Abstract:The design of assembly tooling is located downstream of the aircraft design during the production of the aircraft, which is affected by the design of aircraft parts and the limitation of aircraft production preparation cycle. Its design time is urgent and the task is heavy. Traditional aircraft assembly tooling is mainly expressed in the form of text and twodimensional drawings, and the information is static, which results in the lack of unique data sources, low efficiency and poor accuracy of collaborative change management of aircraftassembly tooling. In view of the above problems, a collaborative change method of aircraftassembly tooling is proposed. Based on the model based definition (MBD), the relationship framework of aircraft and assembly tooling MBD models is established. Referring to related change propagation calculation method, the active and automatic prediction and the analysis of the influence of aircraft design change on assembly tooling change are realized. The feasibility of the method is verified by an example of an assembly tooling change design for an aircraft panel opening frame.