Accelerating Digital Transformation In Aerospace And Defense

Facing an increasingly competitive, threat-filled environment, aerospace, and defense companies must digitally transform to deliver radical innovation.

Ansys multidisciplinary simulation solutions create the digital thread, which supports the flow of data throughout the product life cycle. From ideation and design to manufacturing and operations, Ansys A&D solutions help accelerate digital transformation and streamline development.

Applications

Rapid and precise simulation solutions from the microchip to the mission

Warfighters must remain ahead of the threat across all domains of operation: land, sea, air and space.

Engineering teams are challenged to increase asset operational availability to meet increasing mission capable rate targets and accelerate modernization to deliver more advanced capability to warfighters faster. And leaders must be cost-informed across the entire asset lifecycle while simultaneously addressing a growing personnel skills gap.

Over 90% of aerospace and defense executives intend to digitally transform to meet these challenges, yet only 10% have made impactful progress. Closing this gap represents a significant — and untapped — competitive advantage for warfighters. The faster it can be closed, the greater the advantage becomes.

Physics-based simulation accelerates the impact of digital transformation.

Software Solutions
Ideation
Design & Analysis
Manufacturing
Operations

With Ansys Discovery, you can explore ideas, iterate and innovate with unprecedented speed and realize a 40% increase in ideation scenarios analyzed.

The unequalled depth and breadth of Ansys software coupled with its unmatched engineered scalability, comprehensive multiphysics foundation and adaptive architecture sets our technology apart. Achieve a 60% increase in iterative designs analyzed.

As new methods of manufacturing and materials are being implemented, products are becoming more complex. Products must be lighter and smaller and work harder than ever. Multiphysics simulation lets you explore all the real-world physical interactions a complex product may encounter during use. These interactions can impact product performance, safety and longevity. Fluid forces, thermal effects, structural integrity and electromagnetic radiation can all affect performance. If you isolate these forces and examine them separately, you may not get an accurate prediction of product behavior. Ansys Multiphysics solutions can help you examine these effects in any combination, achieving the highest fidelity solution to eliminate reliability problems and design safe and effective products.

Ansys additive manufacturing simulations help you to optimize your design for 3D printing, eliminating trial and error and gives you confidence that the part can be successfully built the first time. Reduce safety test cycles by 36% and cut additive manufacturing prototypes by 28%.

Ansys Twin Builder improves predictive maintenance outcomes by enabling the creation, validation and deployment of a physics-based digital twin to optimize your sustainment and operations.

Design More Fuel-Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Aircraft

To meet stringent environmental regulations and combat rising fuel costs, aerospace companies are embracing emissions reduction and sustainability. With ANSYS simulation solutions, customers can design more fuel-efficient aircraft with improved engine performance, less weight and reduced drag. As a result, customers can save billions of dollars in fuel and eliminate hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic emissions — with each 1% gain in efficiency.

Electric Aircraft Propulsion to Connect the World
How to design the World's fastest all-electric airplane
Pushing the boundaries of efficiency

magniX is revolutionizing the short-haul aviation sector using Ansys multiphysics simulations to develop electric airplane motors to connect smaller communities to big cities.

Electroflight and YASA Limited are using Ansys Fluent to work on Rolls-Royce’s ACCEL Electrical Project, whose goal is to produce the world’s fastest all-electric airplane.

Simulation stats show significant reductions in drag, weight and fuel burn. To meet stringent regulations, aerospace companies
must devise a long-term strategy for significant emissions reduction.

Develop Future Aircraft Systems: Autonomous and Connected

Delivering the onboard connectivity demanded by passengers and safely automating the cockpit of the future require no-margin-for-error design testing.

Ansys simulation solutions for next-generation aircraft span sensor and antenna design, head-up display development, electronics reliability, functional safety analysis and virtual closed-loop environments for autonomous vehicle validation.

With simulation, customers can mitigate risk and speed innovation to market.

With more drones dominating the skies and autonomous passenger aircraft approaching takeoff, simulation is A&D’s only option for ensuring passenger and vehicle safety.

Facing the challenge of future air mobility
Custom-made cockpit
Inside story

The future of air mobility is dependent on simulation-based design exploration to reduce the costs and risks of innovation.

Emerging trends in urban air mobility, commercial drones and persistent connectivity are transforming the aerospace industry.

Take off inside a futuristic, custom-made cockpit and watch as a pilot interacts with flight controls and cockpit actuators.

Inatel and Embraer uses Ansys HFSS electromagnetic field simulation software to evaluate the performance of alternative antenna installation designs. The scores of antennas extending from the surface of today’s jet airliners create drag that adds to fuel consumption.

Optimize Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) and Sustainment Operations

Rising operational costs and the need to generate revenue from existing assets are driving the digital transformation of MRO operations.

Ansys helps customers accelerate this transformation through the deployment of platform-agnostic, physics-based digital twins.

These virtual copies of real-world assets deliver previously unavailable performance insights that facilitate predictive and prescriptive maintenance and maximize cost savings.

Reducing maintenance, repair and overhaul costs
Digital twins: making the vision achievable
Passing the test

The digital transformation of operations reduces maintenance costs and improves cycle times of critical processes. With fewer new aircraft programs, rising operational costs and increased scrutiny around program efficiency, A&D companies need to optimize MRO operations to reduce costs and generate revenue.

A digital twin mirrors the real-world operation of an asset, detects performance issues and allows for scheduled predictive maintenance.

One of the newest and most exciting frontiers in simulation is the concept of digital twins. By using product-mounted sensors, companies can collect operating data from the field in real time, and use that information to create an exact replica of the working product in a controlled virtual space. By studying how the simulated product model performs under real-world conditions, companies
can flag any performance issues, schedule predictive maintenance, reduce downtime and minimize warranty expenses.

Lufthansa Technik is improving engine overhaul. It uses simulation to quantify the relationship between the condition of specific components and the engine’s operation.

Engineering Productivity

Supply chain insecurity, a widening skills gap and intensifying competition is driving A&D companies to optimize productivity.

Ansys’ integrated solutions improve efficiency, enabling customers to meet more cost and production targets.

A powerful combination of process, data and materials management tools, plus HPC and cloud access, helps customers accelerate innovation with fewer resources and lower product costs.

With an open partner ecosystem and a global team of Ansys experts, customers have a complete solution to boost productivity through digital transformation.

Facing engineering complexity with limited resources
Utilizing simulation to drive innovation and top-line growth
Rolls-Royce manages materials with Ansys Granta MI

Explore A&D productivity by the numbers. This snapshot shows the top product development challenges and actions companies can take to digitally transform. Exponential growth in design complexity and a growing skills gap are threatening the industry while it works to innovate faster.

Almost three-quarters of companies surveyed plan to use simulation earlier and more often in the development process to increase productivity and reduce costs.

 

Learn how Ansys GRANTA MI gives Rolls-Royce engineers access to precise materials information during the design process.

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