VALUE-DRIVEN TRADESPACE EXPLORATION FOR AIRCRAFT DESIGN, MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY CHAIN

Abstract

To meet the requirements of innovative, sustainable and circular aircraft configurations, nowadays it is essential to investigate the entire aircraft life-cycle from design to production, to the disposal after the end of the system operation. This surely enlarges the design space making the decision-making process even more complex: multiple criteria have to be considered at the same time while taking decisions. However, making decisions on future design configurations exploring all the possible solutions on the design space is essential to drastically reduce the overall aircraft cost. In this context, a value-driven methodology has been developed to support and simplify the multi-criteria decision-making process when addressing the concurrent manufacturing, supply chain and aircraft design. This research activity proposes an application of this methodology with the objective to identify the best alternative while trading, at the same time, decision-makers‘expectations related to the aircraft design, manufacturing and supply chain criteria. Decision-makers can so identify the most performant but also competitive aircraft configuration since the early life-cycle stages.