Partners
Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer whose customer focus, commercial know-how, technological leadership and manufacturing efficiency have propelled it to the forefront of the industry. With revenues of over 29 billion euros in 2010, Airbus today consistently captures about half of all commercial airliner orders. The company also continues to broaden its scope and product range by applying its expertise to the military market.
Headquartered in Toulouse, France, Airbus is owned by EADS.
Airbus has sold over 10,000 aircraft to more than 400 customers/operators and has delivered over 6,500 aircraft since it first entered service in 1974. Dedicated to helping airlines enhance the profitability of their fleets, Airbus also delivers a wide range of customer services in all areas of support, tailored to the needs of individual operators all over the world.
Sensitive to its position as an industry leader, Airbus strives to be a truly eco-efficient enterprise. To that end Airbus is the first aeronautics company in the world to have earned the ISO 14001 environmental certification for all production sites and products for the entire life cycle. Airbus seeks to ensure that air transport continues to be an eco-efficient means of transport, delivering economic value while minimizing its environmental impact.
Airbus has developed a broad industrial expertise in Aeroelastics to support Aircraft development from theoretical modelling to real structure tests and certification, from the concept to continuous airworthiness.
Major player in the global aerospace industry
A reasonably sized and financially secure private international group, in profit since its creation. The only group in the world that designs, manufactures and sells both combat aircraft, instruments of political independence, and business jets, work and economic development tools.
Products: Rafale, Falcon, nEUROn, Mirage;
One of the world leaders for top-of-the-range business jets;
Last aviation group in the world still owned by its founding family and bearing its name;
Over the past 10 years, exportations account on average for 71% of sales generated;
Over the past 10 years, Falcons account on average for 62% of sales generated.
Near 12,000 employees, with over 8,100 in France;
More than 7,900 aircraft delivered;
In 76 countries around the world;
More than 25 million hours of flight time.
EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2010, the Group – comprising Airbus, Astrium, Cassidian and Eurocopter – generated revenues of € 45.8 billion and employed a workforce of nearly 122,000.
EADS Innovation Works is the EADS Group's global research and technology network. In addition to primary locations in Munich/Ottobrunn and Paris/Suresnes, it also has branches in Getafe, Spain; Newport and Filton, U.K.; Toulouse, Nantes and Méaulte, France; Hamburg, Bremen and Stade, Germany; Singapore; Bangalore, India; Beijing, China and Moscow, Russia. Altogether, the EADS Innovation Works international network employs around 800 people.
EADS Innovation Works fosters technological excellence and business orientation through the sharing of competences and means between the various partners of the EADS group of companies and develops and maintains partnerships with world-famous schools, universities and research centres.
Onera, First Aerospace Research Player in France
Onera (Office National d’Etudes et Recherches Aérospatiales) is the French Aerospace Research Center. It is a public research establishment, with both industrial and commercial responsibilities, reporting to the French Ministry of Defense and enjoying financial independence. With 2,000 employees, including 1,500 scientists, engineers and technicians, the expertise of ONERA covers all the scientific disciplines involved in aircraft, spacecraft, turbomachinery and missile design. It makes ONERA an essential partner in the French and European aeronautics and space community.
Its main missions are:
- to assist government agencies in charge of coordinating civil and military aerospace policy,
- to direct and carry out aerospace research,
- to design, produce and operate the resources needed to perform research and testing for manufacturers,
- to make available and commercialize the results of its research and facilitate application of this research by industry, including non-aerospace sectors,
- to support the French training policy for scientists and engineers.
Since its creation in 1946, Onera has worked on all the major French and European aeronautical and space programs, including Mirage, Concorde, Airbus, Ariane, Rafale, etc… It’s continuously upgrading its research and test facilities, some of them exhibiting unique capabilities.
Safran designs, produces and installs comprehensive integrated solutions for its core Aerospace, Defense and Security markets, with innovation designed in to keep going from success to success. SAFRAN is an international Tier-1 supplier of systems and equipement, with global leadership positions in our core markets.
The SAFRAN group, 54,900 people strong, has established industrial and commercial relations with today’s leading prime contractors and operators, delivering responsive local service anywhere in the world, and shaping the future of our customers, partners, shareholders and employees.
Aerospace Propulsion
Commercial aircraft engine, military aircraft engines, helicopter turbine engines, space engines
Aircraft equipment
Landing gear, wheels and carbon brakes, aircraft engine nacelles, aircraft wiring
Defense- Security
Helicopter flight controls, Inertial navigation, optronic systems, tactical drones, biometric ID documents, automated finger print identification systems, explosive detection systems
SAFRAN is a pivotal player in many European Research programs, including Clean Sky, which aims to make tomorrow’s air transport more environmentally friendly, and Turbine, a program offering advanced digital identity management solutions.
LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the aerospace, automotive and other advanced manufacturing industries. With 30 years of experience, LMS helps customers get better products to market faster and turn superior process efficiency into key competitive advantages.
With a unique combination of simulation software, testing systems and engineering services, LMS tunes into mission critical engineering attributes, ranging from system dynamics, structural integrity and sound quality to durability, safety and power consumption. With multi-domain solutions for thermal, fluid dynamics, electrical and mechanical system behavior, LMS can address the complex engineering challenges associated with intelligent system design and model-based systems engineering.
Thanks to our technology and over 900 dedicated people, LMS has become the partner of choice of more than 5,000 manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS, a Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA partner, is certified to ISO9001:2008 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in 31 key locations around the world. For more information on LMS, visit www.lmsintl.com.
MSC.Software is the worldwide
leader of multidiscipline simulation solutions and works with thousands of companies worldwide to develop better products faster with simulation technology, software, and services.
MSC.Software, the original developer of the highly trusted simulation solutions used by aerospace industry, is ideally positioned to partner with supply chain in the journey to improve product efficiency and reduce costs. In addition to providing suppliers with industry standard and proven simulation solutions across the broad spectrum of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), MSC enables customers to maintain uniformity and reliable information sharing across departments and the supply chain.
MSC.Software has a long history of involvement with Aeroelasticity which requires sophisticated engineering design, simulation and testing. Aeroelasticity is an integral part of MSC/NASTRAN and has been continuously developed and maintained for over 25 years. The capability is in line with MSC’s vision of providing CAE solutions to major manufacturers.
SOPEMEA, a company for the Improvement of Aerospace Materials and Equipment
A tests facility centre unique in Europe: Mechanics, Vibrations, Climatics, EMC
Created in 1948 by the French Ministry of Defence, SOPEMEA is now a private company acting as a test laboratory accredited by COFRAC in accordance with the international ISO 17025 standard and approved by the largest companies (AIRBUS, Boeing, …). More than 60% of its turnover is issued from the aerospace and defence programmes. Acting as a third independent party, its technical teams are involved into the programmes from the development up to the qualification phases. For instance, SOPEMEA supports daily its customers during the definition of the qualification plan (analysis of the input relevancy and qualification strategy, test tailoring, a large range of tests carried out internally with the associated analysis of collected test datas and assistance to failure detection.
Every year, SOPEMEA invests more than 8% of its revenues in research and technologies. Currently, the SOPEMEA experts are involved within 8 collaborative R&T projects.
Computer Aided Engineering, Finite Element Analysis, Multi-Body Simulation, Flexible Dynamics, Structural Simulation, Knowledge Based Engineering, Multidisciplinary Optimization, Thermal Analysis, Strongly Coupled Multiphysics Analysis, Mechatronics Simulation, Fatigue, Composite Materials including Delamination...
...just a snapshot of the engineering and simulation features managed by SAMTECH as the creator and editor of SAMCEF, our Finite Elements based software package.
Over the last 45 years, our software packages have been recognized and deemed by engineering departments and leading industries Worldwide to be the reference in the linear and non linear mechanical simulation world.
SAMTECH's philosophy has always been to position its software developments on specific CAE Professional Solutions, addressing specific problems to be solved in the industrial environment, and based on the various disciplines that are used in this sector.