Innovative Production Machines and Systems Conference

Authors: ANTONIA DE SIMONE, LUIGI NELE

Abstract

Composite materials offer great promise to all future air vehicles by allowing engineers to design and build aircrafts that weigh less, have better performance and lower lifecycle cost.
However even though these materials have been used by the industry for over a decade, there still does not exist an accurate means to estimate their cost. The primary aim of this study is to develop a cost estimation system in manufacture of advanced composite materials for aeronautic use.
The result of this study is the development of a predictive model that relates cost in direct labor hours. An artificial intelligence system has been successfully developed with the ANFIS Editor GUI of the Matlab Fuzzy Logic Toolbox.

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