Aerospace & Defense

In the Aerospace and Defense sector, escalating customer demands—such as reduced costs, enhanced standards, and increased capabilities—combined with growing program complexity, create significant competitive challenges.

As systems grow more intricate in design, construction, and delivery, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers must hasten innovation, enhance efficiencies, and transition to the factory of the future, which allows for greater production agility. This shift necessitates a fresh approach to conceptualizing, designing, manufacturing, testing, certifying, and sustaining new aerospace and space vehicles.

Transform airport business and operation using the Virtual Twin Experience

The Airport Experience Industry Solution, powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, ensures business continuity while delivering financial, operational, and customer experience advantages. By adopting this solution, airports can meet their innovation and collaboration objectives while prioritizing the safety, health, and security of passengers.

With the simulation capabilities of Airport Experience, airport teams can conduct virtual testing to address challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This opens up a world of possibilities for future-proofing the airport through scenario planning, allowing teams to simulate "What-if" scenarios and develop contingency strategies to tackle operational issues before they arise. Ultimately, airports can enhance their operational performance by running What-if scenarios based on both simulation and real data in a virtual setting without disrupting daily operations. Imagine the potential of envisioning tomorrow's airport in today's virtual realm.

The Airport Experience can revolutionize how airports prepare for, manage, and recover from crises, whether they are pandemics or other extraordinary events. As significant contributors to the economic vitality of their regions, airports must utilize every available resource to foster a safe and healthy environment for passengers, ensuring they feel comfortable returning to travel.

Digital Continuity throughout Manufacturing Operation and its Supply Chain

In the current aerospace manufacturing landscape, the supply chain faces significant pressure to meet rising demand. Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are finding it challenging to scale up quickly and urgently need to utilize the virtual factory to boost their production rate while managing costs, quality, and timelines effectively.

The virtual factory is crucial for the agile deployment of robotics, automation, and innovative processes. Essentially, it is key to realizing what we refer to as the Future Factory in today's environment!

Build to Operate offers a tested and scalable range of Industrial Process Experiences grounded in our Manufacturing Operation Management platform. This empowers OEMs and Tier 1 & 2 Suppliers to implement and optimize their manufacturing processes, allowing them to experience the advantages of a Future Factory today.

Build to Operate provides a model-based solution that enables you to:

• Model and simulate the VIRTUAL factory
• Manage and track the REAL factory

Test and certify on time, at lower cost, Build Confidence

The Cleared to Operate Industry Solution Experience will assist Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Suppliers in the following ways:

• Certifying on Schedule
• Reducing Testing & Certification Costs
• Mitigating Risks of Innovative Concepts
• Fostering Confidence

Currently, the Aerospace & Defense sector is grappling with unprecedented challenges, including the urgent need to minimize its environmental impact, develop new urban air mobility solutions, and spearhead a new era in space exploration. With fierce competition as new entrants emerge, companies must focus on reducing risks while delivering exceptional performance without compromising safety.

To enhance and expedite the processes of testing, verification, validation, and certification, Dassault Systèmes' Cleared to Operate industry solution experience integrates all aspects of your program while providing comprehensive management visibility. Its advanced simulation capabilities allow for early and thorough evaluations, ensuring that new designs are launched with confidence and on schedule.

Deliver aerospace programs on-time, on-target and to specification

The Co-Design to Target approach enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to unify various tools, organizations, and processes into a cohesive stream, enhancing form, fit, and function within an integrated System Digital Mock-Up (DMU). This System DMU helps to prevent many integration challenges that can adversely affect program costs and schedules.

By connecting all elements, the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform facilitates program convergence, providing a real-time perspective on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across all departments, locations, and suppliers, allowing for proactive management to keep programs on track.

Enhancements are available to boost collaboration and data management across the enterprise for AutoCAD, Inventor, and Altium users, alongside Creo and NX users from the previous release. This guarantees continuity across multi-discipline MCAD and ECAD environments through 3DEXPERIENCE Platform roles and applications, including a unified, shared product definition.

Enhance Aerospace & Defense Supplier Processes from Bid to Delivery while Boosting Margins

Engineered to Fly empowers small and medium suppliers to profitably expand their business from bid to delivery. By streamlining the process, the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform minimizes complexity, making it easier to create new bids, collaborate effectively during product development, and support manufacturing ramp-up.

With Engineered to Fly, suppliers can increase their margins by shortening design time, improving quality through early issue identification, reducing duplicate parts, and optimizing for manufacturing efficiency.

Enhanced Fleet Availability at a Reduced Cost

In today's increasingly competitive landscape, Aircraft & Engine manufacturers aim to leverage their expertise to introduce unique market differentiators. Specialized MROs, whether affiliated with airlines or independent third parties, are also eager to harness digital continuity.

From Service Engineering during the design phase to fleet operations management, Keep Them Operating offers our clients a model-based approach that encompasses all processes related to aircraft fleet maintenance. By utilizing data from both Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and operational sources, this solution empowers our customers to enhance fleet efficiency while establishing a feedback loop that utilizes in-service data to provide valuable insights for the service engineering and design engineering teams

Keep Them Operating, an Industry Solution Experience on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, supports improvements in the support & service engineering, spare part and MRO businesses. Existing solutions are typically disconnected, unsynchronized, and structured in “silos” which requires service engineering and maintenance personnel to spend time searching for data and second-guessing whether it’s accurate.

Keep Them Operating consolidates, aligns, and enhances digital data continuity—whether it’s internal or external, structured or unstructured, simple or complex—ensuring that information is delivered in a manner that users prefer.

The Keep Them Operating solution provides a valuable competitive edge by streamlining business processes, optimizing parts availability, and proactively identifying potential challenges.

Additionally, Keep Them Operating connects value streams, enabling teams to collaborate in real-time. By leveraging big data, business analytics, and digital data continuity, it optimizes design and service engineering from the outset of a program. This approach facilitates real-time awareness of potential MRO issues, fostering improved collaboration among all stakeholders worldwide, ultimately allowing companies to keep aircraft in the air rather than grounded for repairs.

Differentiate Yourself from the Competition with Tailored, Cost-Effective, and Certified Cabin Experiences

Passenger Experience unleashes the creativity of industrial designers, allowing for the invention and exploration of innovative design concepts. It revolutionizes the sales experience by offering more immersive virtual environments for designing, exploring, and validating future cabin layouts and exterior finishes.

By anticipating perceived quality early on, design decisions can be made through accurate and realistic virtual validation, significantly reducing costs associated with late changes.

This approach enhances marketing effectiveness by providing lifelike digital and interactive experiences early in the development process. Furthermore, Passenger Experience fosters accelerated and optimized collaboration among marketing teams, industrial designers, design offices, simulation experts, and manufacturing departments.

Create a successful strategy and enhance program performance through the Program Excellence Industry Solution experience.

Program Excellence empowers Aerospace & Defense companies to refine their product strategies and achieve exceptional efficiency in program execution. This solution facilitates the development of a cohesive product line engineering strategy, streamlines change and configuration processes across various disciplines, and supports multi-level governance and analytics.

Optimize manufacturing planning to accelerate ramp-up and enhance production agility

Ready for Rate accelerates manufacturing ramp-up and improves quality by enabling engineering and manufacturing planning stakeholders to connect the dots and have real-time access to accurate product and product build information.

Ready for Rate enables flexible production while delivering products with first-time quality, on budget, and on schedule. Aerospace manufacturers can take advantage of the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform to implement lean practices that remove waste in critical areas of manufacturing. Planners can define and validate manufacturing processes down to individual work instructions virtually to eliminate potential issues and waste before they occur.

Accelerate Concept to Certification in the Cloud

Reinvent The Sky aids startups, small to medium enterprises, and OEMs in creating groundbreaking solutions, ranging from lightweight aircraft to electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, as well as space launch systems and satellite propulsion.

By using this approach, companies can fast-track the product lifecycle from concept to certification and launch, gaining a significant edge by being the first to market with their prototype.

Through the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform on the cloud, they can streamline program execution and integrate various elements, simplifying complexity and enhancing manufacturing design during product development.

This cloud-based Reinvent The Sky solution fosters improved collaboration among functional teams—such as engineering, manufacturing, testing, and supplier management—while also reducing IT expenses and adapting to project maturity and company cash flow.

Gain a Competitive Edge by Transforming Your Concept Design Process

With 70 percent of cost decisions made during the concept or preliminary design phase affecting 80 percent of the total lifecycle cost, companies that make wise choices in this early stage will achieve the greatest success.

Winning Concept empowers aerospace and defense firms to define new offerings or secure new business by virtually exploring 1,000 times more concepts. This approach optimizes designs for cost, performance, and manufacturability, ensuring timely and budget-friendly delivery.

Businesses can perform thorough analyses of necessary systems engineering choices and conduct related trade studies to enhance the accuracy and reliability of each proposal. As a result, aerospace and defense companies can focus more on product innovation rather than proposal management.

Advantages of Winning Concept:

• Efficient and effective bid development
• Demonstrated delivery capabilities
• Optimized for success
• Reduced ramp-up cycle