Are you 3D experienced?

Are you 3D experienced?
Are you 3D experienced?

Aerospace Manufacturing hears about the latest advancements Dassault Systèmes is making in the aerospace and defence industry with its 3DEXPERIENCE software.

Aerospace Manufacturing hears about the latest advancements Dassault Systèmes is making in the aerospace and defence industry with its 3DEXPERIENCE software.
Bold advancements remain the hallmark of the aerospace and defence industry that pioneered air and space travel. This spirit is now being brought to bear on new challenges ranging from securing programme performance and attracting the next generation of experts to pursuing new markets and taking on new competitors. Doing so in a scalable, sustainable, and profitable manner is the driver for innovation.

Born in aerospace and defence, Dassault Systèmes has driven innovations that have transformed how engineers, designers, and experts work. Equipping these individuals with the technology to define, communicate, collaborate, and predict how their designs will perform so they can be optimised even before they are built is the role of the company. This focus on performance has enabled the industry to answer past challenges.

Now the challenges of the future require a new focus - orchestrating how these experts interact. Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE solutions, tailored exclusively for aerospace and defence, break down the traditional barriers between teams, divisions, partners, suppliers, customers, and society to enable collaboration for creating truly innovative and better products.

Michel Tellier, vice-president, aerospace and defence comments: “We've partnered with the world's leading aerospace and defence companies for over 30 years in developing products to exacting requirements while incorporating complex technologies and mitigating risk. Dassault Systèmes extends that partnership to tomorrow's programmes with 3DEXPERIENCE solutions that enable aerospace and defence companies to confidently drive programme efficiencies, scale capacity to meet growth, and enhance the experience they deliver to their customers.”

Co-design to target

In today's aerospace and defence industry, many companies fail to reach their budget, schedule and specification targets due to increasingly complex systems, overly aggressive plans and the premature incorporation of new technologies. In addition, the design phase of a programme is plagued by disconnected workflows, point solutions differing across a programme's ecosystem, and the constant flow of unpredictable changes into a programme's design.

The recently launched ‘Co-Design to Target' addresses these issues by introducing an approach that ensures a programme is delivered on time, on budget, and on objective. To achieve this, Co-Design to Target includes several game-changing capabilities.

Co-Design to Target's programme governance capability not only coordinates programme execution, but inherently tracks progress against all key criteria including cost, schedule, workload, performance, risk and opportunity while a real-time view of an aircraft design's performance changes the way aircraft are engineered. Co-Design to Target provides designers and architects the ability to design not only in the context of traditional digital mock-up (DMU), but also in the context of a new Functional Mock-Up (FMU) that incorporates a design's behaviour. It delivers a more complete and true-to-life programme definition to orchestrate requirements, systems and structures, so that all engineers work in harmony.

Integrating engineering value streams, from design and simulation to part fabrication planning and resource programming preparation activities, Co-Design to Target's mission is to design components and sub-systems to reach their specifications quicker. This prevents late issues that may have a dramatic impact on program cost and schedule.

“While we have played a pivotal role over the past 30 years with our 3D design technologies in transforming how new aircraft are engineered, we must now focus on transforming how new programmes are executed with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform,” states Dassault Systèmes' executive vice-president of industry and marketing, Monica Menghini. “Our goal with ‘Co-Design to Target' is to provide an industry solution experience that delivers new levels of engineering productivity and the execution control to deliver programs as promised.”

Up, up and away

According to Bennie Peek, CIO of Bell Helicopter, the successful development of the 525 Relentless aircraft is a reflection of Bell Helicopter's close partnership with Dassault Systèmes.

“The use of Dassault Systèmes technology has been critical to our ability to execute the 525 programme on target,” he confirms. “Our partnership with Dassault Systèmes will certainly continue as we expand deployment of Dassault Systèmes solutions to new programmes.”

For the development of its new wide body aircraft, the A350 XWB, Airbus needed a way to ensure quality and consistency across all internal and external stakeholders worldwide to meet aggressive production ramp-up targets and customer commitments.

Airbus uses Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE applications for design, simulation and manufacturing on a single platform, where employees and suppliers collaborate in real-time on a unique digital mock-up.
Collaborating on the most accurate and up-to-date product information across the value chain has enabled Airbus to significantly reduce engineering changes and in turn deliver an exceptional level of first flight maturity - keeping the A350 XWB programme on target.

Didier Evrard, executive vice-president, head of the A350 XWB programme says: “We had many challenges including a very aggressive development schedule and the need to ramp-up production quickly to satisfy our delivery commitments. With 3DEXPERIENCE, our design quality and efficiency have considerably improved. We used CATIA to design the aircraft's structure, the installation systems, the tubing, the composites parts, and the electrical systems completely in 3D.”

Antoine Scotto, until recently head of the PLM programme for the A350 XWB at Airbus adds: “Airbus reinvented the way they sized and installed the hydraulic and electrical systems. With CATIA, we implemented a full 3D Master approach to design the electrical harness installation for the A350 XWB, which simplifies the process and improves overall design quality.

“Harmonising the end-to-end harness installation process reduced costs and lead-time, and supported the A350 XWB industrial ramp-up. Engineers have reduced the time needed to update an installation plan by 50%, and decreased the design change requests generated when creating manual 2D drawings by 25%. Everything was installed, fitted and verified digitally and if there were any errors, they were corrected before physical installation.”

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