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DSM — Aircraft Cabin Retrofit

Fourteen engineering and certification activities of a widebody cabin retrofit taken in the programme plan's own order, where five irreducible rework marks are quarantined into four iteration blocks.

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Widebody cabin retrofit — engineering dependenciesProcess DSM · IR/FAD — read across a row for that element's inputs; marks above the diagonal are feedback.As declared3223233322322232223223322323232Cabin concept1Seat selection2Monument layout3Emergency egress analys…4Structural provisions5Electrical load study6IFE architecture7Cabin wiring design8Weight and balance9Flammability testing10Supplemental type certi…11Tooling design12Retrofit work package13First aircraft induction14Cabin conceptSeat selectionMonument layoutEmergency egress analys…Structural provisionsElectrical load studyIFE architectureCabin wiring designWeight and balanceFlammability testingSupplemental type certi…Tooling designRetrofit work packageFirst aircraft inductionPartitioned sequence32232333223222322232233223232321234Cabin concept1Seat selection2Monument layout3Emergency egress analys…4Structural provisions5Weight and balance6Electrical load study7IFE architecture8Flammability testing9Tooling design10Cabin wiring design11Supplemental type certi…12Retrofit work package13First aircraft induction14Cabin conceptSeat selectionMonument layoutEmergency egress analys…Structural provisionsWeight and balanceElectrical load studyIFE architectureFlammability testingTooling designCabin wiring designSupplemental type certi…Retrofit work packageFirst aircraft inductioninout03263623333222322121424231215 feedback marks — irreducible, held in 4 iteration blocks.14 activities · 35 dependency marks · density 19% · 5 sequenced stages · largest block 4Sequence runs top-left to bottom-right; 5 remaining feedback marks sit inside the boxed blocks.Highest fan-out: Seat selection (feeds 6) · highest fan-in: Cabin wiring design (needs 4)Block 1 · positions 2–4 · Seat selection, Monument layout, Emergency egress analysisBlock 2 · positions 5–6 · Structural provisions, Weight and balanceBlock 3 · positions 7–8 · Electrical load study, IFE architectureBlock 4 · positions 11–14 · Cabin wiring design, Supplemental type certificate, Retrofit work package, First aircraft induc…dependencystrength 3feedback (rework)iteration blockdiagonal (self)

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title "Widebody cabin retrofit — engineering dependencies"
mode process
convention ir-fad

# Declared in the programme plan's order: design first, certification last,
# which is exactly the assumption the matrix is drawn to test.
elements: Cabin concept, Seat selection, Monument layout, Emergency egress analysis
elements: Structural provisions, Electrical load study, IFE architecture, Cabin wiring design
elements: Weight and balance, Flammability testing, Supplemental type certificate, Tooling design
elements: Retrofit work package, First aircraft induction

Seat selection            <- Cabin concept(3), Emergency egress analysis(2)
Monument layout           <- Cabin concept(2), Seat selection(3), Emergency egress analysis(2)
Emergency egress analysis <- Seat selection(3), Monument layout(3)
Structural provisions     <- Monument layout(3), Seat selection(2), Weight and balance(2)
Electrical load study     <- IFE architecture(3), Monument layout(2)
IFE architecture          <- Cabin concept, Seat selection(2), Electrical load study(2)
Cabin wiring design       <- Electrical load study(3), IFE architecture(2), Structural provisions
Weight and balance        <- Seat selection(2), Monument layout(2), Structural provisions(3)
Flammability testing      <- Monument layout(2), Seat selection(2)
Supplemental type certificate <- Emergency egress analysis(3), Flammability testing(3), Weight and balance(2), Cabin wiring design(2)
Tooling design            <- Structural provisions(3), Monument layout(2)
Retrofit work package     <- Tooling design(3), Supplemental type certificate(2), Cabin wiring design
First aircraft induction  <- Retrofit work package(3), Supplemental type certificate
Cabin wiring design       <- First aircraft induction(2)   # findings on the first shipset