Concurrent Engineering Development and Practices for Aircraft Design

This paper studies the application of concurrent engineering-oriented design in the manufacture process of enterprise based on concurrent engineering principle and technology. Reduction of cycles (development time, series lead time) and costs along the product lifecycle is a permanent priority. Concurrent engineering aims at enabling this reduction, by putting together in a multidisciplinary way of working all the relevant skills contributing to product engineering, and by setting and managing the operational conditions for work in parallel. Through practice sample, this paper puts forward the methods and steps for realization of concurrent engineering in aircraft manufactory, which gives a kind of reference to application of concurrent engineering in relevant industry.