25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-9.3.3

ENGINEERING CHANGE ANALYSIS IN COMPLEX DESIGNS

A. Rutka, M. Guenov*, Y. Lemmens*, Mr. Schmidt-Schaffer**, Mr. Colemann, Mr. Riviere***
Airbus, France; *Cranfield Univ., UK; **EADS, Germany; ***EADS-CRC, France

Keywords: engineering change, change propagation, dependency modelling

Presented is a novel concept for modelling the impact of engineering changes throughout the product lifecycle. The methodology is demonstrated with case study from the aerospace industry. The conclusion is that the proposed method offers greater flexibility and accuracy and can be used for risk analysis.

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