24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-7.7.1

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT AND PRACTICES FOR AIRCRAFT DESIGN AT AIRBUS

T. Pardessus
Airbus, France

Keywords: concurrent engineering, processes, methods, design, aeronautics

Reduction of cycles (development time, series lead time) and costs along the aircraft lifecycle is a permanent priority. Concurrent engineering aims at enabling this reduction, by putting together in a multidisciplinary way of working all the relevant skills contributing to product engineering, and by setting and managing the operational conditions for work in parallel.

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