Application of System Engineering in Aircraft System Design

The development of modern aircraft is an extremely complex system engineering. From the global cooperation of commercial aircraft to the performance requirements of advanced military aircraft, the development process, methods and tools are required to be closely and efficiently integrated. In order to promote the comprehensive application of System Engineering in China's aircraft field, a series of System Engineering standards and manuals are studied. Those standards and manuals in the field of military and civil aircraft are all published or applied by INCOSE, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States and so forth. Taking commercial aircraft System Engineering as an example, the process, method and application cases of aircraft System Engineering at home and abroad are mainly studied. The results show that the industrial departments represented by COMAC has much System Engineering practice at the system level and subsystem level of aircraft. At the same time, domestic aircraft research and development departments are suggested to make more efforts on System Engineering standards, specifications, education and infrastructure.