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Airbus practices for maintainability and human simulations
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Airbus | ACE : AIRBUS Concurrent Engineering
MISSION:
Providing Airbus with a competitive advantage by establishing integrated and efficient processes, methods and tools along the whole product life cycle.
SCOPE:
Integrate data and information related to the Airbus development process in the trans-national organization. Major focus on new aircraft programs.
What is a Digital Mock-Up?
A Digital Mock-Up is a simulation based on numerical and/or digital models that represents partially or globally a product or part of a product (airframe, systems, avionics, …).
Why using a Digital Mock-Up?
To support the analysis of the product during its different phases (project, feasibility, definition, post EIS).
DMU is used to ease design, understanding, validation, modification, information, selling, support & maintenance, ...
DMU is used to replace partially or totally the physical mock-up.
Simulation activities.
Assembly/disassembly simulation.
Verify if a part or an assembly (set of parts) can be assembled in / disassembled from its environment.
Trajectory simulation performedby a design engineer or/and a maintainability actor.
Maintainability simulation.
Verify if a part or an assembly can be mounted / dismounted by an operator or a manufacturing system (tools, robots, …).
Trajectory, sequence of manipulation,validation by maintainability experts.
Human simulation / process definition and validation.
Simulate that a part or an assembly can be mounted / dismounted by an operator or a manufacturing system.
Complete human / manufacturing simulationdefined by a maintainability / manufacturing expert
Simulation activities | Today status.
DMU status for geometrical engineering design and for manufacturing process.
Until 1998, all our previous aircraft programs have been fully developed by using the physical mock-up.
The A340-500/600 and A380 programs have been mainly developed by using the digital mock-up based on the Concurrent Engineering method (engineering simulation, digital factory).
Integration between aircraft engineering and industrialization engineering.
How to improve the today status?
Do more simulations?
Improve integration in our business processes and methods?
Improve tools : accuracy, rapidity,automation?