Aerospace manufacturing

To ensure right-first-time production for your aerospace products, you need to implement a smart manufacturing approach. This approach to aerospace production involves:

• Creating a model-based manufacturing plan that connects your engineering data to shop the floor
• Leveraging a digital twin of your aerospace factory, which allows you to virtually test your factory floor and validate your production plan
• Implementing advanced manufacturing technologies and closed-loop operation insights to predict and mitigate issues and continuously improve products and processes

Our solutions can help you accelerate production by designing jigs, fixtures, gages and other tooling equipment for manufacturing operations to exact specifications.

Aerospace manufacturers are facing increased pressure to deliver products faster while still conforming to design. Additive manufacturing in aerospace can help improve efficiency by prototyping 3D-printed tools, jigs, fixtures and finished goods. This approach gets raw material close to the finished part, minimizing raw material cost and waste. By making parts on an as-needed basis at the location of service, additive manufacturing reduces inventory and shipping costs. Additive manufacturing, supported by our Siemens Xcelerator solutions, allows companies to reimagine products, retool manufacturing and rethink business models.

Aerospace composites are increasingly important as they help manufacturers satisfy key requirements such as reducing weight, increasing payload and reducing fuel consumption. To realize these benefits, aerospace and defense manufacturers must be able to design and manufacture composite components with high precision and production yields, as well as operational durability and repairability. Solutions within the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio can support composite engineering design and manufacturing.

Automation in aerospace manufacturing helps improve efficiency, safety and throughput. Robotics and artificial intelligence are speeding up operations, while sensors and smart devices are monitoring performance and predicting operational issues in real-time.

Our smart manufacturing solutions enable companies to accelerate digital transformation of the entire production process. With our Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software solutions, you can connect engineering disciplines and processes; plan, optimize and test your factory floor virtually; and accelerate production ramp-up to meet production throughput targets faster. This ensures visibility across the product lifecycle, allowing you to predictably deliver consistent products that conform to the approved design.