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Article Dans Une Revue Research in Engineering Design Année : 2022

Innovative design on the shop floor of the Saint-Nazaire Airbus factory

Honorine Harlé
Sophie Hooge
Pascal Le Masson
Kevin Levillain
Thierry Ménard
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Benoit Weil
Guillaume Bulin
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Résumé

In this study, we examine innovative design practices on the Saint-Nazaire Airbus factory shop floor. The engineering and manufacturing engineering departments are in charge of the design of products and their industrialization, even though the factory is usually seen as a place for manufacturing, rather than design. However, there is also design activity in a factory that is devoted to the optimization of manufacturing processes. In this study, we highlight an alternative form of design that relies on a collective exploratory approach. A total of 30 projects from the Saint-Nazaire Airbus factory were selected and analyzed. Of these, two were selected as case studies to illustrate the factory's different design methods. Subsequently, quantitative analysis provided evidence of the existence of two design regimes: closed prescription and expandable prescription. The resulting solutions were examined, and it was found that designs under the expandable prescription regime provided more robust long-term solutions. This study offers new perspectives for reexamining innovation in manufacturing and exploring design activity on factory shop floors.
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hal-03807823 , version 1 (10-10-2022)

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Honorine Harlé, Sophie Hooge, Pascal Le Masson, Kevin Levillain, Thierry Ménard, et al.. Innovative design on the shop floor of the Saint-Nazaire Airbus factory. Research in Engineering Design, 2022, ⟨10.1007/s00163-021-00380-x⟩. ⟨hal-03807823⟩
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