Recent developments in and applications of advanced materials and processing technologieshave not only opened up the aircraft design space for improved performance, but also introducedmanufacturing cost, risk, and schedule concerns. There is a widespread acknowledgementwithin the aerospace community that closer integration of structural design and manufacturingduring all phases of product and process development is necessary to shorten the productdevelopment cycle, improve the design, reduce redesign and rework, and reduce cost and risk.This paper presents a roadmap to bring material and manufacturing considerations into structuraldesign during the early phase of product and process development, where design decisions havea significant influence on the final product yet a formal integrated process is missing. Theroadmap describes a bottom-up process to move knowledge, information, data, and analyses,from the later design phases to earlier phases to support decision making, a top-down process todevelop an integrated process for structural design and manufacturing, and a trade-offenvironment to allow for better decision making. The key to success for this roadmap lies inmatching fidelity and definitions while abstracting and organizing the knowledge, information,data, and analyses.The Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) is currently being supported by severalentities within both industry and government, especially by Boeing under the ManufacturingInfluenced Design (MInD) project, to further develop individual elements of this roadmap.
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