• aircraft
• methods
• lean
• automated
• manoeuvrability
• Adams
• groundlines
• modelling
• simulation
• Airbus

The purpose of this work is to investigate about the processes adopted to perform some Aircraft Level analyses and to create new methods and approaches in order to automate them, to speed them up, and to re-use the model created for all the aircraft.
This approach is in compliance with the principles of the Lean Philosophy developed by Toyota (based on mapping the processes, finding what is value adding, non value adding and what the sources of waste are, and trying to continuously improve the process).
The analyses taken into account for this work are Groundlines, Jacking Groundlines and Ground Manoeuvrability.
The programmes the work refers to are A350XWB, A380 and the A320 family, but the methods will be applied for the same analyses on all the other aircraft.