The Commercial airline industry can reduce its design time by up to 40% using SolidWorks computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) software. Commercial airline companies usually support large fleet of aircraft and in order to maximise the commercial return on the investment in the aircraft and to help ensure the safety of flights, the large fleet would require the design & production of ground maintenance equipment, replacement parts for the aircraft and interior layouts for new aircraft.

SolidWorks’ FEA functionality acts as a virtual ‘spell checker’ for designers, allowing them to spot problems early in the design process and saving them hours of additional corrective design time

The SolidWorks 3D software offers Commercial Airline companies not only improved design capability but also in-built finite element analysis (FEA) functionality enabling the designers to undertake stress analysis tests on their designs early in the process so they can validate their designs before they are passed to the next and more expensive stage of testing.

By enabling designers to carry out stress tests on their own designs, the Airline company would be able to more rapidly modify those designs and ensure they are of a higher quality before they are passed to dedicated FEA engineers for final analysis, saving time and money in the process.

SolidWorks will also allow the Airline engineering teams, to easily export and share its drawings between different business units and vendors, further improving accuracy and consistency between suppliers.

Software best suited for the Aerospace Industry