Enhanced Basic Seat Assembly Concept Assessment: design methodology to advance civil aircraft seat installation

The Enhanced Basic Seat Assembly Concept Assessment is a design methodology applying Conceptual Design for Assembly theory to assess seats installation complexity in civil aircraft cabins. Initially assessing the installation process with only conceptual data, the method incorporates information across various levels of granularity, encompassing both conceptual and embodiment parameters. This research aims to include additional features to the original BSACA model as well as its software tool. The effectiveness of this approach was validated through different use cases (seats configurations based on airlines requirements), demonstrating the ability of the methodology in assisting seat concept assessment and redesign, yielding significant savings in time and costs throughout the Product Development Process.