PROJECT INFORMATION AND SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR AEROSPACE MANAGEMENT

An integrated system, requiring a dynamic data base, provides management decision data related to the overall effect of typical problems in aerospace vehicle development programs. Simulation models allowing management to determine the impact of engineering changes and delays on program and subprogram costs and schedules, with a technique for projects status evaluation, are presented. Analytical simulation models permit design optimization, evaluation of competitive proposals, vehicles and system performance verification configuration tradeoff studies, and identification of potential problems. Advantages of the system to project management are discussed and several examples of simulation model usage for a hypothetical helicopter program are given.