Framework to support the aircraft digital counterpart concept with an industrial design view
With a specific focus on the aerospace sector, this paper is a starting point in the definition of a framework, based on a commercial software system, to facilitate the biunivocal relation between a physical individual aircraft, identified by means of a 'manufacturing serial number' (MSN) and its equivalent digital counterpart. It reviews the different topics involved in the creation of an aircraft digital counterpart, i.e. complexity, identification, lifecycle, information and configuration, and the main software applications involved. Then, it shows the implications on the digital counterpart creation from the view of the aircraft industrial design. Finally, it discusses the proposal of a supporting framework based on Dassault system