EADS/Airbus are using CATIA by Dassault Systemes/IBM. Though they had some issues during development of A380 (different software versions, change management, et

EADS/Airbus are using CATIA by Dassault Systemes/IBM. Though they had some issues during development of A380 (different software versions, change management, etc): Initial production of the A380 was troubled by delays attributed to the 530 km (330 mi) of wiring in each aircraft. Airbus cited as underlying causes the complexity of the cabin wiring (98,000 wires and 40,000 connectors), its concurrent design and production, the high degree of customisation for each airline, and failures of configuration management and change control. The German and Spanish Airbus facilities continued to use CATIA version 4, while British and French sites migrated to version 5. This caused overall configuration management problems, at least in part because wiring harnesses manufactured using aluminium rather than copper conductors necessitated special design rules including non-standard dimensions and bend radii; these were not easily transferred between versions of the software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A380#Production_and_delivery_delays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A380#Production_and_delivery_de... Nevertheless, CATIA is top-notch is used by many car, ship, aircraft and spacecraft manufactures.