The production teams define, organise and perform the operations that manufacturing aircraft involves, i.e. the tools, the primary parts, the sub-assemblies and their final assembly, as well as the fitting.
Given the complexity of the products, a specific activity is required upstream from actual production. This is referred to as “industrialisation” and involves defining what will be manufactured on the basis of work done by the engineering department which has defined what will fly.
With the advent in 2003 of the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) concept, based on the use of CATIA (computer-aided design and manufacturing) and ENOVIA-VPM (technical data management) software, the whole line, from design through to production, is now fully integrated.
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