26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-6.7.3

USING LEAN PRINCIPLES AND MBE IN DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AVIONICS EQUIPMENT AT ROCKWELL COLLINS

D. Lempia
Rockwell Collins Inc., USA

Keywords: Modeling, Design, Development, Lean, Value Stream

This paper describes the lean principles enabled by what is called the Model-Based Engineering (MBe) initiative at Rockwell Collins for design and development of complex safety critical systems. The paper presents the resulting performance improvements for complex avionics systems design.

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