CRESCENDO – Collaborative & Robust Engineering using Simulation Capability Enabling Next Design Optimisation

The CRESCENDO project addresses the Vision 2020 objectives for the aeronautical industry by contributing significantly to the fulfilment of three specific targets of the aeronautical industry’s Strategic Research Agenda: to halve the time to market for new products with the help of advanced electronic analytical, design, manufacturing and maintenance tools, methods and processes; to increase the integration of the supply chain into the network; to maintain a steady and continuous fall in travel charges through substantial cuts in operating costs. CRESCENDO develops the foundations for the Behavioural Digital Aircraft (BDA), taking experience and results from VIVACE, and integrating these into a federative system and building the BDA on top of them. Main components of the BDA are: the Model Store, the Simulation Factory, the Quality Laboratory, and the Enterprise Collaboration Capabilities. BDA is validated through use cases and test cases concerning “Power Plant Integration”, “Energy Aircraft”, “Thermal Aircraft” and “Value Generation” design problems and viewpoints during the preliminary design, detailed design, and test and certification phases of a generic aircraft product life-cycle. The BDA represents a new backbone for the simulation world, just as the Digital Mock-up (DMU) is today for the Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) world.