KYIV. August 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) – State enterprise Antonov (Kyiv) has introduced a modern product lifecycle management (PLM) system for new aircraft models based on Siemens PLM software, which uses the “without drawings” technology, which is based on 3D models, the press service of the company has reported.
“The use of modern digital technologies in the creation and maintenance of complex technical objects like aircraft is the requirement of time, a prerequisite for the successful integration of the enterprise into the world aircraft industry,” the press service said, citing Antonov Acting President Mykhailo Hvozdev.
He said that Antonov experts have developed a normative and methodological base of electronic projects and have formed a database of electronic models of standard, unified, purchased components (about 300,000), as well as other materials used.
“In this direction we have been successfully cooperating with Siemens for three years and are ready to continue this cooperation,” he said.
Antonov has for the first time fully used the new technology in the design and building of the first prototype of the transport An-178 aircraft.
“It allows for reducing costs for implementing the program, significantly reduce the terms and improve the quality of manufacturing certain components and aircraft as a whole,” the report said.
