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News Release from: Vistagy
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 February 2004
Million dollar fighter CAD deal
announced
Vistagy has announced additional sales of $1.95 million of FiberSIM software and services to Northrop Grumman Corporation as a 'Tool of Choice' for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme.
Vistagy the leading developer of computer-aided-design (CAD) integrated software for composite design and manufacturing, announces additional sales of $1.95 million of FiberSIM software and services to Northrop Grumman Corporation The purchase expands Northrop Grumman's use of FiberSIM as a Tool of Choice for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the largest defense contract in U.S
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems sector purchased FiberSIM for use by the F-35 Center Fuselage Integrated Product Team, based in El Segundo, California, USA Northrop Grumman, a principal member of the Lockheed Martin F-35 JSF team, is responsible for the F-35 center fuselage section.
The F-35 is a stealthy, supersonic, multirole fighter plane being developed for the U.S.
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Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, as well as the U.K.
Royal Air Force, Royal Navy and the militaries of numerous allied nations.
It will replace a wide range of aging fighter and strike aircrafts.
The center fuselage of the F-35 makes use of composite materials because of their high strength-to-weight ratio.
The Center Fuselage Team is using FiberSIM software in design to optimize composite parts, analyze producibility, and automate manufacturing tasks.
The Center Fuselage Team will include more than a hundred FiberSIM users in its multidisciplinary design and engineering program.
They will use FiberSIM 4.1, integrated with the CATIA V5 CAD system, to design laminates, assess laminate characteristics, generate 3D engineering documentation, and verify the producibility of plies over complex contours.
In addition, the manufacturing department will generate flat patterns, laser projection programs, and data for advanced fiber placement machines using the software.
The resulting FiberSIM data will also be available to personnel in the material department and on the manufacturing floor.
"Northrop Grumman considers our composite design, development, and manufacturing skills to be a core competency," says Randy Schaffer, Northrop Grumman F-35 center fuselage structural design manager.
"We already utilize automated manufacturing of composite parts.
FiberSIM supports our existing capabilities." "The F-35 Team's use of FiberSIM helped win the world's largest defense contract during the competition phase of the demonstration program," says Steve Luby, president and CEO of Vistagy.
"Their continued commitment to FiberSIM recognizes the robust capabilities that we have built into FiberSIM to make it the standard tool for composite design in aerospace." About FiberSIMR - FiberSIM is a suite of software that turns major CAD systems into advanced tools for designing and manufacturing composite parts.
The software enables engineers to create a complete digital product definition of a composite part within their 3D modeling environment.
FiberSIM tools automate design and analysis and generate manufacturing information including documentation, flat patterns, and data to drive laser projectors, automated cutters and fiber placement machines.
FiberSIM uses XML technology to share composites data with people and applications throughout the enterprise, such as software for procurement, quality assurance, cost modeling and manufacturing.
The most recent release, FiberSIM 4.1, incorporates a powerful new user interface with the look and feel of MicrosoftR Windows on PCs and MotifR on UNIX systems.
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