Grant: Engage Plus Grants Program

This is a follow-on project to an ENGAGE currently underway. Aircraft manufacturers around the world aretransitioning from traditional design and manufacturing approaches such as integrated product developmentteams and Lean Production. Industry 4.0 is a popular designation to describe the growing importance ofinformation systems across the entire product lifecycle. The structure of existing, software-based, productlifecycle management (PLM) and certification systems do not, in general, integrate PLM with requirementsmanagement as a generic model.Cascade Aerospace Inc. is a Canadian corporation specializing in the design, manufacturing and certification ofcustomized modifications to domestic and international third-party aircraft. Although many industries aredeveloping digital systems to manage engineering and manufacturing changes throughout the product lifecycle,engineering data management for businesses such as Cascade has the added complexity of integrating changesfrom the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and managing certification and testing requirements. Theprevious ENGAGE project explored the complex stakeholder interactions characteristic of this niche Canadianaerospace business model at the product life cycle or Tier 1, level. Process mapping techniques for Tier 2(deliverables), Tier 3 (Activities) and Tier 4 (work instructions and templates) levels in order to propose afoundational architecture (future state) for an appropriate requirements and data management strategy that bestsuits the needs of this unique Canadian business model.