The Research of Product and Project-based Aerospace Product Lifecycle Management

The aerospace product lifecycle has become more complex than ever. The products are continuously integrating new technologies and equipments, the design and manufacturing of aerospace product has become large scale system engineering. Many PLM suppliers have provided integrated development environment for aerospace and defense products based on different product management methodologies. In this paper, we raise a new methodology of product lifecycle management based on the engineering practices and endeavors of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). In our solutions, we consider the process of product development as two parallel processes. One dimension is the product design and manufacturing management, the other is the project management. We integrate methodologies and technologies from product management and project management to implement a more comprehensive aerospace product lifecycle management. The utilization and integration of AVIDM based product lifecycle management platform and AVPLAN based project lifecycle management platform, which both are developed by CASC independently, have successfully supported development lifecycle management.