Every year the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) sponsors a student design competition. Students from competing universities must design, build, and fly an aircraft to complete the tasks assigned each year. The Mississippi State University team implemented CATIA for design, visualization, and manufacturing of the team aircraft. The design, manufacturing and performance of the final product will be discussed, with emphasis on the use of knowledgeware in the model to rapidly accommodate design changes along with the use of the composites workbench for visualization and manufacture.

Continuation of last years AC round table could include: 
•New student issues;
•DS Student software;
•PLM Software availability; and
•Academic Hot Topics.

Learn how ENOVIA Project Management (APQP) helps OEMs and suppliers streamline their product development and program phase/gate processes and improve traceability of critical quality deliverables during PPAP. This solution, developed with industry best practices and tools, enables companies to manage and improve the project execution of complex automotive vehicle programs throughout the supply chain. Further your understanding of how the ENOVIA integrated solutions can ensure that engineers and project teams can work more effectively on product programs.

S&ME PIC Roundtable “Issues Facing the Little Guys” More information to follow.

Marc-André Pelletier, Ing, Héroux Devtek

Héroux Devtek of Montreal, Canada, one of the aircraft industry’s most trusted suppliers of landing gear, will describe the benefits of creating a real-time collaboration environment using V5 PLM to close the gap between engineering and manufacturing. Thanks to the solution, Héroux Devtek has identified design improvements earlier in the development cycle, improving manufacturability and product quality and reducing production costs, improving our time-to-market, and organizing their product data for fast and easy re-use, as well as for maintaining the detailed records and audit trails required by airline industry regulatory agencies, enhancing our competitiveness in the challenging aerospace business environment.

As knowledge of the design and manufacturing of composite materials has evolved, the utilization of composite structures has increased to obtain greater part performance and efficiency. Composite design requires tools which allow for generation of both end part data and necessary tool definition to facilitate part manufacturing. This case-study examines the design of a sandwich panel structure using Vistagy's FiberSIM and CATIA's Composite Part Design; benchmarking the functionality and ease-of-use of these tools.

Representatives from IBM, DS, and Various Shipbuilding Industries will discuss Hot Topics in Shipbuilding. Key participants would agree on an agenda at least a month before the COE Conference. Issues could include; V4 to V5 CATIA, PM to Enovia migrations and intra operability issues and problems peculiar to the Shipbuilding industry.

Steve Matthews, The Boeing Company

The operational 787 PLM systems environment serves approximately 17,000 users and consists of over 200 applications distributed to over 500 world-wide Boeing, partner, and supplier sites. Through a structured process for integration and deployment of applications, as well as through integrated project, configuration, and release management disciplines, Boeing is able to maintain a common PLM systems configuration at Boeing and partner/supplier sites around the world while ensuring the integrity of the software and protecting intellectual property. A major system capability release can be implemented over the course of a weekend to ensure minimal disruption to Production operations.

The Higher Education And Training program provides North American educational institutions access to world leading Dassault Systèmes PLM products. What does this mean for schools, students and local industry?

Steven Kwok, TechniGraphics

This session will provide an overview of a recent Piping Design Implementation that has proven to be a success. The implementation of Piping is not a small task and requires dedication from the companies’ management as well as strong expertise in Equipment and Systems. The combination of these two items has allowed SONGS to have a working customized environment that has met their demanding needs and they are able to build piping lines, spools, and complete systems efficiently with their E&S environment.