All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission, provided that full acknowledgement is given. Dr Linda Hendry is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University Management School. She has extensive research experience within the manufacturing sector, with particular interest in Make-to-Order high customisation companies. She has wor...

In the last years, the industrial world has been increasingly adopting computer-aided solutions for design for maintainability and maintenance training tasks with the goal to reduce development costs and to shorten time, and to improve product and service quality. Computer-based training systems created to simulate machine assembly maintenance are normally operated by means of ordinary human–co...

It is estimated that over 25% of the world's commercial airline fleets are composed of aircraft over the age of 20 years. As a result of these aircraft exceeding their initial projected lifetime the issue of in-service inspection has become critical for the safe and economical management of fleets. The requirement for reducing inspection time by minimising 'false calls' and avoiding inspection ...

Many manufacturing processes have become fully automated resulting in high production volumes. However, this is not the case for inspection. Shortening the inspection times in manufacturing industry using the available information resources can result in the reduction of production lead-time and overall costs. Rapid advances in machine tool technology have resulted in fast processing Computer N...

A fundamental shift is occurring in many industries away from the selling of products (e.g. cars) to the provision of services (e.g. transport, car leasing). Essential to the long-term success of businesses in this emerging global environment is the creation of new Integrated Products And Services (IPAS). For example in Rolls-Royce plc (RR) the business model is changing from one of selling pro...

Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites offer very high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios. As a result, the aerospace industry is making a major effort to incorporate an increasing number of composite materials into various components and structures. However, machining of FRP composites is one of the most difficult and least understood areas in manufacturing technology. Thus, ...

In this paper a number of issues on impactin mechanical systems are presented.Emphasis is on modelling, simulation andcontrol in a real-time setting for aerospaceapplications.

One of the most pervasive problems in large-scale engineering projects is the difficulty in realistically visualizing models for evaluating the design and its visual appearance. The prohibitively high investment of using physical mockups has led to pre-assembly being performed almost entirely digital. Unfortunately, the vast complexity of full CAD datasets and the required realism can not be ha...