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Conceptual Design for Assembly in Aerospace Industry: A Method to Assess Manufacturing and Assembly Aspects of Product Architectures

Part of: Product Architecture and Modularization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

Francois Bouissiere ,
Claude Cuiller ,
Pierre-Eric Dereux ,
Corentin Malchair ,
Claudio Favi  and
Giovanni Formentini
Francois Bouissiere
Affiliation:
Airbus S.A.S.
Claude Cuiller
Affiliation:
Airbus S.A.S.
Pierre-Eric Dereux
Affiliation:
Airbus S.A.S.
Corentin Malchair
Affiliation:
Airbus S.A.S.
Claudio Favi
Affiliation:
University of Parma;
Giovanni Formentini*
Affiliation:
University of Parma;
*
Contact: Formentini, Giovanni, University of Parma, DIA (Engineering and Architecture Department), Italy, giovanni.formentini@unipr.it

Abstract

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In recent years, the air transport market has quickly grown, creating new civil aircrafts demand, challenging the actual production rate of aerospace industries. The bottleneck of the current civil aircrafts production rate lies in the capability of the manufacturing and assembly facilities in relation to the aircrafts architecture design.

The aim of this work is to develop a methodology and a related mathematical model that can be used at the conceptual design phase for the assessment of criticalities related to the product assemblability. The methodology allows to recognize modules and/or interfaces which are mostly affecting the assembly time providing a design tool for the comparison and evaluation of product architecture alternatives.

A preliminary application has been done on the nose-fuselage of a civil aircraft for passenger transport. The test case provides interesting outcome in the identification of modules and module interfaces which are strongly affecting the assembly phase and required a re-arrangement (new architecture design) for the process improvement.

Keywords

Conceptual designProduct architectureDesign for X (DfX)Aerospace industryProduct manufacturing and assembly
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Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2019 , pp. 2961 - 2970
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