Virtual Manufacturing concepts reducing the Flow Time in Aircraft Manufacturing

Abstract

The high cost and long lead times of traditional manufacturing makes it difficult for manufactures to efficiently meet eternally changing market demands. In order to determine the manufacturability of the component and low cost production of aircraft manufacturing, Digital Virtual Manufacturing plays a vital role. By the advancement in technologies like Virtual Manufacturing tools used through Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), are competent to access and reuse the best practices, as well as evaluate 3-D manufacturing scenarios. By implementing advance 3-D CAD systems with the CNC machines enables the success of the determinate assembly approach to significantly reduce the lead time aircraft manufacturing. This paper encompasses the virtual manufacturing concept to enable complex manufacturing set-up analysis, exchanging expertise at collaborative work. Virtual Manufacturing is using the manufacturing knowledge at PLM environment for defining the assembly process of an aircraft parts.