Digitalisation des systèmes spatiaux

L'industrie des systèmes spatiaux recherche continuellement à concevoir des véhicules plus légers, plus performants, réutilisables et plus fiables afin de réduire le coût de livraison des charges utiles en orbite. L'exploration spatiale est également devenue un terrain passionnant pour les investisseurs milliardaires et autres nouveaux acteurs qui recherchent les moyens de réduire le coût de la mise en orbite des charges utiles. Cela exige un environnement numérique collaboratif solide qui combine l'ingénierie des structures, l'ingénierie mécanique, l'ingénierie des systèmes, les essais environnementaux et la gestion des programmes. 

Digitalisation des systèmes spatiaux

L'industrie des systèmes spatiaux recherche continuellement à concevoir des véhicules plus légers, plus performants, réutilisables et plus fiables afin de réduire le coût de livraison des charges utiles en orbite. L'exploration spatiale est également devenue un terrain passionnant pour les investisseurs milliardaires et autres nouveaux acteurs qui recherchent les moyens de réduire le coût de la mise en orbite des charges utiles. Cela exige un environnement numérique collaboratif solide qui combine l'ingénierie des structures, l'ingénierie mécanique, l'ingénierie des systèmes, les essais environnementaux et la gestion des programmes. 

Digital Transformation in Aerospace and Defense

Aerospace companies are tasked with designing and creating products for conditions that may not exist inside a lab or even on the planet. They must use real innovation, which requires digitalization, to remain competitive amid increasingly complicated demands, tighter deadlines and higher stakes.

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Reporting and Analytics

Les tableaux de bord personnalisés de notre solution offrent aux entreprises de l’industrie aéronautique et de défense une plus grande visibilité à l’échelle de l’entreprise ainsi qu’un nouveau niveau de traçabilité qui réduit les erreurs et empêche la découverte tardive des problèmes. L’analyse avancée, rendue possible en combinant les données de l’Internet des Objets (IoT) provenant des actifs sur le terrain (le "jumeau physique") et les connaissances techniques (le "jumeau numérique") améliore la disponibilité et les performances des produits.

Requirements Management for Aerospace & Defense

Our solution allows companies to capture, keep up with, and deliver requirements to everyone involved in product development process so that right decisions result in right products.

IP Protection & Export Control

One of the key challenges facing highly regulated industries such as aerospace and defense is difficulty in achieving program goals while navigating the global IP and export control (ITAR) regulatory environment. Another challenge is enabling global collaboration and innovation. In each case, a key requirement is for all parties – suppliers, partners, contractors, customers, subsidiaries, and joint ventures – to be able to share sensitive company and product data in a secure and collaborative environment.

Engineering Data Management

Aujourd’hui, les programmes aéronautiques et de défense doivent livrer des produits qui répondent à toutes les exigences techniques et de performance au coût et dans les délais prévus, tout en recourant souvent à des fournisseurs et partenaires répartis dans le monde entier. Ce système intégré de gestion du cycle de vie de l’ingénierie tire parti de la gestion des exigences, d’une collaboration sécurisée avec les fournisseurs, et d’une plateforme de gestion de l’ingénierie regroupant les données mécaniques, électroniques, logicielles et de simulation dans un environnement collaboratif unique pour vous aider à relever ces défis.

Product Design for Aerospace & Defense Suppliers

Given the number of companies involved in aerospace and defense programs, the multidisciplinary nature of projects, and the need for efficient information exchange, companies must be able to work with many different CAD formats. Our broad selection of data exchange tools supports vendor-neutral standard exchange formats, data translators, and CAD file conversion tools to accurately move data between systems.

Software Management

As customers demand more sophisticated functionality, the increasing amount of software required to provide it presents unique challenges in the delivery of aerospace and defense systems. Challenges include producing code faster and with better quality, as well as compliance with all regulations to minimize risk and ensure safety. Our unified collaborative solution framework enables all software development processes to be managed in one place, accelerating development and minimizing risk.

Additive Design & Manufacturing

Our integrated software applications for additive manufacturing help you reimagine products, retool manufacturing, and rethink business models for optimal performance at reduced cost.

Gestion et collaboration avec les fournisseurs dans le secteur de l'Aéronautique et de la Défense

Les entreprises aéronautiques travaillent avec de multiples partenaires et fournisseurs pour développer des produits. Ensemble, ils se partagent à la fois les bénéfices et les risques. Cependant, la complexité des produits et les exigences d'intégration ne cessent de croître, et la dépendance à des tiers pourrait créer plus de problèmes qu'elle n'en résout. Pour éviter cela, les entreprises et leurs fournisseurs doivent disposer d'une visibilité, ainsi qu'une communication en temps réel au sein d'un environnement sécurisé et collaboratif, lequel repose sur la continuité numérique.

Technical Publishing

La création d’une documentation technique auxiliaire pour les systèmes aéronautiques et de défense nécessite la collaboration et la contribution de nombreuses entreprises et équipes différentes. Notre solution intègre le processus de documentation dans l’environnement PLM, et permet d’adapter facilement les documents par marché, langue ou produit.

Assembly Manufacturing Engineering

Aerospace and defense programs are becoming more complex and the need for greater program performance has never been so critical. To win business in today's highly competitive environment, companies must submit attractive bids that include the demonstrated ability to deliver on program targets, requirements and production schedules. Our solutions digitalize the manufacturing process so you can maximize productivity, increase profitability and execute more efficiently than your competition to drive business growth in today’s tough markets.

Manufacturing Data Management for Aerospace & Defense

Tremendous advances in manufacturing technology and the move to Industry 4.0 are changing the way aerospace systems are made. This is creating challenges across the supply chain as companies look for ways to keep up with OEMs’ demands. Our solution enables manufacturing companies to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain, increasing their competitiveness by making manufacturing processes more agile, flexible and efficient.

Advanced Manufacturing for Product Realization

Les entreprises du secteur de l’aéronautique et de la défense sont confrontées à une pression concurrentielle sans précédent, ainsi qu’à des clients exigeants qui souhaitent qu’elles prennent une plus grande responsabilité dans les performances des programmes. Pour être compétitives et atteindre l’excellence dans l’exécution de leurs programmes, elles doivent faire de la fabrication un élément central du processus de développement de ce programme. Un environnement collaboratif intégré permet de mettre en place un processus piloté par les modèles, qui s’étend de la CAO/FAO à l’usinage CN et à l’inspection de la qualité, permettant ainsi d’atteindre un nouveau niveau de productivité.

Electronics Manufacturing Planning for Aerospace & Defense

The future of the aerospace and defense industry is exciting. Next-generation aircraft – powered by advanced electronics, sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) – will differ significantly from what we are seeing today. Aerospace and defense electronics and avionics manufacturers must rely on digital technologies to deliver more sophisticated and reliable electronics at scale. Our solutions enable electronic manufacturers to cope with the demanding needs of the industry today.

Factory Layout, Line Design & Optimization for Aerospace & Defense

Without the ability to optimize factory operations based on data obtained during manufacturing engineering, inefficiency can ripple throughout a company’s production systems. Our advanced software for factory layout and optimization lets you create 3D virtual models of production systems to ensure that factors such as line efficiency, line rate, manpower limitations, learning curve, clearance, energy, noise and safety are considered before starting production. Use our solution to digitalize the entire manufacturing process and achieve aerospace and defense program performance goals.

Production Planning & Scheduling for Aerospace & Defense

Production planning for long, medium and short-term scheduling is critical to the success of facilities and field operations. Planners must analyze complex situations, taking into account a range of constraints and business rules, then generate and evaluate multiple scenarios to react quickly and intelligently to change. Our production planning suite for aerospace and defense OEMs and suppliers can be tightly integrated with other enterprise systems to help increase the efficiency, accuracy, and agility of manufacturing operations.

Integrated Quality Management for Aerospace & Defense

Whether it’s a commercial program or a government contract, the challenge for aerospace and defense companies today is to deliver a product that meets all technical and performance requirements at cost and on schedule. Our quality management solution delivers the ability to improve quality and reduce costs along the entire product lifecycle (ideation, realization and utilization). It can be used as a comprehensive system, or with single modules or combinations of modules.

In-service Data Management

Les produits aéronautiques et de défense sont très complexes. Ils doivent fonctionner dans des environnements extrêmes, respecter les normes de sécurité et de fiabilité très strictes et ont généralement un cycle de vie très long. Notre solution de gestion du cycle de vie en service gère la configuration physique de l’équipement pour appuyer les caractéristiques de maintenance et d’état et l’historique de retrait/d’installation/d’inspection des pièces. Grâce aux fonctionnalités PLM de base en matière de gestion de la sécurité, des flux de travail, des modifications et des documents, notre approche concilie nomenclatures d’équipements et connaissances avec les structures d’équipements physiques afin de proposer une prestation de service améliorée.

Maintenance Planning

Keeping equipment operational by minimizing maintenance-related downtime is critical in the aerospace and defense industry. By using product knowledge taken from design and simulation to determine service requirements, service plans and instructions can be developed, validated, and documented prior to equipment delivery. Our maintenance planning solution, which is based on allowable product configurations, analysis (RAM and FMEA) and simulation (product and service), lets you reduce the impact of service on aerospace products in the field.

Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul

Highly engineered aerospace and defense products with long useful lives are valuable to both the companies that buy them and the companies that service and support them. Getting the most from these products means maximizing their availability and reliability. Our solution enables service organizations to generate service work orders, schedule service events, assign service tasks, support technicians with information and task orders, and track to closure all service work required and performed.

Integrated Program Planning & Execution

Consistent program planning and execution excellence are essential to winning new business. Our solution provides a systems approach to program planning and execution by integrating cost, schedule and technical requirements in a fully planned, resourced and budgeted program management system. The solution is easy to maintain and scalable to commercial and government programs of any size. Improve your ability to execute on cost and schedule by using an integrated system that manages all program artifacts.

Space Systems Composites

Space systems suppliers must have confidence in their composite designs because there are no second chances. They need a composite design, manufacturing and inspection solution that enables their space systems to meet requirements for schedule, strength, weight, durability and manufacturing for the most challenging space applications.

Définition de produit basée sur un modèle

Les produits complexes du secteur de l’aéronautique et de la défense sont fabriqués à l’aide d’une chaîne d'approvisionnement internationale, au sein de laquelle chaque entreprise crée et exploite des données produits dans différents formats. Le manque d'interopérabilité qui en résulte entrave la collaboration et la réutilisation, ce qui a des répercussions sur la capacité à respecter les délais et les budgets. Notre solution de création de définitions de produits basées sur des modèles permet de produire une définition numérique complète au sein d’un modèle 3D qui joue le rôle de source unique de données fiables pour toutes les applications.

3D Massive Model Visualization

Today’s aerospace and defense programs must deliver products that meet all technical and performance requirements at cost and on schedule while often utilizing globally distributed suppliers and partners. These suppliers and partners might be using a diverse set of engineering applications. Our solution provides digital mockup and visualization of multi-CAD assemblies so that everyone can access and collaborate with design and process data to make informed decisions.

Product Engineering & Design

Some of the issues facing aerospace and defense companies include increased product complexity, greater customization, and competitive disruption on a global basis. Many companies are still using document-based and other inefficient processes that hinder their ability to meet these challenges. It is imperative that companies transform their engineering and design thinking and processes. Our open multi-discipline, scalable and standards-based solution provides all the necessary tools for innovative aerospace product development.

Product Service Planning & Management

Aerospace and defense companies are being asked to reduce the support and operating cost of their products. Given the long lifespans of these products, maintenance is a big contributor to their overall cost and as a result, improving reliability and minimizing maintenance-related downtime have become critical. By using product knowledge taken from design and simulation, our service planning and management solution makes it possible to develop, validate, and document service requirements and service plans prior to equipment delivery.

Electrical Compliance

The electrical model-based development environment (MBE) provides the ability to quickly and accurately analyze the configuration controlled, electrical digital twin for compliance.

E/E Systems Development

Our E/E systems development solutions provide a model-based approach, employing digital data continuity, spanning the full electrical value chain: from the definition of a platform's electrical system, through its design, certification and manufacture, and beyond to support its utilization life cycle.

Model Based Systems Engineering

Orchestrate your technical program by using modeling to define product architecture and requirements, explore design space, test virtually, design interfaces from the product architecture, manage integrations and finally verify the product fulfills the requirements.

Aircraft certification for aerospace & defense

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.

Aerospace and defense manufacturing

Whether pioneering new propulsion systems or entering the urban air mobility market, aerospace companies must become more innovative to take these new products to market within budget and faster than the competition.  

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Part Manufacturing

It is no secret that manufacturing challenges in the aerospace industry are growing. Advanced materials, such as composites, and advanced technologies, such as additive manufacturing, are driving up manufacturing complexity. Automated processes are replacing labor-intensive applications on the shop floor, and this is increasing the need for specialized tools. Our manufacturing solution offers a comprehensive set of fully integrated tools for part manufacturing, including CAD/CAM, robotics, CNC machining, CMM inspection, and 3D printing.

CAM, Tooling & Fixtures

Aerospace and defense tooling is complex and demanding, and plays a critical role in the finished product, affecting quality and manufacturing repeatability. Tooling design requires a deep understanding of the conditions faced during production. Our integrated design and manufacturing solution offer a comprehensive set of fully integrated tools for the entire tool and fixture design and manufacturing process, including design, simulation, CNC, CMM inspection and 3D printing.

Material & Compliance Management

Managing material data and integrating it with the product lifecycle is critical to the development of complex and innovative products. Our solution maintains a tight integration between materials considered for use in aerospace products and the product bill-of-materials (BOM) which is crucial to delivering successful, innovative, and compliant products.

Aircraft Engine Performance Engineering

Achieving performance requirements for emissions, noise, energy efficiency, safety, reliability in complex aircraft engine systems requires a platform that provides an integrated view of a large set of disciplines. By uniquely combining robust design space exploration, scalable multi-physics, dynamics and CFD capabilities, industry-leading physical testing and experienced engineering services, Siemens Digital Industry Software portfolio delivers engineering insight on all levels.

Aerodynamic Performance Engineering

Aerodynamic performance engineering affects not just the airframe but a multitude of other aircraft systems. The design and performance of systems including propulsion, environmental controls, landing gears, ice protection, and avionics depend on optimal aerodynamic performance. Simcenter solutions offer accurate, multi-disciplinary simulations, testing, and automated design space exploration, helping engineers discover better aerodynamic designs, faster.

Thermal Management

Engineering the thermal balance of a modern aircraft is challenging. Electrification, innovative designs and lighter materials warrant increased heat rejection while ensuring system safety and passenger comfort. Our solution portfolio offers a cohesive virtual thermal management analysis by optimizing thermal loading and passenger comfort, front-loading system and equipment integration and enabling thermal trade-off analysis early in the design. This combined systems engineering, modeling and simulation, test and verification is the key to engineering aircraft thermal innovation.

Structural Performance Engineering

The structural complexity of modern aircraft has increased the structural analysis demand and the need to improve traceability and global analysis workflow which can have a major impact on reducing non-recurring program costs from structural design.

Systems Performance Engineering

Boost the performance of aircraft systems. Avoid costly troubleshooting by addressing the complexity of aircraft systems and assessing system interactions during early design phases.

To help you reduce development costs and increase overall program delivery efficiency, we offer you a powerful suite of system simulation and CAE solutions that enable you to build scalable digital twins of aircraft systems.

Integration Testing, Verification & Certification

Streamline aircraft integration and avoid costly program delays. Aircraft integrators face complex integration challenges to confirm that performance targets are met and certify design airworthiness.

By combining virtual and physical testing, we offer a unique platform to predict and confirm the aircraft behavior in flight operation. Our solutions are backed up by years of engineering experience, designed to answer modern aircraft integration challenges.

3D Massive Model Visualization

Today’s aerospace and defense programs must deliver products that meet all technical and performance requirements at cost and on schedule while often utilizing globally distributed suppliers and partners. These suppliers and partners might be using a diverse set of engineering applications. Our solution provides digital mockup and visualization of multi-CAD assemblies so that everyone can access and collaborate with design and process data to make informed decisions.

Product Engineering & Design

Some of the issues facing aerospace and defense companies include increased product complexity, greater customization, and competitive disruption on a global basis. Many companies are still using document-based and other inefficient processes that hinder their ability to meet these challenges. It is imperative that companies transform their engineering and design thinking and processes. Our open multi-discipline, scalable and standards-based solution provides all the necessary tools for innovative aerospace product development.

Product Service Planning & Management

Aerospace and defense companies are being asked to reduce the support and operating cost of their products. Given the long lifespans of these products, maintenance is a big contributor to their overall cost and as a result, improving reliability and minimizing maintenance-related downtime have become critical. By using product knowledge taken from design and simulation, our service planning and management solution makes it possible to develop, validate, and document service requirements and service plans prior to equipment delivery.

Electrical Compliance

The electrical model-based development environment (MBE) provides the ability to quickly and accurately analyze the configuration controlled, electrical digital twin for compliance.

E/E Systems Development

Our E/E systems development solutions provide a model-based approach, employing digital data continuity, spanning the full electrical value chain: from the definition of a platform's electrical system, through its design, certification and manufacture, and beyond to support its utilization life cycle.

Model Based Systems Engineering

Orchestrate your technical program by using modeling to define product architecture and requirements, explore design space, test virtually, design interfaces from the product architecture, manage integrations and finally verify the product fulfills the requirements.

Design, optimize and validate with convergent modeling and topology optimization software

Motivated by performance and sustainability demands, aerospace and defense companies are exploring new designs, composite materials, and alternative production methods. While new approaches lead to more innovative products in the marketplace, speed could suffer without the right tools and processes. By adding convergent modeling and topology optimization software to the process, development teams can rapidly generate designs and explore alternatives to bolster strength, reduce weight, or incorporate new materials and manufacturing methods.

Aircraft certification for aerospace & defense

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.

Aerospace and defense manufacturing

Whether pioneering new propulsion systems or entering the urban air mobility market, aerospace companies must become more innovative to take these new products to market within budget and faster than the competition.  

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