The case study discusses Airbus as a leading commercial aircraft manufacturer, highlighting its complex design and industrialization processes. It explores traditional, concurrent, and collaborative engineering methodologies, emphasizing the integration of design and industrial functions through tools like DMU and IDMU. Additionally, it presents the Calipsoneo pilot project, which aims to demonstrate the application of collaborative engineering concepts to aircraft design and development.

1. CASE STUDY ON AIRBUS
Presented by:
Jeevan B M
4JC15MEE11
2nd SEM Automotive electronics
SJCE, Mysore
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2. CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Types
• DMU and IDMU
• Collaborative pilot project
• Conclusions
• References
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3. INTRODUCTION
• An air craft is a machine that able to fly by gaining the
support from air.
Hot air balloon Aeroplane
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• Airbus group started in 1969.
• Airbus is a world leading commercial aircraft manufacturer
headquartered in Toulouse, France. The organisation has
more than 80,000 employees, working in 160 offices across
100 countries
• The design and industrialization of aircraft is a complex
process.

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Fig. Workshare split of the A400M

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Airbus direct workforce in Europe *
Headquarters:  6/7%employees
Airbus France:  33 % employees
Airbus Germany:  37 % employees
Airbus UK:  18 % employees
Airbus Spain:  5/6 % employees
 50,000 people
• Airbus design is started in by producing the drawing
in the paper.
• The first air craft is the airbus A300
• Then CAD Tolls, DMU are introduced

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TYPES OF ENGINEERING
• Based on the way of production procedure classified into 3
types they are.
o Traditional engineering
o Concurrent engineering
o Collaborative engineering
• Traditional method is a olden method
• Now concurrent and collaborative engineering is used
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8. TRADITIONAL ENGINEERING
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9. CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
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• It is a work methodology based on the parallelization of tasks
which is sometimes called Simultaneous Engineering
• It is used in product development in which functions of
design engineering, manufacturing engineering and other
functions are integrated to reduce the elapsed time required to
bring a new product to the market
• The main concepts supporting Concurrent Engineering are.
Managing complexity, maximize the production by work
parallel, Synchronization

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• Concurrent engineering is brake down into five major
phases:
• Feasibility (product idea, specification).
• Concept (basic and product).
• Definition (instruction to produced).
• Development (start and finish the model).
• Service.

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COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING
• It break the wall between functional design and industrial
design.
• It is a new methodology that needs new procedures and new
PLM tools are used.

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DMU and IDMU
• DMU
o ‘DMU as master’ is a standard
inside Airbus
o DMU is a simulation based on
numerical and/or digital models
that represents part of a product
(airframe, systems, avionics, …).
o DMU, mainly to check functional
design interferences(3D)
o The DMU is quite a complex
engineering object, and requires
proper management DMU
integrators are used
Figure 7. A320neo Fan Cowl
Digital MockUp (DMU)

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• IDMU
o ‘iDMU for all’ is a new concept. It is the main enabler of the
Collaborative Engineering.
o provides a common virtual environment for all the aircraft
development
o Functional design and industrial design are part of a single
design process
o IDMU collect the information related to functional design
plus all the information related to industrial design
o The end of the design phase, they guarantee a correctness
solution

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Fig. 8. A320neo Fan Cowl industrial Digital Mock-up (iDMU)

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PILOT PROJECT
• It break the wall between functional design and industrial
design.
• Calipsoneo was launched to support the development of pilot
project.
• Calipsoneo involves Engineering Companies, IT companies,
Vendors and Research Centres and Universities
• Calipsoneo makes use of the newest PLM tools. Also
implements the new methods and process needed to support a
new style of design
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• The A320neo fan cowl pilot project and the Calipsoneo aims
to demonstrate:
• Collaborative Engineering concepts applied to aircraft design
and manufacture.
• Capability to generate an iDMU. 3D product, process and
resources.
• Configuration based on individual iDMU per specimen.
• Availability of PLM tools, develop, customization and
deployment of new capabilities.
• Use of new PLM tools at design engineering level
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18. CONCLUSION
•Collaborative Engineering is a broader approach derived
from the previous Concurrent Engineering experiences.
•The harmonization of functional design area and industrial
design area having different departments and different heads
•The concept of a unique team doing all design functions has
a large set of implications
•PLM experts were focused on PLM tools and create the new
iDMU
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19. REFERENCES
 Airbus practices for maintainability and human simulations
by christophne le Roye Roy
 www.sciencedirect.com- this gives a different case studies
 vmware-airbus-15q3-en-cs- gives information about
Airbus
 Wikipedia on concurrent engineering, airbus, cad
 Concurrent engineering and practices for air craft design at
airbus journal paper
 Design and development of transport aircraft system by
HAW hamberg.
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