24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-7.7.3

MECHANICAL MODEL CENTRIC DESIGN IN LOCKHEED MARTIN

H. Schimmoller
Lockheed , USA

Keywords: Model Centric Design, CAD/CAM, Mechanical Spiral Development, ASME Y14, ISO 10303

Worldwide, the Aerospace Industry is reassessing the processes that generate, and the data that constitutes, mechanical product definition. Principal among these factors driving this are efforts within our customer base toward more "network-centric" concepts of operations characterized by initiatives such as Simulation- Based Acquisition and Networked Systems-of- Systems Simulation. In LMC, this effort is known as Model Centric Design.

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