Design Within Complex Environments: Collaborative Engineering in the Aerospace Industry

The design and the industrialization of an aircraft, a major component, or an aerostructure is a complex process. An aircraft like the Airbus A400M is composed of about 700,000 parts (excluding standard parts). The parts are assembled into aerostructures and major components, which are designed and manufactured in several countries all over the world. The introduction of new Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) methodologies, procedures and tools, and the need to reduce time-to-market, led Airbus Military to pursue new working methods to deal with complexity. Collaborative Engineering promotes teamwork to develop product, processes and resources from the conceptual phase to the start of the serial production. This paper introduces the main concepts of Collaborative Engineering as a new methodology, procedures and tools to design and develop an aircraft, as Airbus Military is implementing. To make a Proof of Concept (PoC), a pilot project, CALIPSOneo, was launched to support the functional and industrial design process of a medium size aerostructure. The aim is to implement the industrial Digital Mock-Up (iDMU) concept and its exploitation to create shop fl oor documentation

A Framework to Manage Quality of Enterprise Content Management Systems

There is a wide range of enterprise content management (ECM) systems which supports, among other things, document management processes, records management and Web content management. However, each of these systems has many features and some of them can meet organizational needs depending on the scale, sector and workflow of the organization. In addition, it is very common that organizations are unaware of what ECM system best fits their needs, since each company has its particular scope and strategic objectives. This chapter is contextualized within the real project called THOT designed for the Andalusian Public Administration in Spain. The aim of this project is to study in detail ECM systems and propose an objective method to compare them for the specific scope and strategic objective of organizations. Quality evaluation framework (QuEF) has been adapted for this purpose

Developing Web Geographic Information System with the NDT Methodology

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2010-20057-C03-02Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN 2010-12312-EJunta de Andalucía TIC-578

Connecting HL7 with software analysis. A model-based approach

HL7 is an international organization that defines standards on health information systems. Most HL7 domain information models are designed according to an own graphic language. All this domain models are based in a unique metamodel. In the last years, many researchers have considered the possibility of using HL7 in the Model Driven Engineering (MDE) context. However, we have identified a weakness: most MDE tools do not support HL7 own model language, but all of them support UML standard model language. The present research area aims to connect HL7 with software analysis through a model-based approach.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2010-20057-C03-02Junta de Andalucía. Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresas TIC-5789Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación RD09/0077/0002