Architecture, Engineering and Construction
Reinvent the built environment and ensure a sustainable and resilient urban future.
Rising urban populations around the world have ushered in the concept of Smart Cities, in which digital innovations are used to address long-standing urban challenges. The related construction boom has put increasing demands on AECO teams to not only build structures and systems beautifully and efficiently, but also design them for long-term sustainability and solve a range of issues for multiple stakeholders.
Buildings
Infrastructure
Cities
How Construction, Cities & Territories will thrive in the post-digital era
With technology connecting almost everything we see, what are our priorities for advancing the built environment? What processes and systems will enable us to best create comfortable, beautiful, dynamic, and sustainable structures and cities? How will we leverage collaboration on the cloud, 4D simulation, automation, digital continuity, and virtual environments to transform the traditional processes that design and deliver our buildings, civil infrastructure and cities? To survive and thrive in the post-digital era, all teams large and small operating in Construction, Cities & Territories must orient around these key catalysts:
INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
Disruptive Innovation
Accelerate from concept to delivery from years to months.
Minimize the risks of innovation
New technologies are accelerating innovation while significantly dropping the barriers to entry into the aerospace market. New startups are reinventing short-range transportation while regional aircraft makers are adding more pressure to the broader commercial aviation market.
Companies can more rapidly integrate new technologies like additive manufacturing and robotics into production while transforming their innovation process, by leveraging virtual environments, digital continuity, and simulation.
Lower risks with production ready innovation.
- Leverage the latest disruptive technologies like robotics, additive manufacturing, reverse engineering, composites and virtual reality.
- Visualize and simulate new concepts without the need for costly prototypes or physical testing.
- Connect with experts and authorities to accelerate the certification of new design and methods.
- Prototype new concepts, methods and processes rapidly without significant capital investment.
- Leverage innovation campuses to partner with academia to access to latest methods and equip the next generation workforce.
Accelerate innovation through collaboration
To accelerate innovation, companies must bring together people from various functions to seamlessly work together and leverage the latest technologies in material science, automation, virtual technologies and simulation. This allows for game-changing innovation while dramatically reducing the risk.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows teams to leverage a unified virtual environment to seamlessly collaborate across the globe and integrate new technologies into their system of work. Companies can explore and simulate a 1000 times the concepts with the same resources as today and optimize concepts to deliver against key requirements with ensuring they can deliver on-time, on-target and on-cost in record time compared to the time normally needs for concept development.
Design to Cost
Accelerate program maturity from concept to manufacturing while driving 40-60% of cost out.
Drive out cost despite growing complexity
Aerospace companies must integrate new technologies into ever increasing complex aircraft that can meet passenger demands, and operator cost and uptime targets. If not, they risk losing market share from more agile competitors.
To drive down costs, they must find efficiencies in how they conceptualize, design, manufacture, test, certify and support new aircraft. This requires significant process improvements that transform their ability to deliver on schedule, on cost, and on specification.
Transforming aerospace programs to drive out cost:
- Work concurrently in context of a full system digital mockup providing a single version of the truth.
- Continuously monitor schedule, budget, resource allocation and deliverables across the supply chain.
- Maintain strong program control to stay on time, on cost and on spec while avoiding contract penalties.
- Optimize the design of components, subsystems and systems while ensuring proper integration to drive out costs.
Accelerate program maturity while driving down cost
Companies must significantly increase the degree of integration to develop more advanced, complex and capable aircraft that can compete in the market. They must seamlessly collaborate across functions, organizations and geographies to keep the program on track.
To integrate this effort, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform goes beyond the traditional digital mockup (DMU) by providing a System Digital Mockup (S-DMU). This delivers insights and a common reference across the development process to optimize design efforts and drive down costs between 40 and 60 percent.
Agility of Rate
On target the first time every time from initial delivery, to ramp up and adjustments for ongoing production.
Backlogs in aerospace production
Over the next decades, airline fleet modernization and aircraft retirements will add to current backlog of aviation orders. In the past, companies adjusted production rates by adding or removing labor, creating cost and quality issues. Automation can help, but companies need flexibility to achieve the right rate.
Companies must dynamically match production with demand while improving quality, lowering costs, ensuring worker saftefy and delivering on time. Instead of treating design, planning, validation and execution as silos, companies must integrate horizontally and vertically to compete in today’s market.
Increase manufacturing agility:
- Improve decision-making to stay on budget and on time through 360 degree planning, simulation, and real-time insights.
- Improve manufacturing quality through unified change management, full supplier traceability, and real-time tracking of quality issues.
- Optimized planning and execution through real-time visibility across the supply chain to assess performance and rapidly implement corrective actions.
- Deliver right-the-first-time through virtual assembly and manufacturing planning.
Digital continuity throughout production
Agile companies can eliminate costs, quality issues, and waste virtually before production starts. They can anticipate potential issues before they occur, simulate multiple scenarios rapidly to determine the best course of action, and have the flexibility in their production systems and methods to meet new actual market demand.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides the digital continuity needed to meet production rate and quality goals. It connects planning to the shop floor through a “digital twin” to anticipate issues, and take proactive actions to accelerate production rates.
Supply Chain Reinvention
Drive integration to improve visibility, on-time delivery and first-time quality.
Increase pressure on suppliers
Today, supplier-created parts and content represents 50%-60% of the value of an aerospace system. Relentless price pressures and the expected doubling of air traffic over the next 20 years are compelling Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and tier 1 suppliers to reinvent the way they work with the supply chain. The new model requires a closer partnership to improve visibility, on-time delivery and first-time quality.
Suppliers understand the need to provide better visibility to their OEM customers. To do so, they must adopt tighter integration and work seamlessly as an extension of the OEM. Those suppliers who choose to continue business as usual, and do not adapt their business model, risk losing business. Aircraft manufacturers who can’t find strong suppliers may seek to acquire and “insource” high value suppliers. The entire supply chain is undergoing a shift to effectively compete in the aerospace market.
Transform the entire supply chain to optimize operations by:
- Connect across organizations, functions, and companies worldwide to using a single System Digital Mockup (S-DMU) to drive down development costs by as much as 60 percent.
- Increase on-time delivery through shared development of strategic plans, inventory targets and resource plans.
- Avoid potential manufacturing issues through real-time alerts of plant disruptions, bottlenecks and the root cause of production delays across the entire supply chain.
- Increase profitability by creating and comparing multiple scenarios quickly and accurately to find the most profitable outcome.
Improving OEM and Supplier Collaboration
Manufacturers, like Boeing, Airbus, Dassault Aviation, Turkish Aerospace Industries, and other leading OEMs, are now leveraging new software platforms to work collaboratively with suppliers to design new platforms, update existing aircraft programs, modernize production systems and deploy new services. This transformation effort significantly improves the agility of the entire supply chain, improves first time quality and significantly lowers costs.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides the digital continuity to improve the connection between OEMs and suppliers. This results in improved visibility, on-time delivery and first time quality. Suppliers can interact seamlessly with OEMs to design components, integrate systems and keep manufacturing activities in sync to avoid potential slowdowns of production.
On-demand Certification
Certify on-time, cut certification costs and improve trust with suppliers and aviation authorities.
Reinvent the certification process
New innovations can improve the experience and profitability of new aircraft programs, but also significantly increase the complexity to certify aircraft and ensure passenger safety. Missing a certification window can drive costs out of control and at worst, kill a program.
Today’s certification process is highly fragmented and lacks a single version of the truth between multiple departments, aviation authorities, and operators. This results in an inefficient and costly process leading to signficant delays and rework.
Achieve certification on time:
- Stay abreast and comply with constantly changing regulations to avoid audits.
- Assess certification status across the entire value chain and proactively drive execution.
- Streamline compilation of submissions while ensuring full traceability.
- Foresee quality issues virtually before the start of production.
A single platform to manage certification
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows aerospace companies to manage the regulatory compliancy process through a single platform. Seamless integration of engineering changes in real time and access to validated models that replace physical testing provide full traceability needed to create certification package on demand and manage audits.
Virtual testing and strong certification management can help ensure companies deliver on time while controlling the costs of verification and validation.
Challenge
Sustainable, Secure and Resilient Future
For cities to remain vibrant entities, they must be continuously renewed and revitalized, and have the ability to replenish resources.
Ensure a resourceful future for your city, organization, operation, or business
Governments, agencies, operators and industry must better understand their cities, sites, operations, and resources to secure their future and realize their full potential. To do so, they must make plans to ensure they have the required resources (natural, human, and infrastructure), to continuously revitalize themselves, and to respond to disasters, environmental changes, and threats to security.
Achieving this requires modeling above and beneath the surface, quantifying the resources on hand today, asking “what if” to explore potential scenarios, and maximizing how you use and replenish resources for tomorrow.
To reveal a city or entity’s potential and plan for the future:
Establish a single source of truth, a digital referential to enable modeling above and beneath the surface.
Manage complexity and leverage dynamic models to collect data from everywhere for planning and design.
Develop the right model for your needs: City Information Models, Geological and Resource Models, and Operations Models.
Leverage real-to-virtual, virtual-to-real-world learning to innovate and improve.
Simulate and prepare for unexpected economic, environmental, safety, or security-related disruptions.
Use scenario planning and simulation to ideate, envision, and test plans to make cities, sites, and operations more resilient while improving ROI.
Understand today to plan for tomorrow
With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform you create a “3DEXPERIENCE twin” of your city, operation or site, based on a single source of truth digital referential. Using real world data and this virtual referential, you can imagine and play with ideas to deliver better plans, and understand the impact of various disruptions. City planners use analytics and simulations to build understanding and test tactics that best support territorial resiliency and community preparedness.
Challenge
Respect the Art
Architecture is a creative pursuit. To build something beautiful and to make a positive impact on the built environment are the rewards sought by those called to the profession.
Conquer the competitive design framework
Inflexible tools, limited information, and tight timeframes obstruct the creative process and degrade the quality of presented solutions during design competitions. Communications with the project owner can be ambiguous or otherwise hindered, undermining confidence in a given model or risking a misinterpretation of requirements or aesthetic preferences. Too much time is consumed by non-value-added tasks—like turning iterations, tracking parameters, maintaining accuracy, and converting files—leaving design teams hamstrung and precluded from unleashing their full creative capacity.
Fortunately, 3D Modeling, automation scripts, collaborative platforms, and parametric tools allow design and construction teams to:
Expand creative possibilities
Multiply iteration capabilities
Integrate material intelligence
Respond to new requirements as they develop
Creativity x Reality x Flexibility
Overcome barriers to achieve total creative flexibility. Gain an entirely fresh competitive advantage—and design with more certainty, more confidence, more creative variation. Today’s solutions offer meticulous design precision, parametric tools, and digital continuity.
Automation speeds up the iteration process for rapid feedback cycles. More importantly, the collective intelligence of key project contributors strengthens the design and fortifies the intent with substance.
Challenge
Modernize Craftsmanship
Modern tools and digitized knowledge are revolutionizing the art and science of buildings and infrastructure by allowing architecture, engineering and construction professionals to gain precision and control.
Bridge the gap
Traditional design and construction business processes are fragmented, inefficient, and often cause rework. Modern BIM technology enables architecture, engineering and construction professionals to leverage digital continuity and bridge the gaps. Simulate construction processes to optimize capabilities with 4D modelling. Real-time project management tools help identify and fix issues before they blow the budget, or stop on-site progress.
The latest technologies help architecture, engineering and construction professionals:
Enable greater precision and control
Communicate closely and accurately across multiple disciplines
Preserve accurate design intentions for downstream processes
Increase velocity and efficiency with parametric tools
Provide value and innovation upstream and downstream
Suppliers are not immune to the inefficiency of rework. They operate independently, digitally disconnected from the architects’ and engineers’ outputs. They duplicate information from models and drawings to develop digital designs, which is wasteful and can introduce errors.
The 3DEXPERIENCE® platform lets architects, engineers and suppliers provide more value and innovation upstream. In addition, it improves coordination and communication with contractors, and control over logistics.
Challenge
Maximize Project Outcomes
Construction, Cities & Territories are undergoing drastic transformations to meet skyrocketing demand, to design more effectively and efficiently, and to deliver at unprecedented speeds.
Improve quality, efficiency, and speed while reducing risk
Construction is a project-based business and competition is fierce for winning work. Industry fragmentation makes it difficult to standardize on a single platform to efficiently share data. Plus, competitive bidding practices and functional silos lead to padded estimates and poor outcomes.
Virtual design and construction enables unmatched construction process simulation and optimization capabilities, 4D modelling, and real-time project management tools that help identify and fix issues before they blow the budget or stop on-site progress.
The latest technologies help architecture, engineering and construction professionals to:
Optimize construction processes for speed, efficiency, and accuracy
Deliver optimally in the physical world by planning first in a virtual one
Reduce costs, minimize risk, and build it right the first time
Collaborate with multiple stakeholders
Build things right the first time
Construction is the physical realization of a 3D model through the execution of a virtually optimized build process. Precise 3D models allow for remote fabrication and on-site assembly, reducing cost and increasing speed and accuracy.
Challenge
Create Collectively
Stakeholders of construction projects, cities, and territories need access to real-time information and way to seamlessly exchange knowledge. Digital continuity increases the possibilities for shared authorship in project delivery and encourages collaboration across the supply chain.
Overcome Fragmentation with Frictionless Collaboration
Construction projects have an unfortunate history of botched costs and schedules (and therefore profit margins) due to differences in understanding among project contributors. The project-based business processes and traditional industry customs contribute to this fragmentation
Project stakeholders need to establish an efficient, transparent, collaborative environment to simulate and anticipate a project’s design and construction challenges. The right platform makes it possible to seamlessly exchange information, prevent RFIs, eliminate rework, and complete a project on time and on budget.
Stay on the same page throughout the project lifecycle
Leverage the collective intelligence of the team
Collaborate across multiple disciplines, geographies, and languages
Transfer knowledge seamlessly
Embrace Collective Authorship
A common platform and integrated data model help to overcome industry fragmentation by connecting disparate systems and increasing engagement and contributions from each team member.
Stakeholders work from a single platform enabling a frictionless gathering of cross-disciplinary knowledge, efficient team collaboration, and seamless transfer of information. From design to fabrication, businesses deliver more value and reduce dependencies on drawings and other inefficient processes.