Design Within Complex Environments: Collaborative Engineering in the Aerospace Industry

The design and the industrialization of an aircraft, a major component, or an aerostructure is a complex process. An aircraft like the Airbus A400M is composed of about 700,000 parts (excluding standard parts). The parts are assembled into aerostructures and major components, which are designed and...

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Autores: Mas, Fernando, Menéndez, José Luis, Oliva, Manuel, Servan, Javier, Arista, Rebeca, Valle Sevillano, Carmelo del, Escalona Cuaresma, María José (Coordinador), Aragón, Gustavo (Coordinador), Linger, Henry (Coordinador), Lang, Michael (Coordinador), Barry, Chris (Coordinador), Schneider, Christoph (Coordinador)
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/93988
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/93988
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07215-9_16
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Collaborative engineering
iDMU (industrial Digital Mock-Up)
PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems
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Sumario:The design and the industrialization of an aircraft, a major component, or an aerostructure is a complex process. An aircraft like the Airbus A400M is composed of about 700,000 parts (excluding standard parts). The parts are assembled into aerostructures and major components, which are designed and manufactured in several countries all over the world. The introduction of new Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) methodologies, procedures and tools, and the need to reduce time-to-market, led Airbus Military to pursue new working methods to deal with complexity. Collaborative Engineering promotes teamwork to develop product, processes and resources from the conceptual phase to the start of the serial production. This paper introduces the main concepts of Collaborative Engineering as a new methodology, procedures and tools to design and develop an aircraft, as Airbus Military is implementing. To make a Proof of Concept (PoC), a pilot project, CALIPSOneo, was launched to support the functional and industrial design process of a medium size aerostructure. The aim is to implement the industrial Digital Mock-Up (iDMU) concept and its exploitation to create shop fl oor documentation.