The decision-making in the composites design process happens at three levels: business, engineering, and simulation. To deliver competitive solutions in such a complex industry, these three levels need to interact and integrate smoothly and seamlessly from the earliest stages of the process.

Defects, failures and the poor quality of a product result in losses in users’ experience and consequent economical losses in the market. Quality engineering, a robust optimization framework elaborated by Dr. Genichi Taguchi, aims to tackle these shortcomings by predicting and preventing them.

Let’s take a closer look as to why one of the most significant outcomes of the AFRL EXPEDITE program is that “server-based MDAO, modeling lifecycle management, and automated distribution is the preferred architecture”.

Ship design has been changing very fast over the past years, just like any other engineering field, to keep pace with technological innovations and competitors in the market.

MDO has historically not relied on any cost estimation tool of reasonable fidelity among its many disciplines. Even though MDO is ready and able to include and introduce cost analysis as another discipline and as an objective, the question is - should we?