"Zero-emissions” podcast series (Ep. 4): Production and Product Sustainment

Welcome to Talking Aerospace Today – a podcast for the Aerospace & Defense industry. A place that brings the promise of tomorrow’s technology to the ears of our listeners today. This is an exciting episode because we’re discussing the actual manufacturing of an eVTOL aircraft. This is the episode where the blade – or rotor – meets the sky. How do you build a great product and stay within cost and schedule? And how do you mass produce these things anyway? To build a high-quality, innovative UAM vehicle within cost requires total optimization of the product as well as the production process. In today’s episode, “The Zero Emissions Aircraft: Production and Product Sustainment” we’ll be discussing the importance of intelligent manufacturing and its many activities from conception and design, to manufacturing and even into product sustainment. I’m pleased once again to be joined by my partner Dale Tutt, who is vice president of aerospace and defense at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Dale brings a lot of experience and insight to this particular topic. I’m your host, Scott Salzwedel, and I welcome you to today’s show. In addition to intelligent manufacturing, we’ll also be touching on the importance of the production digital twin and the many digital threads involved in this critical stage of development. Some really breakthrough stuff here. In this episode, you will learn: How digital threads come together before the start of production. (03:01) The role of the digital twin in the production phase. (07:06) The difference between the product digital twin and the production digital twin. (10:20) How Siemens Xcelerator propels digital transformation. (12:57) How additive manufacturing can be used in eVTOL aircraft manufacturing (17:27) Connect with Dale Tutt: LinkedIn Connect with Scott Salzwedel: LinkedIn Resources: Siemens Aerospace & Defense website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.