28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-6.4.4

A METHODOLOGY FOR PARAMETRIC PRODUCTION PLANNING IN PRELIMINARY AIRCRAFT DESIGN

C. Sundaresan, Z. Tang, J. Ceisel, D. N. Mavris
ASDL, Georgia Inst.of Technology, USA

Keywords: aircraft design, cost abstraction, design for manufacturing, production planning, surrogate modeling

This paper outlines a methodology to incorporate parametric design, production planning and scheduling optimization into a multi-disciplinary model in order to conduct design and producibility trades during preliminary design, applied to a composite fighter wing, enabling us to minimize cycle time, cost, and risk while maximizing performance and production rate.

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