Thinking Aeronautical Manufacturing and Design Together (industry 4.0)
The construction of complex objects, such as an aircraft, often requires the establishment of a dedicated industrial system. By industrial system, we mean all tangible and intangible resources mobilized to manufacture the object (machines, workforce, processes, etc.). Traditionally, this system is defined after the product design: the product specifications are then used to determine the requirements of the industrial system. However, this approach has a drawback: some system constraints may become blocking. To avoid this, it is essential to adopt a framework that designs the product and its industrial system in a simultaneous and integrated manner.
For several years, I have been interested in how to design a product and its production system together. I focus particularly on requirements-related aspects, both in terms of elicitation and participatory modeling methods, and in terms of automatic computation techniques for their analysis.
Publications
- Anouck Chan, Anthony Fernandes Pires, Thomas Polacsek, Stéphanie Roussel, François Bouissière, Claude Cuiller, Pierre-Eric Dereux, Goal modelling in aeronautics: Practical applications for aircraft and manufacturing designs Data & Knowledge Engineering (Data Knowl. Eng. 155: 102375), 2025.
- Anouck Chan, Thomas Polacsek, Stéphanie Roussel, Exploring Goal Relationships in Satellite Assembly Line Design DB&IS 2024, 2024. (best paper award)
- Anouck Chan, Janis Stirna, Jelena Zdravkovic, Thomas Polacsek, Simon Hacks, Janis Grabis, Claudio Favi, Towards a New Method for Designing Manufacturing Capabilities DB&IS 2024, 2024.
- Anouck Chan, Thomas Polacsek, Brieuc Danet, Application of KJ Method in an Aeronautics Collaborative Project 17th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling Forum (PoEM Companion 2024), 2024.
- Stéphanie Roussel, Thomas Polacsek and Anouck Chan,Assembly Line Preliminary Design Optimization for an Aircraft 29th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, (CP'23), 2023.
- Anouck Chan, Anthony Fernandes Pires, Thomas Polacsek, Stéphanie Roussel, François Bouissière, Claude Cuiller and Pierre-Eric Dereux,Goal Modelling: Design and Manufacturing in Aeronautics Research Challenges in Information Science: Information Science and the Connected World - 17th International Conference (RCIS'23), 2023.
- Anouck Chan, Anthony Fernandes Pires, Thomas Polacsek and Stéphanie Roussel, The Aircraft and Its Manufacturing System: From Early Requirements to Global Design 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE'22), 2022.
- Anouck Chan, Stéphanie Roussel and Thomas Polacsek, Assembly Line Performance Analysis Based on Aircraft Preliminary Design: a Scheduling Approach. 18th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling, PMS 2022
- Alex Aquieta Nuñez, Anouck Chan, Alberto Donoso-Arciniega, Thomas Polacsek and Stéphanie Roussel, A Collaborative Model for Connecting Product Design and Assembly Line Design: An Aeronautical Case The Practice of Enterprise Modeling - 14th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, PoEM 2021, 2021.
- Thomas Polacsek, Stéphanie Roussel, Cédric Pralet, and Claude Cuiller. Design for efficient production, a model-based approach 13th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 2019.
- Cédric Pralet, Stéphanie Roussel, Thomas Polacsek, François Boussière, Claude Cuiller, Pierre- Eric Dereux, Stéphane Kersuzan, Marc Lelay, A Scheduling Tool for Bridging the Gap Between Aircraft Design and Aircraft Manufacturing. Proceedings of ICAPS'18 2018
- François Bouissiere, Claude Cuiller, Pierre-Eric Dereux, Stephane Kersuzan, Thomas Polacsek, Cédric Pralet, Stephanie Roussel, Co-engineering in aeronautics? The A320 forward section case study. 9th European Congress Embedded Real Time Software and Systems. ERTS2'18 2018
- Thomas Polacsek, Stéphanie Roussel, François Bouissiere, Claude Cuiller, Pierre-Eric Dereux and Stephane Kersuzan, Towards thinking manufacturing and design together: an aeronautical case study 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER'17), 2017.