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Virtual maintainability
Technical Paper
1999-11-0141
Sector:
Language:
English
Abstract
A project is underway at British Aerospace to enhance the
maintainability of products and improve the efficiency of
maintainability analysis within the design process. Phase 1 of the
project was completed earlier this year. This 12-month phase
consisted of a broad-ranging requirements capture, technology and
technique evaluation, and concept development. The requirements
were derived from analyzing business processes, projects, design,
maintainability, human factors and maintenance disciplines, in-
service support staff, customers and maintainers in the field.
Using digital geometry data of existing aircraft to create
virtual environments, maintenance tasks were analyzed using
immersive virtual reality and digital human models. The results
were then compared with task analyses of the real tasks in the
field. This allowed us to assess the potential value of these
techniques for maintainability tools.
The conclusions were that no single tool will meet all the
requirements, and a suite of tools is under development to create a
maintainability analysis capability which will result in better
design for maintenance, with a faster maintainability analysis
process and direct synergy with support products.