Navigating the New World of Airframe Development

Aerospace manufacturers are looking for technology partners to help them navigate the "new world" of state-of-the-art airframe development. Airframe design and assembly is extremely complex. Engineers need to take into account complex joints with thousands of fasteners, highly specialized composite parts, and global distribution of manufacturing projects. Competitive pressures make it critical for these manufacturers to seek greater efficiencies in development cycles while applying new outsourcing or design processes to reduce time-to-build.

In light of all these challenges, engineers are turning to specialized software from VISTAGY to create truly complete digital product definitions of airframe assemblies, including the relationships between thousands of parts. VISTAGY's family of airframe development environments extend commercial CAD systems to make them the optimal tools for designing and manufacturing airframes. Powered by VISTAGY's unique EnCapta® technology, these commercial-off-the-shelf products enable manufacturers to more efficiently, quickly and cost-effectively develop aerostructures for commercial airliners, military aircraft, helicopters and regional jets.

With the VISTAGY airframe development environments, engineers can:

• Employ a single interface for capturing and authoring design detail;
• Define information concerning non-modeled parts such as coatings, sealants, labels and inserts;
• Define joint definitions and part relationships;
• Determine fastener specifications and locations to ensure accurate part manufacturing;
• Streamline the supply chain and share detailed data across supplier organizations.

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