Airframes

Lifecycle solutions for airframe structures, composites, and materials science

Advances in airframe


Innovate or be outpaced. The combined market for commercial and military aircraft will exceed $281 billion by 2022. To meet that demand with reliable quality control across a global supply chain, aircraft OEMs must fundamentally rethink product development and manufacturing from the ground up. This will mean accelerating strategic moves into additive manufacturing, collaboration across geographically dispersed teams, and more fuel-efficient products.

Airframes: Business challenges and key questions

Mission success within budget is a key business challenge for both industry and government stakeholders in aerospace and defense. PTC has the system-wide insight, proven technology, and best practices to help the airframes sector lower risk while connecting the present to the future. Read on for some critical questions to ask as business challenges in airframes arise—our aerospace and defense experts are ready with solutions on the other side.

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Advances in high-performing computing and cloud technology, enabled a new structural modeling concept—the airframe digital twin, based on computational models of an individual aircraft. Airframe manufacturers, in both the commercial and the defense sectors, are rapidly adopting digital engineering strategies and partnering with leading technology providers, like PTC.

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Collaboration

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Simulation and analysis

Use digital prototypes to understand how your design performs in real-world conditions.

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