Airbus
Airbus is one of the world's leading aircraft manufacturers, with a product line comprised of 14 aircraft models. Metatomix's Semantic Middleware Framework for Manufacturing gathers data non-invasively from multiple Airbus modeling and design systems. This disparate data is integrated through a semantic model, or “ontology”, which defines the aircraft in geometric and structural detail, all the way through to the costing of the parts and components. In this way, knowledge drawn from different systems can be commonly understood, shared and acted on by the different teams involved in wing design. An initial proof of concept study has demonstrated the potential for unprecedented visibility into predicted costs for different design choices early in the design cycle, promoting a "design to cost" approach, and providing actionable knowledge across different engineering departments regarding the potential impact of design choices.
