Airbus

Training for Airbus

Airbus is Europe's largest commercial aircraft design and manufacturing organisation. It is composed of companies in France, Germany, UK and Spain. Airbus UK (based at Bristol, England) was formerly part of British Aerospace.

In collaboration with the Knowledge Engineering group at Airbus UK, Epistemics has developed an intensive 7-day training course for knowledge engineers at Airbus. The course is delivered by Epistemics and Airbus staff every two months.

By July 2003, over 120 Airbus engineers had attended the course.

Course Contents

The Airbus training course includes modules in the following subject areas:

- Introduction to Knowledge Management

- Introduction to Knowledge Acquisition

- Difficulties in Acquiring knowledge from Experts

- Eliciting Knowledge Using Interviews

- Analysing Transcripts

- Knowledge Modelling

- PCPACK

- Knowledge Acquisition Techniques

- Project Management of a Knowledge Project

- Planning and Scoping for a Knowledge Project

- Introduction to MOKA

- MOKA Informal Modelling

- MOKA Formal Modelling

- Publishing Knowledge

- MOKA and KBE Development

As well as presentations, the course includes a number of workshops, quizzes and practical exercises. In particular, trainees spend most of the afternoons engaged in an extended practical exercise. Epistemics also contributes to a 1-day course for Airbus managers to acquaint them with the basics of Knowledge Management and Knowledge Acquisition.