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Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) solutions involve building a generative model which captures design processes. KBE applications are rule-driven, with rules being able to incorporate highly diverse and multi disciplinary aspects of product knowledge from geometrical properties to design strategies and analysis methods. This formalized knowledge can be made available in a transparent and well-organized manner across the enterprise for efficient use by different groups. This representation is fully scalable to any required level of detail, which usually happens over a period of time with the progress of the project. By automating a lot of the routine work that goes into design, there is more time for the creative work i.e. it leads to the exploration of entire design space, which is the fuel of innovation.
 
KBE tools help building a virtual product model in a dramatically short period of time by encapsulating best practices & automating repetitive tasks, while ensuring compliance to certification standards.
 
With 30% of the total time being spent on preliminary design of a new aerospace program; Acceleration in this process gives a fillip to entire design cycle.
 
Pacelab™ Suite
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PACE GmbH, a pioneer in knowledge-based engineering (KBE), hasapplied a decade of software and engineering expertise in developing their flagship product, Pacelab Suite. KBE covers the wide range of activities of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) & multidisciplinary design optimization.
 
Pacelab Suite focuses on supporting the primary engineering requirements for aircraft preliminary design
  • Tool-box approach for fast and efficient definition/modeling of new aircraft configurations
  • Declarative approach to the definition of the design task (i.e. specification of the desired inputs and outputs without the need to care about solving aspects)
  • Simple reversion of the design task to give quicker answers to what-if scenarios
  • Integration of existing domain/skill methods and tools
  • Platform for development and testing of new analysis methods
  • Rapid modification cycles, e.g. efficient exchange of analysis methods of different levels of fidelity
  • High ease of use through intuitive graphic interfaces
  • Optimum leveraging of legacy IT structures
  • Support of multidisciplinary collaborative environments
Pacelab™ Suite
PACE GmbH, a pioneer in knowledge-based engineering (KBE), has applied a decade of software and engineering expertise in developing their flagship product, Pacelab Suite. KBE covers the wide range of activities of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) & multidisciplinary design optimization.
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Pacelab™ Aircraft Preliminary Design
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Pacelab's consistent product data Model centric approach combined with dynamic, modular extension mechanisms that drives the platform's configuration as a dedicated solution for aircraft pre-design, including user interface customization and libraries of pre-built components and design and analysis methods based upon well-documented, best practices and industry standards.
 
Pacelab's key features and capabilities help to realize certain valuable benefits:
  • Accelerate development and deployment of advanced design capabilities
  • Improve innovation and speed design processes; reduce cycle time
  • Improve trade study efforts
  • Reduced development costs and extensibility
  • Reduced maintenance costs and rapid functional enhancements
  • Existing design expertise and methods can be better leveraged, packaged and redeployed
  • Pacelab's API (application programming interface) improves extensibility options, especially if the application requires an interface to CAD/CAE tools, databases and PDM systems
Pacelab™ Aircraft Preliminary Design
Pacelab's consistent product data Model centric approach combined with dynamic, modular extension mechanisms that drives the platform's configuration as a dedicated solution for aircraft pre-design, including user interface customization and libraries of pre-built components and design and analysis methods based upon well-documented, best practices and industry standards.
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Pacelab™ Cabin
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The key to success in a fast-paced, dynamic business environment like cabin interior engineering is the ability to respond to customer requests expeditiously and efficiently without compromising on quality. And – ever more important – amidst demanding time and cost schedules, cabin designers must provide their customers with new, attractive design proposals. Compounding these challenges, planners deal with large numbers of interior components featuring multitudes of changeable parameters. Further, they have to ensure compliance with stringent certification regulations.
Pacelab™ Cabin is an expert tool for rapidly creating Layouts Of Passenger Accommodation (LOPA), supporting cabin studies and the analysis of commercial passenger and corporate aircraft. The software significantly streamlines the layout process: A template library supplies typical cabin items, while non-standard geometries may be created with an integrated design tool. Positioning utilities include installation zones and seat rails.
Combining the stringent application of knowledge with easy-to-use functionality, Pacelab Cabin minimizes training requirements and costs, while enhancing the validation process. Pacelab Cabin constantly checks and ensures the compliance with certification regulations and user-defined rules. Efficient filters and post processing features support the comparison of layouts. Sophisticated 3D capabilities provide a first-rate visual impression of the future cabin.
Pacelab™ Mission
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The airline’s fleet is one of its Most important assets, which Invariably influences its profitability. As such, it is imperative that the fleet selection process considers comparative studies in terms of the technical, operational, and an economic characteristic of aircraft before a decision is made. In more recent years, technical evaluation of aircraft types plays a supporting rather than a leading role in fleet selection. This is because the major determinant is governed by economic and competitive influences. Nevertheless, aircraft technical or performance evaluation is still an integral part of the fleet selection process particularly in regions of the world where performance limitations exists. Typically, the performance of an aircraft is normally evaluated on the amount of payload it can carry over a specific range or vice versa. Aircraft manufacturers aim to maximize the payload and range capability of their aircraft subject to both physical and ambient limitations. To achieve this, marketing levels are set for input parameters used in producing performance analysis.
Pacelab™ Mission offers a comprehensive solution for assessing aircraft performance, either in the context of large route network analysis or at the detailed level of aircraft point performance. Pacelab™ Mission's extensive calculation features provide the right tool for setting up, modifying, calculating and reporting route networks, and for assigning the most suitable aircraft while analyzing direct operating costs. Pacelab™ Mission accelerates large route network planning thanks to its fast scenario building capabilities and single and batch mode calculations, including range circles.
Cabin Interiors and Aircraft Performance Software
 
Pacelab™ Cabin
The key to success in a fast-paced, dynamic business environment like cabin interior engineering is the ability to respond to customer requests expeditiously and efficiently without compromising on quality. And – ever more important – amidst demanding time and cost schedules, cabin designers must provide their customers with new, attractive design proposals.
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Pacelab™ Mission
The airline’s fleet is one of its most important assets, which invariably influences its profitability. As such, it is imperative that the fleet selection process considers comparative studies in terms of the technical, operational, and an economic characteristic of aircraft before a decision is made. In more recent years, technical evaluation of aircraft types plays a supporting rather than a leading role in fleet selection.
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