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News Release from: Delmia | Subject: Simulation software
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 March 2002
Simulation tools help plan A380
production
Part of the development of the A380 virtual factory models for Hamburg Airbus plant is the simulation of such tasks as the material flow, ergonomics and assembly studies.
Part of the development of the new A380 virtual factory models for Hamburg Airbus plant is the simulation of such tasks as the material flow, ergonomics simulations and assembly studies The software company, Delmia, has joined the team developing the new A380, Airbus's 21st century super jumbo
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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After initial contracts were signed at the beginning of 2001 and following intensive talks during CeBIT last March, Airbus and Delmia started planning their joint venture in earnest.
Final contracts were signed in July, with the first simulations having just been completed.
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For the final Airbus assembly work in its new Hamburg plant, the company, which is a subsidiary of Dassault Syst?mes, will take on tasks such as the material flow, ergonomics simulations and assembly studies.
"Delmia tools will be used mainly for the simulation and visualisation of the critical procedures, some of which result from the fact that components from four different European sites must be assembled at Hamburg", said Detlev Homilius, Delmia's branch office manager in Bodenheim, near Mainz.
As an illustration, the virtual factory models of the gigantic lifting platforms, must take account of the extraordinary demands placed on the ergonomics of each workstation, as well as the kinematics of the aircraft.
Every plane requires an assembly area of at least 80 metres by 80 metres and a height of at least 25 metres.
"We are gaining a great deal of valuable new experience ourselves from this project, so we have set up a Delmia project office at the Airbus site in Hamburg, where four of our staff are working permanently on the latest projects", explained Delmia's account manager Johannes Agrebi, who is responsible for Airbus projects.
In addition to Delmia tools, Airbus is also using other Dassault Syst?mes products such as CATIA, the global leader in CAD systems.
"With Delmia, we have selected a system that mirrors the strategic aims of Airbus superbly", says Carsten Rasch, who is responsible for digital manufacturing at Airbus Deutschland.
"We have already seen the benefits from lots of the individual projects.
The next step is to integrate the individual applications into a digital factory platform." Airbus is a global aerospace player with a workforce of around 45,000, mainly at sites in France, Germany, Great Britain and Spain.
This geographical separation naturally increases the significance of integrating different IT structures into a common database.
The first A380 is due to be delivered at the beginning of 2006 and the first flight is to be staged at the end of 2004.
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