The Configuration Optimisation of Next-Generation Aircraft (CONGA) is a proposed framework in a response to industrial need to enhance the aerospace capability in the UK. In order to successfully address this challenge, a need to develop a true multi-disciplinary Set-Based Design (SBD) capability that could deploy new technologies on novel configurations more quickly and with greater confidence was identified. This paper presents the first step towards the development of the SBD capabilities which is to elicit the industrial requirement of the SBD process for the key aerospace industrial partners involved in this CONGA approach.
Several UK aerospace companies have identified a need for a new multi-disciplinary design and integration process to support the conceptual design and assessment of future aircraft configurations. A new project named ‘Configuration Optimisation of Next-Generation Aircraft’ (CONGA) has been launched as a response to this need. Together with three aerospace companies and support of Technology Strategy Board (TSB) this project aims to develop a selection of innovative capabilities to meet the future products needs by enhancing companies’ Product Development (PD) processes. Set-Based Design (SBD) based on the lean principles has been identified as a suitable approach to satisfy the aforementioned industrial needs. However these needs have to be thoroughly understood, well classified and commonly agreed. This paper is presenting the research done in order to capture and analyse the industrial requirements of the Set-Based Design approach for the CONGA project.
There is an interchangeable use of the term SBCE and SBD are loosely allowed in this research perspective although the difference exists.
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