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Driving Aerospace Competitiveness: INESPASA Accelerates Aero Tooling Design with Altair SimSolid®
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Digital Twin / Simulation
- Sensors - Level Sensors
Applicable Industries
- Aerospace
- Automotive
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Manufacturing Process Simulation
- Time Sensitive Networking
Services
- System Integration
- Testing & Certification
The Challenge
INESPASA, a Spanish engineering company specializing in the aerospace and automotive sectors, faced a significant challenge in maintaining competitiveness in a demanding market. The company needed to deliver high-quality, complex products and components that complied with stringent standards and regulations, all while adhering to tight deadlines and limited budgets. A major challenge was the vertical integration of aerostructures, where adjustments were often required during the production of the first units, despite careful development. The time-consuming and expensive process of developing and testing aircraft component prototypes posed a significant hurdle. INESPASA needed to find faster, more efficient methods, such as multiphysics simulation, to evaluate its aero-structure designs, identify potential issues before they occurred, and ensure the viability of the implemented solutions.
About The Customer
INESPASA is a Spain-based engineering company that provides comprehensive solutions for turnkey projects in the aerospace and automotive sectors. With over 35 years of experience in research and development projects, tool design, manufacturing, precision machining, and sub-assemblies, INESPASA has collaborated with major companies such as Airbus, Alestis, Boeing, and Renault. The company's vision is to offer innovative, state-of-the-art solutions and advanced technologies to key players in the aerospace and automotive industries, supporting them in the continuous evolution of their respective fields. INESPASA operates two production plants in PE Aeropolis (Sevilla) and employs a highly qualified workforce of 150 people.
The Solution
INESPASA turned to Altair solutions, specifically the fast structural analysis tool Altair SimSolid®, to address their challenges. This tool allowed the engineers to simulate their aero-structure concepts quickly and virtually evaluate them. The team also utilized Altair® Inspire™ for topology optimization and Altair® MotionSolve® for multi-disciplinary simulations and system level analyses. These tools enabled the engineers to perform multi-physical structural calculations to estimate the stiffness of the aeronautical structural elements and obtain a deformation level. SimSolid allowed them to evaluate different solutions rapidly and efficiently and with a high degree of accuracy to achieve the most suitable design. The topology optimization in Inspire enabled the team to predict the behavior of the main component and achieve an optimal design. The engineers were able to evaluate the level of stresses and the critical paths of the stresses, even without any detailed information initially.
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