Simulation and optimization of manufacturing process for aircraft harness

Author

Pei Gao ; Jingqian Wen ; Yaoguang Hu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Eng., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

550

Lastpage

554

Abstract

The harness manufacturing is mainly performed by handwork which has become the bottleneck of aircraft development. In order to improve the production efficiency, the characteristics of aircraft harness manufacture were summarized by analyzing the harness production processes. The model of production processes was put forward based on network graph to calculate the standard cycle time. And the actual production cycle was estimated by considering the effects of some uncertain factors. Finally, an optimized scheme, which aiming at promoting the balance of production line, was proposed by improving lineation process and adjusting operating positions. The simulation result in eM-Plant showed that the improvement can effectively shorten the harness production cycle time.

Keywords

aerospace components; aircraft; graph theory; aircraft development; aircraft harness manufacture characteristics; eM-Plant; harness production cycle time; harness production process; lineation process; manufacturing process optimization; manufacturing process simulation; network graph; production efficiency; production line balance; standard cycle time; Aircraft; Analytical models; Materials; Optimization; Wires; Wiring; aircraft harness; eM-Plant; optimization; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence Conference (ITAIC), 2014 IEEE 7th Joint International

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4420-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAIC.2014.7065111

Filename

7065111