Stéphane Abadie, Team Leader TS1 – DMU Support Engineering, Cimpa (Sopra Steria)

1. Presentation
title on
three lines
Presentation subtitle
Enhancing Data
Exposition & Digital Twin
for Airbus Helicopters
Thanks to Neo4j database

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SOPRA STERIA

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• An independent model
• Entrepreneurial culture
• Focus on human capital
• A trusted partner
Sopra Steria, a European Tech leader
A European group specialised in consulting, digital services and software development
Employees
2022 revenue
European digital
services companies
Countries
Global Leader in Consulting,
digital services and software
development
Sopra Steria
Key Figures / Global Footprint

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Our mission
Guiding you towards bold choices.
Providing you with practical advantages,
and sustainable solutions with positive impacts.

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Market recognitions
Sopra Steria is ranked 2nd IT Services in France and 9th EMEA*
Software
Engineering
Cybersecurity Data & AI Digital & others
*Source: PAC Teknowlogy 2023

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Social
Responsibility
Environmental
Responsibility
Interactions
with the market
Our commitment
as a responsible
company
Community
Commitment
We leverage innovation and digital to
address the Group's and our customers'
corporate responsibility challenges.

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Industry
critical functions
transformation
Sustainable aviation
challenge
Combination of
technology, business
knowledge and
leading experts
A Strategic Partner
Your trusted partner for the future of Aerospace
Aeroline Group Overview
Engineering Performance
Supply Chain 4.0
Manufacturing Excellence
Maintenance Services
Air Traffic Management
Sustainable Aerospace
PLM
AI Powered Aeronautics
SAP
Our Business Value
Proposals & Offering
Our Customers
Customised end-to-end
solutions and approach
Understanding of
your ecosystem
Innovations that match
your business
Highly committed
teams
+ 5.300
people
7
countries
Multiple service lines
- Consulting
- System Integration
- PLM / ERP
- MRO Software
- Infrastructure & Cloud Management
- Cybersecurity
Aeroline Identity

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450
375
3250
60
90
A European and Indian footprint to serve Aerospace customers
61%
21%
8%
7%
2%
1%
Aeroline Key Accounts
Aeroline Overview – January 2023
+5,300
Employees
560 M € 36
Agencies
7
Countries
1100
40

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Engineering
Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Quality
MRO & Customer Services
Assemblers
Motorists & Equipment
Manufacturers
Spatial MRO & Customer
Services
A European leader on Aerospace Industries
Aeroline Overview
Customers
Domains
ATM/UAM

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End-to-end offering
Aeroline Overview
Our Business
Value Proposals
Our Key
Technologies & Solutions
Our
Services
Manufacturing Excellence
Maintenance & Services
Engineering Performance
Supply Chain 4.0
Sustainable Aerospace
Air Traffic Management
Solutions
Consulting
Integration
Cyber
Infrastructure & Cloud
Management
Cloud
Data, RPA, Process Mining
Artificial Intelligence
AI Powered Aerospace
PLM
ERP:
PLM:
SAP
Transform the critical
functions of the
Aerospace Industry…
…with a
comprehensive end-
to-end offering and
high-level
expertise.

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AIRBUS
HELICOPTERS

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We lead helicopters and pioneer new VTOL for a sustainable future
We provide the most efficient helicopters and service solutions to our customers who serve, protect,
save lives, connect communities and safely carry passengers in demanding environments.
HELICOPTERS

13. * Share of deliveries of turbine helicopters > 5 seats
HELICOPTERS
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2022 civil market share (in units)
Robust market share in the Civil & Parapublic market
Airbus 51%
Leonardo 17%
Bell 16%
Russian Helicopters 14%
Others 2%

14. HELICOPTERS
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2022 military market share (in units)
Boeing 14%
Sikorsky 19%
Russian Helicopters 18%
Airbus 9%
Avicopter 9%
Bell 6%
Leonardo 9%
Bell-Boeing 3%
Others 6%
Airbus is resilient on the military market
Bell 6%
NHI 6%

15. HELICOPTERS
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A global presence
30
Customer centres
and affiliated sites
4
Technical support hubs
18
Training and
simulation centres
92
Services centres
Canada
USA
Mexico
Chile
Brazil
Ireland
U.K.
Germany
Romania
France
Spain
Saudi Arabia
South Africa Australia
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia
Philippines
China Japan
South Korea
India
Kazakhstan
New Zealand
Thailand
Cono Sur
Italy

16. HELICOPTERS
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Law
enforcement
Emergency
Medical Services
(EMS)
Search and Rescue
(SAR)
Energy
Private &
business aviation
Aerial work
Supporting customers operating
the most challenging civil and parapublic missions

17. HELICOPTERS
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Supporting customers operating
the most challenging military missions
Armed scout /
Light attack
Attack Naval | SAR |
Boarding
Forward air
MedEvac
Special Ops Utility /
Tactical airlift

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Helicopters in service in 152 countries
3,031,000
Flight hours

19. HELICOPTERS
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Mastering the entire helicopter value chain
Support and services
Industry and production
Conception and development
Digital Continuity through Network of Platform
DDMS (Digital Design, Manufacturing & Services)

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Product
Structure and
Digital
Continuity

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The Product Structure concept
Introduction
The product structure, also called PBS (Product
Breakdown Structure) is a hierarchical breakdown
that provides a complete list of all the
components and intermediate assemblies that
composes a final product.
Let’s start with a simple example, a bike :
Bike
Bike Frame
Head Tube
Top Tube
Down Tube
…
Front Parts
Fork
Brake Levers
Handle bar
…
Wheel
components
Tires
Rims
Spokes
…
Drive Train
Chain
Crankset
Cassette
…
Seat
Bike seat
Saddle post
Clamps
…
Wikipedia : Product structure is a hierarchical decomposition of a product, typically known as the bill of
materials (BOM). As business becomes more responsive to unique consumer tastes and derivative
products grow to meet the unique configurations, BOM management can become unmanageable. For
manufacturers, a bill of materials (BOM) is a critical product information record that lists the raw
materials, assemblies, components, parts and the quantities of each needed to manufacture a product.

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The product structure
In details
source: PTC
Into the industry, the product structure
usually follows some common rules, with
complex breakdown that also handles the
configurations of the product.
As the PBS is a breakdown of the product, it
contains the structural information, but
additional data related to elements of this PBS
are produced by a lot of other tools !
This leads to challenges linked to data!

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EBOM – MBOM - SBOM
How to ensure digital continuity?
Bike EBOM
Bike Frame
Head Tube
Steel
Head Tube
Carbon
Head Tube
Plastic
Front Parts
Fork
Inverted
Fork
Brake Levers
Handle bar
Seat
Standard
Bike seat
Confort Bike
seat
Bike MBOM
Bike Frame
Head Tube
Carbon
Front Parts
Inverted Fork
Brake Levers
Handle bar
Seat
Confort Bike
seat
Bike SBOM
Front Parts
Inverted Fork
Brake Levers
Handle bar
Seat
Confort Bike
seat
AS DESIGNED AS BUILT AS MAINTAINED
Engineering Manufacturing Customer Service

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What are the challenges around product
structure & data continuity?
In a nutshell : because accessing global product data is complex…
Most of our customers face the same issues with using their own data efficiently.
❑ Segregation
PLM, ERP, Business Own Tool, obscure spreadsheets… Even with digitalization no system is able to address the full
landscape of data generated in large companies. Finding the right information often means traversing several entities
and tools.
❑ Standardization
Amongst these several tools, there is very few chance that they share a common format allowing to exchange
information. User have to perform manual operations to reach the information.
❑ Performance
Most systems are not designed to expose their data efficiently : in the best situation they provide tools allowing
humans to manually export a small dataset. Working at the global product scale it out of scope of these tools.

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Designing a data exposure platform
Airbus Helicopters Network Of Platforms vision

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Product Structure is a Graph
Bike
Bike
Frame
Front
Parts
Head
Tube
Top
Tube
Fork
Brake
Lever
❑ A product breakdown structure can be
represented as a tree with nodes and structural
relationship between nodes.
❑ It is an Acyclic and Connex Graph that can
be immediately transposed into a Neo4j Node-
Edge model.
❑ But Product Structure alone is not enough and
need to be enriched from various meta data as
properties to offer added value.
❑ That is where properties graphs pops out !
properties
properties
properties

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DATA PRODUCTION
Each department produces
data using its own tools
designed for their job
DATA CONSOLIDATION DATA CONSULTATION
HELIOS links data together
to homogenize them and
acts as a glue layer
Stakeholders work on up-to-date information (engineering, manufacturing, quality, documentation, support, …) without any misunderstanding
thanks to the 3D display.
Our approach to Product Structure modeling : HELIOS
Helios aggregates data from heterogeneous data sources and exposes them in a secured API for other
applications to consume.
Structured data can be
requested by a data
consumer through a
dedicated API

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Graphs & Neo4j
for Airbus
Helicopters

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SOPRA STERIA & AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
Our project on Digital Twin and Data Exposure
2020
2021
2022
2023
❑ First Digital Twin Proof Of Concept on two helicopters programs
(H225-H160)
❑ Data preparation from legacy consolidation system (VENUS,
relying on in-memory graphs)
❑ Digital Twin industrialization on legacy system.
❑ First POC with Helios and Neo4j community
❑ Start of transition VENUS ➔ HELIOS
❑ Presentation of CORE PLM from AH
❑ Strategy build on data exposure platform.
❑ Contract with Neo4j for Enterprise version
❑ Industrialization of HELIOS as reference system
❑ Start of Core PLM platform
Main challenges:
❑ Deploy 3D Digital twin.
❑ Deploy transversal product
data exposition.

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DATA PRODUCTION
Each department produces data
using its own tools designed for
their job
DATA STORAGE DATA CONSOLIDATION DATA INDEXATION DATA CONSULTATION
HELIOS links data together to
homogenize them and acts as a
glue layer
Data are stored unrelated to each
other, possibly in a common Data
Lake
3D Juump Infinite Data Hub
indexes and encrypts data to
offer a secured super-fast access
to all users.
Stakeholders work on up-to-date information (engineering, manufacturing, quality, documentation, support, …) without any misunderstanding
thanks to the 3D display.
3D Juump Infinite provides 3 ways to share
and develop collaboration over data:
Windows app / Web app / Web API
3D AS PORTAL - SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE THROUGH 3D
Example of HELIOS integration into a global integration process of 3DJUUMP tool.
HELIOS stands here!

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3D RESULT
Example of digital twin generated thanks to HELIOS & Neo4j
Note : for confidentiality purpose, a real Helicopter DMU cannot be presented.
Thanks to HELIOS and
Neo4j, the up-to-date,
meta-data enhanced
product structure has
been requested and
exported to 3DJuump
Infinite (Real Fusio) Light
Viewer.

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HELICOPTER GRAPH MODEL
Based on 4 programs : H160/H225/LH/H175
Some stats :
4 programs in one graph space:
~4M Nodes
~6M Edges
H160 = ~ 2M Nodes
H225 = ~ 1M Nodes
LH = ~0,3M Nodes
H175 = ~2M Nodes
➔ New fully digitalized products are more detailed

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CORE PLM
A key pillar of Airbus Helicopter Data Platform for Digital Twin
Objective of the project : build an Airbus Helicopter Data
Platform.
❑ Digital continuity backbone
❑ Leverage PLMs data sources & eBOM services
❑ Rationalize data exchange
❑ Standardize PLMs data model and introduce xBOM
(eBOM/mBOM/sBOM)
❑ …
➔ Graph Databases and Neo4j Enterprise introduced as pilars into the
infrastructure.
Prepare Data
Enrich & Store
Govern Build Catalogs
Expose Manage

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CONCLUSION
Graph Technology in the industry, an exciting challenge for Sopra Steria & Airbus Helicopters
Graph technologies are quite new into the aeronautics industry but provides a new paradigm to
help solving challenges related to digital continuity and the large amount of data that comes
with it.
Graph technologies like Neo4j will help to:
❑ Reinforce connectivity between data, keeping high performances.
❑ Help developing inference computation (Tech data, BOM management)
❑ Configuration analysis (BOM comparison)
❑ Data Analytics (KPI, Quality of data … )
As this technology is recent for the industry, the experience must be consolidated and built step by
step into a multiparadigm approach.
Looking forward to present the evolution into a future conference !!

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