Design and Implementation of a Prototype for Information Exchange in Digital Manufacturing Processes in Aerospace Industry

Abstract

Aerospace companies have a wide range of information systems with different functionalities that are used along the aircraft lifecycle; this causes problems in terms of integration, information exchange and long term archiving of data. Ongoing standardization efforts, mainly under the standard ISO 10303 and the LOTAR initiative are addressing such problems. This communication shows a starting work dealing with the exchange of aircraft industrialization information. It proposes a simplified data structure to illustrate and validate an exchange approach based on combining ISO 10303 EXPRESS-G, UML class diagram and ISO 10303 EXPRESS-I. The PLM software Aras Innovator was used to make the implementation and validate the approach.