in three classes of service with room to spare. The A380’s effi- flight control surfaces, ciency and advanced technology gear and utility systems. For result in lower seat-mile costs for example, the A380’s tail is as airline customers. The A380’s abil- big as the wing of a typical 150 ity to carry more passengers will passenger aircraft. Airbus turned help to ease airport congestion by to Eaton Corporation, a world transporting more people without leader in aircraft hydraulic power additional aircraft movements. generation, fluid conveyance and The aircraft’s significantly reduced motion control systems, for the noise and emissions levels will help to minimize its effects on solution.

Eaton Corporation is a diversified power management company ranked among the largest Fortune 500 companies. The electrical group is Eaton’s largest division and is a global leader in electrical control, power distribution, power quality, automation, and monitoring products and services. Eaton’s global electrical product lines including Cutler-Hammer®, MGE Office Protection SystemsTM, PowerWare®, Holec®, MEM®, Santak and Moeller, provide customer-driven PowerChain Management® solutions to serve the power system needs of the industrial, institutional, government, utility, commercial, residential, IT, mission critical and OEM markets worldwide. Learn more at. www.eaton.com. ©2008 Eaton Corporation, All Rights Reserved, Printed in USA, Publication No. XXXXXXXXX/XXX, September 2008 Solutions Utilizing its long experience in higher-pressure military aircraft hydraulic systems, Eaton designed the world’s first higher pressure 5000-psi commercial hydraulic power generation system for the A380. According to Phil Galloway, engineering manager at Eaton’s Fluid Power facility in Jackson, MS, “by utilizing higher pressure, the overall volume and size of the entire hydraulic system was reduced throughout the aircraft, eliminating a full metric ton of additional weight.”

Results When Airbus decided to build the largest passenger aircraft in the world, we knew we had to find the best, most innovative partners in the world.

In many cases we found that know-how in the U.S. Today, hun- dreds of American companies, like Eaton, are producing the systems and parts which have brought the A380 from the drawing board to the skies. Airbus works with com- panies in more than 40 states, spending more than $23 million everyday — more than $8.5 bil- lion in 2005 alone. This makes the U.S. our biggest source of aircraft components and makes Airbus the largest export customer of the U.S. aerospace industry..

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