3DEXPERIENCE Platform at the Core of Aircraft Programs Integrating Design, Simulation and Production

3DEXPERIENCE Platform at the Core of Aircraft
Programs Integrating Design, Simulation and Production

SINGAPORE — June 10,
2016 — Dassault Systèmes (Euronext
Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world
leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Airbus Group, after a two-year
comprehensive benchmarking process, is extending its use of Dassault Systèmes’
3DEXPERIENCE platform to its additive manufacturing programs integrating
design, simulation and production.

Airbus Group will deploy Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative design
and simulation applications as part of the “Co-Design to Target” industry
solution experience, for the additive manufacturing of tooling, prototyping and
parts for test flights and for production use on commercial aircraft. This
provides Airbus Group with digital continuity to optimize its conceptual
designs by virtually validating each phase of the additive manufacturing
process.  Leveraging Dassault Systèmes’ applications and its own leadership
and engineering expertise in additive manufacturing, Airbus Group can explore
greater design and manufacturing possibilities to meet engineering and
manufacturing requirements for the additive manufacturing of tools and
parts. 

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is an
alternative to production processes such as milling, melting, casting and
precision forging.  Already adopted by the aerospace industry for creative
product design and prototyping, the use of additive manufacturing is gradually
extending to large-scale production.  The “Co-Design to Target” industry
solution experience leverages applications for additive manufacturing to offer
high flexibility in part design, production and testing.  This helps
reduce waste and costs associated with the manufacturing of complex aircraft
parts, without sacrificing strength or performance.

“Numerous projects across Airbus are accelerating the use of
additive manufacturing to produce prototypes as well as production components
potentially delivering lighter and less expensive parts that meet
technological, performance, safety and cost standards,” said Robert Nardini,
Senior Vice President Engineering Airframe, Airbus.  “Airbus has long used
Dassault Systèmes’ simulation applications to accelerate the structural
analysis and virtual testing of aircraft and now we can define a new way of
designing parts by leveraging simulation-based design to better answer aviation
market needs.”

“Additive manufacturing creates new opportunities in many different
areas such as remote fabrication for support and maintenance, rapid prototyping
for realizing new concepts and experiences and, perhaps most importantly,
developing designs that were heretofore impossible to fabricate,” said
Dominique Florack, Senior Executive Vice President, Research & Development,
Dassault Systèmes.  “With this approach, Airbus Group will be able to take
advantage of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s next generation automated design
assistant for parts, whether they are 3D printed or not, thus accelerating a
new wave of transformation in the aerospace industry.  With the
3DEXPERIENCE platform we are delivering an end to end solution including all
engineering parameters for the additive manufacturing of parts inclusive of
material science, functional specification, generative design, 3D printing
optimization, production and certification.”

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