Concurrent Engineering and Integrated Aircraft Design

With the increasing size and complexity of development projects at large companies and organizations in the aviation industry, concurrent engineering (CE) and integrated aircraft design has become of crucial importance in the design process of new products. In order to remain a competitive position and achieve a customer driven approach, aspects of the product’s life cycle should be adopted at an early stage in the design process. These aspects include, among others: the overall cost performance and the ability of new system integration. This chapter discusses the implementation of CE in the life cycle of aircraft and systems in general. Challenges related to process parallelization and multidisciplinary design, involving the exchange of knowledge and information throughout the design process, are covered. Supporting techniques along with practical case studies are presented to illustrate the implementation of CE and IAD in real life. Expected future developments with respect to CE as applied to aviation conclude this chapter.

[1]  Mogens Myrup Andreasen,et al.  Integrated Product Development , 1987 .

[2]  Benoît Eynard,et al.  Collaboration based on product lifecycles interoperability for extended enterprise , 2010 .

[3]  Günther Schuh,et al.  A SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION OF COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING , 2007 .

[4]  Manuel Oliva,et al.  Collaborative Engineering: An Airbus Case Study☆ , 2013 .

[5]  Fredrik Elgh,et al.  Automated engineer-to-order systems – a task-oriented approach to enable traceability of design rationale , 2014 .

[6]  N. Mavengere.  Information technology role in supply chain’s strategic agility , 2013 .

[7]  Sergej Bondar,et al.  Globalized OEM and Tier-1 Processes at SKF , 2012, ISPE CE.

[8]  Richard Curran,et al.  Review of Aerospace Engineering Cost Modelling: The Genetic Causal Approach , 2004 .

[9]  Christoph H. Loch,et al.  Exchanging Preliminary Information in Concurrent Engineering: Alternative Coordination Strategies , 2002, Organ. Sci..

[10]  Chalee Asavathiratham,et al.  The influence model: a tractable representation for the dynamics of networked Markov chains , 2001 .

[11]  Bernd Stickan,et al.  NASTRAN Based Static CFD-CSM Coupling in FlowSimulator , 2013 .

[12]  Paul Collopy,et al.  Value-Driven Design , 2009 .

[13]  Bernd Stickan,et al.  Industrial ComFliTe Applications , 2013 .

[14]  Sergej Bondar,et al.  Ensuring data quality beyond change management in virtual enterprise , 2014 .

[15]  A. DeBlois,et al.  Development of a Multilevel Multidisciplinary-Optimization Capability for an Industrial Environment , 2013 .

[16]  Allan McLay,et al.  Re-reengineering the dream: agility as competitive adaptability , 2014 .

[17]  P. Fishburn.  Stationary value mechanisms and expected utility theory , 1966 .

[18]  Mark A. Vonderembse,et al.  Concurrent engineering and its consequences , 2001 .

[19]  Michael W. Sobolewski.  Unifying Front-end and Back-end Federated Services for Integrated Product Development , 2014, ISPE CE.

[20]  Cees Bil,et al.  Life Cycle Costing for Alternative Fuels , 2014, ISPE CE.

[21]  Richard Curran,et al.  An evaluation of forecasting methods for aircraft non-routine maintenance material demand , 2014 .

[22]  C. O'Neal.  Concurrent Engineering with Early Supplier Involvement: A CrossFunctional Challenge , 1993 .

[23]  Todd Sandler,et al.  Collective Action: Theory and Applications , 1992 .

[24]  Michel van Tooren,et al.  Knowledge-Based Engineering Approach to Support Aircraft Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization , 2009 .

[25]  Yuh-Min Chen,et al.  Design and implementation of a collaborative engineering information system for allied concurrent engineering , 2000, Int. J. Comput. Integr. Manuf..

[26]  Fernando Mas,et al.  Proposal for the Conceptual Design of Aeronautical Final Assembly Lines Based on the Industrial Digital Mock-Up Concept , 2013, PLM.

[27]  M. Stevenson.  The role of services in flexible supply chains: an exploratory study , 2013 .

[28]  Andrew King,et al.  An Assessment of Design-for-Environment Practices in Leading US Electronics Firms , 2000, Interfaces.

[29]  Richard L. Daft,et al.  Organizational information requirements, media richness and structural design , 1986 .

[30]  R. Curran,et al.  Value Operations Methodology (VOM) applied to medium-range passenger airliner design , 2011 .

[31]  Cees Bil,et al.  Concurrent Engineering Approaches for Sustainable Product Development in a Multi-Disciplinary Environment - Proceedings of the 19th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (ISPE CE 2012), Trier, Germany, September 3-7, 2012 , 2013, ISPE CE.

[32]  Arne Bachmann,et al.  An Integrated Laboratory for Collaborative Design in the Air Transportation System , 2012, ISPE CE.

[33]  John C. Hsu.  In a Network-centric World , 2014, ISPE CE.

[34]  Simon Minderhoud,et al.  Collaborative engineering: A case study of Concurrent Engineering in a wider context , 1998 .

[35]  B. Blanchard,et al.  Life-cycle cost and economic analysis , 1991 .

[36]  R. Keeney.  Building models of values , 1988 .

[37]  Raffaele Filieri,et al.  A knowledge-based view of the extending enterprise for enhancing a collaborative innovation advantage , 2014 .

[38]  Arne Bachmann,et al.  New methodology to explore the role of visualisation in aircraft design tasks , 2014 .

[39]  Raymond M. Kolonay,et al.  A physics-based distributed collaborative design process for military aerospace vehicle development and technology assessment , 2014 .

[40]  Paolo Maggiore,et al.  Multidisciplinary Integrated Framework for the Optimal Design of a Jet Aircraft Wing , 2012 .