23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-6.5.2

A MODULAR APPROACH TO THE AIRCRAFT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITY

G. Holmberg
Saab AB, Sweden

Keywords: aircraft development

This paper discusses some properties of future aerospace and defence systems in terms of need for flexibility and adaptability due to growing complexity of the system and increasing dynamics in its context. Some ideal properties of such a system are given in a general form using an axiomatic design representation. A framework is proposed to address the management of a product development capability, PDC, for this family of flexible complex systems, starting from the three dimensions: product, process and supply chain, as used in 3D concurrent engineering. The complex system is analysed for its classes of sub- systems from a perspective of flexibility.

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