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Aerospace systems engineering
Take model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to the next level. Adopt a mission-driven approach to aerospace systems engineering to connect systems, domains and stakeholders across the complete product and lifecycle, ensuring cost-saving risk mitigation up front.
Why a mission-driven systems engineering approach?
A mission-driven approach to aerospace systems engineering begins with the "mission," or a product's end-use and related requirements. Take systems optimization beyond individual domains or parts with robust interface integration and collaboration, optimizing across the entire product and lifecycle. This approach mitigates technical risk, avoiding delays and costs associated with late-discovered issues.
Ensure aerospace systems engineering success
Approach your aerospace systems engineering with tight integration, multidomain simulation, and optimization of systems in the context of the complete product and mission. Achieve these powerful results:
On-time delivery rate
Keep program deliveries on schedule by improving systems processes. (Proform)
Reduced labor hours during conceptual design
Reduce errors and rework and accelerate delivery with aerospace MBSE. (General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.)
Increased productivity
Achieve increased productivity with aerospace systems optimization solutions. (Proform)
Rethink aerospace MBSE. Integrate early. Mitigate risk.
Achieve game-changing digital transformation of systems engineering across the complete product and lifecycle. Explore our solution paths that can help you take aerospace systems engineering to the next level:
Integrate across all domains, disciplines and stakeholders to develop a baseline architecture comprised of trustworthy engineering models. From there, you can manage the design at the interface boundaries. The models reflect verified, optimized and validated systems design of the full product, not just an individual system.
By establishing continuous connectivity through integrated processes, you can manage designs across domains and with suppliers by leveraging a comprehensive digital twin. Exchange data and coordinate boundaries between system elements internally and externally with ease.
Our industry-leading simulation solutions enable you to analyze system performance in context of the complete product to mitigate technical risk early. Validate system requirements for accuracy and completeness to avoid time-consuming and costly errors later in the design process.
Optimize your aerospace systems engineering processes
Decrease in the size of engineering staff
Holistic integration reduces the need for specialists and fosters a more collaborative design process. (Bye Aerospace)
Reduction in detailed structural design time
Implement a model-based process to maximize reuse. (General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.)
Increase in fuel payload
Learn how Piper reduces the time and cost of designing and assembling aircraft. (Piper Aircraft Inc.)
Bye Aerospace
Airplane manufacturer uses Siemens solutions to reduce product development time for all-electric composite aircraft
Company:Bye Aerospace
Industry:Aerospace & defense
Location:Englewood, Colorado, United States
Siemens Software:Capital™, NX, SES (formerly Vistagy), Simcenter 3D Solutions, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Teamcenter
"As a systems engineer, I feel the biggest advantage of the Siemens software is how it makes design more collaborative."
Explore our resource library
Our approach to aerospace systems engineering helps you integrate early and mitigate risk to minimize late-discovered issues and changes due to disconnected systems. Early and continuous integration, verification and optimization ensures end-user mission success. Explore our resource library to discover a new approach to aerospace MBSE.
Benefit from aerospace systems engineering solutions
Aerospace systems engineering
Aircraft requirements management
Aircraft RAMS engineering
Aircraft performance engineering
Aerospace BOM management
Enterprise systems integration
Frequently asked questions
A mission-driven systems engineering approach is needed to prevent costs and delays that come from late-discovered issues. This approach requires that you start with the product's end-use mission in mind, as well as intended variants. A mission-driven systems engineering approach leverages an integrated, holistic process for continuous integration, verification and optimization of systems design across mechanical, electrical, electronic and software domains to meet operational, functional, performance and physical requirements. It also requires seamless collaboration across all domains spanning the entire product lifecycle, beginning with mission definition, continuing through design verification and validation, digital manufacturing, manufacturing operations and product operation and sustainment. Finally, powerful multidomain simulation is needed to achieve robust interface management for early mitigation of technical risk.
Resolving product defects that are discovered after initial prototypes become available can consume half or more of your program's time, effort and costs. These issues usually stem from siloed development and/or disconnected data, tools and processes. Adoption of a mission-driven systems engineering approach helps mitigate risk by taking systems engineering beyond an individual domain or part and optimizing across the entire product and lifecycle.
Our solutions for aerospace and defense systems engineering can accelerate your aircraft and spacecraft development processes by establishing integrated, holistic processes for continuous integration, verification and optimization of system design across the complete product. By starting with the end mission in mind and integrating early, you can avoid the late discovery of issues that leads to increased costs and unacceptable delivery delays.
Implementing a holistic, integrated process for aerospace systems engineering enables continuous optimization of systems design across the complete product and lifecycle, rather than isolated systems of individual parts. When you manage the design at the interface boundaries, you get a robust exchange of detailed architectural information with internal teams and external suppliers.
Seamless collaboration is a requirement for our mission-driven approach to aerospace systems engineering. This can help you leverage a comprehensive digital twin to enable early and easy collaboration. Collaborating across domains internally and externally allows for an increase in quality and a decrease in effort to mitigate risks early. It also reduces the cost of change and keeps program deliveries on time.
Our mission-driven approach to aerospace systems engineering enables aerospace and defense companies to take systems optimization beyond an individual domain or part. The ability to optimize aerospace systems engineering across the full product and lifecycle is only possible with the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software solutions.
Learn more
Watch
On-demand webinar | Accelerate product development with PLM-integrated MBSE software
Listen
Podcast | Orchestrate your technical program with model-based systems engineering
Read
White paper | 10 ways to win with MBSE
Blog | Updating MBSE for a new aerospace industry
Ebook | The executive's guide to holistic systems engineering