Concurrent engineering at Airbus ? a case study

Collaborative Engineering: an Airbus case study

This document introduces the main concepts of Collaborative Engineering as a new methodology, procedures and tools to design and develop an aircraft, as Airbus Military is implementing. Airbus designs and industrializes aircrafts under Concurrent Engineering techniques since decades with success. The introduction of new PLM methodologies, procedures and tools, mainly in the industrialization ar...

Airbus Concurrent Engineering Virtuelle Produktentwicklung am Beispiel Airbus

Concurrent Engineering Development and Practices for Aircraft Design at Airbus

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. It is mainly a question ...

AIT-VEPOP: VIRTUAL EARLY PROTOTYPING A means for supporting the work of Distributed Virtual Teams in Concurrent Engineering Environments

AIT-VEPOP (IST-1999-13346) is a European Research Project within the IST Programme of 5 Framework. The project is scheduled from July 2000 to June 2002. Members of the AITVEPOP consortium are EADS CCR (co-ordinator), Airbus GmbH, Astrium GmbH, Flowmaster Ltd., CNAM, University of Oulu, and DFKI. AIT-VEPOP deals with issues of cooperative work and concurrent engineering with respect to the use o...

Automated functional test case generation from data flow specifications using structural coverage criteria

This paper presents a study aiming at improving the cost and the thoroughness of testing process of avionic applications developed at Airbus. The proposed approach aims at generating automatically functional tests from formal detailed specification and a functional test objective. This automatic test data generation is guided by the specification structure and the functional test objective. Thi...