Aerospace and Defense PLM

ENOVIA links evolving aerospace requirements to downstream designs. It ensures end-to-end traceability, automates compliance auditing, and manages changing customer needs on a single platform, reducing project risk and data silos.

CATIA Magic transforms static text into dynamic visual systems models. It validates complex interfaces, verifies behavioral constraints, and traces technical regulations directly to digital architectures to capture shifting aerospace demands early.

3DEXPERIENCE unifies requirements, simulation, and engineering changes in one digital twin ecosystem. It connects cross-functional teams, manages technology roadmaps, and ensures compliance through live visibility across the entire lifecycle.

3DEXPERIENCE provides a centralized virtual twin that acts as a single version of truth for massive defense programs. It establishes an end-to-end digital thread, linking structural, operational, and mission-level dependencies to safely manage scale across global supply chains.

CATIA Magic simplifies aerospace design complexity using SysML to model a unified “System of Systems”. It maps precise interdependencies between mechanical, electrical, and software components, enabling engineers to visualize and control emergent behaviors before physical integration.

We specialize in the design of aerospace components, ensuring they meet industry standards for strength, durability, and weight efficiency. This includes finite element analysis and stress testing to validate performance under operational conditions. Simulations can include non-linear static analysis, dynamic analysis, bird strike analysis, thermal analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and more. With expertise in advanced materials like composites, we assist in the development and application of lightweight materials that improve fuel efficiency and performance.

We offer rapid prototyping services and testing solutions, which allow for early validation of design concepts and performance before full-scale production,
reducing time-to-market and risk.

CATIA Systems Synthesis unifies mechanical, electrical, and software domains into a single functional architecture. It maps interfaces across distinct disciplines, automatically flags integration conflicts, and optimizes trade-offs to ensure seamless multi-physics system performance.

SIMULIA runs synchronized multi-disciplinary simulations by connecting diverse physics solvers simultaneously. It tests how fluid, structural, thermal, and electromagnetic forces interact in real time, validating physical integration before building expensive aerospace prototypes.

3DEXPERIENCE provides the master digital thread that breaks down engineering silos. It integrates multi-domain data schemas into a single collaborative virtual twin, enabling cross-functional teams to manage change impacts and verify mission-critical interfaces concurrently.

CATIA Generative Design uses AI and topology optimization to create lightweight, organically shaped components. It combines part consolidation with lattice structures to reduce the aerospace BOM (bill of materials) while maximizing stiffness and performance.

SIMULIA Additive Manufacturing Simulation provides virtual process testing to anticipate fabrication risks. It models multi-physics phase changes, chemical reactions, and thermal processes in real time to accurately predict and prevent residual stresses, microstructural flaws, and part distortion.

DELMIA bridges digital engineering with factory floor production. It automates multi-material build preparation, paths, and laser scanning workflows across global printer networks, ensuring full geometric compliance and data traceability required for strict aerospace certification.

Abaqus delivers advanced non-linear FEA (finite element analysis) to evaluate airframe durability. It simulates static loading, high-velocity bird strikes, and crashworthiness, proving that critical structures safely withstand peak aerodynamic and operational forces.

fe-safe calculates structural fatigue life and predicts crack propagation under cyclic thermal and mechanical stresses. It helps aerospace engineers optimize maintenance intervals, prevent catastrophic material failures, and confidently guarantee multi-decade operational lifespans.

The 3DEXPERIENCE MODSIM Environment unifies structural modeling and simulation into one seamless digital thread. It gives designers instant feedback on stress concentrations during early drafting, accelerating weight-reduction loops while strictly enforcing regulatory structural safety margins.

FSI (fluid-structure interaction) couples aerodynamic flow solvers with non-linear structural mechanics. It predicts exactly how wing surfaces deflect and flutter under dynamic aerodynamic loads, ensuring structural stability, aerodynamic control, and flight safety across the entire operating envelope.

SIMULIA Fluid Mechanics delivers high-fidelity CFD (computational fluid dynamics) using lattice Boltzmann and transient solvers. It accurately simulates complex aerodynamic flows, boundary layer turbulence, and aeroacoustics, allowing engineers to optimize lift-to-drag ratios and cabin comfort entirely in a virtual environment.

The 3DEXPERIENCE MODSIM Environment unifies fluid simulation directly with parametric CAD geometry on a single platform. It allows aerospace designers to instantly assess the aerodynamic impact of structural changes, accelerating geometric optimization loops and eliminating time-consuming data translation errors.

CST Studio Suite delivers 3D electromagnetic field solvers to simulate whole-aircraft EMI/EMC compliance. It virtually evaluates wire harness crosstalk, shielding effectiveness, and PCB radiation, capturing electronic flaws pre-layout to guarantee rigorous aerospace certification.

Our advanced EMC simulations ensure aircraft and defense systems operate without interference and comply with stringent regulatory standards. We specialize in analyzing complex interactions between various electronic systems, assessing EMI/EMC concerns for radar integration, antenna design, and wiring harness analysis. Our services support performance verification through pre-compliance testing and investigation of emission and susceptibility issues. We also offer expertise in designing integrated E3 solutions for EMI, HIRF, lightning, and ESD protection, as well as evaluating electromagnetic compatibility in spacecraft and satellite systems.

ENOVIA QMS (quality management system) enforces global quality governance by standardizing CAPA, audits, and non-conformance tracking. It embeds regulatory compliance directly into engineering changes, ensuring that all product deviations are resolved, tracked, and thoroughly closed.

DELMIA Apriso delivers real-time quality control directly on the plant floor. It automates inspection plans, tracks SPC (statistical process control) data, and halts defective production, preventing non-conforming components from escaping further down assembly lines.

We support clients with quality assurance processes and supply chain management to maintain high standards across all stages of production, from raw materials to finished components.

ENOVIA unites multi-CAD designs, BOMs, and workflows under centralized governance while enabling non-technical stakeholders to securely review complex 3D virtual twins via web browsers. It updates engineering records instantly to prevent version errors, accelerating cross-department approvals without exporting critical intellectual property.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform serves as the central hub of a true digital thread. By utilizing a single, unified database instead of disconnected files, it establishes a single version of truth that gives globally dispersed teams secure, zero-copy, real-time access to the exact same engineering definitions simultaneously.

ENOVIA delivers an enterprise-wide change governance framework using standardized workflows like ECRs (engineering change requests) and ECOs (engineering change orders). It automates impact analysis across multi-CAD models and BOM (bills of materials), ensuring all affected domains approve modifications before implementation.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform links change data directly to the master digital thread. It utilizes automated traceability maps to instantly show how a geometric modification impacts downstream simulations, assembly paths, and regulatory compliance documents, eliminating manual tracking errors.

DELMIA Manufacturing and Operations unifies digital lean boards, virtual workstation ergonomics, and plant-floor line balancing into a cohesive manufacturing ecosystem. It optimizes operator paths, models material flows, and provides shop-floor teams with real-time collaboration tools, eliminating operational waste and shortening assembly cycle times before physical production begins.

3DEXPERIENCE Virtual Factory (a digital twin solution) connects your entire manufacturing infrastructure to the master digital thread. It simulates complex factory layouts, material logistics, and dynamic production scheduling to uncover hidden plant capacity, eliminate expensive inventory buffers, and enable agile, demand-driven aerospace production.

We provide support in optimizing production processes, including manufacturing planning, tooling design, and assembly strategies. They work to streamline
production efficiency and ensure high-quality manufacturing of aerostructures.

DELMIA Robotics and Virtual Commissioning provides a comprehensive environment for offline robot programming, path optimization, and multi-robot synchronization. It simulates reachability, verifies kinematics, and runs full virtual commissioning against real PLC code, allowing engineers to validate automated drilling, riveting, and material handling workflows without halting production.

3DEXPERIENCE Virtual Production Ecosystem links robotic cells directly to product geometry and resource layouts within the master digital thread. It ensures that any upstream engineering design change automatically triggers updates in downstream robot paths, eliminating manual reprogramming errors and streamlining automation lifecycle governance.

CATIA unifies safety-critical software modeling with multi-domain systems architecture to comply with rigid safety standards. By generating deterministic, certifiable embedded code directly from validated models, it ensures that electronic components and flight control software match their exact behavioral and architectural safety specifications.

ENOVIA Quality and Certification Governance establishes an automated compliance matrix that maps explicit airworthiness mandates directly to engineering artifacts. It tracks V&V (verify-and-validate) test loops, manages safety margins, and locks downstream configurations, creating an immutable, audit-ready paper trail that proves absolute compliance to civil and military aviation authorities.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform serves as the master digital thread uniting physical testing with multi-physics virtual simulations (virtual twins). It cross-references safety requirements across structural, aerodynamic, and electronic engineering domains, allowing teams to continuously verify aircraft safety boundaries and accelerate final flight-clearance approvals.

3DEXPERIENCE Eco-Design and Lifecycle Assessment on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform calculates the total environmental impact of an aircraft using virtual twin data. It simulates energy consumption, material waste, and carbon emissions from raw sourcing to end-of-life disposal, allowing engineering teams to optimize sustainability metrics alongside weight, cost, and structural performance.

ENOVIA Sustainable Product and Materials Governance embeds environmental compliance checks into early design phases by tracking materials data across the entire supply chain. It automatically screens BOMs (bills of materials) against global restricted substance declarations (REACH/RoHS), flagging non-compliant parts instantly to ensure eco-design principles are followed before manufacturing begins.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform secures sensitive aerospace data through dedicated sovereign environments (such as TECHNIA Cloud and 3DS OUTSCALE with SecNumCloud or NIST 800-53 compliance). It protects critical intellectual property via localized data storage, advanced encryption, and robust identity access management to prevent foreign unauthorized access.

CATIA Magic integrates cyber risk analysis natively into MBSE (model-based systems engineering) layouts. It allows engineers to map potential system vulnerabilities, run digital twin threat simulations, and trace cybersecurity compliance mandates directly down to individual system and software architectures.

ENOVIA enforces strict, granular access controls and secure data filtering mechanisms across global engineering supply chains. It ensures that external partners can co-design specific components under automated compliance workflows while entirely hiding proprietary core technologies and sensitive military data from unauthorized eyes.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform prevents data theft by substituting traditional file distribution with secure, web-based virtual twin interaction. External collaborators can review, simulate, and fit-check 3D designs in real time inside a central sandbox, keeping the master native CAD geometry completely protected within the host enterprise’s firewall.

ENOVIA manages the digital continuity of all product structures, linking multi-disciplinary components directly to their design requirements and variants. It automates the evolution from the as-designed EBOM to the as-manufactured MBOM and as-maintained SBOM, ensuring every part and configuration state remains perfectly reconciled and auditable.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform serves as the central database that eliminates file translation and synchronization gaps across global engineering sites. It binds physical geometric models, functional behaviors, and multi-tier supplier data directly to the live bill of materials, providing real-time visibility into the downstream impacts of any BOM modification.

Closed-loop change execution in ENOVIA delivers an enterprise-wide change management framework using standardized workflows like ECRs (engineering change requests) and ECOs (engineering change orders). It provides comprehensive impact analysis tools that automatically discover all related assemblies and parts across multi-CAD environments, ensuring that downstream manufacturing and procurement teams are synchronized and aligned before final execution.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform links ECO data directly to the master virtual twin architecture. It eliminates manual tracking spreadsheets by utilizing automated traceability maps to instantly showcase how an engineering change impacts active simulation configurations, tooling layouts, and regulatory compliance artifacts, preventing out-of-date part variants from reaching the factory floor.

Asset performance management in NETVIBES delivers AI and data-science analytics to track real-time equipment performance and health across active aircraft fleets. By aggregating live IoT sensor variables like vibration and temperature, its predictive models isolate hidden anomalies, flag degradation patterns, and forecast precise failure windows to allow for surgical condition-based maintenance interventions.

DELMIA MRO and operations optimization bridges predictive analytics with real-world execution by optimizing complex workforce scheduling and maintenance workflow plans. Once a component failure is predicted, the software coordinates the necessary logistics – such as routing parts, checking crew licensing, and assigning tasks – ensuring the right repair actions are efficiently executed to maximize fleet availability.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform links live, operational in-service aircraft data directly back to the master engineering digital thread. It compares real-world telemetry data directly against structural and physics simulation models, allowing engineers to run safe virtual failure scenarios, track asset change history, and fuel continuous lifecycle innovation loops.

ENOVIA safeguards multi-decade programs by embedding proactive obsolescence risk tracking into the active BOM (bill of materials). It tracks component lifecycles, flags components nearing end-of-life status, and manages strategic last-time buys or supplier agreements. By linking these notifications to automated change workflows, engineers can evaluate and pre-approve technically equivalent material alternatives before shortages disrupt production.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform integrates AI-driven supply chain analytics (via NETVIBES) to provide real-time visibility into global component dynamics. It analyzes component data across design, procurement, and active inventory systems to predict the exact downstream impact of a part’s obsolescence on active assemblies. This allows teams to simulate performance trade-offs of substitute parts inside the virtual twin, coordinating design upgrades seamlessly across the entire lifecycle.

CATIA provides fileless, multi-disciplinary design tools that allow thousands of engineers to author the master virtual twin simultaneously. It enables cross-functional teams to route wiring, model structures, and design fluid lines concurrently within massive aircraft assemblies, utilizing fine-grained component locking to eliminate data overwrites and geometric clashes.

ENOVIA provides the version control and configuration framework necessary to maintain absolute stability during concurrent execution. It synchronizes multi-CAD models, BOM (bills of materials), and change dependencies, instantly pushing structural design modifications to downstream disciplines so systems engineers, thermal analysts, and manufacturers always work with the latest live aircraft configuration.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform replaces file-based handoffs with a unified database architecture that enables secure, global multi-user authoring. Dispersed engineering teams can concurrently design, simulate, and check clearances on the exact same assembly in real time, with the system utilizing fine-grained locking mechanisms to prevent data overwrites and geometric design clashes

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform delivers high-performance remote access by serving as a fileless, cloud-native hub. Engineering teams can securely visualize, review, and simulate massive 3D aircraft models through standard web browsers, eliminating the need to download heavy geometric files locally while ensuring fluent performance over lower-bandwidth connections.

ENOVIA safeguards sensitive remote workflows by embedding strict, location-aware access controls and real-time security filtering. It ensures that off-site engineers and international suppliers collaborate within secure sandboxes, viewing only the authorized component interfaces they need to see while keeping the core proprietary technology locked behind the corporate firewall.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform serves as the master repository, replacing traditional file-based sharing with a unified, zero-copy data structure. It connects multi-CAD designs, simulations, and plant-floor data into a single virtual twin, giving globally dispersed teams immediate, real-time access to the exact same engineering definitions simultaneously.

ENOVIA enforces digital continuity by linking requirements, structural designs, and BOM (bills of materials) directly to the single source of truth. It manages cross-discipline engineering change workflows under a single authority, ensuring that any modification automatically updates all downstream engineering, manufacturing, and compliance records instantly.

NETVIBES aggregates, contextualizes, and analyzes massive multi-source datasets from across the entire enterprise and supply chain. Using AI-driven semantic processing, it transforms unstructured data into real-time business intelligence, enabling predictive risk management, automated cost tracking, and deep quality analysis to optimize strategic program decisions.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform embeds advanced analytics dashboards directly into the master digital thread. It overlays operational field telemetries and shop-floor manufacturing data onto high-fidelity physics simulations, allowing teams to unlock deep performance insights, run complex predictive scenarios, and feed real-world data back into continuous design innovation loops.