A summary of industry MDO applications and needs

The AIAA MDO Technical Committee has sponsored a series of 10 invited papers dealing with industry (and related) design processes, experiences, and needs. This paper presents a summary of these papers with emphasis on the needs of industry in the area of MDO. Together the 10 invited papers and this summary paper comprise an AIAA MDO Technical Committee White Paper on this subject. This summary paper contains; 1) a short synopsis of each paper and the industrial design it describes, 2) a sorting of all of the salient points of each of the papers into MDO categories plus a discussion of each category, and 3), a summary of industrial needs distilled from the papers. It is hoped that this summary paper will provide a technology pull to the MDO technology development community by presenting the industrial viewpoint on design and by reflecting industrial MDO priorities and needs.