Aircraft design

Sector: Private

Industry: Aerospace

Domain: Aircraft

Describe

Organization. A team of designers is tasked to design a series aircraft. The team consists of senior designers and junior designers. When confronted with design issues, junior designers tend to slow down if no senior designers are looking over their shoulders or sparring with them.

Environmental factors. Competition with other aircraft manufacturers.

Issues. Less access to the capabilities of senior designers leads to more time and effort to resolve a design issue.

Present

Goal. Increase performance.

Objective. Increase access to capabilities for designing a series aircraft.

Benefits. More adaptation, shorter design lead time, more growth.

Identify

• Production / Delivery / Strategy formulation:
  • Design a new aircraft in an existing series.
    • Retrieve the design rationale of another aircraft in the same series.
    • Reuse the design rationale of another aircraft in the same series.
    • Revise the design rationale of aircraft.
    • Retain the design rationale of aircraft.

Compare

• Organizational strategy:
  • Design a new aircraft in an existing series.
    • Retrieve the design rationale of another aircraft in the same series.
    • Reuse the design rationale of another aircraft in the same series.
    • Revise the design rationale of aircraft.
    • Retain the design rationale of aircraft.

Characterize

• Experience:
  • Design a new aircraft in an existing series.
    • Retrieve the design rationale of another aircraft in the same series.
    • Reuse the design rationale of another aircraft in the same series.
    • Revise the design rationale of aircraft.
    • Retain the design rationale of aircraft.

Appraise

• Multiple presence:
  • Design a new aircraft in an existing series.
    • Retrieve the design rationale of another aircraft in the same series.
    • Reuse the design rationale of another aircraft in the same series.
    • Revise the design rationale of aircraft.
    • Retain the design rationale of aircraft.

Anchor

• System. Elicit and include as instructions in the standard operating procedure:
  • Design a new aircraft in an existing series.
    • Retrieve the design rationale of another aircraft in the same series.
    • Reuse the design rationale of another aircraft in the same series.
    • Revise the design rationale of aircraft.
    • Retain the design rationale of aircraft.
• Skills. Train junior designers in the standard operating procedure.