Snecma aims to reduce design times

Snecma has chosen LMS Optimus to form the core of its strategic optimisation project.

Snecma has chosen LMS Optimus to form the core of its strategic optimisation project.

LMS Optimus will drive the diverse application codes from Snecma's design divisions for aircraft, rocket and helicopter engines.

In addition to streamlining the design process, LMS Optimus will provide enhanced visualisation tools for data interpretation and make reporting easy and flexible.

Snecma's objective is to reduce the design time for new engines.

Snecma's commitment to a corporate-wide culture of improvement means methodically upgrading their product technologies and their internal processes.

Snecma will use Optimus to integrate and optimise the numerous types of software and systems that contribute to its jet engine development cycle.

Optimus will drive a combination of in-house code and off-the-shelf software that currently operate separately for structural calculations, aerodynamics, combustion, acoustics and thermal analysis.

Optimus will allow Snecma to run and optimise in a single process.

In the highly competitive aerospace industry, efficient CAE simulation and analysis is vital to improving an engine design and increasing the cost-effectiveness of the development process.

Snecma's optimisation strategy will contribute significantly to improved product development by providing the platform needed to free its engineers for value-added analysis and decision-making.

Engineers at Snecma will be able to investigate and diagnose a design by selecting from the widest range of analytic methods available, and then display multiple viewpoints on the data.

They will meet target specifications and regulations more quickly and reliably by quickly generating and ranking the results of engine performance simulations.

"LMS Optimus was chosen primarily for its usability and the quality of its functionalities such as design of experiment, response surface modeling, optimisation algorithms and post-processing", said David Monteiro-Fernandes, project leader of the Snecma Optimisation project.

"The versatility of Optimus appealed to us.

LMS Optimus will drive both in-house codes and off-the-shelf software.

LMS Optimus will allow to explore the design space widely and provide multi-physic solutions.

We also expect LMS Optimus to accelerate our processes as well as to improve our products".

As the LMS Optimus implementation progresses, Snecma will fully consolidate its systems in such a way that as designs improve, their process will continue to shorten, and maximum advantage can be derived from the IT investment that has already been made.

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