Development Trends and Innovations in Aerospace System Testing Using the Example of High-Lift

摘要

Increasing product functionality and interconnection leads to higher system complexity, not only in many aviation applications but also in other industries such as in the automotive, railway or energy sector. Besides that, an increasing demand on reliability and maturity from the beginning of the product development phase requires new design, testing and certification procedures. This tendency is strengthened by reduced development and testing costs as well as by shortened development and testing schedules. In this paper different approaches and strategies in order to react to these changes and meet the demands of future system testing and certification processes are presented. To this end, first the limitations of current systems engineering methods are outlined and illustrated by different examples. Following, novel design and development methodologies found in literature and industry application are discussed. Furthermore, driving technologies in the field of wing moveables, which are considered to have an effect on future systems testing, are analysed. In order to derive potential improvements, the current integration and testing process for high-lift systems is explained. In the last part, different innovations and new approaches regarding system test means and methods are presented, in order to support novel, agile system design and development processes.