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International Conference of the Italian Association of Design Methods and Tools for Industrial Engineering

ADM 2019: Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering pp 268–278Cite as

Design for Assembly in the Conceptual Development of Aircraft Systems

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Conceptual design for assembly and installation is a key enabler for the improvement and development of an aircraft and related components. This work attempts to define a design for assembly methodology suitable for the evaluation and architecture design of aircraft systems in the preliminary phases of product development (conceptual design). Three main aspects are covered within this work: (i) the definition of a design framework, (ii) the characterization of suitable parameters driving the assessment and development of product architectures, and (iii) the formalization of internal knowledge for that purpose. The proposed approach has been tested in the assessment and development of an aircraft nose section with positive outcomes in terms of knowledge formalization and robustness of results in relation with the issues retrieved by the analysis of the assembly line. Future works will focus on the methodology optimization including automatic data input and mathematical models refinement.

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  1. Università degli studi di Parma, Parma, Italy

    Claudio Favi & Giovanni Formentini

  2. Airbus Operations S.A.S, Toulouse, France

    Francois Bouissiere, Claude Cuiller, Pierre-Eric Dereux & Corentin Malchair

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, dell‘Informazione e della Produzione, Università di Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy

    Caterina Rizzi

  2. Dipartimento Di Ingegneria “Enzo Ferrari”, Università Di Modena E Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Angelo Oreste Andrisano

  3. Dipartimento Di Ingegneria “Enzo Ferrari”, Università Di Modena E Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

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Favi, C., Formentini, G., Bouissiere, F., Cuiller, C., Dereux, PE., Malchair, C. (2020). Design for Assembly in the Conceptual Development of Aircraft Systems. In: Rizzi, C., Andrisano, A.O., Leali, F., Gherardini, F., Pini, F., Vergnano, A. (eds) Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering. ADM 2019. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31154-4_23

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