Talking Aerospace Today

Welcome to Talking Aerospace Today – a podcast for the aerospace and defense industry. A place that brings the promise of tomorrow’s technology to the ears of our listeners today.

The aerospace and defense industry is experiencing an unprecedented period of growth and innovation, with all sectors from commercial to defense reporting significant investments for the next five years. However, that growth is not invulnerable, as issues such as supply chain disruptions and workforce shortages are also expected to worsen in the near future. If A&D companies wish to navigate these issues and fully capitalize on their industry’s projected prosperity, they must make additional efforts to mature their digital transformations.

In this new series of Talking Aerospace Today episodes, Todd Tuthill, Vice President of A&D Strategy and Marketing at Siemens Digital Industries Software, will outline the steps toward digital transformation maturity companies can take to receive their full return on investment. This introduction begins with the present state of A&D, the biggest challenge companies are facing, and why digital transformation is important for the future of the A&D industry.

In this episode, you will learn:

·      The current status of the A&D industry

·      The most significant obstacle preventing innovation in A&D

·      Why digital transformation is needed to overcome this obstacle

·      How digital transformation can be improved

·      Where companies currently are in their digital transformation journeys

Be sure to also check out this research report by CIMdata, which provided key insights for the discussion in this podcast.

Connect with Todd Tuthill:

●     LinkedIn

Connect with Patty Russo:

●     LinkedIn

Resources:

●     Siemens Aerospace & Defense website

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.

We return to our conversation from the last episode about the digital twin, one of the most impactful components of digital transformation in the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry. It is helping organizations reduce development costs by allowing them to test and learn from a virtual representation of a product before building it. However, successfully implementing it requires full commitment by the engineers and the management. 

Patty Russo, the Global Marketing Manager for the Aerospace and Defense Industry and the new host of this podcast, is once again joined by Dale Tutt, Vice President of Global Industries at Siemens Digital Industries Software, and Todd Tuthill, Vice President of Aerospace and Defense at Siemens Digital Industries Software. 

In today’s episode, part two of a two-part conversation, you’ll learn about the benefits an organization gets from implementing and trusting the digital twin. You’ll also hear how the digital twin can help solve supply chain issues and help an organization reach its sustainability goals. Additionally, Todd will share some lessons from companies succeeding in their digital transformation efforts.

In this episode, you will learn:

Connect with Dale Tutt:

• LinkedIn

Connect with Todd Tuthill:

• LinkedIn

Connect with Patty Russo:

• LinkedIn

Resources:

• Siemens Aerospace & Defense website

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.

The shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic had a lasting impact on the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry. Apart from falling behind on many major projects, the industry is also experiencing a significant shortage of engineers. A&D companies are looking to overcome these challenges by embracing digital tools like the digital twin. To tell us how they can, we have some new faces joining the podcast.

In this first episode of the new season, Dale Tutt, Vice President of Global Industries at Siemens Digital Industries Software, is joined by Todd Tuthill and Patty Russo. Todd is the Vice President of Aerospace and Defense Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Patty is the Global Marketing Manager for the Aerospace and Defense Industry and will be the new host of Talking Aerospace Today.

In today’s episode, part one of a two-part conversation, you’ll learn more details about Todd and Patty and their experiences with the A&D industry. We’ll also discuss the biggest challenge the A&D industry faces and what is being done to solve it, as well as learn about the benefits of using a digital twin and what implementing it involves.

In this episode, you will learn:

Connect with Dale Tutt:

• LinkedIn

Connect with Todd Tuthill:

• LinkedIn

Connect with Patty Russo:

• LinkedIn

Resources:

• Siemens Aerospace & Defense website

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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.

What if someday…we could all travel into space?

Not only would space travel be more accessible to the general public, but it would be more affordable. To make this a reality, companies today are exploring different ways of reducing flight costs. Digitalization is proving to be one of the best ways to achieve this because it allows for the design, testing, and flying of a spacecraft before anything gets built.

Joining the podcast today is Tom Vice, Chief Executive Officer at Sierra Space. A company building the Dream Chaser, a spaceplane set to begin NASA resupply missions to the International Space Station in 2023. Sierra Space also developed the LIFE habitat, an inflatable, modular commercial space research center – with unlimited upside potential. Joining the conversation is Dale Tutt, Vice President of Industry Strategy at Siemens. Dale has over 30 years of experience in engineering design, development, and program leadership within the aerospace industry.

In this episode, “The Digitalized Future of Space Travel” you’ll learn about the progress being made in space travel as a result of digitalization. You’ll learn more about the technology Sierra Spaced used to create their Dream Chaser and LIFE projects. Additionally, you’ll discover the special role Siemens Xcelerator is playing with these projects.

Space travel… Space exploration… We are at the brink of some wonderful innovations that will change the way we see space forever. I hope you’ll join us for a mind-blowing experience.

In this episode, you will learn:

●     The main focus of Sierra Space. (07:36)

●     The changes in space exploration that we can expect to see in the next ten years. (13:49)

●     How the Dream Chaser came to be. (17:59)

●     How Siemens Xcelerator is assisting Sierra Space. (21:42)

●     What the LIFE project is about. (31:19)

●     The role that digital solutions play in certifying aerospace products. (34:59)

Connect with Tom Vice:

●     LinkedIn

●     Sierra Space

Connect with Dale Tutt:

●     LinkedIn

Connect with Scott Salzwedel:

●     LinkedIn

Resources:

Siemens Aerospace & Defense website

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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. Building aerospace products is quite a complex endeavor these days as innovative new technologies are introduced, and customer expectations demand ever-more functionality. This presents a big challenge to companies in the A&D industry as they seek to have their products certified by various governing agencies. 

But there is some good news…

Companies today are quickly learning that when they introduce digitalization into the product development process they are opening the process up to virtual testing throughout a product’s entire development lifecycle, making certification a whole lot easier, faster and far less expensive. 

In this episode of Talking Aerospace Today we’ll be talking about a digitalized certification process. Joining me is Tom Gill, Senior Consultant at CIMdata and an active member of the PLM A&D Action Group at CIMdata. Tom has over 30 years of experience in engineering design, development and program leadership within the aerospace industry. Also joining me is Dale Tutt, my partner, and Vice President of Aerospace & Defense at Siemens Digital Industries Software.

I’m your host, Scott Salzwedel, and I hope you’ll join us for this highly informative talk on how to improve the certification process among the many obstacles and challenges facing the industry today.

Some questions I ask:

What you’ll learn from this episode:

Connect with Tom Gill:

LinkedIn

CIMdata

Connect with Dale:

LinkedIn

Connect with Scott:

LinkedIn

Resources:

Siemens Aerospace & Defense website

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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:

Connect with Dale Tutt:

• LinkedIn

Connect with Scott Salzwedel:

• LinkedIn

Resources:

Siemens Aerospace & Defense website

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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.

How do you build a great product and stay within cost and schedule? This is a critical question facing OEMs of zero-emissions aircraft today. And how do you mass produce these things anyway? To build a high-quality air taxi or eVTOL within cost requires the complete optimization of the product – as well as the production process itself. 

Today, in our third episode, “The Zero-Emissions Aircraft: Product Design and Building for Certification” we’ll be talking about how to leverage the digital twin to create an optimal design that meets the desired quality and performance standards – and prepares teams for certification. Once again, I am joined by my partner Dale Tutt, vice president of aerospace and defense at Siemens Digital Industries Software. 

In our previous podcast, we talked about the variables and trade-offs associated in the early stages of conceptual design. Today, Dale discusses the move out of preliminary design and into the many disciplines and domains associated with product design. We’ll touch on how the digital twin can be leveraged throughout this stage – which includes verification and certification.

I’m your host, Scott Salzwedel, and welcome you to today’s show. In addition to the digital twin, we’ll touch on the digital threads that assist teams during the product design process as we move along deeper product development.

Some really great stuff. I hope you’ll be able to join.

In this episode, you will learn:

Connect with Dale Tutt:

• LinkedIn

Connect with Scott Salzwedel:

• LinkedIn

Resources:

• Siemens Aerospace & Defense website

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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.

In commercial aviation, innovation has been motivated by the need to increase speed or carrying capacity. Of course lowering production costs is another huge motivator. And let’s not forget safety. The industry is about to undergo another revolution; this time motivated by the need for more sustainable flight and zero-emissions air travel.

Today, in our second episode of a five-part series, we’re going back to the early planning stages of a zero-emissions aircraft, in an episode we’re calling “Zero-emissions Aircraft – Conceptual Thinking and Preliminary Design.” We’ll cover the digital threads involved in the early conceptual stages and how these digital threads mature as the process progresses. What are the design considerations? How about the trade-offs? You’ll learn the importance of the comprehensive digital twin – even in these early stages.

I’m your host, Scott Salzwedel, and I will be joined once again by my special guest, Dale Tutt, Vice President of Aerospace and Defense at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Dale has great insight in the many phases of aircraft development, and he’ll share some of that expertise with us today. 

I invite you to take a listen and see how digitalization plays a role in the early stages of aircraft development and helps build cleaner, greener, state-of-the-art, zero-emissions aircraft. 

In this episode, you will learn:

Connect with Dale Tutt:

• LinkedIn

Connect with Scott Salzwedel:

• LinkedIn

Resources:

Siemens Aerospace & Defense website

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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.

Wow, we are at the forefront of something truly revolutionary.

There’s so much innovation going on. And there’s this vision that in the not-to-distant future we’ll all be flying around in urban air mobility vehicles. Seriously. Sure, there are some naysayers out there, but that’s not going to stop the visionaries, the dreamers.

In order to pull this off, the industry needs to transform how it designs and manufactures aircraft. While new techniques and technologies are a must for the eVTOL manufacturers of the world, adopting new design and manufacturing technologies can also give the more established players – those with the more traditional aircraft a huge leg up as well.

In this episode of Talking Aerospace Today we’ll be talking about agile product development. What is agile? And why is this such a big deal? Agile empowers companies to use the latest cutting-edge technologies. Companies become more nimble and more flexible in the engineering process. They can handle change orders easily and customize on the fly. All of this while meeting cost and schedule – taking on risk without compromise.

I’m your host, Scott Salzwedel, and in this episode, I am joined by two A&D industry experts. Jim Roche, Executive Consultant, Director of A&D Practice at CIMdata, and the founder of PLM A&D Action Group. and Dale Tutt, my partner, and Vice President of Aerospace & Defense at Siemens Digital Industries Software.

Please join me for this in-depth, one-of-kind discussion. Where else will you hear about the cascading “waterfall approach” and “sprints” in the same discussion?

In this episode, you will learn:

●     What is the mission of the PLM A&D Action Group? (5:50)

●     Siemens’ involvement in model-based systems engineering (MBSE). (9:58)

●     The shortcomings of the traditional product development approach. (13:10)

●     The various aspects of agile product development. (16:11)

●     How does Siemens define agile product development? (17:43)

●     The challenges agile product development addresses. (22:35)

●     What is meant by a “sprint” in the context of agile product development. (24:28)

●     The characteristics of the legacy/waterfall approach. (29:37)

●     The characteristics of agile product development. (31:02)

●     The benefits of digital transformation. (38:24)

●     A real-world example of agile product development in action. (39:41)

Connect with Jim Roche:

LinkedIn

CIMdata

Connect with Dale:

LinkedIn

Connect with Scott:

LinkedIn

Resources:

●     Siemens Aerospace & Defense website

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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.

There’s a lot of talk round air mobility these days. So much innovation. No question the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles will have a huge role. There are many reasons as to why eVTOLs will be so popular. One of the primary reasons: zero emissions. Right now, more than ever, new modes of air transportation need to be cleaner, greener and better for our environment.

Today, in our first episode of a new series we’re calling “The Future of Air Mobility: Zero Emissions Aircraft,” we'll be talking about how the aerospace industry is planning for a cleaner, greener future. We’ll cover the various types of propulsion technology and how better blends of fuel are helping to lighten the carbon footprint. You’ll hear about current advancements and how the digital twin is helping companies keep up with the latest technologies.

I am your host, Scott Salzwedel, and I will be joined by Dale Tutt, Vice President of Aerospace & Defense at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Dale has a lot to say on this topic – and we plan to cover a lot ground.

So please take a listen as we discuss the promise and future of zero-emissions aircraft.

In this episode, you will learn:

Connect with Dale Tutt:

• LinkedIn

Connect with Scott Salzwedel:

• LinkedIn

Resources:

• Siemens Aerospace & Defense website

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