CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 August 2004
Implementation Investments
Alenia Aeronautica Invests in MSC.Software Products and Services to Improve Virtual Product Development Process
MSC.Software Corp. announced that Alenia Aeronautica Italy, a Finmeccanica company, has invested more than 100,000 Euro in VPD products and services via MSC.Software's MSC.MasterKey licensing system. The Italian aeronautics company will use MSC.Robust Design and MSC.Nastran 2004 for stress testing and stochastic analysis of different engineering projects, including the design of the composite wing boxes and horizontal tails for new aircraft. In addition, the MSC.Software professional services team will be providing integration and customization of MSC.Robust Design within Alenia's product development process to ensure optimal compliance with manufacturing requirements.
"Safety comes first in designing airplanes involving complex components with high demands on robustness. We were looking for a stochastic tool to improve the robustness of our wing box design and helps to exclude uncertainties within the development process. We have known MSC.Software as a reliable partner for software and services for many years and when the question of a stochastic tool came up, we chose MSC.Robust Design. It gives us the possibility to unlock hidden knowledge in our virtual models and designs," said Dr. Ing. P. Cerreta-Alenia Aeronautica -Technical Director of 7E7. "For us, MSC.Robust Design opens the possibility to extract additional, often unexpected, information about our design. It helps us to obtain a realistic estimate of how our design will perform in terms of noise, vibration or crashworthiness. By using MSC.Robust Design, we can automatically consider a range of simulations that randomly varies the sheet thickness, material property scatter, weld imperfections or loading in order to simulate a realistic variety of outcomes. By taking into account the complexity of real world and providing a better understanding of the design sensitivity, MSC.Robust Design helps us to improve the product quality while at the same time gives us the possibility to develop faster, test more variants and therefore save time and money."
Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company employs more than 8500 people on programs and projects for civil and military applications. Since 1912 the Alenia Aeronautica and its predecessors have built more than 12,000 aircrafts, often on original design. In its role as system integrator, the company designs and develops complete aeronautical systems with full responsibility toward the final customer. The company is also involved in the design and development of complete state-of-the art aeronautical systems on a shared partnership basis with other companies. As a risk-sharing supplier, it designs and manufactures entire airframe components and assemblies.
In 2003 it reached a value of production of about 1188 million Euros, 80% of this value was reached through export activities. For more information about Alenia Aeronautica please visit http://www.alenia-aeronautica.it/ .
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