Aviation composites partnership reached
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ESI Group product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jun 12, 2007
Composite parts in aircraft dramatically reduce the weight of aircraft, thus improving aircraft performance and efficiency.
ESI will form a strategic collaboration in composites manufacturing engineering with Chengdu Aircraft Industry group, a major Chinese aircraft manufacturer and partner for the global aviation industry.
"ESI group's virtual simulation solution for composite parts Manufacturing Engineering is really revolutionary", says Yougi Wen, Chief Manufacturing Engineer at Chengdu Aircraft Industry.
"It changes the entire thinking and process of composite design and manufacturing at Chengdu Aircraft and enables us to know well in advance - as early as in the preliminary design phase - what kind of defects might occur in the composite parts due to the different methods or processes in manufacturing, against the design requirement of aircraft performance".
Chengdu Aircraft has recently completed its implementation of ESI group's composites simulation solution in its aircraft design and manufacturing engineering process.
Today, new-generation composite parts in aircraft are a major innovation, dramatically reducing the weight of aircraft, thus improving aircraft performance and efficiency.
The virtual simulation solution from ESI group enables Chengdu Aircraft to simulate the entire process of the design and manufacturing of composite parts, accelerating the time-to-manufacture of reliable and high-performance composite parts, which are built as designed.
Chengdu Aircraft is a supplier to major aircraft manufacturers across the world and manufactures some of the most-used parts in modern aircrafts, as well as some composite parts of future-generation airliners.
Therefore, the implementation of virtual simulation of composites manufacturing engineering helps Chengdu Aircraft to meet its customers' requirements, as well as the challenges of the aviation industry of the 21st century.
"We are very pleased with their progress at Chengdu Aircraft regarding the use of ESI group's virtual simulation for composite parts, with the full participation of their newly founded Manufacturing Engineering division", says Dr Patrick de Luca, ESI group Product Manager for Composite Solutions.
"Chengdu Aircraft and ESI ATE engineers, a subsidiary of ESI group in China, have been joining forces in working together for more than six months, in order to implement methods and adapt technologies to meet various challenges and requirements in the innovation of composite parts, with full satisfaction from the customer side".
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