Print Email Facebook Twitter Model-based approach for the automatic inclusion of production considerations in the conceptual design of aircraft structures Title Model-based approach for the automatic inclusion of production considerations in the conceptual design of aircraft structures Author Bruggeman, A.M.R.M. (TU Delft Flight Performance and Propulsion) Bansal, D. (TU Delft Flight Performance and Propulsion) la Rocca, G. (TU Delft Flight Performance and Propulsion) van der Laan, T (Fokker Aerostructures) van den Berg, T. (Fokker/GKN Aerospace) Date 2024 Abstract Including production considerations in the early design stages of aircraft structures is challenging. Production information is mostly known by experts and rarely formally documented such that it can be effectively used during the design process. Producibility is mostly considered after completing the design, resulting in increased cost and development time due to the late discovery of production issues. This paper presents a new model, called the Manufacturing Information Model (MIM), which supports the automatic inclusion of production considerations into the design process. The MIM provides a single source of truth and a generic structure to capture and organize production-related information in a product system. Furthermore, it provides compatibility analyses to automatically warn for or exclude infeasible designs. Analysis tools use the information stored within the MIM to calculate the mass, costs, and production rate of the product. To show the functionalities of the MIM, it has been applied to the conceptual design of a wing box at a Tier 1 company. This use case shows how the MIM supports trade-off decisions, as it allows for the identification of trends and the ranking of different manufacturing concepts. Overall, the MIM provides a structured and formal approach to include production information in the conceptual design, improving the decision-making process. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:896d1388-10e5-4142-980c-e8c9c77ddfff DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2716/1/012022 ISSN 1742-6588 Source Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2716 (1) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2024 A.M.R.M. Bruggeman, D. Bansal, G. la Rocca, T van der Laan, T. van den Berg Files PDF Bruggeman_2024_J._Phys._C ... 012022.pdf 2.32 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:896d1388-10e5-4142-980c-e8c9c77ddfff/datastream/OBJ/view