Research of module-based airplane configuration management technology

The increasing airplane diversification, complication, serialization, and customization needs an excellent configuration management and control system to guarantee the consistency, integrity, orderly and traceability of information data. In this paper, few key methods are proposed and analyzed to improve the airplane configuration management and control. Airplane configuration definition is optimized by classifying options and module. Management mode has been change from drawing-central to part-central management, and every part has been assigned a unique identification number. Airplane product structure is established by modules whereas Link-Module and Independent-Module are classified by relationship of modules and options. Effectivity is replaced on the module not on every part to simplified effectivity management. Improved hierarchical version control by two-level version tracking model has been introduced which provides the rules of changes about part number or version identification.