Process relationship based aircraft assembly unit partitioning

  • Cheng Zou
  • , Ji Hong Liu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

To improve aircraft assembly efficiency, the assembly unit partition method based on process association was put forward. The process split surface could roughly divide aircraft into subassemblies geometrically. With geometrically uncertain parts, grey region analysis was used to calculate process association among parts and relation viewing map was employed to determine their assembly units. The method was proved to be effective by partitioning a vertical tail of an aircraft.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1232-1237
Number of pages6
JournalJisuanji Jicheng Zhizao Xitong/Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, CIMS
Volume19
Issue number6
StatePublished - Jun 2013

Keywords

  • Aircraft assembly
  • Assembly unit
  • Gray analysis
  • Process split surface

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