1. Virtualization and Simulation
As Key Assets for the New Business Challenge
Nazario Cauceglia
Chief Technical Officer
Virtual Test and Engineering Simulation in A&D
October 23rd-24th
2. Summary
Alenia Aeronautica Context
Alenia Aeronautica Vision
Virtualization Skills & Highlights
Virtualization Roadmap & Achievements
Way Ahead and Conclusion
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3. Alenia in Finmeccanica
Aircraft Helicopter Space Electronic for Defence System Transportation &
Defence Energy
Alcatel Alenia Selex Sensors &
Alenia Aeronautica Agusta Westland MBDA Ansaldo Breda
Space Airborne Systems
Alenia Aermacchi Telespazio Galileo Avionica Oto Melara Ansaldo Energia
Alenia Aeronavali
ATR Selex Sensors &
Airborne Systems WASS Ansaldo STS
Ltd
Selex
Fata
Communication
Elsag Datamat
Selex Sistemi
Integrati
Orizzonte
Elettronica
Selex Service
Management
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4. Programs
Alenia Aeronautica investigates and reinforces his technological base (from composite
materials to Autonomous Flight Technologies) enabling his presence in several segments with
competitive product and sustaining a growing strategy.
Combat a/c Trainers Regionals Aerostructures / Military Airlifters
Commercial Aircraft
Overhaul and
Modification
UAV/UCAV
Mission Systems
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5. Civil Programs
Supplier Risk sharing Partner Prime
Supplier
Dassault Falcon
900/2000
Fuselage Section Thrust
Reverser
Engine Nacelle
Boeing B787
Stabilizer Superjet 100
Airbus A321/ A330/ Central and Rear sections
A340/300-310 fuselage Partner: Sukhoi
Tail Cone 26% 787 structure
Wing Components
ATR CARGO
Civil & Military
certification
Boeing B767/ 777/
717/ 757
Control Surfaces, Fin,
Fuselage Panels/
Barrels Wing Tips AirbusA380 ATR42/72
Radome Fuselage section 15
Partner: EADS-F
Workshare: 50 %
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6. Military Programs
Risk sharing Partner Prime
Supplier
Tornado AM-X
Interdiction & Strike
Primary Responsibility for
Workshare: 15 %
Complete Weapon
System
ATR SM
Civil & Military
certification
Typhoon
JSF Air Superiority &
Final Assy in Italy (AMI and Ground Attack C-27J
other Nations) Workshare: 21 % Civil & Military
Logistic Support Center (South certification
Europe)
Wing Structure Design
Wing production & assembly Sky-X
UAV
First flight May 2005
Neuron
UCAV
22% Workshare Sky-Y
MALE UAV
First flight June 2007
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7. Revenues Distribution in the Value Chain Assets
Alenia is willing to enforce the Prime / Co-Prime role in cooperation with
key Risk Sharing partners
Il nuovo Business Model A&D Alenia Aeronautica
CUSTOMER
Partner
<<Co-development>> 60 – 70% Revenue (Prime e Co-Prime)
Prime Risk Sharing ( C-27J, ATR M3, ATR 42/72, EFA, … )
Business Model
Risk Sharing
Partners & Supplier
30 – 40% Revenue
Major System Contracting Based
Business Model ( A380, 787, … )
Supplier
System Specialist,
Sub-Assembly Supplier
Component, Part and Tooling Supplier
Design Services
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8. Competitiveness Roadmap
Current discontinuity emphasizes that the knowledge is the main enabler factor of
modern competitive system
LEADERS
RAMPANT
25
Networked
Knowledge
FOLLOWERS
20
Knowledge
Value
15 Technologies
Capitals
Work
10 Resources
1960 1980 2000 2020 years
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9. The Knowledge Wave
IP Central to Economic Growth & Competition
US investment in intangible assets (>$1T/year)
equivalent to investment in tangibles “Intellectual property is the
14 backbone of America's
economy”
12 U.S. Commerce Secretary
Tangibles Carlos Gutierrez
10 Japan intends to “bring about
% G ross D omestic P roduct
a nation founded on
intellectual property”
8 Japanese Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi
Intangibles
6
“The competition of the future
world is a competition for
4 Intellectual Property Rights”
Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao
2
~80% of the value of modern
~80% of the value of modern
0
companies
companies
comes from intangible assets
comes from intangible assets
1954 1964 1974 1984 1994 2004
Sources: US Federal Reserve – Nakamura, Ned Davis Research
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10. Executive Summary
The challenges that Alenia is coping with:
Alenia Aeronautica is subjected to many external and internal factors
that push both toward new competitive positions and toward a
reorganization of the company value chain
Exogenous factors Endogenous Factors
• Networked Knowledge in a • Multiplicity of Roles &
Cooperative Environment Programs
(Extended Enterprise) • Efficiency increasing
- Project Team de-located
• Optimization of the supplier
- “Real-Time” Collaboration base
• Growing Competition • Know-how Capitalization
• Intellectual Property Rights • Next 5 years plan: doubled
management revenues
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11. The New Business Model
Traditional Enterprise Specialized Enterprise
The Specialized Enterprise supports the business imperatives through:
Focusing time management, talents and investments on specific
Differentiation critical components related to the main peculiar strategies
An evoluted business model to cope with changes in market
Reactivity requirements through a networked organization made by
internal and external specialists cooperating
Merging similar activities/business belonging to different units
to reach scale effects, knowledge sharing and increase effect of
Efficency
best-in-class partners
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12. Enterprise Transformation Roadmap
Catalysts
Information and
Communication
Technology
Standards
Main Capabilities
Differentiation
Reactivity
Security
Standard Processes
Shared Knowledge
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13. Alenet Model
Option Catalog Certification Mapping Standard to Program Monitoring Customer
Customer Serial Numbers Master Table Delivery
contract
Program Steering Conformity
Investigations Commissions Decision Applicability
As Contracted
Document / Content
Change Dossier Deviations Management
Program Management
Change control & Traceability
Workflow
Change Orchestration
Management
Requirement As Designed As Planned Resources As Built As Maintained
Management (As Delivered)
Collaboration
Product, Process & Resources Management
CAE CAD CAT CAM CAPP
Knowledge
Management Management Management Management Management Management
Product / Simulation and Prototyping ( virtual & physical )
Network
Catia v4 Catia v5 Word Excel HMS CAPP CASE Et….
Security /
Communication
Creation Tools Management
Technology Infrastructure, System Integration
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14. New Enterprise Model
NETWORK
Community Management Enterprise Model Collaboration Management
• Document / Content Management
• Security
• Knowledge Management
• Social Network Analysis
• Collaboration Service
• Key Performance Indicator
• Process Management
Enterprise Resources Planning
HR Finance Logistic Procurement
Customer Supply
Relationship PLM Chain
Management Core Management
Shop Floor Control
+
FMS Plant Automation …….
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15. Model Based Aircraft Development
Model-
Model-based Aircraft Development in Extended Enterprise
Concept phase is the bet and trade-off shall wrap-up requirements,
functional views, architectures and verification methods
Multi-disciplinary approach is mandatory for system perspective as “whole”
Full lifecycle coverage shall anticipate all the implications in design,
manufacturing, operation and maintenance
Systems are spread in a deep supply chain, so global collaborative
environment, federative process governance and information integration are
key enablers
Concurrent Engineering Enables Risk and Cost Reduction
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16. V-Model Based Product Development
The virtualization covers the full lifecycle development and the validation process
Needs & Concept Operation
Assessment Development Production
Requirements & Definition & Support
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17. Design Powered By Virtualization
Virtualization drives the product development from the concept to the real integration
Concept Validation Product
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18. Virtual Testing and Validation
Reduce the physical tests to minimize development risks and costs
Exploit virtual platform when the physical test is not practical
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19. System Engineering and Architecting
Virtualization drives the model-based system engineering from requirements to
architecture definition, enhancing the conceptual design as critical phase in lifecycle
Downstream BC:
Rack 120 VU
-31.0 [g/s]
Experimental data
Downstream BC:
Ptot and y(ng) specified
Rack 90 VU +
Panneau Plafond
-45.6 [g/s]
CFD architectural characterization
IMP
Node
Equivalent model +restrictors (3x25)
11S21283086-204 diam=45[mm]
IMP
IMP
Node
Node
Pressure Point AHRS
Cockpit+ E/R radar + 1010
glace sondes 11S21283056-002 -7.2 [g/s]
Restrictor diam
Sm Valve =54[m ] /
oke m
11S21283055-004
-148.8 [g/s]
IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP IMP
Node Node Node Node Node Node Node Node Node Node Node Node Node Node Node
Downstream BC: Experimental data 11S21283071-002 11S21283063-002 11S21283062-002 11S21283055-004 11S21283054-002 Orifice 11S21283055-004 11S21283055-004 11S21283055-004 11S21283056-002 11S21283056-002 11S21283057-002 13S21283310-000 11S21283120-212 diam=19[mm] Experimental data Downstream BC:
Pressure Point Pressure Point
11S21283086-216 diam=16[mm] 1007 1008
Pressure Point 13S21283310-000
1006
IMP
Node
-72.2 [g/s] -103.2 [g/s] Pressure Point
1011 IMP Downstream BC:
-65.4 [g/s] Experimental data
Node
-155.9 [g/s] -9.2 [g/s]
-6.7 [g/s] 13S21283144-206
Equivalent model
Downstream BC:
IMP
IMP IMP
Pylone
Node Node
13S21283144-206 13S21283144-206
Electrique
IMP
Flow @ fan = -228.0 [g/s]
Node
13S21283140-012 / 3140-004 / 3106-002
Restrictor -204 ref. 13S21283140 diam=51.4
IMP
Node
Pressure Point 11S21283058-004 (part)
1012
System/sub-system Analysis (Easy5)
IMP
-62.9 [g/s] Node
Rack 80 VU+
Experimental data
bloc sondes
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23. HPC Capabilities
High Performance Computing Center
Quadrics QsNetII Quadrics for the structure integration
Bull Storage System and Parallel File System (Lustre)
Storagetek Backup Library
HP 200 nodes 2x Opteron DualCore
Bull 6 nodes 8x Intel Montecito
~2.2 TFlops ~2.8 TFlops
Bull 36 nodes 4x Intel Montecito
Montecito
Montecito
•Operative System: Linux
8x
4x
• Compiler: GNU, Intel C/C++/Fortran, Portland PGCC / PGF90
/ PGHPF 2 x Opteron
DualCore
• Library: Intel MKL, IMSL, Lapack (Scalapack) FFTW
Lustre
• Parallel Language : MPI-CH, MPI-Quadrics, HP-MPI, OpenMP
PFS
OSS MDS
• Debugger: Gdb, Xdb, Totalview, DDT
• Performance Tools: PAPI, vprof, Vampir
Library
Tape
• Parallel File System: Lustre (CFS)
Storage
20 TB
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24. The High Performance Computing Center
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25. Wrap-up
Conclusions
In order to face successfully the incoming change of the worldwide business
model, Alenia is engaged in a challenging evolution of technology and process
This innovation is a mandatory requirement to sustain the market
competitiveness for a global player role pursued by Alenia
Alenet Project has been conceived in this perspective through two main
streams of:
• New Integrated PLM
• Virtual Prototyping and Testing
Virtualization and HPC are key assets in Alenia Aeronautica strategies
The relevant capabilities are pursued and developed through internal initiatives
(es. Alenet Project) and research programs (es. CRESCENDO)
The framework based on strategic alliance system can support the business
development as “virtualization and HPC” service provider through Alenia
Aeronautica controlled company (Alenia Improvement)
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26. Virtual Test and Engineering Simulation in A&D
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