Preliminary Aircraft & Systems Design

Pacelab Suite

Our generic platform for model-based, multi-disciplinary design, which supplies the basic functional and procedural infrastructure for the modeling, analysis, sizing and optimization of complex engineering systems. Provides unique modeling and analysis capabilities.

Pacelab APD

Extends the platform with domain-specific functionality for preliminary aircraft design. Supports the evaluation of conventional & non-conventional configurations.

Pacelab SysArc

Adds a further functional layer for systems architecture design. Enables investigations and trade-offs at the aircraft level.

Increased productivity

Shorter development cycles and faster time to market

Risk mitigation

Reliable data for strategic technology roadmap decisions

Competitive products

High-quality and innovative technological solutions

Investment protection

Easy integration into existing tool and process landscapes

Knowledge transfer

Dissemination of proven design solutions and best practices

How can you leverage model-based, collaborative approaches for developing more innovative aircraft designs?

If you have missed or want to re-watch our live webinar Accelerate Aircraft Design with model-based design automation and collaborative MDO,” which we have co-hosted with integration and optimization experts ESTECO, fill in the form. We will send you immediately the entire webinar video. We hope you find it inspiring!

Topics include:

Case study: Setting up a EXPEDITE-derived modern aircraft conceptual design
Coupling Pacelab APD with ESTECO's modeFRONTIER software
Live demo: Aircraft Design with PACE Model-based technology and VOLTA web collaborative platform for MDO
Q&A and discussion

An important objective of our model-based platform is to extend the scope of multi-disciplinary design methodologies from the early phases of the product development process (conceptual and preliminary design) to the later ones and to support evolving investigations in a single environment.

Scale up your design investigations as you go

Our platform is highly scalable and extensible enabling you to incrementally increase the fidelity of the multi-disciplinary product model and seamlessly integrate commercial or proprietary analysis methods. Its open architecture also makes it very easy to interface our design platform with third-party process integration or physics-based simulation tools.

Enjoy an efficient design ecosystem

Our preliminary design solutions are embedded in an efficient ecosystem of supporting technologies:

Data management for central administration of component and method libraries as well as project results
Server-side computation for high-performance parallel computing of trade studies and distributed modeling
Web viewers to provide 24/7 access to project results to light users
Third-party tool interface to exchange data with external applications

Aerospace is a research-intensive industry and relies on universities and research institutions to contribute advanced product and process knowledge that can be translated into technological innovation.

PACE software products for preliminary design are appreciated by leading universities and research organizations, supporting a wide range of research areas: