Evaluating design decisions in real-time using operations modelling
Evaluating design decisions in real-time using operations modelling
Contemporary design processes of large aerospace products are rigidly focused on customer specifications in order to meet their expectations. Life cycle costs, design space exploration and value engineering are neglected, often leading to substantial cost overruns and delivery delays. Moreover, customer specifications are not scrutinized and design decisions are made ignoring potential operational knowledge. Value-driven design suggests a new approach using flexible customer specifications in order to find optimal designs by exploring the solution space. One aspect of this optimization is the simulation of the anticipated operational life of a product in order to gain operational knowledge and analyse customer specifications. This paper suggests that an operational simulation can be used actively or reactively by designers during the design process to improve a product. It is investigated how an operational simulation can act as a design decision support tool and how it can react to customer specifications. Answers are presented by means of a simulation model recreating the operational life of a Search-and-Rescue Unmanned Air Vehicle developed in parallel at the University of Southampton. The simulation's ability for acting as a decision support tool is explored by conducting a fuel tank size optimization. Reactive capabilities are explored by calculating the surplus value of using UAVs. This exemplifies the derivation of product specifications as the simulation reveals the value and hence usefulness of given customer specifications. It is shown that operational simulations benefit designers and overall product value by analysing product specifications and guiding designers to more informed design decisions
Schumann, Benjamin
722bf92c-a879-4dda-8137-7ba6078c51b5
Scanlan, James
7ad738f2-d732-423f-a322-31fa4695529d
Takeda, Kenji
e699e097-4ba9-42bd-8298-a2199e71d061
28 March 2011
Schumann, Benjamin
722bf92c-a879-4dda-8137-7ba6078c51b5
Scanlan, James
7ad738f2-d732-423f-a322-31fa4695529d
Takeda, Kenji
e699e097-4ba9-42bd-8298-a2199e71d061
Schumann, Benjamin, Scanlan, James and Takeda, Kenji
(2011)
Evaluating design decisions in real-time using operations modelling.
2nd International Air Transport and Operations Symposium, Delft, Netherlands.
28 - 29 Mar 2011.
10 pp
.
Record type:
Conference or Workshop Item
(Paper)
Abstract
Contemporary design processes of large aerospace products are rigidly focused on customer specifications in order to meet their expectations. Life cycle costs, design space exploration and value engineering are neglected, often leading to substantial cost overruns and delivery delays. Moreover, customer specifications are not scrutinized and design decisions are made ignoring potential operational knowledge. Value-driven design suggests a new approach using flexible customer specifications in order to find optimal designs by exploring the solution space. One aspect of this optimization is the simulation of the anticipated operational life of a product in order to gain operational knowledge and analyse customer specifications. This paper suggests that an operational simulation can be used actively or reactively by designers during the design process to improve a product. It is investigated how an operational simulation can act as a design decision support tool and how it can react to customer specifications. Answers are presented by means of a simulation model recreating the operational life of a Search-and-Rescue Unmanned Air Vehicle developed in parallel at the University of Southampton. The simulation's ability for acting as a decision support tool is explored by conducting a fuel tank size optimization. Reactive capabilities are explored by calculating the surplus value of using UAVs. This exemplifies the derivation of product specifications as the simulation reveals the value and hence usefulness of given customer specifications. It is shown that operational simulations benefit designers and overall product value by analysing product specifications and guiding designers to more informed design decisions
Text
Article_js.pdf
- Accepted Manuscript
More information
Published date: 28 March 2011
Venue - Dates:
2nd International Air Transport and Operations Symposium, Delft, Netherlands, 2011-03-28 - 2011-03-29
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 176341
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/176341
PURE UUID: 05e69137-611f-4907-bd86-886061fb3333
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 07 Mar 2011 11:32
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:39
Export record
Contributors
Author:
Benjamin Schumann
Author:
Kenji Takeda
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics