The Future of Aerospace Standardization

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The Future of Aerospace Standardization

• Mort Pearson, P.E.
• Mechanical Design Technical Discipline Chief
  Systems
• Pratt Whitney

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Standards are the largest source of technical
data used by Engineering and Operations
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Standards enable integration of product
requirements

• Physical and Functional interfaces
• Product Qualification
• Installation

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The Industry Landscape coalescing and
stabilizing
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Strengths of Todays Standards System

• Diversity
• Led by those affected
• Speed

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Weaknesses of Todays Standards System

• Funding
• Little Industry Integration

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Standards Organizations and the Industrys
Influence

• Aerospace Unique (Standards program exclusively
  Aerospace)
• AIA, AIAA, ARINC, ICAO, IATA, SAE Aerospace
• Aerospace Component (Standards program has some
  subject committees with aerospace content )
• ASTM, IEEE
• Cross Industry (Standards program produces
  content used by many industries)
• ASME, AWS, ASHRAE

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Aerospace Standards Challenges

• Rising global industry players
• Funding
• E-business processes
• OEM role of integrator

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Standardization evolution will be shaped by
customers

• Customer driven product design agility
• Convergence of technology sectors
• Collapsing design cycle times
• Large scale global collaboration

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Aerospace Standardization of the future

• Standards as data
• Industry integrating body (or bodies)
• Govt/Industry/User funding collaboration
• Collaborative interchange with global standards
  partners

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Additional Information
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What is Standards as Data ?

• Packaging standards information in a standard
  form enables.
• sharing and reuse of the data elements contained
  without reconstructing them
• sharing and reuse of the data by digital systems
  in the product design deployment stream

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Standards Distribution one approach
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