❱❱ The future of aviation depends on innovative materials technology and updated design systems, below; PLM software integrates engineering, planning, NC programming, manufacturing and test on one platform, inset
future of flight
aerospace industry. John O’Connor, director of product & market strategy in the specialised herald the prospect of space tourism, unmanned delivery drones and new aircraft designs
PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT Technological advances are affecting the larger topic of product life cycle management (PLM), making it more critical that specific development tools are deployed to manage the complexity. PLM enables companies to create an end-to-end, integrated, real- time digital thread of information covering a product’s entire life. All product records, from testing to redesign, are in this thread, ensuring they are always up to date and available to decision-makers. PLM enables concurrent development among
multi-disciplinary teams and prepares companies to engage with the extended supply chain. The experience at NPO Saturn provides one such
example. Yuri Zelenkov, IT director at the Russian aerospace engine producer, understood that his existing design technology wasn’t effective. The company had a Communist-era practice of producing one type of engine at a time and needed to be able to simultaneously develop more than 10 new innovative designs. The company chose Siemens PLM Software to transform its processes. “The company’s management realised that the
ongoing code overwhelms the design company. Application lifecycle management (ALM) systems
are built precisely to handle this kind of challenge. Systems must be tuned to the unique challenges of avionics software. They must also be compliant with the regulations of certifying agencies to ensure the application data is controlled, managed and updated in accordance with aircraft industry-specific requirements. One global defence industries giant dramatically
increased the application control and visibility within its project-managed process. By doing so it was able to achieve a CMMI Level III certification in three months for one project — rather than the 10 months it had anticipated before implementing ALM. The solution (Polarion) also accelerated the
project’s documentation process. Relevant paperwork was automatically generated, cutting the time it took the company to produce reports from weeks to just two days. ALM systems must, though, be compliant with the
regulations of certifying agencies to ensure application data is controlled, managed and updated in accordance with aircraft industry-specific requirements.
development and engineering data management system had to be drastically changed,” says Zelenkov. “Not just to evolve with the fashion and spirit of the times but rather to address the company’s real needs.” With the new software he added that all the engine
development stages — engineering analysis, production planning, NC programming, manufacturing and tests — are concurrent and synchronised, not one after the other. The new process slashed the company’s engine
development time in half and eliminated prototype testing, which saved significant programme costs. As a result the company is now better positioned to participate in extended supply chains.
INTEGRATED PLM-ALM As pressure grows to adopt more digitally driven product capabilities that rely on software code, aerospace manufacturers will require a technology that integrates PLM and ALM. This will enable aerospace manufacturers throughout the supply chain to embed software into the electronics hardware and mechanical parts, just as they incorporate other features. With ALM-PLM integration, developers can manage, link and trace software requirements and design objects (such as functions, test cases and models) to data from all the interdependent domains. EE
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