Innovation in the aeronautics industry
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Innovation in the aeronautics and defense sector drives OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) to adapt in order to conceptualize, design, produce, test, certify and create new aircraft and aerospace vehicles in order to be competitive. However, many companies are involved throughout the product life cycle and it is essential that they too adapt to change.
Today’s suppliers are therefore increasingly faced with major challenges:
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Aeronautics industry challenges
- Remaining competitive
- Ensure smooth collaboration with partners
- Being at the forefront of innovation
- Plan production and estimate the operational feasibility
The aeronautics sector is a constantly evolving market, continually welcoming new players using new design methods with innovative technologies.
The first challenge facing companies in the aerospace and defence industry is to adapt to changes in the sector. They must therefore increase their productivity while maintaining quality in order to become more competitive.
The spirit of collaboration within an industry is essential. It is necessary to make the most out of global expertise and build closer relationships with customers and between different departments.
The rationalisation of development practices, accessibility and data sharing are essential for the smooth running of relationships between collaborators. However, the different document formats and different software version levels make these exchanges sometimes difficult.
In order to meet the requirements of their customers, aeronautics subcontractors will have to adopt a new way of developing, designing and testing their products.
The challenge of realistic simulation is fundamental because a design error can have catastrophic human and financial consequences. The aeronautics and defence industry is strongly impacted by the adoption of new digital solutions.
- Manufacturing planning and estimating the feasibility of support operations is an increasingly difficult challenge to overcome, with product variance increasing and technical changes accumulating throughout the program.
- Integrating these design-related business lines into manufacturing and for all types of parts is a practice that aeronautics industries, whether manufacturers, systems integrators or component subcontractors, are seeking to optimize. The development of manufacturing or assembly ranges directly within the PLM system therefore becomes an industrial practice to be mastered.
- The challenge for aeronautical subcontractors is to guarantee the quality of their new products while meeting the deadlines, objectives and costs imposed on them at the same time. Despite the use of increasingly complex components, industries must reduce their costs and meet ever more demanding demand to maintain their market share.
- The optimisation of production in the aeronautics and defence industry will make it possible to finalise projects more quickly and thus increase margins thanks to the reduction of the design phase.
The benefits of the 3DEXPERIENCE for aeronautics and defence
Enables better management of the relationship between partners and ordering parties, with access to the same information in real time at all levels: design, simulation and production planning. The platform enables save time, reduce errors and costs, improve responsiveness, facilitate exchanges, improve production and reduce time-to-market.
- Stay competitive thanks to 3DEXPERIENCE’s multi-physics simulation, which can support calculations in the field of mechanical strength and control factors such as temperature and the heterogeneity of the materials used.
- Improve the manufacturing process to enable aeronautical engineers to increase efficiency, shorten development cycles and reduce waste.
- Manage all your processes as part of an integrated value chain. Thanks to digital continuity, you can meet deadlines, budgets and targets from the call for tenders right through to delivery.
- Increase your productivity by 40 %. The growth of air traffic means that players in the aeronautical production chain are under pressure from major principals such as Airbus and Boeing to produce large volumes at low cost, while meeting very strict delivery deadlines.
- Reduce design times, identify issues upstream to improve quality and reduce the number of duplications to optimise the manufacture of parts.
- The 3DEXPERIENCE platform will enable you to win new market share, control the production chain, increase efficiency and boost margins.
- Digital continuity across all processes provides an integrated value chain to improve business efficiency and profitability. In particular, it allows you to gain agility and optimize your performance while controlling costs.
As part of the OEM and subcontractor relationship, digital continuity is ensured through the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, which offers a collaborative environment to simplify the development of new offers, collaborate on product development and facilitate the scale-up of manufacturing. This enables the real-time project execution, management and control from proposal to delivery, integrated support of audit and quality processes for certification to standards or OEMs requirements.
The Engineered to Fly offer
Engineered to Fly is the dedicated tool for small and medium-sized companies in the aerospace supply chain. This offering provides a whole range of dedicated tools and processes to help you meet day-to-day challenges and better manage the entire business process.
Fully integrated with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Engineered to Fly enables all processes to be managed in a connected way within an integrated value chain. Thanks to digital continuity, you can meet deadlines, budgets and targets, from the call for tenders right through to delivery.
Customer cases
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FLYING WHALES is a French company with a mission to revolutionise the airship by offering a high-capacity transport solution that is both more environmentally friendly and more economical. The company has chosen Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud to achieve this goal.
>> Discover the benefits they have gained from the 3DEXPERIENCE solution |
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FOKKER NEXT GEN, a leader in aeronautical engineering, is renowned for its design of light aircraft. The company has chosen Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform to develop its new-generation aircraft with zero CO2 emissions.
>> Discover the benefits they have gained from the 3DEXPERIENCE solution |
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EPSYL-ALCEN builds digital twins to speed up product development and facilitate maintenance. The company has chosen the DYMOLA solution to model complex mechanical, fluidic and thermal multi-physics systems.
>> Discover the benefits they have gained from the DYMOLA solution |
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