Aircraft certification for aerospace & defense

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Airworthiness is everything in aerospace and defense. It touches all aspects of aircraft development, everywhere in the supply chain. From type certification to production certification and continued airworthiness, future success depends on a digital approach to reducing challenges and uncertainty.

Maximize the chances of getting to market faster with a well-designed, certifiable aircraft. When you incorporate certification requirements into your plans from the beginning, airworthiness certification and compliance requirements are efficiently understood, distributed and verified during every step of development within all functional areas.

Airworthiness is everything in aerospace and defense. It touches all aspects of aircraft development, everywhere in the supply chain. From type certification to production certification and continued airworthiness, future success depends on a digital approach to reducing challenges and uncertainty.

Maximize the chances of getting to market faster with a well-designed, certifiable aircraft. When you incorporate certification requirements into your plans from the beginning, airworthiness certification and compliance requirements are efficiently understood, distributed and verified during every step of development within all functional areas.

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Our solutions for connected verification and certification support airworthiness traceability, touching all stakeholders in the development of aircraft – from conceptual to critical design, prototype manufacturing, assembly, test and submittal to the regulator. As data silos are connected by a digital thread, you are enabled to reduce costs and cycle times and to make sure the correct stakeholders have the proper information exactly when they need it.


Aircraft compliance

Beginning with certification and verification planning, it is vital at every stage to demonstrate aircraft design compliance is met and requirements are associated with the appropriate means and methods of compliance, such as test articles and analysis types. Throughout a program, full traceability and aircraft configuration management are paramount. Historically, these have been time-intensive and error-prone manual tasks, made more complex by the need to collaborate across a global supply chain. Countless hours can be saved by ensuring the most up-to-date baseline design is being analyzed and tested.

When you digitally transform your operations with our solutions for verification management, you can achieve airworthiness compliance in a more accurate and efficient way. You will be able to link people and global processes and introduce automation into your planning, scheduling, execution and management of aircraft certification activities. With real-time visibility into the status of verification deliverables, you can streamline the aircraft certification process for new type designs.

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Aircraft certification process

Aircraft certification process

Verification Management solutions

Improve the outcomes of your certification process with reduced costs and cycle times by consolidating multiple systems and data silos into a single closed-loop system. Our digital thread solutions for verification management enable you to remain innovative and overcome challenges as you create a certification path from the inception of a project. As a result, you can more easily demonstrate compliance verification with automated traceability back to rich engineering data including CAD models, conformed test hardware, analyses and relevant tests.

Airworthiness certification may be achieved much faster and more efficiently with precise, high quality and easily auditable data by opening focused channels of communication and compliance reporting with authorities. Your managed data may be shared directly with certifying agencies through a collaborative environment facilitated by digital.

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FAQs on aircraft certification

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