Airbus Defence & Space operates a Digital Twin for the A400M Maintenance, mixing the fleet up-to-date Digital Mock-Ups with all the relevant Technical & Maintenance Data.
Agustin Perez Sanz, Head of A400M Services Programme Configuration Management TASA6 explains how the 3D Juump digital twin solution improved the maintenance of the A400M aircraft.
Can you tell us what the Services configuration management program Tasa6 is ?
The project is called SAT (SmartForce Aircraft Twin). This is a digital twin of the A400M aircraft, to which we added the model and maintenance data, and it is used to anticipate product maintenance. Our clients are both internal and external. The various nations operating the A400M use it. And it is also the case on our internal sites.
What does the digital twin bring to your program ?
It is a single point where we can have all the data in real time. We integrated all this data* which was previously contained in thousands of PDF pages, that had to be searched for.
Then, it moved to a web system, but you still had to search for it.
And today, we look at the aircraft on the model, we look at the equipment or even the screws, on which we want to perform a repair or maintenance. By clicking on the digital model, we can access all the referenced data. And we have direct access to the tool where the data is stored.
*Data: the aircraft maintenance data and technical documentation.
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How much time did it take to index the data ?
We started integration the model with the data 5 years ago. It was a project that lasted almost two years, with various clients, to prototype a model in which we were able to link all the data.
Today we have taken the next step: the digital twin now incorporates live customer data gathered while the aircraft is in service and being maintained.
Process embedding : What level of integration have you achieved today ?
It is successful and industrialized.
Today, we deliver a configured model to all our clients, every month, and it works perfectly.
"Compared with traditional CAD tools, there is virtually no load time."
What, in your view, is the real value of the 3D Juump Infinite suite?
Data are instantly accessible: compared with traditional CAD tools, there is virtually no load time.
The platform is built for collaboration—any view or markup you create can be shared in seconds, so colleagues can pick up exactly where you left off when preparing briefings or reports.
