1 INTRODUCTION One of the key challenges for Europe is to maintain and develop the European Aerospace sector as a world competitive industry. The European Commission has fostered several collaborative research initiatives in aeronautics yielding a number of successful projects. In the Fifth Framework Programme of the EC the financial support dedicated to the Aerospace industry alone is set to e...

The future “eEnabled” airplane, capable of participating as an intelligent node in a global information network, is a cyber-physical system (CPS) that requires real-time, continuous and concurrent monitoring as well as control. Vulnerabilities, however, can emerge from the integration of the eEnabled airplane with cyberinfrastructure such as the onboard embedded systems, the ground IT systems a...

In the aerospace industry, fracture requirements are usually expressed in a document titled "Fracture Control Implementation Plan (FCIP)." The plan specifies the fracture control criteria and procedures to be implemented on a specific program. The primary objective of these controls is to preclude flaw-induced structural failures that could imperil a mission or a Space Transportation System and...

The full exploitation of Composite Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) in so-called green aircrafts design is still limited by the lack of adequate quality assurance procedures for checking the adhesive bonding assembly, especially in load-critical primary structures. In this respect, contamination of the CFRP panel surface is of significant concern since it may severely affect the bonding and the...

Unique, and certainly complex, networks of suppliers, clients, and operators (end users), characterize the supply chain in the aerospace manufacturing industry. With the emergence of e-commerce and enterprise information systems, a number of processes, locations, and partners can be linked globally—and in real time. Motivated by the need to achieve global integration, a Canadian aerospace manuf...

Job shop scheduling problems occurs in automobile industry, aerospace industry, printing industry, and chemical industry. Job shop scheduling problems are real world and complex. The present work assesses the effect of change in setup times levels on make span, maximum flow time and maximum tardiness measures. The model of the job shop is developed in PROMODEL simulation software. Three levels ...

The various industries such as automobile industry, aerospace industry, printing industry, and chemical industry operate on job shop system. Job shop scheduling problems are complex and real world. The present work assesses the effect of change in shop utilizations levels on total setups and mean setup time measures. The simulation model of the job shop is developed for investigation purpose. T...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been widely used in pressure drop/hydraulic loss calculations in many industries, including the aerospace and turbo-machinery industry as well as in the nuclear power industry. During the past 30 years, a significant amount of time and effort have been spent in benchmarking the CFD tools and models against test data in aerospace and turbo-machinery industr...

Modelling, Optimisation and Decision Support tools are vital in most areas of engineering. As part of the Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment (DAME) e-Science project, a virtual “work-bench” has been developed that can aid the engineer in solving engineering design problems. While the problem that motivated the development of these tools was taken from the aerospace industry, this sort...

The present paper aims at identifying some critical factors related to current relationship structure frameworks that better organizes the strategy operations of the Brazilian aerospace industry to be the best qualifying candidate for innovation operation with a high level of efficiency and effectiveness. The objective of this study, based on the case study research methodology, is to analyze t...