Aeralis
Aeralis are pioneering a civil-certified, digitally designed, modular light jet aircraft system to deliver a flexible, affordable, on-demand defence capability.
Challenge
Aeralis are pioneering a civil-certified, digitally designed, modular light jet aircraft system to deliver a flexible, affordable, on-demand defence capability. Their aim is to launch AERSYSTEM’s, consisting of three core components that are the key to unlocking future flexible fleets at >60% through-life cost reduction. However, the requirements and data architecture for the system had yet to be defined.
Action
We held a series of consultancy workshops to understand what the customer wanted to achieve with AERSIDE, one of three components of their smart Integrated Digital Enterprise.
Understanding that the customer wanted AERSIDE to “centralise and leverage data throughout the design, engineering, manufacturing, synthetic and operational flying of all AERALIS® aircraft, creating inherent digital twinning at platform, fleet and enterprise levels”; we worked closely with them to design the architecture to achieve their aim.
Value Added
CDS DS has supported AERALIS with defining the data architecture for various sub-systems including the Maintenance Management System (MMS).
We are also supporting the definition of requirements for the system. This will result in a call to industry for COTS products that can be integrated into AERSIDE.