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Best-in-class Comprehensive Solutions for Aeropsace and Defence

As the Aerospace & Defense industry grapples with challenges around growing customer expectations coupled with increased program complexity, it becomes tougher to compete effectively.

Therefore, there is greater emphasis on accelerating innovation, driving efficiencies, and exploring ways to build the factory of the future to allow for greater agility. Therefore, the A&D companies seek new ways to conceptualize, design, manufacture, test, certify and sustain new air and space vehicles.

Engineered to Fly

Engineered to Fly allows small and medium Aerospace and Defense suppliers to grow their business profitably from bid to delivery. Based on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform that reduces complexity to develop new bids, collaborate during product development and facilitate manufacturing ramp-up, the solution helps Aerospace and Defense suppliers to achieve higher margins and shorter design cycles. It also helps achieve superior quality as issues are identified early. Organizations can reduce the number of duplicate parts and optimize for manufacturing, helping them win more business. They also benefit from greater control and higher margins.

Build to Operate

The Build to Operate industry solution experience is based on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and helps aerospace Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers to accelerate meeting of production targets and increase manufacturing capacity. It allows these organizations to implement lean practices, integrate new technologies, and meet demand without sacrificing either quality or schedule.

Build to Operate offers manufacturing managements a real-time view of plant status, thereby helping them significantly improve their control of manufacturing operations.

Co-Design to Target

With Co-Design to Target, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) can integrate disparate tools, organizations, and processes into a single stream to optimize form, fit and function in an integrated System Digital Mock-up (DMU). This System DMU can avoid many of the integration issues that significantly impact the cost and schedule of a program.

This helps identify potential issues before the final system is assembled and avoid delayed delivery. The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform enables program convergence with a real-time view to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across all departments, sites and suppliers. This enables them to better handle technology advancements, manage programs in real-time, and Improve program execution through multidisciplinary simulations.

Reinvent The Sky

Reinvent The Sky is designed to help start-ups, small and medium enterprises and OEMs in the development of disruptive solutions such as small, light aircraft, electric vertical take-off and landing, as well as space launchers and satellite propulsion. With Reinvent The Sky, companies can optimize program execution and simulate the product, accelerating the product lifecycle from concept to certification. They can also speed up prototypes. The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform on the cloud helps reduce complexity and ensure quality during product development.

As demand for new urban air mobility goes up, start-ups need to find the right tools that empower them to efficiently deliver new mobility while minimizing IT-related expenses and ensuring safety. By allowing for better collaboration across functional teams, lower IT costs, and enabling scale with project maturity and company cash flow, the cloud-based Reinvent The Sky solution brings several advantages.

Keep them Operating

The Keep Them Operating integrated solution is powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform and helps to improve the spare part, support & service engineering, and MRO businesses, which are a significant source of potential business growth for aircraft manufacturers.

It gathers, aligns and enriches digital data continuity and delivers a potential competitive advantage by improving business processes, optimizing parts availability and anticipating potential issues. In addition, it allows teams work together in real-time through integrated value chains.

It helps add new sources of sustainable revenue, increases fleet availability and speed of optimization analytics, and promotes reduced total cost of fleet ownership.

Ready for Rate

Ready for Rate allows Aerospace and Defense Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers to accelerate manufacturing ramp-up and improve quality. With Ready for Rate, engineering and manufacturing planning stakeholders to connect the dots and have real-time access to accurate product and product build information.

With the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, aerospace manufacturers can implement lean practices that remove waste in critical areas of manufacturing. Manufacturing processes can be defined and validated down to individual work instructions virtually. This helps eliminate potential issues and waste before they occur. In addition, Ready for Rate enables flexible production to deliver first-time quality, on budget, and on schedule products by improving manufacturing efficiencies, accelerating production implementation and harnessing the supply chain.

Cleared to Operate

Today, challenges such as the need to significantly lower its environmental footprint, develop new urban air mobility vehicles, and foster a new wave in space conquest are creating a highly competitive environment in the Aerospace & Defense industry. Testing and certification play an important role in the process of developing next-generation designs.

The Cleared to Operate industry solution experience helps improve and accelerate testing verification, validation and certification processes by connecting all disciplines and while providing full management visibility. Through high-fidelity simulation capabilities, it allows for early and comprehensive assessments to ensure timely delivery of new designs with confidence. It also cuts down on non-recurring costs by optimizing overall testing budget and enables certification on time.

Program Excellence

The increasing complexity of program and system requires business transformation for OEM and large suppliers, in order to secure program performance and increase revenue.

With Program Excellence, companies can optimize product strategy and reach high levels of efficiency in program execution, enabling them to better handle increasing complexity.

Program Excellence allows companies to implement their digital transformation around governance, configuration, collaboration and analytics. It provides a collaborative business platform to enable maximized interdisciplinary collaboration, to optimize product architecture for reuse and modularity and to capture and reuse knowledge and knowhow.

Winning Concept

With Winning Concept, aerospace and defense companies get the freedom to define new offers or win new business. They have an opportunity to explore a significantly greater number of concepts (1000x) virtually. This not only enables them to optimize designs for cost, performance and manufacturability, but they can also ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.

This is significant given that the right choices in an early phase have a deep impact on success. The right cost decisions made during a program's concept or preliminary design phase have a large impact on total lifecycle cost.

Through comprehensive analysis of required systems engineering choices coupled with associated trade studies, companies can fine tune the accuracy and fidelity of different proposal or offers. This enables them to spend more time on product innovation instead of proposal management. In addition, the product is designed to shorten ramp up cycles, optimized for wins, and enable efficient and effective bid development.

Passenger Experience

The Passenger Experience solution provides a platform combining emotion and automation across engineering, manufacturing and certification processes. It allows sales and marketing, aerospace companies can define engaging new experiences and simply create realistic visual assets to drive new sales through digital continuity.

Aerospace manufacturers can also be improving the inflight cabin experience through personalization of the cabin experience as well as the marketing experience.

Airport Experience

Airport Experience integrated solution is powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. By providing a single source of information, it enables the creation of a virtual twin of an airport. It acts as a foundation for the creation of agile, smart and sustainable airports of the future.

As air travel volumes increase, airlines and airports often grapple with significant increases in passenger demand. In such instances, achieving operational excellence without sacrificing passenger experience is a big challenge.

Airport Experience creates greater visibility on airport operations, infrastructure and passenger experience and helps ensure smoother functioning through scenario planning by simulating “What-if” scenarios. In addition, it can foster effective collaboration, productivity, planning, efficiency, superior passenger experience, and better decision-making through greater situational awareness and predictability.