A Design Support System For Crew System Automation

Crew system design and automation until today remains largely an unstructured, sometimes an ad hoc process. The penaltyj of course, inevitably is time delays and expensive redesign and retrofit based on largely a "band-aiding" process. This paper presents a structured design methodology for automation requirements analysis, specification, prototype design, and product development and describes the design and software implementation of a design support system for crew system automation that incorporates multidisciplinary computer-aided design and engineering procedures, tools, data bases, and models. Future enhancemenis that impact the effectiveness and efficiency of designs produced using such a computer-aided engineering tool are discussed and contrasted with the labor-intensive manual methods of today.