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Airbus Accelerates Space Exploration to Mars

公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
  • Europe
  • America
国家
  • Netherlands
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
产品
  • iBASEt MES
  • Solumina
  • PTC Windchill
  • SAP
  • Primavera P6
技术栈
  • Cloud-native microservices architecture
  • Open APIs
实施规模
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Digital Expertise
技术
  • 功能应用 - 制造执行系统 (MES)
  • 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成
  • 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据可视化
适用行业
  • 航天
适用功能
  • 质量保证
用例
  • 远程控制
  • 预测性维护
  • 数字孪生
服务
  • 系统集成
  • 软件设计与工程服务
  • 培训
关于客户
Airbus is a European multinational aerospace corporation headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands. Their Defence and Space division makes specialized, one-off products for complex space exploration missions. Airbus has been involved in missions to Mars since the first European mission in 2003. This division won a bid to produce the ExoMars Rover 2022. The mission is targeting a September 2022 launch window, landing on Mars in June 2023. The goal is to determine the geological history of the landing site at Oxia Planum, once thought to host an ancient ocean, and to determine if life could ever have existed on Mars. This new contract triggered a decision to pick a new Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that was the right fit for the project. After a thoughtful evaluation, Airbus chose iBASEt’s MES, powered by Solumina, which has been used by other divisions at Airbus since 2011.
挑战
Building a Mars Rover is a highly complex manufacturing endeavor. The Airbus Defence and Space division develops state-of-the-art technology using unique materials to manufacture heat shields, honeycomb panels, and all the other parts necessary to assemble the ExoMars Rover. With the rapid advance of space technology, production processes frequently change based on new engineering designs, project requirements, and new information that is learned during the product life cycle. All the delicate, cutting-edge technology requires an extreme level of quality assurance. There is only one chance for the mission to go right. If anything goes wrong, down to the smallest detail, then the entire mission is at risk of failure. Additionally, planetary protection rules, ratified by the United Nations and endorsed by NASA, urge scientists to take every possible measure to prevent Earth’s biological contamination from reaching moons or planets.
解决方案
After winning the contract for the ExoMars Rover mission, Airbus created a state-of-the-art biological cleanroom to manufacture the vehicle. Since any object that entered the cleanroom could be a contamination threat, it was critical to reduce the number of people, pencils, and paper that would have to enter the room. Remote working took on a whole new perspective when operating in such a high-precision, complex manufacturing environment. Ideally, the production team preferred to work outside the room to avoid any unnecessary contaminants. It could take up to 45 minutes to don all the protective gear needed before entering the cleanroom, which includes scrubs as the bottom layer, 2 pairs of sterilized gloves, a gown, shoe covers, and much more. Airbus used special tablets to run their MES system, schedule efficiently, and produce all kinds of standard documents and reporting. In a completely digital environment without pencils and paper, technicians were able to reduce overall build time, maintain strict quality standards, and keep the clean room free of contaminants. This turned into a huge advantage in this special application. With what Airbus internally refers to as their Solumina Integrated Production System (IPS), their team could perform many operations remotely, outside of the cleanroom. Airbus was able to significantly reduce the number of people needed in the cleanroom, as well as the number of potentially contaminated objects. This eliminated many of the headaches of a cleanroom production process and allowed the entire team to work more productively.
运营影响
  • Improved time productivity and work efficiency.
  • Reduced cleanroom interaction helped save time while reducing onsite worker dependency.
  • Seamless integration with Product Lifecycle Management (PTC Windchill), Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP), and Advanced Planning & Scheduling (Primavera P6) systems helped to better manage the flow of data supporting frequent engineering design changes.
  • Clearer visibility of the production process.
  • Heightened quality assurance during the build.
数量效益
  • Reduced need for on-site workers, allowing more jobs to be performed remotely.
  • Faster signature loops which enable remote signatures and single sign-off documents for multiple unit integrations.
  • Easier to share information quickly and efficiently with hundreds of users across all worksites worldwide.

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