Abstract
Airlines need to continuously extend and modernise their fleets, to keep up with the challenges of air-travel growth, competition, green, safe and secure operations, and growing passenger demands. As a result, the aircraft industry and its supply chain have to manage the growing needs for cost-efficient and complex aircraft in increasingly shorter time. Meanwhile they face their own challenges, such as certification and global competition. Quick evaluation of promising new technologies and concepts facilitates a short time to market. However, the required innovations are costly and risky, and require involvement of many experts from different disciplines and partners. Increasing the level of collaboration within the aircraft industry and its supply chain will be an essential step forward to deal with the challenges. Developing modern aircraft in an increasingly cost and time efficient manner in a collaborative set-up however requires step changes. The EU-funded Horizon2020 project AGILE has developed methods and tools for efficient and cross-organisation collaborative aircraft design, facilitating the rapid evaluation of new technologies and concepts at the early stages of aircraft development. This paper describes the capabilities and illustrates the successful integrated application of the capabilities by means of a collaborative aircraft rudder design evaluation.
Highlights
Global air travel is doubling every fifteen years [1]
The EU-funded Horizon2020 project AGILE targets the significant reduction of aircraft development costs by enabling a more competitive supply chain to reduce the time to market of innovative aircraft products
AGILE focuses on the reduction of the aircraft development effort and time at the early stages of the design process, pronouncing the synergies among the overall product architect and the heterogeneous disciplinary experts, thereby exploiting the knowledge and expertise available in the supply chain
Summary
Global air travel is doubling every fifteen years [1]. Besides accommodating this growth, airlines have to deal with increasing passenger demands for fast, cheap, and comfortable travelling. The EU-funded Horizon2020 project AGILE targets the significant reduction of aircraft development costs by enabling a more competitive supply chain to reduce the time to market of innovative aircraft products. AGILE focuses on the reduction of the aircraft development effort and time at the early stages of the design process, pronouncing the synergies among the overall product architect and the heterogeneous disciplinary experts, thereby exploiting the knowledge and expertise available in the supply chain. With reduction of the aircraft development lead-time and increase in quality of the design and optimisation process as major goals, AGILE has developed and enhanced a set of capabilities for efficient and cross-organisation collaborative aircraft design [2]. The capabilities enable multidisciplinary experts from different organisations to collaboratively and rapidly evaluate new technologies and concepts at the early stages of aircraft product development.
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