The document discusses an aviation engineering tool that helps users navigate complex certification standards and processes. It provides visualizations of certification contexts, helps manage process complexity, allows tracing of project progress, and accelerates documentation issues. Screenshots show the tool's home screen where users can select a functional level to see applicable standards, roles and life cycle processes. Additional screens provide process-workflow and activity-workflow diagrams to illustrate steps, inputs/outputs, and documentation requirements based on the selected standard and process. The tool aims to address common challenges around certification such as understanding requirements, avoiding errors, and producing necessary documents.
The document discusses an aviation engineering tool that helps users navigate complex certification standards and processes. It provides visualizations of certification contexts, helps manage process complexity, allows tracing of project progress, and accelerates documentation issues. Screenshots show the tool's home screen where users can select a functional level to see applicable standards, roles and life cycle processes. Additional screens provide process-workflow and activity-workflow diagrams to illustrate steps, inputs/outputs, and documentation requirements based on the selected standard and process. The tool aims to address common challenges around certification such as understanding requirements, avoiding errors, and producing necessary documents.
The document discusses an aviation engineering tool that helps users navigate complex certification standards and processes. It provides visualizations of certification contexts, helps manage process complexity, allows tracing of project progress, and accelerates documentation issues. Screenshots show the tool's home screen where users can select a functional level to see applicable standards, roles and life cycle processes. Additional screens provide process-workflow and activity-workflow diagrams to illustrate steps, inputs/outputs, and documentation requirements based on the selected standard and process. The tool aims to address common challenges around certification such as understanding requirements, avoiding errors, and producing necessary documents.
The document discusses an aviation engineering tool that helps users navigate complex certification standards and processes. It provides visualizations of certification contexts, helps manage process complexity, allows tracing of project progress, and accelerates documentation issues. Screenshots show the tool's home screen where users can select a functional level to see applicable standards, roles and life cycle processes. Additional screens provide process-workflow and activity-workflow diagrams to illustrate steps, inputs/outputs, and documentation requirements based on the selected standard and process. The tool aims to address common challenges around certification such as understanding requirements, avoiding errors, and producing necessary documents.
• visualizing certification contexts • managing process complexity • tracing project progress • accelerating documentation issues AVIATION ENGINEERING TOOL THE PROBLEM: The following questions illustrate some challenges in designing and developing safety critical avionics.
Which tasks are
Which standards do I assigned to me? have to consider?
Which parts of the standards
are relevant to me?
How can I become fa-
miliar with the relevant standards?
How can I ensure to
keep my project on time?
Which processes do I need to follow?
How do I apply a standard
appropriately? How do I avoid costly process errors?
Which documents are mandatory
for certification? Which documents do I have to create? What do I do if there is more than one standard?
How do I ensure How can I easily produce
the quality of the the required documents? documents?
How do I avoid preparing unnecessary What do I have to take into
documentation? consideration if there is a new standard?
Do I have to issue documents How do I know that there is a
formatted in a specific way? new standard? AVIATION ENGINEERING TOOL THE SOLUTION: The following screenshots show the AET during use. INFO: • Home screen of the AET which enables functional level selection. • A functional level determines whether an aircraft function, system or equipment is going to be designed or developed. • Requirements for a functional level arise from the next higher level. • Navigation into a more detailed view occurs via smart-tags.
1. Functional Levels INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND SPECIFIC DIRECTIVES:
ARP 4761 (Aerospace Recommended Practice): Guidelines for
conducting an industry accepted safety assessment. ARP 4754 (Aerospace Recommendended Practice): Certifica- tion aspects of highly-integrated or complex systems installed on aircraft. ABD0200 (Airbus Directive): Special effort needed in the early phases of the system design process to produce products for use in Airbus aircraft. ABD0100 (Airbus Directive): General design requirements to be fulfilled by the suppliers of equipment for use in Airbus aircraft. DO-178B/C (Design Organisation): Aspects of airworthiness certification that pertain to the production of software for air- borne systems and equipment used on aircraft or engines. DO-254 (Design Organisation): Design assurance guidance for airborne electronic hardware.
INFO: Roles • A life cycle processes survey (roles and phases) which depends on the functional level selection. • During the individual phases all processes are • The life cycle processes involve four roles: Design, Verification (V&V), performed concurrently. The integral processes Configuration Management (CM) and Quality Assurance (QA). (V&V, CM and QA) depend on the development process (Design). • The roles differ in their objectives, activities and documents. • Processes run iteratively depending on the • The life cycle processes of the roles V&V, CM and QA are called integ- transition criteria specified during the planning ral processes. Their purpose is to ensure the correctness (V&V), phase. control (CM) and confidence (QA) of the Design processes and their outputs.
2. Life Cycle Processes
Definition and coordinati-
on of the activities.
Production of the re-
quested product as well as examination of the development processes and output data.
Assurance of communi- cation and understanding between the applicant and the certification authority. AVIATION ENGINEERING TOOL INFO: • The Process- and Activity-Workflow diagrams depend on the selected life cycle process. • They are divided into blocks of columns which are composed according to their semantics. • The two right-hand blocks of columns always refer the block of columns to their left. Relationships between the blocks of columns are represented by the position and colour of the elements. • Most elements provide additional information in tooltips.
3. Process-Workflow
Del: Delivery Mandatory (free format)
Del*: Delivery Mandatory + A4 or US equ. Format Req: Delivery upon Request (free format)
Provides information on how
the life cycle data need to be
submitted depending on the
safety-level. Provides information on which process- steps need to be performed. The selected smart-tag leads to the Activity- Workflow.
Provides information Provides information Provides information on on the associated on which data need to which data need to be standards and directives. be available to perform produced. The smart-tags The smart-tags provide the required process provide a template for the text passages cited from step or activity. required document. the associated norms.
4. Activity-Workflow
The activity should be performed
with independence (V&V, QA). The activity should be performed. Blank - Performance of activity is at applicant‘s discretion. Provides information on which activites need to be performed depending on the safety-level. Provides information Define the software develop- on which activities ment and integral processes need to be performed. AVIATION ENGINEERING TOOL ADVANTAGES: The AET... • offers additional, custom-fit information for designing and developing safety critical avionics. • tells the user what he has to do at every process-step. • enables autonomous familiarization with avionics certification. • hides all irrelevant information from the user. • provides best practices. • visualizes complex processes, simplifies correlations and helps the user to stay orientated. • guides the user precisely through the life cycle processes via step-by-step instructions. • ensures that all assigned tasks can be executed in time. • deals with both international standards as well as specific directives. • prescribes which documents have to be produced in which sequence and at which moment. • distinguishes between mandatory and optional documents. • supports the preparation of documents via tailored templates. • improves documentation quality. • knows which format certification documents must have. • helps prevent too much documentation. • is constantly updated. • makes alterations to the standards transparent. • reduces time and costs of certifying avionics. The Aviation Engineering Tool guides users through the planning, development and certification phase of avionics engineering. In these phases, users have to follow a number of prescribed lifecycle processes in order to follow standards of avionics design and development and comply with airworthiness requi- rements. The AET gives an overview of all these processes in consideration of international standards like DO-178B and DO-254 as well as specific directives such as ABD 100 and ABD 200. It makes them convenient via step-by-step instructions. It provides additional information and custom-fit assistance for every process step and activity. The AET manages multiple roles – Design, Verification (V&V), Con- figuration Management (CM), Quality Assurance (QA) – and solves both general and role-specific user questions.
The AET includes
• objectives for lifecycle processes, • descriptions of process steps and activities for achieving those objectives, • mechanisms for progress monitoring as well as • templates for the preparation of the required lifecycle documents.
The AET is likewise suitable for OEMs and SMEs. The AET is designed as a complement to existing engi- neering solutions and can easily be adapted to individual customer needs.
Funded by:
WIHM-Tech GmbH cbprocess GmbH & Co. KG - BIBA - Bremer Institut für Konsul-Smidt-Str. 8T Context Based Process Produktion und Logistik GmbH 28217 Bremen Am Querkamp 65 Hochschulring 20 28355 Bremen 28359 Bremen
