As restricted by airplane R&D circle, aircraft tooling design is desired to comply with
airplane product design and subsequent portions. However, cooperative design for aircraft tooling,
especially large-sized one, is difficult and the reasons are as follows: ①The quantity for Aircraft
tooling parts is enormously large, the size is large, and the structure is complex. ②Tooling design
procedure is complicated with many portions to be coordinated. ③Airplane product amendments are
frequent and hard to trace. Aircraft tooling design tends to proceed without effective mechanism to
evaluate and optimize manufacturing process, scheduling and etc. With these difficulties considered,
an aircraft tooling cooperative design model based on Neuron-Endocrine-Immunity working
principle is presented in this paper. Resorting to shared chemical information molecules,
Neuron-Endocrine-Immunity system forms an extensive and complicated regulating network which
regulates all cells and tissues in human body. Referring to this principle, aircraft tooling design system
involves controller and controlled objects. With adaptive and self-organized tooling design
procedure, rapid adjustment or reconfiguration can be realized. Meanwhile, the feasibility and
validity of adjusting task plans and tooling design schedules are ensured. To implement this model, a
multi-agent-based framework for aircraft tooling cooperative design is proposed. This framework
incorporates PDM and united structure for effective collaboration in terms of unified data sharing,
convenient tool wrapping and decentralized control. A pilot system has been developed and testified
in an aircraft manufacturing enterprise, thus lessening repetitive modifying workload, ensuring design
quality and project schedule.