Advanced Aero-Structures

Advanced Aero-Structures

Our composite engineering design and manufacturing solution enables engineers to rapidly and confidently develop complex advanced aero-structures. It enables OEMs to meet requirements for schedule, strength, weight, durability, manufacturing first-time yield, and field repair for the most challenging aerospace applications.

Our composite engineering design and manufacturing solution enables engineers to rapidly and confidently develop complex advanced aero-structures. It enables OEMs to meet requirements for schedule, strength, weight, durability, manufacturing first-time yield, and field repair for the most challenging aerospace applications.

Advanced Aero-Structures

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The use of composites for advanced aero-structures is growing rapidly, with new commercial airframes having more than 50 percent of the primary structure built from composites and most new personal/private jet models being virtually 100 percent composite. Composites offer OEMs the opportunity to satisfy critical customer requirements by reducing weight, increasing payload and reducing fuel consumption.

To realize these benefits, OEMs must be able to design and manufacture advanced composite aero-structures with high precision and production yields, as well as operational durability and repairability that exceed commercial and regulatory requirements of challenging aerospace environments. A differentiating composite engineering design and manufacturing solution supports end-to-end design of components and full load-bearing advanced composite aero-structures. It includes assessing in-service performance, and developing repair and restoration processes.

Advanced Aero-Structures

Solution capabilities

Bill of Materials Management

Realize greater flexibility and scalability from basic BOM management to advanced BOM management and BOM configuration to meet and exceed the market demand for more innovative and varied product offerings.

Composite Design & Analysis

Use requirements from CAE as input to create a digital twin that can react to changes in shape and specification while ensuring the producibility of the design.

Composite Design Integration

Automatically generate composite manufacturing data to drive automated cutting machines, laser projection systems, fiber placement machines, and tape laying machines, then share it downstream and across the enterprise.

Composite Manufacturing

Address complex and specialized composite manufacturing processes through an intelligent design-to-manufacturing composite solution that is fully integrated into commercial 3D CAD systems.

Composites

Speed the process for simulating laminate composite materials through a seamless connection to composites design, solvers, and comprehensive post-processing. Make products lighter yet stronger through use of composite materials.

Fastening & Joining Engineering

Efficiently author, validate, and communicate joining requirements of complex assemblies with emphasis on fastening structures. Manage joint definition of mixed material structures to help meet schedule and cost targets.

Mechanical Design Management

Bring all mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) data into a single product data management environment to automate engineering change, validation, and approval processes, speeding cycle time and improving product quality.

Product Modeling

Deliver greater innovation and higher quality products at lower cost. Our solution delivers power, efficiency and cost savings that extend beyond the design process to all phases of product development.