A Model-Based Approach to Trade-Space Evaluation Coupling Design-Manufacturing–Supply Chain in the Early Stages of Aircraft Development

Abstract

Product design and supply chain management are two research domains extensively explored in literature. In the last decades, many studies have highlighted that the integration of these domains is important to increase the profitability and efficiency of companies. However, most of these studies aims at optimizing the supply chain after freezing the design of the product, and hence addressing the supply chain as the following step in product development. This paper presents a value-driven model-based approach that concurrently links product design, manufacturing and supply chain in the frame of aerospace system design. Thus, the challenge is to expand the early design phase of an aircraft to account both for manufacturing choices (e.g. raw materials, manufacturing and assembly processes) and supply chain management (e.g. suppliers' location, production cost per supplier). Three domainsmanufacturing, supply chain, overall aircraft designare selected to investigate all the aspects related to the entire aircraft development, from the initial design to the manufacturing and the assembly, through the aeronautical supply chain. The modelling of

Value‐driven Optimization Campaign Addressing Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Overall Aircraft Design Domains in the Early Development Stage

“…This application case aims at enlarging the early design phase on aircraft by including manufacturing and supply chain properties. Therefore, a methodology, enabling the concurrent coupling of these three domains of manufacturing, supply chain and overall aircraft design domain has been formulated and implemented [5].…”

“…Similarly, for the value model theory. In particular, the supply chain, the overall aircraft design (OpenAD) and the value model tools have been implemented before this master thesis work [5] [13], while the manufacturing tool is created de novo and integrated with the others.…”

The Aircraft and Its Manufacturing System: From Early Requirements to Global Design

“…However, few works focus on the optimal global design, even though concurrent engineering is a common practice in aeronautic corporations such as Airbus [1]. In recent works, Donelli et al describes a value-driven model-based approach to assess a solution trade space for the aircraft design, manufacturing and supply chain [9]. Their main objective is to support decision makers in the early stages of aircraft development by coupling these different domains.…”

Automated generation of aircraft on-board system architectures and filtering through certification specification requirements

“…It is a methodology that aims at improving product development time, which for aircraft is a priority, by creating a multidisciplinary framework with all the disciplines involved in the design process, all of them explored in parallel [7]. Some key aspects of this include managing complexity by splitting the development into domains [8] (e.g., supply chain, manufacturing , maintenance...). This paper focuses on the certification discipline (i.e., safety analysis, reliability, compliance with the certification specifications).…”